Bishop George Bell

Contents: Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd & Rt Hon. Dr Rowan Williams - Foreword by the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, the Very Revd Christopher Lewis - House of Lords Speeches: Refugee Problems - Peace Mediation - The Fifth Column - Germany and the Hitlerite State - German Atrocities - International Relations after the War - Agricultural Policy - Bombing Policy - Europe Relief Problems - The Moral Revival of Europe - War Memorials - World Organization for Peace - World State - Economic Situation in Germany - Employment of Prisoners of War - Displaced Persons - Let Europe be Envisaged as a Whole - The Work of UNESCO - German War Crimes Trials - German Prisoners in Russia - The Schuman Plan - How to Meet the Strategy of Post-war Totalitarianism? - Persecution of Religion in Communist States - Total War, Just War, the Use of the Atomic Bomb - On German Unity - The Importance of the Building of New Houses - Central African Federation - University Education - The Reform of the Constitution of the House of Lords - Retirement of the Bishop of Chichester - Farewell Speech: Developments Hostile to Religious Liberty in Eastern Germany - Correspondence with Rudolf Hess - German Text of Letters from Rudolf Hess to Bishop George Bell.

The Editor: Peter Raina read Modern History at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and Theology at Clare Hall, Cambridge. He received his M.A. from Clark University, Worcester, Mass. (USA), and his D.Phil. from the University of Warsaw. He has been a Research Fellow at the Osteuropa-Institut of the Free University Berlin; a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, Faculty of History, Cambridge University, and at the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science; Senior Research Associate, Balliol College, Oxford; and Senior Common Room member, Christ Church, Oxford. He is the author of a number of books concerning European history and politics.