LETTER FROM ENGLAND
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do not appear to have a serious following. The Common Wealth
people have quarreled and split, but the main group is probably making
headway. There have been further signs of the growth of a left-wing
faction in the Church of England, which has had tendencies in this
clirection for some years past. These centre not, as one might expect
ill
the "modernists" but in the Anglo-Catholics, dogmatically the ex–
treme
"right wing" of the Church. The Church Times, which is more
or lese the official paper of the C. of E. (enormous circulation in country
ricarages), has for some years past been a mildly leftwing paper and
politically quite intelligent. Parts of the Roman Catholic press have
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more markedly pro-Fascist since the Darlan affair. There is evi–
cleatly a split in the Catholic intelligentsia over the whole question of
Fuc:iam,
and they have been attacking one another in public in a way
they
usually avoid doing. There is still anti-semitism, but no sign that
it
ia
growing. Our food is much as usual. The Christmas puddings, my
due
to the shipping situation, were about the same colour as last year.
It
ia
getting hard to live with prices and taxes as they now are, and
what
between long working-hours and then fire-watching, the Home
Guard,
A.R.P. or what-not, one seems to have less and less spare time,
e.pecially as all journeys now are slow and uncomfortable. Good luck
for
1943.
Jaaary
3, 1943
