English Churchmen Offend Italian Press
(Received 2.30 p.m.) ROME, March 21. The Italian Press is indignant over the. Dean, of Winchester, Dr. E, G. Selwyn, comparing Mussolini, in connection with the Abyssinian campaign, with the Assyrian Emperor, Antiochus, a madman. One paper declares that the iniquitous, bloodthirsty Archbishop of Canterbury recently put a sacriligious finger into Italy’s wounds in a way which no gentleman’s agreement can obliterate. Now the Dean of Winchester has idiotically trespassed. . “As the Anglican Church is a State church, we ask whether these attacks, are' hot made to please the British Government?” asks another publication. -
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Northern Advocate, 23 March 1937, Page 5
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