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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1949 Seventy-sixth Year. Price Threepence
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Before any Bill may be even may be introduced. TOKYO, Oct, 8.-Legalised abortion took more lives in oc- 1948, when the Occupation was On the cupied Japan during the first seven months of this year than in its third year. In May, 1949, proposed in the Japanese Diet, it Eugenics Protection Law, the the law was again revised, to be the Occupation must submitted to parheadquarters "felt in Hiroshima and Negasaki did together. the atomic bombs give more latitude for abortion liamentary division of govern- that it was not in a position to From January to July, inclu- fants in the womb is authorised and to promote birth control. ment section of SCAP (Supreme say yes or no," I was informed sive, 93,863 abortions were per- by the twice revised Eugenics In each revision the law retain- Commander for the Allied Pow- by a GHQ officer. "The Bill The specific ed the Nazi -style sterilisation ers-General MacArthur and his was regarded as strictly formed with full legal sanction, Protection Law. a Japaccording to figures compiled by abortion clauses appeared in the clauses that were its main fea- headquarters.) No Bill or am- anese matter." the Japanese Ministry of Wel- revision passed by the Japanese ture when it was first enacted in endment of which this OccupaAs SCAP-especially its pub(Deaths resulting from Diet or Parliament in June, 1940. fare. tion office voices disapproval lic health and welfare sectionthe atomic bombing of Hirohas intervened actively and shima and Nagasaki in 1945 beneficially in innumerable totalled 88,367, according to the other Japanese matters, the Casualty U.S. Atomic Bomb principle that places this lethal Commission here.) law outside its scope is not clear. The record of legalised aborThe public health and welfare tions is admittedly incomplete. (By N.C.W.C. News Service.) At the end of the war he was section has taken long-range BONN, Sept. 29.-In Konrad The Welfare Ministry reportedto take measures to immediately proposed elevate medical ly estimates the total number as Adenauer, the German people over the direction of affairs in standards in Japan. The Eumore than 300,000 in the seven - have chosen one of the most disbadly bombed home town, genics Protection Law his is a tniguished Catholics of their month period. but, somehow, he, did not get major threat to these standards. aged to escape when the big This wholesale killing of in - country to be at the helm of the too well with the British along "purge" followed the attempt at new Western State. A lawyer occupation authorities. by profession, Dr. Adenauer has Hitler's life in 1944. In his first address as ChanDr. Adenauer has always proplayed a vital part in public life Adenauer found fessed his Catholic faith unre- cellor, Dr. for the past 30 years. Now 74 warm words of appreciation for years old, he is as vigorous as the help the Holy Father exmany a younger man. Since tended to the German people 1917, and for an uninterrupted since the war. He thanked the ROME, Sept. 30 (NC).-The period of 16 years, he has been German Association of Catholic Central LONDON, Oct. 8 (NC).-News Mayor of Cologne, often called Committee for the Holy Charities, too, for all they had Year here of the atomic explosion in Rus- the "German Rome," the has issued instrucgreat done to alleviate the suffering. tions sia has re -opened in the "Ca- metropolis of the Rhine, whose for foreign pilgrims reSeven of 13 members of the garding passports, tholic Times" the controversy spectacular rise in the 'twenidentification, new Cabinet are Catholics. Nev- and on whether the use of the atomic ties was due primarily to his of sojourn in ertheless, Dr. Adenauer will not Romedeclaration bomb in war can be justified. initiative and ability. to the police. The inFor alhave easy sailing, for his gov- structions The paper poses two leading most the same length of time, say that all foreign he ernment is beset not only by the questions: presided over the pre -Nazi violent opposition of the Social- pilgrims travelling in groups are "Will any country set up a Council of State of Prussia ists, whose policies remain fun- exempted from making a dedefinite moral standard which had considerable influence and except for the head of in damentally as anti -Church as claration, will be adhered to no matter national affairs as one of the group, under the following they always have been, but also each what the temptation or provo- most prominent members of the conditions: by many a divergence of views cation to do otherwise? Will any now defunct Catholic Centre (1) The name of each particiwithin his own party, which pant country subordinate its military Party. often is split into a right and a ed in a group must be includstandards to a definite moral When the Nazis came to left wing, as was the Catholic the in a collective passport, and standard? power in 1g33, it was a foregone head of the group must carry Centre Party before the Nazi "In a world in which material conclusion that Dr. Adenauer period. However, Dr. Adenauer a personal passport. standards are valued above spir- would be persona non grata. He (2) Each foreign pilgrim inis a man of unusual skill and itual ohes, we fear that few had been too outspoken against great political experience. No cluded in the collective passport countries will be prepared to act them, and he was not a man to must, in addition, possess some Fear compromise his Catholic convic- servedly. He is a close friend doubt, his faith will guide him acceptable identification from from spiritual motives. may prevent the use of the tions. The new rulers deposed of His Eminence Josef Cardinal in weathering many a storm. Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, Almost one-third of the mem- his own country. bomb, fear of reprisals. But no him from office and even banned and regarded by all mem- bership of the new West Ger(3) As a pilgrim enters Italy country, probably, will ban its him from his native Cologne. bershighly Bureau ,of Frontier Police use because such use would be Later on, the Gestapo arrested He isof the German Hierarchy. man Parliament consists of Ca- the said to be a daily com- tholics, some of them not be- will place upon the official idenmorally wrong." him twice, and he barely man - municant. longing to Dr. Adenauer's party. tification document the followThe "Catholic Times" mening stamp: "Valid for declarations questions put by American tion of sojourn to police." journalists to the American Na(4) Each Italian Consul tional Security Council and so abroad, in granting the entrance Two of the far unanswered. visa to Italy, will send back to questions are: the Bureau of Frontier Police a Is the objective the total de"The best tribute I got from list of foreign pilgrims included struction of the enemy by the BARCELONA, Spain, Oct. 6. in the collective passport and an employer was that before annihilation of its population Franco there was always strife -Eight United States Congress- will give to the head of the and the obliteration of its cities? and hunger, but now there was men visited the monastery of the group three certified copies of Virgin of Montserrat here, where this list. Or is it to bring about an early LONDON, Oct. 6 (NC).-Ber- peace and bread... ." surrender by achieving interme- nard Sullivan, noted Catholic Two of Mr. Sullivan's final the superior showed them the (5) The head of each group diate objectives, such as the par- trade union leader and vice- comments sum up his view of celebrated statue. will dispose of these three copies alysing of the enemy's transport chairman of the London County the political situation: Representatives Eugene J. in the following manner: One to and the cutting off of vital war Council, who has just returned ' "The view throughout Spain Keogh, of New York, and Wil- the Bureau of Frontier Police on supplies? from a three-week tour of is that Franco has set up an or- liam J. Green, of Pennsylvania, entrance; the second to police If obliteration of cities is the Spain, writes in the "Catholic ganisation that would be capable both.Catholics, prayed at the authorities in making the deobjective, says the paper, "we Herald" here: of forming the basis of a new feet of the statue. claration of sojourn in Rome do not hesitate to say that it "There seems to have been a government. Several Congressmen express- (obligatory for the head of the would be in itself an immoral transfer to the workers of "There is no sign that an- ed themselves unofficially as group), and the third copy, use of atomic power. If atomic wealth, which has given them an other political party to govern favouring United States econo- carrying the stamp of the Police bombing could be restricted to air of independence and con- Spain is emerging, but the Syn- mic aid to Spain. "It is ab- at the Frontier of entrance, will the objectives suggested in the fidence in the future, while their dicates are a force that may surd not to extend credit to be given to the Police at the second question, the charge of participation in the building of modify the present totalitarian Spain while we do grant it to Frontier of departure when unjust means might be avoid - workers' homes and hospitals, political party which is the pre- other countries," Mr. Richards leaving Italy. and the welfare serviceS they sent Government of Spain." said, help to manage, is giving them an experience that will fit them day to share in a demo"Alarming" Influence one cratic government of their own LONDON, Oct. 8 (NC).-Ac- country." cording to reliable Polish inforMr. Sullivan, a staunch Labmants here, the Communists in our supporter, admits it was VATICAN CITY, Oct. 8 (NC). Year three have certain dates: LONDON, Oct. 6 (NC).-By Poland are becoming increas- "with certain prejudices" that he -A series of canonisation and Blessed Maria Goretti, Italian subscribing each week from ingly anxious about the attitude accepted the invitation by the beatification dates during the martyr of chastity, May 7; their wages one shilling, 35,000 of most Polish students to Com- Spanish Syndicates to visit the Holy Year has been announced Blessed Vincensa Gerosa, coUkrainians now living here have munism and to Russia. country and investigate at first in "Osservatore Romano," Vati- founder of the Sisters of Char- collected £.10,000, and have One Communist leader, says hand the conditions obtaining can City daily. The beatifica- ity of Lovere, May 18; and a 30 -room house near this informant, has discovered there. tions will take place in the early Blessed Joan of Valois, one time bought Godalming, Surrey, which they with horror that in Cracow Uni"I questioned both workers and latter months of '1950, while Queen of France, May 28. to use as a home for versity 428 students are study- and directors," he says, "about the canonisation ceremonies will Others whose canonisation is are Ukrainian war -injured. ing English, while only nine are the industrial organisations be held in the early summer considered likely here during Eighty per cent of the Ukrainstudying Russian. the Holy Year but whose dates known as Syndicates. There months, the paper says. Other statistics show that out are no trades unions in Spain The early 1950 beatification have not been set are: Blesseds ians here are Catholics, and they will have in the house a chapel, dates are: January 22, February Maria Claret, founder of the of 2,768 students of the human- similar to the British type. istic faculty in Cracow, 222 are "Throughout my visit I al- 5 and 19, and March 5 and 19. Missionary Sons of the Immacu- where Mass will be celebrated members S of the Communist - ways asked the workers and the Who will be beatified on these late Heart of Mary; Vincenzo in the Byzantine Rite. dominated Students' Union, but employers separately for their dates was not announced, nor Maria Strambi, former Passionand Published only four actually belong to the views of the Syndicates, and the exact dates for the late 1950 ist Bishop of Macerata and Tol- Printed by Keith Francis Spruhan, at party. On the other hand, the everywhere found the workers beatifications given. entino, Italy; Maria Guglielma "The Reeord" Office, 450 Hay Among the Blesseds who will Emilia de Rodat, foundress of sodalities have an "alarming" more enthusiastic than the emStreet, Perth. ployers. be canonised during the Holy the Sisters of the Holy Family influence.
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