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MARCH IS, 1957.
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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Footnote On Josef Broz Tito
THIS WORLD OF OURS
The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia, Incorporated
JOHN MARKWALTER, Editor
416 Eighth Street. Augusta, Ga.
Vol. 37 Saturday, March 16, 1957 No. 21
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Monroe, Georgia,
and accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided by para
graph (e) of section 34.40, Postal Laws and Regulations.
Member of N.C.W.C. News Service, the Catholic Press Association
of the United States, the Georgia Press Association, and the National
Editorial Association.
Published fortnightly by the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Geor
gia, Inc., with the Approbation of the Most Reverend Archbishop-
Bishop of Savannah, the Most Reverend Bishop of Atlanta, and the
Right Reverend Abbot Ordinary of Belmont.
Very Rev. John J. Kennedy, V. F.
For more than half a century, the Very Rev. John J.
Kennedy, V. F., labored in the Lord’s vineyard. Those labors
have ended now, but Father Kennedy will not be quickly
forgotten by those he leaves behind.
Ordained in 1905, he volunteered for service in Australia.
When the dark clouds of war hovered over his adopted home
land of Australia, Father Kennedy sailed for France as a
Chaplain in the Australian Army. In France he was awarded
the Distinguished Service Order for heroism during the battle
of Fromelle. The award was received from George V at
Buckingham Place, London.
It was in 1929 that Father came t,o Georgia. Follow
ing assignments in Savannah at the Cathedral, and in
Augusta, Father Kennedy was assigned to Athens. Here he
organized the Newman Club, providing homes for Catholic
boys at the University. Father Kennedy was a father to these
boys. Father to Catholic and non-Catholic alike, as evidenced
by the mourners at his funeral at Augusta.
Father leaves the beautiful St. Mary’s Church, Augusta,
as a monument. The erection of this edifice was one of the
last efforts of his priestly life. Father spearheaded the drive
for the new Catholic High School in Augusta which was
occupied last Monday, three short weeks following his death.
Father will long be remembered in Athens, at Valdosta
where he served as pastor for ten years, and in Augusta,
where he labored in the twilight of his life.
His was a noble and priestly soul. All who knew him
loved him. May his priestly soul escape this vale of tears to
eternal rest. May our Divine Savior, the Great High Priest,
soon give him the crown of “Well done, good and faithful
servant.”
(By Richard Paitee)
It would seem from press re
ports that Tito has expressed a
preference for not visiting the
United States at a time that is
not entirely “ripe” for such a
trip.
The secular
press has indi
cated that Cath
olic pres sure
and insistence
in this country,
against the wis
dom of this, vis
itation, contri
buted in large
part to the hes
itations in high
ington. The attitude of a con
siderable number of members of
Congress also encouraged reluc
tance to entertain the Yugoslav
dictator in our midst.
I hope very much that all this
is true, that Catholic opinion has
been an element of capital im
portance in bringing about at.
least a postponement of the ar
rangement. I think we can all be
grateful to the energetic position
of the Knights of Columbus, who
made their opposition to the visit-
inequivocally clear. But a few
comments may be in order to
clarify the feeling of many Cath
olics in this matter—especially
in the light of recent remarks by
Walter Lippman regarding for
eign visitors.
SHOULD WE RAISE
OBJECTIONS?
It would be obviously unwise
and not very bright to insist that
the American government invite
only statesmen of out standing
popularity. We are not running
popularity contests, nor choosing
Miss America when visiting
prime ministers arrive in Wash
ington. The action of the Mayor
of New York against King Saud
places in Wash-
raises this question because, in a
certain sense, it appears to be an
attitude similar to that of most
Catholics against Tito.
Should we reasonably raise
strong objections to all visitors or
potential visitors whose ideas we
dislike or whose conduct we de
plore?
Many of us are very far from
being passionate admirers of Pan
dit Nehru, but no one in his right
mind would object strenously to
his recent visit to Washington.
