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He was moved to a small cell with seven other prisoners, all Chinese, where they were forced to discuss every detail of their past lives for hours on end, interspersing the discussions with interminable readings from Communist propaganda material. At intervals, a government official grilled Stockwell on his "crimes" and...
Theologically speaking, the delegates to the Cincinnati meeting had very little to argue about. All three churches subscribe to the Westminster Confession of 1646 and to the catechisms adopted by U.S. Presbyterians in 1729. Statements of faith of all three churches would be kept as permissible congregational interpretations.
At this point, the Yard began to express some curiosity about John Christie. Most everybody remembered him-a thin, high-domed fellow who wore horn-rimmed glasses, worked somewhere as a trucking clerk, liked to take photographs of Netting Hill kiddies in the streets and Notting Hill chippies in their...
Americans find Otto Dibelius a hard man to understand. He is one of Germany's few consistent fighters against the totalitarian state, yet he dislikes republics. He signed a formal confession of war guilt on behalf of Germany's Christians in 1945, but he has attacked the Allied...
In Stuttgart, at war's end, Dibelius and Niemöller, released from a Nazi jail, signed the "confession of guilt" on behalf of the German churches. Neither this, however, nor their anti-Nazi activities during the war meant that they were secret adherents of the democracies all along...