Mr Peter Brooke, the Secretary for Northern Ireland, has succeeded in getting the various parties in Northern Ireland to agree to sit round the Conference Table. It is difficult to see what real progress can be made in such talks when the British Government continues to insist on the Dublin Government having a role to play in arriving at any settlement. It is strange to insist on this when the Eire Government’s long antipathy to Britain and anything British, and its claim to Northern Ireland, makes it an enemy of Protestant Northern Ireland and not a friend. The violence which has been continued so long by the I.R.A., and which has stirred up a similar response from certain sections in Northern Ireland, is still continuing unabated. We are convinced that the murderous campaign of the I.R.A. could not be sustained without the support of the Roman Catholic community and of the Roman Catholic Church. The whole campaign against Northern Ireland has been nurtured by the Roman Catholic educational system which produces young people filled with an inveterate hatred to Protestantism and to Protestant institutions. What is needed in Ireland, North and South, is the outpouring of the Spirit of God in a true revival of genuine religion. Under such an influence Romanism would wither and die and true Christianity would take its place in which North and South could live in harmony as one nation. Until that time comes we are not hopeful of seeing any great change in the Irish situation. Nevertheless we would wish Mr Peter Brooke well in his attempt to defuse the situation there, so long as it will not mean sacrificing the principles for which the Protestant people of Northern Ireland have stood for so long and suffered so much in defending them.