4 JANUARY 1935, Page 10

* * I notice in one or two obituary notices

of Cardinal Bourne references to his emphatic denunciation of the General Strike in 1926. That, of course, is a matter of history, but I believe the Cardinal-Archbishop's original attitude to the crisis was much less decisive. According to information on which I have reason to rely, Cardinal Bourne expressed his willingness to sign the conciliatory, statement issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and actually returned the draft-statement to Lambeth with various emendations which Dr. Davidson was quite ready to accept. Then, with some suddenness he changed his view, and in a declaration made at High Mass condemned the strike in language differing very notably from the Archbishop's. * * * *