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...German churchman jangled the Nazis' nerves more successfully than bald, goateed little Dr. Friedrich Otto Dibelius, a Lutheran. Since the war, as Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg, Dr. Dibelius' alert, twinkling-eyed integrity has proved almost equally galling to the Russian occupation authorities, in whose zone his church is located. To register their tacit support of his undercover battle, the Evangelical Church in Germany in its first official meeting this year elected him chairman (TIME...
...Worry. Last week Bishop Dibelius delivered the most ringing condemnation of the Soviet zone's Communist regime that had been made by any churchman in eastern Germany since the war. Wrote he in a Whitsuntide pastoral letter...
...Split. The Communists responded with a radio whoosh of sound & fury to which Berliners have long since become accustomed. Stormed the Red-controlled Berlin Radio: "Clerical quarters" had reported that "a man with such an unsteady character as Bishop Dibelius can no longer remain the head of the [Evangelical] Church...
Today, 68-year-old Bishop Dibelius is again fighting for freedom of the Church-this time, in the Russian zone of Germany, against the Communists. His fearless words, in & out of the pulpit in Berlin, have made him the outstanding spokesman of Protestantism in eastern Germany. By electing him, the Bielefeld delegates have thrown the whole weight of their support to the Church in the east...
Said new Chairman Dibelius: "The Church in the east is already firmly united in its stand. Now that the Protestant Church of all Germany has joined with us, we can carry on the fight with renewed determination...