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FEBRUARY 23, 1946
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION ’ OF GEORGIA
ELEVEN
Talk on Russia at Forum in Savannah
Brings Rebuttal From Bishop O'Hara
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga, — Asserting
that Miss Anna Louise Strong, who
discussed Russia at a forum held
at the Armstrong Junior College
here on the evening of February
7, had “allowed herself to be fool
ed by Soviet propaganda,” the
Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D.
D., J. U. D., Bishop of Savannah-
Atlanta, declared that tne Soviet
“bristles with deceits and contra
dictions” and is “destructive of all
that is good and fine and noble
in civilization.”
In a prepared statement, issued
to the press, Bishop O'Hara de
clared that “it is amazing that any
American could possibly speak
sympathetically of a government
that is so completely totalitarian.
His Excellency said the Soviet
government, judged by Christian
standards, “is materialistic, atheis
tic, immoral, anti-moral, anti-
rational, anti-intellectual, and, of
course, violently anti-religious.”
Bihop O'Hara’s full statement,
as published in The Savannah
Morning News, follows:
“That an American, or any
Christian, could speak sympathe
tically of the Russian government
has always been a great mystery.
“Last evening a lecture on Rus
sia was given by a certain Miss
Strong, at Armstrong Junior Col
lege, and judging from newspaper
accounts, she spoke favorably of
the Soviet Union.
“Miss Strong is only one of
many other Americans who have
allowed themselves to be fooled
by Soviet propaganda. It was said
that all Russia desires was peace
and that she desires to have
‘friendly ‘ bordering countries sur
rounding her’.. Let the tears and
cries and protests of the citizens
of all small countries that are now
under the heel of the Soviet
government be the answer to that
assertion.
HAS PITY FOR THE RUSSIANS
“6ne feels nothing' but pity for
the ' people of Russia as Such.
Of the masses of the Russian peo
ple there is not one who has ever
known anything but oppression;
first under the Czaristic regime,
which was bad enough, and now
under the • Communistic regime,
which is far worse. Liberty as
such, and especially liberty as we
know it in America, is unknown
in Russia. The Soviet govern
ment. let it not be forgotten,' is a
totalitarian government of the
same stripe as, if not far worse
than any of the totalitarian
regimes that we and our allies
happily vanquished during (he
past year.
"Let newspaper men, who have
tried to exercise their profession
in Russia, tell us how much lib
erty they had and how free' they
were to speak openly of what they
saw with their own eyes.
“It is said that all that Russia
wants is peace. A murderer can
have peace with his victim and
make it impossible for his victim
to do him any further harm. Op
pression and murder have been
the means employed for years
by the Soviet government to put
out of the way any who would
raise their voice against the
government.
“Let Christians remember that
the Soviet government, judged by
Christian standards, is materialis
tic, atheistic, immoral, anti-moral,
anti-rational, anti-intellectual, and
of course, violently anti-religious.
It bristles with deceits and con-
traditions and travels in a smoke
screen. It is mantled with dis
guises of alT kinds and has man
aged to fool many people.
“It is true that the Orthodox
Church has been allowed to func
tion up to a certain point. We can
be sure, however, that once it
becomes apparent that the Ortho
dox Church is having any marked
influence upon the people, church
doors will be closed again. The
Orthodox Church and its officials
(formerly State Church) are com
pletely subservient to government.
COMMENDS SOLDIER
“No wonder Judge Stephens, in
introducing the Speaker last night,
remarked ‘that the treatment of
the subject of the lecture might
be controversial’. No wonder,
too, that during the open forum
that followed the lecture, a sol
dier of Russian birth, who had
been in Russia for fourteen years
and could speak from his own
experience, rose up to testify that
Russians in uniform had been
active in spreading propaganda in
some occupied camps.
“The four freedoms for which
American soldier's fought, bled
and died, mean nothing to those
who hold the reins Of government
in Soviet Russia.
"As I have said above, it is
amazing that any American could
possibly speak sympathetically of
a government that is so completely
totalitarian and so destructive of
all that is good and fine and noble
in civilization, as s Communistic
Russia.
"We cannot help but hope that,
a brighter day will soon dawn for
the Russian people and for those
nations who are groaning under
the Soviet yoke. God speed the
day!”
