ISSUE CLEAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1940, Page 4

ISSUE CLEAR

CARDINAL HINSLEY DENOUNCES FASCISM BREAK WITH CHRISTIAN CIVILISATION. RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL PERSECUTION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. June 11. Cardinal Hinsley in a statement said: “The leaders of Fascism have dropped the disguise of temporising with religion. They have broken with Christian civilisation. The issue is now clear. Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII denounced their paganism. There is no longer any possibility of a modus viviendi with open enemy of the faith of the majority of the Italian people. ’“Fascism has become radical Nazism committed to pillage, to grasp, to dominate and to enslave. Whatever the merits of the Allied cause may be, their victory will secure freedom for mariy nations and end the Nazi system of religious and racial persecution and general paganism.

“I appeal earnestly for prayers for the Pope, who is placing in an agonising position as father of the faithful and the Pope of peace.”

STRICT BLACK=OUT PRECAUTIONS IN VATICAN. VIRTUAL CURFEW IMPOSED. VATICAN CITY, June 11. A strict black-out has been imposed and the Pope’s and the Papal Secretary’s windows are darkened. A virtual curfew has been imposed on the residents of the Vatican, who are not allowed out except by permit. Priests and monks continue filling sandbags for the protection of church treasures. The Vatican fire brigade is drilling.