Basset's movement through Cells and Sodalities

AS one of the early members of the Cell Movement (1946) I was delighted to read Dora Turbin's letter, and to join her in paying tribute to the Movement's founder and early leader, Fr Bernard Basset.
Perhaps, however, she will allow me to say that the Cell Movement was never stopped by the bishops. True, there was a time when many of them seemed to feel there were enough Catholic bodies already. But the Cells managed to convince them that they had a unique role.
I haven't got the records by me, but I think it was around 1948 or 1949 when Fr Basset was appointed national chaplain to the Sodalities of Our Lady and he immediately set about amalgamating Cells and Sodalities under the name of the Sodality Cell Movement. Some 20 years later, the name was changed to Christian Life Movement (1968) or Christian Life Communities (1980) and it is under that name that they still exist.
Fr Ralph Eastwell SJ Middx