Religion: Bishops' Salaries

Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, recently gave up half his £9,000 ($36,000) salary. Tories who dislike His Grace for his leftish economic and social ideas were quick to point a scornful finger at this renunciation. Said Sir Herbert Williams in the House of Commons: "He has entered into a perfectly splendid arrangement . . . [he] will pay less taxation in the future. . . ."

To the High Church Archbishop's defense last week came Low Church Viscount Caldecote (Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip), England's Lord Chief Justice, a former Lord Chancellor. He noted that the financial arrangement between Dr. Garbett...

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