Word: eivind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time it was Tacoma's burly, New Dealish Congressman John M. Coffee, a man who had inveighed with truculent zeal against Franco, scrap for Japan, and big corporations. Nub of the committee's case: Coffee had taken a $2,500 check from Eivind Anderson, a Tacoma contractor, after helping him get a $93,517 wartime construction job at Fort Lewis...
Tear the Wall. German delegates mingled with such survivors of Nazi oppression as Norway's heroic Bishop Eivind Berggrav, France's Protestant leader Marc Boegner, as the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed for the tearing down of the wall that "separates and divides." Star speaker was Germany's Martin Niemoller*, who made a heartfelt confession of his country's guilt, and at least a partial atone ment for his previous statement that a "good German" does not ask whether or not Germany's cause is just...
...Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Primate of the Norwegian State Lutheran Church, who talked back to Himmler and refused to become a clerical quisling, recalled his 1941 anti-Nazi stand and the five years' imprisonment it cost him: "Don't say it was just myself. I was merely the exponent for what God called me to do. ... I didn't know until these past five years that God could be such a daily reality in my life...
Last week the church revealed that the man in the disguise was none other than its primate, Bishop Eivind Berggrav. During most of the years when Himmler's quislings congratulated themselves that Bishop Berggrav was safely behind bars, he was actually leading one of occupied Europe's most successful undergrounds...
These things, this Christmas Day in his log-cabin prison, Eivind Berggrav surely knows...