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Show Pope Decries Dictatorships, H ints Retribu tiorf f 6TRe"ds! CASTEL GANDOLPO. Nov. 14 (INS) Pope Pius attacked Monday Mon-day government by dictatorship and creation of what ha termed the "absolute state." He indirectly warned the regimes re-gimes behind the iron curtain that some day they may be called before be-fore the bar of "human justice" for their misdeeds. He also criticised criti-cised tha methods used at Nuernberg Nuern-berg and in other postwar crime trials. The pontiff spoke to jurists of the sacred Romsn Rota tribunal on inauguration of the new Juridical Juridi-cal year. He said: "The 19th century wss responsible respon-sible for a juridical positivism based upon the absolute state which is equivalent to deification of the state. "Christianity curbed faulty legislation leg-islation until the totalitarian stale of an anti-Christian label came in to smash all tha bonds of sacred divine right to reveal tha true face of juridical positivism. "This system hss called disorder disor-der order, has substituted tyranny for authority, slavery for liberty and crime for patriotic virtue." Pope Pius said that war crime trials "did not only bring real criminals to the fate they deserved but showed an intolerable condition condi-tion in which the absolute state's juridical positivism can corrupt a public official who might otherwise other-wise have been an honest man," |