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...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...
TIME'S cover of Dec. 23, 1940 was so good that it is being used in the Argentine as German propaganda, with slight alterations, however. Niemöller's face has been changed to that of F. von Bodelschwingh, and the swastika on the original has been replaced with the British flag...
...Profanely ironic is the choice of Bishop Friedrich Franz Ernest von Bodelschwingh for the Nazi-perverted steal of TIME'S Niemöller cover. Called the "poor man's bishop," gentle, patriarchal, immensely popular Bishop von Bodelschwingh defied Hitler in June 1933, resigned as Reich Bishop of the German Evangelical Church one month after taking office. Refusing high office in the church's home missions, he helped organize (with Niemöller) the militant anti-Nazi Pastors' Emergency Federation...
Herewith also is the TIME cover (accurately reproduced but without permission) and printed with a Spanish translation of TIME'S Niemöller story by Buenos Aires' pro-British magazine Desfile. The British Embassy distributed 25,000 copies of this reprint in Argentina, ordered 250,000 more for all South America...
...Japanese Christian, has shown no itch to become a martyr by protesting his Govern ment's drive against Christianity in Japan (TIME, Sept. 9), but nonetheless news last week leaked from Japan: last month Japanese police pounced on Christian Kagawa, jailed him in the best Martin Niemöller style...