Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-24 | Page 4 | Is Chancellor Adolt Pulling in His Horns?

Is Chancellor Adolf ill ii His H Horns The Nazi campaign for dominance over German Christianity Is ended Dr Mueller the bishop named by Hitler to rule the Protestant church has ordered a retreat He has revoked his own decrees of f January 4 1 which established him as absolute master or of the church And he grants amnesty to the hundreds of clergymen clergy clergy- men who have defied hIm and who have been driven from their pulpits Unquestionably Mueller acted und under r direct orders from Hitler Ever since the establishment ot of Hitler's regime i it t has been Hitler himself who has curbed the zealots As chancellor responsible responsible re- re re- re for Germanys Germany's w. w and andas as director of Nazi deStiny the Hitter Hitler of today is a different personality from the irresponsible agitator of l little ittle more than a year ago He can riot not practice now what he preached then And so Bishop Mueller it is compelled to execute what he ma may consider ly a strate strategic ic movement toward the rear It is more than that It is a confession of the failure of the so so- called German church with its nationalistic na na- and Christian un-Christian tenets Hitler realizes as he should have realized long a ago o. o that the effort to class religion with all other German things and make it a mere adjunct ot of the Nazi system is futile and peril Otis OlL The defiance ot of both Protestants and Catholics who re resent nt Nazi med arid persecution is an encourage ing sign which outlawed freedom ot of political thought arid and speech has found it impossible simi lary to impose its will upon religion It backs backI down The German people have won a significant vl victory tory Ma May it be the first ot of Cleveland Cleveand PlaIn Dealer