IMPROVED LONDON DEFENSES REPEL NAZI RAIDS; R.A.F. ATTACKS BASES; ITALY ADVANCES IN EGYPT (9/15/40)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 9/15/40 | Raymond Daniell, James MacDonald, James A. Hagerty, Robert P. Post, C.Brooks Peters, James B. Reston

[BroJoeK]

"Willkie Says That Roosevelt ‘Promoted’ the Munich Pact – 8-9"

Excellent speeches by Wilkie, really hard hitting on FDR -- I think Wilkie's sure to win in November.
After all, who would ever vote for a socialist Democrat when they can have a... a... er... liberal RINO instead... oh dear.

;-)

[BroJoeK]

"Ground is Broken for a Monastery – 13"

Interesting story mentioning some interesting names:

• Francis Spellman, then Archbishop on Boston, had been instrumental, along with Joseph Kennedy, in reelecting President Roosevelt in 1936 by inviting Cardinal Pacelli (future Pope Pius XII) to America -- where he silenced the popular anti-Roosevelt Catholic firebrand, Father Coughlin of Detroit.
  Archbishop Spellman:
  

• The Carmelite Nuns, whose most well known martyr Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), was still protected in the Carmelite monastery at Ect, Netherlands.
  In 1942 she will be arrested there, shipped to Auschwitz and gassed.
  

It is most interesting to note the direct connection to the future "Ground Zero Mosque," in that as a result of a similar controversy over building a Carmelite monastery at Auschwitz, considered by many to be "insensitive", Pope John Paul II will agree not to build it.

At Auschwitz in 1942, Sister Edith Stein will be gassed as a Jew, despite her long-since conversion to Catholicism.
She represents the powerlessness of the Church to protect Jews -- even those converted and physically living in monasteries -- against the bestiality of Nazi insanity.

She is the ultimate answer to the question of Pope Pius XII: why did he not do more to stop the Holocaust?