AUSTRIA: Rumor

It leaked out from the Vatican into the ears of a Someone, who told it to a civil authority, who told it to the press that Chancellor Seipel of Austria was to be made a Cardinal.

Viennese were skeptical. It was said that Mgr. Seipel could never become a Prince of the Church while holding political office and that, under existing circumstances, he would refuse to retire.

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