Rome, Dec, 52.
Addressing the College of Cardinals, who brought him Christmas greetings, ihe Pope made a sad speech containing an attack on the alleged violation of the Concordat with Italy and a strong reference to Nazi Germany.
Referring to Herr Hitler's visit to Rome last spring, the Pope said: "When I think of the recent apothesis of the Cross, hostile to the Cross of Christ, prepared in this very city of Rome, and think of the injury done to the Concordat and other matters mentioned in my speech, I thought at least some respect and right would be paid to my white hairs.
"Instead, they wish to ride roughshod over everything.
"This tenth anniversary of the Concordat, instead of bringing the serene joy we should have liked, arouses grave preoccupation and bitter grief—particularly bitter in view of the real and manifold violations inflicted on Cathclie action, which is the pupil of cur eye and which has nothing to do with politics, but is purely concerned in making good Christians."
The Pope declared that secret gestures of permission and encouragement must be issuing from high places since vexations unceasingly Cecur throughout the Italian peninsula and not only in small and unimportant places—Reuter.
"While the Archibishop of Canterbury was blessing the Christmas Crib in the Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral, representing the Holy Family with the Babe in a manager, a man rushed forward and shouted: "My Lord Archbishop, I pray that you desist from this pre-Reformation and childish practice."
The Primate calmy rebuked the interrupter, saying: "You should make your protest at a more proper time."
The man, to be a who appears member of the "Protestant Truth Society, was escorted from the Cathedral and, the Primate proceeded with the ceremony, A party of unemployed persons, who, in the past few days, had been attempting to attract attention to the conditions of themselves and their fellow unemployed, demonstrated yesterday outside the house of Lord Rushcliffe, Chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board. There were about 120 men and ten women in the group, and they chanted songs and shouted slogans. Later, they held a meeting nearby.
These were the same persons who recently invaded the Ritz Hotel for tea, making speeches there, and, subsequently, took a petition to Buckingham Palace for presentation to the King.—Reuter
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