16 MARCH 1996, Page 22

Wishful Dudley Edwards

Sir: Of course Ruth Dudley Edwards is right to prefer internment north and south of the border simultaneously to just having it in the north (The case for internment', 9 March). So would I. But if her best evi- dence for Dublin being unlikely to institute it is that 'one day wishful thinkers will realise' — for that is all she gave us — may I suggest that she is the wishful thinker?

Better than undergoing another quarter- century of terrorism, as Adams threatens, we should try out a policy which Miss Dud- ley Edwards admits has, with the exception of Heath's fumbling in 1971-2, always been successful in the past.

Andrew Roberts

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