GERMAN CATHOLICS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1935, Page 9

GERMAN CATHOLICS

REPLY TO GOEBBELS

COURAGEOUS BISHOP

NAZI APPEAL FAILS IN MUNICH

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LONDON, August 12.

The Munich correspondent of "The Times" says that a courageously outspoken reply to the attack by Dr. Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, on Roman Catholicism on August 4 was delivered by the Bishop of Treves at the 700 th anniversary celebrations at Limburg Cathedral.

. He declared that the glorious cathedrals testified to the devoted spirit of medieval Germany, which was insufficiently alive today. Roman Catholics refused to be intimidated.

Nazi uniforms and Swastika flags were conspicuously absent. The streets were decorated with clerical banners, and almost the entire population had prayer books in their hands, a remarkable triumph for Roman Catholicism.

The streets in Munich were unusually empty, despite an appeal to citizens to join special anti-Catholic and antiJewish celebrations. A few demonstrators carried banners caricaturing priests shaking hands with Moscow leaders. Storm Troopers distributed leaflets at houses, ordering residents to gather in the streets and exhibit flags, but few obeyed.

Speaking at a Nazi demonstration at the Essen Aerodrome on August 4, Dr. Goebbels foreshadowed the banning of Christian-Jewish marriages and said that Catholics who had organised underground activity were playing with fire. The next few weeks would disclose their fate. ,