Nuneio returning to island

PRIEST ACCUSES HAITI PRESIDENT
N an interview in New York, one of the two priests I recently expelled from Haiti has accused President Duvalier of wanting to set up i "HOW' National Church" and of being linked with the cult of Voodoo.
In Rome, the Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, Archbishop Enrici, has cut short his holiday and is returning to Portau-Prince in an effort to solve the Church-State crisis that blew up when the Government expelled two French born priests and later tried to arrest French-born Archbishop Poirier of Port-au-Prince when he protested against the expulsion.
Misinterpreted'
In Haiti, a Government source said last Saturday that the Duvalier regime would not demand the removal of Archbishop Poirier provided he issued a statement saying that his pastoral letter criticising the expulsion of the two priests was "misinterpreted" as an effort to overthrow the President.
In New York, one of the expelled priests, Fr. Etienne Grinenberger, C.S.Sp., told the American correspondent of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro: "Yes, the Haitian Government is at war with the Church, and this war does not date from today.
"The Church has been persecuted for nearly 15 months, not because it has let itself become identified with any political action but because the Government of President Duvalier could not refrain from identifying it with the profound aspirations of the Haitian people which the regime is oppressing."
Reasons
Discussing the reasons for the persecution, Fr. Grinenberger said: 'Although he is a doctor by profession and officially a Catholic, President Duvalier has certain links with the cult of voodoo, of which the 'priests'—the houngans or papa/ois—support him.
"A racist demagogue who sets himself up as the champion of the 'blacks' against the 'whites', he aspires moreover towards the constitution of a kind of Haitian national Church. of which the apostle is Fr. Hubert Papailler, his Minister of National Education.
"It is a movement directed above all against the French clergy."
Pointing out that the charges against his colleagues and himself and against the archbishop had been formulated by M. Clement Barbot, Fr. Grinenberger said: "That gives the whole game away.
"Clement Barbot, officially President Duvalier's personal secretary, is, as a matter of fact. the member of the regime who has the biggest and most ignominious reputation. A former village schoolmaster, it was he who organised the bomb attacks against M. Duvalier's opponents in 1957.
"After the seizure of power. he organised a kind of private policeforce, Known under the name of Cagoulards, this S.S., of which Clement Barbot is the Himmler, have since been constituted, under his direction, as the `top police' of the Government."
V.I.P. pilot
The pilot of the Comet which flew President Eisenhower to visit the Queen last week was Sqdn. Ldr Peter E. Pullen. of Ripon, Yorks, who is an old boy of St. Michael's College, Leeds. He also flew the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret to Rome, last April.
it was these, the French priest explained earlier, who together with uniformed police were responsible for breaking into the Cathedral, where about 4,000 Catholics were praying for him and Fr. Joseph Marrec after their expulsion, and beating up the people there.