Army in Ulster
Sir: Once more, as readers with military interests have pointed out in your columns on . earlier occasions, our army has been placed in an impossible position in Northern Ireland. Troops should have been held in reserve and not placed in the front line in a trivial incident on a surburban housing estate. That was a job in the first instance for riot police, but we have failed to learn from continental experience of post-war subversion. It is essential to have a police force in between the ordinary police and the Army, especially when martial law has not been declared.
The other London failure has been to ignore the lessons of Mr Robert Ardrey's " territorial imperative." With feelings running so high, it was folly to allocate ScotsIrish housing to the native Irish. The fact that the houses were empty is irrelevant in present circumstances.
George A. Short 5 Scarsdale Road. Manchester
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