"Disappointed and Distressed"

Well-meaning old George Lansbury, M. P., leader of Great Britain's Labor Party, received replies last week to his fervent plea that the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other religious leaders should intervene to stop the "tariff war" now raging between the Mother Country and the Irish Free State (TIME, July 25 et seq.).

Replied Chief British Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz. "To my great regret. I do not see how any action of mine could ad" vance the cause of peace or good understanding between England and Ireland."

The Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England answered Mr. Lansbury, "I am unable to take any such action as you indicate."

Pope Pius XI. while not directly replying to Laborite Lansbury. caused him to be received in audience by that English Prince of the Church. Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster.

"I am quite sure." said His Eminence, "that if an opportunity is offered which would in any way make it possible for the Holy Father to intervene then indeed His Holiness would be quite willing to do anything he could to advance the cause of peace."

After cogitating all these replies Old George Lansbury burst out. "I am so disappointed and distressed that I am urging them all to reconsider their decisions!"

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