Evening star., 1938-07-30
L DUCE, ANGERED,
.LASHES POPE FOR
ARYAN|SM ATTACK
New Fight Flares Between
Vatican and Rome on
Race Doctrine.
FASCISTS' NEW THEORIES
APPLIED TO LA GUARDlA
New York Mayor Has No Right
to Claim He Is Italian,
Says Newspaper.
BACKGROUND


BACKGROUND
Vatican and Italian government
signed in 1929 Lateren treaty set
tling long-standing quarrel ouer
temporal authority OF the Pope.
At Ddrious times since then the
ponti6 has struck out at Fascist
practices.
Thursday, in addressing qroup
OF students at Castel Gandolto, his
summer residence, he assailed
ltaly's tolloDing Germany in racial
doctrine.
Rv the Associated Press.
FORL1. Italy, July 3O.-A new dis
pute between the Italian state and
the Catholic Church burst into the
open today as a result of the recent
PRONUNCIATION of Fascist doctrine of
race.
Premier Mussolini, apparently an
gered by Pope Plus assertions that he
was initiating Nazi Germany, count
cred with the blunt retort that such
statement was absurd"
The controversy awakened echoes of
years OF friction between the HOLY See
and italian state which patriotic and
oevout Italian Catholics hoped had
been banished forever by the Lateran
treaties of 1929 which Mussolini nego-
lated with the Vatican.
Addressing group of Fascist party
omclals in camp at Forli, Mussolini
asserted. You know and every one
knows that also on the question Of race
We will shoot straight,
To say that Fascism has initiated
any one or anything is simply absurd"
La Guardia Attacked.
In Rome, the Fascist newspaper n
Tevere applied the Fascist race doc
trine to Mayor La Guardia of New
YORK by saying he had no right to be-
long to our race" La Guardia is
partly italian and partly of Hebrew
origin.
Replying to another Rome news
paper. d Piccolo, which recently char
acteriSed La Guardia as the "popular
Italo-American Mayor Of New York"
II Tevere said:
Popular La Guardia? Without
doubt. At the time Of sanctions in
1act ne won large and well merited
popularity by delivering a series of in
famous speeches against Italy seeking,
mongrel that he is. to take ADVANTAGE
OF MS origin geographical, but not
chronological, because he does not be-
long to our race to bring pressure on
Italians OF New York and open an
ABYSS between them and Fascist Or
ganizations. -
Pope Quoted on RaciaIism.
LOsservatore Romano, Vatican
newspaper, yesterday quoted the Pope
IN discussing the race doctrine as
asking, why in the world Italy un-
fortunately felt the need to initiate
Germany?"
The Pope was addressing missionary
students Of 81 nationalities who visited
him Thursday at his summer resi-
dence, Castel Gandolfo.
Mussolini, who left Rome yesterday
Tor his summer place at Rocca della
Caminate, arose early today to make
his reply.
At am. he went to camp and
made an inspection. Then he ad-
dressed the Fascist officials.
The two sentences from his talk
referring to imitation of Nazi Ger
many were distributed by Stefani.
official Italian news agency. No
further quotes were made available,
New Catholic Uneasiness.
Mussolinis remarks were the sharp
est he had used in years toward the
Vatican and caused a new uneasi-
ness among Catholics over whether
the present trend of Fascism was
heading toward a break with the
church.
Before speaking to the officials,
II Duce reviewed a parade Of Fascist
youths at the camp. They performed
the Roman step, or Italian version
of the goosestep, which is held by
many also to have been borrowed
from Germany, but which Fascists
insist really is of ancient Roman
origin.
After leaving the camp, Mussolini
climbed into tri-motored airplane
and piloted it himself on a trip along
the nearby Adriatic coast.
Referred to Race Doctrine.
The Pope in his address referred to
the new Fascist race doctrine, which
holds that Jews do not belong to the
Italian race" but did not mention
Jews by name.
Referring to the universally of the
Catholic faith he said: Separation,
no: We 90 not want to separate any
thing in the human family. And
racialism, as commonly spoken of.
means barriers erected between men
and other men, between folk and other
folk"
The Pope also replied to newspaper
attacks against Catholic Action, a lay
organization, by declaring:
Who Injuries Catholic Action. in
jures the Pope and who injuries the
Pope, dies" The dies" was interpreted
to mean dies spiritually"
Pope Draws German Ire.
BERLIN, July 80 (P.-Pope Plus
denunciation of Fascist racial teach
ing and warning against attacks on
Catholic Action, drew the ire of the
German press today.
DR.. Paul Joseph Goebbels' organ
Der Angriff, was most aggressive of
the Berlin papers.
The Vatican warns against at
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