Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, His Eminence, born a Sudeten Austrian, preached a plain-spoken anti-Nazi sermon at a youth service at St. Stephen's, exhorted 10,000 worshipers to "give outward testimony" of their faith. The "outward testimony" soon took the form of Catholic demonstrations before Nazi sympathizers. The next evening Nazi groups struck back. Storming the archiepiscopal palace adjoining the Cathedral, they hurled stones through the windows, pushed past a gateman, entered the palace itself and indulged in a little looting. Cardinal Innitzer, praying in his private chapel throughout the tumult, was reported to have been slightly injured...
...Sunday, the Cardinal, reported in "protective custody," celebrated Mass while Storm Troopers and police guarded the Cathedral and palace. At night the Nazis, who blamed the rioting on "irresponsible elements" and "Communists," permitted hundreds of Hitler Youth to mill in the square, beat drums and sing while Catholics attended evening service...
From 10 to 10:15 o'clock this morning the Square subway station will hum with the well-ordered bustle of the pride of American youth falling into line. For 900 West Point Cadets will then march through the Yard and then submit to dismisal. At 11:15 one section will be reformed to march to lunch; at 11:45 the other section will also be called to the Union's noon-hour snack...
...schools to children between 6 and 14." Copies hang on classroom walls. Result: "Pupils have become possessed by pathological sexual aberrations." Nazi children are taught that motherhood is a duty, even of unmarried women, and "the number of illegitimate pregnancies and births among the members of the State Youth is tremendous." There is even a standard form for applications by youthful fathers to be declared of age so they can marry their mistresses...
...Prague, a Sudeten German, but anti-Nazi and loyal to the democracy, and Jacob A. De Haas, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships. Both are students of the economic and political background of the greater German movement and the Czech problem. Deutsch was the Czech delegate to the World Youth Congress last summer...