Catholics Sought in Drive for Nazi Victory
ROGERS, VINCENT
Catholics Sought in Drive for Nazi Victory Soviet Wat Intensifies Use Of 'Holy Crusades Theme By VINCENT ROGERS Sharp division over foreign policy-and aid to England no* on the side of the...
...WelL" said the waiter, pointing to several meat at another table, "they say you are, and I wanted to make sure...
...Total retails sales in the'ftrst five months of the year exI ceeded by more than 15 per cent the comparatively good dollar 1 volume of retail business done in the same period last year...
...Many refuse to sell, and are holding tight for a greater bull market...
...The war Horses were his tanks and powder his secret weapon...
...Pacifism works when you *wk it—even on the international scale...
...Reports from the Union's correspondents in 36 states in May, 1941, "uniformly agreed that there has been little actual.interference with civil liberties under pressure of the national emergency and defense program...
...Summarizing its findings, the ACLU reported...
...Savage sentences were imposed in the sedition cases tried, now on appeal...
...T™e> had: no army, no navy...
...s Pro-British liberals see in the recent Civil Liberties Union survey vindication of their arguments that all-out aid regardless of the danger of a "shooting" war does not mean curtailment of civil rights or labor's privileges in the United States...
...Two weeks ago Gilmor posted a notice on the Friday bulletin board cutting the staff to 12...
...Referring to the fact that the mobile kitchen going frdjln Camp Tamiment to a war-torn England would take food and strength and courage to the English workers, Load Marley remarked: "It was the workers who decided ,fter the disaster of Dunkirk that Britain would resist After the destruction- of our munitions and arms it was the workers sacrificing their precious work standards, who rearmed our fighting forces...
...Biddie will be named by Roosevelt within 10 days...
...But in their villa* they have kept the quiet tenor of their way—with hard lilrand an occasional fiesta...
...Netherland Bishops are forbidding Catholics to belong to the Nazi party...
...The Papacy and its...
...TOfORD came from Washington to ail United States Attorneys last " Friday ordering them* to hold up all prosecution now pending against Soviet agents...
...Their lawyers have drawn up papers to go into the courts and take out injunctions and tie up the funds of the union...
...Love and the third degree aill together...
...They plan to use the convention to launch one industrial national union for all sea-going workers: sailors, cooks, stewards, firemen, oilers, watertenders, wipers, and river and harbor workers and seamen on the Great Lakes as well...
...Until the Friday previous to the invasion, as head, of the Greater New York Industrial Union Council, he was trying to get the Yankee Stadium fbr the Polo Grounds for a "monster" peace demonstration...
...MANY a CIO chief was relieved by the German invasion and the resulting change in line...
...It is "resilent, fabricated into solid forms to be tough, can be molded easily or as light as aluminum or as tough as steel...
...Senor Eugene Anzorana, Attache of the Mexican Embassy, loves the United States, sings "Sweet Adeline" in his bath and uses oar slang even better than Lord Marley...
...Michael Williams, special editor, The Commonweal: Dr...
...Ifce nation that non-resistance is effective against Hitlerism ~f*e illusion...
...There are three general types: (1) those made from wood pulp or cotton linters...
...iW know, ofcourse, that Ghandi has practiced as well as ftathed overcoming evil with good—and thus far has kept his "« headed in that direction...
...Auto'sales shot up 37 per cent, jewelry 28 per cent, furniture I and radios 22 per cent, apparel sales came next...
...During a discussion which centered on Frankensteen's suspending five rebel strike leaders, a waiter walked over to the table and asked: "Are you Richard Frankensteen...
...Union officers are uneasy...
...Bertha fL Jlailly, Ben Josephson, Ben Belsky and their collaborators oil the staff have been quietly collecting the money for weeks...
...Hundreds of thousands of them have felt or seen such horrors and then returned to tell of them in their native villages in Mexican valleys...
...Because of the rapid increase in the number of military and industrial uses for plastics, a special Plastic Technical Unit has been set up in the office of the Quartermaster General to study the uses of, the material in the army...
...OHCKRTLY after the Jnglewood strike Richard Frankensteen...
...Biddle wanted touring in his own G-Man chief...
...Colonel William J. Donovan...
