COURAGE OF BEING COHERENT IN PUBLIC LIFE

Hilaire Belloc, the well-known
historian –author of «How The Reformation »- and inseparable friend of
Maurice Baring and G.K. stood for the Liberals at South Salford in a
General .
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Belloc's Conservative
adopted the campaign slogan «Don't vote for a Frenchman and a ». Belloc
responded in the first public meeting: «, I am a Catholic. As far as
possible, I go to Mass every day. This (taking a rosary out of his pocket) is a
rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you
reject me on account of my , I shall thank God that He has spared me
the indignity of being your representative.»

In the was a hush of
and after the public stood up cheering. He got elected.