Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Copies of the eloquent pastoral letter (TIME, Sept. 21) of Archbishop Jules Geraud Saliège of Toulouse passed from pocket to pocket. In Lyon, Pierre Cardinal Gerlier repeatedly protested mass deportations, and a "Christian Amity" group preached tolerance for all. Laval ordered Father Chaillet, leader of the group, interned in a fixed residence at Privas...
...editor, long active in the French underground. Once bitter political enemies, both men were mentioned in dispatches during the battle of France; now they were pledged to work side by side with General Charles de Gaulle. Their common aim: the liberation of a France that (in the words of Archbishop Saliège) once preserved "traditional respect for the human individual" in "the conscience of all her children...
Vichy's continued surrender of Jews to the Nazis last week brought forth one of the war's most eloquent documents-a brief pastoral letter from Jules Géraud Saliège, the semiparalyzed Archbishop of Toulouse. Said the Archbishop in full...
Promptly Vichy forbade publication of the letter. It was too late. The Archbishop's denunciation had already been read in hundreds of pulpits. Underground it was sweeping through France...
Last week other church statesmen testified to this need in moving words. Cried the Anglican Bishop of Chichester in a transatlantic broadcast: "We must have a faith equal to that of the Nazis or we shall not win." Said the new Archbishop of Canterbury in a letter to the London Times: "To many of us it seems that what is needed is not a new political device, but a new temper of mind and a new spiritual approach." John Foster Dulles and Walter Van Kirk, chairman and secretary, respectively, of the Federal Council's Commission to Study the Bases...