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...souls should wear a workman's coveralls first got important attention one evening in 1943, when Paris' Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard, who died in 1949, picked up a book written by two of his abbes and sat up the entire night reading it. Authors Henri Godin and Yvan Daniel contended that the French working class, to a large extent seduced by Marxist ideology, regarded the church as reactionary and the Christian faith as irrelevant. The authors argued that priests should go to work in factories and live among workers' families while preaching the Gospel...
Maisky. While these fireworks sizzled in Moscow, diplomatic spade work went on in London. Soviet Ambassador Yvan Maisky quietly called on Sir John Simon and on Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade. The result of these conversations was reported to Moscow and to Ramsay MacDonald: When the trial ends, a verdict of Guilty will almost certainly be pronounced, a verdict that will flame in every Soviet newspaper, BUT this verdict may be appealed to the Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee which has the power to transmute death or prison sentences to deportation from Russia...