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SIR,—Mr. Hugh Montefiore, in saying that the Lambeth Conference of

1948 'hedged' on the issue of the Church of South India, has sul'ely overlooked the very definite statement in the published com- mittee report (Part 11: p. 47): 'We find that no one of us desires to condemn outright or to declare invalid the episcopally consecrated and ordained ministry of the Church of South India.'

Thus the endorsement of the principle was, apparently, unanimous. The only disagreement (which might be called 'hedging') was about the best method of giving it practical inolementation.—Yours 193 Sussex Gardens, W2