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Evening Star, Issue 23744, 27 November 1940, Page 8

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NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN IRELAND POSSIBILITY OF BETTER RELATIONS LONDON, November 26. The possibility of better relations between Northern and Southern Ireland la being canvassed following the death of Viscount Craigavon, who in his lifetime made it clear that he would ngver agree to anything separating Ulster from the United Kingdom. The ‘ Daily Express ’ says: “ While there is ho suggestion of this, the situation will now be altered.” The ‘Manchester Guardian’ recalls yiscount Craigavon’s campaign against home rule, and says: “He took tho credit for establishing the Ulster Volunteer Force—the first body of men in history openly organised, drilled, and armed to defy the law of the land. It often seemed to Englishmen of all parties that Viscount 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 shakedt.”