Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oslo Group is elderly, conservative Hendrikus Colijn, Premier of The Netherlands. His was the idea of reviving the 1930 group. After much sly spadework it was on his invitation that members of the northern nations met quietly at The Hague on March 3. Premier Colijn has not the youth, the personality, perhaps even the ability of Paul van Zeeland. But he is an important figure. If Paul van Zeeland is quietly to replace him he is very anxious to keep on the best terms with him, and that so far van Zeeland has done...
Catholic priests in Germany, to assert their right to train their own flocks, last week prepared to celebrate a "Sunday of Youth" with mass meetings of Catholic youngsters...
...Berlin diocese, declaring that not more than 58 of Germany's 25,635 priests could be suspected of immorality though the Reich had imprisoned for examination 915 (including lay brothers), ordered a pamphlet to be read from pulpits on the "Sunday of Youth." This was the Church's reply to a tirade three weeks ago by Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels who, as a onetime star pupil of Jesuit priests, perhaps felt specially qualified to speak about the "general shocking decadence of morals'' among the German priesthood...
...pamphlet was to be read, Munich's most popular Catholic priest, Father Rupert Mayr, who lost both legs fighting for the Fatherland and has fearlessly lashed Nazi propaganda, was arrested. This did not prevent young Catholics all over Germany from flocking to their churches on "Sunday of Youth." Hitler Youth Groups were at the churches to meet them, to jeer and catcall from outside while the Catholic pamphlet was being read from the pulpits. The pamphlet made no attempt to deny the charges of immorality-"Weakness and sin have always walked alongside the Church in its passages through...
...Munich after services some priests led their congregations out to defy the noisy Hitler Youth. Fist fights ensued, ten more priests were bundled into jail. In Cologne 60,000 Catholics thronged the Cathedral Square, wildly cheered Cologne's anti-Nazi Archbishop, Joseph Cardinal Schulte...