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...Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, who is on a visit to Patriarch Sergei of the Russian Orthodox Church, declared that there is complete freedom of worship in Russia, that the Soviet Government has stopped all antireligious propaganda. Said the Archbishop: "Stalin, being a great statesman, has recognized the power of religion...
...last. Out of Britain came the most amusing satire of World War II. Called The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World (Faber & Faber, 6s.), it is a breezy but atrabilious burlesque at the expense of postwar plan ners. Author: Britain's bearded, ebullient Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, who in the last ten years has espoused pacifism, Mosleyism, polygamy, socialism, appeasement, Christianity, spiritualism, hedonism. He has also written some earnest, reputable books of philosophy, become one of the most popular members of the British Broadcasting Corp.'s "Brains Trust" (Britain's Information Please...
...airplane in Moscow last Sunday stepped a benign ecclesiastic in a purple cassock and cap. He was Britain's No. 2 primate, Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. He came to visit Patriarch Sergius, Metropolitan of All Russia, a fortnight after Joseph Stalin had given his blessing to the Russian Orthodox Church (TIME, Sept. 13), a few days after the 76-year-old Patriarch had been enthroned in his jampacked Cathedral with Ritualistic pomp not seen in Russia since the Bolshevik revolution. Following his enthronement, the Metropolitan blessed the Soviet Government (whose members, like all Communists, are atheists...
...Gerald, because Gerald is a prig and a bully. But he gives to Gerald's death "a kind of primitive dignity" by describing the servants who wept: "They had not liked Gerald, but he was a man, they were women, he had died." In A Passage To India, Cyril Fielding, who as a bachelor bravely opposed Anglo-Indian snobbism and narrowness, becomes snobbish and narrow himself when he marries and becomes an official. Dr. Aziz changes from the sensitive, enlightened Indian to an impudent, cocksure babu...
...Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, recently gave up half his ?9,000 ($36,000) salary. Tories who dislike His Grace for his leftish economic and social ideas were quick to point a scornful finger at this renunciation. Said Sir Herbert Williams in the House of Commons: "He has entered into a perfectly splendid arrangement . . . [he] will pay less taxation in the future...