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DIVORCE-

THE CHINA

MAIL,

THURSDAY,

MAY 18, 1961.

JOBS FOR THE BOYS

BY JAK

He that desireth. promotion.

Shall, toe the

Line!

boo BOND

J.I.M

REDISTRIBUTION

MOUNTS IN MIDDLE EAST

CAIRO •

Cummings HOLY Trinity, Guild-

ford, a big, red- brick church at the top of the High-street, rean seat 900. It will not be enough when Walter Boulton preaches his last sermon as Provost of Guildford.

The Very Reverend Walter Boulton has held that post for nine years, He is the buisland-

in clerical personally in the

lown and diocese,

1tes tall, an figure, his genial feer, deeply lined and slightly leathery as

of log the resulf service in India, are the sanbols of the Church mitrant to thou sands of people in Guildford,

He is a man of piety and put pasej

a man of Guel, hail a man o the work too.

Have

views

this man's on it

cost him his job?

baptism of Infants" it that, and nothing less,

means

Baptisms at Holy Trinity are no longer furtive assemblies of relatives in an otherwise empty church. They take place at ong of the hermit services.

Last Sunday 500 people joined in his prayer this a red-faced, laudly protesting baby should be Christ's faithful soldler and Pervant. to her life's end.

He is forceful preneher: his themes are contemporary with out being ginonicky.

During n famine in Ingli money was needed 15 buy food for the stars g

Tu Boulut, the solution Was simple. He ruld his cor, not caring whether

That is the man who for nine

has

been Provost vif those who benefited were Chris- years tian, Hindu, or Mesleni.

Guldford: the man who every- He showed that we personat body assumext would receive the Identification with

appointment of dean the sorrows parallel

when the new cathedral is con- Serated in the presence of the Queen this month.

Jan

It seemed such foregone formally that he was even consulied about in which room in the new deanery he would Ilke the telephone.

SEETHING

five

by

DAVID SANDERS

He goes on to Indicate that this is not enough far a mor to become a dean. Some mysterious, unspecified further quality Is required. Apparently Walter Boiton does not possess it.

falling certainly cannot be inck of scholarship or un- suitable socint background. He is an Oxford M.A. He and his wife ta clergyman's daughter)

esteem in The were held in exclusive pre-war British com-

unity in Iulia,

Nor can it be that he is too High church or too Low church. He is Middle church.

What have those powerful, whispering voices been saying in the ears that matter?

divorce. He put forward the view that in some cases of un- Happy marriages contracted in register officer divorce might conceivably be the solution.

At the time, this caused only ninor stir, and the Mothers' Union now primly disclaims any part in the deanery affair. But your

-*BY THE WAY CHAPS, CAN I TAKE IT WE'RE ALL BRITISH HERE?'

conduct in all circum-

was that indiscretion noted in stances. Too bad if it is the more exalted circles, and did it wrong kind of consulence. result in an indelible black mark being put against the name of Walter Boulton?

BLACK-LIST?

It seems Incredible, but what olher explanation makes this What about those priests. affair even faintly comprehen- growing in number, who have sible? What else could possibly gone mitch, much further than justly the humiliating treat Walter Boulton and performed

nent he has received after nine marriage ceremonies years of slavish work for the divorced persons? new cathedral?

And it that is the enre of the

conse- matter, what appalling quences result for the of England at large.

Church

SUPPRESSION

1.

J

fur

The lesson of the Boulton affair would seem to be that rach and every one of

has

black-ilsted

INKER

JAK

London Espress Service

GERMANY'S FINGER ON THE H-BOMB

them

away

bis

E

chance of advancement,

[N its perpetual search

for an answer to the What of the various and virite problem of when-and if

groups of modern churchmen Who

TRIGGER ?

