Tributes to the Late Cardinal

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THE BELGIAN AMBASSADOR.
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, the Belgian Ambassador in London, has presented to Mgr. Myers, the Bishop Coadjutor, the condolences of the Belgian Government on the death of Cardinal Ilinsley, Archbishop of Westminster. The members of the Belgian Government expressed their personal condolences at the Archbishop's residence. As those acts of sympathy show, Belgium shares the mourning of Great Britain at the loss of one who, with his great authority as Primate of the Homan Catholic Church, firmly upheld to the hot her struggle for the defence of human dignity and the independence of nations against the tsramsy of Nazi paganism.
ARCHBISHOP OF DETROIT.
I ant deeply grieved by the news of Cardinal Wesley's death. It was my good fortune to enjoy his friendship long before he became the heroic world figure which his striking evocation of the Christian conscience of his embattled country has since made him, Twenty years ago in the quiet atmosphere of Roman seminary life his friende knew him as a Forthright man of God, typically British in the little things that mark men off from one another, utterly Catholic in the big things that bind men together. In the turmoil of war the lurid glow of bursting bombs revealed him to all the world in exactly this same character as Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. No one ttttt re effectively than Cardinal Mosley has impressed upon us the conviction that this war with all its complications is essentially a defence of the things of the spirit.
MGR. MICHAEL I. READY (General Secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference).
The death of Arthur, Cardinal Ilinsley is a profound loss not only to the Church but to the world. That it comes at a tragic crisis in history is all the more regretted. Ile was an ardent champion urgently needed in our thought and action to-day.
FRANCIS MATTHEWS (Supreme Knight of Knights of St. Columbus).
Cardinal Hinsiey's death is regretted with world-wide mourning. Through his fearless championship of the right and welfare of the average man, he endeared himself to millions of people beyond the territory of the United Kingdoms and outside the membership of the Catholic Church.
VATICAN RADIO (to Germany).
During the last few years, Cardinal Hinsley was deeply moved by the fate of the suffering peoples, above all Poland. In a series of addresses, the last of which was given at Christmas, 1942, he took up the cause of all those who were suffering persecution or were deprised of their rights because of their nationality or origin. Thus he acquired merit as adsocate of those human rights which today are in danger. May he rest in peace.