Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-22
Several Priests Defy Hitler
and Speak on Political
Situation, but Action
Against Them Is Delayed.
ANTl.SEMITIC VIOLENCE
INCREASES IN REICH
Kerrl, Der Fuehrers Aide in
Charge of Drive, Believed Map
ping Program to Stife Catholic
and Lutheran Opposition in
Decisive Action.

(Copyrieht, 1895, by the Associated PressD
BERLIN, July 22.-Wilhelm FrlcS,
minister of the interior, ordered all
German state governments today to
forbid all organizations of confessional
lutheran and Roman Catholic)
youth to wear distinctive garb or in
sigma or to march together.
The new order, a direct blow at the
young members of the Lutheran and
Catholic Church political organiza-
tions," followed within few hours
after Reichfuehrer Hitler's newspaper
Voelkischer Beobachter had ranked
political Catholicism as public enemy
No. l" and in the midst of an increaS-
edly heated Nazi campaign against
TIE Jews.
tricks decree ordered the organi-
nations of confessional youth to re-
frain from all quasi-military and ath-
letic sports.
Activities "Overstepped."
The decree declared:
I'm recent times, the observation
has been made in an increasing meas
ure that confessional organizations,
especially Catholic youth formations,
have overstepped the limit set for
their activities by political develop
ments and are unfolding intense &C
tivity in the realms which today are
reserved alone for the Hitler youth as
the youth organization recognized by
the state"
The full machinery of the Nazi
press was invoke III q general fight
against political Catholicism and
Jewry. with both Catholic organiza-
lions and Jews included in the term
'reactionaries."
Two factors, apparently, were de-
laying more stringent action against
both the Roman Catholic and Prot
estant churches - consequently, ar
rests which had been threatened
against all priests who commented on
political subjects from their pulpits
yesterday did not take place.
The first factor is the fact that the
man designated by Reichsfuehrer Hit
Ter to handle religious affairs as a
cabinet minister, Hand Kerrl, has left
on a three weeks leave ito prepare
himself for mastering the task with
which he is charged by Der Fuehrer."
This is interpreted in some church
circles to mean that Kerrl will map
a precise program for action in sitting
the Catholic and Lutheran church
opposition, so that when he returns
the blow will be all the harder.
Catholic Conference.
The second delaying factor is the
approaching conference of all Catholic
bishops August Is at Fulda. AS the
intervening time will be taken up in
negotiations with Rome, the confer
ence will announce Catholic policy
at about the same time Kerrl is ex-
pected to return to Office and an
nounce the Nazi policy.
Even the synagogues were proven
not to be exempt from the anti
Semitic violence of the Nazis yester-
day.
The stately synagogue on Prinz
Regentenstrasse in Western Berlin
was smeared with inscriptions such
as "out with the Jews" while anti
Semitic slogans were painted on the
sidewalks in front.
Swimming establishments in East
ern Berlin, notably the Gruenneide
beaches, were combed for Jews and
any found bathing were chased out.
Other parts of the city also showed
today that Sunday Was employed by
the ardent anti-Semites to assist Paul
Joseph Goebbels, minister of propa-
ganda, in his cleansing of the Jews"
Before one well-known ice cream par
lor owned by a. Jew photographer
stood ready to take a picture of every
gentle who entered.
Violence In Provinces.
Newspapers received over the week
end from the small provincial towns
indicated the language of the press
outside Berlin was cften even more
violent than in the cat ital. Any one
considered a thorn 10 the flesh of
the local party organization was men
toned, with name and address by
the local newspaper.
Lists were published of Aryan girls
accused Of intimate relations with
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