REBUKE TO EIRE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21093, 13 May 1943, Page 4

REBUKE TO EIRE

ULSTER PREMIER UNITY WITH BRITAIN

INTERFERENCE RESENTED

(By Toleirrapli—Pros* Ansn.—Copyright.) LONDON. May 11

The two components most important for the country were the successful prosecution of the war and the unity of Northern Ireland and Britain, said the. Prime Minister of Ulster, Sir Basil Brooke, in moving a vole of confidence in the new Cabinet. Sir Basil Brooke added: “These will always be cardinal points of the policy of the Ulster Government. Unity with Britain is and remains our ideal.

“We would not have to repeat this so frequently but for the fact that our neighbour. -Eire, is constantly attempting to brush it aside as nonexistent and unimportant. She asserts that the border causes a division between Ulster and Eire. The truth is that the border merely emphasises the fundamental difference between us.

“We intend our unity to be with Britain and not Eire. To pretend that fundamental divergencies do not exist between us and that there is no irreconcilable conflict of loyalty is not statesmanship. It is folly. ■'Ulster will never allow lief self to be coerced. While the people ot Northern Ireland are behind me, I will never consent thereto. I see. no reason why relations between Eire and ourselves should not be perfectly cordial on this basis provided . she ceases to interfere in our affairs. Eire’s attitude towards the war, which is not shared by any other country of the British commonwealth, clearly shows how widely our ideals differ.”