The Archbishop of Canterbury’s plan, announced last week, to save the Anglican Communion from an inevitable breach between Western liberals and conservatives in Africa has been described as a last throw of the dice. Making it work will severely test Justin Welby’s resolve Archbishop Justin Welby does not tend to speak in platitudes or persiflage but when he called religious affairs correspondents to Lambeth Palace for a briefing last week, his frankness about the future of the Anglican Communion,  of which he is the nominal leader, surprised them. Next January, he said, he will summon the 37 other primates of the international Church for a meeting in Canterbury at which the future shape of their relationship with each other will be discussed.If this in itself sounds anod