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JANUARY 5, 1957.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE
Dictator Is Red Persecutor Of Religion
Suggestion That Tito May Be Invited
To Visit U.S. Serves To Recall Record
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (NO—
The American people may soon
be askec 1 '-to extend hospitality to
Marshal Josip Broz Tito of Yugos
lavia.
Secrets zy of State John Foster
Dulles has announced here that
the Administration is giving sym
pathetic ronsideration to a pro
posal to invite Tito to visit the
White House.
Marshal Tito’s record includes
the following facts:
He is. an .avowed Communist.
He is one of the world’s fore
most persecutors of religion. He
has called religion a form of
“superstition,” and has said that
anyone teaching religion is an
“enemy cf the people” and liable
to punisitment.
He was the first of the Red
dictators to imprison a ranking
ecclesiastic. He had Archbishop
(now-Cardinal) Aloysius Stepinac
of Zagreb arrested on September
30, 1946; had him tried for alleged
treason, and had him sentenced
to 16 years at forced labor. Mar
shal Tito had him released “con
ditionally'’ in December, 1951, but
still confines him to his small na
tive village of Krasic.
Tito’s military planes and anti
aircraft guns have shot down un
armed American aircraft with
loss of life.
He has confiscated the property
of Americans doing .business in
Y ugoslavia.
He has expelled some American
newspapermen from Yugoslavia
and he has kept others from en
tering that country.
He expelled in 1946 the workers
of Catholic Relief Services (then
War Relief Services), National
Catholic Welfare Conference.
He has received more than a
billion dollars worth of economic
and military aid from the United
States while boasting that he
made no concessions to the West.
Titoist dictatorship was con
demned t’y the American Federa
tion of Labor and Congress of
Industrial Organizations, at its
first constitutional convention in
December, 1955, as one of the
“reprehensible foes of human dig
nity, decency and liberty.”
The International Confederation
of Free Trade Unions has warned
that Yugoslav trade unions are
not free, but are “controlled by
the Communist party and by the
government, which is the same
thing)”
It hag been understood here
for some years that Belgrade
sought to win ah invitation for
Marshal Tito to visit the United
States. President Eisenhower has
discouraged these overtures here
tofore, or. the ground that such a
meeting would serve no useful
purpose.
Now, Secretary Dulles has said
a visit by Marshal Tito to this
country might serve a useful pur
pose. It has been suggested in
this connection that the Adminis
tration probably hopes to capita
lize on the attacks which Soviet
Russian communists have recent
ly leveled against Tito. It is re
ported that the Administration
hopes to drive a wedge between
Belgrade and Moscow.
In 1953 there was a rumor that
Tito might be invited to come to
the United States. The report
stirred up protests from national
organizations and prominent in
dividuals in all parts of the coun
try. No invitation was extended to
Marshal Tito.
Announcement that the United
States Government is considering
an invitation to Marshal Tito, the
Red dictator of Yugoslavia, to
visit this country brought prompt
and vigorous protests from many
many quarters.
Albert J. Sattler of New York
telegraphed President Eisenhower
to “record the dismay and sex’ious
concern” of the National Council
of Catholic Men over the report.
Mr. Sattler also telegraphed Sec
retary of State John Foster Dulles
that the NCCM and eight million
men of its affiliated organizations
“vigorously oppose an invitation
to Marshal Tito to visit the U.S.”
Mr. Sattler is president of the
NCCM.
Luke E. Hart, Supreme Knight
of the Knights of Columbus, tele
graphed President Eisenhower
that “nothing else your Adminis
tration might do would be so dis
appointing, or would so grievous
ly offend our more than 30 mil
lion Catholics and large propor
tion of others.” He told the Pres
ident that his organization was
“shocked” at the press report that
“the jailer of Cardinal Stepinac,
the persecutor of religion, the
tyrant of Yugoslavia and the ac
complice of the butchers of Buda
pest” is to be invited to this coun
try.
