AMERICA'S RED DEAN
SHUB, ANATOLE
America's Red Dean By Anatole Shub « THEN HEWLETT JOHNSON, YV 'famed Red Dean of Canterbury; was characterized by what was supposed to be a staid Protestant magazine as "an, openminded...
...All along he has hit the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan...
...How this is linked up with the proSoviet bias is a key to the magasine's attitude...
...Under the circumstances, the Secretary does not feel that he can accept the award...
...As witness {the following: An article by Johannes Steeel on Dec...
...In March '48, he demanded suppression .of the film "The Iron Curtain," based on Igor Goiizenfco's story of the Canadian spy ring, He attacked the Roman Catholic Church in Yugoslavia and heaped unsavory epithets upon Archbishop...
...1, 1945 declares that "Russia wants peace above all else...
...Stepinac...
...Most recently he was a sponsor of the March 25-27 Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace...
...But it should have occasioned no surprise...
...National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, signer of messages...
...But Shipler's activities have not been restricted to the comparatively innocent practice of gaining free publicity by lending his name to various CP festive occasions...
...Early this year, he vigorously defended William Howard Melish, with a typical Commie diatribe that there are people who consider it "unpatriotic to work for peace...
...A little later another item read "The Vatican Political OffensiveHow American Freedoms are Being Endangered by the World-Wide Militant Catholic Action...
...Rev...
...Joint Anli-Fascitt Refugee Committee, sponsor...
...According to the official announcement: 'The Secretary noted that The Churchman is not, as he originally understood, the official organ of the Episcopal Church, devoting itself exclusively to religious matters...
...Kernan a telegram reading: ' " .* "Dear Fathers Your yellow streak is showing...
...On July 1, 1948 Shipler's headline was "Protestant Youth to Support Wallace...
...What Koestler calls "the confusion of Left and East" is dramatically illuminated by Shipler's magazine, which Is staunchly pro-Cominform and Just as staunchly bigoted...
...What are you doing with...
...Both as individual and editor of The Churchman, he has been doing yeoman work for the Stalin line...
...This is more in.the spirit of Joe MacWilliams than of Colonel Robert Inger* soli...
...He carefully plays on an age-old suspicion of "Popery" on the part of many Protestants by continual shrewd innuendoes and frequent outright blasts against Catholicism...
...t ( t SHIPLER'S TRAVELS along the Communist line started in 1939, when he was a sponsor of the American League for Peace and Democracy...
...William H. Melish, chairman of the National Council for American-Soviet Friendship, Shipler was publicly rebuked less than a year ago when George C. Marshall refused to accept The Churchman Award...
...That same year, he became a sponsor of the Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade...
...A close associate of the Rev...
...Reichstag Fire Trial Anniversary Comrrrillee, signer of declaration applauding George Dimitrov...
...William C. Kernan...
...was characterized by what was supposed to be a staid Protestant magazine as "an, openminded visitor to ,Russia,,, some readers gasped...
...an article by a Czechoslovak theologian declaredi "I accept the February change (the Communist coup in Csechoslovakia) as a step in the unavoidable and justifiable process of the social transformation of our life...
...An article by Willard Shelton on May 1. 1945...
...Shipler called this non-Communist progressive "one of America's1 most vocal Red-baiters" fl*hd sent Rev...
...But the real tip-off on The Churchman line is in the Issue of October 15, 1946 where the magazine attacks the Baruch Plan for International Atom Control, probably the most magnanimous and selfless proposal ever made in history...
...In 1942, Shipler evidently did little joining but in '43 he really went to town...
...1948...
...In 1947, Shipler backed Johannes Steel's campaign for Congress...
...THE COUPLING of religious intolerance with pro-Soviet propaganda should be examined carefully by those deluded liberals who still think that Communism, after all, is an outgrowth of the democratic tradition...
...SHIPLER IS NO DOPE...
...In September...
...And in July, 1947, an editorial titled "The Protestant Voter's Dilemma" included this sentence: "It was the mistake of FDR . . . that he appeased the hierarchy and gave high political prizes for the support he got . . . from the Roman Catholic Church...
...If there are still some who think Shipler's anti-Catholic attitude can be explained in terms of the old anticlerical feeling, let them weigh well his attacks on the liberal Episcopal minister...
...I believe that the social and economic transformation of our life along the lines of socialism cannot be 'contained' and halted...
...IN THE SENSE that Communists interpret "working for peace," Shipler's magazine^The Churchman, Has been most "patriotic...
...your thirty pieces of silver...
...Almost all of these organizations are on Attorney General Clark's subversive SINCE 1943, Shipler's pace has been fast and furious...
...This list goes on almost ad infinitum...
...He notes that its editorials extend far into the realm of politics and international affairs, and that the magazine, a private organization, apparently will receive revenue from the proposed dinner...
...His name has graeed the letterheads of more than a dozen Commie fronts officially branded as "subversive...
...His activities during that year, according to tabulations by the Friends of Democracy, included: Commille* in Defen»e of film "Mission to Moscow A signer...
...His attachment to the Communist line dates back a decade, and what started as a coy flirtation is now a full-fledged affair...
...On September 1, 1946, a headline read "Dulles-Vatican Collaboration Scored by Kenneth Leslie...
...National Council of AmericanSoviet Friendship, signer of statements and letters...
...The next year, he signed up for the New York Conference for Unalienable Rights and the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born...
...American policy is attacked at every opportunity...
...also says "Cumulative" and strong evidence indicates that the Soviet Unjpn desires peace and opportunity for its people, based on a sense of security, rather than military and imperialist adventures...
...The Churchman frequently prints letters approving its stand "in regard to the sinister activities of Romanism...
...For Guy Emery .Shipler, editor of The Churchman, is the closest thing America has to the Red Dean...
Vol. 32 • April 1949 • No. 16
