Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traveled 14,000 miles. He had talked with four Prime Ministers, twelve Cabinet members, one King (and an African tribal chieftain on the way home), one Archbishop, the Lord Mayors of Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield, innumerable soldiers, policemen, laborers, dock workers, charwomen, waitresses, bricklayers, chemists, reporters, shopkeepers. He saw a Communist demonstration and, while bombs drooped outside, listened to a debate in the House of Commons. He had a long talk with men working on the London sewers, an all evening session that lasted until two in the morning with Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Lord Beaverbrook and Major Clement Attlee...
...Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury, no progressive, has broadcast this contribution to war aims: "Our task is ... to establish among nations the great principles of justice and freedom. ... As for the claim that in trying to establish justice and freedom we are doing God's will, it lays on us the responsibility at least of establishing these principles in our own land...
...Archbishop of York, who is more liberal, has also been more specific: "With security for France must go equality for Germany. The aim must be to cooperate with Germany as an equal partner. . . . If we establish justice even approximately, we may hope for peace...
...British Parliament passed an Emergency Powers Defense Act giving the Government full control over everybody and everything. As Minister of Labor, horny-handed Ernest Bevin could -if he chose-walk into London's stuffy Athenaeum Club, tap the Archbishop of Canterbury on his bald pate and order him to Sussex to dig trenches. Having, as the London Times put it, placed "our ancient liberties ... in pawn for victory," Britons wondered what their Government intended to do about it. Last week they found...
...small part of the significance of the conference was that its convener and chairman was the Church of England's second ranking prelate and its real intellectual and spiritual leader-stout, brisk, erudite, 59-year-old Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of York. Son of an Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Temple was an Oxford don of philosophy at 23, a headmaster at 29, a bishop at 39, an archbishop at 47. A famed theologian and an ardent exponent of the ecumenical (interchurch) movement, he is likely to be first president of the still-organizing World Council of Churches. Said...