Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia surprisingly agreed that invitations to speak before the Council be granted to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Russia's friends, Yugoslavia and Poland and the Soviet Republics of the Ukraine and White Russia also were permitted to present their views. Greece's Regent, Archbishop Damaskinos, did not appear before the Council but worked effectively behind the scenes...
...Focus. The Council of Foreign Ministers' opening session (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) marked the return of Europe's political life. London embassies carried a heavy traffic of emissaries: the Greek Regent, Archbishop Damaskinos; French Socialism's aging Leon Blum; the Czech Premier, soft-spoken Zdenek Fierlinger; Britain's ambassadors and ministers to Near and Middle East countries...
After the last shipboard game, he told a story. Two Londoners, he said, had been arguing about a passing cleric. Said one: "I say he's the Archbishop of Canterbury. I can see his gaiters." Said the other: "He's not." To settle a bet, the passerby was hailed, asked his identity. Staring stonily over his high collar, the cleric replied : "It's none of your damned business who I am." So, the President grinned, they never knew-just like the suckers who do not call a poker hand...
...Moral of It All." The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. G. F. Fisher, was not afraid of "endless destruction." "In time this discovery will immensely increase the ease of human life. . . . Great comfort is a temptation more dangerous than great danger. To use the increased leisure and to use it fruitfully will call for an increase in man's own spiritual resources. Men must become better men. That is the moral...
Last month, with London booksellers concurring, Dr. Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, nominated Trollope for first place in wartime British reading popularity (Jane Austin and the Bronte sisters tied for second place, Dickens and Thackeray for third). Nostalgia for the days when English life could be portrayed as a comedy of manners was the general, if perhaps too simple, explanation...