DEATH OF LORD LANG

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24743, 7 December 1945, Page 5

DEATH OF LORD LANG

I FORMER ARCHBISHOP | OF CANTERBURY || LONDON, December 5. || The c'eath has occurred of Lord 'f|l?ng of Lambeth, who was Archil of Canterbury from 1928 to a 1542, He was 8i years of age. 9 xsh ■, Gordon Lang, was born at UF: /ie, .-.^.rdeenshire,. He was a son It Dr.. Marshall Lang, Moderator of Sib Church of Scotland and principal fc;ci Aberdeen University. Educated at ssfC"-?j3ow University, he won a scholar-

|p.il> lo Belliol College, Oxford. After frsdualmg in 1385 he became a Fellow cf Ml Souls. From 1883 to' 1889 he v.i's a student "of the Inner Temple, fcuc he gave, up the law for the Church f';a was ordained curate of Leeds F'j,rish Church in 1890. From 1893 to 1896 he was Fellc.v and Dean of Eivinityat Magdalen College. Oxford, and vicar of the university church of St' Mary. -In 1896 he became vicar of the enormous parish of St. Mary's, with 18 curates and five churches. in 1899 he was made an. honorary chaplain to Queen Victoria, whose personal friendship he won. When Dr. Ingram was translated to London in 1901 Lord Lang succeeded hun;as Bishop of Stepney. In 1908 he was made Archbishop of York at the early age of 44. The appointment was opposed by the' Protestant Truth Society on the ground that h™. had "enjeeuraged flagrant breaches of the law as to church ritual and joined in ilIlegal ceremonies," but no action was [taken by the authorities Appointment to Canterbury .Lord Lang was appointed Archi bishop of Canterbury in July, 1928 |Lcw Churchmen again objected, and [a. petition was sent to the King by ijhe League of Loyal Churchmen and !the Protestant Alliance opposing his nomination on the ground that he was generally regarded as the real head Jf the party which has so recently attempted without success tc subvert the Protestant reformed religion under the cloak of a revision of the Prayer Ecok." As a matter of fact, he favoured this revision, but he was not an extreme High Churchman. In 1934 he and his brother were at the head of the Church of England jnd the Church of Scotland respecjuvfily, Dr. Marshall' Lang having been itpminated as Moderator of the Church m Scotland. I. On the death of King George V in 1 »36 he delivered a fine tribute to ]*e monarch, whose intimate friend j&e was..

■ Abdication Broadcast For his broadcast after the abdicam of King Edward VIII he was subtvi to muc,Jl criticism. Seldom, he »id, had a sovereign come to the [nrone with greater natural gifts for nngship. But he had "surrendered trust owing to a craving for priJ«te happiness." "Strange and sad it «>ust be," he continued, "that for such a motive he should have abandoned a 'jrustso great. Even more strange and go it is that he should have sought ~? fia Ppiness in a manner inconsistent tia„ the Christian principles of mar"dse and within a social circle whose JPdards and ways of life are alien to ?1 the best instincts and traditions of )«? people. Let those who belong to vJL Clrcle know that to-day they fS d rebuked by the judgment of the I '"on which had loved King Edward. lt n il? ve shru nk from saying these 3fco i But I have felt compelled for %m " 6 0t and truth to say

v'i t A sequel to this broadcast was an- '?• the same month appealing to !Jppil • on to retur n to religion and ihw lng a "slackening and even a SnSri ß , of the standards of Christian Sme f appeal to members of Partitot w ?s seated a peer on his Tenement in 1942."

I BRITISH SYMPATHY I WITH U.S. II itL 7 p ; m :> LONDON. Dec. 5. li«S standin S between nations re5 0t one bllt hundreds of thouHfcX? said the British ; lini stcr (Mr C. R. Attlee). in '•aiiraiT 0 l the P'lgrims' Dinner. Ame>l'Sf who during the war had been ilftufi B nd had s iv en the British a aSSf, understanding of the vital n&L f Americanism. He hoped that ti ed tr " Vel facilities would enHllaini • ordinar y common people to : 1S n a constant interchange of ;-4kV Cr ? ss the Atlantic. Britain's de"'lot.. i fr ' ends hip with America was i/JXClJsive, and was not the result .""jy hostility t-wards other nations Ufc *Hf hj the war had ended, there -,. e L stll I too many blackout curtains k' i'Worance preiudice. and susnic- £?■ We want the light of underfcSi n S ,'o shine through our winT*V added Mr Attlee.

UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENCY

(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 5. Ihe presidency of the United Nations Securitv Council will be held in turn for one calendar month by members of the council in the English alphabetical order of their names, if a decision to-day of the Security Council Committee of the Preparatory Commission is approved by the General Assembly. The Australian delegation to the Preparatory Commission has presented a proposal for the establishment of an international centre for the exchange of information on the technical, economic, and social aspects of housing and town and country planning. The proposal says that such an organisation could offer technical information and advice on social principles to all countries which have before them vast programmes of house and town building aimed at overcoming shortages and material damage caused by war.