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...High Anglican Church Times had criticized "the marriage . . . of the Foreign Secretary, during the lifetime of his [divorced] wife," and chided a "pagan generation" for taking it "as a matter of course" (TIME, Aug. 25). In its next issue, the weekly newspaper noted without surprise that its views had aroused a generally "hostile" reaction...
...also a gentleman of rational disposition, settled habits and scholarly inclinations. This blending, perhaps more frequently found in the British Isles than elsewhere, has made him just about the ideal man for his job: 99th Archbishop of Canterbury,* Primate of All England and the active spiritual head of the Anglican communion...
...damaged hundreds of Britain's churches. Service as chaplains or enlistments in the armed forces had called away many priests and candidates for the clergy. The church also had a grave internal problem. Archbishop Temple had been a militant Low Churchman who accentuated the Protestantism of the Anglican Communion. His predecessor, Archbishop Lang, had been an equally strong Anglo-Catholic. As a result of the strains of these sharply contrasting administrations, the historic balance between the two factions was wavering...
Walpole's father was a kind, reserved Anglican bishop. His mother, when her death approached, welcomed it with a remarkable phrase: "You don't know what a comfort it is to think that I am never going to be shy again." With two such restrained parents, it is no wonder that "Hughie" developed an insatiable appetite for romance and popular approval, and that he spent much of his life searching for the "ideal friend"-one over whom he could pour buckets of love and "understanding...
...Communists and with what he said was "crushing evidence" that the allies were in fact conducting germ warfare in Korea. The evidence, shown to newsmen at a press conference, turned out to be 1) a massive scroll written entirely in Chinese, 2) a letter from a Chinese Anglican bishop who had not been to Korea, 3) the memory of a Chinese news broadcast during which two U.S. airmen had purportedly confessed to dropping germs. Had the dean actually seen anyone sick as a result of germ warfare? Well, no - "but I saw the brains of two children who had died...