How Nazi Pressure Is Applied
Coercing Parents
From Our Munich Correspondent
One of the most frequent sources of friction between the nazi authorities iind the Catholic population is the school question.
1Vhile Catholic schools an' fully guaranteed by the COnefirdat with the lloly See, the nazi authorities are employing pressure to discourage the erection of nett' denominational schools and to abolish those already existing.
Recently, the administrative authoritief of Upper Has aria decided that the Catholic school of Englschalking, a Munich suburb, was to he converted into a secular one, against the expressed wishes of the majority of the people. On the strength of this the Munich town council granted funds for rebuilding the school.
G ra nt..Withdrawal
Meanwhile. the archiephiscopul office lodged a protest which had to be conceded as the original decision was clearly a violation of the concordat.
Thereupon the Mayor of Munich has withdrawn the grant to rchaild the school
The purpose of the manceuvre is to induce parents to register their children for the secular school next year as the only means of sending them to a decent hygicaic school-building.