Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When William Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury placed the rank and in fluence of his exalted office behind the forces of economic and social reform (see p. 59} that was a final challenge to this onetime leader of the House of Lords and champion of the Oxford Group. While younger Tories felt that now was the time for them to be comparatively silent, blue-blooded, hearty Lord Salisbury took issue. In a booklet issued last week, Post war Conservative Policy, he accused those who "question the social and political standards, even in our own country," of being "betrayed into...
Amid cries of Church and Labor for social reform, the tough old Tory had the courage to stand up for igth-Century Cap italism as a good way of life. In the peace to come, he maintained...
...Margaret Lawler Branyen, after his first wife died. She is now ill in Santa Barbara. With his wives Junior carried on rural uplift work which gave the Untouchables in his province one of the few rays of hope they have seen in India. He banned child marriage, sponsored educational reform. His palace had air conditioning, western plumbing, a telephone exchange. His hunting parties were lavish and invariably successful (two crack native shots always fired at a tiger when a guest did). Ablest ruler of his line, Junior nevertheless forgot that ever since the British East India...
Bernanos is not, like England's prodigious William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, a proponent of social reform. Nor is he, like his distinguished friend, Jacques Maritain, a scholastic philosopher. What Bernanos has done is to prove again, for the 20th Century, the psychological power of religious insight. In so doing he offers a profound challenge to free men in terms that most of them are beginning to understand...
Commented the Congress' General Secretary, sharp-brained, smooth-mannered Sir Walter Citrine: "The war is being made an excuse for the Government's failure to deal with this reform. National unity does not mean that the trade-union movement should be gagged. . . . Labor's loyalty has been badly strained...