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IN

November

1940,

Pope can

Do It!

TN the autumn of 1917 things were looking black for the Allies.

The armies of the Kaiser were making a determined assault on the Western Front, which in a few months gathered in intensi- ty and almost gained its object.

At this time, when things were brightest for Germany, a clergy- man forced his way into the presence of the German Chan- cellor, Bothman-Hollweg, in spite of officialdom which tried to bar his way.

With high-pitched peremptory voice, the clergyman said, "I de- mand to see the Kaiser!"

The German Chancellor repli- ed. "Tho Kaiser is on the Western Front, leading his armies to victory. You cannot ace him."

By the Rev. W.

ROWLAND

JONES

VICAR OF DENTON,

`\ Manchester.

.....

He is a brave and daring man, caring nothing for personal risk. I shall never forget meeting him. It was far casier than meeting an English Bishop.

We stood-men, women and children of every nation--and the Pontiff, clothed simply in white, passed between us with a word and a touch.

man--the

· of human reason in the application of that code, his duly is clear.”

What then, would I do, if I were Pope? I would issue an order, and enforce it with all my authority, as well as with all the discipline available in the Church of which I was Hend, and the terms of that order would be as follows:

Since it is clear that justice and right in this struggle are on one side; since it is clear that the Dictator countries have violated the fundamental prin- ciples of Christ and of His Church.

their Church.

NEW WEAPONS

AT

SEA

by "Taffrail

(The Famous British

Naval Writor)

While warfare at sea has greatly changed. with the gradual march of science, it is the fact that no weapon yet in- vented has not eventual- ly been met by its Yet with the advent of each new weapon, its enthusiastic

antidote.

"I bid every Catholle in those offending countries to cease to fight and to cense to assist in any way the Immoral objects of the pagan Leaders of those countries; and moreover 1 'declare that failure to obey this Papal command shall - result in immediate excom- munication; I call upon my Bishops and clergy in all The clergyman instated.

countries. rigidly to enforce Then he spoke, and the crowd The cold retort came back, "If

this excommunication." you go, you will probably be pressed around him. It was all

What would be the effect? I supporters have not killed, as you will deserve to be." so homely and natural. I could

convinced that Catholics failed to predict the picture a street in Jerusalem am

In a week the He Found with the Master passing to and would obey it.

fro, or the Sea of Galilee, with power of Mussolini would be complete obsolescence of

broken, and in less than a month this or that. The Kaiser the crowds thronging.

at most the war would be What an opportunity this Onished.

Years ago, when rifled guns Within twenty-four hours, the

greatest of our

Catholica would choosd firing explosive shells were first Leadera possesses! between their tyrants and their invented, many people visualised Children and Adults Longkong Telegraph. clergyman was on his way to the

Western Front. Right into the religious

There are seven hundred million danger zone he went, without Christians in the world, and half Pope, between their nation and the disappearance of battleships. hesitation, until he found the

What happened was that the of them are Roman Catholics, I do not doubt how that choice design of battleships changed, Kaiser.

"I have come," he cried, "from under the leadership of this one would go. If the impossible the wooden sailing vessels giving Pope Benedict, to bid you end man.

Two qualities mark out the countries denied their Faith and way to armoured ships of iron the warl"

The Kaiser did not drive him Roman Catholic religion from all chose their nation, it would be and steel propelled by steam. It adherents give un- Calvary for the Catholic Church The introduction of moored away, but listened to his plea for others:

questioned loyalty to the Pope. but it would awaken in an un- mines and torpedoes, and, more peace.

Negotiations were actually They also value so much the imaginable Resurrection. recently, of submarines and air- Why is it that the Sovereign craft, were also predicted by started, and although they did privileges of their religion that

not not succeed, they at least showed they would sacrifice everything Pontiff does tako such their supporters to have 'rung what a far-reaching effect that else rather than be cut off from action? He has himself spoken the death knell of large surface bold act of the clergyman had, them.

in words just as clear as those vessels. The truth, of course, is These two characteristics of of Hilaire Belloc. What holds that the design of all dasses of The name of that clergyman?

the Roman Catholic religion put him back?. Cardinal Pacelli,

warships have changed to meet the unimagined power into the hands His present office in

Is it fear? I cannot believe it cach new menace to their exis- Church? Pope Pius XII, Bishop of one man-Pope Pius XII. No of such a man. Is it expediency? tence. of Rome, Prince of the Apostles. other religious Leader in the Caiaphas for expediency crucif-

In the war of 1914-18, in the My recent article, "If I were world has anything like such ed Christ, but I cannot believe fighting on land, the use of the Archbishop," produced some power.

that the Bishop who dared to tanks, gas and sundry other critical letters, but also

of face Kaiser Wilhelm would quail weapons introduced new methods enorious number of friendly Roman Catholicism have definite- before Adolf Hitler.

of warfare. For a few. weeks There can be only one reason. or months their users reaped the Many of these are from ly stated that members of their

faith can have only one side in The College of Cardinals-which advantage of surprise. But. Roman Catholics.

One aums up a suggestion this conflict, and that is the side is the House of Commons of the advantage was temporary. contained in many of them, in of Great Britain and her Allies. which the Pope is Prime Minie- When once their secrets became the following terse

Hilaire Belloc, in a pamphlet feris composed of seventy known both tanks and gas, ware Archbishop of Canterbury? entitled "The Catholic and the Bishops and Priests. Of that taken into use by the other side

asked what should number, thirty-one are Italians, and the necessary antidotes were. Why not Pope? Would to God war,"

be the attitude of the Catholic Only one is English,

invented. you were!"

