Word: oxnam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been wondering if the Rev. Dr. Guy Shipler intends to honor Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam for his militant efforts to prevent Roman Catholic children from using public school buses? . . . The men who set out to destroy Roman Catholicism, in effect, destroy Christianity as well, because when the united Church of Rome falls there will be no hope for any other Christian church, especially Protestantism ... In this I speak as a Protestant and not as a Roman Catholic...
Nothing Aggressive. At first, it seemed that no understanding or agreement would be possible. But after four hard days of Chairman Dulles' painstaking diplomacy, in which he was assisted by New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Southern Ohio's Episcopal Bishop Henry W. Hobson and others, a recommendation came forth. It bore none of the ringing affirmations that distinguished the conference's meetings of 1942, when it called for a postwar world organization, or of 1945, when it called for the Christian concepts of justice, law and human rights in the U.N. charter...
...Bernard Baruch, General Eisenhower and Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Last year Editor Shipler got extra big publicity, but the wrong kind, when Secretary of State Marshall decided that he would rather not accept The Churchman's award. Last week, with his 1949 dinner to honor Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam only a few days off, Dr. Shipler was having trouble again...
...midst of last week's brouhaha over who is a fellow traveler and who isn't, who was coming to dinner and who wasn't, Bishop Oxnam released his letter accepting the award. Wrote he: "I count this a high honor . . . The Churchman has stood courageously and creatively for our Christian faith and likewise for our democratic principles. In such an hour . . . it is good to know that there are really fearless journals that believe in liberty enough to stand resolutely...
...Unitarian Birkhead, liberty is not the only thing that Oxnam and Shipler stand for. Said he last week: "Both Dr. Shipler and Bishop Oxnam have become darlings of the anti-Catholic movements in this country...