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PAGE 6 GEORGIA BULLETIN, JANUARY 11, 1963 AGAINST SOVIET Peasants’ 2,100-Mile Trek Seen As Dramatic Protest WORCESTER, Mass. (NC) — The action of 32 Siberian Chris tians who pushed their way into the U.S. embassy in Moscow was seen by an expert here as a dra matic protest against the Soviet Union’s current campaign against religion. Father Georges Bissonnette, A.A., served from 1953 to 1955 as a Catholic chaplain for for eigners in Moscow and is now head of the foreign affairs school at Assumption College, here, noted in an interview that the Soviet government ’’started a campaign of 'ad ministrative measures’ against religious activity back around September.” He observed that the recent incident at the U. S. embassy could be a protest aimed at informing the outside world about this campaign. THE SIBERIAN Christians who made a 2,100 mile trek Alterations Tuxedos Rented "Clothes Tailored For You” j TAILORS - CLEANERS Men’s Wear 106 W. Court Sq. DR 3-2366 Decatur, Ga. Peachtree Road Pharmarmacy Pick Up and Delivery Service CE 7-6466 4062 Peachtree Rd. Atlanta Laus i / Look For Oscar from Chernogorsk to Moscow failed in their attempt to leave the Soviet Union. Soviet spokes men said they have been sent back to their homes. One of the group said while at the embassy: "We were told that for our religious beliefs we would be put in prison and that our children would be ta ken away from us after January 1.” Father Bissonnette said that the Soviets, in a July, 1958 revision of their education sys tem, set up boarding schools to take children "out of the un healthy atmosphere of a home of believing parents." THE FORMER Moscow chap lain said that the protest could "bring a halt to the current 'administrative measures’ ** if other protests come along. "But if it’s alone,” he said, "it won’t have much effect." The Soviets might use the in cident, he noted, as a "show case example that the country is tolerant.” Father Bissonnette explained that the current campaign of administrative m e asures against religion is not unique. Such campaigns come up from time to time. They are unan nounced except by the appear ance of references to "intensi fying the campaign against re ligion.” Then news starts com ing out about the closing of seminaries, churches and syna gogues. HE MENTIONED a letter which Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschchev published in the Soviet organ Pravda back in 1954, protesting against a simi lar campaign which Comsomol, the Soviet youth organization, was conducting. Father Bis sonnette said that Comsomol wag probably chosen at that time as a "sacrifice 1 lamb” to quiet protests. One of Khrushchev's objec tions in his 1954 letter was that some communist party mem bers were thrown out of the party because of trumped-up charges of religious activity. Father Bissonnette said that in the current campaign, Soviet authorities have even started clamping down on Russian Or thodox activities—usually the last denomination affected—by closing down some of their seminaries. He said that the authorities have had trouble with the Jehovah’s Witnesses who refuse to serve in the arm ed forces. PROTESTS like the one at the U. S. embassy, Father Bisson nette noted, are "one way that Russians try to reach the out side world.” These protests against religious persecution show up in other ways, too, he said, adding that the people sometimes protest through work slowdowns. "The Soviets get the message,” the priest explained, "Khrushchev once called the protests, 'vestiges of obscurantistic thinking’ and contrasted them with scienti fic atheistic materialism.” Father Bissonnette said he had no idea how widespread the practice of taking children from religiously inclined families and putting them in state-run boarding schools has become. The figures in official reports are generally qualified by foot notes as being "incomplete.” The school are all over the country, he said, usually close to the big cities. THE SIBERIAN peasants in the Moscow protest identified themselves as "Evangelical Christians,” and might be close in their beliefs to Baptists. Fa ther Bissonnette said, however, that the term, "Evangelical Christians,” has been used "to cover all forms of Pro testants.” "I’ve seen it used,” he said, "when I'm quite sure they (the speakers) meant Baptists, Men- nonites or Jehovah’s Wit nesses.” He said he had no idea how many belong to groups like this. "The Baptists can’t give any statistics, either,” he said. "Many of these groups do not have a pastor. They are like prayer groups.” IN 1963 SEMINARIANS at Atonement Seminary in Washington, D. C., display posters which they have pre pared for observance of the Chair of Unity Octabe — January 18 to 25. The Unity Octave, during which Catholics aroun d the world join with several non-Catholic groups to pray for Christian unity, was started in 1908 by Father Paul James Francis, founder of the Society of the Atonement. