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...speeches and radio addresses, not to mention minor messages and talks. His visitors comprised all sorts, conditions and faiths. Before 700 gynecologists the Pope discussed painless childbirth; he lectured racing drivers and members of an Italian automobile club on politeness; he received Germany's Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Otto Dibelius and U.S. Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss, the workers of Lombardy, the Roman nobility, 360 U.S. servicemen from NATO, and officials of the U.N. Office of Public Information. Baptist ex-President Harry Truman came to see him, as did Moslem President Sukarno of Indonesia, the Irish Pioneer Total Abstinence Association...
...bridge between different countries." Dr. O. Frederick Nolde of Philadelphia, director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, told the meeting that "experimental tests of nuclear weapons should be discontinued, limited or controlled." His plea was solidly backed by Sir Kenneth Grubb of London, Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Dr. Martin Niemoeller, president of Germany's Evangelical Church of Hesse-Nassau. "As early as 1954," said Niemoeller, "the Pope pointed to the dangers to mankind in the genetic effects of radiation. The churches want to know what the World Council has to say on this question...
Pope Pius XII granted one audience last week that was not listed in Osservatore Romano, and from which the Vatican's photographer was barred. The visitor was Germany's leading Protestant prelate, stern, spike-bearded Bishop Otto Dibelius of the Evangelical Church...
What the Bishop of Rome and the Bishop of Berlin said to each other during their 15 minutes together is an official secret. But German Protestant circles in Rome had it that twice Dibelius raised the subject of Roman Catholic participation in the World Council of Churches, and twice the Pope replied firmly that Rome could not collaborate religiously with any group that puts the Catholic Church on the same level as other creeds...
...ller, neutralist foe of his country's rearmament, began a skirmish with his own Evangelical Lutheran Church. Charged last month with neglecting the spiritual duties of the church's Foreign Bureau, run by him, Niemöller wrote a bitter letter of resignation to famed Bishop Otto Dibelius, tossed in a threat that unless the charges are withdrawn, "I will hold the time ripe to expose the insupportable intrigues that have taken place within the church...