Thursday, September 27, 2018

Monday, July 14, 1930: Pope Warns Against Bolshevism; Frick Seeks Citizenship for Hitler


Vatican City:  Pope Pius XII warns the United States that it must “beware lest bolshevism spread in America at this moment of financial depression and unemployment.”  Speaking in a private audience with James H.A. Ryan, Rector of The National Catholic University in Washington, the Pope says, “This is just the ripe time for the spread of bolshevism.  The people of the United States do not realize how far bolshevism has spread.  We hear that, following the market crashes, there has been considerable unemployment.  When the number of people are out of work and when business leaders are crippled by depression and unable to care for them, this is a favorite period for the introduction and development of Bolshevism.”

Weimar, Germany:  Wilhelm Frick, nazi Minister of the Interior and Education in Thuringia, is at it again.  Rumors circulate that Frick intends to try to help nazi party head Adolf Hitler gain German citizenship, for example by appointing him as a police officer in Thuringia.  By law, this would confer on Hitler automatic citizenship.  The nazis evidently hope to avoid the same treatment of Hitler as recently happened to Waldemar Pabst, who, being a German citizen, was deported from Austria for his revolutionary activities (see June 15).
 
Rome:  In response to France’s recent gesture of suspending naval construction, Italy announces it will do the same for six months.  This is considered a significant improvement in relations between the two countries.

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