12 JUNE 1947, Page 17

SIR,—I am distressed to think that Father Carey Elwes could

have read my article, Pays de Mission?, as meaning that I shared the outrageous view that in France " everyone who is trying to work for better social conditions must of necessity expect to find the whole body of the Church arrayed against him." Naturally I believe nothing of the sort. Far from it. But there are those who do believe it—as a superstition—because they know no better, just as it is also superstitiously believed that if you are a Socialist you must also be an atheist. It was these two common superstitions in continental Left-wing circles which I was summarising.—

Yours, &c., ROGER LLOYD. Cheyney Court, The Close, Winchester.