DEAN BANS PEACE SERVICE
“ Wrong Use Of Force ” <7.30 p.m.l LONDON, Aug. 16. To demonstrate his disapproval of the use of the atomic bomb, the Dean of St. Albans (the Rev. C. Thicknesse) banned a civic peace thanksgiving service in St. Albans Abbey and forbade the ringing of a victory peal from the Abbey tower.
“I cannot honestly give thanks to God for an event brought about by the wrong use of force, by an act of wholesale. indiscriminate m issacre, which is different in kind from all acts of open warfare hitherto, however brutal or hideous.” he said. The St. Albans Council hurriedly arranged a service in the Methodist Church, where the preacher thanked God “for the work of scientists who shortened the war and saved thousands of lives.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23281, 17 August 1945, Page 5
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