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NORTHERN IRELAND: NORTHERN IRELAND Member from South Down

Member from South Down

In smoky Belfast last week hulking Premier Viscount Craigavon, who looks like an oldtime hotel detective and stands solidly for the allegiance of Northern Ireland ("Ulster") to the British Crown, rumbled: "Ulster again is assured of five years of a resolute and settled government. I shall carry on, encouraged by the victory over the destructive elements arrayed against our imperial stronghold."

Not only had Craigavon's Unionists won a thumping majority in Parliament but they had won it before Election Day. Of their candidates 27 had no opponents in their...

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