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...Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism's most experienced critic of Nazi ideology is Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich. In practical dealings with Nazis no German prelate is more adroit than the noble Bishop of Münster, the Most Rev. Clemens August Count von Galen. Example: When Bishop Galen lately preached in his cathedral on the Church's role in the education of youth, a uniformed Nazi leaped up to shout: "How can anybody talk about youth if he himself has neither wife nor child...
Last week Bishop Galen was visiting in Rome. Five days before the Austrian plebiscite (see p. 23), he was drafted by the Holy See to do a diplomatic job of work on a colleague-Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer and the Austrian bishops had admonished Austrian Catholics to vote Ja in the plebiscite, had subscribed that admonition with a fervent "Heil Hitler" (TIME, April 11). The Pope summoned Cardinal Innitzer to the Vatican for an explanation...
Conqueror Chiang immediately made friends with the Chinese businessmen of Shanghai, turned violently antiCommunist, massacred some 3,500 unimportant Shanghai Reds, permitted Propagandist Borodin and General Galen to "escape" to the Soviet Union. He later made Communism a capital crime. General Chiang's only son by his No. 1 wife, Chiang Ching-kuo, had by this time moved to Moscow, busied himself denouncing his father from Soviet platforms, became a Communist...
...Tokyo (TIME, March 23 et ante), but seems in the depths of his complex character to be anti-Red. Just over the Soviet frontier is the Bolshevik Far Eastern Army under able General Vasily Constantinovich Blucher. In 1924-27, Comrade Blucher, under the nom de guerre of "General Galen," was chief military adviser to Generalissimo Chiang, then supplied by Soviet Russia with money and munitions. After the Generalissimo had conquered China and publicly renounced Communism, Red General Galen was permitted to "escape" via Shanghai. He took ship there unmolested and quietly returned to Moscow, trained many a Chinese Red Commander...
...speculating in copper. Year after graduation he took a $3-a-week job as a "ticker boy" to learn the inside of a broker's office. At 21 he was ready to borrow $20,000 from his father, launch his own brokerage business with his officemate Galen L. Stone, whose Milk Street friends put up another $20,000. Hayden, Stone & Co.'s shrewd "market letter" and energetic ways soon brought it a large and profitable clientele...