In a letter published in Monday's Times Sir Robert Perks
criticises the amended form of Royal Declaration. While expressing his willingness that the offensive phrases should be expunged, be demands that the Declaration should con- tinue to be a profession of the King's adherence to the Protestant faith. We hold that the proper way of getting rid of the insult to the Roman Catholics and their creed, which we detest as much as any adherent of the Vatican, was merely to excise the objectionable parts of the Declaration. We cannot conceive why the Government preferred to intro- duce a new form of words, which was sure to provoke the heated controversy that it was every one's interest to avoid. We sincerely trust that the Government will even now adopt the course we have described, and make the minimum of change consistent with justice and good feeling to our Roman Catholic fellow-citizens.
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