Addressing the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Bishop of Winchester strongly assailed dictatorships. “The totalitarian State,” he declared, “finds channels for unscrupulous propaganda on behalf of Narrow, perverted nationalism. The Jews in Germany and Austria are suffering from persecution typical of medieval savagery at its worst.”
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