Attempt to Control Religious Association Rome, Sept. 24. re indignant at what is regarded as the latest Fascist move in the feud with the Holy See. The Italian authorities con. template rescinding paragraph 218 of the police regulations which deals with police control over organiza tions of an exclusively political character, Non-political papers and associations were, accordingly, under this paragraph, exempt from its application. The—Vatica Associazione Cattolica, under this rule has hitherto been exempt from police control because its promoters aimed that the organization was without political character. The abolition of paragraph 218 will clear the way for the police to exercise jeontrol over this association and for its dissolution if the police deem it necessary. This possibility is strongly resented by the Vatican, Trans-Ocean Kuo Mi
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