WOMAN BISHOP'S MISSION

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1928, Page 9

WOMAN BISHOP'S MISSION

VIEWS CONCERNING AL. SMITH. Bishop Alina White, America’s only woman bishop, and leader of the Pillar of Fire Movement, arrived in England recently to carry the approaching United States Presidential election campaign to British shores. This is her twenty-first trip to Great Britain. “I am the unofficial envoy of 10,000,000 American citizens,” Bishop White said to an interviewer. “Do not ask me what I think of short skirts, dancing and women smoking,” she insisted. I am not interested in moral abstractions this i D’ip- „ , . . “What I have come to find out this time is” —Bishop White extracted a typewritten document from among a mass of papers—“what are you English folk going to do about this man, Alfred E. Smith, who is to run for President in the United States’ Millions of Amencans want to know, and I am going to find out and go back to tell them. “I have my ways of finding out. My people in England will help me. 1 mJ disguise myself and go into Hyde Park. I want to ask you English peop.e a few questions. Do you like Americans any better now than you did when the war debts were being talked of so roue two years ago? On what side are your sympathies in our efforts to block Alfred Smith’s way to the White House? “What about the Church of England Prayer Book? Is England returning to Rome? These are questions asked in the United States. Mv people expect me to return with an answer. I addressed two great meetings in Boston at Easter. No one discussed Easter. Everyone wanted to know what the British thought of Al. Sm.H. ”