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...Held the biggest follow-up yet of the famed Malvern Conference (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941): a mass meeting which jammed London's vast Albert Hall, and, even so, turned 8,000 away. The meeting was addressed by Sir Stafford Cripps and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, followed the full Malvern line. It drew Anglican prelates, Free Church and Eastern Orthodox leaders, Roman Catholic representatives, and stirred up a controversy that is still crackling briskly in British newspapers...
Though none of the speakers at the Albert Hall rally went beyond Malvern, all made it clear that the once-conservative Church of England intends to play a leading and radical part in social reconstruction after the war. Canterbury, for instance, urged national control of money and land ownership, virtual abandonment of the profit motive, and the abolition of British class distinctions...
...around Winston Churchill, Britain was stirring with hopes that the war would bring great democratic changes. It seemed no more than a minor symptom last week that the Archbishop of Canterbury, plump, vigorous William Temple, should continue the trend of his Malvern conference (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941) by proposing that the Government take over the issuance of credit (i.e., banking). Referring to Britain's five great banks, * he declared: "Money, or credit which does duty for money, has become in effect a monopoly...
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...Government promised to do something about them as soon as a survey could be completed. Lord Chancellor Simon shifted uncomfortably on the woolsack. Plainly, plump, redoubtable William Temple meant to press politically, as well as spiritually, for the sweeping social and religious reforms he proposed last year at the Malvern Conference...