Communications
61z THE COMMONWEAL October 27, 1926 ...
...France asks two things of Columbus, were formulated and presented by me to my own not charity, not cancellation...
...to their agents in government than the persistent, incessant effort to drown that verdict in printer's ink...
...T O the Editor:-The leading article in The Commonweal Evidence is lacking that the nations of the world are becomof August I I, entitled International Illusion, departs some- ing regenerated...
...And this in France, not Mexico...
...The entire scheme of the League of Nations and the World The political philosophy of Washington, Jefferson, and others Court is an illusion...
...putting it up to France to get better terms if she could from Certainly, I have had definite suggestions in mind for years Uncle Sam: if successful, England would then meet our terms, past, arising out of personal knowledge of Catholic conditions and it reached its height when this country became "Uncle in many countries, to go no further, for the present, than Shylock" in the mouth of a British Minister, and in cartoons Mexico and Guatemala...
...ance of civilization...
...I might confine my reply to a suggestion that the Holy In addition to illusions admittedly "faded out of conscious- Father's utterances are very pertinent to the subject, that they ness," there are illusions which lag superfluous, unidentified are worthy of consideration and that, in considering them, even by the keen eyes of The Commonweal staff...
...Keynes, British financial expert...
...Millions of President Wilson's own party, from Maine for, viz., "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His justice...
...but to become a citizen of the kingdom of God, to seek justice, The will of the people so emphatically expressed by ballot in to follow after the Prince of Peace...
...Greed is their predominant passion...
...of a possible cessation of German reparations payments...
...of a man going into partnership with swindlers in order to hierarchy on the subject will be quite complete...
...ment...
...place should be given to intelligent understanding rather than If memory serves aright, the cancellation campaign originated to an overgenerous temper...
...It is good advice for either man or nation WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...
...Government by clamor, masquerading as THE MEXICAN SITUATION "public opinion," is a purchasable commodity, but it is not quali- Washington, D. C. fied to cast a vote...
...in the English press...
...it will therefore only be possible to skim the waves of regard to the attitude of American Catholics toward the Mexithe sea of international politics, leaving the reader to guess what can situation...
...an attempt to foist upon the world "someis still preferred by many to that of the prophet of internationalthing else just as good" instead of what the prescription calls ism...
...Surely Christian civilization could not urge to come to the aid of Mexican Catholics, and that we depend upon the brood of atheistic politicians who have mis- have been more impulsive than judicious...
...to California, who never even heard of "middle-west anger" The most laudable ambition of a nation is therefore, not voted against Mr...
...must be maintained and the verdict of the people respected, or the republic dies...
...it was respondent's apparent frame of mind, would hardly prove to further advanced by a clause in the Anglo-French agreement, be helpful...
...extension to meet her capacity to pay us, and at was any public knowledge of a Mexican question involving the same time rehabilitate herself, and suspension in the event Catholics...
...It is also an illusion, is it not, that "the redemption of I do think that there is nothing gained by temper...
...1 0 the Editor:-One of your correspondents has asked in Obviously, a correspondent must be restricted to a small your columns if I have any definite suggestions with space...
...Do the nations of Europe desire peace...
...but she asks, in view of her council, and upon their recommendation, to the supreme coundevastated homes and industries, first, extension...
...The United States has too many grave Boston, Mass...
...I also France . . . was unequivocally a movement for the continu- think that many of us have been carried away by a generous...
...Government by ballot CHRISTOPHER I. FITZGERALD...
...If men spurn Him in the "solemn referendum" of 1920 is a stronger mandate now council, how shall they call upon Him in distress...
...I was on solid governed France for the past half century, robbing churches, ground when I warned against attempts to force the hand of expelling religious, banishing crucifixes, "putting out the lights the administration, or to inject Mexico's religious' crisis into...
...61z THE COMMONWEAL October 27, 1926 COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL ILLUSION to avoid bad company...
...convince them of their error...
...I believe that since the first Many a woman has married a man under the illusion that ebullition we are really formulating a sane public opinion andshe could reform him, for love is blind, but who ever heard I believe firmly that the pastoral letter promised us by the...
...what from the customary urbanity of your journal...
...faults of her own to encourage the belief that in bad company she would be able to withstand temptation...
...a legal, constitutional method must be discovered...
...Ascribing If so, their acts ill accord with their professions...
...Restitution is the furthest thought from their opinions on national or international policies does not tend to minds...
...of heaven...
...Since that time, those same suggestions have been offered It is quite conceivable that the cancellation of all war debts for consideration to a prominent member of the hierarchy by everybody might prove of economic value to the United although recent occurrences have made certain of the proStates, but it cannot be done "correctly" by winking the other posals that I made therein a bit more difficult of accomplisheye...
...before there suspension...
...Some of those suggestions, relating to possible, and as I The illusion lags, however, that France is the storm-centre of thought, very desirable activities on the part of the Knights "continental amazement and anger...
...and second, cil, long before Mexican conditions became acute...
...is in the deeps...
...our own domestic politics...
...a study of the election returns will be to become a citizen of the world (the flesh and the devil) revealing...
...make them honest...
...That, however, to your corin a book of one Mr...
...Do they demotives of fear or anger to those who happen to hold opposite sire justice...
Vol. 4 • October 1926 • No. 25
