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Why the

church is

making things

hot for

the Devil

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by JOHN REDFERN

LOT of people were thinking the other day that

THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1960.

THE REAL

PURPOSE OF KHRUSHCHEV'S BARRAGE

By.

CHAPMAN PINCHER

the Reformation got a jolt when the House of MR KHRUSHCHEV shakes with sham indignation over the Laity, with the barest dissension, asked that the Church of England bishops should allow exorcism of evil spirits.

UT in a quacky

This fulfilled the prophecy lest exorcian should be used of one member of the House, Dr recklessly. John Cardeaux, "If you dabble fashion. with witchcraft, poltergeists and so forth. you will be misunder- stood."

alleged violation of the Soviet seashore while nearly half a million square miles of Europe remain violated by the Red Army. Why?

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His purpose is to disrupt Nato and the other "Western" alliances by frightening the smaller nations out of them, especially those like Norway, The Guild of St. Raphael for Turkey, and Pakistan which are near the Russian borders.

Khrushchev knows that if he can only begin to chip Nato away he will eventually disrupt it. If he could frighten the Norwegians out, the Danes could easily follow. They are uneasy bedfellows with the Germans.

the Ministry of Healing is a highly rospectable Church Let then, Layman Redtem society, numbering 70 bishops on say a soothing word. If the its list of patrons. Church of England has moved towards medievalism, it is 3.1 exceedingly small move.

This guild frequently receives inquiries about exorcism

The first Prayer Book in sometimes from the bishops.

English at the Reformation time did have П form of exorcism. It was attached to the baptismal rite.

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As the Church of England Is now concluding a vast overhaul of its Canon Laws (rules) this is the right time to deal with the control of exorcism.

But the Church still lacks a have been printed by Church socletics. The Guild of St. Raphael, until a rife is approved by the convocations, favours

form of exorciam. One or two

But after that Edward Prayer Book. the exorcism disappeared. Yet the Canon Laws of 1603, which are still part of the 1949 Am with binding today although not prayer beginning. "I command 10: much longer recognise thee, unclear spirit, in the exorcism, provided it is done Name of the Father and of the with the licence of the bishop Son and of the Holy Ghost of the dioceSE.

that thou come out."

But the

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Church of England is in a great tidying-up, mood these days. You can depend on

he it that if

clerical

'In o rather suprising way, the wide interest in psychology, the march of science, and all that, have favoured rather than set back the advocates of exorcism, convocations agree to exorcisın under supervision, it will also

In the last 10 years there has produce a rite for the priest 10 been also, a drawing-together

use when he goes forth to battle One of clergy and doctors, result of this

is to awaken with the Devi among the clergy some concern

-(London Express Scrvice).

Long-term aim

the plane can leave the country where it is based. No such certificate was needed for the RB-47 flight, which was as legitimate as the "surveys" carried out off the U.S. and British coasts by Russian research vessels, trawlers," and submarines,

But Mr K. does believe, and with some Justification, that the weaker members of Nato might be scared into neutrality.

With their 175 divisions, the Russians have always been contemptuous of Nato's 30. Why then is Mr K so keen to disrupt Nato? He is desperately anxious to get rid of the forward bases which can be used for the siting of deter- rent H-bomb planes and rockets.

And if Mr Khrushchev could muster just a few backsliders, the Americans might withdraw from Europe which has been the prime Russian object ever Stalin's policy

since 1945, when only the threat of U.S.

of the Rhine. nuclear bombs kept the Red Army east

The British and U.S. Governments are not

taken in by Mr Khrushchev's threal to shower atomic rockets on countries which provide bares for U.S. reconnaissance aircraft. He is on re-

cord as admitting that global war, which such 3 move would stört, would be the end of Russia 100.

He knows well enough that his charge that the U.S. and Britain are trying to provoke war by reconnaissance flights is baby-talk.

Any U.S. flight intended to infringe Russian territory as in the case of the U-2 incident-bas to be supported by a certifi- cale signed by leading U.S. officials before

The basic Russian policy, started by Stalin and relentlessly pursued by Mr K for all his good-will gestures, is to get the Americans back into "Fortress America" for two pur- poses:

So that Russia can subvert, dominate and

piecemeal.

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U2 PROPAGANDA TRIUMPH

RB47

PROPAGAN TRIUMPH

Cummings

Oh, those wicked American spy planes! If only they'd send some more!”

Only the dispersion of the Western, deter- rent throughout the world denies the Russians this military possibility. With so many hostile bases so widely dispersed, round them the Rus- sians will never have enough H-bomb potential to knock them all out or even to attempt to.

eventually absorb the European countries Nato is shaky

To provide a single target if ever

war between Russia and the U.S. should become unavoidable,

Because of the immense punch of modern H-bomb-carrying rockets and the large numbers being churned out by Russia, it might be possible to do mortel damage to a country as big as the U.S. in one surprise blow without a substantial counter-attacks.

What chance is there that the Americans could ever be driven to withdraw? Mr K knows that Nato is basically shaky because of the presence of Germany, against which many of the other 14 Nato countries still harbour tear and resentment.

The high-handed attitude of General de Gaulle has alienated much American good will by his refusal to allow U.S. atom bombers to be based in France. Now the U.S. plan to arm

London Express Bervice. Germany with H-bomb-carrying rockets has raised another knife-edge issue,

It is inevitable then that Mr K will seize every opportunity to hack away at Nato and the other alliances even if it means shooting down planes legitimately flying over the open sea, which is what I mispect happened in this

case.

