Strictly personal memorandum giving summary of considerations expressed by   
E. Mons. Tardini in conversation with H.E. Mr. Myron C. Tayl
 
                                                            
 
 
1. There is no indication that any of the numerous churches closed to the   
faithful in past years have been reopened, nor that high taxes, imposed   
for the exercise of public worship on those few churches which have   
remanined open, have been reduced.  Father Leopold Braun, Rector of the   
only Catholic Church in Moscow write: " There is talk of a reopening   
      ( of the churches) but I have no certain proof".      
 
                                                            
 
 
2. Nor is there any indication that any priest, who is a Russian citizen,   
has been freed from prison or from the sentence of deportation to which he   
had been previously condemned. According to latest available statistics it   
would seem that there are still approximately one hundred Catholic priests   
rchdiocese of Mohilew detained in prision or in concentratio
 
                                                            
 
 
3. For more than a year now there has been no news of His Excellency Mon.   
Edward Profittlich, Titular Archbishop of Andrianopoli and Apostolic   
Adminstrator of Estonia.  Archbishop Profittllich, a citizen of Esthonia,   
wa arrested at Tallinn June 28, 1941 and deported to the Urals, probably   
                         to Kasan.                          
 
                                                            
 
 
4. Communists in Albania and Montenegro were recently found to be in   
possession of "instructions" from Moscow recommending that they "cultivate   
the divion between the various religions and direct their attack   
           particularly against the Catholicism."