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FRANCE IN UPHEAVAL The following morning, in his capacity as dean of the Diplo matic corps in Paris — an honor accorded to the papal repre sentative in many- countries — Archbishop Roncalli delivered the traditional New Year’s greetings to General Charles de EXTERMINATORS RAISE $100! THE SWEET AND EASY WAY—50% PROFIT... YOUTH AND ADULT GROUPS Name on m * . Boxes Fruel EVANS CANDIES, INC. Dept. 2714 Apple Valley Road, N.E. D ATLANTA 19, GA. Plea» send sample end Information without obligation. Name — Group Name Address —————— City-State- From: POPE JOHN XXIII: An Authoritative Biography by Zsolt Aradi, Msgr. James I. Tucek and James C. O'Neill. Copy right, 1959, by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., Publishers. Gaulle, provisional head of France. The France to which the 63- year-old papal representative had been assigned was in up heaval. The country had been just liberated from the Germans and the Battle of the Bulge had been fought in mid-December. Even before the ouster of the Germans there was a violent reaction of the liberated French against the Vichy gove:mment of Marshal Petain. Those who had lent support or who even had passively cooperated with the Vichy government were hated by many Frenchmen, especially those who had fought in the French underground. Out of the first days of libera tion there also emerged a strong Catholic political party, the Popular Republican Movement, (MRP), lead by the brilliant Georges Bidault, a hero of the underground, which took over formation of the new govern ment. During the war the Vatican continued to recognized the Vichy government as the legal government of France. The Apostolic Nuncio, the then Archbishop, now Cardinal, Val erio Valeri, followed the gov ernment to Vichy. The French of the Resistance movement and General De Gaulle objected to this position on the part of the Vatican and to the failure of some of the French bishops to take a stand against the Vichy regime. Nationalistic feeling rose higher than ever in the wake of the liberation and certain resistance leaders expected the Vatican to remove those bishops who were accused of having openly collaborated with the Vichy government. A papal nuncio was required who could handle delicate ques tions and whose personality would dispel the initial hos tility which prevailed in cer tain circles. While there was no question of the loyalty of many Catholic leaders to th» Church, they were, nevertheless, dissatisfied with the “static” attitude of some members of the hierarchy and the clergy. There was danger in the situ ation and quick action on the part of the Holy See was re quired. That is why Archbishop Roncalli was dispatched with unusual speed from Istanbul to Paris. It was his task among others to create a new atmosphere fa vorable for negotiations leading to a reconciliation between the hierachy and the new French government, born of the resist ance. He saved the situation which seemed almost irrepara ble. He was able to do so through innumerable contacts; it was really the force of his personality that eased the situa tion. Msgr. Giacomo Testa, now Apostolic Delegate in Turkey and a long associate of the fu ture Pope, says: “He arrived in Paris at a crit ical moment and he immediate ly had to face a delicate situa tion. All sorts of passions and hatreds were unleashed in France, a wind that concealed the germs of revolution blew over the country. “Roncalli’s smiling goodness, his calm, his patience, his firm ness, his ability to overcome dif ficulties and obstacles saved CE. 7-8694 Free Inspection Atlanta, Ga. CLERICAL Wear Headquarters DAN HITE ROBERT A. GENAU "Will FI1 You Right" 801 N. Capitol St. Washington 2, D. C. 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Plants, Acreage, Shopping Center Dev., Industrial Dev., Subdivision Dev., Insurance MIKE & STEVE SERTICH JA. 4-2053 the Church and France from real catastrophes.” CARDINAL SALIEGE Archbishop Roncalli’s first success came in 1945 when the government of General De Gaulle withdrew its request that any bishop accused of friendship with Vichy be re moved. He was asked to remove 33 bishops. When he first negoti ated on this problem with the government, whose foreign minister was Georges Bidault, he calmly pointed out that the “proof” against the bishops ac cused of collaboration consisted only of newspaper clippings. Politely he asked for ade quate investigation and docu mentation of the charges. The government consented and the investigation lasted about one year. At the conclusion only three bishops resigned. Italian Social Democratic leader Giuseppe Saragat, Italy’s first postwar ambassador to France, told the Nuncio of France’s great admiration of Archbishop Saliege of Toulouse. This great Archbishop took a defiant stand against Hitler dur ing the war. Although almost completely paralyzed he had himself carried into his cathe dral on a stretcher and there denounced the racial persecu tions of the Nazis. Saragat informed Archbishop Roncalli of France’s regard for this courageous churchman. The Nuncio in turn looked