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in other areas as well,
of His Holiness to an item in THE STARS AND STRIPES of toda
KREMLIN SEEKING VATICAN MEETING
London, August 10. The Russian Governmentm in an un-
posing coordinated action between Moscow and the Vatican in
The report said that Marshal Joseph Stalin had suggested
sian Premier is reported to have assured the pope that Russi
The Soviet memorandum asserted that Russia hopes to reach
its goal only through democratic and legal principles.
The Vatican's attitude, Reuter declared, is not yet known
but it was reported that Monsignor Cortesi, Papal Nuncio to
- the Polish Govermment, will proceed to Warsaw as soon as
the Polish capital is liberated.
This decision, the London Daily News Chronicle said,
fact that Poland, predominantly a Catholic country, will be
The Pope immediately characterized the article as false and
stated that nothing whatever had been proposed by the Russians and
that the Vatican would be called upon to declare that the statement
without foundation in fact. We discussed several forms of de