Word: melish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe Christianity must seek a deliberate reconciliation with Communism . . . We come dangerously near to hypocrisy if we say our system of capitalism is compatible with Christianity and Communism is not." Thus spoke the Rev. William Howard Melish in a nationwide broadcast...
...years, blond, spectacled Episcopalian Melish, 37, has been suiting his actions to his far-leftish words. He is chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and has beaten the drum for many another Communist-line cause. As associate rector of Brooklyn's Church of the Holy Trinity, he has had a sympathetic boss-his father, the Rev. John Howard Melish, 73, rector for 44 years...
...Rector Melish stoutly defended his son for "doing the work which the rector himself would have done, had he been 20 years younger." He added: "A free pulpit that utters things that everyone accepts is an absurdity." Father & son issued a joint statement pointing out that an Episcopal minister "is not the employee of the vestry or of a board of trustees. Nor does he speak for the people of his parish in the sense that he must conform to the sentiments of the majority ... To say that he may speak his mind fully in the pulpit, but to deny...
...National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, chairmaned by the Rev. William Howard Melish of Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church...
July 26-Seven Protestant clergymen and a physician left New York's La-Guardia airport. They were: William Howard Melish, associate rector of Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, chairman of the American-Soviet Friendship Council and longtime friend of the Communist Party; Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, anti-Roman Catholic editor of The Churchman, a gulliberal who says he is not a Communist fellow traveler; the Rev. Claude C. Williams of Birmingham, Ala., director of the Peoples' Institute of Applied Religion; George Walker Buckner Jr., editor of the World Call of the Disciples of Christ; Phillips...