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What draws congregations to City Temple is not chiefly its freedom from dogmatism or its open communion, but its high standard of preaching. In its zeal to get the best for its pulpit, the church has not confined itself to Englishmen (City Temple has had four U.S. ministers and one Australian) or to Baptists and Methodists, Britain's chief nonconformist denominations; in 1917 its minister was an Anglican woman, Dr. Maude Royden...
Verwoerd must struggle on, now that he is committed to carry apartheid to its conclusion. He must try to keep the two great. White sections--Afrikaners and Englishmen--together. He must try to get South Africa readmitted to the Commonwealth as a racist republic. He must meet the challenge of economic, and perhaps, a physical intervention from the Black states of Africa...
...demands of international politics. The Party Conference members, and to some extent the electorate which they are supposed to represent, have now translated their increasing terror of atomic weapons into an acceptance of this line. Despite the conference's acceptance of the Cousins Policy, though the majority of Englishmen have never supported such thinking, nor are they ever likely to. The conference may have gone over to unilateralism, as the London Times remarked, but the Labour movement...
...Community? Those Jews who remain outside Israel will continue to be concerned for the welfare of their fellow Jews there, as they will be for Jews all over the world. But politically, argues I Toynbee, they will be Americans, Frenchmen, Englishmen, etc., even more firmly than they were before. Does this mean that the Diaspora-the dispersed group I of Jewish communities outside Israel-is ! doomed to extinction? On the contrary, I says Toynbee. "It has a magnificent future on a religious basis if it bases itself on religion alone...
...Englishmen, who recall that nine of "their" Prime Ministers since the mid-18th century have been Scots, find this Scottish sense of grievance hard to understand. Last week, noting that Prime Minister Macmillan, Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod, Foreign Secretary Lord Home, the chairman of the London Stock Exchange and a clutch of Britain's biggest tycoons are all Scotsmen, London's Tatler declared: "There are those who maintain that the Act of Union has turned out to be more of a Scottish takeover bid." But the Scots have an answer to that one, too. "Once a Scot goes...