CHOICE OF CARDINAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25396, 28 December 1945, Page 5

CHOICE OF CARDINAL

CI? IT IC ASSAILED JUDGE ANSWERS MINISTER SYDNEY. Dec. 26 The Minister of Immigration and Information, Mr A. A. Calwell, has been attacked for criticising the appointment of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Norman Gilroy, as a cardinal. Mr Justice Brennan, of the Queensland Supreme Court, said: "It ill becoms a Cabinet Minister to speak in derogatory terms of the choice of Dr Gilroy as a cardinal. "It is worse that Mr Calwell should arrogantly assume that his views are those of Australian Catholics. Thank God the Catholic Church is one and undivided and resents and ignores outside interference."

The director and acting-secretary of th Australian Natives' Association, Mr J. Roberts, said: "We object to Air Calwell's suggestion, because Dr Gilroy is a distinguished An/.ac and an Australian, and the Australian Natives' Association stands for Australian appointments where Australians are fitted tor such positions." Air Roberts added that if Mr Calwell's Government objected to the Apostolic Delegate. Archbishop Panico. the proper diplomatic procedure would be to have him recalled through the correct channels and not by violent outbursts in the press. The secretary of the New South W ales branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, Mr .1. R. Lewis, said: "We are vorv pleased that an Australian who served 'with the A.I.K. hns been appointed a cardinal." Dr Gilroy himself would not comment on Mr Calwell's statement.

MASS MURDER CHARGE RUSSIANS TRY GERMANS (Herd. (3.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 27 The trial of a group of German war criminals charged with the mass murder of Soviet citizens, including women and children, has opened before a Russian military tribunal in Briansk, says the .Moscow radio. The accused, who are also charged with looting in the Briansk, Orel and Bobruisk regions, include two generals.

IN POLISH GAOLS THREE BRITISH SUBJECTS WARSAW. Dec. 2fi The British Embassy has reported that two women, both British citizens, and a Canadian man are being held in gaols on the orders of agents of the Polish Ministry of Public Security. •Embassy officials say they have no knowledge of what the three persons are accused of and all efforts to communicate with them so lar have failed. GOVERNMENT RECOGNISED PARIS. Dec. 2(! It is officially 'announced that France has recognised Knver Hodja's Albanian Government and will shortly recognise the Government of Yugoslavia.