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Kirk begins with Edmund Burke, founder of a great line of British-American conservatives. Son of a Dublin lawyer, devout Anglican, party manager of the Whigs, Burke lived in an England torn and undermined by the philosophy of the French Revolution much as the U.S. in the '305 was torn and undermined by the philosophy of the Communist Revolution. In press, Parliament and public opinion, Burke saw signs that Britain was in danger from the doctrines across the Channel. If his fears now seem exaggerated, that impression is perhaps Burke's greatest achievement. "He succeeded," says Kirk...
Burke's conservatism was universal in its application. In one of the most famous of all trials, he prosecuted Warren Hastings for colossal graft and misrule as Britain's Governor-General of India. But what Burke, the Anglican, detested most in Hastings' record was the Governor-General's roughshod trampling of Hindu tradition and religious ceremonial. Burke feared that Hastings, by destroying India's tradition, might destroy the soul of a civilization...
...night last week, 1,200 defiant men & women packed into a small, smoky, underground hall beneath St. Mary's Anglican Cathedral in Johannesburg. As cops of Malan's "Special Branch" looked on, white lawyers, teachers, clergymen and office workers boldly sat side by side with Africans and Indians. Novelist Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), a party founder, spoke with apostolic fervor: "For the first time we openly proclaim the things we believe ... In Africa the imperative need is to create some kind of common society for white and black . . . Color bars imposed by the whites have produced...
Saga of a Scholar. It had taken the dean himself quite a while to digest the news, but last week the whole saga came out. "Peters," it seemed, was really Robert Parkins, an Anglican priest who had been arrested in Britain for bigamy. He had never been to Oxford or taken an M.A. at Adelaide; nor had he earned a music degree from Durham...
...changed his name and fled to Switzerland. There, he got a job as chaplain of an Anglican church in Lausanne. When police caught up with him, he fled again, was finally caught in the mountain resort of Riffelberg masquerading as a Mr. Humphreys. Expelled from Switzerland as an undesirable alien, he was eventually found in Ceylon, boarding with a bishop and teaching at the Colombo Divinity School. Next stops: Singapore, Australia, Canada and finally the U.S. In 1950, he went back to Canada, but recrossed the border and took up illegal residence. Meanwhile, armed with faked credentials, he had done...