Sir Basil Brooke is on record as having told a Twelfth of July gathering in 1933 that because Roman Catholics were disloyal they should not be employed. He said that he took care to ensure that not one was employed about his estate. Pleased with the reaction this statement elicited (from Unionists), he repeated it several times, ultimately becoming the object of a censure motion put down by Nationalists at Stormont in 1934. The then prime minister, Lord Craigavon, responded by moving an amendment which said that the employment of ‘disloyalists’ was prejudicial to the state and took jobs away
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