CHURCH & POLITICS
GERMAN BISHOP ADVISED TO LEAVE TOWN. FOLLOWING ON ELECTION PROTEST. LONDON, April 28. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says Monsignor Sproll, aged 68, Bishop of Rottenburg and Wurtemberg, has been recommended by the secret police to leave town at least temporarily, because he failed to vote in the Reichstag elections on the ground that he could not conscientiously vote for a Reichstag including enemies of the church. When this became known, demonstrators pulled down a Nazi flag from the episcopal palace, after which the secret police intervened.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1938, Page 2
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