National Affairs: Peeved Paper hangers

Not only were Germany-Vatican relations threatened when Chicago's Cardinal Mundelein called Berlin's Adolf Hitler "an Austrian paperhanger, and a poor one at that." Touched on the raw were two Philadelphia locals of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators & Paperhangers of America. Last week they published an angry resolution: ". . . That egotistical anti-Labor dictator might have hung paper at one time, but that does not qualify him for the honorable title 'paperhanger.' . . . The only thing Hitler has hung in the past ten years is the liberty of the German...

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