Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cyril Argentine Alington, 59, headmaster of Eton since 1916. Tall, personable, he is an Oxonian, onetime (1908-16) headmaster of Shrewsbury School, chaplain since 1921 to King George V. To carry on at Eton he refused the deanship of Canterbury Cathedral. (But his salary of more than ?5,000 is greater than a dean's living.) His students admire his strong face and square shoulders (he played football at Marlborough). His fine, sonorous voice commands their rapt attention at every Leaving Address. Like most British schoolmen, Head Beak Alington is a versatile but chiefly intramural scholar. England knows well...
Citizenship Case. Even more newsworthy was Chief Justice Hughes's dissenting opinion this week in a 5-to-4 decision denying citizenship to Rev. Douglas Macintosh, a Canadian, a War chaplain, now professor of theology at Yale, and Marie Averill Bland, a Canadian War nurse with the U. S. Army, because they refused to bear arms for the U. S. in what they considered an unjustifiable...
...aliens, Dr. Douglas Clyde MacIntosh, Dwight Professor of Theology at the Yale Divinity School and a former chaplain in the Canadian Army, and Miss Marie Averill Bland, who was a nurse in the American Army in France, have been denied citizenship because they made reservations in their promise to bear arms for the United States Dr. MacIntosh "would not promise in advance to bear arms in defense of the United States unless he believed the war to be morally justified", while Miss Bland was willing to swear the oath of allegiance provided it carried the added interpolation...
...justified. That plainly involves a legal principle, but one that appears to be entirely remote from the personality of the man. He is not a conscientious objector. He is not even a thorough-going pacifist. As a matter of fact, he served with Canadian troops as a chaplain in the World War, and later with the American Army....But, according to yesterday's decision of the Supreme Court, Congress will not allow him to become an American citizen so long as he takes the oath of allegiance with a mental reservation about doing what he would in all human probability...
...Government declared war last week, Rev. Peter Pastor, average U. S. Protestant clergyman, would pretty well have denounced it and refused to participate. He might, however, have become entangled in it if it were a defensive war; he might have served as an Army chaplain...