FIRST BIG DEFEAT
LUTHERAN CHURCH
DEFIANCE OF THREATS
(Received May 29, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, May 28. • The Nazis suffered their first big defeat at the hands of the Lutheran Church Congress, which, after a heated debate, ratified the nomination of Pastor Bodelschwingh as the first Protestant Church President of the Reich in defiance of the threat of the Nazi "German Christians" that such an action might have "direct consequences" on the heads of the twentynine Lutheran churches who now support Pastor Bodelschwingh. Meanwhile the committee of the Evangelical Church Union, co-operat-ing with the Nazis, recommended the amalgamation of all Protestant Lutheran churches under a Lutheran Bishop co-operating with a "spiritual Cabinet" of non-Lutherans whose members would direct the affairs of their own peculiar faith.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 7
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124FIRST BIG DEFEAT Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 7
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