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...late Catholic Centre Leader Monsignor Ludwig Kaas complained to the President that Herr Hitler "deliberately broke off negotiations"; too late Chairman Fritz Schäffer of the Bavarian People's party telegraphed to the President that he had not even been consulted...
Before proceeding to such a step President von Hindenburg went through the formality of asking Monsignor Ludwig Kaas, chairman of the Catholic Centre (fifth largest party) whether he could form a Cabinet with a "safe majority." The bespectacled Monsignor's answer was of course "nein." The President ignored the Socialists (second largest) and the Communists (third largest). In his quiet study he called a fateful conference of four men whom he trusts: his son and aide Major Oskar von Hindenburg, his State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner. his Acting Chancellor von Papen and Defense Minister-Kurt von Schleicher, the intriguing...
Rupture? In Madrid last week Monsignor Federigo Tedeschini, the Papal Nuncio, was reported to be urging Pope Pius XI not to break openly with the Spanish Republic or pronounce such charges of "unheard of persecution" as His Holiness pronounced recently against the Mexican Republic (TIME, Oct. 10). "The Nuncio . . . feels," cabled Correspondent Frank L. Kluckhohn of the New York Times, "that permitting some kind of worship is better than the church being expelled entirely. ... 'A field abandoned is a field lost' is said to be his view. . . . He feels that a rupture between Spain and the Vatican would...
...Bishop Joseph Schrembs,† who was in charge of the U. S. section of the Dublin Eucharistic Congress last June. Present also were the new Archbishop of St. Paul, the Archbishop of Dubuque, 25 bishops and 2,000 lower clergy and laymen, to welcome to the Episcopate Monsignor James A. McFadden. 51, Cleveland born and reared, chancellor since 1925 of the diocese. Monsignor McFadden was consecrated auxiliary bishop by Bishop Schrembs, with Bishops Michael James Gallagher of Detroit and Thomas Charles O'Reilly of Scranton as assistants. Afterwards there was public dining and speaking...
...Presently 30 more priests were to be called in, so great was the crowd. Bishop Dunn celebrated mass, during which the Knights of St. John stood before the altar rail as a guard of honor, with their shiny swords uplifted during the consecration. The Negro communicants were greeted by Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, St. Patrick's rector, who said: "You are fellow citizens with the saints. . . . There is no one that we welcome with more outstretched arms than we do you." They heard Bishop Dunn read a cablegram of blessing from Pope Pius XI, adding "I am thrilled...