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http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2002/0103/1369434257HMSPRACHE
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Devious 'Micks' no better than 'Prods' claimed British official

For the first time since it was established in 1972, the Northern
Ireland Office released some of its secret documents. These shed
light on the attitudes of civil servants toward the "two tribes".

In his final letter to the British government on March 6th, 1970,
after spending six months seconded to Northern Ireland, Wright
described Northern Irish society as "tribal".

In his appraisal of the two communities, he said the "natives" and
Scots Calvinist colonists "stranded by partition" liked each other
"about as well as dog and cat, Arab and Jew, Greek and Turkish
Cypriot, separated from birth by ghettos and by educational
apartheid".

Although "more sinned against than sinning," he observed, Catholics
were far from blameless when it came to Northern Ireland's problems.

And in language rarely used in official British circles, he wrote:
"In true Irish fashion the Micks have enjoyed provoking the Prods as
much as the Prods have enjoyed retaliating. It makes the Prods' blood
boil - and all
Irish blood boils at very low temperature - to see the Micks enjoying the superior 
material benefits of the British connection while continuing to wave the Tricolour at 
them."

Protestants didn't escape Wright's waspish tongue either. Many were driven by a desire 
for hatred and vengeance and too many looked to "the one man with charisma in Ulster, 
a man of God, the Rev Ian Paisley, to give it to
 them".

It was no surprise that Ulstermen seemed naturally pessimistic. "They have a lot to be 
pessimistic about," he added.

In 1970 Britain's ambassador to Ireland said the Taoiseach, Mr Lynch, deserved his 
reputation for political and personal integrity but expressed concern about the future 
of his party leadership.

In another document, a note to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office intended as part of 
a briefing for the prime minister, Edward Heath, Sir John Peck observed that Lynch 
enjoyed support for his "peace policy, the practice
 of Fianna Fáil closing its ranks" when in trouble and his skilful political attitude.

But he noted that Lynch's political survival depended on many factors, including 
reform in Northern Ireland and that the Arms Trial should not end in "acquittals or a 
farcical denouement . . ."

Britain's most senior army officer delivered a devastating critique of the RUC at the 
start of the Troubles, describing it as "behind the times", "poorly led", and with a 
"sadly inefficient special branch". Gen Sir Geoffr
ey Baker, chief of the general staff, who visited Northern Ireland as the Labour 
government sent in troops, was shocked at what he saw. The RUC special branch, he 
said, was "badly organised and run, with the result that s
peculation and guesswork largely replace intelligence". Moreover, the RUC only told NI 
ministers what it deemed fit they should hear, said Sir Geoffrey.

- (Guardian Service)



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