Word: strickland
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...declared the British Blue Book: There can be no doubt that the clergy told the people not to vote for Prime Minister Baron Strickland or his Party, and that was bare-faced political interference which justified postponement of the Maltese Parliamentary elections...
...rejoined the Vatican's White Book last week: The clergy never urged the people to deny their vote to Lord Strickland's or any other party, but the flock were warned not to vote for men whose attitude toward religion has been harmful in the past and may again be so in the future. Far from meddling in politics the Catholic Church was defending religion...
...early in May by the Archbishops of Malta and Gozo in which they declared that the Government of Malta was "in a state of rebellion against the word of the Pope" and announced that "Catholics, therefore, without committing a grave sin, may not vote for the party of Lord Strickland." As a result of this pastoral the Governor, General Sir John Du Cane, postponed the election indefinitely...
...Baron Strickland which His Holiness apparently considered "disobedience" was to keep on the Island of Malta a pro-British priest who wished to stay there but had been ordered by his pro-Italian Bishop to leave. Nearly all the citizens of Malta are Roman Catholic, but between the pro-British and the pro-Italians cleavage is sharp...
...British Blue Book further shows that in March of this year the Holy See informed His Majesty's Government that they "could not consent to a concordat on Malta so long as Lord Strickland [a Roman Catholic] remained in power." Vexed to the bottom of his stubborn Glasgow soul, Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson made his final reply to Pope Pius XI by withdrawing the British Minister to the Holy See, Henry Getty Chilton...