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BEGINNING OF THE END?

the

THE. war in Europe and international interest in CO. American Presidential elections

have succeeded in overshadow ing the importance of the re markable situation which has developed during the past month in Chinn, The Japanese are on the retreat in and from a coun- try which they believed could be conquered so easily that they refused to take seriously the opposition until twelve months

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It may be premature to write down the wholesale withdrawals

of Japanese troops-from-Kwang- si and other parts of South China as a military reverse; possibly the movement has some ulterior motive, such as the use of these forces for striking at a new point. But the moral (and so far as the Japanese public are concerned, demoralis ing) effect cannot be overesti- mated; almost overnight the whole of the Kwangsi province has reverted to the Chinesc. And the implication is that this dramatic exodus is a blunt, con-

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"If I Were Pope"

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It is the same with "afth columin" activities and parachutists in this Can it be that this vast from Norway, Denmark, Holland, war Britain-having-learnt-lessons. Church which uses the magnifi- | Belgium and France, has already. By the side of the Pope I am a

cent word Catholic (it means taken the necessary precautions to pigmy-in intellect, in CX-

Universal) is not universal at all, resist a form of warfare which was perience, in ability. I am not of In closely reasoned phrase he but Italian? Can it be that this fully visualised a year ago. his Church, but I gladly pay him argues the matter out on moral vast Church which claims to be grounds, and comes emphatically above all the nations is only

novcity. Magnetic mincs this tribute:

He is a great man, and a to one conclusion.

the expression of one nationall- They were in existence in 1918. When. ty?

they were first inld in thin war, how humble follower of his Master. Although he is forced to live in

Can it be that there is one over. Britain was caught rather un- limo to the Vatican, his private apart

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anti- dotes have been invented, magnetic know what I would do if I were mines have lost much of their terror. Pope. I know, too what Peter would do. Above everything else, I know what Peter'a Lord and Master would do.

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"We are fighting this war," he says, "not only to chastise and break Ger- many's contempt for honour, but also to destroy an outrage upon our com- mon and European civilisa- tion.

"To a Catholic, possessed of a clear and universal code, moral and social, to a Catholic specially respectful

RALLIED COLONY

BEHIND DE GAULLE

By VICTOR SCHIFF,

Former "Daily Herald" Paris

Correspondent

One, a pupil of the French caused an enormous impression High School for Colonial Ad-among the coloured populations ministration, was Eboue,

devoted to France.

..

the

Submarines have been bereft of much of their

potency Digainst

mer- chantmen by running British trade in convoys protected by escort vessels provided with the detecting devises known as Asdics, and depth-charges for attacking the subraarines when located.

The fast German motor-torpedo boats known as "E" boats, the lineal descendants of the coastal motor- boals of the last war, are best coun- tered by destroyers. Essentially fine weather craft, they posses a nuisance value, tuo more.

108

the.

Nor has air power in this war shown itself to have any decisive For more than a quarter of a "My successor,

M. Georges effects upon the movement of fleets, century I completely lost touch Mandel, was so satisfied with squadrons, convoys and ships operat

within easy striking distance of Chiof part in rallying part of with him.

his services that he gave him German aerodromes. It is true that the French Empire to the causo Then, one day, I saw his name another promotion three years. losses have been inflicted, na they of General de Gaulle's Free in a list of colonial promotions. later as a Governor of the most have also by submarines and mines,

I asked the former Socialist important part of French Equa-bo ilable to attack. But it is

and that ships lying in harbour-may 'The debacle of the Japanese around Frenchmen, has been taken by Colonial Minister, M. Marius torial Africa, the Chad terri- true to say that sireract have pro- Ichong is certainly no voluntary a Negro.

Moutet, about him.

tory.t

vented the British Acet from carrying withdrawal; the story there is that

He is M. Eboue, Governor of "Yes, it is the former Paris So popular is M. Eboue among on ita normal functions. As is well- 1 Spitfire or Hurricane spirited, carefully trained Chinese Chad Colony, in French Equa- Rugby player, M. Moutet told the natives that his decision is

known

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troops are whipping the tired and torial Africa, and the first me.

likely to have tremendous reper of the oversea

zes trade

which brings in Jaded Japanese forces in open battle. Negro to attain the rank of "My attention was first drawn cussions throughout the French the food, the [raw, maiorials

and Governor in the French colonial to him by an English friend, a African Empire.?

munitions upon which the welfare of Two years of nerve-wracking, weary- ing guerilla warfare cannot but have service.

former governor of a British Its effects will be felt parti- the British nation and the prosecution of the war depend. This can only M. Eboue, acting jointly with colony,, who told me that when cularly in the Cameroons, the bo done by destroying or immobilising now the naval forces which threaten

British trade. the Chad military commandant, touring through French African former German colony,

any and Italy are

and Colonel Marchand, issued the possessions ho had met an ex-under French mandate,

'merchantmen Proclamation of solidarity with cremely clover and distinguished. The natives there are deter. While Germany a

colonial administrator who was mined to resist Gorman annexe-abroad in the wide oceans, British General de Gaulle,

ja Negro.

tion, for they remember the merchant ships continue to run. cruelty of their former rulers. That is the proof, If Repercussions,

proof, be needed, Thirty years ago I played in

that rialther, the German feet, nor the same Rugby team at the "I was so impressed by his The Chad colony is closely, German submarines, mines and air- Sporting Club Universitaire de intelligence that I promoted him connected with the Cameroons craft hos any new weapon, have France, In Paris, with two or to the rank of a Governor in the and with British Nigeria by prevented the full use of British Seh

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table!

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