The Archive · 1934

SPEECH-MAKING IN

Berlin, Jan. 14.

The Christmas and New Year li tical truce ended in Germany to-

country.

with demonstrations throughout Chancellor Adolf Hitler met his oldest followers at Detmold; Herr Yon Papen, former Chancellor, who ip "Vice-Chancellor at. present, de-ivered a rousing speech at Gletwit while Dr. Paul Joseph. Goebbe Minister of Propaganda, took yarr in mass meeting held in the square in front' of the Imperial Palace in Berlin.

The most important gathering, however, was. that of war veterans? associations at the Sports Palast in commemoration of the 63rd anniversary of the foundation of the German Empire, This was attended by President von Hindenburg, Bare von Neurath, the Foreign Minister; Gen. Werner von Blomberg, Minister of Defence; and Captain Ernst Roehm, Chief of Staff of the Brown 'A Reichswehr company, goose-stepping, escorted 21 battle torn flags of the old army into the building to the cheers of thousands of Roehm, in a speech, eulo-Hitler as a second His 'k, who had returned from the war an unknown soldier and succeed tan planting a feeling of comrade ip fu the. hearts of the enti In a, speech on of the Third Reich," yon Papen exhaustive the full harmony existi the National Socialist policies and those of the Catholic social doctrine set forth in the encyclic paadzonestmo Anna" of Poy ins XI. detoteyaelferanee of the masses I rights. fe ital and from the despair of proletarianism, higher meaning of the conception lon to" Marxist "and" Communist property, and determined opposi-

steeds," are not only. accepted pimelites by the Hitler Government, it the National Socialist State was the first in the world in which those Catholic principles were put into Vice-Chancellor von Papen with the emphatic statement the German Catholics were. sta—ing with their whole soul and com: letest conviction behind Herr Adolf hitler and his Governmont.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,

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