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The US Army's Chemical Corps should gal on with development of new weapons that will incapacitate an enemy without killing or permanenty injuring him.--

DOUBTFUL CRUSADER

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1985.

"SCIENCE Sty

World Copyrighti de astianarment with the Manchester Gwarisan

THE REAL SITUATION The NEW

ON THE WATERFRONT Gulf

By Alexander Broad

Washington. But the charges are too crude, los peroks the Hudson pnd 15

too sweeping.

"HEN Marlon Brando's

"On the Waterfront" There are criminals in the reached the cinemas, docks. Some of them are and sofie of them A shocked nation watched racketeers

have had and still have with fascinated horror. But strangleholds on large minnberg the film ended happily, and of men. But the International Longshoremen's Association, people went home again con-

inced that the American despite the charges that have been levelled at it repeatedly Way of Life had been vin- and

and pubilely by politicians, is dicated once more.

not itself an organisation devot- ed to racketesting. Its on Unfortunately, the real ganisation has sometimes been But the life counterpart of the film used by racketeers. has no happy ending. Of

rent situation is more subtle.

course, real life isn't as The Commission

simple as the films either. The film was about a cor- rupt dockside union, run by gangsters and engaged in widespread racketeering. It was a simple case of Sin Versus a Clean Cut Young Man.

In real life, it is not quite like that. The International Longshoremen's Association in New York has been necused of every sin committed in the film.

The real situation-and the wider charges--were back in the headlines this week.

It

Interesting

because,

among other things, it may have a considerable bearing on nex! year's Presidential election,

Two years ago, a Waterfront Commission was set up to re- gulato New York Harbour.

It has four members, two from New York State and two from the State of New Jersey which

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ARCHBISHOP

G

EOFFREY FRANCIS

FISHER. Arch- bishop of Canter.

bury. Primate of All

By Les Armour

England, Master of Arts, Few contemporary churchmen have had

Honorary Doctor Divinity, Honorary Doctor of Laws......

The man's titles (abbre

viated) fill 16 lines of very small print.

Behind them is inen who abandoned being Blahop

day.

suns.

a man

more column-inches of newspaper space devoted to them than the présent Archbishop of Canterbury. Yet there is little common knowledge about the wears the primate's robes.

man

Bent

who

W 19

of London working among the PJOT until he

appointed bishop on the specifle orders of King Edward Vit, at mast doter- mined to retire, Dr Fisher was chosen to succeed him.

of Chester to beetme an gan grinder in the town square fern and immense authority. But it

Ako

who once is not his normal stance. formed a rugger tean called Coffrey

Franels Fisher was the "Lambeth XI" which con- en 68 years ago at Nuneaton sisted of himself, his six sons, in Warwickshire where his father another bishup and his three was a country parson. He was

bounding school Marlborough It was a good team-it cleaned Britain's older up a wide array of squads con-

From there he won an open the Church of England. On top aisting of rugged young choir scholarship to Exeter College, of that he was forced to live i barys. It

was even alleged that Oxford. Open holarships at the

cient ก erhaps God

undue sup. Oxford Take some winning: the Fulham Palace. Kaye it After all, as put. und disparat

AV

It was a tough job for many the of reasons: London as the biggest

College.hools." and most complicated diverse in

crumbling

(As far back as

a learned term means, iterally, that it is 1716 It was condemned by a divine put

put it.

i ali

architects.} comers and com- committer of God must know- the

rabes games of petition is invariably stiff.

and faxes alone it cost alf football teams but the bear-

£1,500 a year to multain ing the name of Lambeth Palace, the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, might perhaps be easter for Him to call to mind.

Behind the titles, also, 19 a tan with options on él wide array of topics.

T

in trim

committee

Dr Faher's tried to tel

TE scholarship

was well justified. Geoffrey went on to win three first class degres in classics. literary

51 rony required a regiment of servants It even had mad

£50 T which cost

to keep

predecessor hid

There were no lakers. He had even hinted darkly bout selling it to alt American who wanted to tran - spati, brick by brick, to the flotte

United States,

»

Emmsw000.

