NAZI ALLEGATIONS
BISHOP ACCUSED OF TREASON CASE OVER LETTER TO CARDINAL Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, June 26. Charges of high treason were levelled against the 75-years-old Ludwig Sebastian, Catholic Bishop of Speyer, when he appeared as a witness at the trial at Frankenthal of a priest charged with “ malicious talk.” A Nazi leader asked the bishop if he had written a letter about internal conditions in Germany to a foreign Power. The bishop refused to reply, whereupon the Nazi flourished_ a photostat copy of a letter mentioning quarrels between the Brown Shirts and the Steel Helmets, allegedly written in 1935 by the bishop to Cardinal Pacelli. The prosecutor said this was “ practically treasonable.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 9
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113NAZI ALLEGATIONS Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 9
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