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...Norway the seven bishops of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, in a letter to the State's Councilor, issued the boldest public indictment yet launched against the Nazi "new order." Timed with the sinister visit to Norway of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, it militantly recalled broken Nazi promises to respect Norwegian church and civil laws, resoundingly detailed examples of brutal violence by Quisling's "uniformed hooligans," challenged Nazi banning of preachers' vow of secrecy - "the foundation of the church, the Magna Charta of the conscience." The Bishops expected no satisfactory answer from the State's Councilor...
After dinner the quartet went on to Northwestern College (Lutheran), where nearly all the 150 students and 550 people from the town and countryside sat in the gym, ranged about the basketball court. In evening dress the Pro Arte men wound up a staircase from the dressing rooms, bowed gravely, sat down on a platform under a basketball goal. They played Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms. They were applauded con brio. As the audience filed out, many were heard to praise the Pro Arte Quartet, and to vow that the 50? admission was cheap: the sponsors (the college and Watertown...
...vigorous was Confessional and Lutheran Council opposition to Reichsbishop Muller that Hitler soon shelved him, presently gave his powers to Minister of Church Affairs Hanns Kerrl. Minister Kerrl's creed: "The primacy of the State over the Church must be recognized. . . . The question of the divinity of Christ is ridiculous and unessential. A new authority, Adolf Hitler, has arisen as to what Christ and Christianity really are." To Minister Kerrl, Adolf Hitler is "the Jesus Christ as well as the Holy Ghost of the Fatherland...
This neo-paganism the Confessionals have fought fervently, the Lutheran Council less uncompromisingly. A reef-dodging diplomat, Bishop Marahrens is one of the three pre-Hitler Protestant bishops who has held on to his post, typifies an attitude of something-less-than-martyrdom. Under him, middle-of-the-road Protestantism's steady declaration has been: "Our bishop and council remain the legal authority of our church. . . . The Lord of the Christian Church is Christ, not Hitler...
Halted last fortnight in Mexico City after Germans threatened to bomb the theatre was the showing of the anti-Nazi film Pastor Hall (TIME, Aug. 12). It freely parallels Pastor Niemoller's career in op position, shows a small town Lutheran parson learning what the new Nazi gospel means, suffering in a concentration camp, escaping for a final sermon to his flock before being shot. Pastor Hall, says Dr. Leiper, "understates, not overstates" the terror...