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...public were excluded, the State's case apparently so far collapsed that all really grave charges against Pastor Niemöller were dropped. The State was finally reduced to pressing nothing more than a nuisance charge of "misuse of the pulpit" under a law passed in 1871 under Kaiser Wilhelm I for the purpose of smacking, not too severely, sassy preachers...
Meanwhile the Austrian Pretender Archduke ("Kaiser") Otto slipped out of his Belgian refuge for an unknown destination, and Austrian Monarchists prayerfully recalled: "Our Kaiser Otto has said 'if my Empire seems about to fall to the Nazis, I will be in Vienna before Hitler...
Many a European thought this week that Adolf Hitler had forced Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden out of the British Cabinet by a brutally successful maneuver (see p. 19) only to be compared with Kaiser Wilhelm's historic humiliation of the French in 1905 when he forced them to drop Delcasse from their Cabinet...
...have been for a time an enrolled member of the Nazi Party. When, however, he saw that Adolf Hitler intended to dominate the Church, Pastor Niemoller began preaching about the Nazis very much as though they were ships he wanted to torpedo. As he had fought for the Kaiser, he now fought for the Church, and in Berlin most churchmen agree today that but for Niemoller most of the opposition to Hitler within the Lutheran fold would probably have been beaten down. Seven months ago the Gestapo (Secret Police), who had searched Pastor Niemoller's home repeatedly, finally clapped...
...almost carried a "proof" on the seat of his pants. Thrice police rounded up everyone they thought responsible for Free Belgium but never did they pluck out its heart. At one mass trial, the German policeman guarding the courtroom found the next issue pinned to his coattails. The bewildered Kaiser and the enraged Brussels commander regularly received copies...