Kid-gloves treatment for "peace moves'

Workers Press no. 777, 29 May 1972 · scan pages 2, 3

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ULSTER peace moves continued to build up at the weekend and Tory leader Heath told a Party rally at Luton Hoo that the security forces were being kept on a tight lead.

He said: 'The men of violence in Northern Ireland would like nothing better than that we should use massive vlolence because it would help them keep the bitterness alive and to keep the two communities, Protestant and Roman Catholic, apart,' But, he added: 'In recent. days we have seen signs that people in both communities are sick of 'We cannot build too much hope on individual incidents but I am certain the great majority of people in Northern Ireland want an end to violence.' GOC Northern Ireland Gen Sir Harry Tuzo weighed in behind the Prime Minister with an attack aimed at deepening the growing discredit of the He told 680 delegates at British Legion conference at Isle of Man:

• . . this organization has now completely forfeited its right to be regarded as anything other than a collection of opportunists with objectives that are extremely hard to define.' The army and Ulster supremo William Whitelaw are obviously riding the crest of the peace wave generated by the shooting of Derry Catholic, 19-year-old William Best, last week. Turn to p. 12, Col 5

THE TRIAL of the Stoke Newington Eight may have to be postponed tomorrow when the Central Criminal Court is told that the defendants have been unable $700m deficit: