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Catholics of the country, but also among the Orthodox Russians.
It may be, our observers point out, that this sudden surge of in¬
terest is due to the vitriolic attacks of the Soviet press on the
Pope which naturally should draw the interest on the matter. Be
4t as it may, this seems to be the very first time in which some¬
thing irom the West has made a definite hit with the Russians
and has got through at least to a certain number of people. In
fact this has gone so far, that the Soviet press itself had to
take a stand on the matter and to attack the Papal message, re¬
fraining from verbal quotations. The result was an even ereater
Snereese in public attention. Our observers are deeply impressed
by this fact, and though several of them are not of tve religious
type, they unanimously point out that this ought to be a lesson
to Western Political Warfare. It is, that the political and econo=
mic approach to the Russian people will not carry us very fare
But that we might score heavily if we widely used the religious ;
approach to a nation, which despite more than thirty years of offis
c4 1 atheism is still in the bottom of its heart a religious
nations