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Catholic Angle. Nazi Bürckel front-paged, in Adolf Hitler's personal newspaper last week, photographic reproductions of a letter in which Catholics were urged to vote "Ja" in the coming plebiscite by Vienna Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, who at the bottom of his typewriting added in his own handwriting: "Heil Hitler...
Since some 95% of the Austrian people are Catholics, and since Orator Göring's serious purpose in Vienna was to persuade all Austrians to vote "Ja" on April 10,* the most conciliatory part of the speech was addressed to the Church. "We have no desire to destroy religion," said Hermann Wilhelm Göring. "In Germany we have not destroyed the Church but only the clerical politicians...
Same day Dr. Jacob Weinbach, secretary to Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, announced that all Catholic parishes in Austria will shortly receive a pastoral letter urging Catholics to vote "Ja." Jews have been excluded from voting...
...thousands of Viennese alternately laughed, cried, cheered and were all broken up outside the Imperial Hotel as they clamored for Adolf Hitler. Said a Prussian officer of the Guard, surveying the Viennese through his icy monocle: "Such transports! Berlin itself has never gone as wild as this. Munich perhaps, ja Munich...
...emerged and again could not outroar his welcome. At the third trial the Modern Caesar was heard to cry: "German compatriots! Seventy-five million people in one nation [huzzahs, shrieks] are stirred to the depths of feeling which you are now demonstrating! [pandemonium]. You will all fulfill your oath! (Ja! Ja! Heil! Sieg Heil!) You will ALL fulfill your oath-all of you, from Königsberg to Hamburg and down to Vienna! You do so in deepest emotion. German compatriots- NO FORCE ON EARTH CAN SHAKE...