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The one man in Germany who consistently dared to oppose Adolf Hitler was Colonel General Werner von Fritsch, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Son of a Kaiserlich Junker General and a devout Protestant mother, he grew up in the aristocratic Army tradition and had only one thing in...
In 1936, when Hitler was about to order German troops into the Rhineland, Fritsch led a clique of officers who opposed the move, and Hitler's reputed pledge to commit suicide if the bluff failed was said to have been given him. Next tiff between the two occurred when...
Taking his ease on a cottage porch near Hendersonville, N. C., one day last week, sat tanned, lanky Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. An automobile drove up. "Ablewhite!" cried Bishop Tucker. "I'm glad to see you. Come on in." He...
Europe's crisis in the 16th Century looked much like Europe's crisis in the 20th. The line-up then was the Habsburgs' medieval world reich and the Catholic Church v. the collective-security front of Protestant England, Holland and France. Protestantism and Catholicism were in the balance. The curious instrument that tipped this balance for Protestantism was shifty, sentimental, sensual Henry IV of Navarre. He did it by turning Catholic but ruling in the interests of Protestantism. Jesuits finally succeeded in murdering him as he was planning a Protestant crusade against the Habsburgs which...
There are 12,000,000 Baptists in the world, 10,000,000 of them in North America, where they are the largest Protestant sect. Last week 50,000 Baptists from 60 rations totally immersed Atlanta's hotels, boardinghouses, Baptist homes, tourist camps. These were '"messengers" from far-flung...