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...Jenny," retorted Mrs. Hecht, denying everything, "is a lady." The other actors, she suggested, were jealous because the critics had raved about Jenny's fine performance (as indeed they had: ". . . absolutely captivating . . . more terrifying than the child monster in The Children's Hour . . ."), and were waging psychological warfare against her. In one scene, Stevens has to carry Jenny onstage through a fire door; Mrs. Hecht feared that "if we didn't tell her to duck, she would have her head bashed in." She pleaded with Stevens: "Why don't you try to charm Jenny...
...subject of Christian princes, had never bargained for. The German state no longer claimed divine sanction. Far from being the God blessed state of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, it might conceivably change itself into another state mentioned in the New Testament-the godless, seven-headed monster of St. John's Revelation...
Open Warfare. In 1933, the monster state of St. John's Revelation appeared: the Nazis took over Germany. Dibelius was at first cautious. In Potsdam's Nikolai Church he preached a guarded but firm sermon to Reichstag members, including President von Hindenburg and many of the Nazi Party leaders. "We do not resist authority," he said, "since to do so is anarchy and thus irreligious . . . But as soon as the state demands to be the church, and strives to assume power to rule the souls of men . . . then we are asked by Luther's words to exercise...
Against Crusades. When the Nazis were destroyed, Dibelius might have felt that the monster of Revelation was finally laid to rest. But, with most of his flock under a Communist government, he quickly found that the beast had reappeared, and in even more threatening form...
Since then, from his church in Berlin, in the monster's jaws, he has fought the new state of Revelation. He has fearlessly protested against Communist harassment of pastors and church youth groups, publicly attacked the spread of "materialist ideology." When the Russians, in the gesture of appeasement, asked him to visit Moscow last September, he accepted only after he made clear that he wanted to discuss 1) freedom of religion in East Germany, and 2) German prisoners of war still in Russian hands. The Red invitation was withdrawn...