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But the Fightly Pastor's trial soon became yeterday's news and Nemoeller 1oved into less important colums and Boon vanished altogeher from the news.. Nicmoclit moved out of the headlines bt he marched
right into the headlines of history-as marr, hero, stub- born fool, or pahaps a second Luther!
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He can lay clim to all those titles.
When 1. saw him last at Dahlem, his parch in a suburb of Berlin, it wasin a bare little dark office, just bfore one of hla famous sermons to hear which 1 had travelled a the way from
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Wyndham St., Hongkong. 'Phone 26615 October 9, 1939
The Commonwealth REFERENCE is sometimes mude in which have we love for the British. Empire to the alleged mlings of the British Government and the weaknesses of the thes which
"More sermon, more danger, Pastor Niemoelr," I said to him. "After a you've got a family to considrl"
Dr. Niemocile, short. square, clean-shaven an very unrominu- tle in appearane, shrugged his broad shouldert "When I was ordained I took it upon myself to teach Christimity. That was what the word needed most after the spiritul bankruptcy of war. The Lori did not tell me: Denitions. Colonies or Dependencies 'Go ye into theworld and adapt are magniffed into risings or revolts. my words so is to make them Actually,
the number fit different poitical conditions." considering and variety of the territories owing He just said: Teach my words l' allegiance to the British crown, there And that is what I am going to is little real dissatisfaction in any of do, no matter what comes of it them.
or what may lappen to me!"
hind the Empire together. Small grievances of disturbances in the
The most important parts of the t of course, the self- governing Dominions Australia, Canada, the Irish Free State, New foundland, New Zealand and South Africa, With Britain these for what has come to be called the
He showed then, as he shows now, the same silent and active
Fear
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IMPRISONMENT
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BOTH OF WHICH DETENTION TUNING ANDJE ERORE
FACTS
Martin Nicmoeller was born in West Prussia in 1893.
In
the carly war years. he was a sub-lieutenant in a German battleship. in 1916 he was promoted lieutenant and joined By 1918 he was commanding a
the submarine service. 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, He was ordained in plateplayer, harvester, railway clerk. 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 resulfed in clashes with the authorities.
He has suspension from office came on January 30, 1934.
Finally, he w35 been detained several times since then. imprisoned on July 1. 1937, for "malicious attacks against the He has State."He is still held on this charge, without trial." four children.
British Commonwealth of Free N Courage which he showed 20 tions, and the establishment of this years ago when he faced death commonwealth marks une of
the day by day as the commander of wife and children. most profound and far-reaching a submarine, the same obstinacy constitutional changes in the history which brough him the "Order refused to consider them.
of the British peoples.
The principle upon whileh
Commonwealth is based is that of the co-operation of an association of free peoples. Each Dominion a self-governing community, with its own sovereign freedom, but pecus- tomed to co-operate closely with the
others in multers of common con- cern, and an associated under the British crown.
Spanking us Chairman of the Im- perial Conference, 1937, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, M.P., then British Prime Minister, and now Lord Baldwin of Bewdley, said that the British Em pire has never been a static or- ganism. "Bearing within itself seeds of developinent of which its founders were unaware, it has been moulded by, and itself has moulded, a polillen philosophy.
changes in status, and mutual re-
support of the efforts the British
from further encroachments by force
By Lichty
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he burst out to a friend: ""I have forgotten how to cry," he said; and at last tears helped him over his lifo's most terrible experience.
For Pastor Nicmoeller God comes before the Nazis, and he went to prison for that simple truth. His trial was secret bo- cause it would be unbecoming to the Nazi myth to show its face unveiled.
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 difficult to explain that such a thing could happen with a world looking on complacently.
A Look Through The "Telegraph"
50 YEARS AGO
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Oct. 9, 188O.
Deep Day can "pot" a variety of really artistle targets at very moderate rates.
shon or be fastened in place by any one or all of the mysterious devicos known only to the initiated, but the
But when He wasn't pastor any more; a U-boat commander was concerned he he was his faith
turned war-bishop; his clean-cut There stood before me, in the face standing out from the dark
background, like that the for Merit," the German Kaiser's
of English society is making an attempt
four greatest reward for gallantry, middle of Germany-of-spies-Savonarola preaching-to-the to introduce a new dance, or though a pores are made-an--thougba. the same disrigard which made and concentration camps, a man Florentines.
march were intended, and then cach
hlo embraces
Indy and gentleman
then with her four bats, him defy the threats of the who defied Hitler and the storm
I was almost glad when it waltzes
resuming pacing. Nazis and the bombs which they troops which stood threatening exploded in his home,
wherever and whenever he chose was over. It drew away all your
strength.
