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PERTH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1944.
NO. 3.146.
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SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR.
Tope asks 'Who are Architects nF flew Order? Appeal to world not to sacrifice principles for temporary advantages hit Defence of Property is Not Defence of Capitalism gratitude Raising the Proletariat by Small
and Medium Holdings In the world broadcast of Pius XII. on the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the war in Europe, His Holiness uttered wise counsel on the problems of He stated once again the world reconstructicn after the present struggle. Church's principles regarding property, as opposed both to "total" socialism and to capitalism, and urged measures to redistribute wealth for the common of good. He also appealed for the efforts being made to create an effective "peace machinety,' and expressed hope for the return of refugees and prisoners to their homes.
foreign help to come, Those who have by the ravages of war in not been We readily acEurope should' help. knowledge the help given by the Allies, and we willingly appreciate the efforts We made by the Italian authorities. towards all who feel genuine have co-operated. Though we have not yet been able to obtain vessels for the provision of food or the transprt back to their homes of refugees, we are looking forward with confidence and hope, for we feel the awakening of a real sense of generosity, which has been bred by the exigencies and emergencies of war.
Prisoners and Refugees. There is nothing we all desire more
than the end of this war. In our Christmas message of 1939 we expressed the desire for effective machinery to preserve peace, without the faults
We are of the machinery of the past. genuinely appreciative of the efforts
that are being made towards the crea-
Meanwhile, tion of such machinery. let us think of all those prisoners of war who are particularly eager to see end unless private property is respect- the end of this war and return to their ed. homes from their loneliness and isolaRedistribution of Wealth. tion. And when once peace has been If private property is an obstacle to established, let it be one of our noblest the achievement of an equitable distri- tasks to see that those millions of reThe getting together in a brotherly bution of wealth, then the Govern- fugees and prisoners who have been spirit for the purpose of reconstruction ment may interfere and expropriate, forced to migrate to all parts of the is even a postulate of our conscience. but small and medium holdings of pro- world may return to their homes soon Who are to be the architects of the perty should be encouraged and condi- after peace. new order? Who will give it final tions should be made to prevail which shape? RAP. Report. give them the advantage enjoyed by Christian Ethics. The Australian Associated Press verbig business. If the world is to be preserved from sion from London, published in Satin, The Capitalist Evil. And it should not be said that tech- day evening's "Herald," was as folfalling from one extreme into another, On the other hand, the absolute nical progress should not preside over lows: the postulates of Christian ethics will have to be observed, And while we forms of private property cannot be progress, but should be made its ser"The fundamental rights of all peoThose who exer- vant. observe in general a spreading of the recognised either. ples must be upheld," said the Pope. property right over fierce unlimited cise war, a world, the the after There will be. Christian principles over "Christian civilisation must be the there is also the regrettable fact that without subordination to the common struggle for the kind of world the vari- foundation of all social life and morThe ous sides desire to achieve. here in Europe our heritage is forgot- good, the Church must condemn. ality for all members of the human We see on the one hand workers de- Christian world will have the arduous, ten or even repudiated. a of gaining the possibility prinprived of the that the of seeing repudiate task who noble, but Yet, even -those "There must be an elevation of the Christian heritage, nevertheless act in proper livelihood, while on the other ciples of equity and Christianity are proletariat (labouring classes) because The All Caembodied in the new order. accordance with it unconsciously and hand we see riches and luxury this is one of the moral principles of tholics and Christians the world over Christianity. are held back from improper and sin- former are throwing themselves into will, no doubt,.contribute to that task. ful action by the principles which, un- the arms of revolutionary and radical "The Church has always recognised doctrines, knowingly, they adhere to. private property, but it is true that The Position of Italy. In defending the principle of proproperty is the fruit of man's private to I appeal hour, important this In While our thoughts meet in broperty, the Church does not defend aball Christians and to non-Christians solutely the present state of affairs, it therly love those of the whole world, work. "The Church cannot recognise in priwho are at one with us in the desire does not defend the rich against the we should not turn away our attenvate property a false conception, such to preserve Christian ethics, never to The Church has, on the con- tion from the most immediate needs. poor. Property has not an sacrifice these principles for a tempor- trary, from the beginning, been the de- The consequences of the war 'have left as Capitalism. ary advantage, however great, nor for fender of the feeble and oppressed. It deep marks on Italy. and misery, un- unlimited right. a shifting combination. Property Rights. that property employment and need have reached has always insisted It is "Social policy in the future must alarming proportions in Italy. should be properly used. Property for the People. overpersonal property and encourof war protect If property were abandoned, what clear that the necessities This is especially true of those probut the needs of life age and guarantee the small, medium blems that refer to private property. could be the incentive to the 'workers ride everything, must also be met. No sterile accusa- property in agriculture, industry and to work hard and save? The public The raising of the level of the prolewill afford a remedy. No peo- commerce. tariat is one of the demands of Chris- authorities may perhaps wish to con- tionsthat "Private property must not be overhas suffered as the Italian peotianity. The promises of statesmen, tinue to control the means of produc- ple shadowed by general property, but rise entirely by its own however, have given rise to over -op- tion and to provide everything for ple have can no people rises that sits must be a part of it." timistic expectations, which drive the everybody with the lash of discipline, efforts, but waits for and (Continued on Page 13.) 'corkers into the arms of extremist pro- 'but this control cannot achieve its back in its despair At the beginning of the sixth year of the war, into which the spirit of violence has plunged us, it is only right that we sllould look for its causes and try to built up a new world in which a repetition of the tragedy is impossible.
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pagandists. who find their only hope in upheaval and violence. Leo XIII., in "Rerum Novarum," has established the principle that there must be the right of private property, which the Church has always recognised. It is not less certain that property is the fruit of labour of our hands. The true Christian cannot recognise as just any principle which denies the natural right of property, whether over consumption goods or over the means of production.
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