evident that God was being prayed with more fervor and less  
fear than we had been accustomed to notice up to that time.  
On September 8th, manifestly as an echo to the President's  
words, Pravda made bold to incorporate in its proclamation  
to the women of the world, a statement in favor of religion |||  
The passage in question is the following: "The barbarous Fascist hordes   
drunk with blood, turn into ridicule the  
religious sentiments of women, Catholic and Protestant,  
desecrating churches and violating the sacred vessels...."  
It is important for one to know.that this is precisely what this   
Government has been doing since 1918, on a wholesale and minutely   
organized scale. This proclamation appeared on  
page one of Pravda. It was broadcast and diffused throughout  
the entire country. It was the very first statement uttered  
officially in favor of religion since the present form of  
Government exists. It caused tremendous comment here. Can it  
be that such & statement should have passed unnoticed back  
home? One cannot give it too much attention for its mean-  
ing is very far-reaching|||    Both the-President and Mr.  
Churchill mentioned with respect and with sentiments, I am  
sure, of profound religious faith, the blessed name of God  
in their various utterances. In this country it is something absolutely   
unheard of. It is because of this and also because these  
people here feel the ground moving under their feet, that  
they have re-echoed these sentiments, knowing full well how  
much more sympathy and resolute energy can be had out of  
the American and English nations, including their own, that