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But the Fighting Pastor's trial soon became yesterday's news and Niemoeller moved into less Important columns and soon vanished altogether from the news. Niemoeller moved out of the headlines but he marched | right into the headlines of history-as martyr, hero, stub- born fool, or perhaps a second Luther!
He can lay claim to all those titles.
When I Haw him last t Dahlem, his parish in a suburb of Berlin, it was in a bare little thark ofllee, just before one of his famous sermons, to hear which I had travelled alf the way from
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"More sermons, more danger, Pastor Niemoeller," I said to him. "After all, you've got n family to consider?"
Dr. Niemoeller, short, square, clean-shaven and very unroman- The Commonwealth
tie in appearance, shrugged his DEFERENCE is sometimes made in broad shoulders: "When I was
REFERENCE love for prairiell took it upon myself
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are roughifed into visnings on revolts. Actually, consulering thes mundar
to teach Christianity. That was what the world needed most after the spiritani bankruptcy of war. The Lord did not tell me!
'Go ye into the world and adopt my words so as to make them fit different political conditions." and variety of the territories swingHe just said: Teach my words!" allegiance to the British crown, there And that is what I am going to little road dissatisfaction in any or do, no matter what comes of it them.
or what may happen to nie!"
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FACTS
Martin Niemoeller was born in West Prussia in 1893.
in
the early war years he was a sub-lieutenant in a German battleship. In 1916 he was promoted lieutenant and joined the submarine service. By 1919 he was commanding a U-boat in the Mediterranean.
After the War he left the Navy, married, and settled down to be a farmer. The collapse of the mark ruined him and he turned to the Church. While studying for ordination he took any work that he could find, and became bank clerk, plateplayer, harvester, railway clerk. He was ordained in June, 1924, As pastor of a small church in Berlin's fashion. able suburb. Dahlem, he soon became known for his uncom promising Evangelical views.
As head of the "Emergency Union of Pastors," his out- spoken resistance to the paganism. of the Nazi movement His first inevitably resulted in clashes with the authorities.
He has suspension from office came on January 30, 1934. been detained several times since then. Finally, he was imprisoned on july 1, 1937, for "malicious attacks against the State. He is still held on this charge, without trial. four children.
wife and children. But when
was concerned he he was his faith
He has
The burst out to a friend: "I have forgotten how to cry," he said; and at last tears helped him over his life's most terrible experience.
For Pastor Niemoeller God. comes before the Nazis, and he went to prison for that simple truth. His trial was secret be- cause it would be unbecoming to the Nazi myth to show its face unvelled.
Some day I hope to tell the tale of the Fighting Pastor of Dahlem to my grandchildren. But I also hope that I will find It dimeult to explain that such a thing could happen with a world looking on complacently.
A Look Through The "Telegraph"..
British Commonwealth of Free Na-courage which he showed 20 tions, and the establishment of this years ago when he faced death
He wasn't pastor any more; commonwealth marks one of the day by day as the commander of must profound
a U-boat commander and for-reaching a submarine, the same obstinacy
turned war-bishop; his clean-cut consitional changes in the history which brought him the "Order refused to consider them. of the British peoples.
face standing out from the dark There stood before me, in the background, like The prmelple
which the for Merit." the German Kaiser's
that. Commonwealth is used is that of greatest reward for gallantry, middle of a Germany "of splea" Savonarola preaching to the co-operation of an association of the same disregard which made and concentration camps, a mun free peoples, Ench Dominion is a
Florentines.. self-governing community, with its him defy the threats of the who defied Ilitler and the storm own sovereign freedom, but accus- Nazis and the bombs which they troops which stood threatening I was almost glad when it waltzes turned to co-operate closely with the exploded in his home.
wherever and whenever he chose was over.. It drew away all your
strength. to preach.
others in motiera of comutton con- even, and all associated under the British crown.
Speaking as Chairman of the In- perial Conference, 1937, Mr. Stanley italdwin, M.P., then British Prine Minister, and now Lord Baldwin of Bewdley, said that the British Em- pire has never been a static or-
ganism. "Bouring within itself seeds
of development of which Its founders were unaware, it has been moulded by, and itself has moulded, a political pivilosophy."
When the call came to him
of
50 YEARS AGO
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tn-introduce now.dance.. on this plant
though ALK narch were intended, and then ench
embracen bin Indy gentleman
with her four bar, thom
the former naval officer, used An hour later in the crowded And yet, behind so much to smart uniforms and smart Jesus Christ Church I listened fanatle strength and armour, society, did not shrink from to the "Fighting
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Friend Moere, the "halronnut", has Julely established an attractive shoot- beneath his club ไก gallery Wellington Street, where Gentlemen with aporting procliviller who lack the Pustor's there is a heart as tender as it apportunity of shunting Chinamen at earning his living as a common sermon, as one of his vast flock. is rare. Inbourer, platelayer and a rall- So thick was the scramble of
In the Great war when the The very latest and funniest whim way clerk for the sake of his the flock that a woman near to ruthless law of destruction pre-in the wearing of the yellow water.
me, who had fainted, had to be
from further encroachmeuls by force
Deep Bay cat, "put" a variety of really artistic targets at vury moderate rates.