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC President-Elect Studies Alliance For Progress WASHINGTON (NC) —The Dominican Republic’s first freely elected leader in 38 years arrived in the nation’s capital to study first-hand how the U.S. Alliance for Progress program works. During his stay, silver- haired President-elect Juan Bosch, 53, will have expert teachers—President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Alliance Administrator Teo- doro Moscoso and other govern ment officials. "THE ALLIANCE is im portant to us because, as an automobile needs oil, de mocracy needs to feed on im proved living conditions— houses, schools, hospitals. It is not only money we need, but moral support in our effort to make democracy work,” Bosch said. 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A delegation of the Am sterdam Catholic student society, Sanctus Thomas Aqui nas, presented a statement to Bishop van Dodewaard claiming great merits for Father van Kilsdonk as a student chaplain. The statement said that the priest’s removal at the insti gation of the Holy Office would have "a serious demoralizing effect” on Catholic university students of Amsterdam, The delegation said it hoped that Father van Kilsdonk could re main at his post. "Otherwise much harm would be caused,” OLD SARGE SURPLUS ARMY AND CIVILIAN SURPLUS Hunting, Fishing, Camping Equipment (Buy, Trade, Sell Most Anything) Hwy. 23 - Next door to Pine Tree Plaza Doraville, Ga. 451-3377 The society of Catholic medi cal students at the Amsterdam university also Issued a public statement praising Father van Kilsdonk for his spiritual gui dance. THE EXECUTIVE board of the Catholic students* organiz ation of Eindhoven University said it would be a great loss to Dutch Catholic students If the priest were removed "be cause of his sincere remarks.-" The national Catholic daily, De Tljud-De Maasbode of Am sterdam and Rotterdam, said In an editorial that "a dis ciplinary measure against Father van Kilsdonk would make a bad impression on Dutch Ca tholics with their sensitive love of freedom.” "A sanction against this speaker, who was not quite put in the wrong by the events of the ecumenical council, would give offense to Dutch Catholics, non-Catholics and the Catholic students of Amsterdam, who speak with great enthusiasm about their chaplain, and not only because of hfs outspoken ness.” ANOTHER Catholic daily, De Volkskrant of Amsterdam, wrote that any measure against Father van Kilsdonk "would be a sad demonstration of a lack of openness and of a lack of free speech inside the Church.” It continued: "More than ever it has been shown publicily that power in the Church has fallen into the hands of a group that does not know what is really going on inside the Church. A majority of the ecumenical council was no longer prepared to be guided by small, not very up-to-date groups.” Patricio, 16, a junior at St. Joseph’s High School. The youth is staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Ackerman and will remain in South Bend to complete his studies at the high school. The couple also have a daughter, Barbara, 11, back home. BOSCH was 24 years in exile, then returned to the Dominican Republic and won the presiden- SEES BROTHER tial election by 300,000 votes a month ago. He will take office as President on February 27. Bosch heads the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), de scribed as moderately leftist. During the election campaign he was accused by Father Lautico Garcia, S.J., of having Marxist- Leninist leanings. In an election eve radio-television debate with the President-elect* Chinese Priest Visits Marietta It’s a long way from the mainland of China to Rome — and still farther to Marietta, Ga. Father Joseph P. Lee, S. T.D., has made It and will soon, be returning almost home — Formosa — to continue his work In the priesthood. Father Lee called at the Georgia Bulletin office the oth er day. He had been visiting his brother, a naturalized American citizen, for Christ mas, There are no other close relatives. His parents are dead and, apart from some distant relatives on the Red Chinese mainland, the brother is the only part left of his family. FATHER LEE has spent the past several years studying In Rome and New York and, in the process, earned his degree In Sacred Theology . He is a citizen of Nationalist China and will be returning to Formosa to assist in parish work among his own people. He attended the minor semi nary in his native province and the major seminary at Hong Kong, where he was ordained. He attributes his vocation to the encouragement of his fa ther and the inspiration of Bis hop Francis Ford, a Maryknoll missioner who was martyred Italy Film Morality Denounced VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC) —The Immorality of Italiam movies has been denounced in an editorial by L’Osservatore Romano. The editorial was written by the Vatican City daily’s editor, Raimondo Manzini, after he saw a series of stills in a magazine from an as yet unreleased Ita lian film. He asked: "How long will immoral con formity continue to sully a large part of motion picture produc tions, particularly the Ita lian?” HE SAID that no "artistic excuses can reasonably be in voked to project on the screen the photographic vision of the final and extreme amorous mo ments.” FATHER LEE by the Red Chinese. Father Lee said he was look ing forward to working among his own people. He spoke nos talgically about the mainland, maintaining that the people un der communist yoke would turn on their oppressors if the op portunity arose. He bamedthe Red takeover on the mistakes on the Western World, as well the mistakes of the Nationalist government In being too