Word: deutschlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then one day a German ship with five nuns aboard foundered in the Thames estuary and the nuns were lost. At 31, with the approval of his rector, Hopkins went back to poetry to write a commemorative ode, The Wreck of the Deutschland. When the editor of a Jesuit periodical rejected it, Hopkins decided never again to ask for publication. But he sent many of his poems to his friend and fellow poet, Robert Bridges, and in 1879 he wrote Bridges: "If anyone shd. like, they might be published after my death...
...High Commissioner for Germany, and new acquaintances, e.g., John D. Rockefeller Jr., 79 (of whom Adenauer said: "I really do not understand why he is still called Junior"). He was touched by his visit to Arlington Cemetery, where a U.S. Army band played The Star Spangled Banner and the Deutschlandlied (purged version of Deutschland Uber Alles) as he laid a wreath on the Unknown Soldier's Tomb. "Such a day," he said, "is more important than many sheets of paper covered with writing...
...however, nor their anti-Nazi activities during the war meant that they were secret adherents of the democracies all along. Two of Dibelius' sons, Franz and Wolfgang, had been killed in action. A hymn Dibelius wrote while they were at the front sounds like a companion piece to Deutschland iiber Alles (beginning: "Surrounded by the power of the foe. arise, thou German land . . ."). Dibelius' essential objection to Naziism, like Niemoller's, was not that it was authoritarian, but that it tried to subvert the Christian church...
...Dibelius got up to preach. His text was Ezekiel 37:22: "And I will make them one nation." And, as he puts it, it was the one sermon of his life that "moved a mountain." The delegates went on to push through the constitution of the Evanglische Kirche in Deutschland (E.K.D.)-the Evangelical Church of Germany. Dibelius, as the leading representative of the Protestant Germany, was elected chairman of its executive council...
...already in custody-Dr. Gustav Scheel, former Nazi Gauleiter for Salzburg, who was one of seven ex-Nazi bigwigs jailed by the British last month on charges of "plotting to regain power" in West Germany. Among those newly arrested are four of the known leaders of the Freikorps Deutschland, a semimilitary, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-Masonic organization that was formed in 1951. The jailed leaders: Hermann Lamp, an unreconstructed ex-SS sergeant; Helmuth Beck-Broichsitter, onetime major in the Grossdeutschland Division, who is also the chairman of a strutting veterans' organization called Bruderschaft; Alfred Frauenfeld, pre-Anschluss...