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...uncompromising moralist. Last week, at the news that the learned Earl had been appointed a professor and department head at the College of the City of New York (TIME. March 4), Bishop Manning got out his snickersnee, wrote a hot letter to the newspapers. Quoting from his Lordship's writings ("Outside human desires there is no moral standard. ... In the absence of children, sexual relations are a purely private matter which does not concern either the state or the neighbors.. ..") The plain-born high-church Bishop asked: "What is to be said of colleges and universities which hold...
...generation, Lord Halifax squarely lays the responsibility for the Second World War at the door of German youth, whom he condemns in one and the same breath as "materialistic" and "prepared to sacrifice their lives without a moment's hesitation." A jumble of mysticisms and paradoxes, His Lordship's speech is termed by the New York Times "a Chesterfield essay. . (which) may become a wartime classic." But whatever its literary merits, Halifax's hate-tirade is a biter pill to swallow after the British government's repeated assertions that Britain fights the Nazi government, not the German people...
...Lord Halifax contends, German youth has been "deliberately deprived of the elements of true judgment," this is hardly its own fault. It has been misled by its chauvinistic leaders, who, as his Lordship should remember, could only ascend to power in a Germany that had been crippled by Allied chauvinism at Versailles. Thus, if the German intellect has suffered a general blackout, Lord Halifax and his peace-loving generation should take their full share of credit...
...abounding in its waters, eely Ely is a market town of only 8,000-odd inhabitants. Its fairs, held on the feast of Saxon St. Etheldreda (or St. Audrey, whence the word tawdry), are still nominally run by the Bishop of Ely. There is not much else for His Lordship to do in Ely; nearby Cambridge has more religious life, and there the Ely diocesan conferences are held. Yet, because he is a member of the Established Church of England, drawing ?4,000 a year ($16,000) from the Government, the Bishop of Ely must live in his ancient...
...penalties we pay for Establishment. ... If I were allowed to move into a smaller house I should be better off... despite the fact that I should be giving up ?1,000 a year. ... I fear I have a very long furrow to drive." Well did His Lordship of Ely realize that there was little hope that his wish would be granted...