Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around Winston Churchill, Britain was stirring with hopes that the war would bring great democratic changes. It seemed no more than a minor symptom last week that the Archbishop of Canterbury, plump, vigorous William Temple, should continue the trend of his Malvern conference (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941) by proposing that the Government take over the issuance of credit (i.e., banking). Referring to Britain's five great banks, * he declared: "Money, or credit which does duty for money, has become in effect a monopoly...
Bernanos is not, like England's prodigious William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, a proponent of social reform. Nor is he, like his distinguished friend, Jacques Maritain, a scholastic philosopher. What Bernanos has done is to prove again, for the 20th Century, the psychological power of religious insight. In so doing he offers a profound challenge to free men in terms that most of them are beginning to understand...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Wilson Carlile, 95, "Bishop of Billingsgate, Archbishop of the Gutter"; three hours after the death of his brother, Sir Hildred Carlile, 90; in Woking, England. He resigned his curacy at London's St. Mary Abbots to play trombone or trumpet at street meetings in the London slums. Thus he founded the Church Army of the Church of England in the early '80s, built it into a vast organization of aims and size comparable to the Salvation Army. (His parishioners disapproved. One objected that pocket picking had gone on at one of the street meetings...
Outstanding figures were Argentina's President Ramón S. Castillo; Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz-Guiñazú; onetime Argentine Ambassador to Spain Daniel Garcia Mansilla (the presiding dignitary); the Most Rev. Roberto José Tavella, Archbishop of Salta; and Spanish Ambassador to Argentina, Admiral Antonio Magaz y Pers, Marquis of Magaz. They convened as the first Congress of Hispano-American Culture...
...Said Archbishop Tavella (showing the influence of Mussolini and Franco): "It is necessary to restore Spain and Hispanidad in America. . . . We've fallen into a state of intoxication and impotence but thank God this is disappearing; the course of liberalism is wavering; clarity of vision and sense of the true course is returning...