A paunchy, substantial ghost walked in the House of Commons last week. Another, not so large but equally substantial, flitted about the entrance. Fermanagh and Tyrone's two M.P.s, Anthony J. Mulvey and Patrick Cunningham, had come to take their seats at last.
Ten years ago voters of the two counties, who passionately prefer union with Eire to partition with Northern Ireland, elected Editor Mulvey and Farmer Cunningham to seats in the British Parliament on an abstentionist platform. They promptly refused to take their seats. Thus the two M.P.s at once protested partition, forfeited aggregate salaries of £5,600 ($23,800) each, became Westminster's most...
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