An interesting light will be thrown on the extent to
which religious tolerance exists in Germany when the Baptist World Alliance holds its quinquennial congress in Berlin in August, for the main business of the congress will be to receive and discuss the reports of five commissions which have been studying various fundamental social and religious problems. Two of those problems, pertinently enough, are Nationalism and Racialism. A good deal of hesitation was felt about meeting in Germany at all in the circumstances (the venue had been fixed before the Nazi revolution), but I understand Herr Hitler's Government has given repeated assurances that " the fullest freedom of dis- cussion " will be allowed. How far the 65,000 German Baptists will be disposed to express themselves with such freedom is perhaps problematic.
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