Mr. Hart also sent a letter of
protest to Secretary Dulles.
The Catholic Standard, news
paper of the Archdiocese of Wash
ington, said editorially that “to
bolster Tito’s regime by inviting
him to this country is a brutal re
pudiation of our principles and
an insult to the Americans killed
by Tito.”
Representative Alvin E. O’Kon
ski of Wisconsin told the Secreta
ry of State that “such an invita
tion would be disastrous.” “I feel
so strongly on this matter,” the
Congressman added, “that I for
one don’t want to be a party to
such treachery and deception of
the people of our nation. Should
the invitation be tendered, I have
no recourse left but to seriously
consider resigning my post.”
The Tablet, newspaper of the
Diocese of Brooklyn, said: “The
proposed visit to the United States
of Josip Broz, alias Tito, at the
invitation of the President is
about as shocking a suggestion as
we have ever heard.”
“If there is any advantage to
the United States to having some
official see Tito,” the paper added,
“let him be sent to the armed
camp in Yugoslavia. We must not
desecrate our soil pollute our free
air by bringing such an anti-
American, anti-religion dictator
as Tito here.”
Mr. Sattler’s telegram to Presi
dent Eisenhower said:
“May I record the dismay and
serious concern of the National
Council of Catholic Men, a federa
tion of organizations representing
eight million men, over the in
vitation to Marshal Tito to visit
the U.S.
“While we recognize the neces
sity of taking steps to weaken
Soviet influence, such a com
plete gesture of embracing Tito
can have nothing but a disastrous
effect in this country, and most
especially among those oppressed
by his infamous tyranny in his
own land.
“To so honor one of the most
notorious violators of human
rights in our times, ill becomes a
nation that always stood in de
fense of decency and freedom.
We earnestly trust that the Amer
ican sense of decency will not
be dishonored by an invitation to
Marshal Tito to enjoy the hos
pitality that this country must in
conscience reserve only to those
worthy of it.”
Mr. Sattler’s telegram to Sec
retary Dulles said:
“The National Council of Cath
olic Men and the eight million
men of its affiliated organizations
vigorously oppose an invitation
to Marshal Tito to visit the U.S.
“While sympathetic to the stra
tegic reasons behind such a consi
deration nevertheless we believe
it unthinkable that such recogni
tion and honor be accorded to one
of the cruelest dictators of our
times, particularly at this moment
when men ahd women are fight
ing and dying for the same free
doms that he denies by force to
his own people.
“The recognition and honor
that such an invitation would ac
cord Tito would be a serious blow
to U.S. moral leadership, which
is so high at this time. It would
be a disservice to the other vic
tims of the same kind of tyranny
in Iron Curtain countries and
would cause dessensions here at
home by making evident the wide
disparity between public senti
ment and Government policy.
“Your assurance that no invita
tion will be extended to Tito is
hopefully anticipated. May I so
advise the vast numbers of our
members throughout the country
to whom this information has
come as a great shock?” ;
In his letter to Secretary Dulles,
Supreme Knight Hart repeated
the protest he: made to President
Eisenhower, and added;
“No condition exists in this
world that could justify it (an in
vitation to Tito to visit this coun
try). World politics or power po
litics, or what have you, would
not be served by this country ex
tending a welcome to Tito. On
the contrary, much harm would
result.
“I would be glad to have, your
assurance that it will not be
done.”
It was recalled that in 1953,
when there were rumors that Tito
might be invited to come to this
country, the Supreme Board of
Directors of the K. of C. ad
dressed the following protests to
the State Department: “An invi
tation to Marshal Tito, self-pro
claimed communist d i c ta t o r,
would properly be interpreted, by
the enslaved victims of his and
other communist tyrannies, as a
cynical abandonment of our fre
quently stated high moral pur
pose to support the cause of free
dom throughout the world.
