PRIMATE ASSAILED.
“DIATRIBE ON ABDICATION.” The attempt by the Archbishop of Canterbury, late in December, to call the nation back to religion “misfired because it was mistimed,” writes Air James Douglas, a former editor of the Sunday Express, in the same paper. “The nation needed a rest to recover from the shock of King Edward’s abdication, and was in no mood to respond to the lame and belated leadership of the Primate,” the article continues. “The nation was hurt, sullen, and alienated. The drift of the Church goes on. The gulf between it and the people widens. “Lord Brow.nloiv has vindicated himself, but he is not the only blameless member of the social circle of the former King to suffer from the Archbishop’s diatribe against the friends of the abdicated monarch. “If all were to follow Lord Brownlow’s example, there would be a long queue at Lambeth Palace. The Archbishop would be compelled to assure each caller that lie had not intended to refer to him or her. Dr. Cosmo Lang’s error stands rebuked by a nation which resents bis lack of Christian charity and his refusal to recant.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 99, 29 March 1937, Page 2
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189PRIMATE ASSAILED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 99, 29 March 1937, Page 2
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