POLITICS AND RELIGION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20039, 4 March 1927, Page 9

POLITICS AND RELIGION

CHARGE AGAINST AMBASSADOR. FAR-FETCHED IMPUTATIONS. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, March 2. (Received March 3, at 11 p.m.) Senator Heflin, who lias recently been attacking the Roman Catholics, to-day in the Senate charged the British Ambassador (Sir Esmc Howard) with conniving with the Knights of Columbus and priests of the Roman Catholic Church to force the United States to war with Mexico, and also with endeavouring, in conjunction with the Roman Catholic Church, to force Britain to recognise the Roman Catholic regime of President Diaz in Nicaragua. Britain, he said, had sent a Roman Catholic Ambassador to the United States, indicating that she had fallen under the domination of the Roman Catholic Church. Sentor King immediately rose and said that Sir Esme Howard was a man of the highest attainments and fine intelligence, and as a diplomat he was rendering his country valuable service. ‘I cannot permit to go unquestioned the charge that he would do anything derogatory to his country or to the United States. His Honor should not be impugned or questioned/’—A. and N.Z. Cable.