Camps The White Paper makes provision for the passing of more repressive legislation, the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill, based on the recommendations of the Diplock CommisSOn.
With Direct Rule, Whitelaw promised the speedy end of internment". This was based on the assumption that the troops could defeat the IRA. But even with 20,000 soldiers, torture, intimidation, bribery and murder, Britain has not succeeded in destroying opposition. The Army's chief theoretician, Kitson, has repeateded Weekly 19 May 1973 Page 4 With the White Paper Britain is indeed playing the last of its political cards. Already, less than two months after its publication, the chances of the White Paper actually achieving some sort of hide success for imperialien have diminDespite the intensity of repression and the massive number of arrests, the resistance of the nationalist population has not been seriously undermined, The Provisional IRA still has the capacity to carry on a guerrilla war against the imperialist army effective enough to disrupt Whitelaw's timetable for stabilisation. Within the British Army, the crisis of morale continues. The troops see no end to the political crisis, and the Army has been unable to reduce IRA activity to an acceptably low level. And within the Unionist bloc, Faulkner has until now failed to consolidate the Unionist Party around his own leadership and acceptance of the White Paper proposals. The moderates