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June 22

TAKE FULL

PART IN WAR

CALLING NOT ONLY for delivery, “at whatever risk,” of United States war shipments to aid Britain, the Right Rev. William T. Manning, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York, declared that "we should now take our full and open part in this con- fliet."

The Bishop's plea, in effect for convoys and armed intervention, was punctuated repeatedly by bursts of applause from 700 clerical and lay dele- gates who heard him at the 158th annual conven- tion of the Episcopal Dio ese in Synod House of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

His address attained added significance by the

fact the

the war, and he said the an- Bwor was "wo are already in the war.".

"We have already committed

RADIO

6.00 p.m.-Indian Programme. 6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

Scala's Accordeon

6.47 p.m.-Primo

Band with James Melton (Vocal). 7.17 p.m.-Charlle Kunz at the Piano. 17.30 p.m.Portuguese Programme.

8.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.15 p.m.-London Relay-Questions of

the Hour",

8.30 p.m.-Dance Music,

Fox-Trots--In Santa Margherita: Cry, & his Baby, Cry... Jack Harris Orchestra. Quickstep-Don't Say Goodbye...Victor Silvester & his Ballroom Orchestra. Fox-Trot- Say It (from 'Buck Benny rides again'): Slow Fox-Trot-A Nightin- gale Sang in Berkeley Square (from 'New Faces')....Billy Cotton & his Band, Comedy Fox-Trot-Me and the Moke and Liza....Jack Payne & his Band. Tango-Take Your Chance; Fox-Trot--Vient... Vieni.... Heinz Huppertz & his

Orchestra. Waltzes Cuckoo Waltz; Brigitte.... Dajos Bela Dance Orchestra.

just as truly as it is Great Bri-9.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Pro- tain's. It is in our power to give now the aid that will be decisive.

that

he was observing triple anniversary of his birth, ministry and con- ourselves by our whole govern- secration as a Bishop. Dr. Man-mental

We policy and action. ning reached his seventy-fifth are already at war with Hitlerism birthday that Monday; 1941 marks and all that it stands for.

This his fiftieth year in the priesthood, world battle for human decency and the Sunday completed and human freedom is our battle twenty years in the Bishopric.

Referring to the Axis in the war, Bishop Manning declared that "never before has this world

"Speaking as an American, as been threatened by a power so

a Christian, and as a Bishop of avowedly evil, SO shamelessly the Christian Church, I say that inhuman, so far reaching and it is our duty as a nation to take with such military might. This our full part in this struggle, to country, he said, faces

"the give our whole strength and pow- greatest crisis, and

moster to bring this world calamity momentous decision in our his- and world terror to an end, and tory,"

the

"In this world conflict all that we hold sacred as Christians and Americans is at stake," he con- tinued. "There can be no com promise between democracy and Hiterism. There can be no peace or security, or decency, in this world until this monstrous pow- er of evil is defeated and over- thrown.

The Decision

to do this still stands.

while Great Britain

"May our whole people be aroused to see clearly what this crisis means! And may God give us strength and courage to do our part now while there is yet time!"

Bishop's Stand

Endorsed

The delegates arose en masse and applauded at the close of the Bishop's address. Cries of "Hear! Hear!" were heard. Colonel J. Mayhew Wainwright of Rye, for-

"And we all know what the decision is which now faces us as a nation: Between us and the power of Hitlerism there stand the armed forces of the British mer assistant Secretary of War, Commonwealth and the magni- proposed that a resolution endors- and heroisming the Bishop's stand be drawn of the civilian people of Great overnight and submitted to the

ficent steadfastness

Britain.

"The time is past for refus ing to face the facts, or for thinking that we can meet this deadly threat by half mea- surea, or for trusting that Great

Britain may be able to hold out no matter what we do, or fail to do. It is time now, and more than time, for definite, fearless, decisive action,

convention.

The Rev. Dr. George Paul T. Sargent, rector of St. Bartholo- mew's Church, sought immediate action, however, and quickly framed the resolution. It was

gramme Summary. 9.02 p.m.-Compositions

Ravel.

of Maurice

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Concert....

