Foreign News: Black Backs Brown

On the subject of honeymoons Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, and Il Papa, Pius XI, are in close harmony (see above). On the subject of Fascism, either black or brown shirted. they are not. Last week, with the German Catholic Centrist party fighting for its life at Adolf Hitler's polls, the Papal daily L'Osservatore Romano deplored the thrusting aside of German Democracy by German Fascism.

Savagely Il Tevere, militant organ of Italian Fascism, retorted: "L'Osservatore contradicts its doctrine [of not interfering in politics] by this comment. . . . 'L'Osservatore shows strange tenderness for...

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