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Adolf Hitler had one of his better tantrums last week. Once more the pudgy but intuitive little Führer put the fear of Wotan into baffled British statesmen, and once more France was a prey to apprehensive fury as the Berlin-Rome Axis...
...charges had been heard that the whole "Leipzig incident" was a Nazi fiction or nightmare. The visit of Baron von Neurath to London was expected to reduce feverish international wrangling over Spain to a cool, almost a British temperature-and then suddenly in Berlin last week the Führer summoned his Cabinet, had his tantrum...
When the German Cabinet convened, the Führer spoke with rising fervor for nearly an hour and a half. The condensed official summary issued afterward ran to nine typewritten pages of fulminations against "the Bolshevist incendiaries of Valencia" and praise for the attitude of Benito Mussolini "which absolutely corresponds with that of Germany!" Even the newsorgan closest to mild von Neurath screamed in Berlin: "The only way to cope with the Red pirates is to weaken their military position...
...Spain, they would withdraw their warships from its neutral patrol of Spanish waters. In this move by Rome & Berlin, Prime Minister Chamberlain saw an opening to suggest that British and French ships would be willing to fill any gaps in the patrol-a suggestion which Der Führer and II Duce angrily rejected within 48 hours-and Mr. Chamberlain went on to make a speech soon warmly praised by German papers. "I must say I think the German Government . . . have shown a degree of restraint which we all recognize," cried Neville Chamberlain. Of the German claims in connection with...
Adolf Hitler was born & bred a Catholic and his first political stronghold was Bavaria, the most intensely Catholic part of the Reich. Last week on the Führer's orders Bavarian Minister of Interior Adolf Wagner closed every Catholic public school in Bavaria, fired 670 teachers, secularized 966 schools. This was in flagrant violation of the Nazi Concordat with the Vatican (TIME, July 17, 1933 and ailing Pope Pius, attended by twelve cardinals, was reported to feel that an open diplomatic rupture between the Hooked-Cross (Swastika) and the Cross cannot be much longer avoided. Meanwhile the great...