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Newspaper Page Text\ I I Of Americas, Exiles Warn C.P.A. ‘Must Break Red Clamp On Cuba To Avoid Takeover’ By Carl A. Balcerak MIAMI BEACH, Fla, (NC)-- The Red clamp on Cuba must be broken to prevent the commun ist plan for a takeover of Latin America and the U.S., four Cu ban exiles warned here. One of them, Humberto Medrano, referred to commun ism on the island as a malig nant tumor and said "the only solution is radical surgery." Medrano, former director of the newspaper Prensa Libre in Ha vana, and the other exiles spoke at a panel session (May 1) of the 53rd annual Catholic Press Association convention here. Medrano, now a columnist for Diario de las Americas in Mi ami, said: "The time has come to grab the bull by the horns and state flatly that political in stability in Latin American can be directly ascribed to com munism; and communism, in Latin American, emanates di rectly from Fidel Castro." Asked by a member of the audience to define specifically what he meant by the term "radical surgery," Medrano replied: "I mean to cope force by force." "I am not a warmonger," Medrano stated. "I am not say ing military intervention by the U.S. in Cuba. We Cubans can cope force by force. We want backing to liberate Cuba. We want the same amount of help to liberate Cuba as Castro has to ensalve Cuba.” Medrano said: "Military ac tion in Latin America is under the direct control of a supreme organism known as Revolution ary Commando for Latin Am erica ... Its mission is to pre pare 'armed action’ in the Car ibbean Area, with branches reaching out through the entire southern continent. External in vasion is not considered. The work will be done by means of what the communists call'wars of national liberation’, which is merely internal invasion, with decisive help and support com ing from abroad." Medrano deplored "the lack of cooperation" by members of the Organization of American States (OAS) in uniting to oppose communism in Cuba, and refer red to the Alliance for Pro gress as "a complete failure." "The Alliance for Progress will not triumph in Latin Am erica as long as Fidel Castro commands in Cuba," he add ed. "Certainly the Marshall Plan would have been a fiasco, with a Hitler still in power in Europe. "What to do , then?" Me drano asked. "Once the malig nant tumor has been found and identified, the only solution is radical surgery ... We agree that social and economic re forms are justified where they are deemed necessary. "But, like Our Lord, we must first expel the merchants from the temple; or else, this temple of ours will become a filthy ideological marketplace, which is always the prelude to a com munist hell," he decalred. Another panelist, Angeldel Cerro, told the convention,"the effects of Fidelismo in Latin America cannot be underestim ated nor can their danger be minimized by the fact that Cas tro has lost prestige before the masses and is now seen as an ally or an instrument of Mos cow." Cerro was president of the Youths of Catholic Action in Cuba from 1953 to 1955 and is now director ofNuevaGenerac- ion magazine in Caracas, Ven ezuela. He said the ascendancy of Castro to power means: “that any ambitious leader, whether of civil or military origin at any moment—no matter what his antecedents are or the pro cess by which he came to pow er, he proclaims himself a Marxist - Leninst, submits it people to slavery of a Soviet- type totalitarianism and thus feels safe, thanks to the support of the Russian rockets." Cerro also said that Castro "has gone beyond Khruschev and the Soviet-oriented Com munist parties" by allowing entrance into the hemisphere of the "radical Chinese cur rent." Jose Ignacia Lasaga, author and former professor at Vil- (Continued On Page 2) Vol. 43, Nfl. 34 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1963 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1963 VICTORY smiles and hands clasped in friendship at the 61st convention of the Georgia State Council, Knights of Columbus, held in Macon last weekend. Peter O’Malley, past grand knight of Sacred Heart Council 4371, Warner Robins, and newly elected State Ad vocate, Nick Camerio, past state deputy and co-chairman of the Macon Convention Com mittee, and Bernard S. Dunstan, Patrick Walsh, Council 677, Augusta, who was elected State Deputy to succeed Jos. J. Zwicknagel, Father Thomas O’Reilly, Council 4358, Decatur.