closely identified with the West. FATHER LEE said that the Reds had undermined the Chi- ang Kai-shek regime through artful propaganda, which work ed among the millions of po verty-stricken citizens. The Reds promised much, but have produced nothing but misery for the Chinese masses. He said he left China just before the Red take-over and, after his ordination in Hong Kong in 1957, remained there as a high school teacher. He also assisted the many refu gees coming into the British Crown Colony with relief and resettlement work. Later he was sent to Rome for further studies. Of the future? Father Lee Is optomistic. He looks forward to parochial work and, one day, a return to China proper. He Is confident that it Is possible at some future date. He said the Red Chinese no longer command the support o f the populace. Only oppresive measures keep them in power. Liberation through invasion from Formo sa is a solution — and, he said, the people would wel come it. Red Activity Lull Seen Temporary BY J. J. GILBERT WASHINGTON (NC) — This year, like others in the recent past, is expected to be a trou blesome one in foreign rela tions. As 1963 began, it was under stood here that the lull in So- view communist activity was only temporary; that commu nism has not turned in any de gree from its aim of world domination; that relations be tween Soviet Russian commu nism and the free jvorld have not improved, and that new communist provocations could be expected this year. NIKITA Khrushchev may have made the first agitating move as 1962 ended. It was, and still is, expected that he will try to inflame the Berlin crisis anew. In the closing days of last year he reiterated his demand that Western troops get out of Berlin. He said a separate peace treaty with East Germany is on the Soviet Rus sian agenda and that it will strip the Western Powers of any right to remain in Berlin. He said these things in a tough- talking letter to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Ger many. But he had Moscow radio broadcast the text, so ob viously he meant his words for more than West German di gestion. It is thought here that the communists may stir up trouble in other places round the world as well. AND, WE have the Cuban problem still with us. It is not evident how the resolution of the recent crisis will affect the future action of the Soviet Union. Nor is it known what Castro’s position is now in Cuba. It is thought that he was humiliated by Moscow’s with drawal of its missiles with out consultation with him, but there is nothing yet to indicate that it has loosened his grip on the situation, or that it would have any beneficial ef fect for the free world if he were supplanted by another Red. The unclear, but obviously threatening, situation was wor sened by what has been called a declaration of Red China po licy. On December 31, the People's Dally in Peking print ed a very long piece which it called an editorial. Since the text has become available here it has been called a manifesto. Observers have interpreted it as a call for revolution and an attempt to encourage and use unrest and upheaval in all parts of the world. WHILE there has been talk of Soviet Russia and Red China differing with each other, es pecially since the Cuban crisis, they are both dominated by co. t - munlst regimes, and are fcch pursuing the communist goaof world domination. Some jay argue that Peking is tryir^ to snatch the communist leaer- ship from Moscow. Othermay say that Red China is snply trying to goad Red Russ! into even more ruthless tactis. In any case, there is nothii;inthe Peking-Moscow debate o give comfort to the free word. The seeming antagonists ce only disputing which is the^est way to exterminate the olookers. The Pekin editoria or mani festo, which natura.Y reflects the policy of the regime, is seen here as notic to all na tions in the Far Bst that they will have no pe£e with Red China. Red Chin is bent on taking over the vtole subconti nent, and is nvking no bones about it. Fighting Hawks In First Win In a stupendous show of of fensive basket ball, the Fight ing Ha^ks of Coach Bill Da- prano Jroke a four-game losing streak and won their first game of th« 1962-63 cage season by topping region rival Lithonla High. The Bulldogs were unable to stop a last-quarter scoring attack on the part of Saint Joseph, as the Maroon and White rallied to a thrilling 46-42 win. Shooting percentage found the Hawks on top, with 35% from the field. The Gold and Black were held to a low 29%. From the foul line, Saint Joe hit for 57%, as compared to 52% for Llthon- ia. LARRY DOWNING paced the inspired Saint Joseph team with 19 points and 10 rebounds. His play at the post position net ted the Hawks their margin of victory. Randy Newby was ano ther outstanding performer. He had seven rebounds and nine points. Ricky Jascomb hit for a hot 10 points, to contribute to. the Saint Joe scoring assault. Bruce Hill was a defensive giant, and his ball-hawking abi lity proved another vital factor. Bruce got three points. Season totals find Downingth leading scorer for the fir? five contests. He has 66 pain and a 13.2 point-per-fan 1 average. Randy Newby isntf with 47 points, and he sprt a 9.4 average. Hill is not*r leader with 33 polntsto lis credit. We Need Our Advertisers Our Advertsers Neel Yoi Tell them yoi saw it m the Georgia Bulletin