By PAUL JOHNSON

o others when i mun end known in the East approached Ihn with a problem ring from

broken marriage.

hand! The

a smalt daughter.

slay abroad. Could Halton put bou in touch with a family in Brima who would care for the child?

agilating for some-NATO should use nu- of the Church's at clear ensement Imagine

have what might

weapons, the It can only be one thing. That happened I that request had

This is the Church that tude on divorce? Is this con- he is not a safe man. been made to a

Jesser

prides mat: of

itself

government the siderable body of talent to be American being On Then, alsut four ur almest calibre: the indent.

The quality of conformity that would appear the urstated Catholic Church in this land. It quietly ignored, while the safe and its senior advisers

the conformers, get the apologetic Inquiries, the Arm mouths age, ear the first dis-

when that men,

at SHAPE are toying but inevitable refusals; Tooming Kurbing whispers. It was painted but eriiuling deficiency in the deeply offended

character of Walter out that there was no automatic

adjective, without the Roman plum jobs? Boullen:

And I wonder in how many with a new, and explo- in the background the solution succession between the post of the one thing lacking from the qualification, is appiled to the

quie! and shrewd that the child should go into

Church of Rome. Is strength Parsonages children's bone.

and its pride is its ability to te has been taken of what sive, idea.

tu happened embrace wide

This iden. divergences et has

if adopted,

A variation of this plan was has been in secret consultation Boulton, Parsons have to live would place the operative put forward last December by Titual and outlook.

with NATO chiefs this werk, But now, it would appear, I. Is Ambition is not necessarily an decision very largely in Mr Christian Herter, then U.S. hay come up with what is operating the most sinister and ungodly virtue. Why wreck #

West Secretary of State. At the NATO known as the "two fingers loathsome of all forms of cent career for the sake of a few the hands of the make sorship

Council meeting, he offered to the trigger" plan, the German government. words which might rench

provide SHAPE's forces with Ave suppression-the no claim to be the most discreet form which gives lip service to

wrong car?

Polaris submarines together with priest in the Church ot Enn-

freedom but which takes sceret,

squadrons of land-based Polaris land. He has robustly engaged Insting and damaging note

rockets. controversies, some- hose who avail themselves in Incal times putting his foot in it. He once told the town council, ar- rayed before him in their robes on Civic Sunday, precious little use their coming to church on that that was to be the sum total of

Not so with Walter

Boulton.

He and his wife took the child into the heart of their own large family.

SHAKE-UP

He is no viearane-ten-party a shaker-upper. parson. He is He has certainly shaken things up at Holy Trinity, where he has combined the post of rectur with that of provost.

He organised study groups at

The

provest and that of clean. appointment of provost lay with In the discretion of the bishop of the dineuse. That of the den is the gift of the Queen,

And the shadowy figures who atvise the Queen have told her: Don't give the job to Boulton.

Guildford is seething with Curs But this is no storm in a heal teapot.

Tt

has implications which reach out to every corner

Anglican where the munity has taken rost. What can they possibly hove against Boulton?

That very odd pronomenment

Com-

Dr Fisher himself.

catalogue of praise written

HIS BOOK

Walter Boulton would

by

that it was

one day if

i

and

of

By all means speak your mind if you don't mind paying the penalty perhaps in five years' time.

you are free to campaign for a change in the Church's altitude towards divorce of anything

Of course

else; pru-

Walter

Or men with a bli of cutting edge, like Walter Baullon?

That is the crux of the snd. bad business at Guildford,

Massive

This solution was also criti-

Dominant

000

Basically the issue is not me of the divorce reformers against i the rest. If what sort of men does the Church reatly think are capable of jerking

clsed by Blain. We argued that Under this, SHAPE would Britain out of its telly-letharg Already SHAPE controls

the Polaris was a strategie, not have delegated powers nuclear a tactical weapon. To scatter it authorize Safe men, sound' inen, accept-massive armoury of

the upe of ticlebr Iweapons, from bombs loaded in all over able men, organisation men?

West Europe would weapons if explicitly requested the Jets of NATO's tactical air needlessly provoke the Russians by a member government under forces, to the nuclear shells with without really adding to our Soviet attack. which British and U.S. artillery security. regiments are now equipped.

