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AKRON (NC).-"Once we make mercy -killing lawful, soon we will be begging mercy for our very lives. For once we start taking human life, who is to say where to stop? No one's life would be safe, for the value of human life would be lost. We The new Apostolic D elegate to Australia, His Excellency the Most Rev. would simply be at the mercy of Paul Marella, D.D., S.T.D., J.U.D., arrived in Sydney by air from Tokyo last Monday those in control." week. He succeeds Archbishop Panico, now Apostolic Nuncio to Peru, as the The man who wrote these last year in answer to a PARIS, Feb. direct representative of the Holy Father in this country. Three Bishops and senior 12.-(NC).- words group of New York physicians General de Gaulle's secretary, members of the clergy welcomed His Excellency at the Kingsford Smith airport. Mlle. Elizabeth de Miribel, has who backed euthanasia, has been With them were Mr. J. Oldham, representing the Commonwealth Government, and entered the Carmelite Convent chosen "Outstanding Young of Christ the King at Nogent- Man of 1948" by the Akron JunMr. C. A. Kelly, representing the State Government. ior Chamber of Commerce. He sur-Marne, near Paris. is Vincent Kuakler, Grants Interview. gifts for the prisoners, Obviously, ing should be interested in reli"hopelessly Mlle. de Miribel was General His Excellency looked well the most appreciated gift would gion; they thought it was useful de Gaulle's secretary during the crippled" with arthritis and given up to but die food was impossible only for the dead. 27 years ago, now after his long and tiring trip, and be food, entire period of his leadership of the founder and president of When permission was finally Free France, which he adminissaid he was delighted to be in to buy. was He able to purchase a few granted for the celebration of tered from London. Australia. She reInterviewed by the "Catholic musical instruments, but never Mass by Japanese priests, Con- mained with him after he resufficient to fessions were supply the needs of turned specifically forbidto Paris in 1944 and beWeekly" after his arrival at the He then tried to den. The priests then asked the came head of the Provisional 1 Delegation, he spoke sadly of the prisoners. purchase the books, but censors men to recite an Act of Contri- Government of the French Rethe difficult years of his mission insisted each on reading copy, tion, gave a general public absolution after its liberation. in Japan. with the result that only two or and distributed Holy CommunIt was Mlle. de Miribel who High level Government policy three each week-sometimes none ion. typed the Geheral's famous apgave him freedom to visit P.O.W. at all-got through to the pri"Very Disheartening." peal from London in June, 1940, camps, but there was a big gap soners. "All my efforts to speak to the after the Nazis had occupied between the Government and the Marella Finairy, Archbishop prisoners and to move freely France, calling on all Frenchpolice and military officials rePAGES 8-9 left money at the prison camps among them were of little avail," men to carry on the war, sponsible for the camps. Thirty-three years old, Mlle. de in the hope that the men might said His Excellency. "At the Work for P.O.W. be able to purchase a few "ex- times my visits were arranged, Miribel is the daughter of a Archbishop Marella was in tras" from canteens, but when he most of the camp inmates were French general and the great- Handicap Action and editor of charge of the Vatican Prisoners returned to the camps weeks away at work. It was all very granddaughter of Marshal Mac- its monthly, "The Helm." Mahon, former President of of War Information Bureau in later he found most of the money disheartening for me." Mr. Kunkler came to tht award Japan. Not only did he have to intact, because so little was Archbishop Marela said that France. dinner in a special wheel chair, obtain lists of prisoners, he also available for purchase. his last duty before leaving for which is his only means of locoOn the spiritual side, Archbis- Australia was to visit theB.C.O.F. "and is extremely well kept. Re- motion. His fingers are so criphad to arrange for the despatch of messages from prisoners to hop Marella spent nearly two cemetery, about four miles from latives of the men buried there pled that he types and dials a years in negotiations for permis- Yokohama, to pray for the soils should find some consolatiOn in telephone with a pencil. A spetheir relatives overseas. Archbishop Marella said that sion to have Mass offered in the of the men buried there. the fact that their loved ones, cial device makes it possible for The Japanese the Holy Father provided him P.O.W. camps. "It is a beautiful spot," he said, though far from their native him to shave without using his the liv. that not could understand buy with large sums of money to hands, (Continued in next column) land, are not forgotten."
