archiepiscopate. Garbett's trip to Moscow in September 1943, at the invitation of the Moscow Patriarchate, was greeted by the newly installed Moscow Patriarch Sergiy (Stragorodskiy), was used by Joseph Stalin's propaganda machine to spread falsehoods about religious freedom in the USSR: on 24 September, the New York Times quoted Garbett as stating that "he was convinced that there was the fullest freedom of worship in the Soviet Union". However, during the Cold War, Garbett denounced communism as un-Christian and actively supported the British government line. On 17 April 1944, Garbett appeared on the cover of Time magazine after he had been persuaded by the British Ministry of Information to go to the United States to discuss religious freedom in Russia. During this visit, he said that "Marshal Stalin, being a great statesman, has recognised the power of religion." Garbett's visit to Dublin, where he met President de Valera, was considered significant. Garbett sat in the House of Lords for many years as a Lord Spiritual and, as an erastian, he took his duties very seriously. In a notable statement made to the House of Lords in 1942, Garbett denounced Nazi Germany's extermination of Polish Jews, calling it "the deliberate and cold-blooded massacre of a nation." On his retirement, Garbett was offered and accepted a hereditary barony, but he died before this could be legally created. Final years Garbett continued to work into his late seventies, which eventually took its toll. He baptised Princess Anne, the second child and only daughter of the Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh (later Elizabeth II) and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 21 October 1950 in the Music Room at Buckingham Palace. In 1953, he established The Queen's School in Jamaica in dedication to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. On his eightieth birthday, 6 February 1955, he retired from active ministry and was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. Later that year, he underwent surgery and spent the last months of his life in a convalescent home where he continued to write and correspond until his death, on 31 December 1955. Selected works Amongst those he wrote: Trilogy: Vol. I, The Claims of the Church of England (1947); Vol. II, Church and State (1950); Vol. III, In an Age of Revolution (1952) References External links 1875 births 1955 deaths Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon People from Tongham Members of the Privy Council