In future it is up the Americans and the other free nations to deny him such opportuni- ties for bluster or at least to refrain from BETÝ- ing them up to him on a plate.

* The possibility that the survivors resched the Russian coast in a dinghy efter ditching their aircraft far out In the Barents Sea offers a better explanation of Russia's 11-day gap in announcing their capture than Mr X's weak statement that he was waiting for an American explanation.

(London Express Sermica).

Mid Week Selection by Friell

BISHOPS

TO EXORCISE

SPIRITS

EVIL

"We can but try, my dear Southwick, we can but try”

"It's disgraceful having to travel like this-why don't vou strike in sympathy with the power workers or us?"

BETTER THAN CALLAS

THERE is only one absolute and shining confirmation that you are a prima donna of in- ternational importance- and it arrived by post recently for Miss Joan Sutherland. A letter ask- ing her to sing at La Scala, Milan, for two months, April and May, next year.

"La Stupenda" as the Ilaligns cail her, bas now in the view of a Milan newspaper (not a safe place to air such views unless they happen to be generally regarded true) "surpassed Marla Callas as the world's leading soprano."

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These two gorgeous tributes plop into the placid pool of

Sutherland's imperturb

Miss

able personality like small aimless pebbles.

SURPRISING

-that's what some

Italians are saying

about Joan Sutherland,

the imperturbable

prima donna

Joan Sutherland

-the excitement.

is not in her escapades, but in her voice

thought ther were planist, won the argument and Covent Garden put on Lucia di because of this huge success reasonably high but as I have diss Sutherland's magic bird of Lammermoor.

relative senise of pitch I a voice was released. thought they were about C. I

except that now her stage, rings The news of the great excile- (formerly glass) でも Bold ment during rehearsals at genuine pieces from Sicily. was amazed when I was told There are still however, Covent Garden reached the

it was E and

She tries, with polile energy found

then when I

to say things. like "To thrilled. couldn't believe it." thrilled, thrilled," but one

knows that, indefinably, she

is feeling something else.

Backstage superlatives are

that

sorse traces of an old obstinacy

kern ears of Madame Callas out I had F I really though she were trying to be oeuvre was execided by

when she talks about it--an and an extraordinary man loyal to her previous voice, the extraordinary woman. one ske obviously regards so her own.

RELEASED

UNANNOUNCED

both too big and too small for voice was her husband. "When flexibility her, Not skoply because she is

The real discoverer of her "My voice used, to have this She few into London, arrived

when I sang in the

at Covent Garden unannounced

a large-boned, straightforward 1 heard the Incredible things she lower register too," she will say and sat in at the last rehearsal. girl from Australia where could do with her voice when stubbornly.

"I haven't had time to buy those things that people imagişe go with surress" the ways slaply (her appearances et La Scal will bring her more than 2500 each).

She glows with stamina and sense. She intends to last. “My mother in her 70's still has a marvellous voice." she xays, looking towards a long ahead.

It is not in the life of Joan Sutherland that we shall find our excitement. In Blogthy

escapades VOWS.

on yachts and & thrilling presence, Fad

We shall find our excita- ment where we ought PEDA perly to "And it. In her voice.

Jean Hogan

-London Zgrip Service)

MEET MR CLOGGHEAD*

* CLOG; ANYTHING THAT HINDERS' MOTION

OR RENDERS DIFFICULT,

directrees outpat. But

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national she was just relaxed in the #

Hant.

Then she dew eat-ber though!s ichichen, or even talking a bath, I Her husband is her voice's on the performance that was because her volce, that surprising, kril- knew she was only using half keeper. A dak tandsome to have London at Miss Suther-

her talent," he says. vojce. sits on her

young man in a brown Italian land's feet the next day, undia-

RUSSIA SHOOTS CONLO

DOWN

ABLAZE PLANE

CASTRO

ACCUSES

AMERICA AGGRESS

"I do think our bill bánning the chimas palice-casua

vans is a slep in the right direction in this age

marsous tension.”

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shoulder like a magical bird. Most bathroom | songulære "guit be has coached Miss closed, Almost not belonging to her, would take little persuading Sutherland's voice for more than Since then Venloe, Vienna that their voice was the one for year 5 almadst as much and Paris have given "Mees And indeed it nearly didn't;

When she first began to sing, which La Scala was walking, his as it is hers, one seela. It is Sulter-Ian," their acclaim. ink ken nge of aineiden li wan ku Hut genuine prima donnes are his tale wether than hers one And at Glyndebourne where hairy, WACMELIA new and her made, it seems, of Jews credulous senses, that has filed a wall of she is how, she has added the the sitting room in their flat in role of Elvira in I Puritani to

We fought like cat and dog Kennington with pictures O Lucia, as oge of her most

Undiscovered in it then was over it. It took him three years early 19th century prima donna, dazzling, parla

an upper register of dealing to convince me 4 ought to map to 1 is he who luddeg and At Glyndebourne, she sits in Carity and mobility saying winging Wagner and start eing, deives wong the fanumerable her dressing-room with its case- these notes the would time" krug" The early 19th cenley Forgotten operas of Bossini and mebt-fandow overlooking ba dick for him, often abouth when opas by Beiln mirds and Bellini to find the music to dis" tulis free and makes per calm she was in the kikom moeing Donizetti!" Ming Satherlan 1 play hi

ungerenisbed piletir. |*and haver thought of that as "Halokby her husband, Richard "dn

serious singing:

Bonynge, himself a distinguished voice became : international

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