The Archive · 1939

Herr Mitler Expresses Regrets

Berlin, Feb. 10.

Oficial Germany is displaying a strictly correct attitude towards. the death of the Pope.

Dr. Heinrich Molssner, the State Minister, representing Herr Adolf Hiller, called on the Papal Nuncio and expressed his condolences. "Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Foreign Minister, also called on the Papal Nuncio.

Flags are fying at half-mast_ on Government buildings In Berlin, but Munich, which is both" the Catholic and Nazi headquarters, no flags are flying.

Berlin papers, such as the "Deutsche Allgemeine, Zeitung" and the "Boersen-Zeitung," which have Catholics among their readers, pub-articles which merely say that the Pope was nol entirely friendly to the headline in the newspaper "Der Angriff" over the obituary of Pope Plus XI. "Pope Pius," the paper pro ceeds, "began as a spiritual reformer: and died a political adventurer, who plunged his Church in a serious'erisis of confidence. He lost his race with the political fate of Europe. After the foundation of the Fascist Empire, Pope Pius broke down mentally and physically. Italy's friendship with Nazi Germany vexed him definitely. 'The Anschluss in Austria and the reformation of Czechoslovakia were all'

motion of Paris, Feb. 10.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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