I note that in the new house of Commons the Catholic representation is only twenty-one, as compared with twenty-four in the last House, the writer of the Londoner’s Diary in the “Evening Standard” says.
As Catholics claim to have 2,813,000 followers in Great Britain – the figures are probably exaggerated, he continues – the proportion of Catholic representatives in the House of Commons to the Catholic population is only one to 133,952.
This, he says, is in striking contrast to the proportion of Jewish members of Parliament. In the new House there are, in addition to several crypto-Jews, sixteen professing Jews, including such well-known names as Sir Herbert Samuel, Sir Philip Sassoon, Major H. L. Nathan, Mr. James de Rothschild, and Mr. Hore-Belisha.
As the Jewish population of Great Britain is approximately 300,000, this gives to the Jews one Parliamentary representative to 18,750 followers, In contrast to the Catholics, who have not a single Liberal representative, most of the Jewish members of the House are Liberals.
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