Catholic Herald, July 27, 1956

East-West meeting
FR PIERRE (above) the friends of the Paris poor, met Mr Nehru the Prime Minister of India at Orly Airport when Mr Nehru was on his way to Belgrade for talks with President Tito of Yugoslavia and President Nasser of Egypt.
The other side of Soho
"SOHO has been called a vice area, but it is also a powerhouse of reparation," Mgr Canon George Smith, parish priest of Soho's famous church of St Patrick, said this week.
He was asked by the Catholic Herald if he would like to say anything about the fact that Catholics as well as others were said to be involved in recent court cases arising from alleged gang warfare in Soho — such as the Jack Spot case — and that this might perplex some people.
His attention was drawn to pictures that had appeared in the press showing Jack Comer ("Jack Spot") leaving a Catholic church in another Part of London with his wife after the baptism of their two children Mrs Cotner, who was a witness in recent trials, is a Catholic.
Mgr Smith told The Catholic Herald: "Those who have figured in the recent trials that have been associated with Soho do not, so far as I know, live in this parish.
"The published addresses of the accused though not always convicted people, are generally in the north or east of London. Their national origins, or religious convictions, are therefore unknown to me or my assistants, and the reports I have read of the proceedings do not make it possible for me to say whether the alleged events occurred in this neighbourhood or not.
"However all this may be, the fact remains that St Patrick's Soho Square, is a spiritual power-house filled with worshippers from morning to night. Benediction is given here twice a day as a daily reparation for other things that go on in this area. The parish is simply full of good practising Catholics."