Word: eidem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powerful searchlights were turned on Stockholm's famed modernistic Town Hall and the massive Royal Palace as over 100,000 took their stand along the twinkling waterways and King Gustaf led his guests, after a State banquet, into the Royal Church. Solemnly the Archbishop of Sweden, Dr. Erling Eidem, prayed that the Scandinavian kings and President Kallio may receive "strength to wage the struggle against the forces of evil presently rampant in the world...
...mother had worn at her own wedding 30 years ago. Her bouquet was a small bunch of lilies of the valley. Sober Crown Prince Frederick wore the blue-black uniform of a Danish naval officer with a blue sash. To the chancel rail came lantern-jawed Archbishop Erling Eidem, and after him the Princess repeated...
...emissary went to Adolf Hitler last week, presented the compliments of Lutheran Archbishop Erling Eidem of Sweden and told the Chancellor: "The persecution and dismissal of opposition pastors from the German Evangelical Church is a disgrace to Germany." Touched on a tender spot, Herr Hitler roared at his Reich Bishop, shaven-headed Ludwig Müller: "There must be peace in the German Protestant Church by May 1." Reich Bishop Müller roared at the pastors: "There must be peace." "Peace," echoed the pastors, for whom religion in Germany was less than ever a thing of peace last week...