U.S. AMBASSADOR TO VATICAN

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26560, 24 October 1951, Page 7

U.S. AMBASSADOR TO VATICAN

Battle Likely In Congress I ®fe. » p.m.) WASHINGTON. Oct. 22. * heated battle when Congress re*wae» in January ia likely over the SOPOSed appointment of General Mark t *r. M United States Ambassador to = Opposition to President Truman’s decontinued to-day. but Mr TruK guhowed no sign of retreat. Several £ s“®*" letters and telegrams, mostly S' 8 Woteat, have arrived at the White '4 ?**• Various Protestant ministers have denounced the Ert*" .appointment on the ground £ g».* violates the constitutional ingfffca the Church and State l«lt right asked^Mr ! aßjwCMion of confirmation. S W? resident’s timing was criticised ".?£ Wew York “Herald-Tribune” in I aSftW artlcle - It stated: “When the » »ht General Clark’s nominS?* ” 1 10 the last hours before the E 3? t ?! nent > with the implication that Congress reconvenes it will be ® ZfflPted with a fait accompli of ai E® ■ppointment. he needlessly em- ■ KSS-* con troversy that is all too ■/TJg Ambassador to Oilarch” S k . gr-ecurageous decision, that had not (S». •p’ved at hastily. “General a .** Ambassador to the State - eJslj‘ lt,Can c ’ty. which has a sovftZg’v; population, territory and a gjjgfnt. He is not going to be to the Roman Catholic sources said that Mr lftZli. y ho is a devout Baptist, had grg mmself in advance against ProiZßtStcries states source recalled O’orid-wide controversy General «SL^ CUsed last year hr the disgS*,? h>s war memoirs ”Ca!cu".that he had Strongly opw aSLIS* shelling and bombing of *Xto^ UlO Abbey during the Ital- ( City message quotes the jhfeSP® Osservatore Romano” as W -he nomination of General • ICtaJ!* United States Ambassador to ( as “serving the cause of 'WBMt'ef A , adde d that the establlshdiplomatic relations be--01 United States and the Holy doubtless serve the cause of