Word: hlond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husky, crop-haired Augustus Hlond, son of a Silesian laborer, became the youngest cardinal in the world. He was also the first Prince of the Church to celebrate a Mass that was broadcast (in 1928), and the first to fly in a plane (in 1929). When the Nazis and the Russians occupied Poland, Cardinal Hlond became an international figure. In 1940, his report to the Pope on the "dark, apocalyptic disaster" of German atrocities shocked the whole world...
From Rome, and later from Lourdes, Hlond acted as spiritual leader of Poland's 20 million Roman Catholics. In 1944 the Nazis finally arrested him. Liberated by U.S. troops, he returned to Poland. There Cardinal Hlond became known as the leading voice raised against Communism...
Last week, in Warsaw, following an appendectomy and pneumonia, 67-year-old Augustus Cardinal Hlond died...
Died. Augustus Cardinal Hlond, 67, Roman Catholic primate of Poland; of pneumonia; in Warsaw (see RELIGION...
...years ago, when Jewish influence in the "Government of the Colonels" was nil, Cardinal Hlond had found very different reasons for encouraging antiSemitism. Said he, in a pastoral letter of 1936: "It is an actual fact that the Jews fight against the Catholic Church, they are freethinkers, and constitute the vanguard of atheism, bolshevism and revolution. The Jewish influence upon morals is fatal, and the publishers spread pornographic literature. It is also true that the Jews are committing frauds, practicing usury and dealing in white slavery. . . . One does well to prefer his own kind in commercial dealings, to avoid Jewish...