15 MARCH 1924, Page 13

ANALYSIS OF THE LABOUR PARTY.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I thank " Analyst " for his regrets. As to whether the Jewish Labour Members of Parliament are generally of recent alien origin, I can only say that I do not know, and that the question does not seem to me to be of much importance. Some of our greatest Englishmen and some of our best sovereigns have been of recent alien origin, and on the merely residential basis an Irishman or Welshman, as such, should always be preferred to an =diluted Anglo-Saxon, if such can be found. What I do consider important is the intro- duction of a man's religion into a purely political question. —I am, Sir, &c., ALFRED L. EMANUEL.

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