The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1943-01-04
Nazis Persecute Catholic Leaders
OF the Church in Netherlands
Arrests and Evictions Part of Plan
To Kill Expansion of Religion

berg brewery in The same town. but
because the priests had attempted
to make the building Fit for oc-
cupsney by taking with them part
Of their furniture. they received
a severe reprimsnd from the local
German military commander. He
termed this conduct "blameworthy
and un-Christian."
The Sparrendaal Mission at
Bught has been ordered cleared
Of its students. and the evacua-
ton of the monasteries and con-
vents in Nuland. Bois-le-Duc and
Hilvarenbeek also was demanded.
The Mil Hill missionaries have
been forced to leave their quarters
at Rosendaal and have been sent
TO Tilburg.
OPPOSED NAH POLICIES
The extent to which the Ger
mans have turned Catholic insti-
buttons out of their establishments
is made plain by an appeal by the
Bishop of Bois-le-Duc in the week.
ly bulletin of that diocese asking
institutions and priests so evicted
to send him their new addresses.
The violent opposition of the
Catholic clergy TO the Naz Labor
Service has been an added reason
for the Germans to want to rid
themselves Of the church. Dutch
Catholic clergymen impress on
workers departing for labor camps
in Germany that they ARE going
to a pagan state" where they
must not act like workers, but
like conscious Catholics" by of
fering passive resistance to the
work forced on them and by what
ever other means become possible.
How keenly such actions affect
German efforts to recruit. badly
needed Dutch labor was reflected
by a recent broadcast over the
Nazi-controlled Hlversum radio by
H. J. Woudenberg. The chief of
the Dutch Nazi Labor Front at
tackled members of the Catholic
priesthood who try to keep
Catholic workers out of the labor
service and compel others who
already are members of the labor
service to retire by the use Of
threats"
The Dutch Nazi weekly, volk
en- Vadeland, contributed its share
to the anti-Cathohc campaign
with an attack against the church,
in general, and the Archbishop
Of Utrecht, Mgr. Joannes de Long,
and the priesthood of the Dutch
province of Limburg in particular.
There, the clergy has barred youth
storm troops from attending
Catholic schools.
OF NAZI ATTACK
The paper published a cartoon
representing Archbishop de Jong
rs browning Soviet Premier
Joseph Stain with a halo. the
inference being that all enemies
Of National Socialism are pro-
Communistic.
Archbishop de Jong has been
he focus for Nazi attacks since
very shortly after the German in
vasion. II was he who stimu-
ated and signed the first pastoral
etter which violently attacked
Nazism and which, read from the
oulpits of all Dutch Catholic
churches, did much to solidify
feeling throughout Hol-
and.
More recently, before he was
by illness a month
Igo, the Archbishop refused TO al
er his instructions for Catholics
o refuse to cooperate with Ger
nan-controlled radio stations,
When the Nazis. in an appease-
nent effort. sought to induce
hurch leaders to permit the
BROADCAST of Catholic services. He
his stand on the
rounds that the same stations
we're regularly broadcasting at
acks on Christian precepts and
Institutions.