Word: acland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interesting that only the Catholic view of man can adequately take account of the possibility of domestic fascism. Read the Acland amendment to the Malvern Declaration to see how realistically the Church of England can generalize. It does not merely focus its eyes across the water...
...Liberals have gone as far as, or farther than, Laborites in expressing revolutionary war aims. Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair has made it clear that he sees eye-to-eye with Laborite Attlee. Most influential M.P. in war-aims councils is tall, thick, bespectacled Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland. a Liberal. At Manchester last December he said: "We are fighting, not to restore the old order, but to establish the real democracy, economic as well as political. . . . There must be common ownership of great resources . . . because without this we cannot move forward to a new way of life based...
Poet T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot attacked the Church in wasteland accents for letting Christian principle vanish from education. Sir Richard Acland was fiercer: "For over 150 years you have neglected your duty . . . because of sheer funk. . The whole structure of society ... is, from the Christian point of view, rotten and must permanently frustrate your efforts to create for the individual the possibility of a Christian life. . . . This has given Hitler the opportunity for saying 'To hell with the whole order.' He said this, and from despairing humanity he wrung forth a tremendous and dynamic response. ... In order...
...this unanimous resolution the conference added "by a very large majority" a still more sweeping amendment proposed by Liberal M. P. Sir Richard Thomas Acland, which stirred up the only major controversy in the four-day conference. This amendment asserted that "the ownership of the great resources of our community . . . [by] private individuals is a stumbling block. . . . The time has come, therefore, for Christians to proclaim the need for seeking some form of society in which this stumbling block will be removed...
...Kirkwood and Communist William Gallacher, who called it "deliberate attempt on the part of the ruling class to conquer the working class." Cracked back orthodox Laborite David Gilbert Logan at Red Willie, "It is about time that a voice like yours was silenced under Emergency Powers." Liberal Sir Richard Acland said he specifically hoped to see the Government "sending to the homes of people like myself and taking away valuable picture's, such as portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and other Old Masters, and selling them in America to pay for airplanes...