THE ARCHBISHOP AND THE BISHOPS OF HOLLAND TO THE CLERGY AND TO THE FAITHFUL   
              WHO ARE ENTRUSTED TO THEIR CARE.              
 
           Salvation and Benediction in the Lord|           
 
                       Dear Faithful:                       
 
                                                            
 
 
For a long time we have abstained from speaking, at least in public, of   
the numerous injustices of which we Catholics have been the object during   
these last months.    We were prohibited from organizing, even among our   
faithful, collections for the maintenance of our works of charity and our   
cultural institutions, with the result that these works are threatened in   
their activity and their existence.    Our institute Radio Catholique, for   
which we have imposed upon ourselves so many sacrifices for a great,   
many years, has been taken away from us. Our Catholic daily papers are   
suppressed or so deprived of liberty that one can scarcely speak still of   
Catholic papers. Our teeching members of religious orders, to whom parents   
had so willingly entrusted their children, have been deprived of 40%  
of their salary, which for them has been a severe trial; several will have   
most serious difficulties in meeting  
                                           their/