...Curran is in rather a foolish spot...
...The myth of the heavealy origin of the devilish marauder proved an"effective Psychological softener of Montezuma's over-confident legions...
...Income payments play a share, but : important too is the feeling of that civilian goods will be cur: tailed...
...Leading the drive among the Catholics for pro-N'azi sentiment is Father Coughlin who last week printed his Silver Jubilee edition of Social Justice...
...In addition, prosecutions were brought against Communists for alleged election frauds in four states involving essentially their political progaganda...
...OCR.APPING between Francis Biddle...
...Within a short time the American Peace Mobilisation will be dismantled and*, new pro-war organization set tap on the semis* nationwide structure which propped up the' American League for Peace and Democracy and later the Emergency Peace Mobilization...
...But,* he says, tales that fly from mouth to month among the humble people have more power than all of the elaborate efforts of official agencies...
...the Nazis and Falangists...
...AMARSHALL FIELD'S new PMish looking Sunday magazine...
...We found it necessary to restore the work standards, but the ncrifice goes on...
...Injunctions in labc^j disputes fell, to the smallest number on record in a single year...
...Despite the provisions of the Berlin-Vatican concordat guaranteeing some freedom to the Catholic publications, a German order was issued in May ordering the cessation of all Catholic periodicals, bulletins and newspapers as of June 1. In addition the Goebbels ministry has ordered German publications to avoid using pictures of the Pope...
...Hoover exerted the wide influence he enjoys on the Hill and matters arc patched up...
...The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN CAM* TAMIMENT, Pa.-One high point of the Tamiment Conference was the presentation by friends of the Camp of s HWrile Kitchen to the British War Belief...
...On the slightest suspicion the police invade their homes without warrants, beat them, drag them to police stations and give them the third degree...
...They accepted completely the "•Mat position and so gave us a perfect laboratory case...
...is the new cfrrector of the Committee to Defend America Trade Union Division...
...Friday has been in a bad way for some months...
...Gilmor then is sapposed to have replied that he was not sinking any more money into the venture...
...All this was ordered abandoned over night...
...Late in May the important Catholic weekly Les Temps Nouvveaux, published in Vichy, was ordered suspended, at the suggestion of the local Gestapo agents, after publishing a strong protest against the exhibition in France of the Nazi anti-Semitic film, Jew Suss...
...After the singing of The Star Spangled Banner" Louis Waldmsn made'the premutation, a check for $1,500.00— which is enough to send a kitchen rolling on wheels through England...
...T. Laurason Riggs, Catholic Chaplain, Yale University...
...Jt ACLU finds Few Attacks on Civil Liberties Civil liberties throughout the United States have been affected only slightly by the measures and production necessitated by the unlimited emergency, the American Civil Liberties Union stated this week as a result of its survey in 36 states...
...The Union noted that "no federal prosecutions for opinion have been undertaken despite the power in law to do so...
...Were it not lighting Englishmen with planes and g^ins the Danes would r*m world without end...
...One of the signers of this statement, which also called for full aid to the Soviet Union, is Milton Kaufman, executive vwe-jrresident of the American Newspaper Guild, who at the recent Detroit convention denied Ferdinand Lundbrrg's charge that hi was a Communist...
...Plastics are raw materials produced chemically...
...The only persons in prison for the expression of political or other views date from cases of years past, and their number is the lowest in years...
...But when be is on* the stage he has difficulty in concealing the hurt he feels It some humiliations which his countrymen suffer...
...UAW organizer, same to New York following the signing of the Ford contract in Washington...
...gas masks from soy beans—this is the chemical wonder of plastics...
...Until we do justice to our own Negroes we cannot fjwt evenly the men and women of Mexico or Brazil...
...On Tuesday there was no trade unic>n council...
...Among the prominent Catholics backing the Administrations foreign policy are Reverend John A. Ryan of the Catholic University...
...OOMETEM1E last Tuesday the word went out that all party unions **' were to issue statements calling far aid to Britain...
...This group will then take over the convention and elect their own delegates' as officers...
...Zack and Benjamin Gitlow, are supposed to have organized a plot to take over our convention...
...Senor Anzorena maintains that Stout Cortez anticipated Hitler's techniques down to the smallest details...
