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...unity-seeking organization to which 214 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox bodies belong. Meeting at their new headquarters in Geneva, members of the World Council's central committee chose the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake (TIME cover, May 26, 1961), stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, to succeed Willem Visser 't Hooft, council chief since it was founded...
...Visser 't Hooft we lose a God-given architect," one council staffer commented, "and in Blake we get an energetic manager." Blake's acceptance speech suggested that he will apply his energy -he seems bountifully springy at 59 -toward keeping the council strong and influential. "I believe the World Council of Churches can continue to grow in usefulness in the coming years," he said. "But I know, too, that it can be passed...
Syncretistic Trends. Since World Council General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft was happily off on a vacation, there was no danger in Geneva of an embarrassing confrontation, although one World Council official noted that the L.C.C.C. is "just a group of hecklers that keeps following us around, collecting minute splinter groups of no real significance...
...Visser 't Hooft, D.D., general secretary of the World Council of Churches...
...these times of change, the course must be altered more than once. Visser 't Hooft is a leader who knows how to adapt to all these new situations." With the meeting hopelessly dead locked, the central committee created a nominating committee to check out new candidates - including, if they wish, Patrick Rodger. Visser 't Hooft, who wants to retire, will stay on until his successor is found...