On Tuesday it was announced that the Bishop of Manchester,
Dr. William Temple, will become Archbishop of York when the present Archbishop of York is translated to Canterbury. Dr. Temple is the son of the former Archbishop of Canterbury. We cannot call to mind another instance of father and son both being Arch- bishops. Dr. Temple was educated at Rugby, at which his father had been a famous Head-Master, and at Balliol, where his father had been a Fellow. He has been a Don at Oxford and Head-Master of Repton. He is an admir- able writer on theology and philosophy. As a politician he has sympathy with the Labour Party. He has specially interested himself in the Workers' Educational Association, and was one of the creators of the Life and Liberty Movement which opened the way to the Enabling Act and the National Church Assembly. His policy with regard to the Prayer Book is one with which we heartily concur. He wishes to avoid Disestablishment but thinks that it may be inevitable unless the Church is granted a higher degree of " spiritual freedom." He hopes that as the Church gradually reveals a greater capacity for self-discipline the State will give legal sanction to this liberty.
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