The situation is simply that Dublin wants to dominate Ulster
after all, and the Government and their friends, with light consciences, have been trying to cajole or intimidate Ulster into acceptance. The loyal were to be sacrificed to the disloyal for the astonishing reason that the disloyal could not otherwise be appeased ! We can seldom remember such an orgy of mis- representation as we have lately been treated to in a large part of the English Press. The simple truth is that the Irish loyalists of the North want to live their own lives free from incompetence and assassination. Yet they have been represented as selfish bigots—these men who have made endless sacrifices for the British Empire and who have remained faithful in spite of the been scares and anxieties to which they have continually uven exposed. Why should the Ulster loyalists put up with the
rule of bloodstained men any more than an English county would put up with it ?
