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...commission contained one pacifist, the Venerable Percy Hartill, Archdeacon of Stoke-on-Trent, who registered his disapproval of any kind of modern war in a minority note. But the report itself gave short shrift to his view: "There are those who say that the solution is to counter aggression by love. Ultimately that may be true. But is it applicable to the problem that confronts us? ... A nation that by disarmament rendered itself defenseless would not be assisting in the prevention of aggression, which is the only way to preserve justice in the world...
...afraid to ask for anything you want," they were told at the hotel, "even if it is bird's milk." Later, the travelers were taken to call on the Patriarch. There they met Archdeacon Gregori Antonenko and others of the Patriarch's entourage, went to see a nearby church which was functioning. Said Father Sergei: "There are some 34 churches now in Moscow, filled to capacity every Sunday. Young people, old people, everybody comes. But somehow Moscow is a crude village. All the time I was there I didn't see a single intelligent face...
...seem nearly always to develop eccentricities." The psychiatrist who felt that the country of Wonderland was "a continuous threat to the integrity of the body" was simply putting in the wrong nutshell the Reverend Dodgson's own anxiety about the dangers of everyday life. Son of a stern archdeacon, eldest of eleven children, only two of whom married and nine of whom were girls, young Charles seems never to have got over the belief that there was "something ugly and even cruel in masculinity." And "masculinity after all," remarks Author Lennon precisely, "is half...
...Died. Archdeacon Frederick George Scott, 82, fighting chaplain of the Royal Rifles of Canada since 1906; in Quebec...
Slight, deaf, intense Bishop Barry knows his wars. A winner of the D.S.O. for heroism as a chaplain in World War I, he has since served as Archdeacon of Egypt, Chaplain to the King, Canon of Westminster, and Vicar of the University Church at Oxford, which he packed with undergraduates as it had never been packed before-even by John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman. No stuffed shirt, he lists his recreations in Who's Who as "indescribable...