News from Europe

Global Civil Rights: South African Indian Resistance
Roughly 6,000 Indians in South Africa launched the Passive Resistance Campaign against discriminatory racial laws—a significant but globally overshadowed event amid European pre-war anxieties.
Papal Edicts and Catholic Action
Pope Pius XI instituted a ban on Catholic Action, recalibrating Catholic Church involvement in political life. While such religious decrees drew local discussion, the European focus remained riveted on developments in Danzig and border regions.