ATTACK ON VATICAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1942, Page 4

ATTACK ON VATICAN

MADE BY ROME RADIO

ALLEGED DEPARTURES FROM NEUTRALITY. AND CONTACT WITH ENEMIES Ob’ AXIS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, November 16. The Rome radio, quoting the “Rcgima Fascista,” says: “Nobody can deny that representatives of all Italy’s enemies are staying in Vatican City, including a clique of Jews and wellknown anti-Fascists; also the clan of the “Osservatore Romano,’ the Vatican newspaper, which did not feel a moral urge to say a word of sympathy or consolation to the victims of barbaric British bombings. It should never repeal that the organ of (he Holy See maintains strict neutrality. When it is a question of making common cause with the Poles streams of ink tears are shed and when a few churches are hit during a German advance in France the ‘Osservatorc Romano’ calls it barbarism and I profanity. Not a single word is published, however, about the six churches hit in Genoa. This attitude cannot be considered one of neutrality, but one of solidarity with our enemies. Representatives'of all enemy states are living in Vatican City, which is endeavouring to jeopardise Italian interests in every possible way and noteworthy collaboration exists among them.”