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Technically, as the laymen understood it. the Church was above the war. The Vatican maintained ties with Germany, Italy and Japan. But its relations with the Nazi Reich had never been worse than they were this week. Its relations with the United Nations seemed never better. In the muffled, intense activity of Vatican diplomacy, Francis Spellman, the grocer's son who may wear the red hat, seemed to have a key role...
While the British-heavies were grounded, the R.A.F.'s sensational new bomber plane, the twin-engined, plywood Mosquito, stung the Reich by day & night with swift hit-&-run raids. On three successive nights last week Mosquitoes bombed Berlin by brightest moonlight; they made six raids against the Reich capital within eight days. From all these raids not a plane was lost; it was not until the sixth raid that Berlin gunners even scored a hit on a Mosquito. The plane they winged came back to England, flying at treetop height, with one motor shot...
Once again the Roman Catholic bishops of Germany raised their corporate voice against religious persecution by the Third Reich. But this time both the character of their complaint (made last December) and the means of its publication (last week by U.S. official OWI) seemed more shrewdly calculated than ever before to implement their attack on the antireligious phases of Nazi philosophy...
...bishops spoke not only as good Catholics but as patriotic Germans. To Dr. Bernhard Rust, Reich Minister for Church Affairs, they pointed out the "rampart of bitterness and enmity" rising against Germans because of religious persecution in occupied lands, denounced Nazi persecution in language he could understand: "unwise politically...
...built a few U-boats and cached them in packing crates under the noses of Allied investigators. To train his first recruits, Doenitz established an institute which he blandly named "school for defense against submarines." When, in June 1935, Hitler's naval treaty with the British released the Reich from some of the Versailles restrictions, Doenitz was ready. By October his first flotilla was afloat. He was still bound to keep his visible U-boat fleet within limits, but by expanding his spare-parts system of construction he built far over the treaty ratio...