The Archive · 1934

Nazi Church Rift May

PATCHED UP

Berlin, Nov. 3.

Freedom of the church in Germany has now teen established and there every reason to believe that the Tong-sought unity within the Evangelical Church will be attained in the near future.

his talk with the three spokesmen of the confessional community, Bishops Meiser, Wurms and Mai hhrens, the Reichsfuehrer, Herr Adolf Hitler, promised to. leave church questions to the church itself.

This decision of the Fuehrer is con~ sidered of historic importance, as it the first time in 400 years that the Evengelical Church has been given freedom in religious matters.

'The resignation of Dr. Jaeger, whose highhanded actions "have Caused the strongest resentment, not only in the church opposition' but falzo in. numerous Natioral Socialist Circles, is expected to pave the way for ultimate unity within the Ge man. Evangelical. Chureh—Trans-'Ocean Kuo Min.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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