Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he swore that he would not resign, the General had lost more face than he could spare. Finally he stomped in to see the disturbed Regent, old Archbishop Damaskinos. Behind closed doors, angry voices grappled. The bearded Archbishop, who in his day had wrestled men as well as souls, would not be thrown. The General screamed: "Tragos!" ("Billy goat!"). Then he stomped out and resigned...
...Archbishop named an old Navy man, tubby Admiral Petros Voulgaris, Commander in Chief of the Greek Fleet, as the new Premier. In World War I, the Admiral was a stout supporter of the Allies, a follower of the late great Eleutherios Venizelos. In World War II he made his mark by breaking last year's leftist mutiny aboard Greek warships in Alexandria harbor. Then, as now, he had British forces behind him to help keep Greek from fighting Greek...
...quote Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas (TIME, March 5): "We wholeheartedly condemn bigotry in every form. . . . [But] the Catholic Church cannot give the impression that one religion is as good as another or that she must strive with those of other faiths for a common denominator in religion...
...Catholic Church is to pull its weight in bringing about the peace for which all civilized mankind is praying she must learn to do what the Archbishop says she cannot do. . . . The good Archbishop's disavowal of bigotry does not ring quite true...
...possible that the four chaplains of diverse faiths, who died recently on a sinking ship that other men of many faiths might live, found the "common denominator" which eludes Archbishop McNicholas...