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press and information. Holding the
lsst.named post was Raul Apold,
who allegedly was responsible for
the violent attacks on the Church
and clergy which characterized the
anti-Church campaign.
In the meantime, another
prominent figure in the fight
against the Church bowed out of
the political scene. He is Eduar.
do VuIefieh, general secretary
Of the powerful General Confed.
GRAFTON of Labor, and one of
President Psron'S risht-hand
men.
II was Vuletich who, in a May
Day address, prompted the workers
to demand from President Peron
the abrogation of privileges enjoy.
ed by the Church in this predomi.
nantly Catholic nation. The Presi-
dent still hopes to do this through
constitutional assembly that
would partly re-write the consti.
tuition.
With the disappearance of Vule.
itch, the spotlight was focused on
the new general secretary of the
labor organization, Hector Hugo de
Pietro. De Pietro was the first
prominent leader to make state.
ment supporting the thesis that the
Peron regime was calling halt to
its anti.Church campaign. This is
what he said:
Neither the government nor the
General Confederation of Labor
has ever taken a position against
the Church as such. There have
been difficulties with certain in.
dividualS. But now we can expect
tranquility on that score, This is a
time for reconciliation of, all forces
in the nation. There will be no
Church issue, so far as we are con.
cerned."
Meanwhile there were a num-
Der OF developments tending TO
give the impression that Presi.
dent Peron has decided on a re.
vsrsal OF his long feud with the
Church.
In Cordoba, a strongly Catholic
area. Catholic Action centers.
which had been closed after the
Corpus Christi classes in Buenos
Aires on June II, have been allow
ed to reopen.
Federal police in Catamarca
province lifted a decree under
which all Catholic Action meeting
places had been ordered closed.
The Buenos Aires provincial gov.
ernment directed that all club
buildings belonging to Catholic Ac'
ton be returned TO the organiza'
ton.
The last IS OF the 800 catho-
lies detained in the arehdioeesan
palace in Buenos Aires on June
II were released without any
charges being lodged against
them. Prior to that the authori-
ties had released all the priests
who had been arrested on chars-
ex of "disrespeet" toward the re-
qime. This had usually involved
printing and distributing leaflets
Urging Catholics TO stand fast by
the Church in her hour OF perse-
cution.
Measures were taken by police
TO protect Catholic churches in
Buenos Aires after mobS bombed
and pillaged a number of them in
the wake of the abortive uprising.
The conciliatory measures TO
ward the Church--So the inform
ants say-are aimed mainly al
counteracting the effects of the
accommodation automatically In
Cured by the government leaders
Some admit that the removal oi
Borlenghi, Mendez San Martin, ano
Vuletich gives at least temporary
breathing spell TO the Church, bui
the future continues to be Shr0ud
ed in obscurity.
Catholic worShippers, mean
while, staged a spontaneous dem
onstration in BuenoS Aires for the
return of Auxiliary Bishop Manue