Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Anglican and Free Church leaders offered a moderate, humane program for a Christian postwar Europe within a framework of "world security." Warned the Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple, Scotland's Presbyterian Moderator John Baillie, Free Church Moderator Roy D. Whitehorn: "We can not assume that defeat of tyranny will in itself suffice to establish peace, well-being and liberty...
...last month's American Magazine New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman wrote: "There have been many great changes at home since the war began. One . . . has been an increase in the prevalence of bigotry, evidenced by . . . race riots, assaults on groups and individuals because of racial and religious differences, desecration of synagogues and churches...
Last week Archbishop Spellman's chancellor, Auxiliary Bishop J. Francis A. McIntyre, contradicted his superior. Speaking at a Communion breakfast, Bishop Mclntyre denied there was any anti-Semitism worth mentioning. It was just "a stuffed wolf," set up "by paid publicity agents [who] by exaggerating the doodling's in chalk of children playing on the streets . . . conjured up out of their imaginations the phantom of anti-Semitic hate." The whole thing, he said, was "a manufactured movement," created "for the deliberate purpose of besmirching the minority Catholic population...
...film. Said the Conference's Dr. Willard Johnson: "We believe that Americans of all creeds are in sympathy with this objective . . . the forthcoming picture . . . which deals with the pernicious effects of all forms of bigotry, will be an invaluable help in directing public attention to what His Excellency, Archbishop Spellman, accurately describes as a spreading cancer...
Britons like Sir William Beveridge put it in terms of human security; some, like Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, in terms of a politically resurgent Christianity-"to be a Christian," he recently wrote, "is to share in a new movement of life...