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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- DOYLE'S ANTIQUE SHOP Buford Highway al Clairmont — U. S. Highway No. 23, Norih VEE DYER DOYLE MEIrc-se 6-1011 Ailanta, Georgia DEVOE & RAYNOLDS QUALITY PAINTS HOUSEHOLD DEVOE PAINTS _ INDUSTRIAL __ DEVOE & RAYNOLDS CO., INC. 228 “echwood Drive, N. W. Atlanta, Ga. 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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