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JANUARY: On January 10 of this year the Austrian ambassador to the Holy See complains, in a handwritten letter in French addressed to Eugenio Pacelli of the Vatican's Department of Extraordinary Affairs, that he is aware of rumors, including a newspaper article in Belgrade published in November of last year, regarding moves being made by Serbia to reform the protection of Catholics within its territories. He warns the Vatican that the Austrian government regards its Balkan protectorate, an area which it had held "since time immemorial", to be a matter "not of rights, but of duties." The letter is scornful of the idea that Serbia was trying to "emancipate the Catholics living in its territories, releasing them from the yoke of Austria, and replacing foreign priests with indigenous ones." The Austrian ambassador ends the note with a request for confirmation that the Holy See would agree with the Austrian government's views on the need to retain the protectorate. (SOURCE: Hitler's Pope The Secret History of Pius XII by JOHN CORNWELL PENGUIN BOOKS NEW YORK ((paperback)) 2000, pg. 52).
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FEBRUARY: On February 4 of this year in Europe the Austrian ambassador to the Holy See sends another diplomatic note to Monsignor Eugenio Pacelli of the Vatican's Department of Extraordinary Affairs. In this note the Ambassador says that the parish priest of Uskub had been approached by someone from the Serbian ministry of religion; this person, according to the ambassador, asked how many Catholics lived in the diocese, what were the diocese's revenues and what properties did it own. There were also questions regarding the archbishop's establishment. The ambassador went on to write that, "Our consul in Uskub has asked the parish priest to refuse these requests for information." He ended the note by reminding Pacelli that he had already asked for clarification, and was seeking it again. (SOURCE: Hitler's Pope The Secret History of Pius XII by JOHN CORNWELL PENGUIN BOOKS NEW YORK ((paperback)) 2000, pg. 52).
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On February 15 of this year in Europe Archbishop Rafaele Scapinelli, the Vatican's nuncio in Vienna, Austria, sends a letter to Monsignor Eugenio Pacelli of the Vatican's Department of Extraordinary Affairs. In this letter, Archbishop Scapinelli tells Pacelli about his recent meetings with Serbian diplomats. Scapinelli has apparently not been told about developments regarding negotiation of a possible concordat with Serbia, but he has guessed what was transpiring and has taken it upon himself to set out both the plusses and the minuses of such a treaty. He concedes that, on balance, such a concordat would create new prospects for Catholic influence in the Balkans ("where Catholics are considered foreigners with no impact on the political and cultural life of the country"). However, ends the letter with the following observation:
"Austria, however, appears determined to deal harshly with Serbia, and it is widely believed that there could be a war with that country in the spring, further complicating matters in the extreme. Would it not be better to leave [the concordat negotiations] for now rather than take the risks in an uncertain and perilous set of circumstances that can only end with military humiliation for Serbia; for Serbia is a focus of attraction for the ambitions of the South Balkan states-all of which seems destined to threaten the integrity of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?" (SOURCE: Hitler's Pope The Secret History of Pius XII by JOHN CORNWELL PENGUIN BOOKS NEW YORK ((paperback)) 2000, pg. 53).
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MARCH
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MAY: On May 24 of this year, Adolf Hitler, who is now 24 years old, leaves the Mannerheim boarding house in Vienna for the last time. He is headed by train for Munich in Germany. He has just barely been able to eke out a living in Vienna as a very minor painter of watercolors, and he has not had any professional training as an architect. What he has done mostly with his time in Vienna is to carefully study the various Austrian political parties and to store up knowledge about what "works" poitically for his own future use. It was while he was living in Vienna that he formed what was to become a lifelong, consuming hatred of the Jews.
As he heads for Munich he has no definite prospects of getting a steady job, and he may be crossing the border to avoid service in the Austrian Army. He had been eligible for service ever since 1910, when he had turned twenty-one, but he had never volunteered, and the Austrian authorities had never been able to catch up with him to enforce the requirement.
On May 25 of this year, a Sunday, Adolf Hitler arrives in Munich by train from Vienna, Austria. He soon takes a room in a local boarding house, and buys an easel and tries to make a living as an artist, but he finds the going very difficult. (SOURCE: Adolf Hitler by JOHN TOLAND BALLANTINE BOOKS NEW YORK ((paperback)) April 1981, pp. 52-53).
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WHOLE YEAR: During this year, as it has been doing for several years now, Germany has been donating more funds to the Catholic Church's Holy See in Rome than have all the other nations of the world combined. (SOURCE: Hitler's Pope The Secret History of Pius XII by JOHN CORNWELL PENGUIN BOOKS NEW YORK ((paperback)) 2000, pg. 80).
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NO SPECIFIC DATE: At some time during this year the New York Times vacates the tower in the middle of Times Square into which it had moved in 1904. The newspaper moves to another building in the same neighborhood. (SOURCE: http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Times_Square).
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NO SPECIFIC DATE: By this year the population of Munich in Bavaria reaches 600,000 persons, and it has become quite a cosmopolitan city. (SOURCE: Adolf Hitler by JOHN TOLAND BALLANTINE BOOKS NEW YORK ((paperback)) April 1981, pg. 53).
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NO SPECIFIC DATE: At some time during this year in the United States of America Fred H. Wells starts a milk delivery company in Le Mars, Iowa when he pays $250.00 to a local dairy farmer named Ray Bowers in return for the goodwill of Mr. Bowers' dairy business, as well as a horse, a delivery wagon and some assorted cans and jars. Under the contract with Mr. Bowers, Mr. Wells is given the milk distribution route formerly owned by Mr. Bowers, and Mr. Wells is also assured of a supply of raw milk from the fifteen cows on Mr. Bowers' farm. (SOURCE: See history fact sheet onWells Enterprises, Inc. website here:).