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Ordeal and Rebirth. Yet when the war came, the legends of resistance seeping out of occupied countries were starred with names of heroic men of God. Niemöller, Faulhaber and Galen in Germany itself, Hlond in Poland, De Jong in Holland, Damaskinos* in Greece and the aged Patriarch Gavrilo Dozich in Yugoslavia, all stood firm against the Nazis. With them stood a host of unnamed churchmen, like the 1,300 priests slaughtered in Poland, the priest and the pastor in Czechoslovakia who together faced a firing squad avenging the death of Heydrich the Hangman, and the French priest active...
...restatement of some of the ideas of Author Wylie's recent Generation of Vipers (TIME, Jan. 18, 1943), the framework is a ghost story. Ann Gracey, war widow agreed to rent her haunted house to John Galen, a biochemist, who had just learned that he was epileptic and in danger of madness. The developing love of these two, and the search for the "It" hidden in the house share interest with the author's views on religion, politics, art, and-above all-death. Provocative. General
Lanky, native-wise Lieut. Galen H. Sturgeon read a proclamation establishing military government, enjoining the natives to help the U.S. An interpreter shouted his echo. The natives, in brilliant ragbag costumes, listened, their long, brown faces expressionless. Then an old chief asked: "May we pray...
Samuel Haydock, Walter Sumner Hayward, Jr., Brooks Nye Heath, Nelson Fischer Hermance, Jr., Harry Lindley Hosford, Jr., Richard Farnsworth Hunnewell, Paul James Kirby, Robert Galen Knight, Francis Edward Lawlor, George Knowlton Lewis, Gustaf Berg Lindquist, Stuart McCarty, Joseph Berard McGrath, Charles Fessenden Morse, 3d., George Nakhnikian, Richard Ober, John Aloysius O'Keefe, 3d., Austin Gill Olney, William Preston Palmer, Jr., Bruce Brandon Phemister, Gerard William Renner, Charles Snelling Robinson, 2d., James Tracy Ronan, Constantine Constantine Spillotakis, Albert Myer Starr, Donald Bruce Talmage, Michael Barrett Thompson, Samuel Lombard Tucker, Charles Bingham Penrose Van Pelt, Burton Ebert Van Vort, John Damien Walsh...
...Dusen's most ardent pages concern the heroic German Churchmen, Niemöller, Faulhaber and Von Galen, who have defied the Nazis in the name of Christ. Humor has been among their weapons. When Von Galen preached in Münster Cathedral against Nazi doctrines on the family and education, a Brown Shirt cried out that no celibate should talk about such matters. Cried the Bishop to his heckler: "Never will I tolerate any reflection on our beloved Führer...