He once said he thought the Humanities, and theology, world might be a better place Such a display of scholastic If politicians and statesmeli o- threworks was necessarily suspreci, Dr Fisher lost money on the mained silent for six months. He even at Oxford. The man who

Job-even though it paid £19,000 rages against the mass and mush nuts three firsts in a row may year. He now gets £15,000, mind

created by the ruthless be a

But intellectual

And he once said:

as militant as the two principai sense) but politically neutral as "Ordinary machinations of mass communi- powers of that order testify to an decent men find it hard to be disputanta

and Dr Fisher has well.

them

their That cation.

In Television has draw

does not mean that he amateness of thought, a penal-

honest about their income tax ever joined his Are regularly: but he has tvity, and a concentration which

does not have views and express But he brought the sprawling umusades. also shown that he knows how often have a man easy prey in dioces

But his very reticence prob them. His views on the per- diocese to an order it had selm to make expert use of it.) He the cruder and blunter outside attained

of marriage (which a lot to do with his manence before. In the six ably had

have caused admires the

chovationi

A long-term patriolism of the world.

In Fulham years be served

the Scoly, deplores the high cost of His tutors watched carefully. Palace--the

Bishops and Archbishops are constitutional Issue since. six dark years of printing.

The founNY Archbishop first the war-he achieves e reputa- officially elected to offles by the state recognises divorce and the Wenl back to his old school tion for administrative ability, Dean and Chapter of the relevan: Church it supports does not) are well known. His views on an assistant humility, and sheer hard work.

. But, before they can

with the election, they broadening the links between the master. Three years later, his

mast receive a royal licence to Church of England and other Lutors knew their fears were

hold

the Protestant bodies are also well unfounded: ha was appointed

en election. With licence there is always a letter known. from the monarch: telling them whom to elect.

HE

where he became

TE believes that marriage is Heatmaster of Repton School.

indissoluble, that towering He was just 28.

Churches of the world.

for

hold

But he does not forro his views. on on unwilling Church, Church

buildings ought not to be bulit It was an awpicious appoint-

IN 1945 there was still some in the City of London, that the ment William Temple who

No one has ever recorded a. of England clergymen who want surprise when he was made

casc in which the instruction to maiTY divorced. persons are Church of England ought proceded Doctor Fisher as Arch-

Archbishop of Canterbury and, has been ignoted.

free to do

Church 80. High also preceded him on actively to sock co-operation bishop

59, Primate of All England-

Queen with the rest of the Protestant Headmaster of Repton,

Victoria Issued these clergymen who shy away from

But joining doroes personally.

with other. Dr Fisher stayed at Repton next to the monarch, the lender instructions

King Edward VII, who succeeded Churches have regularly asserted 20 years. Then he was ap- of the Church of England. But, for all that, he is my pointed Bishop of Chester. The thing but pompous and ponti- move startled and annoyed many limelight and he had never been in the case of Dr Ingram.

For he had stayed out of the her, left the matter in the hands their independence.

of the Prime Minister-except ergymen. For a bishop is first an active figure in the controver Since then Prime Ministers Recently he was speaking at an overseer of parishes and how sies which have ront the Church Sin

have had the final say though a man who had never

parish have a

The Church has, for a hindred they, of course, have come to

more, been actively rely on the advice of the b split between the "Low Church" cumbent Archbishops of Canter which is militantly Protestant bury. At the moment the power and the High Church" which probably rests mainly with the

fical.

could

a formal City of London dinner served in

a

in the Gulluháll. It happened sufficient grasp of the problemas years and that Britain was playing Russla of the parish priest?

at soccer that day. After a long

succession of speeches, it came

the Archbishop's turn to speak.

Instead of embarking on hig

favours a form of service and a -doctring close to those of the

prepared speech he got up and ŋTHEY were on wenk ground if the Catholic Church. Between

announced the soccer acore.