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deal with the international situation, passed over the heads of the vented the young U-boat com- stand, and it must be worn just above may be wrinkled disconsolately over the and has expressed its whole-hearted people to be brought to safety. mander from rescuing the sur-the left knee. The ather stocking vivors of a torpedoed Allied shou or be fastened in place by uny support of the efforts the British During the past quarter of a cen- Goverment were making to ensure tury there have been far-reaching
And then he spoke. He was troopship, he hardly spoke an or all of the mysterious devices known only to the initiated, but the changes in stalus and mutual re-
the peace and security of the world blunt and plain. There were no word to anybody for daya on lift one is held firmly by a band of lationships, and he referred in pare on the freedom and independence of platform rhetorics, no, airs, no end, one of the Pastor's former yellow silk elastic, with
leur to the Declaration of the
other nations. Other Australian theological disquisitions,
comrades told me. Imperial Conference of 1926 and to lenders the sange into law in 1931 of the pressed
and newspapers have- ex-
similar Statute of Westminster, which es- Lyons' successor, Mr. Menzies, re-l tablished the above-mentioned self-cently affirmed the bellef of Austra governing Dominions. In 1935 the Bans in British policy, and added Government of India Act conferred that. "if pursuit of that policy means 3 considerable measure of self-troubles for Britain, there need be no government on the peoples of India.
doubt that the trouble or endurance
The British Government is n de- mocratie government, democracy be- ing the best means to fur devised to preserve those things to which the British Commonwealth attaches supreme value-liberty, and in- dividual freedom of though, of speech and at conscience, together with the den of service to the State, Speaking at the sune Imperial Conference In 1937, Mr. Mackenzie .King, the Prime Minister of Canada, sald that "The stark contrast be tween liberty and regimentation hos now been made manifest to all, the value of freedom as the source of self-realisation, of national power, of enduring International co-operation, 1s more fully realised than ever be- fore,"
Support for Britain
sentiments. Mr.
of the outcome of war will be shared by the people of Australia."
Mr. Mackenzie, King, the Prime tinister of Canada, said that an at- tack on Britain would be regarded ns hi attack on all parts of the Commonwealth, M. Lapoinic. the Canadian Minister of Justice, wor equally outspoken. With Britain at w with the dlctators. ho sald, Canada's position will not be much Influenced by constitutional niccties, "If any dictator had made up his mind that the British Commonwealth was going to be disrupted he was basing his projects,on fallbey."
Mr. Savage, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, said "New Zealand will be found wherever Britain is, if Britain is in trouble. There has never been any doubt about New Zerland's loyalty." General Hertzog, the Prime Minister of the Union of WHAT attitude, then, do these self- South Afrlen, was equally emphatte. governing countrics adopt to- In India many of those who have wards Britain in the present wart protested against certain aspects of What justification la here for assum British rule have declared for Britain ing that any of them contemplate against any aggression of breaking away from the rest and totalllarion states, One pro-Congress | possibly support Hitler's peace plea? paper asked whether there was one From the utterances of their lending democratically-minded Indian whose statesmen and newspapers there Is sympathies were not with Britain no reason whatever for asuming and France rather than with Ger- that any of them would be glad to many. be free of the easy links which bind them to Great Britain.
After an emergency meeting of the Federal Cabinet last March, the late Mr. Lyons, then Prime Minister of Australia, stated that the Com
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There is thus overwhelming, ovi- dence that those who have believed in the lack of unity among the Bellish peoples in various parts of the world and hope that the war may see the break-up of the Empire, monwealth Government had assured are astonished at the complete and the British Government of Its readi- intense loyalty Inspiring every part nest to co-operate in endeavours to of the Drush Continonwealth.
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25 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9, 1914. Stricters correspondent at Amsterdum Latutes that the German Commander Front an acer with the white flag to Antwerp at 7.30 o'clock and announced That the bombardment would commence at 1.30, Thereupon miany fugitives left Antwerp for Dutch Frontier at
noon.
The Military Governor has Informed the Burgunarter that a bombardmant of Antwerk is Imminent and peoplo wishing to flee from the town are re- quested to leave. The Governor says that the bonbardment will not In- fluence the town's resistance, which will be pushed to the extreme limits.,
The
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Belgian Government has been transferred to Oaland.
A Petrograd communique staten: Fighting in proceeding on the German rearguard in East Prussin, which has been strongly reinforced. We fought on the Vistuia front successful ade vanco-guard action at Opatow AND Sandomir. (Scene of 1939 Russo-Polish operations-Ed.)
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Bir Henry Norman has published a lotter in the "Manchester Guardian” on the subject of the bea' on war corros- pandents, which certainly call for commentspecially, perhaps, out here In the East where the dearth of newe
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