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IRELAND In the wild glens of Antrim and in the villages, those who listened hard into the wind swore they heard the banshees wailing. On the turbulent streets of Belfast women knelt, keening and praying, and down in Dublin the Government of Eire proclaimed a day of mourning...
...quietest Easter in years, so it was. Indeed, nothing happened at all at all -nothing only a few fire bombs in a Belfast theater and four Royal Ulster constables shot, one for keeps, God rest his soul...
...usually busy Belfast courts had no aftermaths before them last week except two colleens of 16 and 18 who had killed the constable. Nevertheless, the Irish Republican Army were still as busy as nailers in other ways, so Scotland Yard, believing...
...Churchill has given more than a hint that he is for No. 2. That, I suspect, would be my own choice. . . . The Moslems of North-west India are the Protestant Boys of the East, as convinced as any Belfast Orangemen that the Protestant Boys shall carry the Drum, and much better fighters, I should say, than either we or the Germans. They think so themselves...
...maneuvers foresaw a successful enemy landing in neutral Eire. The invading "Hessians" then supposedly attacked Ulster, aiming for an imaginary secret munitions plant in Belfast. Besides testing both invaders and defenders on tactics, the games were intended to exercise the armies' logistical services: kitchens, ammunition details, supply corps, ambulance units. Actual battle conditions were feigned in every detail, right down to fifth columnists who lent boats to the invaders so that they might cross the huge inland lake, Lough Neagh, and, though seasick, encircle the bungling defenders...