GERMANY

New Zealand Tablet, 12 June 1913, Page 55

GERMANY

THE JESUIT LAW. A question put in the Reichstag brought the official reply that the vote of that House on the anti-Jesuit law is still under the consideration of the Bundesrat. The Catholic papers are careful to note that nothing was said as to the likelihood of the rejection of the •Reichstag’s resolution, and from this fact they augur that a change in the form of concessions to the Catholics may be made. In some journals it has been hinted (remarks the - Catholic Times) that the Centre Party have made their support of the Government’s military plans conditional on the promise that liberty , ■ shall be granted to the Jesuits for the discharge of their denied by the Catholic leaders and the Catholic press. Dr. Hit2>e, one of the deputies of the Centre in the Reichstag, addressing a meeting recently, said that many of the supporters of the Centre amongst the electorate would have the party pursue a more energetic police and summarised their wishes in the words, ‘ First the Jesuits, then the soldiers.’ But the members of the Centre felt that that would be a short-sighted policy, and, what was worse,

one wanting in patriotism *ln their attitude towards military proposals they were guided not by the desires of the - Chancellor, but by their own views as to the requirements of the nation; In the present instance their views happen to coincide with the Chancellor’s and he must certainly be conscious that their support is exceedingly valuable, nay, indispensable. . 1 .