The Church War in Germany The most remarkable aspect of
the conflict in the Protestant Church in Germany is that while 6,000 pastors are in full revolt against the Reich Primate, and London newspapers are printing columns about their courageous protests, not a line is allowed to appear in the German Press and Germans 'are said to be eagerly buying up foreign papers to discover what is happening in their own midst. Very much is in fact happening. In spite of the silence of the Press it is clear that the dissident pastors are rallying a considerable body of lay support behind them. The Primate, who on Friday withdrew most of the concessions he had made to the Emergency League, was defied from 1,500 pulpits on Sunday, and though the police barred the way to many Berlin churches where protest meetings were to have been held on Monday evening the meetings were held in halls instead, thousands of laymen present sub- scribed the pledge, " I will stand true to Bible and Creed." That is the answer to the Reich Primate and the German Christians with their denunciation of a Jewish Old Testament, and it is noteworthy that many Roman Catholics, led by Cardinal Faulhaber, the Archbishop of Munich, are condemning racialism in religion no less vigorously than the Protestants. * * *
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