The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26

The neutrality of the United States and non-intervention in European or a Asiatic affairs might well be the cornerstone of Catholic Action as preventative of war, declared Attorney Frank Duly of Hartford, a member of the legal staff for the Travellers Insurance company, who addressed more than 400 mem bers of the Holy Name society of St. Thomas church yesterday morn- ing during their annual communion breakfast which took place in the parish hall. "The best insurance that this country could ever pray to have in order to keep out ot foreign entanglements," said the speaker, would be the failure oi the welching nations to pay their war debt, for without such pay ment the United States would not be drawn into any further struggle, What folly to have wisdom and yet not be wise," was the selected topic of the speaker.
 List of Speakers
 Other speakers heard were Rev. Charles Flood, one of the directors of two weeks mission which con- cluded yesterday, Rev. Joseph Don nelly, chaplain of the society, Ed win Buckley, executive secretary to Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy tt Hartford; and Attorney Vincent A. Scully, assistant corporation coun- cil. Alderman Edward J. FitZ- gerald, president of the organization officiated as toaStmaster.
 Attorney Duly went into detail about the horrors and sacrifices con- nected with warfare stating that with the payment of pension funds, the World war will ultimately cost the taxpayers of the United States ultimately one hundred million dol lars, burden which will be faced by the next two generations.
 "This money and the tremendous loss of life has served to protect the dictatorship of Europe, and American people have only gained a bitter lesson," he said.
 Propaganda Refuted
 He reviewed the propaganda which drew the United States gov- ernment into the World war and declared that certain individuals in Washington, D. C., today were again floating rumors the same as those heard in 1916, all with the intend pur- pose of arousing the sympathy of the population to the extent that U. S. will again take an active part against the aggressiveneSs of certain foreign nations. He added "Of course these individuals would gain financially through their success in accomplishing their purpose He attacked the propaganda which came from Europe which drew this country into the World war stating that all cables and wires were in tercepted in Great Britain where they were censored and sometimes padded. "The ambassador of the United States himself sold out this country when he approved of this policy" We were informed that when the German army entered Belgium, children were killed and some cut to pieces. T am not pro- German" he said, but these reports have been repudiated by three reliable American newspaper men who were in position to know of the German activities in Belgium at the time, and all were in agreement that these reports were lies. They who were there failed to see any sign of this al- legged slaughter"
 Neutrality Act
 He spoke of the American neu- trality acts which now make travel on ship owned by belligerant nation a matter of personal selec- ton and responsibility. If nn American citizen wishes to book passage on a ship owner by any nation at war. they will>not later become the cause of the United States pouring thousands of soldiers into another struggle, and If in the event of trouble, their loss Will be 6 family matter and not one to concern the government.
 Father Flood was humorous in his remarks, recalling the fact that he had been in Cincinnatti at the time of the flood. and one flood was chs ough in any city. so he was forced to leave. He recalled then going to