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CATHOLIC CHURCH DEFIED

Rome, July 17. Italian Communist The Teder. Palmiro Togliatti, today defied the Konian publicly -Catholic Church and witt--the of excommunication wp will never destroy Communism.

the Churen Toglial chargeti with using powers dragged "from the darkest ages of human his-

Joy."

"All these powers will not sure- ceed at all," he told a cheering vwd of some 2,500 Communist It Rome followers parked into Upatre.

Togliatt, Moscow-trained later of Italy's nearly 2,000,000 Party members, is the first important Coremunist leader to react pulific- ly to se historic excomununlea- tion order.

exommunication

not

rder

care"

Shouts of "We the greeted Torlatt's reference to the against announced last Wednesday- Associated Press

nalitat Communists

Ceremony On Belgian Frontier

Berlin, July 17.

Pope Pius XII told German Catholics today that all governments which shun faith in God are doomed to decay.

The Holy Father's special message to 650,000 Catholics of the Berlin diocese and the Russian zone avoided any reference to Communism, but it was liberally sprinkled with hints that anti-Church regimes are only possing events without permanence.

The cage was broadenst by Vatican radia for a Cinlden Jubilee celebration by the Berlin discese of the Pope's ordination into prie: thood 50 years ago.

As Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the present Pape served as Papal Nuneja to Berlin for years and was widely acquainted with Ger- in church circles,

Spenking in fluent German, the Pupes reculled in his message the prosperity and peace he once knew in Berlin.

"In the meantime." le So "your city has had to subunit the fate of Apocalyptic awfulnes and the shuddering horrors of war and destruction."

A Lesson

He urged German Catholles to view the ruins of war as a lesson. "Is it not like horrifying sign not to become absorbed in the values of this world?" he said. "There is only one lasting thing God and complete devotion to

The Pontiff added, however, that German Cathalles had withstood the Third Reich's disintegration all of all order and revaluation of morals and he said that the same faith in God would carry the Ger- mans through whatever iny ahead. The future still faces you, veiled and unseen," the Pope Hertain, July 17. said. "Put it into the hands of

God and adhere to Him. Jack Bearsall of Birmingham.

the first The destruction, the need and England commanded

alienation enter impoverishment, to British armoured enr Belgium as the spearhead of the and hatred they have accumu- Allied annies-just five years ago. Inted, all these things can be over

come only by men who believe with unswerving loyalty in the mercifulness and love of God,

Today, at the same spot on the edge of a cornfeld 500 yards from the French frontier, beneath a stone memorial column built by funds subscribed by Belgian men and women, Queeri Elizabeth, the Belgian Queen Mother, him as the representative of the British Army for her country's iberation. The Queen shook him by the hand.

thanked

the

the

Doomed To Decay "Communities and states may! seen to be fastened to the funda- ments of the world. If they are not based on faith in God, they are doomed to decay."

Socialist

Plan For Indo-China

Paris. July 17.

call on the A motion to United Nations Security-Coun- eil to settle the hostilities in Indo-China was placed before Congress the French Socialist lore tonight.

The mollan was submitted as part of a general resolution an French internal policy which the Congress is to consider tomorrow,

A delegate, M. Osear Rosenfeld, one-time editor of the Socialist organ, Le Populaire, said: “We want an end to the war in Indo- Chian, The Government's polley hus falled completely."

The main points made in the Socialist draft motion:

to end hostili- -Negotintions ties without the exclusion of any one (meaning Dr. Ho Chi Minh, the Vietminh leader.)

New Volcano On The Way Up

Although Indonaula doesn't..have to worry so much now about flying bullets they're keep

A new volcanic ing a wary eye on another potential headache which has appeared lately. Island is rising from the same spot in the sea between Java and Sumatra where Krakatau is- land blew itself and its 36,000 inhabitants to smithereens In 1883, They call the new Island Anak ("child of) Krakatau. Photo shows a young Central Javanese ploughman looking appre. hentively toward Merapi, a volcano from which a "glowing cloud" of hot gasen spewed in 1930, killing 1,800 and searing the countryside for miles. (AP Photo).

