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...puckish personality in Sydney. He used an old Rolls-Royce with a typewriter mounted in the rear seat as a mobile office. In 1966 he created a stir by going to Hanoi under a false name and interviewing Ho Chi Minh for Oz and for his own publication, Anglican. He clashed with successive Conservative governments in Australia; they considered him too sympathetic to Peking and Hanoi, while he complained of harassment by government intelligence agents...
...five day tour begins today in London where members of the group will visit the Anglican Bishop of London and the British Council of Churches. They will complete it on Friday in Rome where they will discuss the War with the Pontifical Committee for Peace and Justice and request an audience with the Pope...
Both Disraeli and Nixon were rather elusive figures in their native land-the one a Sephardic Jew who, as Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb puts it, "created himself in the likeness of an anti-Semitic cartoon," though he became an Anglican; the other a man who often seemed shallow and without strong roots. Both made their contemporaries uneasy for reasons that could not always be spelled out. Each in his time was underestimated by others, Disraeli because of his rakish dilettantism, Nixon because of his bland ordinariness. Both were dismissed as opportunists; few perceived the fire within. Neither of them ever gave...
...Lord Fisher of Lambeth, 85, former Archbishop of Canterbury; of a stroke; in Sherborne, England. One of ten children born to a Victorian rector, Geoffrey Francis Fisher was crowned the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury-Primate of All England and spiritual leader of the world's 42 million-member Anglican Communion-in 1945. He opposed progressive education, took a strong stand against the romance between Princess Margaret and the divorced Peter Townsend, and shocked millions by asserting that man's nuclear destruction might be God's will. Despite his critical attitude toward Roman Catholic dogmatism, Fisher...
...Hone's espionage novel have nothing to do with espionage. His hero, far from being the traditional gun-and-karate spy, is a mournful reincarnation of the wandering Irishman, someone whose way of escaping from Egypt is to hitch a ride on a Land Rover with an Anglican clergyman who is setting off with beagle-like optimism to expand the parish in the Saharan sands around Tobruk...