NORTH AND SOUTH

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 8

NORTH AND SOUTH

POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENT IN

RELATIONS

LONDON, November 26,

Thd possibility of better relations between northern and southern Ireland is being canvassed following the death of Lord Craigavon, who in his lifetime made it clear that he would never agree to anything separating Ulster from the United Kingdom.

The "Daily Express" says that, while there is no suggestion of this, the situation will now be altered.

The "Manchester Guardian" recalls Lord Craigavon's campaign against Home Rule and .says he took , credit for establishing the Ulster volunteer foree —the first body of men in history which was openly organised, drilled, and armed to defy the law of the land. It often seemed to Englishmen of all parties, the "Guardian" says, that Lord Craigavon was an anachronism. He carried over into a world that had outgrown it the temper of old Ulster sectarianism and political bigotry, yet his hold on Ulster survived all attempts to shake it.