DEFIANT STAND BY CATHOLIC PRIESTS

Russia Still

2-The immediate objective Hopes For

must be a truce guaranteed by United Nations observera.

truce, the 3-Following the population of Vietnam should de- clue on what regime they want. free expression of based on the their will.

Jott

ultimate resource, 4.-"As un and because of the critical situat- growing up on the northern the draft frontier of Vietnam," motion says, "the Government is urged to bring the whole problem before the Security Council of the United Nations."

The wording of this motion may In the be somewhat modified course of a debate at the request of the of Socialist Members Cabinet who are attending the

The Pope extended the Aposto- Je blessing to the entire diocese' Queen Elizabeth unveiled

which embraced the four-power Congress-Reuter. memorial to members of the Bri-city of Berlin and parts of Soviet tish Liberation Army who died to

Brandenburg occupied

and from free Belgium

oppression, Pomerania. This was done in the presence of

He offered the blessing as "the Field-Marshal Montgomery, Gene pledge of divine help to you all." rat Sir Brlan Horrocks, formert Commander of the 3011 Corps and Sir George Rendel, Britain's Ambassador in Brussels. Reuter-j

DEATH SENTENCE IN LEBANON

the

Beirut, July 17. Military The

Tribunal Con demned 12 men to death here yes- +21 Lebanese terday for assault to:litary establishmente 10 post two weeks. The

Saed followers of Anipun "fuehrer" of the Syria Nation list Party in the Lebanon and who was recently executed for State activities,

men

Sardi,

Cardinal Konrad von Preysing. Archbishop of Berlin, declared a special "Catholic Day" and off- ciated at a religious rally in Ber- lin for the Pope's jubilee. Associated Press.

RED COMPOSERS PROTEST

The Hague, July 17.

Dutch Com- According to the munist Party paper, "Do Wear heid," the Soviet composers, Pro- kofiev and Shostakovitch, have cabled the Dutch Cinema Federa- anti-tion, protesting against the use of their music in the American fit

The about Soviet spies

Iron Ourtain."

The protest, according to the paper, said that Twentieth-Cen-

PLANE'S LOG RECOVERED

Bombay, July 17. A party of Indian aviation off- today cials and Dutch experts made a thorough examination of the "Valley of Death' near here where the Dutch KLM Constella- tlon alreraft crashed last Thurs- killed in day. Forty-five were the disaster.

Prague, July 17.

******** | Czech Catholic priests today defiantly rejected the Communist Government's demands that they desert Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran and the Vatican.

U.S. Crisis

Moscow, July 17. "Izvestia" today ridiculed the optimistic tone of Preal- dent Truman's economie r

Tast port

to the nation of Monday.

In an editorial commention the President's statements, a himself writer who signed "Observer" said that there in clear disagreement between the "gloomy" figures used by the President and his evalua

tion of tham.

"Observer" clelmad Mr.

minimleed Truman unemployment figures

"We stand foyally by our Bishops and our Archbi- shop in their fight and will continue to do so even if it means persecution," said a resolu- tion read in Prague's big St. Ignatius Church ot services this morning.

with frau- Government dulently misusing the names of many priests allegedly endorsing the Communist sponsored move-

"We hope our Catholic faithful the will do likewise,"

that the re- Churchmen said solution was also read at Masses elsewhere in Prague and in coun- try districts.

The priests who read

congregation

that

a packed

the

and

that he could not conceal the fact that an economic crials is rapidly approaching-A- sociated Press.

