6 MARCH 1920, Page 1

If we were Sinn Feiners and wanted to remove all

justification for what they so much dislike, the so-called " partition " of Ireland, we should set to work to create confidence in Ulster. This could be done with great ease and by an infallible method. All the Sinn Feiners need do is to assure the Ulster Unionists that they will not be hectored to emerge from their own " six county " fastness and help to create a united Parliament of Ireland until they wish to do so. Frcm the moment that such an attitude became apparent in the Sinn Feiners mistrust would begin to wither in Ulster and confidence would begin to take its place. Time, of course, would be required to complete the process, but the end would be certain. We confess that if we were Ulster Unionists our alarm would be sustained by the very fact that the Sinn Feiners are unwilling to take up this attitude.