BRITISH SOLDIERS HIDDEN IN VATICAN
GO a.m.) . LONDON, Dec. 15. During the German occupation of Rome every cardinal’s room in the Vatican was occupied by British soldiers in hiding. said the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham, the Most Reverend Joseph J. Masterton. He said one of the principal Catholics at the Vatican helping British soldiers was Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty. The Gestapo Chief in Rome, after he was arrested, told Monsignor O’Flahert.y that had he been captured he would surely have been executed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22821, 16 December 1948, Page 5
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