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...Canterbury last spring, Britons have become increasingly aware that their traditionally staid and conservative Church of England is now headed by a pair of Christian revolutionaries. Last week both of these Anglican prelates-joke-loving William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, and hike-loving Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York and Primate of England-got up on the same platform in smoky Birmingham and spoke words that put the Church on the side of Socialism, if not of revolution...
...Archbishop of York, Dr. Cyril Garbett, is known as "The Hiking Bishop," from his rooted custom of footsloggirig from parish to parish with staff and cap in hand. He too took a strong stand for social reform last week. Said he: "When peace comes and war weariness sets in we may slip back into the old ways. If that happens there would follow such widespread and angry discontent that revolution might follow. . . . Service for all...is rapidly being substituted for private interests and personal gain...
...Most Reverend and Rt. Honorable Dr. William Temple, now Lord Archbishop of York, will become Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, in succession to Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang (TIME, Feb. 2). His place at York will be filled by another left-of-center prelate, Dr. Cyril Garbett, now Bishop of Winchester...
...purple-his father was Archbishop of Canterbury before him. After a brilliant career at Oxford, topped by a first in classics and the presidency of the Oxford Union (traditional steppingstone for British statesmen but a post also held by Dr. Lang, Temple's predecessor at Canterbury, and Dr. Garbett, his successor at York), he was in quick succession an Oxford don (philosophy) at 23, a headmaster (of Repton) at 28, rector of London's fashionable St. James's Church, Piccadilly and chaplain to the King, a bishop at 39, an archbishop...
...people were sentenced and fined a total of 123 weeks and ?162 for defeatist chatter, most of it harmless. Harry Blessingdon, a young engineer who had built an airport, was caught telling a Church of England canon about it in a hotel lobby. Sentence: three months, ?60. William Henry Garbett, a Birmingham clerk and Oxford Grouper, said over lunch: "It will be a good job when the British Empire is finished." Sentence: one year. A Leicester schoolteacher, Kathleen Mary Bursnall, got two months, ?20, for saying to soldiers: "You are bloody fools to wear that uniform." Others were punished...