KNIGHTHOODS FOR .

FIVE CATHOLICS
Three missionary nuns honoured KNIGHTHOODS are conferred upon five Catholics in the New Year Honours, and a Catholic is one of the two new Dames of the British Empire,
A prelate and three missionary nuns are also honoured.
LL-Col. Sir Rupert Hay, K.C.T.E., Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, is made a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George.
The Hon, William Raymond Kelly, Chief Justice of the Australian Commonwealth Arbitration Court, receives the K.B.E.
Mr. John Rothenstein, M.A.. Ph.D.. Dieector and Keeper of the Tate Gallery for the past 13 years is made a Knight Bachelor.
Vice-Admiral Philip Enright receives a Knighthood of the British Empire.
The Hon. Charles Gavan Duffy, Justice of the Supreme Court of the Stale of Victoria, becomes a Knight Bachelor.
Commandant Mary Kathleen Lloyd, Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service, is made a Dame of the British Empire.
Sir Rupert Hay is a convert. having been received into the Church in 1921. He has spent the major part of his career in India and has been Political Resident in the Persian Gulf for five years.
Mr. Rothenstein. son of the celebrated artist Sir William Rothenstein, has for some years been one of the most controversial figures in the world of art, not by choice but on account of his policy of ensuring that, at the Tate Gallery at least, artists with new ideas and a fresh outlook shall be encouraged and not held back by over-conservative " traditionalists""
In his middle twenties he was already Assistant Professor of Art in the University of Kentucky and later in the Department of Fine Art in the University of Pittsburgh. Leeds chose him as Director of its City Art Gallery when he was 31, and soon afterwards he became Director of the City Art Galleries and the Ruskin Museum in Sheffield. He was 37 when he came to London and the Tate Gallery.
Every rank
'Pie Hon. Charles Cavan. Duffy is following closely in the footsteps of his father, the late Sir Frank Gavan Duffy, who was Chief Justice -of Australia.
The Hen. William Raymond, educated at St. Xavier's College. Calcutta, and by the Christian Brothers in Adelaide, was Mayor of Yorktowne in 1925, and became a stipendiary magistrate.
Admiral Enright has risen from the lower deck: he joined the Navy in 1914 when he was 16. During the war he served at a captain in the Mediterranean, and in 1946 was appointed an A.D.C. to the King. Commandant Lloyd has held every rank in the Wrens. She became a rating in 1939, and was commissioned a year later. Now she holds the post occupied for many years by another Catholic. Dame Vera Laughton Matthews.
Mgr. R. M. Lee, Vicar General of (Continued on page 5)