LUTHERAN BISHOP ATTACKED

The Leading newspaper in.

denounced many

ment,

signatures under pressure

that The claimed obtained werd it to

subterfuge in St. or

Ignatius called the resolution a leading questions. statement

the

majority

on

by using

mis-

some

the

**The of

faithful were in of the Czechoslovakia's Catholic clergy. cases misled by these fraudulent- a "proclamation ly obtained signatures of priests ife termed. It

Action lists," Catholic dictated solely by our own con- selences and not on orders from; resolution declares,

"So we now want to proclaim hierarchy." This. priest toit his congrega- that we cannot support this tion that the resolution was coliet Catholic Action because it. adopted on Saturday-only one is a schismatic movement. day after the Minister of Justice, "The Government has ignored Alexel Cepicka, had accused our protests on this matter. Archbishop Deron und his

Bishops of treason and claimed that no "patriotie" priest or lay- man supported the h

re-

own

Claim Rejected

will

"So we now proclaim from our consciences and not on Not only did the solution Berlin, July 17.

loyalty to the orders from the hierarchy, that Communist church hierarchy, but it necused vesland loyally by our Bishops

and and our Archbishop and Ger- the Government of deceit Eastern

Lutheran fraud in the establishment and continue to do so even if it means An official spokesman said that

at its separatist persecution for us. We hope our the plane's radio tcg-book, altl-Bishop Olto Dibellus of Berlin promotion

will do like- today as a "warmonger and Catholic Action Movement and Catholic faithful

of deliberately violating con-wise." meter, and speedometer had been

instrument of American ag-

stitutional guarantees of religious recovered in a five-hour search of the Powai Hills, seene

freedom.. pression." crash.

bitter

of

the

The log-book, although damag- by rain and mud, was stili legible, he added-Reuter.

Apparently presaging a

tween Communist and Church struggle in the Soviet zone be- "Neues cells, a ull page in Deutschland," Central organ of the Socialist Unity Communist Party, pro-was devoted to an attack on the

Ollawa, July 18. The court also sentenced three men to life knprisonment and 55

Canadian electric power others to gaol terms ranging from

May 4,271,000,000 three to 15 years for their part in tury Fox which produced the film, duction reached an all time high Bishop. the attacks. The defendants have had "stolen" the music. It asked in

Dutch Federation for pro- hours. That was five per forwarded belitions for mercy, to the the Lebanese President.-Uilled tection of their authors and com-'higher than May Associated Press," posers' rights-Router. Press.

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Fraudulent Action

The priests rejected the Gov. ernment's claim that the Catholic and hierarchy had sabotaged prevented a State-Church agree- ment..

have been against In same. Prague Churches] "We never the priests followed their worn State-Church agreement," their mone by leading their congre-resolution said, "but on Govern- gations in special prayera "forment terms it is impossible, kilowall

our Archbishop Beran and Dur; In a Whit Sunday pastoral letter, เคล cent Bishop

Popé Plus in Dibelius claimed

times." year month at the East German Com- munists were marshing down the same political patch as the Nazis did under Hitler.

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for religious freedom which are The priests resolution declared now being violated by the Gov

ernment itself that they oppose the Govern- The

Government-controlled He asserted the new people's ment-sponsored Catholic

press today praised the proposed police resembled the Gestopa, Movement at "schismats.

new church law as an "historic elections were rigged on a Nazi ie the same brand placed upon document proving whole-hearted pattern and tens thousands of that movement by Pope Plus Government support of religion," citizens had disappeared mysterland Archbishop Beran. ously.Associated Press.

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New Attacks

This was coupled with new Beran attacks on Archbishop and on the Vatican's' excom. munication decrea against millant Communists.

In the new church bill, which Parilu- will be placed before ment after its Summer adjourn-

Government ment, the

claims. for itself the right of prior ap

provoal on political grounds of any priest or higher church of- cials, control over religious educa- pervision of Church tion and supervision properties and Anances.

The Government also proposed to pay the salaries of all clergy- dignitaries of men and Church all denominations with Axed minimum wages plus. Do

plus bonuses. This, the controlled press said, was a generous gesture granting eecurity and Government support to the Churches as flever before. It also means, churchmen point

stranglehold control, now.

easily enforced because most of the Catholic churches. income-beating properties have been

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Belgrade, July 17.

In apparent expectation of an early end to the Greek civil war. the Tito Press, and buble OnDMIRER: cautioned today against the Co minforma campaigns, blaming Yugoslavia for the plight of thes rebel forcesAutoclated. ProNE.***