“GLOOMY DEAN”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 29, 21 January 1929, Page 5

“GLOOMY DEAN”

DISOWNED BY BISHOPS FOR ANTI-U.S. VIEWS. “DOES NOT REPRESENT ENGLISH OPINION.”

[United Press Association—By CableCopyright.] [United Service.] (Received 21, 9.55 a.m.) London, Jan. 20. Tlie “Dispatch” says that 13 Anglican bishops and also leading divines of other churches, have disowned Dean Inge. They recall a passage in the Dean’s book offending America, saying: “European nations in certain contingencies might combine to draw Shylock’s teeth.” The clergy point out that the American, Senator Robinson, expressed the opinion that Dean Inge correctly interpreted the feelings of the great mass of the English people. The signatories, including the Bishop of Durham and the Archbishop of Liverpool declare: “This passage does not represent our views and in our opinion does not represent the views of any great number of Englishmen.’l The passage referred to is in Dean Inge’s book “England,” and reads: “If the British flag were hauled down in North America possibly the nations of Europe, enranged by the bloated prosperity and airs of superiority of the ‘man who won the war,’ would combine to draw Shylock’s teeth. Britain having lost Canada would no lousier have a motive to help a nation which, under the circumstances, would have forfeited her friendship.”