--(Photo by J. Gregg Puster) Georgia K. Of C. Names Dunstan State Deputy Bishop Marks Twenty-Fifth Anniversary SAVANNAH—Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough joined with his classmates of St. Char les Borromeo Seminary, Phil adelphia Pa., in celebrating the 25th Anniversary of their ordi nation to the priesthood this week. Bishop McDonough was cele brant at a Solemn Pontifical Mass at the seminary’s St. Martin’s Chapel at 11 a.m. Thursday morning. His Excellency the Most Rev erent John J. Kroll D.D., J.C.D., Archbishop of Philadel phia, was present at the Mass which was attended by all sur viving members of the Class of 1938. Bishop Hits Proposed Birth Control Plan CHARLESTON, S. C., (NC)— Bishop Francis F. Reh of Char leston has assailed a proposed birth control program in Flor ence County as being "a nega tive approach to the medical and family problems of our ec onomically depressed fellow ci tizens." The Bishop sent a letter of protest to Dr. Claude L. Mur ray, health director of Flor ence County. Under the pro gram, lectures on planned par enthood would be given and or al contraceptives would be dis tributed. In his letter, Bishop Reh stat ed: “It is certainly not an hu manitarian, nor a properly Christian approach to the prob lem of our economically de pressed brother human beings, brothers indeed in Christ, to offer them instruction in birth prevention and cheap contra ceptives. South Carolinians can hardly take pride in such a negative approach to the medi cal and family problems of our economically depressed fellow citizens." The Bishop suggested that South Carolina take a more Christian approach to the problems of the economically indigent by working for just wages, fair job opportunities, decent housing and better med ical care. He also said that the propos ed birth control program "dis criminates against the poor by trying to move them not to have the children which, in justice, they have a right to be able to have, and may want, but cannot decently have because of our in justice." Kennedy Visit To Rome Expected Now In Early 1964 WASHINGTON, (NC)—Presi dent and Mrs. Kennedy are ex pected to visit Rome on a state visit to Italy early next year. The President and the First Lady had been scheduled to go to Rome on a state visit in June of this year, and it was thought likely that Mr. Kennedy would have an audience with His Holi ness Pope John XXIII. However, the state visit has been postponed because Mrs. Kennedy is expecting her third child in August and would not be able to accompany the Presi dent at this time. Instead, President Kennedy will go to Milan in June and meet there with the Italian Pre mier. INDEX QUESTION BOX 4 EDITORIALS 4 MARRIAGES 6 YOUTHSCOPE 5 HERE AND THERE..- 6 OBITUARIES 6 MACON—Bernard S. Duns tan of Augusta was elected State Deputy at the 61st convention of the Georgia State Council, Knights of Columbus, which was held here this weekend. Others named to state office are Emmett Moylan, Savannah, secretary, John A. O’Conner, Atlanta, treasurer, Peter O' Malley, Warner Robins, advo cate and Ed L. Jones, Macon, warden. Joseph J. Zwicknagel, De catur, became Past State Dep uty when he did not seek re- election, to replace Hugh H. Grady, Savannah, who had been Past State Deputy in the Zwick nagel administration. Besides routine matters on the agenda of the State Coun cil, one of the principal busi ness items was the approval of a proposal by J. Gregg Pus ter, state public relations chairman, that a booklet be pub lished and distributed by the Georgia Knights of Columbus, listing all the parishes, sta tions, missions and other plac es where Mass is celebrated regularly. The project calls for the distribution of the booklet to travelers and visitors at ho tels and motels, and also be made available to chambers of commerce for use in promot ing new business and industry and in encouraging convention consideration in those respec tive cities. The Right Reverend Monsig nor W. L. Clasby, chaplain gen eral of the U. S. Air Force, was the speaker at the dinner dance Saturday night, and stres sed the need for active chairty on the part of all Catholic lay men, in all the facets of the word’s definition as a means to stamp out communism and to build a solid and united front as a bulwark against the Anti- Christ attitudes which are en slaving more than a billion people. The three-day program in cluded a dance Friday night, a fashion show and luncheon for the ladies Saturday afternoon, and a