Oldal 5 [5]
OCR
— page five promised travel permissions for the Evangelical Church Congress in Stuttgart. The reason indicated for this measure was that Bishop Otto Dibelius, at a public appearance, had accompanied Chancellor Adenauer, during the latter's visit in Berlin. For the first time, communist Party newspapers violently attacked the bishop and published the pictures showing him, as he follows the West German Chancellore Sees A A nation-wide Catholic Fongress is panned for the second half of August in Berlin. All the facilities that had been promised - such as travel advantages, mass shelters, public reunion places ~ were F withdrawn in the Kastern sector. There is complete uncertainety left, as--torknonv how xm many of the 135.000 delegates, expected from Eastern G rmany, will actually be allowed to at'end. The Congress as such, according to Berlin authorities, will not be forbidden}; but in the»meantime, the Catiolic Bishop of Berlin, Monsignor Weskamm, has for the first time been refused the right to visit these sections of his diocese, that extend outside of the city, into the Russian Zone proper. All these are gravest forewarning of an open fight that will not be long to start. The recent Berlin Rarty Congress has been, in conclusion, a huge propaganda manifestation. As such however it had symptomatic value; a fact that should not be overlooked. The trends and volicies it depresenteg and proclaimed have nothing new; they have existed before. Now;they are open and official; the unification process has been re-enforced; the Moscowdictated control has been pushed one step ahead. ;
