Cornwell is not alone either for one is reminded of the exaggerated claim made by former editor of the Catholic Herald Gerard Noel, in his book «Pius XII the Hound of Hitler» which also claims that Archbishop Pacelli, the then Apostolic Nuncio in Munich 1919, gave «a considerable sum of Church funds» to a «young man (who) had
grave need of funds for his fledgling political party.»