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PRAGUE COMMUNISTS Sydney Floods
Defiant Sermon At Monastery
Prague, June 18,
Catholic Archbishop Josof Boran omerged from semi-captivity tonight and issued à doflant statement against the Communist Government about its attempt to gain control of the Church, ' The Archbishop told a big congregation in Strahov monastery: "I come to you and swear to you that I will never sign an agreement that violates the laws of the Church." Archbishop Beran has been under secret police surveillance for the past four days.
Police had manned the reception dask and tolophono switchboard and taken certain other positions inside the Palace since they raided its consistory on Tuesday and Wednesday and seized re- The Arch- cords and printing equipment.
bishop's mail was withheld and most callers turned away.
Today's was Archbishop Beran's Arst public statement in weeks and it hulicated that he has not
רנינו!
knew what he had to expect and that "the community would know what he could say to them." But hls
he added, he did stand moved from
not wish the Communist Govern- Strahov monastery to suffer on against the ment's proclaimed intention to his account. bring all Church education under control.
Archbishop Beran appeated—as Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary once did-to his followers not to
he believe
any "confession"
might soon make.
ap-
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Only One Catholicism
"One thing I will say," the Archbishop told his congregation, "It is possible that you will learn that I have concluded some agree- ment or that I gave my consent. Maybe you will hear it from morning till night on the wire- less.
In the congregation, which had Jammed the Chapel of Strahov Monastery for an hour before the Archbishop was to speak, women sobbed and crossed themselves as he talk
talked from the pulpit. The Archbishop's
Public pearance ended rumours that he is under house arrest in he Palace which the police look over three days ago. But he spoke as a man who is in danger because of the mounting conflict here be-
ween Church and State. The Archbishop had left his Palace for the first time since the police entered it three days ago, only one Catholicism, and without He delivered 25-minute ser-bishops no.
no. true Catholicism can mon, but devoted only the first exist." Where the bishops are, five minutes to his personal
there is the Church." plight.
"But here declare before God and the nation that I shall never conclude any agreement which would Infringe the rights of the Church or the Nothing and nobody Gishops.
force me to do that." At the end of the sermon on "Labour and the Euchariat," which followed this introduction, Archbishop Beran said: "There is
The sermon followed a prayer "You know how I would like offered by the Archbishop for the talk to you from here, but youth of today in danger of be I will not," he said. "I do not ing educated on anti-Christian
|
to
want you to be porzacuted. lines. He spoke of "Judas, whom do not know how often I will be not even the love of Christ could allowed to speak from the pulsave from treason" and prayed pit."
for priests committing the worst kind of treason for the sake of
No Agreement mammon and for temporary ad- As he uttered these words avantages. murmur ran through the crowd,
in
"Not all of them whose names and many crossed themselves. are published are really Archbishop Beran, speaking ener-agreement-many of them did not
and making gelically
numeroas even know about it," he said. gestures, wore gold and scar.. let jewelled Archbishop's hat. He had on a white and gold robe and carried a gold mi
mitre.
bis
The Archbishop, a very small figure, was received by the Abbot
of the monastery, Father Jarol-
mej, whose name had been pub-
shed as one of the priests join-
The Archbishop told the con- gregation that if one day, they ing in the appeal to the Bishops should hear of the conclusion of to come to an agreement with thu
/
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Tokyo, June 18. The "Kobe Shimbun" today published an unconfirmed report that Russia is training a "Libera- tion Army" of 300,000 Japanese in the Upper Volga valley. The paper quoted
who a Japanese
an agreement between the Church state-Associated Press, United and state from broadcasts or off-Press and Reuter. cial statements, they must knop that he would never conclude an agreement infringing the rights of the Church and its bishops,
The Archbishop was peaching a
In
the Corpus Ch
Christi sermon JA 'from Monastery, not for
the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry.
The sermon was announced a week ago in a notice posted up outside the church entrance. Cor- pus Christi Day would normally escaped from Communist North have fallen on Thursday last, but Korea.
He was reported to have ob- the celebrations were postponed
because the Lained his information from to the week-end
associate former official holiday for special close
of the North services and religious processions Korean President, Kim Il Sun. is now forbidden..
Informed American sources doubt Archbishop Beran opened his the reliability of the report- Bermon with the remark that he United Press.
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At least six have been drowned and nearly 1,000 sro homeless as a result of floods In North Sydney, one of the worst In the district's tory.
estimated
st Fifty
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Vatican City, June 18. The Archblahop of Prague. Monsignor Josef Beran, has pro- the Cze- tested in a letter choslovakia Minister of Educa- tion, Dr. A. Nejedly, against the atato police occupation of his of fices, it was learned here today.
The Archbishop also protested STORMY WEATHER
AHEAD FOR UK?
against the appointment of a re- presentative of the Education Ministry to control the episcopal administration.
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the
protext that
Dumbarton, June 18. Mr. Brendan Bracken, Con-
FLOODS SWEEPING POTOMAC VALLEY:
TOWNS ISOLATED
Potomburg, West Virginia, June 18. Thousands are reported homeless today as floods swept this valley region of the Potomac river, The crest of the flood came last night after tor-.
rential rains. New rains later dispelled the hope that the waters would recede. Unconfirmed reports said that almost 20 people are missing in the Petersburg region.
Allen Harvey, wald that the antire town is in a state of cons fusion and near hysteria. At Downpours yesterday drove tha
mid-morning, the water North and South branches of the still stood 34 metres
deep In Potomac over their
banks, isola- some parts of the town. It reach- entird
communities ting
anded a crest of 444 metres, Harvey sweeping away smaller dwellings, said. The police said that 111⁄2 centl- The torrential rains, following metres of rain fell in 24 hours.
a prolonged dry spell, swelled About 400 people were moved the waters of the dry river and out of the South side of Peters- the North fork of the Shenandoah burg as the water cut it off com“ | river 50 that they over gwed pletely. Moorefield, 40 kilometres and joined.
could North West
be entered Houses are reported inundated only by a roundabout way. The and swept
away. For several police
Inhabitants had to bo out electricity, telephone com-
muntention or drinking water- In the path of the waters of Reuter. the Northern branch was Cum- berland In Maryland, an "indus- trial community of about 40,000, and McCool in Maryland and Keyser in West Virginia, which face each other across the river, Near Hystoria
Bishops could issue a proclama-servative Minister of Information 1300 said some of the town's hours the entire town was with-
tion of an anti-national charac. in the war Cabinet, said tonight; evacuated.
authorities. he "Britain is ter against the
an alithering into sala.
economie blizzard of incalertible
Wo must But one could not speak of an magnitude.
prepare onti-national proclamation when against weather that will soon Bishops warn the priests and the turn very foul" faithful
the against
new committee, he "Catholle action”
wrote.
The official newspaper of Catholic Action, "Il Quotidiano," today praised Archbishop Beran of the spirit as a "true voice which may be broken but never bent in a country where freedom is trampled on and handcuffed," -Reuter und United-Press.
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