Friday, July 24, 2015

ADSS 1.78 Maglione to Cortesi: request to Polish clergy to urge calm.


ADSS 1.78 Luigi Maglione, Sec State, to Filippo Cortesi, Poland.

Reference: AES 4182/39, Domenico Tardini draft.

Location and date: Vatican, 30.06.1939

Summary statement: Encourage Hlond to exert moderating influence on the clergy.

Language: Italian

Text:

In consideration of the present excitement and of the consequent risk of dangerous complications, the Holy Father, deeply concerned, asks your Excellency to invite Cardinal Hlond in a very confidential way to exhort and to guide, with his well-known zeal and tact, the Polish Clergy to exert a moderating action on the faithful.

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