Budapest, Jan. 22.
Catholic opposition to the home and foreign policies followed by the Imredy Government is growing every day.
The Hungarian Government recently ordered the transformation of 400 primary schools into German schools, of which 70 per cent. were parish schools. Catholic priests refused to obey the Government's orders in these instances. Catholic quarters declared that the people were hostile to this measure, upon which they had not been consulted.
On racist laws also, Catholics are voicing antagonism to the Government's measures and have established contact with the Vatican. They wish to reach a compromise agreement with the Government to exclude from the laws all Jews who have been converted to Ciristianity, married to Christians, baptised at birth, or who have followed Christian teachings for the past ten years and have taught their children the Christian faith. If these proposed amendments are accepted by the Government, the anti-Semitic laws would lose their essential alist character.
Reich Contacts Regretted Catholics regret the abandonment of a moderate policy in favour of an aggressive policy and adherence to the Anti-Comintern Pact seen in Hungary's rapprochement with Germany.
The Catholic newspaper, "Nemzeti
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