The Archive · 1928

A Man of Personality

Looking at him, you note most his eyes, searching, steady eyes; fringed so oddly at their outermost edges by dropping and shaggy brows, they seem almost to disconcert. " You look at the eyes of a man who, in any other walk of life, would still' have attained a mastership. Talk with him—and in that unc ai uily intimate way of his, he has you fascinated in an instant; awed and mentally subdued.

He has his orities, of course, and this mannerisms have sometimes been Honourable und Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, titular head, as Archbishop of Canterbury, of the Established Ghurch of Eng-and, is @ past master in the art of sophisticated adaptations, he some respects greater than any who have sat before him in his place. With his ascent to Archiepiseopal heights the dead hand of centuries was lifted off ecclesiastical affairs.

Randall Cantuar is a man of hazardous ideas with a genius for. their practical translation to matter-of-fact ends. His rafts of compromise and his adroitness in marshalling situations to the Church's best advantage has caused men of affairs to look upon him as an adroit statesman rather than as a great Churchman,

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