IRISH FREE STATE: 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."

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