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             Irish Unionist Alliance   <seg type="del">Chief Offices:<lb/>109,. Grafton St.,<lb/>Dublin</seg>    Currygrane<lb/>Edgeworthstown <lb/> 19 Api: 19 <lb/> Dear Bates <lb/><lb/>I see you are to<lb/>have a meeting next<lb/>week -  I hope very much that<lb/>the matter of arranging<lb/>closer relationships with<lb/>Ulster will be sym-<lb/>pathetically entertained<lb/>a Joint committee<lb/>wd: probably be best. You 
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             4<lb/><lb/>will, I am sure, realize to<lb/>the full what a tremendous,<lb/> at last, successful fight<lb/>we have had to get rid<lb/>of Ld. Midleton &amp; his friends,<lb/>who, as we believe were<lb/>prepared to sacrifice the<lb/>Union; &amp;, our desire now<lb/>to be associated more<lb/>closely than ever with<lb/>Ulster -   J Mackay Wilson  
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