Word: pastor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans found it hard to fathom Pastor Martin Niemöller. After V-E day, the gaunt-faced old U-boat commander had dived repentantly, leaving a bubble of advice to his fellow Germans to confess "the crimes committed during the last twelve years." But last week, as the pastor-commander surfaced again, he seemed to be flying the old German flag. He bade Germans take no further voluntary part in denazification proceedings...
...citizenship to encourage people to disobey the law of the land." Niemöller's directive seemed to be having little practical effect. Germans were still testifying against Germans. The remaining denazification trials were expected to end next June. But many Germans were delighted with Pastor Niemöller's words, and in the arena of world opinion they still carried, for some listeners, immense authority. Was this authority justified...
...appraisal of Niemöller, pronounced in 1940 by a fellow theologian, Dr. Karl Earth of Switzerland, plucked a revealing thread of consistency from the pastor's contradictory career. The appraisal still seemed to fit the postwar cut of Niemöller's jib. Wrote Dr. Earth: "Do not forget that Niemöller has always been, and remains today, a good-a too good-German. ... He has never ceased to be a fervent German nationalist...
...traveling pastor of the First Brethren Church...
...President," intoned the up-to-the-minute young Communist, "we could have peace. He represents your lao pai hsing. With Truman and the rest there can be no peace." After eight days of this, he ordered the missionaries to leave Tsaoyang. Hard-handed Wong kept some souvenirs: two radios, Pastor Werdal's Parker "51," and a silk sleeping bag belonging to an elderly woman missionary...