Threat In Ulster
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BELFAST, April 28. Leaders of the Roman Catholic civil rights movement have decided to start a civil disobedience campaign in Northern Ireland from next Sunday. The decision was taken at a secret meeting last night lin Dungannon by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. A statement said afterwards: “The campaign will be carried to England, but we do not wish to specify which form it will take.” In an interview with the Belfast newspaper. the I "Newsletter.” this morning, the Prime Minister (Captain Terence O'Neill) blamed the troubles of Northern Ireland on evil men out to wreck Roman Catholic-Pro-testant relations.
He said that but for the disturbances since last October community reforms would have gone ahead. “But 1 think evilly-disposed men who arranged the disorders knew that by disrupting community relations they could bring about the sort of atmosphere which has arrived today," he said. Captain O'Neill denied reports circulating in political quarters that if he was forced out of office by Protestant diehards he would appeal for direct British rule.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31974, 29 April 1969, Page 15
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175Threat In Ulster Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31974, 29 April 1969, Page 15
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