Word: paisleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops were called in to help police break up a march of about 250 Protestants to the new Martyrs Memorial Church of the Rev. lan Paisley. The troops fired tear gas when the demonstrators tried to push through a cordon blocking their procession...
...rhetoric was important, however, to the safety of the Unionist government. So the government did little to discourage the extremist protestant fringe (i. e., Ian Paisley's own special church) which further fanned the rhetorical fires. Nor did it do anything to ban or de-emphasize the Ulster laws providing for the imprisonment without charge of probable traitors, or to de-emphasize the Ulster Auxiliary Police. These auxiliary policemen, known as "B-Specials," are, like the regular Royal Ulster Constabulary, armed. Furthermore, the B-Specials exclude Catholics and their official purpose is to help the regular police beat back those...
...reporters monitoring the police radio on the Derry Battle Day say that the police charged the Bogside in direct defiance of an order not to do so made by the police superintendent.) Yet the intervention of the London government may just activate the Ulster Unionist extremists. (The Rev. lan Paisley has recently brought back and dedicated to Ulster a ship used in the teens to run guns to the old Ulster Unionist army...
...crowd in Catholic Bogside, however, Callaghan said: "I am not neutral. I am on the side of all those who are deprived of justice and freedom. I will apply myself to your problem." Among the first applications was a 40-minute tongue-lashing directed at the Rev. Ian Paisley, the extremist Protestant minister. Home Secretary Callaghan warned him to "desist from inflaming the situation and start defusing...
...Paisley will soon be defusing the situation by his absence. He will visit the U.S. next month, presumably to counteract Bernadette. At week's end a two-man Protestant "truth squad" arrived in New York for the same purpose and got off to a flying start by describing Bernadette as "Fidel Castro in a miniskirt." The truth squad was also expected to emphasize Bernadette's lackluster performance as one of Ulster's twelve representatives at Westminster; since her election last April, she has turned up for very few sessions. What is more, Kenneth Lewis, a Tory...