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...flowing as Victor's is square cut and bristly, took the Christian view of his rival's plight. Said he: "Archbishop Victor is a good man, well known for his charity and his love of the people. All members of the Church regret the misfortune that has befallen him, and we shall pray for his early release...
...spiritual calamity in England is not to be compared, in the extent of its ravages, with what has befallen the rest of Europe. Europe today is peopled by millions who have been brutalized by a war waged with the ferocity of the jungle, other millions torn up by the roots and thrown out on the roads to live by their wits...
Between the Nazis and their victims was this difference (among others): those who suffered at Dachau and Belsen and Maidanek may have dreamed of vengeance against the individual Nazis who tortured them, but would not have planned the mass retaliation that has befallen millions of Germans, including children. No one, in fact, wished it; the misery that drags along the roads of Europe today is beneath premeditation, beyond mere vengeance...
...mass they did not know what to do. Without newspapers, without radio, without all the thousand and one accustomed details with which the Nazis had organized their daily lives and influenced their daily thought, they slowly began to realize the full scope of the catastrophe which had befallen them, how thoroughly they had been cut off from and ostracized by the outside world which was now bursting in upon them with such cataclysmic power...
This was a sad answer to the Soviet Government's anti-religious prayers. It was related to a heavy blow that had befallen the Government earlier, the full seriousness of which had not been realized at the time: acting apparently on the principle that if you can't lick 'em, join 'em, the Metropolitan Sergei of Moscow had joined the Bolsheviks. Not that he ceased to be a Christian or acquired a party-book (the Communist Party does not admit Christians to membership). What Sergei did was to take literally the Soviet Government's decree...