CONTROVERSY REVIVED

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1933, Page 11 (Supplement)

CONTROVERSY REVIVED

SALVATION ARMY LEADER. CATHERINE BOOTH’S BOOK. London, May 14. The controversy that clouded General Bramwell Booth’s last days has been revived by his daughter Catherine s biography. General Higgins has withdrawn the Salvation Army’s approval of the book owing to contentious chapters. Catherine Booth declares that her father’s health was improving in January, 1929, when General Higgins, after the High Council’s decision that General Booth was unfit to continue in office, wrote a distressing letter causing a faintting attack and setback- K; - She adds; “Seeing the..-deputation of <

seven Commissioners made the position mercilessly vivid to ope who, in spirit, was already wounded unto death." She quotes tire general’s dying statement: “There must be no bitterness, Catherine. I forgive you; . the others must forgive.” < • General Higgins has .written 'to .Catherine Booth repudiating her aUegations about himself, and declaring tljat a book purporting to be fc a record of life really perpetuates contention.