Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Temple) into viewing the war as not merely a struggle for survival between two political power groups, United Nations and Axis, but also as a symptom of a social disease so virulent, long-standing and neglected that only war's desperate surgery could begin to treat it. The Archbishop's three weeks' in the U.S. would give secular eyes a chance to observe at close range the No. 2 representative of England's ecclesiastical change of heart...
...fierceness of temper has been beaten and battered into benignity. It was a natural gentleness refined by devotion, austerity and great human sympathy. And there was a sense of easy power about him, fitting as comfortably as his open prelatical coat and apron, his greavelike buttoned black gaiters. The Archbishop of York has presence...
Says one character to another in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon: "Such peculiar birds as you are found only in the trees of revolution." The Archbishop of York is possibly the most peculiar social revolutionist the world has ever known. It is doubtful whether he thinks of himself as a social revolutionist at all (though, like Cardinal Manning, he might have called himself a "Mosaic Radical...
...wall-which becomes legible to everybody only when the walls begin to totter and collapse. In mid-January, 1941, under the impact of Nazi bombs, the walls were falling on all sides of the 221 Anglican prelates, priests and laymen who under the sponsorship of Dr. Temple, then Archbishop of York, huddled in greatcoats in the unheated rooms of Malvern College. It was not only British walls that were crashing. Under the onset of the Nazi conquests the walls of the whole known world were tottering. They had been thick with scribbled warnings. The Nazis were the terrible evidence that...
...through his sponsorship of its program and his close participation with Dr. Temple in a series of endorsements, Dr. Garbett became almost as completely identified with Malvern as was Dr. Temple. Besides, his whole ecclesiastical life had been the practice of what Malvern preached. When Dr. Temple became Archbishop of Canterbury, England's No. 1 primate, Dr. Garbett undertook the heavy burden of the Archbishopric of York, chiefly to assist Dr. Temple in carrying out the Malvern program...