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Cardinal Faulhauber thoughtfully inquired about friends in
America and gave me personal greetings for three or four Amer-
ican friends.
We spent about 20 minutes with the venerable cardinal. He
grieved over the awful devastation and the pitiful condition of the
people. Upon leaving his presence we were told by our Army of-
ficer guide-now Public Relations Officer of Munich-that 2 years
ago the Nazis ordered the cardinal's arrest and he sent word to
them that he would present himself for arrest in the cathedral the
next day. As promised, he appeared at the cathedral clothed in
his state robes for arrest, but in the square outside of the cathedral
some 20,000 people had gathered as the word passed around that
their beloved cardinal was to be imprisoned, and the Nazis were
frightened off from making the arrest.
Upon the occupation of Munich by the Americans, Cardinal
Faulhauber issued a statement to the effect that he was glad the
Americans were in Munich and that he would work with them for
the betterment of the people, but if they committed any unwise or
outrageous act, he would be just as critical of them as he had been
of the Nazis.
The cardinal gave an ironical touch to things at the beginning
of the American occupation, when the unpopular fraternization
ban was on. He refused to allow American Catholics to kiss his
ring. "I want to obey the non-fraternization order," he said.
Hitler's Beer Hall
Motoring about the city, we saw that the charming o  Four
Seasons Hotel had been bombed. It is now a hotel for transient
G.I.s. It interested us to note that the notorious Hitler beer hall-
which had strangely escaped damage-is now a Red Cross recrea-
tion center. Everywhere about the gardens of the beer hall-
where Adolph shouted his aims to the first Nazi recruits-we saw
American G.I.s drinking beer.
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