Madam, - It may interest readers to learn that in the course of an interview with the Sunday Expressin February 1921, Sir Edward Carson made the following points: "Irishmen have a way of suddenly making friends with each other. North and South today are further apart than they ever were, but Mr de Valera might bring them together. After all, a real union with Ulster would be far better than any artificial union."
Thus, it seems that even in the midst of an increasingly bloody war of independence, an Irish unionist was prepared to offer the hand of friendship to an Irish republican. - Yours, etc,
FRANK BOUCHIER-HAYES, Newcastle West, Co Limerick.