Germany today virtually suspended diplomatic relations with the Vatican in a stinging rebuke to the Holy See for its failure to “discountenance” George Cardinal Mundelein’s recent attack in Chicago on Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the Havas News Agency reported.
In a note handed to the Vatican by German Ambassador Diego Von Bergen, the Reich declared the Holy See’s “unexpected and incomprehensible actions in this affair have suppressed — as long as a rectification is not brought about — the primary conditions for normal relations between the Reich and the Roman Curia.”
German political circles described the note as an ultimatum and indicated that Dr. Von Bergen, who has reached the retirement age, would not be replaced.
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