The Archive · 1938

Election Propaganda Move

Berlin, Nov. 5.

Under the banner-line "Agitator Mundelein sees the Pope; Vatican launches election deal," the newspaper "Der Angriff" today published a dispatch from Rome alleging that Cardinal Mundelein's visit to the Vatican is "actually a political deal."

The newspaper alleged that "21,- 060,000 Catholies....will decide the coming elections.... President Roosevelt was elected in 1936 with Catholic help in return for a promise i" allow a Papal Nunciate at Washington and to allow state suppurt of Catholic schools."

Cardinal Mundelein is still in disfavour in Nazi circles because of his characterization two years ago of Herr Adolf Hitler as a "brown-shirted paper-hanger."—United Press, Czechs Receive First Part Of Credit Prague, Nov. 6.

The Czech State Bank has already received £5,000,000 as the first part of the loan from the British Government ío Czechoslovakia, the Prague broadcasting service stated last night.

The foreign exchange holdings of the bank have been increased by this transfer and certain concessions to holders of foreign exchange obtained as payment for exports have accordingly already been announced—Trans-Ocean,

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