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...Reported Missing in Action over Münster: Lieut. John G. Winant, Jr., 21, son of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Dusen's most ardent pages concern the heroic German Churchmen, Niemöller, Faulhaber and Von Galen, who have defied the Nazis in the name of Christ. Humor has been among their weapons. When Von Galen preached in Münster Cathedral against Nazi doctrines on the family and education, a Brown Shirt cried out that no celibate should talk about such matters. Cried the Bishop to his heckler: "Never will I tolerate any reflection on our beloved Führer...
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...
...nster. For three hundred years the history of our continent was substantially determined by England's effort, by roundabout means of balanced, mutually binding relations of power among the European States, to maintain and secure the necessary protection in the rear for big British aims in world politics. The traditional trend of British diplomacy . . . was deliberately aimed at preventing by all means the rise of any great European Power above the level of the general scale of magnitudes, and, if necessary, to crush it by military means.-Mein Kampf...
Last week Adolf Hitler's mind went back 300 years minus eight, to the Treaty of Westphalia signed in the old Hanseatic town of Münster. By that treaty the Holy Roman Empire, devastated by the Thirty Years War, was broken into tiny pieces and the authority of the Emperor ended forever. The history of Germany since then has been the repeated efforts, under Prussia, to pick up the pieces of that Empire. Last week Adolf Hitler let it be known that the peace treaty ending World War II would be signed in Münster...