Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greece had chosen a Regent,* Archbishop Damaskinos (TIME, Jan. 8). The Archbishop chose as Premier Greece's No. 1 kingbreaker, fresh from eleven years of exile in, France. Some Greeks were pleased. They remembered Plastiras as the democratic strongman who helped depose King Constantine in 1922, King George II the following year. Other Greeks were disappointed. They remembered Plastiras' unsuccessful attempt to seize the Government...
...from Buckingham Palace: "The King has been pleased to nominate the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Geoffrey Francis Fisher, D.D., Lord Bishop of London, for election by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury in place of the late Right Honourable and Most Reverend William Temple, D.D., Lit. D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan...
Methodist Bishop Eleazar Guerra appealed for tolerance. Mexico's tiny Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez calmly declared: "Protestant activities do not interest the Catholic Church." And peace was restored for a while...
Then Protestants rubbed Catholic Mexico's sorest spot-history. In newspaper advertisements, they again laid the blame for the French invasion of Mexico (1864) at Church doors. In mid-November Archbishop Martínez pastoral letter blazed at "the perfect organization and powerful financial resources" of Protestant sects. Martinez was further quoted in an interview: "If Catholics believe that a powerful boycott might be one of the effective remedies [for Protestant activity], certainly they should...
...week after the boycott started Archbishop Martinez gave the word that stopped it. Said he: "I judge that it is far from proven that Colgate-Palmolive-Peet is an organization dedicated to support Protestant missions with its contributions. This being the case, it is not only undesirable but unjust to attack it with the boycott...