4 NOVEMBER 1922, Page 14

RELIGION AND COUNTRY.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Szu,—On October 28th, in an article on Mr. Lloyd George, you say :—" To think out a scheme of politics and then gradually to educate his Party . . . made Disraeli into an Englishman, or at any rate into a man who thoroughly understood, admired, and in the end loved the English race. It eliminated the Judaism." May I point out (I fear in vain to you) that Disraeli always was an Englishman and a Christian ; so that nothing - " made him into " an Englishman, and nothing " eliminated " his Judaism ; bnt that there is nothing in Judaism to prevent an English or any other Jew from thoroughly understanding, admiring, and loving the English