Evening star., 1938-10-21
Pope, Assailing
Nazis, Recalls
Nero and Judas
Cites Prosecutions in
His address to
Arche0lOgists.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, Oct. 21.-L'Osser-
vatore Romano. Vatican City news
paper, said today Pope Plus. alluding
to prosecutions of antiquity, had de-
clared that works and personages
better left in oblivion are being called
and recalled on the scene Of life and
action"
1t said the Pope recalled Julian the
Apostate. Nero and the Apostle Judas
in an audience with archeologists at
Castel Gandolfo, his summer palace,
yesterday.
In 4 summary of the Pope's mes
sage. the newspaper said he added
that mot far away quite a different
archaeology is being practiced" from
the mere exhuming of monuments and
studying of dead texts
Asks Considera ton.
AS an old man. the Father wished
TO ask forgiveness of his sons (the
archeologists) if, while they were oc-
cupied with such great and comforting
matters, he asked them to consider
such sad subjects" it added.
1T is erroneous archaeology and
truth which exhumes sinister figures to
bring them back into existence and put
in operation sinister works.
He recalled the work OF Julian the
Apostate with sad. extremely sad, per-
secutions which, if they were not the
most violent and bloodiest, we're ex-
tremely uncompromising, deceitful and
shrewd.
THE work has been revived not
without informers and apostles of the
type and soul of Judas. So saying, the
Pope meant to recall in the minds of
his beloved sons things with which
quite recently newspapers and speak
ers have been concerned-and not
among irresponsible people-which
have surprised and astonished the
world-the honest world accustomed
to honest things.
Profound Source of Grief.
This persecution, which they still
want to deny with truly incredible
audacity in face of evidence of things
which the Pope observes every day in
documents which are ever new, ex-
tremely certain and thoroughly veri-
ned concerning constantly new sit
uations and worse threats, is truly q
profound source of grief
He said it not only as Pope and
AZ father Of Christianity. but also as
a man. In fact, the Pontiff continued,
the dignity OF man seemed to him bad
ly served indeed when one had reached
exactly the same point reached by
Julian the Apostate. even though he
was not the first to blame Christians
for prosecutions with which they were
afflicted. Nero, too, had done it for
the burning of Rome and persecution
which followed it.
so, today, continually and without
respite it happens that on the faith
full, on their fate and on their con-
science blame is laid for prosecutions
which have been noted.
1T is truly strange thing: strange
heights have been reached. Because
it must be said that persecution even
OF the last of the faithful of the last
son intrusted to the care of Jesus
Christ and to his vicar strikes the Pope
as we'll and also persecutions-th is
its true name-together with the
paucity OF accusation. has mounted as
far as the sacred pllrple of a hicl,
pastor. The paternal grief could not
but be, as these sons well understand,
great and profound"
This allusion was regarded in some
quarters as reference to Nazi
charges that Theodore Cardinal In
nitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, brought
recent Nazi raids on his palace on
himself.