Sunday, June 13, 1948 THE OBSERVER EDITION OF OUR SUNDAY VISITOR News Section--Page 9A
Catholic And Protestant Bishops
Charge U. S. Used 'Third Degree'
To Force Germans' Confessions
unarmed Am(rican prisoners of
war during the Battle of the
Bulge near Malmedy, Belgium.
The American defender of the
accused, Willis M. Everett, Jr., of
Atlanta, Ga., bad filed an appeal
against the .~entences with the
Munich--A Catholic Bishop and a leading Protestant
churchman have accused American investigators with the
vse of what is termed "brutal ill treatment" and "criminal
methods" in obtaining confessions from a number of Ger-
mans who were recently convicted of war crimes charges by
the general Military Government Court at Dachau. The Ger-
mans were accused of massacring~
meats of which they knew noth-
in~ beforehand and which they
could not check. "In some in-
stances, witnesses were threaten
ed with their delivery to Russia if
they refused to do the bidding of
the prosecution," Bishop Wurm
United State~ Supreme Court, also charged.
charging that American authori-"It is not a question of prevent-
ties bad used third-degree methods ing proper punishment for crimes
in forcing contessions. After the actually committed," he said, "but
S~lpreme Court, by a 4 to 4 deeis- the issue is whether in this trial
ion, had rejected the motion for a innocent as well as guilty persons
writ of habeas corpus, Secretary of
War Kenneth C. Royall stayed the
execution of 17 of the 74 defen-
dants and instructed Gen. Lucius
D. Clay, U.S. Commander in Ger-
many, to investigate the "serious
allegations" made in comnection
with the trials.
Bishop Johonnes Neuhaeusler, I
Aaxiliary of Munich, has now re-
vealed that as early as last March
he submitted detailed evidence to
five members of Congress in sup-
port of his charges of "tortures,
threats and brutal ill treatment."
The Bishop suggests that all the
cases be investigated again "with-
out threats and forcible measures
equalling torture." He is under-
stood to have submitted a similar
appeal to Bishop Aloisius Muench
of Fargo, North Dakota, Apostolic
Visitator to Germany with the re-
quest to transmit it to General
Clay.
The Protestant Bishop Theo-
philus Wurm, chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Protes-
ta~t churches in Germany, sub-
mitted charges of the use of
"criminal methods and abominable
to, tures" to Dr. Robert M. W.
Kempner, assistant U.S. prosecu-
tor of the wa( crimes trials. Fol-
lowing rejection of these charges
by Dr. Kempner on the grounds of
lacking evidence, Bishop Wurm
has publicly repeated them. He
declared that while the defendants
were under arrest, "the prosecu-
tion looks all over Europe for wit-
nesses, many of whom are real
criminals." He also asserted that
during the trial the defendants
were suddenly faced with state-
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Montana Blackfeet
Indian, Jesuit,
To Be Ordained
St. Ignatius, Mont.--(NC)--The
Rev. John J. Brown, S.J., a full-
blooded Blackfeet Indian, will be
ordained at St. Ignatius Mission
here on June 16. He is believed to
be the first Indian of the Pacific
Coast region to be raised to the
dignity of the priesthood.
Father Brown was born in 1916
in Philadelphia, a few weeks after
his parents bad arrived there from
the Montana Blackfeet reservation
He graduated with honors from
PMladelphia West Catholic High
Scr, ool, and entered the Society of
J~sus at Wernersville, Pa., in 19;35.
[For three years he served as
teacher and prefect of boys at the
'Sacred Heart Mission for Coeur
d'Alene Indians, DeSmet, Idaho.
He holds a bachelor's degree from
:Loyola University, Chicago.
Pope Thanks Academy
For Language Award
Paris--The permanent secretary
of the French Academy, the
French writer Georges Lecomte
has received a personal letter from
Hm Holiness Pope Plus XII thank-
ing the members of the Academy
fo~ •warding him the Gold Medal
of the French Language. The
.m.~dal given the Pope carries the
linage of Cardinal Richelieu
founder of the Academy.
The Pontiff's letter stated that
h~. is greatly moved by the award,
that be has fondness for the
French language, and admires the
French classical writers, particu-
larly Bossuet.
