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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...
...able papeggianti (promoters of candidacies). Some thought there was a better chance for a non-Italian Pope than at any time since the last one (in 1522). To them, these seemed papabile: Auguste Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, Joseph Cardinal Schulte of Cologne (both strongly anti-Communist), Pierre Cardinal Gerlier of Lyon, and bearded Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, Wartime French staff officer and for 30 years Vatican librarian...
Most Rev. Pierre Gerlier, well-loved and smooth-spoken bishop of the French diocese which includes the famed shrine of Lourdes, who was raised last summer to be Archbishop of Lyons. This post carries with it the ancient, honorable but now empty designation, Primate of Gaul...