Religion: 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...

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