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THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1950.
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Dictator Abdullah Sheds Velvet Glove Violent Measures to Silence Inter-
In this connection it is recalled that Col. Abdullah Tel, former leader of Jordan forces in Jerusalem, was recently reported to have broken with the
King over the internationalization and other issues. He escaped to Egypt where he regards DAMASCUS, Syria, Feb. 23 (NC).-King Abdullah of himself as a "political refugee." Jordan has taken drastic measures to silence citizens of Jor- Jordan authorities have since dan -controlled Palestine favouring internationalisation of said that the Colonel's only Jerusalem, according to reports reaching here. reason for breaking with the King was his displeasure at not Some 400 people who expres- King, who is stubbornly oppo- receiving a promotion-an alsed jubilation at the passage of sed to internationalization, is legation called "ridiculous" by the internationalization measure said to have organized a special the Colonel. by the United Nations' General police force in Jordan-controlled Assembly last December have Palestine to ferret out and pubeen arrested in Bethelhem and nish leaders favoring internaBeit Jala, the reports state. The tionalization.
nationalisation Proponents.
Price Threepence,
COALMINERS RESENT VICTIMISATION.
Secularist Prejudice Vies With Comm. Tactics in Disturbing Industrial Peace. SYDNEY, Feb. 24 (NC).-Catholic coal miners in New South Wales, Australia's most populous State, are expressing strong indignation at what they regard as a grave injustice to themselves and their children. The coal industry in New South Wales is under the control of a Joint Coal Coal Board, created by arrangement between the Commonwealth and State Governments for the purpose of restoring industrial peace and increasing coal production. In order to make the miners Western and Southern fields. happier with their lot, the Joint Parks, playgrounds and recreaCoal Board has been providing tion halls have been provided. numerous new facilities in the State schools have been given principal towns of the Northern, film projectors and other educa-
tion aids. The Coal Board's policy, however, has been to refuse any aids for miners' childVATICAN AUTHORITIES CONTRADICT ren attending Catholic schools. While the Labor Government was in power the Minister for Fuel, Senator W.P. Ashley, ILLNESS REPORT. GILBERT AND SULLIVAN MISSED THIS persistently backed the Coal VATICAN CITY, Feb. 25 (Radio, NC).-Various re- Board and refused to alter its ports concerning the health of His Holiness Pope Pius XII. policy. The Prime Minister, Joare labelled "fantastic" to -day in "Il Quotidiano," Catholic seph B. Chifley, received a deFrench Gain Red -Tape Championship. Action newspaper of Rome. At the same time Vatican au- putation of Catholic miners in a most sympathetic manner, but PARIS, Feb. 25 (NC).-French Catholics, like those of thorities have issued a firm denial of a Washington secular no tangible other countries, have intensified their efforts to obtain Gov- press report. quoting British Broadcasting Company news- interview. results followed the ernment subsidies for the maintenance of Catholic schools. casters, that the Holy Father is gravely ill with a sclerosis Recently another new kindThere are several provinces in France, such as the Vendee, condition similar to that suffered by King George VI. last ergarten and infants' school was Anjou, and some parts of Brittany, where a great majority year. opened at Wollongong, in the Southern coal fields, and the of children attend religious schools conducted without aid 11 Quotidiano declares that parish priest, the Rev. John J. from public funds. On the other hand, there is also in each everybody knows that the Holy Mulheren, bitterly attacked the of the villages a public school, attended sometimes by only Father some weeks ago :uffered Warns Against Race Joint Coal Board's policy. on his left ankle, and a sprain two or three pupils, and supported by the Government. Catholic miners have intimathe cure of this injury has The mayor and the municipal that A characteristic incident octed that, following the defeat of impeded simply because curred recently in the county of council renewed their efforts to been the Labor Government at the the Pope refused to stay off his Montfaucon - sur - Loire which have the government close this foot for several days and conA warning to Australians that recent elections, another depubrought about the resignation of school and when they failed, tinued working during treat- they must guard against racial tation would proceed to Canbereleven mayors and their muni- they submitted their resignation ments. prejudice was given by Bishop ra in an effort to secure justice from office. Eleven other municipal councillors. A well-informed Vatican pre- Stewart when he was speaking from the new Minister for Fuel, The public school in the vil- cipalities followed suit. Holy at the Bendigo Apex Club's Senator George McLeay, In their collective letter to late said today that the lage of Longeron has been had turned his ankle in goodwill dinner on February 9. Father the prefect, they declared: "We maintained for three years for Many new arrivals would be alighting from a car after his one single pupil whose family have exhausted all reasonable daily visit to the Vatican gard- coming into this country and a lives on a farm at some dis- means for a conciliatory set- ens and that continued use of danger would arise if we did U.S.