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MINISTERS AND ATOMIC BOMB DEAN BANS CELEBRATIONS (Rec 9 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 16. To demonstrate his disapproval of the use of the atomic bomb, the Dean of St. Albans, Archdeacon C. C. Thicknesse, banned a civic peace thanksgiving service in St. Albans Abbey. He also forbade the ringing of a victory peal from the Abbey tower. "I cannot honestly give thanks to God for the event brought about by the wrong use of'force by an act of. wholesale indiscriminate massacre which is different in kind from all acts of open warfare hitherto, however brutal and hideous," he said. The St. Albans Council hurriedly arranged a service in the Methodist Church where the preacher thanked God " for the work of the scientists who shortened the war and saved thousands of lives."
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Evening Star, Issue 25564, 17 August 1945, Page 11
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