Sunday luncheon which was the finale of the program and convention. The business sessions and election of officers were held Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, following the 8 o’clock Mass in St. Joseph’s Church, of which Rev. Thomas Payne, State Chaplain, was celebrant and Rev. John Fitzpatrick, chaplain of Macon Council, preached the sermon. Dunstan, the new state dep uty, served as state advocate last year, and O’Malley, past grand knight of Sacred Heart Council, Warner Robins, was the only other 1962-63 officer to be elected to a post in the new administration. Nick Camerio, past state dep uty, Phil Powell, past grand knight, and Bill Syme, Jr., dep uty grand knight of Macon Coun cil, served as co-chairmen of the convention committee. DELEGATES and their wives from Savannah Council after that City was named as the 1964 convention site.—(Photo by J. Gregg Puster) Saturday And Sunday Catholic W omen To * Meet In Columbus Convention Participants bishop McDonough mrs. dembowski msgr. toomey Former Peru Premier Says: Unilateral Action On Cuba Could Boost Red Designs , COLUMBUS—"To Restore All Things in Christ" is the theme of this year’s convention of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. The two day meeting will be held here Sat urday and Sunday. The Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, D.D.J.C.D., Bishop of Savannah, will attend conven tion sessions and celebrate the Convention Mass, Sunday morning, at Holy Family Church. Mrs. Joseph J. Dembowski, Warner Robins, president of the Council will preside at the convention meetings. Rt. Rev. Msgr. John D. Toomey of Sav annah is Spiritual Moderator. A workshop Saturday after noon on "Spiritual Develop ment" will have as its modera tor Mrs. Mary Perkins Ryan, well known writer, and National vice-chairman for Spiritual De velopment NCCW. Father Ar thur Weltzer, pastor of Holy Family parish, Columbus, will speak on "Spiritual Develop ment and the Liturgy." Mrs. Edmund Anderson of Savannah and National vice-chairman of Family and Parent education • £ JCW, will speak on "Spiritual Development within the Fami ly." Mrs. Ryan will be featured speaker at the Convention Ban quet scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Saturday. Her talk is entitled "Fitting Christ into every day life." Bishop McDonough will ad dress the Convention at the Banquet. The Convention Low Pontifi- cial Mass will be offered at 8:00 a.m. at Holy Family Church and will be followed at 10:30 by a business session. Father Damien Breen, M.S. Ss.T., of Holy Trinity, Alabama will be featured speaker at the Sunday afternoon luncheon meeting. Mrs. Warren Purks, Colum bus Deanery is convention Chairman. Mrs. HenryGallman is president of the Columbus Deanery. U.S. Bishops’ Meeting To Be In Rome WASHINGTON, (NC)—The 1963 annual General Meeting of the Bishops of the United States will be held in Rome, Italy, where the cardinals, archbishops and bishops will be attending the second session of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. The announcement was made at the National Catholic Welfare Conference headquarters here. Dates for the meeting have not been fixed. It is hoped that it can be held at approximately the same time, mid-November, that it ordinarily is held at the Catholic University of America here. However, the actual dates will be determined by the council's schedule. PRAY FOR OUR PRIESTLY DEAD REV. JAMES M. O’BRIEN May 11, 1900 VERY REVEREND EDWARD CAFFERTY May 16, 1896 Oh Cod, Who didst give to thy servants by their sacredotnI office, a share in the priest hood of the Apostles, grant, We implore, that they may also be one of their company forever in heaven. Through Christ Our Lord, Amen. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., (NC)— A former Prime Minister of Peru warned here that unilater al action by the U.S. or any oth er nation of the Americas in regard to Cuba could aid So viet designs in the western hem isphere. Pedro Beltran told the 53rd annual convention of the Ca tholic Press Association that the communists "mean to stay" in the hemisphere, and he made a strong plea for American na tions to stand united against this common enemy. Beltran, Peru’s Prime Min ister and Minister of Finance from 1959 to early 1962, was the main speaker at the convention banquet (May 2). Now publisher and editor of LaPrensa, a daily in Lima, Peru, Beltran said later in his speech that Catholic journalists