The Archive · 1939

Dictators in Europe

Boston, Oct, 31.

The Dean of the Catholic hierarchy, William Cardinal O'Connell, yesterday criticized German leaders when interviewed on the recent Papal encyclical.

"Totalitarianism has driven God from the world for the deliberate purpose of allowing a certain few to do anything they see fit," he said.

"You cannot persuade me that the great bulk of the Germans take this ideology. A few leaders in certain parts of Europe are making determined and persistent efforts to turn their people into wild beasts"—United Press.

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