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Washington's wealthy, ultra-liberal Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam has been engaged for months in a bitter, long-distance feud with the House Un-American Activities Committee.Chairman Harold H. Velde infuriated him by talking about searching for Communists in the ranks of U.S. churchmen. The bishop made some pointed remarks about "vermilion vigilantes"-a term he said he invented to describe those who created as much national distrust as Reds themselves, but had so much "yellow in their makeup" that another color was needed to describe them. In a speech on the floor of the House, California...
When he stepped down from the stand, Bromley Oxnam seemed clearly the victor over his congressional foes. The committee unanimously announced that it had no record of Communist membership by Bishop Oxnam. Some members began grumbling that they had never charged him with being a Communist, but only a "dupe," and at week's end they were implying that the subject was not closed...
Among those supporting the Council's position were Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the World Council of Churches, Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...executive sessions, the Methodist Council of Bishops lost no time in speaking their denominational mind about the current congressional vogue for investigation. Springboard for the council's resolution on the subject was the attack of Republican Congressman Donald L. Jackson of California against Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam as a Red-fronter (TIME, March...
Then they settled down to elect new officers. President: Tennessee-born Bish op William Clyde Martin of Dallas, current president of the National Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 22). Secretary (for the 14th consecutive term): embattled Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam...