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...delegates to the first meeting, in Chichester, England, of the World Council of Churches' central committee. Five of the nine were front-line veterans of the fight against totalitarianism. Pastor Martin Niemöller had spent eight years in a Nazi concentration camp; Norway's Bishop Arne Fjellbu was a leader in his country's wartime underground; Dr. Hendrick Kraemer was a member of the Dutch resistance movement; Germany's Bishop Otto Dibelius, who fought the Nazis for ten years, is now fighting the Communists in the Eastern part of his diocese; Dr. Joseph L. Hromadka...
...Bishop Fjellbu (pronounced fyellboo) warned against any "attempt to pass judgment on capitalism and communism as economic systems"; the church, he said, should condemn "only a totalitarianism which makes claims on the whole man and seeks to restrict his religious freedom." Bishop Dibelius, who referred to Western Berlin as "a fortress amid the Red Sea," wanted strong language...
From war-wasted northern Norway came a ringing call to religious arms. Said Bishop Arne Fjellbu of the Norwegian State Church (Lutheran), in his first official statement since he returned from exile (TIME...
Then suddenly, in February 1942, 54-year-old Dean Fjellbu was fed up. Calmly, and with certain knowledge of the consequences, he preached a defiant anti-Nazi sermon (TIME, Dec. 25). For over a year the quisling police kept him under house arrest, then banished him with his family to the Lofoten Islands...
...months ago he escaped to Sweden. Last week came news that the Norwegian Government in London had restored him to the fight against the Nazis by appointing him Bishop of Liberated Norway. Now, on the tiny stretch of land freed by the Red Army, Bishop Fjellbu can preach as he wishes...