Foreign News: Spiritual Nation”

“Spiritual Nation”Nazi and non-Nazi leaders of Germany’s 40,000,000 Protestants moved last week to settle their quarrels by a church plebiscite July 23. Urged by Catholic Chancellor Adolf Hitler to get together they drafted a Constitution. It was promptly approved by the Cabinet and if ratified by plebiscite will unite the Fatherland’s numerous Protestant sects for the first time as “The Evangelical Church of the German Nation.”

Nazi newsorgans promptly claimed that this “spiritual nation” will not stop at the frontiers of the Reich. “After the Constitution of the Evangelical Church of the German Nation has been acknowledged,” crowed the Nazi Kreiiz Zeitung, “the Evangelical Church of Austria will belong to it and the Evangelical churches of Transylvania, Jugoslavia, the Baltic regions and lands across the sea will be able to conclude working agreements with this really German Evangelical Church!”