Pucci Polemic

The Nazi Transocean News Service is publicizing in Latin America a speech on the U.S. by Monsignor Pucci, "the head of the Vatican Press" (who actually is unofficial but potent). Some of its charges:

AtheisticAmerica. "More than 50% of the [U.S.] population constitutes an atheistic mass."

Birth Control. "The plague of birth control has invaded all nations, but indisputably the U.S. has led the world."

No Protestant Families. "In the U.S. the family, outside the Catholic Church, is family in name only."

Closed-Door Policy. "This country . . . during the 19th Century was able to develop its energies and its riches thanks to the unending stream of men from Europe . . . [but] now has . . . closed its doors in their faces, treating them as tiresome and undesirable beggars."

Monsignor Pucci was for years the best-paid correspondent in Rome--for unless foreign newsmen subscribed to his service it was impossible for them to avoid being scooped on Vatican news. If they wanted an exclusive they had to pay extra.

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