U.S. ENVOY TO VATICAN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25380, 31 December 1947, Page 5

U.S. ENVOY TO VATICAN

RECALL URGED BY METHODISTS NEW YORK, December 29. The Methodist Federation for Social Action at Kansas City. Missouri, today demanded the recall of Mr Myron Taylor, the Presidential envoy to the Vatican, because of “propaganda emanating from the Vatican calculated to cause a full holy war on Russia.” The federation, on the final day of its convention, said: ‘‘lt becomes increasingly necessary for the United States to clarify its position towards the Vatican, respecting whether it is a State or a church.” The federation also demanded the immediate withdrawn! of American military advisory groups from China and an embargo on the shipment of munitions to China. It urged that the United Nations should halt all military aid by any nation to the Chinese, and “condemned the United States demand to have certain Pacific islands designated as strategic areas by the Security Council so that the United States may have sole trusteeship rights.” Other resolutions called upon the United States and the Soviet to evacuate Korea immediately and arrange for fiee elections there. The State Department was urged to support “the rightful claim” of the Indonesian Republic to full independence. The United Press says that it was brought out in the discussion that the delegates unanimously expected the federation to be placed on the Justice Department’s list of subversive organisations-