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powerless and isolated in their daily struggle against all 
      sorts of political excesses from the bolsheviks and the new pagans 
      arising amongst the young "Arian" generations.
 
      I still think that the planned provision would increase the prestige 
      of the American Government which would appear soley directed 
      to use all means for insuring the peace of all peoples.
 
      
 
 
You can judge yourself of the inconvenience in this very crucial 
      moment of the European political life that the American Government 
      is without a direct source of information from and a straight 
      and intimate connection with the Vatican circles.
 
      
 
 
C.P.
 
      
 
 
I am sure that you have seen in the Press the text of the 
      statement issued by His Eminence Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop 
      of Vienna.
 
      
 
 
Anyway, the English translation of same is following here 
      below:-
 
      
 
 
l) The solemn statement of the Austrian Bishops of the 18th 
      March of this year did not intend evidently to express an approval 
      of what was not and is not reconcilable with the Laws of God, 
      with the freedom and the rights of the Catholic Church. Furthermore 
      that statement cannot be interpreted by the State and the Party 
      as a duty of conscience of the faithful nor must it be used for 
      propaganda purposes.
 
      
 
 
2) For the future the Austrian Bishops request:
 
      
 
 
a) That in all matters pertaining to the Austrian Concordat 
      no change be made without previous