LEAVE OF ABSENCE TOR
HEAD OF BENEDICTINE
SCHOOL IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH. Ga, — The Right
Rev. Vincent G. Taylor, O. S. B.,
D. D„ Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont,
has announced that the Rev. Paul
Milde, O. S. B.. principal of the
Benedictine Military School in
Savannah, has been granted a
leave of absence to enable him to
recover from a recent illness.
The Rev. Alcuin Bauderman, Q.
S. B.. has assumed the duties of
principal of the school.
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VOLUMN I.
ATLANTA. GA. JANUARY
NO. I
HITLER DIED IN THE FAITH??
Dead or alive. Hitler was a full fledged Roman Catholic.
1. Ho was the greatest of all Murderers.
2. He was a killer of innocent babies.
3. He made more Widows and orphans than any man,
living or dead.
4. He burned men alive.
5. He tore mens arms from their bodies.
C.IJe tortured sick and dying men.
7. Hc hated the Jewish people.
8. He hated America.
9. He hated every good thing.
10. He was li THIEF, LIAR, HYPOCRITE, BLAS-
PHEMER, BOASTER, PROUD. A SNEAK AND A
FORNICATOR.
Yet he was a GOOD ROMAN CATHOLIC. He will not
be lost??? Any Priest, Bishop, or Pope will pray him out
of PURGATORY??? Why? For he died in full fellowship
with the Roman Catholic Church, and he is just as good
as the Pope of Rome.
, Eac' 'ay t v Popo confesses ti s words: -onfess
to r' ty 1 aiv ■ M - M ‘hat fa 'inne
that don’t just happen.” Evidently this was to aid the
dying cause of Hitler, and split America and Russia.
THE JEWS
We all know that the Jews do not accept Christ, and
perhaps never will as a nation. Catholicism does not fol
low the Law, nor the Spirit of Christ. It is just another
religion like that of the Jew.
In Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” page 84, it says, “Therefore,
I believe that I am acting in the sense of Almighty Cre
ator: BY WARDING OFF THE JEWS l■ AM FIGHT
ING FOR THE LORD'S WORK." Of course, the “Lord’s
work” to Hitler was the Pope and the Catholic Church.
| The Jew is lost according to the Law of Moses, also the
Law of Christ, but those who follow Christ will never kill,
hurt, hate, nor destroy the Jew. On the contrary, those
who follow Christ will love and teayh the Jew that Christ
built “ONE CHURCH” for both Jew and Gentile. Protest
antism will not convert the -Tews. Neither will Catholicism.
Pur ”hri' ni' ' ■ \y.
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Editorial in Atlanta Constitution
Reproves Those Seeking to Arouse
Religious Intolerance in Georgia
In an editorial, headed “The
Bigots Are at It Again,” which
appeared in its issue dated
February 6, THE ATLANTA
CONSTITUTION expressed
grave concern at the discovery
that efforts are currently being
made to inject religious intol
erance into certain political
campaigns in Georgia.
The Constitution’s editorial
speaks for itself, and reads as
follows:
We had hoped after the people
so resoundingly repudiated ap
peals to race prejudice in the last
gubernatorial campaign, that the
demagogues had learned their les
son.
Such, unfortunately, does not
seem to have been the case. Cur
rently being manifest in. the race
for Bob Ramspeck’s congression
al post is a vicious example of re
ligious intolerance reminiscent of
Naziism at its worst. And already
there are indications that the
same rabid factions- discredited
lour years ago are assiduously
preparing their venom for this
summer’s governor race.
It is disheartening that having
just suffered more than a million
casualties in an effort to stamp
out the self-assumed master race
in Europe, we should be confront
ed with the same bigoted theories
here at home.
It is discouraging to think that
hundreds of thousands of Ameri
can youth—of every color, race
ar.d creed—laid down their lives
that irresponsible fanatics can
create strife and dissension by
stirring racial and religious bias.
We can. only hope that those
who have no more to offer than
narrow-minded bigotry will re
ceive such a lack of encourage
ment at the hands of an outraged
electorate that sooner or later
even their .small minds will learn
that campaigns based on prejudice
do not make, for 'victory at the
polls.
WASHINGTON LETTER
By J. J. GILBERT
WASHINGTON-—Observers here
have wondered a little just why
two prominent figures in the
United States Senate, speaking
outside the Senate, recently took
occasion to condemn what they
called the mistrust of Russia which
is showing itself in the United
States.
