DICTATORSHIP IN ULSTER
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—I think this article puts the whole situation in Ulster in a most unfair and one-sided light. Does any really sane man expect Ulster and the Ulster Government to sit down calmly and allow themselves to be terrorised by seditious bodies into joining the Irish Free State or Irish Republic, because they would be one and the same thing ? Apparently that must be the desire of the man who wrote this article.
You say : "When the Government of Northern Ireland let up house originally, it was confronted of course with the terrorism of the Irish Republican Army. a body which organised murder and called it War." The Ulster Govern- ment is confronted with the exact same organisation today. the only difference being that it is driven more underground because of the strength of our Government. The Protestant community knows that it still has its back to the wall, and is determined to resist this secret terror with all the fioves st its command. There is no dictatorship involved in this question at all, the freely elected representatives of the free electors know that it is necessary for their Government to act at once, and know that it would be fatal to wait until emergency measures were to be passed to deal with each ease ; and they know further that this state of emergency will last as long as there is an Irish Nationalist left in Ulster, whose sole aim and object is the destruction of Ulster, as part and parcel of the United King(' of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and their swallowing up in a hated alien Irish Republic.
On May 26th in our Ulster House of Commons, in answer to a question regarding the report of the so-called Council for Civil Liberties, our beloved Prime Minister said : " would respectfully suggest that no importance should be attached to a document containing mu% misrepresentations. The Government believe that this grossly biassed publication emanates from a similar source to other propagandists whose sole ambition is to see the establisl 'at of an all-Ireland Republic. To this I need hardly say the Loyalists of Ulster will never agree."
In the above, you have the opi ii i i m of every Protestant in Ulster, as well as many sensible Roman Catholics, if they dared to say so.—Yours truly, GEORGE C. G. REconn,
M.P. Northern Irel I.
Braidwaier, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Ulster.
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