CHURCH AND STATE.
AILSERABLE COMBINE IN WEST,
AIOSLEAI PRIESTS’ HUMOROUS COMMENT ON “KOPEC.”
LONDON, May 5
Twenty nationalities were represented at a Moslem festival at Woking Mosque. A priest, speaking on religion and peace, said, ‘‘None but those who have lived in a Western country could appreciate the meaning of pious ■hypocrisy. Though the recent “Kopec” conference at Birmingham had amiable intentions, its deliberations which’ embraced every conceivable subject in heaven and earth, wtue not worth a Russian kopec. The Church and State in the West had become a miserable combine. Those attending the festival included the Aga Khan and Lord Headley.—A. and N.Z.O.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9798, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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