SPAIN: Priests Into Pork

Amid the savagery of Spain's abortive revolution month ago, brawny workmen slew several priests, chopped them into chunks and exposed the flesh in butcher shops tagged "pork."

No screaming tabloid made this charge last week but the sedate Osservatore Romano, personal newsorgan of His Holiness Pope Pius XI. Added the Church's mouthpiece with bitter irony: "It cannot be hoped that the political world will act against such monstrosities, because the political world acts only when crimes are connected with political objectives, such as the assassinations of Chancellor Dollfuss and King Alexander....

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