The Archive · 1938

Fuehrer from "Heaven" Solution for Czech Dispute Suggested to Herr Hitler

New York, Sept. 19.

Negro Father Divine leaned back in his swivel-chair "throne" today and announced that he has cabled Herr Adolf Hitler, Mr. Neville Chamberlain and M. Edouard Daladier from his "No. 1 Heaven" across the Hudson River from President Roose-volts Hyde Park estate suggesting the correct solution for the European imbroglio.

Beaming Father Divine, whose religious sect calls many devout American negroes to its free dinners of pork chops, fried chicken and water-mellon, stated that Germany, Britain and France should purchase the coveted portions of Czechoslovakia, with the Sudetens aiding in the payments.

Thus, he said, "substituting cooperation and peace for terrible, inhuman warfare and its consequences."—United Press.

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