THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 25, 1941)
CHINA MAIL
DEWINDSOR HOUSE
THE PERSECUTION
!
IN POLAND
Cardinal Hinsley writes
a preface to a little book that tells the dreadful tale of the Nazi treat- ment of Roman Catholics in Poland. The book con- sists in the main of re- ports presented to the Pope by Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, and of Vatican broadcasts. Car- dinal Hinsley makes the true and interesting com- ment that the Nazi anta- gonism to morality
is
Christian illustrated
clearly in the Nazi ideas of honour. He gives two pertinent quotations. The new German "Allbuch," formerly Meyer's En- cyclopaedia, thus explains the meaning of that word:-
J
ATOR
THE WRONG CALIBRE.
"Trouble-Shooters.""
A man is honourable only if the idea of Ger- man honour is insepar- ably bound up with his whole being. The en- tire new German universe is based on this! new conception of honour. The Christian idea of charity is radically opposed this conception of honour as entertained by the German people. No set of men who had not made a mystical system of cruelty could have been guilty of the hideous crimes described in these pages. The Nazi aim is defined by the Pri- mate of Poland as "the systematic, and total des truction of the Catholic Church" in that country. Readers of this book will reason for our unexpected altera- wonder more than how
formed all those less publicised but none the less arduous duties which all destroyers perform and call routine,
A/E were coming in and then, suddenly, we were going out again. A flip of the wheel; just like that. One minute our to ship was one of a small party of Mr. Winston Churchill has stat-
destroyers bumping along at aed that the comfortable jog-trot through
continual hours of the steuming done by ships of the graying Atlantic swell, making Royal Navy during the course of our way home after a wearying this war stand as a record unsur- escort assignment; the next min- passed and unlikely to be sur- ute, all the ships had heeled over, passed. increased speed, left behind. thin. It often feels like that. If those We can well believe it. semi-circles of green water fleck- that build the ships and keep them one of a posse-beating it out into find none better than that impli- ed with white foam, and we were running need a tributo, they can the open ocean on business bent. cit in the faithful manner their We did not know for what rea- ships stand up to an ordeal by son we had turned. At first we water. thought we might have picked up There was one occasion I can that was not the explanation we battered destroyer
vouch for when an elderly and was in. the gave up thinking about it. What concerned us was the certainty.
French and bishops can urge the people of France to colla borate with the Power that strives by such methods to make itself supreme in Europe.
a U-boat, but once we were sure
that we were going out again and that we would not get ashore that
come. night, or for many a night to
*ashore
Later we learned. of tha
By John Allan May
some-
his dripping, at one and the same time, or so nearly so that it makes no difference. In a destroyer ha does not have much to laugh at except himself and his friends. But he has not much else to do, there being little time for recrea- tion and. less. space,
Strange to say) it can times be very boring out in the work, when each day finds Atlantic. Particularly on convoy. same ships in the same places on sea for all the ordinary sailor what might be, the same. patch. of| knows, and when days and dates lose their significance and time is divided merely into spells. of watch and sleep.
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