Footnote

Last week one of Manhattan's leading Protestant clergymen added an interesting footnote to Bishop J. Francis A. Mclntyre's recent address in which he called anti-Semitism "a stuffed wolf" set up "by paid publicity agents" (TIME, March 20). In Metropolitan Church Life, weekly paper of the Greater New York Federation of Churches, General Secretary Robert W. Searle reported:

"Early in the summer I called upon Bishop Mclntyre. I suggested to him that the interracial situation and the juvenile situation in New York were so serious as to challenge religious forces to take the initiative in bettering conditions. I asked him . . . if he would be willing to appoint three or four [Roman Catholic] representatives to meet with three or four whom the Federation might appoint in order to explore the possibility of cooperative action.

"My suggestion was rather curtly rebuffed with the reply-- 'How can we cooperate with you? There is not a single Protestant minister in New York who believes that Christ is God!' To my question as to how many Protestant ministers he knew he answered--'None.'

"I am convinced that Bishop Mclntyre does not represent the spirit of New York's Roman Catholicism, but, unfortunately he is in a position to block the cooperation which the community desperately needs."

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