As you must know, His Grace Stepinac has now returned to Zagreb after a twelve-day visit to Rome. He was in fine form and took a pugnacious attitude to all enemies of the State! He submitted to the
Holy Father a nine-page type-written report. He showed it to me and I can assure you it stands for our point of view. In attacking the Serbs, Chetniks and Communists, he has found things to say which even I had not thought of. No one will be allowed to attack the Independent State of Croatia and show the Croatian people in a bad light.
This was precisely the reason why he went to Rome, in order to stigmatize the lies that have spread in regard to the Holy See.
