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...Republic with muscles.* Along with most of the British press (notably excepting Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail), the Economist throughout the war has heeded official injunctions to go easy on America. Last week, just in time to be answered by President Roosevelt (see U.S. AT WAR), Economist Editor Geoffrey Crowther shed his inhibitions and stepped out, blowing hard...
That night, a gilt-edged statement was issued from Buckingham Palace: "The King has been pleased to nominate the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Geoffrey Francis Fisher, D.D., Lord Bishop of London, for election by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury in place of the late Right Honourable and Most Reverend William Temple, D.D., Lit. D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan...
Actually, it will be a while before he has to. Not until he is enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral some time after Easter-lack of central heating prevents holding the ceremony sooner-will Geoffrey Fisher take over the job he did not want. By his own admission, he lacks Temple's vision and imagination. He will probably never lead a great spiritual revival in the Church of England, as Temple might have done; nor is he likely to say or do anything to shock or upset his fellow Anglicans, as Temple often did. What he will...
...Allies returned, the Herald's new building, dust-laden but unharmed by the Nazis, was turned over to the Army's Stars & Stripes. Last week came good news: the Stars & Stripes would have to move over. Busy in Paris were Eric Hawkins and newly appointed Editor Geoffrey Parsons Jr., arranging to resume publication of the Herald some time before Christmas...
...Died. Geoffrey Dawson, 70, small, toweringly conservative retired editor of the thundering London Times; in London. Before the Times's recent liberal trend, Dawson set its editorial tone for a quarter-century. Under him, the paper supported the Chamberlain Government's appeasement of Hitler in the Sudetenland, changed its banner for the first time since 1788 (it went back to the banner...