PARIS LETTER
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which the State must take into account. As long as the Church is kept
on a track that does not let her engage in action prejudicial to the
regime, as long as no
external force
(italics mine) can make use of these
peculiar springs of human nature, the danger is small. But from the
moment
an influence exerted from the outside
utilized them, the regime
would risk: being
very seriously
threatened." (Italics mine.)
It
is generally agreed that the struggle against Stalinism poses
among other questions, if not above all other questions, the problem
of political warfare. How then can one refrain from a defeatist shiver,
listening to an American expert suggest the use against Stalin "from
the outside" of that traditional rebel, the Orthodox pope? Obviously,
the governing classes don't care a bit about our morale.
