Religion: Holy Russia

If Karl Marx was right in calling religion the opium of the people, the air over Moscow must have been blue with fumes last week:

> Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, who is on a visit to Patriarch Sergei of the Russian Orthodox Church, declared that there is complete freedom of worship in Russia, that the Soviet Government has stopped all antireligious propaganda. Said the Archbishop: "Stalin, being a great statesman, has recognized the power of religion."

> To listeners in Germany the Moscow radio beamed speeches by German clergymen, Catholic and Protestant. Many of the speakers were said...

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