The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-06

his massive head is topped with gray hair.
 had hoped he would talk about what had happened inside Germany and of possible conflicts he had had with the Nazis since I left the Ber- En bureau of the United Press after Pearl Harbor.
 At that time, had copies of tele- grams he had sent Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering vigorously protesting Nazi practices which he said were irreconcilablo with Christianity.
 These included mercy killings of insane or physically unfit Ger mans, confiscatiop of church build ings by the Gestapo and the turn ing of monks, nuns and other mem bers of Catholic institutions into the streets to make way for the NaIs.
 The archbishop reahdrmed his op- position to such practices, but re- 1terated he would not discuss poli- tics further while the war contin- ued.
 Instead, he expressed concern over what arrangements would be made to care for the thousands of liberated foreign slave workers and war prisoners wandering along ev- cry road to the west.
 He referred to all the liberated, wandering peoples as Russians and accused them of plundering German homes. He expressed deep concern that the Americans did not exercise more control over them, especially since the German police are now disarmed.'
 The cleric appered piqued that thus far no high-ranking American ofhcer had visited him. When he found we were newspapermen, he said:
 T don't want to have anything In the press-It would be better if an American general called on me-"
 He was deeply grieved rather than angry about the Allied bombings of Germany. He said bombs had des- troyed his residence, the Cathedral and other cultural monuments" in Muenster and added that one "also almost got me while I was sitting at home during an attack"
 Asked just when he moved to Senderhorst from Muenster, he re- piled:
 Ask the Americans when they bombed me out"
 The archbishop made it clear that though he and other educated Ger mans may be anti-Nazi, they never theless must be loyal to the father land," and therefore consider the Allies to be enemies.
 T hope the future will bring a tune when we all will be good nelghborS," he said, but that will De a long time away. Maybe 1t will be possible in 65 years"
 The archbishop expressed great concern at the possibility of Com in Germany.
 Asked whether he believed that after the war and under the influ- ence of anti-Nazi schools and churches, German children could De made to forget Nazi doctrines the Archbishop said:
 some. yes, and some, no.
 1t VIII be depend on whether you (the western allies) let the Russians into Germany and then we will have Communism
 Tt also depends on whether YOU iet the Germans go hungry after the war. Because, if you do, there VIII be many communists.
 Throughout the conversation the archbishop gave the impression of politeness and he frequently spoke m fatherly, friendly tones. But at the same time, besides being a powerful churchman, he is a mem Der of an old and noble German family and he did not forget that he was speaking to representatives or Germany'S enemies.
 Simply write in the press that you saw me" he said, and that I said that we are doing everything we can to maintain order. As for the future we hope we can soon begin to rebuild but right now we don't even know where the front iS."
 Outside the hospital we met a Catholic priest who spoke some English and who was quise willing to talk.
 Although he denounced without equivocation ''NaN brutality, he was bitter about Allied bombings.
 Explaining that it was the cus- tom of Westphalians to speak bluntly, he said that so far as Muenster was concerned the first attacks hit churches, hospitals and cultural monuments.
 And that really isn't Naz pro- he added. He was par ticularly bitter at the American daylight raids. saying that the Ger mans have much more sympathy for the English than for the Am- ericans."
 When the Luftwaffe's attacks on Coventry and British cities were cited to him, he said: "Yes, I know but it's no good for us to talk about all this because we can never agree"
 The priest shared the archbi- shops views about the Russians.
 He was angry at what he called their "plundering' and insisted they had been well treated in