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Ernest ("The Man With the Loudest Voice in the House of Commons") Brown, an uninspired Liberal wheel horse, was made Minister of Health last week, succeeding National Laborite Malcolm Mac-Donald, bespectacled son of the late Prime Minister "Ramsay Mac." This shift was tantamount to congratulating Son Mac-Donald for bettering air-raid shelter conditions, his biggest job as Minister of Health. Winston Churchill packed him off to Canada to serve in the important job of British High Commissioner...
Just back from England after five months as a London correspondent for the Herald Tribune, Steve Greene '37 yesterday told of the vast shift in sentiment toward the United States. "West enders used to hiss every American that came on the screen back in September when the Blitz first began," he stated...
...rest of the team has been little changed. Ted Schoenberg should turn in his consistently good performance in the 128-pound spot. The weight shift tried with such success in the Tufts meet will be continued. Dick Thomas, Lee Ackerman, Tom Lacy, and Dick Aldrich have all been shifted to lower weights, so that they fill the 145 to 175-pound spots respectively...
...test this shift, TIME last week asked ranking churchmen of each major Protestant denomination what change they had observed in the sentiment of their clergy since Sept. 1939. Without exception they reported a trend away from pacifism. Individual pronouncements-which had no official status-the answers are nonetheless significant and indicative...
...Church of England (and U. S. Episcopal) Catechism: "My duty ... is ... To order myself lowly and reverently to all my betters . . . And to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me." But World War II has merely speeded the shift from the oldtime hunting-parson philosophy. Forerunners of the change were the Bishop of Ely's effort in 1939 to turn his palace into an old folk's home ("we keep too many gardeners to grow too many vegetables to feed too many servants to make too many beds...