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Freshman Squash Racquets--Coach: John M. Barnaby II '32; aptain: Galen...
Another Niemöller has arisen in Germany-this time a Roman Catholic, Count Clemens August von Galen, Bishop of Minister in Westphalia. In August he denounced Naziism three times from his pulpit so vigorously that according to news which percolated to the U.S. last week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler has urged Hitler to have him shot. To date he las not been touched, for his influence on the workers of Westphalia is so great, and the news of his resistance has grapevined so rapidly throughout the Reich, that the Mazis fear there would be a major work stoppage...
Bishop von Galen's sermons followed two attacks: one by British bombers which gave Münster one of the worst poundings any German city has yet suffered, the other from the Nazis, who suppressed all Catholic religious orders in Westphalia and imprisoned many prominent Catholics. The attack from the "inner enemy," he said in his first sermon, was spiritually the more dangerous...
...other two sermons, Bishop von Galen said that injustices in Germany cried to heaven for redress and that the country no longer had any law. He denounced Nazi use of euthanasia, revealing that many patients in his diocese had been taken away from asylums and put to death. He charged that the Ten Commandments were being violated with the knowledge and consent of all the national leaders-the first commandment by idolatry the fourth by the actions of the Hitler youth on the Sabbath, the seventh by authorities who encouraged soldiers to become "war fathers," the eighth by Naz leaders...
...While there is much talk about national community," Bishop von Galen concluded, "there can be no national com munity with persons responsible for these things and I refuse any kind of fellowship with them...