After the undoubted personal success of the Soviet visitors abroad the competition between Russin and the West" may lead in future more to social than
military measures.
CHARMAMENT
I SAY THE ARCHBISHOP HAS GONE -TOO FAR
N two issues our much respected Archbishop of Canterbury has recently got himself into trouble.
minor
1. On the modest Bill brought in by 11 lotteries. Labour MP to legalise certain On this the archbishop, in addition to opposing the Bill. took the opportunity in the Lords to deliver a major
attack on the Government's premium bond proposal; ankl 2. Round about the same time the archbishop got himself Into the Cyprus tangle He was thought to be making mischief between the Prime Minister and the Colonial Secretary, but this he has denied and his stenial must be accepted However, E shows how cagy
was for him to be
misunderstood On
2 matter which
even
the
politi-
clans on both sides
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1956.
THE SKILL OF THE "SPHINX"
R
By James Wickenden
United Nationa were USSIA has always do the
manded that the can- masters in their own house. didate for the UN. Next year he was back in Swoden to receive that high Secretary-Generalship should honour the membership of "the
be a servant, not a leador eighteen of the Swedish Royal and a man without a taint Academy. of the Western alliances.
Sweden being neutral has made it the obvious choice of country, and Dag Hammarsk- jold is neutral even for a Swede a man almost colourless from tack of blus, but possessed of a keen intelligence.
It
typical of this Swedish sphinx that although he has been in high places for some time his politics are un- known He is rumoured to be in Social Democrat,
A
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Storm OCRÍre : Dr. Fisher,
by the Rt. Hon. Herbert Morrison, C.H., M.P.
of the Commons are having to
handle with some cart.
Has Dr Fisher then overstep- pet the line for an archbishop or has he not?
He is not Many of
them
}peal
speak
parson.
or
the
Ten
He is the head of the Estab- Now the Churches have the lished Ourch, Ho has close right and indeod the duty relations with the Crown.. He to express themselves on moral
the Monarch ot crowns
the and social issues affecting the Coronation. He has fairly close national well-being. I do not relations with the Government mysel!
the view that accept freely of the day-whether Tory they are confined to about polites or locul contro Labour. He is no doubi con- Commandmente, versial Issues on one side or the sulted about the appointment of other. They often upsat the bishops by the Prime Minister. "other side," but I would
archbishop The
Ing the The the local parsons to
privilege of high precedence on Church of gagged.
England clergymen are probably more free to speak their minds than the parsons of any other nomination.
* ceremonial occasions. He is not
de
And that's not a bad thing.
THE
Special case
THE Dean
sometimen
position in the nation.
The
he
restraint.
without
At the time he spoke of his father and, perhaps, unconsciously Humpolf uncon
"My father," he said, "Is one of those who are firm in their roots and firm in their faith... whose changing fate may well deepen their convictions and the of their early years direction but not change them,"
This them. in the man on whom the responsibility lies at present of solving the Middle East tension.
That be is an outstanding civil servant la not in doubt. His skill in arriving at ingent- At 61 he is the, fair-haired, ous formules to which various with icy Nordle blue eyes, and parties con agree has been he is amusing at parties.
But proved
since his first OEEC
it is clear from his ways and meet
meetings. He is not given to speech, which is involved, that luxury of any kind, even he is a solitary man,
a
wife. His mother says he only
likes women about him who are "brainy and smart."
Middle East
He claims never to have seen football match or a baseball Kame in his life, but to like mountaincering
modern poetry,
Loth
demanding endurance and the painstaking But has he more than the spirit.
skill to reach "understandings?" To encourage hlm and per- Lacking The tunon touch, hapa symbolise his spare, clean has he the force to be an course
life, Tensing the
"aggressive neutralist?" vielor of Everest sent him 1lv It pecia that he has such k-axe. With b came on in- strength.
No one has managed that you may to bring the Middle East
scription:
ป
"So
limb to greater heights." countries to agreement except hounced by him Hammershield) After"
In fact, Hammarskjold (pro- Hammarskjold. Even be hns
partially succeeded.
la that new figure in world affairs the political techulelim, rother than the more flam boyant person of the politician.
Up The Ladder
an exhausting tour of the Middle East he has left ther there a cease-fire agreement be tween Israel on one side and Egypt and Syria on the other, This may be a turning point
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