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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 9

fulminated against him or the State or the Nazi Party. , I neither foresaw nor desired the young people's demonstration which took place after the service. It is untrue to say that young members of the Church sang political songs. I have never spoken the words, 'I have decided on a fight and am ready to await it.'

"I did not overlook the historically significant hour in which my homeland, the Sudetenland, was returned to the Reich, but along with the other German Cardinals I thanked the Fuhrer and ordered a thanksgiving service and the ringing of the' church bells. I still have the conviction that Catholics are bound by conscience to fulfil their oath to defend the rights of God and Church."

A "solemn declaration" by the Roman Catholic Episcopate which was read in the churches throughout Austria on March 18, after the union of Austria with Germany, advised Roman Catholics to vote "Yes" at the plebiscite. The declaration stated: "We issue this appeal without apprehension ,;because the Fuhrer's delegate, Herr Burckel, has informed us that his policy is guided by the words, 'Render unto God that which is God's and unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.'"