...The audience, sitting circled about the pool and under the t^e,, listened t« the program, above the gentle undertones of rustling leaves, -flitting birds and trickling water...
...Washington heard more than once, recently, that Curfin was about to be dropped...
...Yon look like him...
...Last week Curran freely ofered to man ships going to the Red Sea...
...Not a single judicial setback of any importance to civil liberty marked the year's record of cases on appeal...
...The dive-skinned men and women with the mandolins move back and forth...
...William M. Agar...
...Cooperation will be offered to Phil Murray by the red unions in CIO...
...Practically all the significant cases were won, from the United States Supreme Court to the state Supreme Courts...
...Recounting developments'favorable to civil liberties, the report said: "Despite the furore against strikers in the defense industries none has been prosecuted under federal or state law...
...He understands the nature of dictatorship ?¦ has been careful not to do anything to embarrass the British j*Pire in its' hour of trial...
...The article was written by a military chaplain, Serjio Pignedoli, who addressed himself to Italian soldiers...
...These delegates are to start a fight at the convention whereupon the police will he called in and they will raid the hall, removing all other delegates from the building...
...Meanwhile, as in Spain where there is conflict with the government, many high church posts remain vacant as the Papacy refuses to name clerics who are friendly to...
...Ovatciam is being held in $25,000 bail, but the government has less against him than was first reported...
...A. D. Lewis does not badge without orders from John, who now is in the toughest spot of all...
...This is a double disgrace to us, for it is a subsidiary wrong following in the train of our old crime against our own Negro citizens...
...Then, according to reports, the staff conferenced for a while and emerged with the proposition that they would carry oh anyway...
...LIERE ia a subject for the Times Topicker—passed on free * of charge by a humble admirer...
...With heavy sales taxes coming on new cars, and with OPM curtailment of auto production, car dealers hare jacked up prices considerably...
...Gitlotw and Zark will be interested in learning all about the big pffvi they're been hatching...
...As still unused capacity and new production facilities come Into operation, a further rise of national income is assured...
...Principal ingredients are a coal tar derivative, such as carbolic acid, and formaldehyde, and a non-coal-tar compound such as urea which can \be obtained from the nitrogeon in the air through the Haber process...
...The staffs of two newspapers—the communist Peoples World and the fascist Italian language L'ltalia—voted unanimously for the pro-admioistration slate which was pledged to a "peace" program...
...One aspect of rationing is not without its humorous aspect You know that we are allowed but two ounces of tea per week per person...
...The failure of the Pope to endorse Italian volunteer legions against Russia, and to declare, the war a holy crusade, brought an outburst this week from fascist editor Roberto Farinacci...
...This is reflected in the increased sales of consumer I durables—automobiles, washers, vacuum cleaners...
...And the over-contldence was at least partly due to faith in a Maginot line in the form of the lagoons which surrounded the "sjestic capital...
...Organizational machinery was set up...
...In consequences of this situation there has already been a considerable increase in the birthrate...
...Income on the Upgrade The American workingman—collectivelj-—will jingle about 85 billion- dollars in his jeans this year, and about 92 billion next year, according to government economist's reports...
...Inc...
...Bailt on a "peace" program circulation the sheet is now faced with repudiating all of Giimofs signed editorials denouncing the "imperialist" war...
...Who is the good neighbor...
...Lovestone, by the way...
...Now, you proud believers in the Good Neighbor policy, fancy the conversations that take place of an evening wh'en folks rest from playing and dancing, when they fall into quieUtalk...
...Hoover will remain...
...In part' the good neighbor problem is an aspect of the net problem...
...But this is not all...
...If yoa were we'd slip you a mickey inn for suspending the hoys at Inglewood...
...One of the first things Biddle will push is the prosecution of the Trntskyite Dunn* brothers in Minneapolis...
...He has accomplished great things J* bis people—though they arc not a race and Ghandi has never ?*d to 'Waff" the British Empire...
...At the same time, the Catholic War Veterans, Inc., condemned the President's decision to aid Russia...
...Tilts tops the highest—1929— figure of 83.4 billions...
...In New York, U. S. Attorney Mathias Correa will take no action against the alleged Russian spy Gaik Ovakiam until he hears from the State Department...
