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Noel4e £ ha 2e FRANCE: PROGRESSISTS AND NEUTRALISTS. NOTE: (highly confidential). Informations received by a high-ranking Church authority prove the extgeme importance to be attached to the facts shown in the present extensive report. World attention should be drawn on what is going on in the French elite, : While there are outstanding #renchmen who fight with greatest heroism against prévailing tendencies and consequently ate treated as "warmongers" or as "anti-social and reactionnaries®, other and very influential groups among intellectuals, especially at the University, in colleges and among professional people in the larger cities, have been gained for the cause of the Sovité Union, mostly without realizing this fact. The penetration now has even started in the Church. The Hierarchy has found out these last weeks that communists were on the point of organizing, an entire network within the “Church itself. For each diocese one priest was selected, to replace the Bishop and organize a French National Church, indepenfiant from Rome, in the very moment of a future Russian invasion. Until such event would occur, these communist ecclesiastical agents are not to appear as such. Their main duty at present is to propagate progressism and neutralism among the clergy. It is more than likely that the exFather Boulier, who has been suspended by the Heirarchy for his open communist attitude, is the head or at least the spirit of this agent network and that he is its liaison to the Communist Party. These facts from within the Church are most important to know as background to the attached report. Until further notice however, the remarks contained in this introductory note should not be published. The ecclesiastical Hierarchy is on the point of detecting the whole conspiracy and a premature publication might fe by the Hierarbhy are the official statement of the Paris "Semaine Religieuse" as mentioned in this report and the wamings of "France Catholique"; even more so the recent and confidential prohibition of further admissions of priests into the "Mission de Paris" for industrial work and certain strict ecclesiastical sanctions taken against individual priest;whose communist attachemert s have been found out. The details are not yet to be revealed. Sy.