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Britain's White Paper Bishop Expresses Sympathy "Trial" Cardinal's On
PROTESTANT LEADERS GAOLED
LONDON, Feb. 15.-(Radio, NC).-Great Britain will issue a White Paperan official Government statement-on the case of Cardinal Mindszenty as soon as investigations have been completed, Minister of State, Hector McNeil, told the House of Commons. Speaking for Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Mr. McNeil also said: "Since the Hungarian Government has refused permission for an official British representative to attend the Cardinal 's trial, the British Minister in B udapest (Alexander Helm) has been unable to report his impressions first-hand.
"He has, however, reached a which firm conclusion, with Foreign Secretary Bevin agrees, that the proceedings had no resemblance to a fair trial in terms understood in this country, par ticularly since the entire resources of the State were used before and during the Cardinal's detention to create prejudice
Government is examining whether the trial violated the Anglo-Hungarian Treaty. Asked by Sir Henry Morris Jones, a of National Liberal member Parliament, whether the prisoner's demeanor could be explained by drugging, Mr. McNeil said: PROVIDENCE, R.I.-(NC). "I will confine myself to saying that certainly the Cardinal's was strange. The letter behaviour after his arrest and in was postmarked Hamburg, Geragainst him" most court compared surprising- many, and Mr. and Mrs. George Answering a questioner, Mr. ly with his behaviour before- W. Hindle, of this city, didn't McNeil explained that the Brit- hand." know anyone there. But they opened the envelope and out fell a small, soldier's crucifix. Their son, George, junr., had such a crucifix when he went off Another declares it safe VATICAN CITY, Feb. 15.- tion. He's a student at Pro(Radio, NC).-Four decrees of to proceed with the beatification to war. In August, 1944, the Sacred Congregation of Rites of Venerable Anna Marie Jav- vidence now. with 14 members of his infandealing with the canonisation ouhey, French foundress of the. try division, he was hemmed in and beatification of servants of Institute of Sisters of St. Josnear Metz by the Germans. Their God, have been published in "Os- eph of Cluny. servatore Romano," Vatican City The other two decrees discuss only way of escape was to swim daily, after they were read and the miracles proposed for the the Moselle Rives-so they strippromulgated in the presence of canonisations of Blessed Barto- ped off their clothes and did it, lomea Capitanio, Italian foun- That's when young George HinHis Holiness Pope Pius XII. One decree declares it safe to dress of the Institute of Sisters dle lost his crucifix. proceed with the canonisation of of Charity, and of Blessed Maria The letter came from Rudolf Blessed Joan of Valois, one-time Giuseppe. Rosello, Italian foun- Kindler, a German Catholic solQueen of France, and foundress dress of the Institute of Daugh. dier, who found the crucifix in of the Order of the Annuncia- ters of Our Lady of Mercy. George's clothes. ish
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WASHINGTON-(NC).-A statement expressing profound sympathy for the 15 Protestant Church leaders imprisoned by the Communists in Bulgaria, has been issued here by Archbishop John T. McNicholas, of Citrcirmati, chairman of the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference.
The prelate declared that religious leaders of all faiths behind the Iron Curtain 'who do not submit to the enslavement of Moscow must expect infamous defamation, persecution, exile and death," He declared that "no credence
whatever can be given to the alleged confessions of the imprisoned Protestant leaders in Bulgaria," for the "Communist courts know how to torture and to administer drugs that break down the physical and mental powers of their victims."
Alp's Name Honours Priest Son Receives
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y.-(NC).-The U.S. National Geographic Society has named the southern portion of the HALIFAX, NS-(NC). A Patagonian Andes the "De Agoer mother and her son, a priest, tint," played the leading roles in a Father De Agostini was the ceremony of profession at the Order of the Good Shepherd Con- first person ever to scale 12,300foot Mt St. Lawrence, the secvent here. Officiating was the Rev. Philip Dion, S.M., of St. ond highest peak in the PataJohn's University, Brooklyn, gonian Andes. On its summit, who administered the four vows on the boundary between Argenof the Good Shepherd Commun- tina and Chile, he placed a small ity to his mother. She is the statue of Mary Help of Chrisformer Mrs. Gertrude Dion, of tians. Boston, who has taken the name of Sister Mary of St. Vincent de Road safety means your safety. Paul.
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