Building Drive
Convent Station, N. J.--(NC)--
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been raised for'the Golden Jubilee
Building Fund, it was reported at
a alumnae meeting of the College
of St. Elizabeth here. The drive
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Son of Hitler Aide
Reports from Bavaria that 18-
year-old Adair Martin Bormann.
(above) son of Hitler's vanished
chief deputy, is studying for the
priesthood, are incorrect, accord-
ing to NCWC correspondent who
Interviewed the boy at the "Can-
Isius Konvikt", Catholic boys"
high sghool In Ingolstadt. How-
ever, the boy revealed that he and
six brothers and sisters have be-
come Catholics. His father was
one of the bitterest foes of the
Church in Germany.
Social Reform
Next Aim Of
Group In Italy
Professor Gedda Says
Communists Determined
To Further Program
REV. JOSEPH J. SULLIVAN
Rome -- (NC) -- "Communi~m
has been stopped but not destr6y-
ed," declared Professor Luigi Ged-
da, pres;dent of the National Civic
Committee, in an interview here,
adding that therefore the organi-
,zation mobilized originally for the
i eleetion campaign would continae
its work in Italy, with much-need-
eo social justice as its next ob-
jective.
Professor Gedda, member of the
medical faculty at the University
of Rome, said there is much evi-
dence that the communists are de-
termined to continue their efforts
to win Italy. "At the moment,=
he said, "they are planning to
change the name of their party
tc something like 'Workers Par-
ty,' the better to blot out the
memory of their defeat and to fa-
cilitate a reunion with the Sar-
agat (righ-wing) socialists."
Asked for his own evaluation of
the functions of the Civic Com-
mittee, Mr. Gedda listed three
points. First. and most important,
he considers the fact that it pro-
vided the means for uniting in a
strong coalition not only practicing
Catholics but all those interested
in preserving Christian civilization
and its institutions.
"Next in importance," he said,
"was the fact that the committee
transferred the battle from a mere
struggle between political parties
t the plane where .tt truly be-
longed, the plane of ideology, of
civilization, the battle between
two unalterably opposed principles,
Christianity and materialism."
He exemplified this by pointing
to the thousands who voted for
the Christian Democrats, consid-
ering them the lesser of two evils.
On purely internal matters in Italy
:they. would be opposed to the party
of DeGasperi, but on the main
issue they were opposed to eom-
munism and voted it down in the
most elfecfive way.
The third feature of the ~om-
mittee'~bsttle was what he mills
the snorttne Or eomnetitivn jnir-
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it" with which its members carried
on the fight. Not seeking any ma-
terial gain or party advantage,
they fought "for the sake of an
ideal, the salvation of the Church
and Christian civilization."
Holy Land Custody
Proposes Militia
For Sacred Shrines
Vatican City--(Radio)--The Vat-
icon has no informatiou concerning
the projected international militia
for defense of the Holy Places in
stated.
The Rev. Giulio Zanella, a Fran-
ciscan, the Delegate in Italy from
the Custody of the Holy Land,
stated in an interview that
he had dispatched an informative
note to all embassies and legations
in Rome, acquainting them with the
desired project to establish a mitt-i
tia for the protection of the Holy
Places. He explained that the pro-
posed project was undertaken on
the initiative of the Custody of the
Holy Land.
The militia would be recruited
voluntarily, Father Zanella ex-
plained, and woul(i form a quasi
private guard or police force. He
added that a representative depart.
e.l on Tuesday (June 8) to make
contact with both the Jewish Stab
and the Arab League. seeking their
consent on the project, which seeks
the continued care and preservation
of the shrines.
Father Zanella also ~oiced a de-
sire that some provision be made
for transportation of supplies and
medicines for Christian institutions
in the Holy Land, where he said
multitudes of Christmns have taken
refuge in escaping the war zone.
Center On Working
Class, Pope Tells
Catholic Action
Lisbon-- (NC)--The need for
Catholic Action to exert its efforts
especially among the working
classes was stressed by His Holi-
ness Pope Plus XII in a letter to
B!shop Emam~el Trindad Salgu-
eiro, Auxiliary of Lisbon and
president of Portuguese Catholic
Action. The Holy Father's letter
was an acknowledgment of receipt
of the organization's annual re-
port.
The lower working classes by
reason of their poverty, the Holy
Father said, are the most loved by
the Divine Saviour, and because
they must be so preoccupied with
making a living they have less op-
portunity to develop a Christian
conscience.
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