24 DECEMBER 1943, Page 11

Sts,—The allusion by " Janus " in your issue of

December toth to the forthcoming visit of a Bishop of the Church of England to Italy to con- firm candidates in the British Forces there reminds me of an observation made by Pope Leo XIII when a visit was made to Rome by the then Bishop of Gibraltar for a similar purpose that he "had not known previously that Rome was in the diocese of Gibraltar."—I am, yours