3 APRIL 1915, Page 12

NEUTRALITY.

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Sra,—The great majority of your readers will, no doubt, be in sympathy with your article on the neutrality of President Wilson. A much stranger fact (which might be the subject of another article) is the neutrality of the Pope, who claims to be infallible on questions of morals. Why is be so strangely silent about the brutal and bestial outrages in Belgium P If he were merely a political statesman we could understand his opportunism, as Roman Catholics are fighting on both sides. What would have been his attitude if Roman Catholics had been on one side with other religions bodies opposed to them P Is opportunism compatible with infallibility?-1 am, Sir. &c.,

AN INQUIRER.