ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS AND THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE
SIR,—Is it not my friend Canon Waddams who is making the wrong distinction? Differences of opinion and rarities of association create no confusion and are not in question. To develop his own illustration: if I were guilty of some form of criminal lawless- ness could I rightly protest against it affecting my standing in the British Council of Churches on the ground that what I had done was as secretary of the World Methodist Council? I know no such distinction in law or morals. There is a very old story I have seen quoted recently of a bishop who was also an army officer. He had used very unseemly language and protested that it was in his capacity as an officer. 'But,' came the reply. 'if the Devil gets the officer, what becomes of the bishop?'—Yours faithfully,
E. BENSON PERKINS
Secretary of the World Methodist Council 38 Belle Walk, Moseley, Birmingham, 13
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