`NO ATTACK ON FRANCE'

Cardinal Feltin writes to Bishop Heenan BISHOP HEENAN of Leeds has received a letter from Cardinal Feltin, Archbishop of Paris, conveying his sympathy with the Bishop in connection with recent references to France in an address to the Leeds Rotary Club.
Bishop Heenan was reported to have said that France would never fight again. that half the French were Communists, and that the French were a nation of alcoholics.
In a letter to The Times he said he had been misunderstood because certain papers isolated his comments on France from their context. He added that the Leeds Rotary Club secretary had sent his regrets that unfair reports had given an impression that was not apparent at the meeting. Cardinal Feltin says that it is quite clear to him that Bishop Heenan's -211111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 comments on France were misunderstood and that he is quite sure the Bishop did not intend to make any unfair attack on France.
The opinion of some people, that he did make an unfair attack, was due, says the Cardinal, to faulty reporting.