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In concrete situaHELP TO CITIZENSHIP. mon good. ROME, August 16.-His EminWhen Mr. Churchill spoke at jective "historical" and the name ence Edward Cardinal Mooney, "We do not want a solution tions which tempt people to inArchbishop of Detroit, express- which is definitely contrary' to dulge in bitterness the American the Sikorski Historical Institute, of General Sikorski throws into of and sense fairness solidarity to supporting Sir John Anderson in relief the special transitional -day press interview ed in a the principles of American fairlaunching an appeal for a role that it fell to him to play. his firm conviction that the pro- ness and solidarity," he declar- should come to the fore." £ 50,000 endowment, he spoke in Because of his long residence in blem of Federal aid to educa- ed. Therefore, we ask only PROBLEM EPITOMISED. tion in the United States can be that which the Federal GovernThe entire problem is epitom- a building full of the trophies Paris as a political exile, he was and will be solved in a typical- ment can do in accordance with ised, he declared. in a cartoon and banners of the Polish For- singularly well -fitted for the ly American way. explicit decisions of the Supreme he would like to see posted on ces, not only from the last war, difficult, essential task that fell The Cardinal outlined his con- Court, and we want that for all every billboard in the United but back through the violent and to him in the three years beception of the American way by children of the United States." States for two weeks. The car- tragic history of Poland. This tween the fall of France and his stressing that the American "Traditionally, religion has toon shows two little friends is a spontaneous activity of an own death, just as the fateful character is above all practical, been recognised in America as standing by a roadside about old and deeply -rooted people- crisis deepened, and as the Soand the dominant feature of this a help to citizenship," Cardinal five miles from town on a win- that even in exile they cherish viet, after Stalingrad, began to character is that "we let the Mooney said. "Every great ter day with the snow a couple their archives and relics, and move stealthily and bodily forof ward, step by step, to seize and heart count." He added that American has appealed to reli- of feet high. A school bus paid are constantly thinking "the solutions we have found gion in support of good citizen- for by the fathers of both comes the past and the future as well strangle Poland's national life. for most of our problems have ship, and in the U.S.A. the ideal along and takes one of the little as of the present. This highly Mr. Churchill's presence was taken into account the human has always been co-operation in chums but refuses to take the developed sense is one of the all the more welcome to the great differences between men sympathy, which is dictated by the face of real differences. Poles because, by an oversight other because he is going to peoples; the Near East, for which we are sure he regrets, the heart as well as the head." "The American way is not to Saint Matthew's instead of the and instance, is full of history, but the second volume school. in public of his book us these divide let differences CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSALS. in the history-books, which makes "That is not America." he only mention of the imour devotion to our country, and has no effective life in the minds portant no Emphasising that he "wanted in the prosecution of the com- concluded. part which pilots and emotions of the people ac- played in the BattlePolish to be constructive in this inof Britain. tually living there. Because it He was the more welcome flammable problem," Cardinal still is one of the main tests of a when he spoke Mooney said: "I think that no uncompromispeople of high civilisation that ingly of to -day's realities religious body in the United in they are self-conscious, know land, and as an exponent of PoStates wants to dominate educathat who they are and what they gathering volume of tion for itself and to the disopinion stand for, no one in the future throughout the Western worldBut we advantage of others. can surely ever again slip into of the men who know do not want to make religion well such tragic superficialities as that the settlement of very handicapped. Nobody wants any1945 canthose which, four years ago, not endure in Central body else to pay for the religimade the Western statesmen Eastern Europe, and that and ous instruction of his children, the think they could devise a Govbut everybody ought to want all of so many nations ernment for Poland without tak- suppression American children to get a of Europe is something which, ing any account at all of the na- if it is acquiesced square deal. That principle in indefinitetional past or the religion of the ly, can only aggravate would dictate a sane and sound the danPoles. solution of the question as we gers to which what remains of The juxtaposition of the ad- Europe now lives exposed. look at it." Discussing the background of Federal aid to education in the U.S., the Cardinal said "on the State level there have been in-, iquities in the past in legislation affecting educaton. This is the LONDON, Aug. 12-(NC).