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...personage addressed, wearing a miter and a white brocaded cope with gold embroidery, walked slowly to the 700-year-old marble Chair of St. Augustine, sat gingerly down on its red cushion. With this simple act the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 57, last week became the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England...
That night, from Hyde Park, he closed his campaign with a prayer written for him by the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C. "Almighty God ... we commend to Thy overruling Providence the men and women of our forces. ... Be Thou their strength. . . . Guide . . . the nations of the world into the way of justice and truth and establish among them that peace which is the reward of righteousness. . . . Make the whole people of this land equal to our high trust, reverent in the use of freedom, just in the exercise of power, generous in the protection of weakness...
Died. Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. William Temple, 63, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England; of a heart attack...
...Protestant Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, the Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, (longtime missionary in Japan), looked toward Japan, urged a more Christian attitude toward the Japanese. He recalled that President Roosevelt had refused the gift of a letter opener carved from a bone of a dead Japanese, that the skulls of Japanese soldiers have been sent to America. "However such actions . . . may have been provoked . . ." he wrote, "they cannot but be condemned...
Married. Lieut. (j.g.) Endicott ("Chub") Peabody II, 23, Harvard's All-America guard in 1941, son of the Rt. Rev. Malcolm Endicott Peabody, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York, grandson of Groton School's famed founder Endicott Peabody; and Barbara Welch Gibbons, 22, Bermuda socialite; in Manhattan...