THE NAZI CONGRESS Hitler Youth in Rome

From Our German Correspondent The Nazi and the Fascist press have discovered how much the two regimes have in common and that the Europe of to-day has only two real statesmen—Hitler and Mussolini.
At the Nurcmburg Congress Hitler gave a cordial welcome to the delegation of the Fascist Party of Italy, and in many speeches during the Congress Italy was referred to in the most flattering terms.
It is a favourite formula of the German press that the League of Nations has become a tool of Bolshevism and world Jewry and that only such men as Hitler and Mussolini can lead the way to a better form of international co-operation.
Disappointing Reactions
Reports in the Italian press about the Nuremburg Congress were favourable and polite but much less enthusiastic than the Nazis had hoped.
Italian newspapers remained rather cool about the anti-Russian crusade and showed no interest at all for the vehement attacks on the Jews. Some Italian newspapers )1/pit even so far— and they could not possibly have done so without the authorisation of the cornpetent Fascist authorities—as to criticise in unfriendly terms what they call the new German Imperialism.
In the Illustrazione Italiana of Milan, " Spectator " writes in an article entitled " War of Religion or Germanic Imperialism?" that the attacks of the Nuremburg Congress against Bolshevism are but a tremendous political comedy which may allow Germany to rearm at the greatest speed with the least disencouragement from the rest ofEurope.
" Spectator " thinks it suspicious that a man like Hitler should want to be regarded as the protector of Western civilisation. The Nazi ideology which denies the Roman Christian spirit is opposed to the authentic spirit of occidental civilisation.
The author protests against the alternative: National Socialism — Bolshevism which tries to give the idea that there is nothing else outside those two ideologies.
Enthusiastic Tour At the same time, however, more than 450 members of the Hitler Youth made an official tour through Italy and were enthusiastically received wherever they came. Italian groups are touring the Third Reich with the same success.
In Rome Signor Ricci, Secretary of State and leader of the Balifla Youth organisation, addressed the young Nazis and used the opportunity for an attack on Bolshevism and on the League of Nations which he seemed to range in the same category.
" If the old world believes that the machinations of Bolshevism and of the League of Nations are more vital than the relations between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, it is gravely mistaken. The light which goes out from Rome and Berlin and the will which goes out from Berlin and Rome are stronger."
to the functioning of the Church and desires contact, close and sympathetic, between clergy and laity.
The modern touch was provided for me by the interest aroused in Italy by the election next month of the Father Provincial of Rome.
If I may so speak of a man who has no desire for temporal glory, one of my most charming hosts, Fr. Antonino Silli, now acting as Roman Provincial, was one of the leading candidates to the important office. Because of his youth and his per
Senality.
Hundreds of thousands who have heard him preach and watched his career await eagerly the result of the November election in Rome.
Another Bede Jarrett
Father Silli is a Florentine, well under 40 but looks far younger. His capacity for hard work is proverbial in Rome. Yet this vicar of the Church of Santa Maria Supra Minerva is never too busy to receive any caller, no matter how humble, and his fine, sensitive face is always recognised by the people of Rome and Florence.
Such demands are made on him that this summer, his holiday was curtailed to five days. His time was passed at Carrara, the city of marble, with his brother's family.
Even here the call of duty followed him and his mornings, spent on the beach of Marina nearby were not idle " dulce far n iente."
In a beach chair, this modern priest dealt with his accumulated correspondence, interrupted only by occasional romps with his six-year-old nephew, Giorgio. In addition to his work as Padre Priore, he is secretary of the Beate Anglico Institute of Sacred Art in Rome, now flourishing in proportion to the ecclesiastical renovating and building, so prevalent now throughout Italy.
I can perhaps but bring home the impression he made by calling him the "Bede Jarrett " of Italy.
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