Word: collaborationist
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...position of the Vatican on collaborationist clergymen was not clearly defined. Official feeling was embodied in an age-old, unwritten law of the Church that its prelates, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion. The law is, in effect: any prelate whose personal conduct, past or present, gives rise to discussion or dissension which might reflect unfavorably on the Church must feel duty-bound-guilty or not-to renounce his dignity to prevent adverse discussion of the Church...
Bishop Dutoit and Auvity evidently felt duty-bound to resign from their dioceses. Last week, Pipe Pius XII accepted both resignations. Many in religious circles saw in the action the beginnings of a long-awaited "purge" of collaborationist clergymen. The New York Times predicted : "About 20 prelates are expected to be affected...
Nationalization. The confiscation of German, Hungarian and collaborationist properties has already put 6,800 enterprises, employing 800,000 workers, under Government management. The nationalization of loyal Czechoslovak industry, banks and insurance companies (with compensation) is proceeding more slowly, encountering more difficulties. Up for Government ownership on the official list are mines, utilities, foundries, armament and chemical plants, pottery, porcelain and glass factories, cement, textile and metal factories. For the present, businesses employing fewer than 500 workers are exempt. The end objective: 70% nationalized, 30% free...
Minister Pleven also asked for a 3% to 20% tax on increment of wealth during the war (a "moral" necessity aimed at collaborationist profits). He calculated his two measures would yield revenues of 130 billion francs. He based his figures on a Government census of fortunes, in itself a radical departure from French financial tradition. Hitherto a passionate anonymity has shrouded the wealth of individual Frenchmen. The Government, said Minister Pleven, had discovered that France had 1,300 billion francs of national wealth in liquid form. His levies on wealth would siphon off 10% of this liquidity...
...sworn loyalty to Pétain's Vichy Government). The public prosecutor was André Mornet, 75 (in World War I he sent Spy Mata Hari to the firing squad). The 24-man jury had been chosen half from the Resistance movement, half from non-collaborationist ex-parliamentarians. Behind the prisoner sat his counsel, his doctors and nurses, the witnesses (there would be about 50), the tightly packed reporters and spectators...