CRITICISM OF SUPERIOR
Alleged Statement By “Red Dean” NZPA Special Correspondent Rec. .7 p.m. LONDON, May 11. Several British newspapers have raised the question of whether the Dean of Canterbury, Dr Hewlett Johnson, has laid himself open to disciplinary action by the ecclesiastical courts because of a statement he is alleged to have made to a Canadian newspaper during his recent visit to Ottawa on his way back from Australia.
In this speech !the dean is reported to have accused his superior, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher, of being “illiterate about his own clergy and profoundly ignorant about what is going on in Russia ”
The diarist of the Daily Telegraph, quoting what he describes as “ good authority,” says that neither of the Acts governing the behaviour of the Church of England clergy gives power to the archbishop to take action against a subordinate for criticism of a superior.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27388, 13 May 1950, Page 7
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