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...Promised a full-dress debate in Parliament this week, the British public was divided at the weekend into two groups : those who insisted "Chamberlain must go," and those who declared, "Chamberlain can stay but he must DO SOMETHING." Spokesman of the Chamberlain-must-go group was Laborite Herbert Morrison, M. P. and able Leader of the London County Council, who publicly demanded the scalps of the Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and Air Secretary...
Irked by the namby-pamby utterances of Cabinet members, particularly the Lord President of the Council, Earl Stanhope, Laborite Morrison flew into a fair frenzy, shouting: "The efforts of that ministerial misfit, Lord Stanhope, to turn the Norwegian withdrawal into something like a victory is typical irresponsibility based on the assumption that the British can't take it. Well, the British can take it, even if His Lordship...
...winter and spring Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the Christian Century has fought like General Grant on one line: against President Roosevelt's appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his special ambassador to the Pope. Last week Dr. Morrison had fresh ammunition-a letter from Mr. Roosevelt to Dr. George. A. Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of Churches, Dr. Buttrick, quoting a report from Rome, had tried to pin the President down as to whether Mr. Taylor had a permanent status, warned him of "a growing [Protestant] disillusionment which augurs ill for interfaith comity." Last week the Federal...
Fortnight ago scholarly, purse-lipped Dr. Morrison in a lengthy editorial branched out into broader aspects of the Taylor controversy: "Protestantism is the majority faith in the United States. The so-called interfaith movement derived its initiative from Protestantism. The movement arose be cause Protestants said: We who are the dominant faith in American democracy ought to exercise tolerance toward Catholics and Jews...
...strength of Editor Morrison's language was significant. It seemed more likely than ever last week that such potent U. S. denominations as the Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans and Presbyterians would soon make official protest...