EPHEMERA

Title: Politics of Deception
Object Name: Booklet
Maker: Puritan Printing Ltd; Clifford Smith (Primary maker)
Smith, Clifford (author)
Date Made: 1971
1971
Place Made: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast
Belfast
Description: Booklet entitled 'The Politics of Deception', written by Clifford Smyth, Vice-Chairman of the Ulster Young Unionist Council. A pamphlet which attacks proposals from NI Prime Minister Brian Faulkner to restructure the NI parliament. The pamphlet criticises the proposals saying, ‘This frantic search for “political initiatives”, for a new structure of Government, is the inevitable sequel to a series of parlous deceptions perpetrated upon the people of Ulster by their own Prime Ministers.’
Materials: paper
Place Collected
Catalogue Number: BELUM.W2011.2064
Copyright: National Museums NI

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