We are not Moslems, but we find
no difficulty in welcoming repre
sentatives of Islam who come to
our shores. Even those who are
moved by somewhat anti-British
sentiments Would not raise their
voices very loudly over the arriv
al of Prime Minister MacMillan.
The problem in these cases is
quite different from that of Tito.
TEMPORARY MOTIVES
Tito is an ardent, convinced,
militant and uncompromising a
Communist as Malenkov or Mol
otov. His regime—aside from cer
tain modifications in matters of
collectivism in the rural areas—
is as rigid, arbitrary and ruthless
as that of the Soviet Union. Tito
is as intolerant of the slightest
deviation — witness the case of
Djilas — as his Soviet counter
parts.
We are engaged in a world
wide struggle in which Commu
nism is the fundamental advers
ary. For temporary and incident
al motives, Tito chose to benefit
from Western aid. His actions a
few months ago in visiting the
Crimea for conferences, and in
approving the Kadar regime in
Hungary, attest his total fidelity
to Marxism as a system. He has
shown no less a disposition than
the Soviets to tyrannize and ter
rorize the Church and, for 11
years, has kept in prison one of
the noblest and most heroic pre
lates of our time, Cardinal Stepi-
nac.
In the long years of reapproach-
ment between Tito and the West,
there has been no fundamental
relaxation, no shift in position, no
abandonment of the Marxist the
sis. Tito has revealed himself a
cynical opportunist, as callous and
indifferent to human dignity as
Kadar, Groza, Beirut or Zapotoc-
ky. It is inconceivable that we
should consider him a trustworthy
ally or one on whom material
benefits once showered will pro
duce the ultimate conversion.
NO COMPARISON
The supreme indignity to the
Yugoslav people itself would be
to invite Tito with full honors to
the United States as a confirma
tion of his prestige and the le
gitimacy of his rule over Yugo
slavia. There is no comparison at
all between King Saud and Tito.
The Saudi Arabian ruler may
reign over a land where harems
and camel caravans flourish, but
since he happens to be a Moslem
and lives in Arabia, neither is a
crime under the system prevail
ing there.
The analogy would be exact if,
in some strange manner, King
Saud were an avowed Commun
ist, a long ally of the Soviet Un
ion, entranged from it tempora
rily yet obviously eager to return
to the fold, and a devoted parti
san of such aberrations as the
Kadar regime in Hungary. These
things King Saud definitely is
not.
If the proposed invitation to
Tito is revived, I hope that our
press and our organizations, eve
rywhere, will make the maxi
mum of noise and dem'onstrate
that we Catholics are not inter
ested in honoring in this land one
of the great persecutors of the
Church.
Rev. William P. Kearney, S. J.
The Angel of death has called the soul of Father William
P. Kearney, S. J., to its eternal reward.
Assistant pastor at Sacred Heart Church, Augusta, at the
time of his death, Father was well known and beloved.
Though only a resident of Augusta for less than four years,
his wit and kindness attracted a wide circle of friends.
Always interested in the Church Lay organizations,
Father was Chaplain or the Third Degree of Patrick Walsh
Council 677, Knights of Columbus. He was also an active
member of the Fourth Degree, Patrick Walsh Assembly.
Father was widely known throughout K. of C. circles
in Georgia. His was a familiar figure whenever Knights
gathered in meeting or convention.
Father will long be remembered by those he befriended
during his short stay in Georgia. May his soul rest in peace.
Hot Air Waves
(Boston Pilot)
The film “Martin Luther” is now scheduled to be shown
in Chicago, although just what that proves is not quite clear
yet. If it was cancelled because of Catholic pressure, may
we suppose that it will now run because of Protestant pres
sure? And if indeed the protest was obnoxious in the first
case has it now become less so in the second? At least the
TV station has its wits about it, since it has accused the
Protestants of trying to exert pressure on the FCC, which
must be, proportionately, a more frightful crime than trying
to pressure just one little station.
