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0V 3 material today is open and clear that the correct thing is on the side of the empire. - Cardinal Verdier (France) who recently died declared shortly before the outbreak of the crisis: "Help save France! France is again taking the path of its destiny. It will fill his enemies with terror and will regain the love and the trust of his friends." In a call to all the French he declared: "Our dear wife of Lourdes, who is so loved with us, got the first grenades of our fines in the Polish Lourde. What a terrible crime! What wound that has been wound to the heart of Poland in its most consecrated fibers... Let us help France to gain the respect of its enemies and the trust of the whole world..." By the Polish Lourdes he meant "the miraculous image of the Black Mother of God of Czestochowa", which was never destroyed by German shells and is still today, according to the own judgment of the Catholic clergy in office, an undamaged place of pilgrimage of the catholic church. Cardinal Liénart, Bishop of Lille, said in a pastoral letter on the occasion of the mobilization of the general public: "The French people feel in the role of the defender of our human and Christian civilization against brutal barbarism..." Cardinal Baudrillart said on the 3rd of May 39 in a Mass at the Catholic Institute in Paris: "We did not want this war. He was forced upon us, but the same, he is there. He must be fought through and the goals set for us must be achieved... In any case, in order to fight well, we know that we have the right and the duty to defend ourselves, because France has the right, and the obligation, to persist". Thus the French Catholic clergy stood up for their country. They did not stand up to the English Catholic clergy. The Bishops of England and Wales declared on l3.ll.39, among others: "We, the Catholic hierarchy of England, and Wales, wish to invade all the faithful during this period of national scrutiny and efforts to fulfil their duty of loyal obedience to His Majesty, the King, and to work diligently in every form of national service". - 4