Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Roman Catholic Archbishop Spellman got back to the U.S. last August from a 46,000-mile visit to 34 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, thousands of U.S. fighting men, Pope Pius XII, practically every top-flight Allied statesman and military leader, and Generalissimo Franco, and promptly published the highlights of his trip in Collier...
...soon as installment No. 1 appeared, the Archbishop found himself raked fore & aft by the U.S. Protestant, liberal and leftish press for his praise of Franco. Wrote Archbishop Spellman in Collier's: "My impressions of him are in accordance with his reputation as a very sincere, serious and intelligent man. . . . Whatever general criticism has been made of General Franco (and it has been considerable) I cannot doubt that he is a man loyal to his God, devoted to his country's welfare, and definitely willing to sacrifice himself in any capacity and to any extent for Spain...
This week the Archbishop's Collier's articles appeared in book form (Action This Day; Scribner; $2.75). His former opinions of Franco have been somewhat edited, are now attributed to hearsay: "I had been told by some who had known him all through his life that the Generalissimo was a Godfearing, serious and intelligent man, striving to do what he thought was best for Spain...
...some 40,000 more victims of the Indian famine died last week Britain's churches announced that they would observe a Day of Prayer for India-Nov. 28. The call was sent out by William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Moderator John Baillie of the Church of Scotland, Moderator Roy D. Whitehorn of the Free Church Federal Council...
Brother v. Brother. In the north, beyond the German lines, the premature anti-Fascist risings of the summer had a painful aftermath. In Milan the Archbishop, Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Shuster, found it necessary to threaten excommunication to those who denounced their anti-Fascist brothers to the Germans. Mussolini's Republican Fascist Government, speaking from a still-undisclosed capital, bawled new threats of death and imprisonment to all who wavered in their love for the Duce...