"I believe Christianity must seek a deliberate reconciliation with Communism . . . We come dangerously near to hypocrisy if we say our system of capitalism is compatible with Christianity and Communism is not." Thus spoke the Rev. William Howard Melish in a nationwide broadcast.
For years, blond, spectacled Episcopalian Melish, 37, has been suiting his actions to his far-leftish words. He is chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and has beaten the drum for many another Communist-line cause. As associate rector of Brooklyn's Church of the Holy Trinity, he has had a sympathetic boss—his father, the Rev. John Howard...
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