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...subject of honeymoons Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, and Il Papa, Pius XI, are in close harmony (see above). On the subject of Fascism, either black or brown shirted. they are not. Last week, with the German Catholic Centrist party fighting for its life at Adolf Hitler's polls, the Papal daily L'Osservatore Romano deplored the thrusting aside of German Democracy by German Fascism...
...tried to call the Reichstag Committee for Protection of Civil Rights to order as its chairman he was shoved out of the chair by six-foot Nazi Lawyer Hans Frank who shouted: "You Marxist liar! You're unfit to preside. I declare myself chairman!" As Socialist, Communist and Centrist committeemen stalked out, one of them lit a cigar, had it wrenched from his teeth by a Nazi who cried: "Show respect to the Chairman...
...Centrist Deputies vainly cried "Shame!" and "Scandal!" Speaker Kerrl drew cheers from Fascist and Nationalist Deputies by shouting: "Today is the 62nd anniversary of the proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles! ... By my order the Imperial flag now flies above this chamber. Glory to the old flag, and to the House of Hohenzollern, glory...
...Though Chancellor von Papen is a Privy Chamberlain to His Holiness Pope Pius XI, though he comes of a family rich for generations, and though he owns Germania, newsorgan of the Catholic Centre Party, he was promptly expelled from the latter's ranks on assuming the Chancellorship. Other Catholic Centrists sympathized with Catholic Centrist Dr. Brüning. When Chancellor von Papen attempted to call on Dr. Brüning he was not admitted, was curtly told that the former Chancellor was "in bed suffering from nervous heart attack...
...vain the new Chancellor addressed an open letter to a high German Catholic prelate, attempted to explain that he had "accepted the President's call not as a party man but as a German." Sternly an official Catholic Centrist manifesto denounced "the frivolous intrigues of constitutionally irresponsible individuals." At Cologne the Party's newsorgan called the new Cabinet "a bad joke," added: "Of all the surprises which domestic politics have recently produced this is the greatest and most painful...