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...Ronald Maitland, chaplain of the Episcopal Church at Harvard and Radcliffe, announced yesterday that he will end his ministry here in June. No successor has been named to the post. After acting as chaplain to the Winant Volunteers in London this summer. Maitland will become the Episcopal Chaplain at the University of Minnesota next fall...
Critical Commitment. Then and now, the EAC and Yalta agreements have been severely criticized because they provided for no Allied access to Berlin through Soviet territory. The U.S. delegate to the commission, the late John G. Winant, strongly urged the State Department to demand some guarantee of access; his proposal was ignored, apparently because Washington felt that to insist on specific routes would limit the Allies only to those agreed-on roads or airlanes. At the time, Ike had no particular worries about access to Berlin, but on several occasions he strongly opposed the idea of separate occupation zones...
Academic Mistake. Through much of 1944, U.S. Ambassador to Britain John Winant pleaded with Washington to plan ahead, to insist on detailed provisions for Western access to Berlin as part of the occupation-zone system being engineered by EAC-the European Advisory Commission (the U.S., Britain, Russia), to which Winant was U.S. delegate. But the War Department opposed a specific agreement on Berlin access routes, argued that it would be best to leave the problem to the soldiers on the scene. When General Lucius Clay, acting as General Eisenhower's representative, finally met with Soviet General Georgy Zhukov...
...Clayton, vicar of All Hallows, chaplain to George VI and to Elizabeth II, is a 71-year-old dynamo with a high-voltage output of devotion, human ingenuity and charm. A World War I chaplain, founder of the British religious organization called Toc H, the organizer of the Winant Volunteers- a U.S. group of college-age boys and girls who pay their way each year to work among the poor in London's slums-Padre Clayton knew how to get what he wanted. He first established squatter's rights to the shell of All Hallows by moving...
...Queen Mother Elizabeth stepped through a new oak door in an old stone doorway and looked about her at the reborn All Hallows, The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Cullum Welch, was on hand to greet her, and the Bishop of London, Dr. Henry Montgomery Campbell. Thirty of the Winant Volunteers and All Hallows' Assistant Curate John Bassett Frederick, of Cheshire, Conn., stood by while Vicar Clayton escorted the Queen Mother to a chair made from the pulpit door of 1613, and the service of rededication began...