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...Canterbury's 700-year-old cathedral, more than 300 bishops of the Anglican Communion knelt five rows deep on a crimson carpet to receive the blessing of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Bowed under the weight of his damask robes and overshadowed by a huge silver cross, Geoffrey Francis Fisher intoned: "We humbly beseech thee that thy Holy Spirit may lead into truth thy servants the bishops gathered together in thy name. Grant them grace to think and do such things as shall most tend to thy glory and the good of thy holy church." Thus last week opened...
...further conciliatory gesture, Sir Hugh Foot had written a letter to the exiled ethnarch of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, offering to let him return to the island once violence ceased. Climbing down slightly from past positions, Makarios no longer rejected a "transitory stage of self-government." But he was not likely to be made happier by the amazing gaffe committed last week by the Archbishop of Canterbury on a TV broadcast. Explaining why he had invited Makarios to attend the forthcoming Lambeth Conference of bishops in London, the Archbishop of Canterbury said, "By tradition he is one of the officials invited...
...plan was, it had certainly considered everyone's feelings. But within hours the rejections began to roll in. The nays were at least softer than anyone had dared hope after all the violence. In an artfully worded letter that was two days in the writing, exiled Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, bearded leader of the Greek Cypriot movement for union with Greece, objected that the plan could constitutionally divide the island in two, "thereby creating a focus of permanent unrest." But Makarios, whom Macmillan offered to return to Cyprus if violence ceased, concluded on a milder note...
...Turkey did not match the private qualifications of those officials who realize that intransigence on both sides has got out of hand. While Greeks protested that there was no promise of future "self-determination," the Greek government was ready to go along with any compromise acceptable to Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, leader of the enosis movement (the British were expected to allow the exiled Makarios to return to Cyprus). Although the Turks started riots on the grounds that the plan failed to provide for "partition," realistic Turks are aware that the partition scheme is geographically infeasible. The Turks mainly want...
Died. Samuel Cardinal Stritch, 70, Archbishop of Chicago; in Rome (see RELIGION...