Six Million Slaves

"Red Pope'' of the Roman Catholic Church is that most puissant Cardinal in charge of its vast foreign missions--the prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith. Present "Red Pope" is Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, bald, round-faced Roman who from 1922 to 1933 was Apostolic Delegate in Washington, D. C. In pious sorrow last week the Cardinal-Prefect reminded the world that today no less than 6,000,000 people still live in slavery. He called Catholic attention to "the importance of the Church anti-slavery program as enunciated by Pope Leo XIII"--who in 1888 exhorted his Brazilian bishops to banish slavery from their country in an encyclical flaying "the accursed pest of servitude" and ordering an annual anti-slavery collection taken in Catholic churches.

Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi's press bureau amplified his statements by pointing out that the world's 6,000,000 slaves are in Ethiopia, Liberia, China and Moslem nations; that 2,000 slaves a year are taken from Africa across the Red Sea to be sold in Arabia.

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