are in a key posi tion to help bring about inter- American understanding. He stressed first that Cuba is the nerve center of opera tions for communist subversion of Latin America, and that a base so useful to the Soviets "is not going to be easily re linquished." "To understand the real threat of Cuba," he continued, "the first thing to bear in mind ... is the fact that the com munists are in the hemisphere and that they mean to stay." Beltran said that while people in North America look upon Cuba in the light of "imme diate danger of acts of war,” South Americans see the threat in a different light. "We see Cuba," he said, "as an ideal center of operations for the subversion of Latin Ameri ca, far handier and more effec tive in Khruschev’s plan for this part of the world than Mother Russia. Russia is too far away. A different language is spoken there. Eurasian culture is in scrutable. "Cuba, on the other hand, is on target. Not only is the lan guage the same but the way of life is a replica of what is found in other Latin American coun tires. Even the climate is favor- albe. Latin American youths who are enticed to Cuba for in doctrination feel at home imme diately." Warning that "the com munists are mounting to attack our countries from within," Beltran continued: "Our Amer ican family must stand united. As in any family, the individ ual members should not act merely for their own self-in terest, if they are to compose a family wherein each member trusts the other completely. Trust! There is the corner stone of our Americas! The es sence of trust is never to ap proach a vital problem from only one point of view or try to resolve a common cri sis alone, as if there were only one solution.” Beltran asserted that "far more grave" in the Cuban sit uation than the enslavement of a valiant people or a Russian beachhead in the Americas "would be a disintegration of trust within the American fam ily." "The Soviet is using Cuba as a scalpel to sever North and South America," he stated, “and thereby create a chasm of suspicion that may haunt us long after Fidel Castro is a footnote in hemispheric his tory. We must not allow this MIAMI BEACH, Fla., (NC)— The Church in Latin America must become vigorous and mod ern to cope with the many pro blems in that area, a priest told the Catholic Press Asso ciation convention here. Msgr. William J. Quinn, co director of the Latin America Bureau, National Catholic Wel fare Conference, said "the sit uation of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America (is) a very precarious one." He told a general session (May 1) of the convention that this is because of the social unrest, scarcity of religious vocations, lack of religious in struction, and the Church’s pov erty in that area. "If the Church is to remain viable in such a situation," he sated, "It must become vig orous and up-to-date to an ex tent unknown since the early years of the Church." Such a streamlining of the Church is possible, he contin ued, "and the Latin Americans will do it, but they will need help from every the well-estab lished Church in the world and particularly from their neigh- bor-Church to the north." Msgr. Quinn said he believes "the biggest problem standing in the way of inter-American to develop. No action should be taken unilaterally by any of our nations that would assist the Russians in their drive to divide the American family." Beltran said the Catholic press role in inter-American unitey "can be very great in- dedd." "You as Catholic journal ists, can create in a manner far more effective than most, mutual understanding," he stat ed. "You, like no one else, should be able to bring our peoples together. For we of La tin America do not regard you as foreigners . . . We see you as defenders of the same Faith which is the basis of our culture, our morality, our way of life." The reason for the misunder standing between North and La tin America, Beltran continued, is "because North Americans look back toward Europe, as Roman Catholic concern is a lack of knowledge of just what the Latin American Church situation is.’ He added that "despite good (Continued On Page 5) This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frederic Ozanam, founder of the worldwide St. Vincent De Paul Society. The French layman, who was born in 1813, founded the St. Vin cent De Paul Society in 1833 in Paris, (Continued On Page 5) “Latin American Church Must Become Vigorous, Modem To Advances”