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movement of opposition to our national policy, and therefore a serious
threat to the unity of mind and endeavor urgently necessary at this time?
The difficulty, of course, is that any academic of unoffical interpretation
of the Papal statement in question bids fair to creat a definite and
disastrous cleavave in Catholic ranks, both clerical and lay. This is
particularly true in view of the clever but hardly praisworthy tactics
to which the above-named opposition will inevitably resort.
The one thing that would make impossible any further expoitation of the
Pope's statement for partisan interests and disruptive purposes would be
some word or gesture on the part of the Holy Father himself that will
evidently show wheter or not their argument is in accord with the mind of
the Holy See.