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...Whatever else the royal family may be in modern Britain-symbol of ancient legitimacy, shining emblem of Commonwealth unity, indestructible warranty of the glory that is Britain-it is first and foremost a family affair: every spinster is its maiden aunt, every shopgirl its happily envious kid sister, every vicar its parish priest, and every family man its authoritative uncle. In moments of relative calm, the country cousins can watch and enjoy the cavortings of their royal relations in London with the detachment of televiewers watch ing a soap opera, but when the affairs in Britain's perpetual...
...Peking, Nenni took tea with Mao Tse-tung, addressed the Communists' Consultative Political Conference ("It is a scandal that this new, vibrant China has not been admitted to the United Nations"), talked mutual trade with Premier Chou Enlai, discussed Roman Catholicism with the self-styled "vicar general of Peking." Concluded Nenni: "Catholic missionaries in China can leave and return as they like," provided, of course, that they do not carry out "counterrevolutionary propaganda...
...newfound theology, Father Witcutt was sent to a slum parish in Birmingham. For a while all went well. Then in a lecture on the Reformation .to the Catholic Evidence Guild he bore down too heavily on the corruption of the medieval Catholic clergy. "I was summoned to interview the Vicar-General, who told me, with a searching look, that I was being transferred to 'the farthest outpost of the diocese...
...University, in 1946 was appointed first woman chaplain to the armed forces. The next year she married a Church of England priest, the Rev. John Carrington. For a while she was pastor of the Vineyard Congregational Church in Richmond, Surrey, about four miles from Hampton, where her husband is vicar, but she gave that up officially (she still preaches there) to join the interdenominational religious staff...
...Barrault (the butcher of butchers) crawls on his kness in his ecstatic quest of a married woman; and he, as well as Jean-Pierre Aumont, the milkman, display the irrespressible smile that refuses to take life seriously. Although Chief Inspector Bray could appear in almost any country, the snooping vicar, played by Louis Jouvet, is far too sharp and sly for the English countryside. The Molyneux, however, played by Francoise Rosay and Michel Simon do an extremely good caricature of threadbare social-climbing, although Simon achieves part of his success through a slight resemblance to Charles Laughton...