GERMAN VESSELS IN BRAZIL

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22905, 29 December 1939, Page 7

GERMAN VESSELS IN BRAZIL

Dash Expected For Home Ports

PREPARATIONS REPORTED

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received December 28, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 27. The Rio de Janeiro correspondent of the “New York Times” says: “The 15 German ships in Brazilian ports are keeping up steam ready to depart. Some are already loaded and others are loading.

“It Is believed that they will leave singly, emulating the Bahia Blanca (8558 tons), which is now conjectured to have reached the Reich safely.”

GERMAN PROTEST REJECTED

INTERNMENT OF GRAF

SPEE’S CREW

(Received December 28, 7 p.m.)

BUENOS AIRES, December 27,

The Argentine Government has rejected Germany’s protest at the internment -of the Admiral Graf Spec’s crew, and has declined a German request that an officer sho\ild accompany each group. The sailors are interned in the interior.

It is announced that the cost of their maintenance will be charged tq Germany.

The police are taking fingerprints and photographs of the crew before issuing identification certificates which will permit freedom of movement within the internment areas.

POPE’S SPEECH TO CARDINALS Warm Praise In Britain EFFECT ON WORLD OPINION (BRITISH OmTCIAZi WIBBI/BSE.) RUGBY, December 27. The Pope’s allocution to the College of Cardinals on Christmas Eve receives considerable prominence and appreciative comment in the British press. The “Daily Telegraph” states: “Many years have passed since there came from the Vatican so stern a censure on the rulers of States or such direct and precise declarations on international policy. The effect on world opinion will be widespread and potent. “Pope Pius XII strove to the last to preserve peace in Europe against Hitler’s fury, and when Poland lay ravaged he declared his faith in her resurrection and denounced the system of Hitlerism. Now his Christ-*-mas allocution opens with a condemnation of ‘a series of acts incompatible with international law and natural*law, and the most elementary feelings of humanity.’

“The atrocities on the bloodstained soil of Poland and Finland he boldly ascribes as acts which call for Divine vengeance. The first of the Pope’s five conditions for peace, justice, and honour was that peace must assure the right to life and freedom of all nations, great and small, and for whatever has bg£n destroyed there must be reparation, “Thus,” states the “Daily Telegraph,” “the head of the Roman Catholic Church tells his peoole in the Reich and others all over Europe and the world that the war must go on until atonement is made for the Fuehrer’s crimes against humanity by German recognition of the wrong done in Czechoslovakia. Poland, and Finland, and the establishment of their freedom.”

The “Daily Telegraph” concludes: “There is no substantial difference between the general definition announced by the Allies of their war aims which must be won and the Pope’s declaration of the condition in which he sees the only possible basis of peace.” The “Manchester Guardian” holds the same view that the Pope’s conditions for a lasting and just peace require freedom for the Czechs, Slovaks. Poles, Finns, and Austrians if it is their wish. The “Manchester Guardian” compares the Pope’s allocution with Mr Roosevelt’s words on his appointment of a personal representative at the Vatican, and it brings out the important point of the similarity which is expressed In each, namely, that the will to peace must be supported by general agreement on the method of bringing it about. The “Manchester Guardian” concludes: “If by their efforts the Pone and Mr Roosevelt can bring earlier that security which we are forced to pursue with arms, the world will have been spared more misery than it now realises.”