Ulster S. Knox Cunningham, MP, Samuel I. Watt Israel and
the Arabs M. G. lonides, Daphne Slee And Now Nyasaland T. R. M. Creighton Mental Health Detentions Elizabeth A. Allen Strength Out of Weakness Christopher Hollis Talent and More Edward Lucie-Smith, Peter Porter Public Investment and the GPO Charles Smith Telling the World Michael Sissons Easter George Richards Capital Punishment Rev. F. A. Simpson '." ULSTER SIR,—In the last issue of the Spectator there seemed to be some misunderstanding as to why Ulster people resented the BBC broadcast of the Small World Programme.
Miss McKenna has a right to express her views about Ulster but her facts were wrong and her praise of 'young idealists' in the IRA was bound to cause resentment. It has to be remembered that the IRA is an illegal organisation, not only in Northern Ireland but also in the Republic of Eire and its terrorist activities on the border have been responsible for lass of life and personal injury. It would be hard to imagine, for example, the BBC broadcasting, at the time of the killing of a British Serviceman's wife in Cyprus, a repeat programme in which one of the speakers praised the idealists of EOKA.
Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom and the great majority of its people are determined for it so to remain. The attacks of terrorists, whose aim is the destruction of the constitution, are entirely different from the political attacks made by one party against another in any part of the United Kingdom. An appreciation of this will bring understanding of the strength of feeling shown by Ulster people on this occasion.—Yours faithfully,
[This letter is referred to in 'A Spectator's Note- book.'—Editor, Spectator.]
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