Word: ulstermen
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...about 900 main banks and branches; all these were forced to shut down. That left fewer than 40 branches-including two run by New York's First National City Bank and by the Bank of Nova Scotia-still open in all the Irish Republic. Beyond that, while Ulstermen may not ordinarily feel friendly toward the Irish Republic, apparently Northern Ireland's bank clerks are sympathetic to their compeers there. Result: more than half of Northern Ireland's 401 banks and branches also shut down...
Northern Ireland caught it last week. One night Nazi bombers roared over sooty Belfast for four thunderous hours. In the flaming darkness so many Ulstermen were killed that the usual Belfast newspaper obituaries were trebled. One Donnelly family, consisting of father, mother, three sons, three daughters and an aunt, was wiped out. A few days later the official Nazi radio accused Belfast officials of shooting "all the dangerous beasts" in the Belfast zoo in order to make it appear that Nazi bombs had done the killing and "incite all the animal-loving people of the entire world...
...short, the United Kingdom, blackmailed from Dublin, "must" simply hand over Ulster to Eire, according to Eamon de Valera, who last week made not the slightest attempt to spare British feelings. The Prime Minister of Eire, however, did seek to soothe Ulstermen over the head of its Prime Minister, Lord Craigavon of Northern Ireland...
This would give Ulstermen approximately the status in Eire now enjoyed in Czechoslovakia by the Slovaks, who recently were granted their own premier and legislature within the framework of the Republic. Obviously Prime Minister de Valera was thinking in Czechoslovak terms last week. He has seen straight negotiation swiftly effect in Czechoslovakia certain changes which once were to have been decided by plebiscites...
...rioting two people were killed, some 60 wounded. North Irish authorities including His Grace the Duke of Abercorn, Governor of Northern Ireland, and Sir Charles Wickham, Inspector General of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were bewildered by the violence of the outbreak, could not understand how normally law-abiding Ulstermen could be so aroused...