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...Desperate Surgery. These program notes might be important to churchmen. But most laymen did not know who the Archbishop was. They might remember vaguely that Dr. Garbett was jointly responsible (with the Archbishop of Canterbury) for proclaiming the necessity of a New World Order embodied in the revolutionary Malvern Resolutions (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941). They might also remember that last September Dr. Garbett had taken a long trip in the opposite direction-to Moscow, to give the hand of traditional ecumenical brotherhood to Russia's newly reinstated Patriarch. (Last week Patriarch Sergei gave the back of his hand...
...begin to totter and collapse. In mid-January, 1941, under the impact of Nazi bombs, the walls were falling on all sides of the 221 Anglican prelates, priests and laymen who under the sponsorship of Dr. Temple, then Archbishop of York, huddled in greatcoats in the unheated rooms of Malvern College. It was not only British walls that were crashing. Under the onset of the Nazi conquests the walls of the whole known world were tottering. They had been thick with scribbled warnings. The Nazis were the terrible evidence that though men cannot live by bread alone, permanent hunger...
...Malvern College, Laborite Home Secretary Herbert Morrison told an audience of upper-crust British boys that more socialism has been accomplished in Britain by the Conservative Party, which opposes socialism, than by the Labor Party, which espouses it. Added Mr. Morrison: "This is the funny thing about British politics, which only an Englishman understands, and not many of them understand it, but this is how we get along...
...Malvern's call (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941) to Britain's Christians to reconcile their economic and social world with their religious principles has been all but muffled by the guns of war. But now & again the ringing note still echoes, to the well-bred annoyance of political and religious Tories...
...Said Malvern's godfather, William Temple, who is also Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England: "Our function is to watch the politicians, spurring them on by criticism of the existing order in the light of our principles...