Word: hewlett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Lord Craigavon, who recently led more than 1,500 people to Canterbury Cathedral on a pilgrimage of prayer against Communism, signed one of the stiffest protest petitions yet leveled against Dr. Hewlett ("The Red Dean") Johnson. Said the letter: "As loyal Christians, we do believe that it is impossible to serve two masters, and so we must ask you now to dissociate yourself from Communism or else to resign from the office of Dean of Canterbury . . ." Dr. Johnson had "no comment...
...Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, furnished the comic relief, as he usually does at these performances. He said that General Eisenhower had come to Europe to raise a German army under onetime Nazi generals, "to employ these forces against the same...
...service. It was time, they felt, to rededicate themselves in a body against the "evil and godless forces of materialism and Communism," and to pray for delivery "from those false teachers who mislead and confuse the unwary." Lying abed within the Cathedral shadows, recovering from an illness was Dr. Hewlett ("The Red Dean") Johnson, who recently returned from the Communist-sponsored Warsaw "World Peace Congress," at which he was a headline speaker...
...Herbert Hewlett, a 39-year-old laborer of Hull, England, had served almost three years of a five-year sentence for stealing 20 bicycles; then he suddenly went blind. Under Britain's "prerogative of mercy," the rest of his sentence was remitted. The governor of Lincoln Prison gave Howlett a white cane and advised him to take training for the blind...
...days later, Howlett raced, stickless, into his parents' house shouting, "I can see!" He explained: "When I awoke this morning there was a white film in front of my eyes. Soon afterwards I could see clearly." Although the authorities were suspicious about Hewlett's sudden recovery, they couldn't send him back to prison. Then Howlett stole another bicycle...