...Minneapolis may see the street warfare it experienced in 1934...
...YVF of the first casualties of the invasion may be Daa GUnion's magazine Friday...
...Early in April Buffarini Guidi, Italian undersecretary for the Interior, warned the Vatican to keep out of Italian politics...
...Los Angeles is the second Mexican city on the continent, and St* Anionic comes close, behind...
...But a wage of two dollars - a week— ayzcially if you pay four dollars per month for a miserable shack trroom— puts a handicap on happiness...
...Advocates of such action are finding strong opposition within the church and it is expected that a prolonged Russian-German war will split the American Catholics wider than has any issue since Father McGfem...
...Inside Germany hundreds of priests have been jailed for protesting the Reich's practice of killing the aged and infirm...
...Over the vehement objections of the Catholics the German state put to death 85,000 blind, incurable ill or aged persons in September, October and November, 1940...
...rXURTNG the San Francisco election for delegates to the AmericHTi Newspaper Gufld convention in Detroit, the voting was by newspaper units...
...Her short address ended with a slogan which deserves wide circulation: "A quarter from jqii means no quarter for Hitler...
...Which proves the dangers cafe society runs an making the rounds: .. . Airplanes From Sawdust — The Growing Chemical Wonder of Plastics Airplanes from sawdust and coal tar...
...Instead he already is reported boilding a cltqoe around him...
...And until ¦at time we need not expect their love...
...For the first time race prejudice strtick them like a blow in the face...
...In search of the dollar, they crossed the Rio Grande...
...Isolationist senators, like Wheeler, Capper and D. W. dark who cooperated with the APM at one time or another, or with George SeMes' newsletter In Fact, will he attacked...
...He tries to keep afloat in Mexico propaganda favorable to the peat northern neighbor...
...John L. won't change policy...
...Since Sunday morning last, Curran has been a near man worried only by rumors of an organized opposition planned for the National Maritime Union convention opening Monday in Cleveland, Prior to the change) in line, the NMU was none too enthusiastic about moaning ships for Europe...
...Then may come a quiet tale of blackened eyes or of a broken arm...
...In place of the Maritime Federation there has been created a CIO Maritime Committee...
...The synthetic resin group of plastics has enjoyed the widest expansion...
...Throughout Spain and Italy the Pope is frequently attacked, especially by the pro-Nazi younger generation Black Shirts and Falangists who are energetically anti-clerical...
...Here life and work and play tti hws hundreds of thousands of these darke-eyed, sensitive people...
...More than 360 priests were jailed recently as the Nazi government took drastic action to curb the Catholic campaign against euthanasia and compulsory sterilization...
...The Danes are good Christians, but they *^tbak so...
...proposal for a naMoWtflp peace convention...
...So back to the Henry Street Settlement for Friday's angel . . . social work is much quieter than editing...
...Our food and clothes rationing is managed so that it ftUi equally upon all classes...
...The "dark-skinned but white-souled I loft" are volunteering by the hundreds of thousinds for the British ""litary: service and are assisting the Empire with enormous ^tities of war materials...
...Hugh De Haven...
...Spread across his front page is the new battle cry of the isolationists: "Red peril worse than Nazis...
...Ever since the Spaniards came they have Ma-poor—with a universal and equal poverty...
...Now, because the Labor Party has a role in JfTie, government, we have equality of sacrifice, and you should, know that the ttsltkier pdrt of the population accept* this program with entAKfwsm...
...He quickly sought and used disaffected tribes to serve as his Sudeten people, and a few Spanish gauds •nickly created a formidable fifth column...
...Poverty is not the chief source of grief...
...No state troops were called out in strikes...
...The Danes were as non-resistant as Ghandi...
...The attitude of the Catholic church in America remains disunited on opposition to Hitler in disregard of the Germans persecution of the Papacy abroad...
...John Lewis has virtually been handed a virtual ultimatum—change your policy or take an all-out smear drive...
...The Rio Grande is a shallow stream and easily crossed...
...Mr, Waldman referred to Morris Hillquit's practical work in the interest of the laboring man and to the appropriateness of such a presentation, from the workers of the United States to the workers of Britain 0D a spot dedicated to the memory of such a man...
