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Outspoken Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller is still in Dachau concentration camp near Munich. Last year the Gestapo put him in a cell with two Catholic priests, hoping they could convert one another to formation of a German na tional church. That failed; now Niemöller is back in solitary confinement, well treated, given any books he wants to read...
...Nazis have just produced a "Na-tional Church Hymnal" which deletes all references to Jerusalem, Zion and anything else that might be considered "Jewish." It cuts the number of hymns from 500 to 284, omits entirely such favorites as Martin Luther's Communion and Easter hymns, adds many new hymns glorifying Nazi blood & soil doctrines. A new baptismal hymn, Tender Child of German Blood, runs: "We baptise thee that thou may be consecrated to the service of our people in loyalty...
...romped off with the tennis championship of the Bolivarian Olympics in Colombia. The following year, he won Argentina's River Plate tournament, the Wimbledon of South America. Last summer the Ecuadorian Government sent its beloved little Pancho to the U.S. to compete in the na tional championship at Forest Hills. Green on grass, young Segura did not last one round. But he stayed in the U.S., under the wing of Manhattan's Hispano Tennis Club, to try again this year...
Defense's first year looked, to. some like a three-cornered race for "fat" among business, labor and agriculture. The Na tional City Bank estimated that 390 leading industrial corporations lifted their profits by 32% in 1940. The boom also upped manufacturing labor's payrolls by 27% (partly due to re-employment, partly to wage increases, partly to over time). Agriculture, its income up only 6% in 1940, felt business and labor had been going ahead too fast; so agriculture demanded increased subsidies to keep up in the race...
...contributed money but who read its literature, spread its faith. A Gallup poll last week estimated that 8,000,000 U. S. citizens, thinking of the post-war world, believe in an international federation of some such kind as Federal Union advocates. In its busy na tional and regional offices Federal Union ists were confident that they were at last solidly organized and growing fast...