Item 43 - SDLP submission, part II

13pp + enclosure

Copy of the Social Democratic and Labour Party [SDLP]'s economic submission to the Secretary of State's Conference, Part II. Includes copy letter from G Freyer to Hugh [Logue] which begins "I read with considerable interest your economic submission to the Brits'. Freyer continues by commenting on the submission. In his concluding paragraphs he writes 'I feel those who press for a united island should spell out the machinery of how this would be administered. I agree with all propaganda over British misrule, but the only way to convince northern unionists to come in - as Yeats said in the first Seanad debate - is to govern the south tolerantly and well. We haven't started that yet - the Family Planning Act is handing the Unionists a pretext on a plate ... I feel Garrett's [Garrett Fitzgerald- emphasis on the growing economic advantages of union is a more hopeful tack than Haughey and his silver teapot. But for voluntary union, the first step is to abandon the demand for unity as a right. What is the SDLP view now? I'd like to meet again before too long'.

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