...Wednesday morning all city desk editors throughout thej:-!ty found such statements when thety, arrived...
...Since babies are persons but are not illowed to consume the sacred beverage of Britain, their allotments go to increase the privileges of older members of their families...
...They are who they are...
...A man by the name of Jay Loves ton*, together with a Mr...
...The J*"**" gives us complete proof of its failure...
...Since some of these men are a'.ready organized in Harry Lundeberg's Sailor's Union of the Pacific, waterfrontj warfare is in the air...
...There are scores of others...
...its basic ingredients are are cotton linters, wood alcohol, sawdust and carbolic acid...
...Most correspondents reported a more vigorous defense of civil liberties and a more favorable attitude on the pare of public officials...
...This chemical prodigy, a decade ago thought of primarily for use in imitation jewelry, toys and mechanical penbils, today is used for such defense products as gas masks, helmets, shell denotators, surgical instruments, field telephones and radio, airplane fuselages and wing tips...
...the nation which administers the third degree...
...Reverend George B. Ford, Catholic Chaplain, Columbia University...
...2) those made from synthetic resins, derived from coal tar, and (3) those made from proteins, such as milk and soy beans...
...By a happy inspiration the presentation was made a part of tie amnaal ceremony in the Hillquit Grove...
...Just what it is that's bothering i»e COrran and Comrades...
...Recently the official newspaper of the Italian Catholic Action of the University students was seized and suspended because it printed an article condemning hatred as "the base feeling...
...They are subject to disgrace, arrest, even torture...
...because of "the Nazi-Soviet war Friday would be needed in these confused times...
...the Union stated...
...representatives are not treated any kinder in Italy...
...Because these people arc olive-skinned, speak a strange language and have strange ways they are not ¦erely degraded, looked down upon, despised...
...Here sellers' markets exist...
...Simultaneously other representatives of this group are scheduled to conduct raids on all NMU halls and take physical possession...
...The latter point out that until the week of June 21 Germany, and Spain and Italy acting under orders, had been consistently dismantling the Catholic Church throughout Europe...
...IDuring the last few days the Papacy has resisted intense German pressure—in the form of threats and wide concessions — directed at forcing a -Papal order to all 'Bishops which would have , set the Catholic church against England throughout the world...
...SOMETHING is brewing for Monday's national Maritime Union convention...
...Current volumes of consumer expenditures have reached exceptionally new highs...
...Joe Curran, head of the National Maritime Union, was cracking under the strain of political strategy necessitated by a pro-German policy...
...Most striking of the casualties was the barring of the Communist Party from the ballot in fifteen states...
...With their gift for happiness, they make the best of life is barracks and slums...
...If the local, which it about 5,000 strong, decides to strike, as a protrst against the AFL and the government...
...Through his union, he financed and supplied 'pickets to the "peace vigil" around t^se White House...
...t|i[ Thes pro-iGerman section, led by Boston's Cardinal CConnell, Detroit's Father Coughlin, and New York's Edward Lodge Ourran, head of the International Catholic Truth Society, have been accused of political shortsightedness in addition to pro-Nazi sentiment by the large number of anti-totalitarian laymen and clerics...
...Lord Marley, Labor member of the British House of Lords, tho spoke and his agile use of the American idiom demonstrated last the war or the radio or the movies—something—is really (ringing America and Britain together...
...p1 reply to my Sunday School lesson on the Parable of the Good Samaritan I have received the following counterpoint from fond Burton Barr, of Chicago: "You, of course, know of Ghandi—whose pacifism yet holds the *LJB India—among 400,000,000 dark-skinned but white-souled "to—Without "bloody heads"—as yet...
...I Readers of the New Leader do not need to have the point kiored...
...The official 'Papal intransigeance to German advances is not characteristic of the entire Arm . jan Catholic church, for some of the most influential laymen in the nation are putting pressure on the hierarchy to exploit Germany's sudden attack on Russia...
...Frankensteen said no, why...
...This action is patterned after Nazi restriction on the Catholic jPress in Germany...
...Intcreifting is the Trade Union Council s«t-up over night by the openly Communist Jewish Peoples Committee, repudiated by all Jewish organizations...
...This has given rise, to grave incidents between the churchmen and the Nazis, as a result of which many priests were arrested in May and June...
