“The feeling that [Terence O’Neill] is being blackmailed …

“The feeling that [Terence O’Neill] is being blackmailed by thugs who are putting pressure on him is something this House cannot accept.”

—Harold Wilson, as UK Prime Minister, in House of Commons, about Unionist opposition to Terence O’Neill’s reform programme, 21/10/1968. Deutsch and Magowan, Northern Ireland, 1968-1973, A Chronology of Events, Vol. 1, Blackstaff Press, 1983, p. 11.