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...Belfast a Negro American soldier was stabbed to death and a white American soldier seriously wounded in a pub brawl...
Symbol of the grief was an unperturbed lad of 19 with an English name, Thomas Williams, who had lived in mediocrity and who died (by the rope) in glory, saying he died for Ireland. By the murder of a Belfast policeman last Easter Sunday morning, Thomas and five friends, said to be members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, commemorated Eire's Easter Rebellion...
Words and Bullets. In Belfast, whose Catholic minority is more anti-British than Dublin is, two underground newspapers came to the surface. One, titled Republican News, congratulated the people in Nazi-flavored phrases for "restraint and discipline in the face of unprecedented provocation"; hinted darkly: "The need for passive endurance will soon be past." The I.R.A. circulated a manifesto: "If in event of the resumption of hostilities between Britain and the Irish Republic, American troops are drawn into the conflict with Irish guerrilla forces, the responsibility must rest with those who presumed to use northeast Ireland as a military base...
Harassed police ducked beer bottles and bullets, and in armored cars went on an I.R.A. hunt. In two days they jailed 200 suspects, most of them from the grim little streets of the Belfast slums. In the towns they found black flags of defiance dangling from lampposts. In the country they found two arms dumps. They killed a sentry in an Antrim County barnyard, discovered he was guarding ten beer kegs of nitroglycerin, 60 revolvers, eight rifles, seven tommy guns, 7,000 rounds of ammunition, hand grenades and tear gas. At a neighboring farm they found a second cache...
...I.R.A. had other arms and ammunition. Two nights after Thomas Williams' hanging, gunmen fired on a police patrol car in Belfast, missed the police but wounded a child bystander and a man. At Belleek and Randalstown and Culloville, rifles cracked, and bombs burst...