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...moderation. I have consistently condemned violence." But because of Bloody Sunday, he said, "whether we like it or not, the British army is no longer acceptable in Belfast, Derry or anywhere else in Northern Ireland. It is seen as acting in support of a discredited and corrupt Unionist government." (The Unionist Party favors continued ties with Britain.) And he added, "I tell the Home Secretary that the marches will continue. They will continue next weekend in Newry, and then the following week and the week after that, until the internment problem is tackled by the Westminster government, because...
...practice, has not yet reduced violence in Ulster to "an acceptable level," as Maudling recently described its aim. The Londonderry killings, moreover, succeeded only in polarizing still further Ulster's divided Catholic and Protestant communities -and in strengthening the hands of extremists on both sides. The recently split Unionist ranks now have closed behind Faulkner and his no-nonsense rejection of any form of Irish unification. From Stormont came cold statements blaming the marchers for "a meaningless and futile terrorist exercise." The typical Protestant worker's reaction was expressed by one laborer in a Belfast pub last week...
...immensely increased the influence of the I.R.A. terrorists, who now have more applicants than they can possibly train. Internment had confirmed the Catholics' worst fears about the Protestant-dominated Stormont government: that its ultimate answer to Catholic political and civil rights demands would be naked sectarian repression. No Unionist Prime Minister, they feel, can ever survive while ignoring the extremist Orangemen's call to "make the Croppies [Catholics] lie down." For Catholics, the Derry shootings have now added weight to the I.R.A.'s claim that the real enemy is the British government at Westminster. Says Oliver Napier...
...Unionist Party and the Orange Order have too long exacerbated the differences between Irishmen, Catholic or Protestant. Thank you for telling the truth about the intolerable repression in Northern Ireland and the men who would...
...suggested a 15-point, 15-year program for unification that has been welcomed in principle by Prime Minister Heath's government. Even in Ulster, the Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the Protestant militants, has declared that traditional Unionism is finished, and formed his own breakaway group, the Democratic Unionist Party, without ties to the Orange Order. Ulster Prime Minister Faulkner has intimated that Paisley has been talking with Provisional leaders, and that the army is now beginning to see the Paisleyites "as people with whom some sort of a deal might be done...