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...such homage to Der Führer is accepted without rebuke. It is never offered in churches still directed by dignitaries of the German Evangelical Church, who strive to act according to Christian light. In June their daring pastors addressed to Der Führer with "respectful greetings" a Manifesto of their "anxieties and fears" which was ruthlessly suppressed by German police (TIME, July...
...Positive Christianity." Recalling Adolf Hitler's blanket promise that "the [Nazi] Party never intended and does not intend today to combat Christianity in any way whatever," the Evangelical Manifesto drew attention to the fact that all Nazi organizations, while paying lip service to what they call "positive Christianity," vigorously oppose what they call "negative Christianity." Both these terms are pure Nazi inventions and mean whatever the Nazi locally in charge chooses them to mean. On this the Manifesto quotes Nazi authorities...
...Patriotism Prepaid" contains the Manifesto of the V. F. W. and ten drawings by Albert M. Barbieri, Princeton '38, one of which portrays a familiar field of crosses "row on row" and is suitably labelled "Young America...
...dead men of whom present-day Germany is least proud are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Though in Naziland their names are a byword and a hissing, they are revered by radicals the world over. Marx, the Holy Ghost of the Soviet Trinity, author of Capital and the Communist Manifesto, is now a familiar spook even to men-in-the-street, but few newspaper readers have ever encountered the shade of Engels. Until Gustav Mayer's German life of Engels was last week translated into English, there was no biography of him available to U. S. readers...
...Marx collaborated constantly on their analysis of capitalism, their prophecies of capitalism's doom. He was quicker-witted and a more facile writer than Marx, who once told him: "You know that I am slow to grasp things, and that I always follow in your footprints." The Communist Manifesto, gist of the gospel according to Marx, was their joint work, as was also the monumental Capital (finished by Engels after Marx's death). Both of them were gluttons for work, both of them believed the Revolution was just around the corner. But while Marx was content to spend...