"Last Warning!"

Pouncing on the ancient Carmelite monasteries and nunneries which dot the Rhineland and Westphalia, Nazi secret police last week burst in, searched abbots and mother superiors, monks and nuns. One venerable mother superior died of a stroke amid the raids. Next day the Realmgovernment, concealing all details, announced that batches of Carmelites were under arrest for evading Nazi currency control restrictions, smuggling out of the Fatherland some 2,500,000 marks ($1,000,000).

In the absence of all proof, Nazis pack-jammed the Munich beer hall in. which Corporal Hitler and General Ludendorff attempted the abortive putsch of 1923. Neither was present last week, but a lawyer friend of Ludendorff, Herr Robert Schneider, worked the crowd up to frenzy with attacks on the Papacy "for actively cooperating to encircle Germany in 1914 and provoke the World War!" This villainy Orator Schneider, who occasionally got his Popes and their characteristics mixed in the torrent of his harangue, seemed to attribute chiefly to peace-loving Pius X. Shouts of "Traitor!" and "Expel him!" filled the beer hall when Cardinal Faulhaber of Munich was accused by Lawyer Schneider of permitting anti-Nazi sermons by German prelates to be translated into French, "after which they can be used against us by the French!"

Same night Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick announced at Nurnberg to 75,000 assembled Nazis that the Realm-government is about ready to smash opposition in the German Protestant Church to Adolf Hitler's hand-picked Realm-bishop Ludwig Mueller, promoted at a single bound from the rank of a common Army chaplain (TIME, July 10, 1933). "This is my last warning to Protestant Opposition pastors!" cried Dr. Frick, and closed with a eulogy of No. 1 Brownshirt Jewbaiter Julius Streicher (see below): "Our two glorious years of intensive anti-Jewish policy would have been impossible without Streicher!"

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