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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. BLOW PIPE ROCK WOOL INSULATION BUILT UP ROOFING MODERN ROOFING & METAL WORKS, Inc. 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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Nasser Government Opposes Reds At Home, But Accepts Aid From Communist Nations “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 . . . 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