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Tzigane-Rhapsodle

Francescatti (Violin) with accompaniment. Trois Oiseaux de Paradis....The Lyons Mixed Chorus. Daphnis and Chloe -Suite Symphonique-Dawn of Day Walther

-Pantomime-Danse Straram Orchestra, 9.32 p.m.-Operatic Dusts.

"The Marriage of Figaro' (Mozart)-- The Letter Duet Act 3....Viorica Ursuleac (Soprano) and Erna Berger (Soprano) with Orchestra, 'Don Juan' (Mozart)-Give Me Thy Berger Hand, O Fairest....Erna (Soprano) and Heinrich Schlusnus (Baritone) with Orchestra.

(Verdi)- 'La Forza Del Destino'

Swear In This Hour....Geniamino Gigli (Tenor) and Gluseppe De Luca (Baritone) with Orchestra. 9.45-19.00 p.m.-Naws in French (on

Short Wave only). 9.45 p.m.-Plano

Kentner.

Soloa by Louis

Naila Valse (Dellbes arr. Dohnanyi). Children's Pieces (Book 4) Nos. 22-33

and 42 (Bartok).

10.00 .manton

10.15 p.m. "The

Relay-The News

and News Commentary.

Land -We Defend": "London", Recorded programme Actors arranged by Stephen Potter. taking part in the production are Brian Powley, Fred O'Donovan, James McKechnie, Valentine Dyall, Charles Mason, Arthur Young, Ronald Simpson, Ivan Samson, Betty Hardy. and Mary O'Farrel.

D Minor.

adopted by no less than an esti-10.40 p.m.-Cesar-Franck-Symphony in mated two-thirds majority in a voice vote.

diocese

1st Mov: Lento-Allegro non troppo- Lento; 2nd Mov: Allegretto; 3rd Mov: Allegro non troppo....Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra,

In the first part of his address Dr. Manning reviewed his twenty years as -Bishop of the and the progress in construction |11.20 p.m.-Close down, of the cathedral.

of the war, and added strain upon those who are meeting its full "Each day that we delay, each

During the twenty years, he Autumn "we will open the en- day that we allow our defence said, 80;000 persons were con- tire length of the great edifice measures to be obstructed and stopped by needless and unjusti-į fied strikes, means a prolonging onslaught, and an increase of the danger to this hemisphere and to our own land."

on.

firmed in the diocese, between and its vista of one-tenth of a 90,000 and 100,000 baptised, 142 mile from the west doors to the an effect candidates ordained to the priest-high altar will give hood and fifty-three churches, scarcely equalled in any cathedral chapels and "parish houses con in the world."

"Because of the present world secrated or dedicated. The num- ber of clergy now connected with tragedy, the present outbreak of the parish, he said, was 421, and | pagan barbarism and criminal the number of registered com- aggression," the Bishop observed, municants last reported was "the opening of this great cathe- 109,403.

dral Interior will have un Since 1921, he continued, the paralleled significance.”; parishes

ex- and missions had

Before the convention opened, in their own religious Bishop Manning, assisted by the Charles K, Gilbert, work more than $74,000,000 and Right Rev. contributed for missionary work Suffragan Bishop, celebrated a $0,000,000. In addition the people special communion service in, the After adjournment, of the diocese contributed since cathedral.

10 am to-day the de- 1924 nearly $15,000,000 for the until

legates attended a special service cathedral

Bishop Manning reported that and tea in honour of Bishop "about two-Manning on the occasion of his the cathedral was thirds built” and that next triple anniversary.

Bishop Manning reminded that President Roosevelt and high government officials had publicly warned the country "how gravej the situation is."

"Certainly we must deliver Great our shipments of ald to Britain by whatever means may be necessary and at whatever pended risk may be involved," he went July 18 "But the real question is-is July 26

this enough? Does this meet our Aug,

full obligation as a nation? Can we go on accepting our present protection at the price of the heroism, the sufferings and the lives of those men and women in Britain? In this day of crisis, for us and for the world, is it enough for us to give the tools. while others are giving their lives?

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"Th's is the decision which our country must now make,

Urges Full Part

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"I hold that to meet our obli- gation as a nation, to ensure the defeat of the Hitler forces, and to keep the ......... war away from our land, we should now take our full and open part in this conflict and give our mili- tary and naval authorities power to take whatever action in their judgment will be most effective, in conjunction with Great Bri-' tain."

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