Foreign News: Sunshine & Mr. Morgan

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With great though respectful excitement British editors and even the House of Commons discussed last week this question: Can Pope Pius XI so contrive that John Pierpont Morgan will be unable to take the Archbishop of Canterbury on a "sunshine cruise" to the Holy Land in his yacht Corsair?

In the House of Commons, His Majesty's Government managed to evade all direct questions. But the London Daily Herald, organ of the Labor Party, said what the Prime Minister was doubtless loath to say:

"Authorities on ecclesiastical affairs have expressed the opinion tonight that Dr. [Cosmo Gordon] Lang's visit to Jerusalem is calculated to give offence to the Vatican. The ecclesiastical and international balance at Jerusalem is delicately poised and easily upset and it is recalled that two years ago Dr. Lang's projected visit to Jerusalem was abandoned, it is said, at the Vatican's protest."

The "ecclesiastical authorities" quoted were undoubtedly Roman Catholics. At Lambeth Palace, residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Anglican ecclesiastics contented themselves with stating that the Primate of All England has been suffering for months with neuralgia. The fact that Dr. Lang's great & good friend Banker Morgan has invited him to bask upon the Corsair and cruise to Palestine they called "most opportune from the health point of view.