Religion: 400-Year Advance

Britain advanced further towards practical interfaith cooperation in the last fortnight than any other nation has in the last 400 years." Between Sept. 23 and Sept. 30 British churchmen:

> Formed a unique Council of Christians and Jews whose joint presidents are Britain's five top-ranking ecclesiastics—the Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican), the Moderator of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian), the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council (Nonconformist), Arthur Cardinal Kinsley (Roman Catholic Primate of England), and Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz of the British Empire. Only remotely similar organization is America's National...

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