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King George VI lunched at Fifth Army advance headquarters as a guest of Lieut. General Mark Clark, along with Manhattan's Archbishop Spellman (see RELIGION) and the Allied commander in Italy, General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander. Some 300 yards from the table, a U.S. doughboy stepped on a brace of German mines, which promptly exploded, killing the soldier. At His Majesty's table no one was hurt...
This week listeners at Europe's 36,000,000 radio sets might have heard New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman preaching civil disobedience. The Archbishop's OWI broadcast (his first), rebroadcast by BBC, eloquently urged Hungary's nine million Roman Catholics* to disobey their Government's new anti-Semitic decrees...
Said Monsignor Spellman...
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, squarely seated on the presiding archiepiscopal throne of Manhattan's jampacked St. Patrick's Cathedral for the celebration of the Mass of Pentecost,† blinked not an eyelash when a slight, Sunday-dressed worshiper stood up at the altar rail, heaved two poorly aimed eggs which splattered at the Archbishop's feet. The egg-thrower, a meek Czech alien, explained to the police: the Archbishop had "said something I didn't like...
...film was made by Producer Walter Wanger at the request of U.S. Assistant Surgeon General R. A. Vonderlehr, for free distribution. Both the U.S. Public Health Service and OWI approved it. Then, at the behest of Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, the Legion of Decency's Executive Secretary, the Very Reverend Monsignor John J. McClafferty, wrote OWI's Elmer Davis...