The news that the German government for the second time has refused the Papal Nuncio to Germany permission to visit German occupied Polish territory is interesting and highly significant. The request was made, it is reported, on instructions of the Papal Secretary of State, and taken im conjunction with recent happening between the Vatican and the Reich is pregnant with meaning. It will be remembered that a broadcast from; the Vatican regarding the evil manner in which Germans were treating the Poles aroused indignant denials and protests from Berlin, and subsequent broadcasts which had been planned were discontinued. A more dignified method of securing the required admission that things are not fit for the Papal Nuncio to see in Poland could not have been obtained, and this the second refusal of permission to visit the areas in question can in the eyes of the rest of the world have but one meaning. That must obviously be that the stories of brutality inflicted upon the Poles are true in substance and in fact, that the Reich realizes it, but thinks that by keeping such a man out of the occupied areas as Monsignor Orsenigo the absence of his testimony will assist in furthering the lying denials which the Reich has been constantly uttering. The reports which have come out of Poland during recent months are to the effect that the conquered Poles are being subjected to the greatest brutality and that an organized attempt is being made to wipe out the people and their culture. If there were nothing in Poland of which the Reich was ashamed there could be no earthly reason why the Papal Nuncio should not have been allowed to go and see for himself. The fact that he was refused permission can only lead to one conclusion, and that that the reports which have leaked out of the occupied territories are just as true as the hall mark of the Vatican so clearly stamped them,
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