‘Ulster holocaust’ if troops withdrawn

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32775, 27 November 1971, Page 5

‘Ulster holocaust’ if troops withdrawn

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

LONDON, Nov, 26.

The British Labour Party’s Shadow Home Secretary (Mr James CaDaghan) says ‘ that there might by a holocaust if troops were withdrawn from Ulster.

He said that although people were being killed in Ulster, the situation was not to be compared with the holocaust there might be after a withdrawal. He said on the 8.8. C. radio programme, “Speak Easy,” that the Government wanted the gunmen put down before the issues could be discussed.

“I think the Labour Party is moving into the position now where we say you have got to talk at the same time as you are trying to fight the gunmen, and you have got to get people round a table.”

Mr Callaghan said one could not play party politics when people were being shot every night. “If the Government is coming up with a political incentive for getting people round a table to try to find a solution, it is the responsibility of the Opposition to try to do that and to evolve a dif-

ferent policy, and we are having discussions about that,” he said. Internment and the consequences were not leading to a solution. There had to be a political solution, Mr Callaghan added.