into the matter and then recommended to Pope Pius XII that Arch bishop Saliege be made a car dinal. He received the red hat in the 1946 consistory. Archbishop Roncalli’s line of conduct was simple and precise: the Church in its ministry obeys Rome and remains apart from temporal affairs. He achieved success in following this policy without making protests to the government. During his nine years in Paris, he sent only two or three official communications to the government, none of them notes of complaint. Speaking to Jaques Dumaine, one-time chief of protocol for the President of France, he said, “My mission in France is the same as St. Joseph’s. I have to watch over Our Lord and pro tect Him in a most discret man ner. I show myself as few times as possible to the government, only when they show a desire to me. Bidault told me reproach fully that our meetings become rarer and rarer. Now we have agreed to meet every two weeks.” WINS EVEN ANTI-CLERICALS While his official visits to the government were kept at a minimum, Archbishop Roncalli did move about in the city’s diplomatic and social areas. He also entertained at his dinner table the leading personalities in Paris at the time. His tact and good manners were well known. One incident exemplifies this. As dean of the diplomatic corps in France he attended the 2,000th anniver sary of the city of Paris. The mayor, Pierre de Gaulle was brother of the General and an adversary of the MRP. In his welcoming speech he implied that the presence of the Nuncio showed that he too was against the MRP. Some newsmen have reported that Archbishop Roncalli re sponded to this by showing the mayor a book of manners writ ten by a Bergamo author. As a matter of fact the Archbishop did not indulge in the reported display of bad manners and denied the story when he heard it. Instead his speech of reply made no allusion to the mayor’s remarks and throughout the evening he carried on a lively, witty and non-political conver sation. By the end of the eve ning the mayor’s bad taste had been forgotten. Writing of Angelo Roncalli’s time in Paris, the newspaper Le Monde reported, “It is a fact that in Paris he won the sym pathies of all political shades, even in those political circles whose members indulged in an outdated and aimless anti clericalism.” Among his close friends in France was Vincent Auriol, a long-time Socialist and Presi dent of France from 1945 to 1953. After his term expired, Auriol visited Venice where he recalled that the then Cardinal Roncalli embraced him in the lobby of the hotel, “to the great surprise of all the people on their knees.” Later the Cardinal showed Auriol the rooms of St. Pius X, once also Patriarch of Venice. Auriol recalls saying at the time, “And the successor of Pius XII will come from here too ...” Angelo Roncalli smiled, the French politician reports, but said nothing. PLEADS FOR WAR PRISONERS Few popes have traveled France as widely, since the Middle Ages, as did Archbishop Roncalli. His first journey took him to the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes, world famous for its Gregorian chant. In 1947 he presided at the Marian festival at Le Puy, France’s most an cient shrine dedicated to Our Lady. In 1949 he visited Le Mans and Rheims and then returned to Rheims the same year to take part in the belated com memoration of the 300th anni versary of the birth of St. John Baptist de la Salle, founder of the Christian Brothers. In all he visited 85 of France’s 87 dioceses while carrying the full load of work as Apostolic Nuncio. Yet with all his travel ing, he found time each summer to return to his home at Sotto il Monte to spend four or five weeks with his family. Archbishop Roncalli also visi ted Algeria, for that territory, according to the constitution of the Fourth Republic, was an integral part of France. During his 1952 visit there he said at the cathedral in Algiers: “Algeria is living in a period that is full of sadness. Never until now have two ideologies clashed in such a tragic way; love and hate, war and peace, kindness and violence . . . My dear brethren we should resist the voice of hate; we should re main faithful to love, peace and kindness ...” In the same spirit of charity he urged the repatriation of the more than 250,000 German pris oners of war still in camps two years after Germany’s surren der. Pope Pius XII made an open appeal in June, 1946, say ing that “sacred rights,” were being violated in the detention of these prisoners. The French cardinals and bishops asked the government to comply with these rights. When the government still hesi tated, the French episcopate put the case openly before the French people in a March, 1948, pastoral letter. The bishops declared that the repatriation of the German pris oners of war was a question of conscience for French Catholics. Then the government complied. Needless to say, the representa tive of the Holy See had many In 1944 Archbishop Roncalli was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Paris. Here he is seen visiting a prisoner of war camp. 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