The Anglo-Irish Spectator/ The Wolfman Cometh
Reid, Stuart
The Wolfman Cometh by Stuart Reid London F or a while there in March it looked bad. This time the Yanks had gone too far. In tacos bars, in bowling alleys, at Safeway checkouts—wherever Englishmen...
...The Protestants know they are being sold down the river of no return, and with the support of the people on the mainland...
...The Brigade of Guards had been taking part in massive exercises on Salisbury Plain, it was said, and with live ammunition...
...By far the most interesting, and Stuart Reid is assistant features editor at the London Sunday Telegraph...
...The St...
...a squadron of Tornado GR 1 s had been sent to Bermuda, flying at sea level to avoid detection by U.S...
...Patrick's Day, against the express wishes of the British government, and to allow him to raise funds in the U.S.-inspired a magnificent outbreak of anti-American fury here...
...Using the rhetoric of messianic righteousness," he argued, "its rulers first displaced the indigenous inhabitants of their continent before going on to lecture the rest of the world on 'human rights.— Wilson and Roosevelt between them had helped to dismantle the British Empire, and now Clinton was, in effect, demanding an end to the union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland...
...Patrick's Day incident will soon be forgotten, and the special relationship, at least at a political level, will continue to rust: Clinton's decision to attend the V-E Day celebrations in Russia rather than in England, which caused almost as much anger here as that handshake with Adams, was just one more sign that Washington can afford to ignore the uncertain roar of the British lion...
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...As head of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, he is up to his molars in blood...
...No," the great man replied sternly: "CIA...
...It will not be peace with honor, but you can't have everything, as Henry Kissinger discovered in Vietnam...
...The British government is employing a double standard, and not just in the matter of fundraising...
...w by all the fury, then...
...Powell: IRA...
...John Mills had been seen entering the Admiralty wearing a khaki duffel coat and a plucky frown .. . President Clinton's decision to invite Gerry Adams to the White House on St...
...Behind the glad-handing, the smiles and the poses, the inner man is negligible," he wrote...
...a pair of Trident submarines had been spotted heading down the Clyde Estuary for the North Atlantic...
...Once, responding to some horror in Northern Ireland, he said: "Three initials sum up this problem...
...extreme, contribution to the Clinton-Adams debate was made by John Charmley, author of the recent critical life of Winston Churchill...
...Question: Why did the Irish get all the potatoes and the Saudi Arabians all the oil...
...The IRA is not an army, and it does not represent the Irish Republic...
...The cuddly classicist (and anti-American) Enoch Powell is among their number...
...the decision to allow Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein to raise funds in America takes Clinton to new depths of ignominy...
...There is no centre of gravity, no principle, no integrity: nothing...
...lsewhere columnists concentrated E their fire on the president, who was charged—can you believe it?—with being more concerned to win the hearts and minds and votes of his 40-million-strong Irish-American constituency than to make John Major a happy prime minister...
...It is a terrorist organization that since 1969 has murdered more than 3,000 Britons...
...That's the way history crumbles...
...Only the more extreme conspiracy theorists will go on holding a grudge against the United States for its interference in Anglo-Irish politics...
...John Major was so hurt that he refused to take a telephone call from the president, and went off to the Middle East to shake hands with Yassir Arafat...
...The real problem, he wrote, was that America had always been an Imperial Republic intent on mischief...
...No wonder the English sometimes make unkind (and probably illegal) jokes about their Hibernian cousins...
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...One hesitates to defend Clinton, but since Sinn Fein is allowed to raise money in Great Britain there seems little reason why it should not be allowed to raise funds in the United States...
...It has itself been courting Adams for more than a year now, and is on the verge of holding talks at ministerial level with Sinn Fein/IRA...
...Even sane and sensible people were hurt...
...Because the Ulster Protestants and their friends in England have to be appeased...
...But no one is fooled...
...There will be peace, and the Unionists will have to learn to live with it...
...The British Government has had twenty-five years to defeat the IRA, and has failed...
...Answer: Because the Irish had first choice...
...Oh, and what might they be, Mr...
...In tacos bars, in bowling alleys, at Safeway checkouts—wherever Englishmen traditionally gather—there was whispered talk of general mobilization and of warehouses full of call-up papers...
...In the Sunday Telegraph, he aimed his sawn-off (but elegantly fashioned) shotgun at the entire American people, from Davy Crockett to 011ie North...
...Major, or his successor, will be shaking hands with Adams in Downing Street...
...In the Sunday Express Bruce Anderson delivered himself of the not especially original idea that Clinton was the worst president in American history...
...Pretty soon Mr...
...The wolfish Adams is the nearest thing we have to an Arafat...
...The average taxpayer is sick of the violence—who wants to be blown up on a shopping trip to Harrods?—and furthermore is beginning to suspect that the Irish nationalists have a case (as of course they do...
Vol. 28 • May 1995 • No. 5
