Word: archbishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard-headed, sensible people as I can see, and not to be taken in by emotional clap-trap. I therefore ask you to consider soberly: what were the Archbishop's aims? and what are King Henry's aims? In the answer to these questions lies the key to the problem...
...Becket concurred with the King's wishes, we should have had an almost ideal state; a union of spiritual and temporal administration, under the central government . . . And what happened? The moment that Becket, at the King's instance, had been made Archbishop . . . and he became more priestly than the priests, he ostentatiously and offensively adopted an ascetic manner of life, he openly abandoned every policy that he had heretofore supported; he affirmed immediately that there was a higher order than that which our King, and he as the King's servant, had for so many years striven to establish...
...will agree with me that such interference by an Archbishop offends the instincts of a people like ours. So far, I know that I have your approval: I read, it in your faces. It is only with the measures we have had to adopt, in order to set matters to rights, that you take issue. No one regrets the necessity for violence more than we do. Unhappily, there are times when violence is the only way in which social justice can be secured. At another time, you would condemn an Archbishop by vote of Parliament and execute him formally...
There is really only one character in the play: the Archbishop. Mr. Irving Locke, despite an occasional lapse of memory, rendered the role with an excellent proud reserve, the main thing called...
...family I want to hold with you a fireside chat." The company looks at him anxiously. It is clear he is the most popular of men. "You have heard much of late of the sad plight of my country, of my struggles against that grasping man, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who aims to set himself up as the ruler of this land, yea, against the very government itself...