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Holy Trinity's vestrymen have long looked askance at the sayings & doings of their ministers, Rector John Howard Melish, 74, and his son and associate rector, the Rev. William Howard Melish, 38 (TIME, May 3). Son William, a confirmed Communist-liner, is chairman of the Red-fronting National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and has been associated with at least six other organizations listed as subversive by the Attorney General's office. His father not only tolerates his assistant's political activities, but once referred to them as "the work which the rector himself would have done...
...Consciences Demand. At last, the vestrymen decided to do something about the Melishes. They voted 9 to 1 to petition Long Island's Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe "for separation and dissolution of the pastoral relationship . . ." But spry old Rector Melish was not one to go quietly. He wrote to his congregation telling what the vestry had done...
...vestry got out another letter presenting its version of the situation. They had been "informed," said the vestrymen, that "it was the unanimous recommendation of the Bishop and the Standing Committee that . . . it would be for the best interests of the Parish and the Diocese if both the Rector and the Assistant Minister resigned...
Last week the battle was in full swing. A "Committee to Retain Our Rector" was busy ringing the doorbells of Holy Trinity's 400-odd voting members, claimed to have 270 signatures already. Though not necessarily agreeing with the Melish political views, the committee's statement said: "We all do agree . . . that they have a right, as we do, to their personal political beliefs, and the further right to engage in such activities, as citizens or as ministers, as their consciences demand...
...however, were plentiful. They came, 134 so far, from all over Germany. Some of them are refugees from the Russian zone itself; twenty-three left well-paying jobs at the old University of Berlin. Among them is white-bearded, 86-year-old Historian Friedrich Meinecke, who became the new rector...