| Main Performers | The Earl of Halifax (presiding),
Sir Stafford Cripps (Christian Action Oxford),
Miss Florence Hancock (chairman of the TUC),
Richard Sullivan KC (chairman of the Catholic Social Guild),
M Andre Philip (Socialist member of the French National Assembly),
M Maurice Schumann (member of the French National Assembly),
M August de Schryver (leader of the Christian Democrats in Belgium),
Herr Karl Arnold (Minister President of North Rhine-Westnhalia),
Dr Adolf Grimme (Minister of Education in Lower Saoxony),
Dr Egbert Emsen (general secretary of the Reformed Church in the Netherlands),
Baron Cari Hamilton (Governor-General of Ostergotland Sweden),
Archibishop of Canterbury,
Cardinal Archibishop of Westminster,
Moderator of the Free Church Council - speakers |
| Performance Notes | After a service at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, the congregation went to this meeting which aimed to make Christianity effective in everyday life.
"CRISIS OF THE WEST
That western Europe, together with those societies which derive their morals and politics from western Europe, is immersed in a social crisis as deep as that of Hellenic society in the fourth century BC is admitted by Conservatives and Socialists, by Protestants and Roman Catholics, by believers and unbelievers . At the meeting to be held tomorrow in the Albert Hall to demonstrate the support of the Christian community to the idea of western union the spokesman of the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Free Churces will have an opportunity to offer a diagnosis of the crisis..."
(The Times 24 April 1948) |