Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ashamed of his country's racial behavior (see box); in fact, he would like to export his policies to the rest of Africa. Last week, the Prime Minister of South Africa's immediate neighbor to the north, Britain's big new Central African Federation (composed of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland), made it clear where he stood...
Opposition in the North. To curb I.R.A. terrorism, Northern Ireland has a Royal Constabulary of 3,000 regulars and a Special Constabulary of 11,000 volunteers, mostly farmers and shopkeepers. More perhaps than at any time previously, Northern Ireland seems determined to resist union by force. The country's 500,000 Protestants cite the Republic's 1937 Constitution, which gives the Roman Catholic Church "a special position . . . as the guardian of the faith," as evidence that in a united Ireland they would be a religious minority, and subject to pressure, if not persecution. They are supported...
...last year, when a new generation of young Irishmen joined its secret ranks, thirsting for adventure and impatient of their political leaders' repeated assurances that partition can be abolished "by statesmanship, not force." Their first exploit was to raid the barracks of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in Armagh, Northern Ireland, where they seized 300 guns. Shortly afterwards I.R.A. men broke into the projection rooms of two cinemas in Southern Ireland and forced the operators to flash slides on the screens proclaiming: "Join the I.R.A. We have the guns now." Hundreds joined, but the I.R.A. was still short of arms...
...I.R.A.'s estimated strength is 5,000 men. Its units drill openly, sometimes within sight of Northern Ireland. Its declared intention is to terrorize Northern Ireland until authority crumbles. Last May, to demonstrate that it had support inside Northern Ireland, it contested every North Ireland constituency in the British general election, polled 150,000 votes out of 650,000 cast. Two of its candidates, both prisoners of the Omagh raid and now in British jails, were elected, and the House of Commons (which does not admit felons) was later forced to unseat them. The jailed Sinn Feiner, who recontested...
Last week the British government made strong representation to the Republic's Prime Minister John Costello to crush the I.R.A. before its gunmen trigger real trouble in Northern Ireland. But it was doubtful whether Costello, who presides over a coalition government, is strong enough to do what De Valera had done. In Costello's Cabinet there are men who agree with ex-Foreign Minister Sean MacBride (son of the late famed Patriot Maud Gonne, and himself an old I.R.A. man) who said: "While the I.R.A. voices the national sentiment of the people, no Irish government would place itself...