This is all very well in Moreover, the warheads would Washington.

theory. be controlled solely by

In practice it meats that' Bena would play the When President Kennedy

dominant role' la any decision took office, he rejected bolk of to embark on nuclear war.

For the chances of Russin these proposals. When he and Mr semillan metin embarking on a conventional theatre' ex- Washington, they found the war In any other selves in virtual agreement on cept West Germany are remote. the issue.

Moreover, Bonn peralst In maintaining territorial centres. It is argued, particularly in

And they further agreed," in net only against East Germany Bonn and Paris, that the United States, which is now vulnerable principle, so to increase SHAPE's but also against Poland and

which nearly 100 of his cungre by the Archbishop of Can-

their Christian witness. gallon got down tu intensive ferbury

he agrees (who says probing of Marxist doctrine, and with

Queen's advisers)

And he has dune a far, far inding the Christion answer to sailsden nobody.' It merely adds

more indiscreet thing than that. vidling that In planning your cant all matters to IL

to the puzzlement.

He wrote a book about marriage children's education you rule He adopted the revolutionary He acknowledges that Boulton for the Mothers' Union, And in out any likelihood of advance

when the Prayer has been an "inspiring, loving, it he stepped boldly out of line ment. about the "publick successful pastor anal lender." over official Church policy un Let your conscience

attitude that Book talks

dictate

could well be the most signi- pondered by Dr Ramsey as he nwalts his enthrenement

Primule of All England.

-London Express Service);

"Sorgeant says he gives you exactly ten seconds to got out of orbit and re-enter the earth's atmosphere"

London Expyom Murytoo,

used without the explicit per

But none of these C017 be

other words, the final decision mission of their governments. In

Washington,

ta embark on nuclear war resis with London and not SHAPE,

For some time West European governmenta have been challenging this arrangement,

t

conventional strength, that a re-

to Soviet missile attack, may hesitate to use nuclear weapons sort to nuclear arms to meet a to oppose a Soviet "conven- Soviet conventional thrust would tional thrust and so invite not be necessary.

the atomic deluge on herself.

It was this tear that led France to embark on the costly attempt to create her Own nuclear |striking-force. And a similar moilve, in time, may lead the Germans to manufacture their W nuclear weapons.

New formula

Wishful

Czechoslovakia,

IA the Acheson plan is adopted, Britain and all West Europe might be involved in a nuclear war arising out of these claims,

So for, there has been no

official disclosures of this plan There is a strong chance that

But this was mere wishful thinking. With the end of con- scription, Britain not only can the British Government · will not increase the strength of its Rhino Army, it will in time bo resist it. All the more reason, forced to reduce it,

And the terrible schioni

therefore, that British public

within the French Army means opinion should know the facts,

To meet Europenn doubts, that SHAPE must rule out

д

the US government has for the bigger French contribution for and ensure that the Govern- past 18 months been trying to somo years.

devise a formula under which

West Europe would possess. Its So Mr Kennedy has appointment atauda firns,

own nuclear arins, whose use would not necessarily commit the US. to all-out nuclear war. General Norstad produced hila own plan. under which NATO would became the "fourth atomic power." But this itself, created an insuperable problein. If, argued the British --- who opposed the plan the consent of all 13 NATO governmerits was

ed Dean Acheson to devise 0 formula. Acheson, who

new

London Express Service).

Just Fancy That

required beftire the weapons DASSENGERS on two buses In Brockley, London, were used, then each govern- watched a fight between the drivers recently. One ment would have a velo, and of the men was taken to hospital with a broken leg. The fatal delays would be inevitable.fight is thought to have started because one bus trailed the other - letting the first bus collect all the passen- gers.

No control

On the other hand, it sho Preferald at BHAPE took the de- clalon, then there would be no political control at all.

›NLY six guinéda:hová been awarded in seven-months

ONLY

kefrom as fund~rof-400-quinmas edlied Middlesex, to reward road courtesy.

In Enfield,