Sta,-Your issue of May 27 has an article on the

appropriateness of an investigation of the regime in Northern Ireland, It quotes the suspicions of the Tribune in support of the suggestion, mentioning that it fairly represents " the main Labour body."
Surely THE CATHOLIC HERALD and the Tribune and " the main Labour body," and every honest Englishman is aware that the regime and conditions in Northern Ireland were investigated not so very long ago by a civil liberties commission of which, if I mistake not, your Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, was chairman, and Mr. Morrison and many others "representative of the main Labour body" were members. This commission issued a report signed by Mr. Attlee, Mr. Morrison, and other representatives of " the main Labour body," which described and condemned the regime in Northern Ireland for bigotry, intolerance, religious persecution, gerrymandering, and general injustice. Yet notwithstanding all this the British Government, let by Mr. Attlee and " the representatives of the main Labour body." by Act of Parliament has now guaranteed this regime in Northern Ireland which they not so very long ago described in terms now reserved for Nazi and Communist regimes.
The ability to forget or ignore such things, either for the sake of convenience, or under pressure, is what we call hypocrisy and dishonesty.
PATRICK J. KEYS.
Eglinton Street, Galway, Ireland.
Sm,-In the issue of May 27 in " Questions of the Week " it is stated that " Parliament has felt obliged, with almost unanimous assent, to balance the provisions for Irishmen, under this new national status, in Britain by maintaining the status quo in the Six Counties." In the continuation of the same paragraph is a quotation from the Tribune which runs " There is a deep, widespread, and legitimate suspicion of the policies and activities of the Northern Ireland Government." Further on in the same column is a reference to " the intolerable discrimination against Catholics which should find no place under the British flag." Surely these are cogent reasons why Parliament should not "have felt obliged" to do anything which would help to preserve such an avowedly undemocratic regime?
E. M. HTCKEY, M.D., M.P.
76 Eglantine Avenue, Belfast.
[The point surely is that Parliamenes first responsibility Ls for proper democracy in Northern Ireland. and Northern Ireland is then to determine democratically Its future status.-Editor, C.H.1