Friend Moore, the "haironaut", has lately established an attractive shoot. beneath his club in When the all came to him to preach,
And yet, behind so much ing gallery the former aval officer, used An hour later in the crowded
Wellington Street, where Gentlemen to smart uniforms and smart Jesus Christ Church I listened fanatic strength and armour, with sporting proclivities who lack the the "Fighting Pastor's" there'is a heart as tender as it opportunity of shouting Chinamen at society, did hot shrink from to earning his living as a common sermon, as one of his vast flock. is rare. labourer, a platelayer and a rail- So thick was the scramble of
In the Great war when the The vory latest and funniest whim way clerk for the sake of his the flock that a woman near to
Just one garter, not two, you under- me, who had fainted, had to be ruthless law of destruction pro- in the wearing of the yellow garter. 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 and had expressed its whole-hearted people to be brought to safety. mander from rescuing the sur-the left knee. The other stacking vivors of a torpedoed Allled may be wrinkled disconsolately over the During the past quarter of a cen- | Government wele making to ensure And then he spoke. He was troopship, he hardly spoke a tury there have been far-reaching the peace and security of the world blunt and plain. There were no word to anybody for days left one in held Armly by a barbon Intionships, and he referred in par- on the freedom and independence of platform rhetorics, no aira, no end, one of the Pastor's former yellow ticular to the Declaration of the
uthier milions, Other Australian theological disquisitions. Imperial Conference of 1026 and to
leaders and newspapers have ex- the passage into law in 1931 of the
pressed similar sentiments. Mag Statute of Westminster, which es.
Lyons successo, Mr. Menzies, re- tablished the above-mentioned self-cently affirmed the belief of Austra governing Dominions. In 1939 the ns in British polley, and added Government of India. Act conferred that, "if pursuit of that policy means
considerable
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 a de- of the outcome of war will be shared mocratic government, democracy be-Ly the people of Australia." ing the best means zo far devised to
Mr. Mackenzie King, the Prime preserve those things to which the Minister of Canada, suid that an ai- British Commonwealth attaches tack on Britain. would be regarded supreme value-liberty, und inns an
allack on all parts of the dividual freedom of thought, of Commonwealth. M. Lapointe, the speech and of conscience, together Canadian Minister of Justice, was with the klen of service to the State; equally outspoken. With Britain at
Speaking at the same Imperial war with
Bald. the dictators, he Conference in 1937, Mr. Mackenzie Canada's position will not be much King, the Prime Minister of Canada, Influenced by constitutional niceties, said that "The stark contrast be "If any dietator had made up his tween ilberty and regimentation has mind that the British Commonwealth now been mude manifest to all, the was going to be disrupted he was value of freedom as the cource of buring his projects on a fallacy." self-realisation, of national power, of Mr. Savage, the Prime Minister, of enduring International co-operation, New Zealand, said "New Zealand is more fully realised than ever be will be found wherever Britain 15, It fore."
Britain is in trouble. There has never been any doubt about Now Support for Britain'.
Zealand's loyalty." General Hertzog, WHAT attitude, thon, do these self- the Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, was equally emphatic. governing countries adopt to-
In India many of those who have wards Britain in the present war? protested against certain aspects of What justification is there for assum British rulo have declared for Britain ing that any of them contemplate against any nggression of
the breaking away from the rest and totalitarian sintes One pro-Congress | possibly support Hitler's peace plea? paper.asked whether there was one From the utterances of their leading democratically-minded Indian whose statosmon and newspapers there is sympathies were not with Britain no reason whatever for assuming and France, rather than with Ger- that any of them would be glad to
a
incasure
meny.
bo free of the easy links which bind There is thus overwhelming evi- them to Great Dritata. Naka
dence that those who have believed After an emergency meeting of in the lack of unity among the the Federal Cabinet inst March, the British peoples in various parts of late Mr. Lyons, than Prime Minister the world and hope that the war of Australia, stated that the Com: may see the break-up of the Empire monwealth Government had assured are natonished at the complete and the British Government of ils read!- Intones loyally inspiring every part ness to co-operate in endeavours 10 of the Brush Commonwealth.
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a elastic, with
saron shade, and the comrades told me. And at last rette of the
correct and proper thing is to wear Knight and day for six months. The yellow garter's origin is shrouded in murky uncertainty, but its significa GRIN AND BEAR IT
girl who tion is known it charm:- possess it, and this "Any girl who wears a yellow garter ahove her left knee is sure to be en- gaged in less than six months. The webrer must not make or buy it, and it has never been known to fall of its purpose but once, and then the owner was wearing it on the wrong extremity, for rathar the right one instead of the petener left. Just wheroin Iles Ite belongs to the ethics of the oteric of girlhood, but the gicle, all wear them".
25 YEARS AGO
Oel. 9, 1014. Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam Commander Jutales that the German
sent an offer with the whito Bag to Antwerp at 130 o'clock and announced that the bombardment would commence at 930, Thereupon many fugitives. loft Antwerp for Dutch frontier
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A Petrograd communique alaton- Fighting is proceeding on the German rearguard In East Prusala, which haz been strongly reinforced. We fought. on the Vistula front succeanfu}·nd» vanco-guard actions at Opatow and Baudomir. (Scene of 1030, Kuno Polish operationEd.]
Bir Henry Norman has published `a. letter in the "Manchester Quardian" on the subject of the ban on war corres- pondents, which certainly chiis for comment-especially, perhaps, ont, here In the East where the dearth of news.:
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