The men who schedule the Kremlin's diplomacy decided last week that the time had come to drive a wedge among Catholics. They chose Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet Government, as the instrument, and a recent Foreign Policy Association report on Vatican policy as a handy starting point. Wrote Izvestia:
"The inglorious part played by the Vatican in Hitler's and Mussolini's adventures in Spain is widely known. The Vatican kept silent when Italy launched the 'stab in the back' attack on France in June, 1940. Now the Vatican preaches 'impartial love for all nations' but the fact remains that in this...
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