“It would be so interpreted, too,
by those now associated with us
in resistance to communist ter-
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rorism. Irreparable damage to our; orders and returned to the blood
position as a moral force in the ■ bath in Hungary.
“Certainly here is the record of
how decent people stand. No
world would inevitably result.”
Supreme Knight Hart urged K.
of C. councils and Fourth Degree
assemblies to adopt suitable re
solutions of protest against an in
vitation to Tito to visit this coun
try, and to forward them to the
President and to the Secretary
of State.
The Catholic Standard said the
proposal to invite Tito here
“would hardly be credible if the
Government had not already
stated that it was giving ‘sym
pathetic consideration’ to the in
vitation.” The paper said it would
be “a crushing double-cross of our
very vigorous but silent allies in
Yugoslavia and elsewhere who
are working for the triumph of
freedom and other human rights.”
“Furthermore,” the paper add
ed, “it would be a disastrous re
buff to the brave Hungarians and
Polish people who are resisting
communist regimes—it would con
firm their worst fears about in
eptitude and lack of assistance to
them.”
“An invitation to Tito would be
a catastrophic gesture of support
to the collapsing Red regime,”
the paper declared.
Representative O’Konski told
the Secretary of State that “there
will be demonstrations in every
major U.S. city ... If invited I
shall be tempted to lead them,
though there be millions more
worthy than myself.”
“Where is the heart and con
science of a righteous America?”
the Congressman inquired. “Our
prestige today in the world is at
its highest in 20 years. Recent
righteous actions long overdue
have given back this nation much
of the admiration we had lost. Is
all this to be destroyed by honor
ing an avowed enemy of free
dom?”
Representative O’Konski said
“the people of our nation are dis
turbed” over news than an invita
tion may be extended to Tito. He
asked the Secretary of State if
he would invite here the parents
of the American fliers shot down
“in cold blood” by Tito’s forces.
Deploring the prospect that an
invitation might be extended to
Tito, The Tablet of Brooklyn said:
“One would reasonably think
that, while the blood of the Hun
garian victims of communism is as
yet undried and the savage at
tacks of the Red tyrants continue
in that country, no American
would hold anything but the deep
est enmity for the murderers of
the innocent and for those who
have spoken in justification of
the murderers.”
The Tablet said Marshal Tito’s
“record of crime and killings in
Yugoslavia is notorious.”
“As the killer of one of the
greatest patriots of our times,
Mikhailovitch, and his compatri
ots, as the jailer of the spiritual
leader of the Yugoslav people,
Cardinal Stepinac, as the persecu
tor of all religion, and as the
enemy of human rights and the
God-given liberty of men, he has
become the symbol of the worst
that was in nazism,” The Tablet
declared. “For shooting down
American aviators and for squ
andering American aid to build
up his communist dictatorship,
he has merited the utmost con
tempt of every. American.”
“He is the bloody accomplice of
the butchers of Budapest,” the
paper continued. “He has sneered
at the thousands of Hungarian
patriots who have laid down their
lives on the altar of liberty. Com
munist tyrant that he is, he has
betrayed refugees in search of
freedom who, after fleeing into
Yugoslavia, were arrested at his
American would want him even
to set foot on our free shores,
much less be invited here by the
President of the United States.”
Vincent F. Schulte Sr.
Services At Decatur
DECATUR, Ga.—Funeral serv
ices for Vincent F. Schulte Sr.,
were held December 27th at St,
Thomas More Church. Rev. Leo
nard Mayhew officiating.
Survivors are his wife; daugh
ters, Mrs. Frank Redfield of Phoe
nix, Ariz., and Mrs. Samuel
Moody of Atlanta; sons, Paul C.
Schulte of Atlanta and Vincent
Schulte Jr., of Decatur, sisters,
'Mrs. Eugene Nestle of Tulsa,
Okla.’ and Mrs. Christopher Diel
of St. Louis; brothers, Alvin
Schulte of Denver, Colo., and F. J.
Schulte of St. Louis.
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