PAX ROMANA - CONGRESS IN ROME

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600480004-3
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 3, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COU14TRY Italy
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SUB ECT Paz Roman - Congress in Rome
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DIST. 5 June 1947
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SUPPLEMENT
The Pa t-Ror .ana Congress was characterized by an energetic effort o18 'ho part
of t ryr Frv)r. th to Push through a purely French rroaram. Thin aff^rt Pail.e!4A
ase the aim Brae se evident and be auase of the, att tud
i i t xat South American delegates, The French were represented by
about - fifty delegates from all over France,;,
2. The following points are considered to be the more important ones discussed
during the conference:
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(a.)
(b)
(c)
CENTRAL, INTELLIGE~
Finaal establishment of an international Catholic charitable
service which will hold together the different national
Catholic charitable services including the German charities
and the National Catholic Welfare Conference of the United
States a International Catholic Charitable Service will have
headquarters in Fribourg (Switzerland) and will act only as
a fact finding agency. Actual distribution of aid will be
made by Division 4 of Secretariat of State of the Vatican
which is being organized at present. The Holy See will ask
the United States Government to put at the Holy See s s die-
posai twenty railway freight cars for the ser ice. The Holt
Sao will also try to buy twenty-five or thirty Liberty ships,
directly or through private Argentine channeelap to carry
large runts of foodstuffs bought by the Vatican bat which
cannot be delivered to Europe because of lack of transporta-
tion. These ships would sail under the 3"lag of the Holy See.
A permanent committee was farmed including such members of
the interv ational Catholic Intellectual Association, as are
at the same time members of the different Christian Social
or Christian Democratic parties all over the world o This
committee will hold meetings probably every three months o
The next meeting will be hold in May in Ettal (Bavaria),
with the participation of about thrity-five members from
different countries v
Exchange of more detailed news through the center of the
Secretariat of Pax -Romana in Fribourg, Switzerland.
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(d) The suggestion was made and accepted by the Pope to
internationalize the band; of the Vatican (Opera della
Religions). This institute which, until now has been
managed by Italian personnel, will take on international
personnel and will open branches all over the world.
The main purpose of internationalizing Opera dells Re-
ligione is to respond to the more vast financial opera-
tions which, in the next month and years will be re-
quired by the Holy See. These operations are as follows:
(1)
Financing the international Catholic
charitable service.
(2) Helping and financing immigration of
displaced persons, mostl.,y Germans, to
South America, Canada and South Africa
from Europe,
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