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Mohammed in London. A Moslem mosque, the first in the British Isles, other than two temporary temples, has been dedicated in the London suburb of Southfields. The opening ceremony was performed by Emir Feisal, King of Iraq, third son of the King of the Hedjaz. Mohammedan worshipers in England are a small but steadily growing body. Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Fifth Baron Headley, is a leader of the British activities of the sect.

Lutherans. Dethroned by Presbyterians from their onetime third rank in number of U. S. Protestants, Lutherans plan to count hereafter communicants rather than confirmed members, as a fair and more impressive test of strength. Thus was cut a particularly tight Gordian knot, at the biennial convention of this faith, at Richmond, Va.

"Here we are quibbling over a miserable two or three dollars," cried Dr. Lewis C. Menger, taking up the budget, "when we spend millions every years for tobacco, autos and hops." A 10% increase of budget was voted amid cheers. Other pronouncements: "The Federated Council of Churches of Christ in America appears to go far in attempting in the name of Protestantism what it condemns in Romanism"; Japan, in spite of seeming progress, is "idolatrous, superstitious, immoral."

"Y" Expelled. The Soviet government (U.S.S.R.) expelled last week from its domain, at 24-hour notice, H. D. Anderson, Y.M.C.A. secretary in Moscow, and confiscated all "Y" property there. Secretary Anderson had been engaged in physical education, following express invitation of the U.S.S.R. "Y" leaders in Manhattan see in his departure "the complete expulsion" of their work from the Soviet field.

Nun. Moved by religious vision at the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago (TIME, June 28), Miss Marie A. Easby-Smith, 35, woman lawyer of Washington, D. C., renounced last week her profession and the world, to enter a Maryland convent. Miss Easby-Smith's priest advised her against the step, but she said to her father, simply: "I am going."