News of Pastor Niemoller that reaches me by a rather
devious route indicates that the famous Dahlem preacher, who was discharged from prison by a verdict of the People's Court, but rearrested by the Secret Police and consigned to a concentration camp, is undergoing serious hardships. He is allowed only one letter a fortnight, and a letter from his wife was kept from him because he had had one too recently. He would no doubt be released at once if he would give a promise not to preach, but this he stedfastly refuses. The effect of prolonged rigours on his physical and mental health is causing his friends very intelligible anxiety. From the international point of view it is very much to be r gretted that the gulf between Germany and Britain should be widened by a persecution which alienates the whole of religious opinion in this country. * * * *
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