...These arc proud people descended from Indians who owned and ruled the land in ¦ntezuma's time...
...They claim that delegates representing 8.000 member at our convention are under tneir control...
...The phrase is taken from statements by Archbishop Curley of Washington, D. C. This sentiment is spreading to Latin America where it is injuring Pan-American relations...
...On Wednesday morning city editors received a statement from such a council calling for full aid to Great Britain...
...The party-controlled Maritime Federation of the Pacific has already been dissolved...
...over at NMU headquarters we don't fcsew But they are perturbed for they have been telling their members of "a desperate and fantastic plot to destroy our union in one fell swoop...
...This is true not only of the occupied territories but in Spain and Italy as well...
...Their pride is still the same after JseJnturies...
...We're sure Lovestone...
...Well, how was it up yonder, old fellow...
...Behind #ope Pius' refusal to deal with the Germans lie a long series of repressive measures through which the Nazis have virtually destroyed the Church's secular influence in Europe...
...Only five prosecutions were brought under state laws penalizing opinion — two for sedition against Communists in Oklahoma and Illinois (the Illinois case was settled before trial), one against German-American Bundsmen in New Jersey for ant i-S emetic speeches, and two against Jehovah's Witnesses in Indiana for sedition...
...Solicitor-General of the ~ Justice Department and FBI head J. Edgar Hoover h*s caused delay in FDR's naming Biddle as Robert Jackson > successor as Attorney General...
...Alfred E. Smith...
...It may be very well for an Amer^f, protected by police and army to say that this outcome J3*l »e all right...
...At the same time British Catholic Cardinal Hinsley has advised 'British Catholics to disregard Hitler's claim to be running a crusade and points out that the late Pope Pius XI wrote encyclicals against the Nazis as well as the Communists...
...The Mahatma never showed ¦"i greatness to better advantage than in his sizing up of the Pres«»t world conflict...
...With war needs causing tight squeezes in aluminum, magnesium, zinc, tin, rubber and chromium, the plastics industry is booming even greater than the period between 1933-1937 when it quadrupled its output...
...The gift was gracefully and wittily received on behalf of the British Society by Mrs...
...In his meandering* he visited a Greenwich Village nightclub, well known for its hospitality to the Tovarischi bohemians...
...This will involve the CTO which has just granted a charter to Teamsters Local,544, controlled by the Dunne...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL •yHAT broken -down object you see the tovarischi running from, * boys and* girls, is a "peace front," the trade in value of which is less than that of a season pass to 1939 World's Fair...
...Sign of the times is brother A. B. Lewis' cooperation with the prosecuted Trotsky it f Minneapolis teamsters whom the comrades do not want in CIO...
...After the Pope's recent speech Roberto Farinacci's newspaper Regime Fascista warned him not to encourage resistance to the Nazis...
...In the appellate courts decisions were almost wholly favorable to civil liberties...
...The Catholic drive was supported by, a Vatican decree...
...THE Tamtaent Conference added an interesting note to the good 1 neighbor discussion which started editorially in last' week's New Leader...
...The paper referred to the picture as "stupid, un-Christian and un-French...
...Parade, will be published within two weSeks...
...Here they-are "colored" people, "greasers," no better than "niggers...
...The AFL has moved in to organize the field...
...Catholics Sought in Drive for Nazi Victory Soviet Wat Intensifies Use Of 'Holy Crusades Theme By VINCENT ROGERS Sharp division over foreign policy-and aid to England no* on the side of the Soviets is making itself wfclely manifest among the laity and hierarchy of the organized American*Catholic church, although Pope .Pius XTI has left little doubt that the Vatican is adamantly opposed to a German victpry even today, two weeks after the invasion of the Soviet Union...
...CIO council after council in a score of cities already halve backed Cirrran...
...He charged that the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano has adopted a pro-Jewish, pro-IDemocratic attitude...
...Returning evil for evil leaves evil enthroned—more firmly, Te thoroughly—to be overcome only by centuries of the preachJ* and practicing of the Jesus doctrine, in Paul's language, ^ercoming evil with good.' " I have great admiration for the philosophy and for the Witicai astuteness of Ghandi...
Vol. 24 • July 1941 • No. 27
