NAZI VIEWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 8

NAZI VIEWS

BITTERNESS AGAINST LATE PONTIFF. POLITICAL SUCCESSOR DESIRED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.0 a.m.) • 'LONDON. February 10. “The Times” Berlin correspondent rays it is clear that for political reasons the Government has not received the news of Ihe Pope’s death with unmixed sorrow. Every effort is made to do justice to obituaries, but less care is taken to conceal satisfaction that Cardinal Pacelli automatically ceases to be Secretary of State, although it is pointed out that his influence, which is regarded as wholly anti-totalitarian, will have much scope before and during the election of the new pontiff. Some bitterness against Pope Pius can be detected, as is demonstrated by the article in the “Angriff,” mentioned in an earlier cablegram. The ‘'Angriff” adds that it would be bad if a so-called religious Pope were elected. It has too often been shown that such a Pope would be but a complacent tool in the hands of political wirepullers and intriguers and an abiding source of disturbance and unrest, nor should he be a scholar. The man needed should possess thorough political experience, and c o be able to form a better estimate of the laws of his age than his predecessor.