(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Your first "
news paragraph " in your issue of November 12th (only now in my hands) on "bland coercion" receives a categorical endorsement in the remark of your contemporary, the New Statesman, of the same date : "Ulster Will have to surrender." It will be a subtle task for the historian of the future to unravel each separate viscous thread in the web of circumstance which to-day constrains so many of us to admit the inevitable in the changed situation. Spun and woven, placed and staged (whichever metaphor you prefer) with such consummate skill on the part of the human agents —or the eternal gods—our historian will, one hopes, see it steadily and see it whole as we are unable to do. But why, here and now, 'should the pretence be kept up, as obsolete as " Ulster's position" may have become, that she is not being
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