Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-13
c. j. REGENT RAPS
/. .BORAH AND SHAW
pr. Walsh Says Senator
LibeiS U. S. and Author
aer-
i "SiIIy" in Red Talk.

Declaring the United States rightly
refuses to compromise with the male
violent agencies of the Soviet govern
nient,,' DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j..
regent of the Georgetown Univ ersity
School of Foreign Service. sharply
criticized both George Bernard Shaw
and Senator William z. Borah Of Idaho
fM their views on Russia in an address
hfoadcast yesterday afternoon over the
network of the Columbia Broadcasting
System.
/. DR.. Walshs talk was in answer to
INQUIRIES following his reply to Mr..
Shaw's celebrated American boob
trines of government he assailed the
chairman of the Senate Foreign Rela-
lions Committee for statements made
N the latter'S interview during the
recent visit of Premier Laval of France.
When Senator Borah, in that in
terview," he said. said our refusal to
recognize Soviet Russia is due to fear,
he libeled the intelligence Of the Ameri-
can people. False counsel or contin-
ued Misrepresentation, whether con-
SciouS or unconscious is as much a
crime against common good as quackery
curing times of dangerous epidemics.
Once the intellect is clouded by false
hood and subtle innuendo. the will is
Grained of~power and motive to resist
evil; then runs riot"
Cites Borah Defenses.
. The United States Government re-
Buses to compromise with the Third In
ternational, DR.. Walsh declared, for the
reasons once advanced by Senator
Borah when he defended the people of
bis State against organized lawlessness
ct Wallace, Icaho, that any common
act directed against public security is
the act of all and the guilt Of all is
The guilt of each after the conspiracy
e formed.
And not long ago." the educator
4nGed, Senator Borah proposed money
be appropriated from the Treasury Of
the United States to help finance trade
with Russian other words, to speed
up a specific program which responsible
Soviet officials have frankly dRscribed
as a device to impede sterilization and
advance the cause of world revolution"
Quoting from official records of the
Third International. he declared that
Stain had sat with the American
Commission CT that governmental body
In 1929 celebrating on the best means
for drawing revolutionary profit from
the economic crisis in the United
States"
Denounces Soviet Traders.
, 81 am not one of these who believe
we should barter our self-respect for
the elusive hope of commercial gain"
Or Walsh said in referring to efforts
Of business men to secure recognition
Of Russia.
: Replying to, George Bernard Shaw's
Recently enunciated views on Russia.
The Georgetown educator, denied that
Shaw had his tongue in his cheek"
and charged that before the English
author was fisttered by the Soviet
officials on To-day visit, he "scoffed
at the impudsnce of their international
pretensions."
Mr.. Shaw in his work on THE In
telligent Woman's Guide to Socialism
and Capitalism" DR.. Walsh reminded,
hloodshed and arson as means of adj
vancing socialism and tells the Boil
Shevik leaders they are in fair way
20 degrade their Communism to the
level of the most offensive capitalism.
"Marxism," he declares, lis not only
useless, but disastrous. as a guide to
the practice of government" DR.. Walsh
said, and the Third International,
which he describes as the new State
Church of the Soviets is pictured as
intolerable impertinence.'
Referring to other former views ex-
pressed by Shaw derogatory to Soviet
principles, DR.. Walsh said: ut Is high
time to have done with his silly con-
Predictions, his pathetic preening and
posturing before movietone cameras and
his unmanly Narcissus complex, which
makea him, like RoStand's chanticleer.
imagine that the sun rises to hear
him crow"