14 JUNE 1919, Page 2

A message from Mr. Pereeval Landon in the Daily Telegraph

of Tuesday suggests that the Government have decided to receive an Envoy from the Pope. Nominally this is to be a temporary expedient, but we may be perfectly sure that if the Vatican should get a footing in London it would not be an easy thing to bring the Envoyship to an .end. We ask for some public consideration of this subject. We are well aware of the arguments, both natural and plausible, for having diplomatic relations with the Pope. During the war Mr. Asquith believed that it was a matter of convenience for Great Britain to be represented at the Vatican, and it may be said now that, unless we are never again to have a representative at the Vatican, it is mere logio and courtesy to allow the Pope to send one here.