The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-20
hanger" and mot very good one.
 CowardIy, Not to Protest

Cowardly, Not to Protest He protested persecution of the church in a speech before priests of the Chicago Archdiocese Tuesday, saying 1t would be "cowardly" it members of the church did not make some answer to activities of the German government.
 He accused Hitler and his aides of forcing the German people to re- turn to organism.
 Chicago churchmen generally ex- pressed no condemnation of the cardinals address.
 Cardinal Mundelein, first Catholic churchman west of the Atlantic seaboard to be elevated to a car dinars rank, was born July 2, 1872, in St. Nicholas parish on New YorK city's. east side. It was the same neighborhood in which his friend and schoolmate, Cardinal Hayes ot New York, was born.
 The two reached their present rank at the same consistory ana studied under the Christian Broth CTS at the De La Sale Institute. Vatican Statement
 Vatican City, May 20- (UP) - Vatican attaches insisted emphati- cally although privately today that the Holy See did not inspire Car dinal Mundelein's Chicago speech and did not receive an advance copy for approval.
 Officials reiterated that Cardinals are free to make public declarations without consulting the Vatican.
 It was revealed that the Pope, 1T addressing a group of pilgrims from Muenster and Cologne yesterday urged them to stand firm and de- clared he was happy to see them "at a moment when hard and un. just warfare is being waged against religious conscience"
 "Your presence means that you wish to remain in your religion ana faith" the Pope added. we stand with you and pray for you every day"
 It was considered significant that Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican organ, did not publish Car dinal Mundelein's speech or com- ment on it, and that the Italian press also was silent, presumably because Premier Benito MuSSolml prefers to see relations between the Vatican and Germany friendly in- stead of strained.
 | German Protest
 Washington, May 20 - (UP) - Germany has made representations to the state department regarding the speech in which George Car dinal Mundelein of Chicago called Chancellor Adolf Hitler "an Aus trian paperhanger" and criticized the Nazi church policies, 1t was learned today.
 Germany Embassy Counselor Dr. Hans Thomsen called on James Dunn, chief of the western Euro pean section of the state depart ment yesterday and called his at- tention to newspaper reports of the cardinals speech, 1t was learned,
 State department officials said the action could not be considered a formal protest, but diplomatic practice is to regard such a step as a representation" or an in- formal method of complaint.
 It is understood that the em- bassy based its action chiefly on Cardinal Mundelein's remarks about "an Austrian paper hanger"
 Embassy Had No Comment
 The embassy declined to comment on its action, but it was learned that officials made their represen- tations on the basis of ill-feeling created by the criticism of the head of their nation by as prominent a person as the cardinal.
 German anger over the speech was reflected yesterday in bitter announcement of Cardinal Munde- lein in the German press. He was accused in the prominent newspaper Der Angriff, of having insulted "the entire German nation, including German Catholics" The same paper accused him of misrepresenting the attitude of German officials toward the church in Germany.
 The clash between Germans and the cardinal recalled a similar re- cent episode between the German government and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York city. La Guardia in a speech criticized Chancellor Hitler and immediately drew a protest from the German government. Secretary of State Cordell Hull subsequently, expressed regret over the incident.
 Not Like LaGuardia
 Diplomatic experts today said that Germany probably did not formally protest Cardinal Munde- lein's speech in the same way 1t protested LaGuardia's because the cardinal held no official position.
 The embassy's action, therefore, normally would not call for any oficial response by the state de- partment.
 The German Ambassador, Hans Dieckholff,. called at the state de- partment today on a routine courtesy visit to Assistant Secretary of State Wilbur Carr.
 Dieckholff said he did not discuss the Mundelein incident with Carr
 He said he believed the incident was closed so far as official action by the German government in its