If balancing electors have been inclined to think that the
Republicans intend to modify their policy in the interests of peace, Mr. F. Aiken, the Chief Whip of Fianna Fail, has taught them better. " Our object," Mr. Aiken has declared, " is not to abolish British rule in the twenty-six counties, but to abolish it in the whole of the thirty-two counties." He even went on to describe the steps by which the Republicans would try to reach this end. " We mean to sweep British authority out of the twenty-six counties and then to use the power which we have to extend the sovereignty of the people over the . whole of the thirty-two counties." That is to say the " people " of Northern Ireland are not " people " at all. The-only real people live in the Free State and have a right. to dispose of the untouchables of the North as they please. We trust that such mad and wicked talk will open the eyes of many who have previously been blind to the real danger there is of Ireland being thrust back- into a--state of bloody civil war:-
