CHANGING IRELAND
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Sta,—May I _ once again use your columns to reply to the onslaught of Mr. Henry Wilson ? I do not see that Mr, Wilson's letter throws any new light on the attitude of the Nationalist party in the Ulster House of Commons. He quotes at some length from a speech made by Mr. Campbell, Catholic Nationalist M.P. for Belfast Central. This speech seems to me to bear out my original point, that the Nationalist Opposition is incapable of making any constructive suggestion. That, I think, was the point at issue. It is an unfortunate fact that the Nationalist element has not hitherto produced many men who are both capable of serving their Government, and of resisting the onslaughts made against that Government by their co-religionists.
Let the Catholic minority enter fully into the social life of the community in which it lives, and in whose benents it has a share, and I can confidently assure Mr. Wilson that there will then be no question of sectarian animosity, a fault which, though it is by no means confined to one side, is not diminished through the non possum= attitude of the Nationalist Party as a whole.—Yours, &c., B. J. D. BROOKE. Hawkins, Winchester, Hants.
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