APOLOGY TO POLES
NAZI PAPER OFFENDS
REFERENCE TO MADONNA
PICTURE
WARSAW,'September 6.
The German Minister of Propaganda and. Public Enlightenment, Dr. Goebbels, has apologised to Polish Roman Catholics who were incensed by a writer in the Berlin Nazi paper "Der Arbeifsmann," describing a picture of the Virgin Mary in the celebrated monastery at Czestochowka, 120 miles from Warsaw, as a mixture of Negro and Mongol types.
The Polish Foreign Office protested to Dr. Goebbels aiid ordered the German Embassy to apologise. It thereupon promised to reprimand the journalist and admonish the paper.
Nevertheless thousands of Roman Catholics held meetings and passed anti-Nazi resolutions. *
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 11
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103APOLOGY TO POLES Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 11
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