No Improvement Between the Nazis and the Church Vatican City, July 29.
'A request for a changed attitude towards the Catholic Church on the part of Germany, in order to facilitate her relations with both Italy and Austria, has been lodged with the Withelmstrasse, through the Reich Ambassador to the Vatican City, It is, reliably learned here. Both Italy and Austria, it is pointed out, are Catholic powers.
In commenting on this question, the newspaper "Avvenire d'Italia" emphasized that the recently-concluded Austro-German accord has. not. yet improved the relations of Germany with Catholics. "The con-trests between Racism and Catholicism remain as complete as before, Not to acknowledge this would be equivalent to admitting the Hitlerits viewpoint, that the attitude of the Catholic Church toward the Third Reich is determined by political The paper also points out that. there is as yet no sign of Improvement in the attitude of the National Socialist Government toward the Church—Havas, Twe Marquis of Willingdon has accepted the chairmanship of the St.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.