-SPANISH TIES. tance from the village. It costs tlement of this problem. To the foot had, of course, retard- not treat them properly, his MADRID, Feb. 11. the government 400,000 Francs maintain an institution for a ed improvement of it. Lordship said. The a year to maintain this school single pupil seems to us, in view There must be an end to Spanish people have no difThe same prelate further staof the present financial difficuland the community has to carry differences. We must think ferences of any kind with the that there is nothing absolu- racial a sizeable part of this expense. ties, an irritating abuse, against ted other people and what could American people, but on the wrong with the Pope's of In order to ease the financial which we deem it our duty to tely be done make them happy. contrary, have many points of It is with this in mind health, except a slight huskiness The waystowere burden of the community w:th- protest. many in which common interest, Generalissimo voice lingering after a recent other people could out disrespect for the relig- that we have resigned our du- of be made Francisco Franco told twenty attack of influenza. ious beliefs of the family in- ties." much happier. Undoubtedly the American newspapermen. Far from having differences, volved, the mayor, Mr. Mulliez, happiest men in the world were offered to buy for the child a the Generalissimo pointed out, those trying to help others. bicycle out of community funds, Australians had the oppor- Spain, by reason of discovery, of EINSTEIN'S GREATEST DISCOVERY. which would enable the pupil tunity of fostering international blood and of religion, has many to attend the public school in a goodwill by helping the new ar- ties with many countries of neighboring village, no farther rivals. They were seeking assis- America. He said he hoped the away from the farm than the tance and it would not be long journalists would return often Scientists Have Abandoned Materialism. before they were absorbed in and that many Americans would village of Longeron. come to visit Spain. the way of our life. The child's parents, on the Evidence that advanced scien"The unvarying rate at which advice of advocates of the se- tific thought, which for almost uranium expends its nuclear parate school system, refused a century tended toward a ma- energies and the absence of any WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER. this offer. The mayor then of- terialistic explanation of the natural process leading to its Modern man willingly affects independent and imfered to provide the child with universe, is beginning to return formation indicate that all the pudent attitudes. For the most part these attitudes are free automobile transportation to the knowledge possessed all uranium on earth must have every day to and from school. the while by religious thinkers come into existence at one spebut a veneer covering poor little empty beings with The family again turned down is given in a new book, "The cific time ... minds too feeble to unmask lies, with souls too weak to this offer. resist the violence of those who are clever at launchUniverse and Dr. Einstein," by "So all the evidence that Lincoln Bennett (Wm. Sloane points to the ultimate annihilaing all the resources of modern science, all the refined Associates), to which Dr. Albert tion of the universe points just art of persuasion to rob them of their liberty and to Einstein has given approval. as definitely to its inception fixed render them frail "reeds shaken by the wind" (Matt. 11, Hard Re!ax. The book, containing many in time." 7). statements that sound revoluIt is being pointed out that Would one dare to state with assurance that the maKWEILIN, China, Feb. 23 tionary to the materialist but physicists in large numbers are jority of men are apt to judge and appreciate facts and (NC).-Chinese farmers think recall the oft -repeated assertions now inclined to see that there is trends at their true value, so that opinion is guided by Americans are uncivilised! of Catholic writers, indicates no clash between their findings reason?. . Instead of this, do we not see that this way The Rev. Irwin D. Nugent, that Einstein is not a materialist and basic religion. Biologists are -the only legitimate one-of judging men and things Maryknoll missioner from Dor- whose discoveries clash with re- slower in coming around, but according to clear rules and just principles is repudiatchester, Mass., found the poul- ligious dogma, but rather that the movement toward religion is ed as shackling spontaneity, while the impulses and retry farmers here convinced that the latest discoveries of science widespread enough that many actions of the senses, of instinct and passion, are honmaterialistic theories taught in Americans are at least barbar- conform with basic dogma. Among the statements to the past 80 years will soon be oured as the only "value of life?" Owing to this way ians when it comes to killing which Einstein gives approval regarded as obsolete, according of thinking, little remains of human reason and its force chickens. universe is are these: "If the to learned commentators. "In China," a farmer told of penetration into the deep labyrinth of reality. Wise down, and nature's Father Nugent, "we get the chic- running men no longer count. Only those remain whose vision (Dr. Einstein some years ago are proceeding in just ken intoxicated on a special rice processes does not go beyond their narrow specialisation, nor was widely quoted one direction, the .inescapable in the press wine before chopping off its infe;ence is that everything has when he denied the existence of above purely technical power. From these men we head. This relaxes the vic- a beginning: Somehow and some a personal God. Inasmuch as cannot, as a rule, expect the formation of public opinion, tim, making the meat more ten- time the cosmic processes were personality demands intelligence, nor steadfastness in the face of astute propaganda, der and more tasty when cook- started, the stellar fires ignited, this would mean that there which arrogates to itself the privilege of shaping public ed. and the whole vast pageant of would be no accounting for the opinion to its wrim. In this field, men of simple, up"In your country, the chicken the universe brought into being. existence of intelligence in men, right and clear Christian spirit, although mostly not is first chased around the yard "Most of the clues, moreover, since no effect ever exceeds its very learned, are their superiors by far.-From his mesby a man with a cleaver. How that have been discovered at the cause. Without divine intellisage to the Catholic Press Convention in Rome last can a chicken relax with a bar- inner and outer frontiers of gence, the intriciate order that barian running around after scientific cognition suggest a de- exists in the universe could not month. him to cut off his head?" finite time of creation. be explained,)
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