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...morning till night. She has no remuneration for her work and it is her meals that are cut down first." With these words of his first speech to the House of Lords as Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple began to carry out the proposition he had made at Malvern (TIME, Jan 27, 1941) : "It is the business of Lambeth [the Archbishop's residence] to remind Westminster [the Houses of Parliament] of its responsibility...
...Temple's pilgrimage to bomb-pocked Canterbury technically started from York, whose Archbishop he has been since 1928. But longtime Church Times Editor Sidney Dark (TIME, Oct. 27) said last week: "He goes to Canterbury not so much from York as from Malvern. He is entirely committed to the Malvern program [TIME, Jan. 20, 1941] and is too big a man to go back on it." William Temple is a determined man, with his mind made up to give the country a powerful democratic and leftist lead, in sharp contrast to the conservatism of his predecessors...
...amid the bombed ruins of Lambeth Palace, using such ground-floor rooms of it as remain. This 752-year-old seat of the Archbishops of Canterbury is just across the Thames from Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. "It is the business of Lambeth," said Dr. Temple at Malvern last year, "to remind Westminster of its responsibilities to God." Now that he occupies Lambeth, he is not likely to shirk that task...
First top-rank statesman to espouse the now-famous Malvern program (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941) is Sir Stafford Cripps, the No. 2 man in Churchill's Cabinet and leader of the British Government in the House of Commons. Last week he said in Britain's Methodist Recorder that, if the churches will adopt the Malvern resolutions and really implement them, they will be playing an enormous part in the post-war world...
...March 1 Sir Stafford-a member of the Church of England, whose liberal wing initiated Malvern-said that one reason why Russia was so successfully combating the Nazis was that it had "a seven-day-a-week religion based on idealism and not a one-day-a-week one" like so many nominally Christian countries. In the Methodist Recorder he suggested that the democracies had better infuse religion into their social and political life, and that "there must be a new intention and determination to carry into all the activities of our daily life the fundamental teachings...