Coming at a time when the
Yalta agreement was again under
discussion in the press, and there
was widespread speculation wheth
er this country has heard the last
of the secret agreements made in
its behalf, the speeches—made
withing a few days of each other—
caused more than passing interest.
This interest was further height
ened when, almost at the same
time, two well-known writers lev
eled strong attacks against one of
the country’s oldest magazines for
what it charged is that publica
tion’s unwillingness to print any
thing critical of Russia.
Senator Alben W. Barkley pf
Kentucky, Majority Leader jn the
Senate, told a New York audience
that there is' a small area of mis
understanding that exists .between
the "United States and Russia and
that it is being magnified. He
said l\e admired Russia as “a great"
natioh arising from the turmoil
and chaos of a revolution, that "fol
lowed a" thousand" years or im
perialistic injustice, denying to no
minority race the equal rights of
all people in the Soviet Union.”
He said we must understand the
background and viewpoint of all
nations , to understand their prob
lems, and that, we'must.realize that
all nations have short-comings,
Senator Claude Pepper ot Flor
ida told another New York audi
ence that “selfish and unscrupul
ous men” are trying to wreck
world peace, and that chief among
their weapons is “the weapon of
anti-Sovietism.” . He complained
that “not a morning passes, but
that I read in the newspapers some
new and conscienceless attack up
on our great ally.”
Just the next day a New York
paper reported that William Henry
Chamberlin .had resigned in pro
test, after 14 years ot service,
from the editorial staff pf The
Atlantic Monthly. In a letter to
the editor he objected to two re
cent articles by Anna Louise
Strong and cited what he called
thp magazine's unwillingness to
print anything critical of Russia.
The same report said that Ray
mond Leslie, Buell, writer and
lecturer, had also protested to the
magazine's editor, challenging the
latter’s rejection of an article on
Poland which he said he had. been
asked. to" write. He also cited
Miss Strong’s articles, and charged
that she Is “no longer American
Paulists to Conduct
Mission in Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga—The Rev.
Joseph A. McMahon, C.S.P.,. and
the Rev. Arthur Spears. C. S. P„
of the Paulist Fathers Missionary
Band, Winchester, Tenn., will con
duct a two-weeks mission at St.
Mary’s-on-The-Hill Church, start
ing February 24, it has been 'an
nounced by the Very Rev. Msgr.
James J. Grady, pastor of St.
Mary’s,
YOUNG AUGUSTAN
ENTERS U. S. ARMY
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Norman Boat
wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nor
man I. Boatwright, a member of
Stfl Mary’s-on-The-IIill parish
here, who graduated last year from
the Boy’s Catholic High School,
has completed his asic training, in
the United States Navy, at.Camp
Peary, Wililamsburg. Va„ and. is
now station at ar Juan, Puerto
Rico.
REV. HERMAN L. HEIDE,
Army chaplain from the Archdio
cese of New York, was presented
the Silver Star Medal at a' mili
tary ceremony at Fort Slocum, N.
Y, Father Heide was awarded
the, medal for gallantry in France,
where he lead medical corpsnjen
and litter bearers to rescue the
wounded in the thick of a Heavy
German assault. After minister
ing to the wounded all day, he
was rinptured by'the Germans and
spent months in a - prisoner of
war camp.,
AMERICA faces a great danger
iii the tendency toward resurgence
of intolerance and bigotry', former
Minnesota Governor Harold ’E.
Stassen declared in accepting 'the
general chairmanship bf the 1940
observance of Brotherhood Week.
by .inspiration but is a Russian
.Communist ,by adoption.”
Referring to Miss Strong’S, ar
ticles, Mr. Chamberlin wrote that
“the gulf between an editorial
viewpoint which would regard
these articles as suitable for pub
lication in. an American.' 'non*
Communist magazine and my.own
is so wide that I don’t thinlc my
former assignment of submi(t,ing
opinions on political and foreign
affairs articles, could be contjrtiicd
with much advantage to" ejUicr of
us,” . ' - ' .
Of Miss J> thong, the article
quoted l}im as paying: ' ‘ [
“It seems to me that ah avowed
American Communist sympathizer,
a former editor of a Soviet propa
ganda paper edited jn English in
Moscow and (he widow of a.SOViet
. official is pot the most reliable
source of information about, what
happened in Poland lender' Soviet
occupation. _ . 1. j