INVASION FEAR IN ULSTER
ALLEGED INTENTIONS
OF EIRE SPEECH BY UNIONIST MEMBER (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, March 1. A warning that Eire forces might be sent into t Northern Ireland and thht trouble might come sooner than most people expected, was given at a Belfast ’Unionist meeting last night by Mr W. F. McCoy, an Ulster .member of Parliament. Loyalists should not yield to provocation, he said. Eire wanted an excuse to raise the partition issue with the United Nations or the British Government. and to claim the right to send troops into Northern Ireland to protect her nationals. If the British Army' was not allowed to interfere it would mean the occupation of Ulster, because civilians and the police would not be entitled to resist by force of arms without violating international law. g
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25742, 2 March 1949, Page 5
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