19 JANUARY 1918, Page 11

THE VATICAN AND THE WAR.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] .Sig,—In the recent debates in Parliament stress was laid by the opponents of Female Suffrage on the supposed opposition by women in Australia and Canada to conscription. I believe the charge to be totally unfounded. In both cases the opposition came from the rofaish priesthood, under orders from the Papacy, the standing foe of all that England's name stands for. An analysis of the voting in the different States of Australia fails to connect in any way the women's vote with the opposition to conscription. In Canada the opposition dame from Quebec, and Quebec, of course, is Romanist. People of late in this country fiave been so mealy- mouthed in speaking of the Papacy that these facts cannot be too strongly insisted am, Sir, &c., J. H. RAMAT. B