THE CASE OF ULSTER.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")
Ste,—Your keen-visioned insight with regard to type and character of Ulstermen proved that your voyage of discovery to the province was well worth while from more than one view-point. Tho reason, I think, that Ulster loyalists have not yet started a campaign of enlightenment as to their case is simply that they have not yet recovered from their astonish- ment at the treatment accorded them by the Government, which had utterly disregarded their having been ever and always "one with Britain heart and soul." If Mr. Lloyd George and his coadjutors have come to believe that the end justifies tho means, they sooner or later will have a rude awakening. I shall never forget Armistice Day in Belfast, where I was staying for several weeks as wounded friends were sent there to hospital. Tho silence with which the news of the War being over was received, and for some time after, had an influence that could be physically felt. So much so that I stopped people in the street to ask what it meant, and was deeply touched when told —brokenly—that it was because of so many of their bravest and best who had gone so willingly but would never return.
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