Last Saturday Sir James Craig, the Prime Minister of Northern
Ireland, made a speech which receives its justification—and in our opinion it was justified up to the hilt—from the fact that there have been such a vast number of breaches of the truce in Ireland by Sinn Fein. The whole point of Sir James-Craig's speech was that the loyalists of Ulster would never allow themselves to drift into such a situation that they might be told that their position had been undermined, and that as this had happened there was nothing for it but to recognize the facts and make the best of them. Sir James Craig began by saying that he was sometimes criticized as being rather slow and too optimistic. He was suspected, in hot, of not guarding the rights of North- East Ulster carefully enough. He defended his optimism, how- ever, on the ground that it gave a man something to look forward to, whereas pessimism did not lead very far.
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