THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S courageous 'apology for his remarks about
Archbishop Makarios inevitablyproduced howls of rage from the most depraved sections of the press. Though 1 do not imagine Dr. Fisher has any' intention of resigning, the gathering of bishops at Lambeth would in any case have provoked commentators into'trying to spot his eventual successor. I am surprised that no one seems to have mentioned Max Warren, for sixteen years General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society. Dr. Warren has been behind much of the thinking that has preceded the Lambeth Conference. Immensely respected both inside and outside the Anglican Communion, he seems to tower above possible rivals. But then he has never 'taken purple,' although in his present cure he has a more re- sponsible job than most diocesans. In any case there is precedent for sending a mere priest to Canterbury. In the troubled and adventurous days of the Reformation Settlement, Elizabeth I had Matthew Parker consecrated Archbishop. Will Elizabeth II follow the example of her namesake? The Church is again in troubled times, but is it, 1-wonder,-sufficiently adventurous?
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