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...British Labor government's Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, 57, who came calling for a getting-to-know-you chat with top U.S. officials. Both President Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk were understandably anxious to find out what difference the British electoral turnover might make in Anglo-American relationships. The conclusion, after talks with Gordon Walker: the Labor government intends to demonstrate that it has a strong, independent mind of its own-but it hasn't quite made up its mind about specific policies...
...putting more into the economy, Wilson sent Board of Trade President Douglas Jay to Moscow and Peking to drum up new trade. Aviation Minister Roy Jenkins hurried to Paris for a critical reassessment of the $1 billion Anglo-French project to beat the U.S. into the air with a supersonic airliner, the Concorde. Then, when the new government had been in office barely a week, it was pushed by Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith into its first diplomatic crisis (see Rhodesia...
...other Continental reformers on Anglican doctrine and liturgy. "Episcopal," on the other hand, was a reminder that Anglicanism preserved the ancient tradition of rule by bishops, and was still a branch of the "one, holy, Catholic and apostolic church." But ever since the middle of the 19th century, Anglo-Catholics have been trying to drop Protestant from the church's title, on the grounds that it had come to mean anti-Catholic rather than antipapal. Because of its historic significance, evangelicals have fought just as hard to keep the word...
...constitution, recognizing "the Episcopal Church" as a lawful alternate designation and the term best suited for everyday use. Most of the delegates seemed pleased by the compromise, which merely sanctifies what Episcopalians have been doing for years, although some continued to argue that the resolution was an Anglo-Catholic coup. "There are a few deputies," muttered one Low Church bishop, "who feel that we are dropping the wrong name...
Usurpation of Power. Harmony, as it happens, was the last thing the deputies achieved. The Anglo-Catholic publication American Church News denounced the vote as "an outrageous usurpation by the laity of the teaching function of the church," and as a slap at the "hundreds of courageous priests who have joined in the most significant social revolution of our time." Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, first Negro to represent the Diocese of New York at the General Convention, thought so too. He walked out of the House of Deputies and went home...