-- chaplaincy. "What the seminfirst time in our history that the "The clergy can preach the Prin- I ary is in the training of the Federal Government has enterciples which underlie the well- clergy, a university chaplaincy see want to we ed this field and being of society; only the laity should be in regard to the laity. it enter with a fair deal for all are in a position to apply them," "It should enable students to our children." the Rev. Vincent Wilkin, S.J:, meet the problems of the day declared. from the store of Christian "It is on the Christian expert thought. It should aim at that the practical perfecting of ing not cloistered Catholicsformthe world depends," he added Catholics who are anxious but to in his annual report on the collaborate with their fellow citizens for the good of the State," 15.Aug. FRANKFURT, In a decorated case carnation the St. arm of Francis Xavier Heeding an insistent appeal of the Hierarchy, Catholic voters was taken on a procession through the streets of Nagasaki, Detonation Menaces of Germany have won a signal where it drew crowds as big as those attracted by the Emperor's visits. The Saint's arm is now to be taken through victory at their first free nathe United States. tional elections since 1933 by JERUSALEM, August 15.throwing their full support beHoly Places (Radio, NC).-The colourful supporting parties hind the ceremonies traditionally held JERUSALEM, Christian principles. Aug, 15.at the Shrine of the Dormi(Radio, NC).-At the protest of Due to their determined backtion on the Feast of the As- the French ministry here to Ising, the Christian Democratic sumption of the Blessed Vir- raeli authorities, the detonation Union has predominantly won gin were not observed this of three tons of explosives first place in the balloting that year. The shrine, which was ied near the walls of the burattracted nearly 80 per cent. of Old looted and damaged during City has been postponed for one the registered voters. The electhe Palestine warfare, still week. The detonation torate at the same time emhad been scheduled to take place on phatically rejected extremist VATICAN CITY, Aug. 20- The clear defeat of both ex- stands desolate. It is called the Shrine firm the a stand of Feast and took of the ideology Assumption, (NC).-The "victory of tradi- tremes-reviving nationalism on The explosives were placed on a revived nationalism, back- tional democracy" in the Ger- the one hand and Communism the Dormition, or "Falling ing leaders who favour a middle man elections of August 14 com- on the other-and "the precari- Asleep." because it is said to there during the Palestine warfare in Jewish attempt to breach of the road policy in the inter- pletes "the homogeneity of poli- ous proportion of the opposing mark the place where the national field. tical orientation and custom" in forces," make it necessary, "Os- Blessed Virgin "fell asleep" the walls of the Old City. The and was then taken up into explosives are now stated to be The severity of the Commun- Western Europe, and thus "seals servatore" argues, that "the first Heaven. the irremovable. by the common course for the des- voices raised in European counist defeat is indicated Great apprehension has been fact that but for the cumulative tiny of the Continent and even cils for the admission of Gerexpressed here about the results vote total credited to them on for the peace of the world," many not be allowed to reof the explosion. It is feared the national lists, they would not writes "Osservatore Romano," main without echo," and that that the Basilica of the Holy have carried a single district in The Vatican daily sees another "the road be opened and Sepulchre, only 400 yards away, the 11 states of Western Ger- aspect of the "special import- smoothed for the conclusion of many. BOMBAY, India, Aug. 15.- will suffer from the explosion, ance of these elections" in the the peace." "Much of this will depend on (NC).-Establishment of a mo- as well as numerous churches fact that they demonstrated the Lord Moncrieff, one of Bri- conviction of a majority of the the wisdom of the new (Ger- bile chapel, mounted on a motor and religious institutions even tain's leading legal figures and working class "that they can at- man) rulers, to whom the re- bus, has been proposed to cater closer by. The Mosque ,Omar, a well-known Catholic, has died tain their aims apart from the sults of the ballot box are an for the needs of seamen, conse- site of the old temple, is also bedemocracy' indication, an invitation and a quent on the closing of the Ca- lieved endangered. at his home in Edinburgh, Scot- 'Cominform - style The decision to postpone the "Osservatore" con- tholic Seamen's Club and Chapel land, at the age of 79. Receiv- which proclaims itself the only guide," tinues. "On all the men and at Balard Pier. The club and detonation came only hours beed into the Church 26 years ago, means toward that end." he retired in 1947, after holding In view of the fact that these parties called upon to share re- chapel were closed when gov- fore it was scheduled to take the post of Lord Justice Clerk, elections were completely free sponsibility, either on the gov- ernment authorities requisition- place. The inhabitants of Casa Nova pilgrimage home, various second highest judicial office in in every respect, "Osservatore" ernment benches or on those of ed the premises. convents and all private homes the country. He ranked as one writes, it can no longer be as- a democratic opposition, there by falls the duty of a reconstruc- necessary,' namely, that the es- in the area had already been of the ablest lawyers Scotland serted that the statements has produced. Particularly in- Communists in "progressive" re- tion on all sectors and spheres teem, confidence and friendship warned to evacuate to safety. of other countries are essential terested in the Newman Asso- gimes, despite their unanimity, of the nation. "In the face of this responsi- for both the life and uniV of the Printed and Published ciation, he arranged to have demonstrate that the working by Mass said in St. Mary's Cathe- class favours popular democracy bility, the various opinions must people within its own boundarKeith Francis Spruhan, at dral, Edinburgh, at the opening as the only means toward ac- not forget that 'one thing is ies and beyond, both near and "The Record" Office, 450 Hay of each legal year. hieving social justice. (( otatissued at loot seat wilting's) far.' Street, Perth.
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