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Last week reports reached the U. S. of a visit by Theologian Earth to the British Isles, where he received an honorary D.D. from Oxford. At Oxford, Dr. Earth told how in 1933—before he was suspended from his professorship at the University of Bonn for declining to swear allegiance to Realmleader Hitler—the Evangelical Church in Germany was offered a chance to take part in ''the universal renewal of life and prosperity" of the Third Reich, and in return proclaim that the events of 1933 were ''a Divine revelation," to be taken as seriously as the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. Subsequently, at a meeting of churchmen in Lord Noel-Buxton's house in London, Dr. Earth turned from the past to the future, said: "It is Hitler's intention to cut youth off from the Church so that it will become a society of old men and women, which in two or three decades will die. ... In the future there will be no Christian education in Germany. The Church will therefore have to begin all over again, and its efforts to recapture the interest of the new Godless Germany will have to be those of the missionary."