By

only because many of the

some means known only to most notable figures in English Archbishops he had managed to church history get it delivered to him.

there has grown up a third called the "Broad Church" that a Church which believes

incumbent Archblahops.

FTER thỏ Church announced Aimited

imton with

the OIO Church of South India, London vicar proclaimed on the

notice board outslite his alriren that members of the Church of South India would not be ad- mitted to Communion services.

Dr Fisher did not

not object The

Archbishop chhors rule by Hordes

His

leadership is moral Bishop betblished by the state ought BUT the result of this curieus schoolmaster to bishop.

to be brand enough to include system of appointment nur and, within very broad limits, .At thọ. moment one any in they were on especially weak, within it a wide enough range of checks at four stages is that no no ode is required to follow it, 1946, when he was proclaimed ground because Dr Fisher, after views to enable a whole nation single faction in Chirch or state. Even at that, he prefers to guide Archbishop of Canterbury le nill, was the son of a vicar and to and a place for its conscience. Is Ikaly to be able to dominate Father than load except on a few was riding the London Under the problems were no surpriss

In important appointments. And Iœuch like the sanctity of ground: standing up and hang- to him.

As the Inte Dean Inge put it, that implies that one obvious marris, ing grimly on, to a strap.

Nevertheless, there was on the third party bellaves that qualification for appointment is The outloudy. English; remite A world which had Its best position. One viter wrote in his "the clergy are

spectacle- a corfain degies of neutrality controversy within the Church 1s that, there is probably.. less view of him durin the pomp parish mastazine: "We prayer maketa. Dura is a difficult trade Nolitrally, of court,la

Temple; Ur how than at any time in the absurd to provide standardised spoken Sodales (though he was, the decline in diekite, there has over Princess Bardgret std But the now bishop was especticies. No two people want appointed a Churchill: de log tom, slow, but continuin

and no, ông the waty, but his théologies | conuer fy (cherch 100 when. De Winnington wants there men lines spent to

and odremony of the Coronation about this Beforehand, and this bbcaus wớ, have to help people inftive, fewwWYET, WHS nhì out-- last: hundred, FORTE D'ANC with i

and has heard most about him is what we dot. We must make to see the invisible. But it is Timber pred

controversy the boat of it"

during the recent

A

Group Captain Townsend may success, Well have formed the wrong int

Ingram, the Beloved Bishop of

pration.

He dhe sot the case or prindo London, who had lived, curly Fiber, no doubt, bakogu. But Dr Fly is not only ther and Prodie with perfect difting penniless, för forts in the flung the third party has oletá beme cute patient

therefore cdricerned with what

are loosely called the "New York" docles.

These four men were given drastic powers to “clean up” th dlocks, the most important of which was the power to issue licence to anyone who wanted to work in the docks.

They were empowered to re- "Hicences to "criminals." That took away from the union some of its rights, for hiring, up to then, had been in the hands of the unioni,

the

For three years the chalfjaan has been Lieut-General George the nominee of ex- P. Hays governor Thomas E. Dewey. Hays has been blunt and out- the has taken spoken and

"clean up" seriously. Hils tions have resulted in an almost Lermanent foud between commission and the union

Last week Hays resigned- under pressure from Governor, Averel Herriman He was replaced by John P. McGrath, who happens to have been Harriman's compaign manager.

the new

Explosive Case

Harriman is a Democrat and now in avowed candidate for the presidential nómination, and Republicans in New York lost no time in pointing out the poli- tical implications of the switch.

Hays, they said, had been do posed because he was too tough. McGrath would prove soft.

a

more

The truth of the matter, ac- cording to what the New York Times called "Informed obser- vers

Is that Harriman felt that "humane" approach to the problem was required. He believed that Haya made the dock workers Icel that they were all criminals. In his place, he wanted a man who would be BhIA to make

the peace on docks.

In any case, mixing politics with the explosive dock sitia- tlon may tell heavily against Harriman.

if dockland corruption grów,

the

it could sink any charice te might havé of getting nomination.

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