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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...
Actually the Ogpu was not abolished but Dictator Stalin deftly changed its spots, leaving its skin much the same. In most European countries the State police is under the Minister of Interior. Last week Comrade Genrikh Grigorevitch Yagoda, Chief of the Ogpu, was transferred to the newly created Soviet portfolio of Commissar of Interior. He took with him the Ogpu staff, somewhat reduced. Censorship blurred details of the spot-changing, but the official newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") significantly informed Russians that "formation of the Commissariat of Interior does not mean that the campaign against traitors to the Soviet Fatherland and against...
...Comrade Yagoda retains direction of most of his old spies, who now become "agents"' of the Commissariat of Interior. He retains command of a large part of the Ogpu Special Troops, an army of super-drilled and super-equipped Praetorian Guards of the Soviet Regime. Up to now they have "liquidated" with poison gas, machine-guns and shrapnel every trace of political opposition to Dictator Stalin. Most recently wiped out, behind censorship, was a secessionist movement in the Ukraine last winter...
Felicitating the new Commissar of Interior, Pravda exclaimed: "Long has the Ogpu worn a halo formed of the deep love of tens of millions of workers and peasants both in our Soviet land and abroad." This halo, Pravda felt sure, will long remain the radiant nimbus of the Commissariat of Interior...
...record of any of the masters painting any of the pictures at Bardstown. But whether the story is fact or fiction, Bardstown proudly exhibits its Cathedral with the pictures, gift of Louis Philippe, King of France, hanging too high for close inspection, cracking slowly against the rich walnut interior...