Unto Caesar

> Pastor Martin Niemoller has been transferred from the dread Sachsenhausen concentration camp to some place of detention in Bavaria "where he is much better off," according to a message smuggled past the German censor last week. The heroic leader of Lutheran resistance to Hitler has been held by the Gestapo since 1937.

> Pope Pius XII turned his back on pacifism. "Although war is horrifying," he told 3,000 pilgrims, "it cannot be denied that it reveals the greatness of many heroic souls, who sacrifice their lives to carry out the duties imposed by Christian conscience."

> There is no reference to religious freedom in the Roosevelt-Churchill blueprint of tomorrow's world. This will come as a disappointment to Protestants, Catholics and Jews, many of whom are now in jails and concentration camps because they would not surrender the right to worship God each in his own way.--Dr. Walter Van Kirk, secretary of the Federal Council's Commission to Study the Bases of a Just & Durable Peace.

> Since the German occupation of Paris, the congregation of the once-crowded American (Episcopal) procathedral has slumped to ten members.

> The British will start the third year of war with a National Day of Prayer on Sunday, Sept. 7.

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