There are further Protestant protests to the FCC this
week. The notorious POAU (Protestants and Other Ameri
cans United) has attacked two University stations because
the schools are run by Jesuits. POAU describes the Jesuits
as “alien.” This is a very amusing adjective when one con
siders that the Jesuits were exploring America and naming
its rivers and settlements for more than a century before
the United States itself was established. The only ones we
can think of less “alien” than the Jesuits would be the In
dians, and we suppose that POAU has in mind restricting
the use of TV to the Indians.
There was even more trouble on the airwaves for
Protestants. The National Council of Churches made a reply
to a charge made by the National Association of Evangelicals.
The Evangelicals had recently charged that the National
Council was using a “pressure policy” to gain control of the
airwaves. Of course, the denial was emphatic and explained
that the Council had “no intention or, desire to control all
religious broadcasting.” It is interesting to note that “pres
sure” was exactly the word that the Council was using in
Chicago against Catholics. Here it came home to roost.
Anonymous Investments Cause Some Concern
THE BACKDROP
By JOHN C. O’BRIEN
A Senate subcommittee is suf-
iciently alarmed over the pos-
ibility of the Soviet Union’s be-
lg engaged in a heretofore un-
ublicized form of subversion, in
tie United States, that it has
mdertaken an
xhaustive in-
estigation t o
.etermine whe-
her there i s
. n y basis for
ts fears.
What the sub-
o mmittee su-
pects is that
he Soviet Union is attempting to
landestinely acquire partial or
omplete ownership of vital in-
tustries in this country. This was
uggested by a disquieting flow
f anonymously-owned foreign
apital from abroad.
NO EXCHANGE CONTROL
SYSTEM
An official of the Federal Re-
erve Bank in New York told the
ubcommittee, at a recent hear-
ng, that the total of foreign in
vestments in the United States
s now estimated at $26,800,000,-
100. Of this amount, about half is
n short-t e r m dollar balances,
he other half in the form of
corporate stocks, bonds and di
•ect investments.
This figure, however, so the
:ommittee was informed, does not
give a true picture of the scope of
foreign investments in American
enterprises. For it does not in
clude foreign investments held in
the name of American citizens,
who may be acting as dummies
for foreign owners, or invest
ments coming in from Swiss
banks.
The total of such investments
cannot be determined since, un
like most countries in the world,
the United States does not have
a system of exchange controls
with all the licensing and re
strictions that that involves. Con
sequently foreign money can
come into this country quite free
ly-
UNEXPLAINED INCREASE
To be sure, the mere fact that
foreign ers invest in American
corporations is in itself no cause
for alarm. American industries
have always attracted foreign
capital. But in recent years, the
subcommittee has discovered,
there has been an unexplained
and substantial increase in the
influx of foreign funds. Since
1950, for example, some $7,300,-
000,000 in foreign funds has come
into the United States, not in
cluding the unknown total of
anor. ymously-owned foreign cap
ital.
A certain percentage of the
flight capital comes to the United
States for reasons which are well
understood by the banking ex
perts. Fear on 1 the part of West
ern Europeans of the possibility
of an outbreak of war is one.
Other considerations that prompt
foreigners to invest in this coun
try are fear of inflation in their
own countries, evasion of heavy
taxes, and a desire to profit from
the devaluation of their own cur
rencies.
While some of our government
officials believe it is time that
this clandestine movement of
what they call “hot” money
should be stopped, it is not this
aspect of the influx of foreign
funds in which the senate sub
committee is primarily interested.
What the subcommittee wants to
know is whether the Soviet
Union is trying to take over some
of our vital industries.
COMMUNIST INTEREST IN
CAPITAL INTERPRISES
From the testimony taken in the
past few months, the subcom
mittee discovered that Commun
ists in the United States became
inci'easingly active in the late
1940’s in capital enterprises.
“We know,” says Senator Olin
D. Johnston, chairman of the sub
committee, “that Com munists
here are becoming more and more
interested in capital enterprises.
“At the same time and possibly
along -different lines, we have
noticed that, in recent years, a
number of United States com
panies have been taken over in
whole or in part under circum
stances that are not readily ex
plained.
“This phenomenon has been
made possible through use by
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