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PAGE 10—THE BULLETIN, October 15, 1960
Mailman Who Toured Europe
With ‘Pen Pal’ Letters Sets
Sights On Asia, Pacific
By James Kelly
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
OAKLAND, Calif., — Feet
that have pounded the cobble
stones of Europe are pointed
toward the sandy shores of the
South Pacific and the jungle
paths of Southeast Asia.
Their owner, local postman
Bernard Connolly, will head
west lugging the leather pouch
he carried through 12 coun
tries last spring.
Out of it he will dispense the
same commodity with the
same big smile that won him
and the U. S. a host of new
friends from Lisbon to Dublin.
Mr. Connolly’s cargo: letters
seeking people-to-people un
derstanding and friendship.
The 30-year-old mailman’s
first “journey to understand
ing” made headlines every
where he visited in Europe.
The trip, his own idea and at
his own expense, took him up
the narrow alleys of Seville
and down the boulevards of
Paris.
In 21 cities and towns he
matched strides with local
postmen, delivering to resi
dents along their routes letters
Truth Campaign
AMARILLO, Tex., (NC)—A
diocesan-wide “truth” adver
tising campaign was started
here to counter the deluge of
anti-Catholic material crop
ping up in Texas and other
parts of the South.
Bishop John L. Morkovsky
of Amarillo said in announc
ing the campaign that there
will be a systematic insertion
of advertisements in secular
daily and weekly newspapers
of the 73,000 square-mile dio
cese. Each parish has been
asked to be responsible for ads
in the papers of its areas.
Besides containing short
statements of the truths of
the Church, the ads will call
attention to the correspond
ence course being offered.
Church the Diocesan, Confra
ternity of Christian Doctrine.
from friends, and would be
friends, here in the Bay Area.
Among the letters were hun
dreds from Catnoiic school pu
pils sent to prospective pen
pals.
“Now I’d like to try the same
thing in the other direction,”
Mr. Connolly said.
Over coffee in Copenhagen
and a Coke in Madrid, he
found people happy to have
him into their homes and anx
ious to talk —• about them
selves, about America, about
the world’s problems.
“I think they and I both un
derstand a few things more
than we did before,” he said.
“And that was the whole point
of the trip. I figured even a
workingman like myself could
do something to bring people
closer together.”
Boston-born, of Irish parent
age, the long-legged Connolly
was accompanied by his wife,
Bernadette, on the European
tour. They hope to go to new
lands in 1962. Maps and atlas
es are standard equipment in
their home in St. Benedict’s
parish here.
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“In Europe,” Mr. Connolly
said, “people opened their
hearts because they were
frankly amazed at meeting a
common workingman. They’re
used to Americans loaded with
money. They all want to know
the other kind.
Cheered by meeting with
Europe’s youngsters—“so won
derful, so intelligent in their
questions” — Mr. Connolly
plans greater contact with
youth along the way, especial
ly college students. He will
carry letters from local col
legians to their counterparts in
each country.
It was the common touch
that made for Mr. Connolly’s
happiest memories of West
Europe . . .
There was the cynical young
monarchist, who guided him
through Spain. “What’s the
gimmick?” he kept asking. But
on parting he whispered to Mr.
Connolly: “You know, I’d like
to be a mayor some day, in the
Canary Islands or some place,
and see if I could make this
democracy thing work.”
By Father Patrick O'Connor
Society of St. Columban
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
CAIRO, U.A.R. — President
Gamal Abdel Nasser of the
United Arab Republic has no
use for Communism. He has
no use for Arab communists.
But he does have use for
communists of other countries
and, in particular, for the aid
that communist governments
offer him.
No communist party is al
lowed to exist in Egypt or
Syria, the Northern and South
ern Provinces of the United
Arab Republic. (No political
parties of any kind exist in
them.) No Arab citizen may
publish communist literature
in this country.
But the Soviet embassy pub
lishes an illustrated propagan
da journal in Arabic here.
Communist literature in Eng
lish and French — printed in
the Soviet Union, China and
North Korea — is displayed on
nearly every newstand along
the principal streets.
An advertisement in the
government-controlled Egyp
tian Gazette says: “If you wish
to know all about life in Ko
rea, the miseries in the south
and the atrocities committed
by the Americans, read the
Korean magazines . . . which
arrive regularly in the U.A.R.
On sale at all newspaper
booths.” The magazines arrive
from Pyongyang, communist
capital of North Korea, and
are sold at low prices that
must be much less than the
cost of production and ship
ment.
Everything published here,
from children’s schoolbooks to
newspapers, is subject to offi
cial censorship. A writer is
allowed to criticize commun
ism advertisely, but not a com
munist government.
President Nasser constantly
describes his goal as “ a social
ist, democratic, cooperative
state.” I asked the Minister of
Education for the Southern
Region (Egypt), Sayed Ahmed
Naguib Hashem, what kind of
socialism was meant. He an
swered promptly: “Not social
ism in the Marxist sense. We
believe in religion and cannot
accept materialism. Our social
ism is to ensure social justice
for the people.”
“President Nasser, one of the
leaders in the Afro-Asian
group, has made it clear that
he vehemently dislikes com
munism. I was present, how
ever, at the opening of the
National Union Congress here
where he spoke in warm praise
of the Soviet Union and, with
a qualified tribute to the
American attitude during the
Suez crisis, in sharp criticism
of the United States.”
“We extended our hand to
the United States and the
Soviet Union and expressed to
them our desire for coopera
tion,” he said. “The hand we
extended to the Soviet Union
was received with a warm re
sponse . . . The hand we ex
tended to the United States
for cooperation did not receive
the desired response . . .Amer
ican policy in our area found
itself at sea, achieving no pur
pose beyond its connection
with imperialism, Zionism and
certain stooges and reaction
aries.”
The United Arab Republic
receives substantial aid from
the U. S. But it receives far
more from the Soviet Union.
It is a common belief here
that if President Nasser’s ef
forts to develop a prosperous,
contented country fail, a com
munist regime will follow.
Therefore success for him, ac
cording to this view, will be a
defeat for communism. Hence
he is endeavoring, in effect,
to use communist aid to de
velop a bulwark against com
munism.
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