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Knife Night. For the next hour Chancellor Hitler's address rambled darkly among the alleged plots of the men shot by his orders. Tears streamed down his face as he told of a five-hour soul struggle between himself and Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm. "I adjured him for the last time voluntarily to abandon this madness. . . . The result of our conversation, however, turned out to be that Roehm, realizing he in no circumstances could count on me for his scheme, started preparations to eliminate me personally." The scheme (and Herr Hitler's allusions to it were maddeningly...
According to Chancellor Hitler he was and is the champion of the career Reichswehr generals and President von Hindenburg. The nefarious plotters, he said, included onetime Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, Reichswehr careerist par excellence, Captain Roehm and "a foreign diplomat." Simple Storm Troopers, declared the Chancellor, knew nothing of this plotted coup against the Reichswehr. They naively supposed that what was wanted was a "new and in this case a bloody uprising?'The Night of the Long Knives'?as it was gruesomely described...
Same day in Vatican City the Osservatore Romano, official newsorgan of the Holy See, declared that the recent "blood purge" and "unheard of cruelties" of Adolf Hitler were the direct result of Nazi pagan teaching. "It is incredible and shocking that final religious solace was denied to the men doomed," declared Osservatore. "A drop of liquor and a cigaret were not refused, yet Christ was denied to these unfortunate Germans. How sad their agony must have been. It is unheard of and terrifying to refuse to souls their supreme comfort: God's forgiveness. For the essence of Christianity...
Meanwhile German Protestants were gagged last week by Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick. In an effort to force all groups under a new German Protestant Constitution to be drawn up by Dr. Ludwig Müller, a onetime Army chaplain who was made Reichsbischof by Chancellor Hitler (TIME, July 10, 1933), Dr. Frick decreed that there shall be "no discussion of church policies" in public assemblies of three or more persons or by printed or written words. Only the Reichsbischof did Dr. Frick except from this gag, and to him all other Protestants were supposed to listen in obedient silence...
...well, thus bringing under his direct control the entire armed forces of Austria as well as the police. Since the Dollfuss Government seemed about to resort to bloody execution to enforce its anti-explosives decree, the official press printed a plethora of alibis in advance. "Responsibility rests on Adolf Hitler," declared the Abendzeitung. "He has forced us to raise our hands for a last blow at the Brown criminal gangs organized in Austria by German agents. Austria must safeguard herself against the anarchy that prevails in Germany...