The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-29

ChaFacterixlng the American League for Peace and Democracy as . 'front" for Communism and quoting official records in which William Foster, Communists leader, denies allegiance to the American Flag, Rev. Joseph F. DOnnelly of St. Thomas church reviews the elaborate propaganda of radical organizations in fihis latest sermon. He reviews the background of s0-called American societies against war and points out how Communists have suc- ceeded in penetrating schools, de- partment stores, professions and even the U. s. Navy with its vi- cious propaganda.
 Father Donnelly's sermon was as follows:
 On 16th Street in Washington there stands a large stately and imposing mansion. Until 1917 it was the Russian Imperial Embassy. In 1917 1t was closed and shuttered un- til 1884 when it was reopened as the Embassy of the Soviet Union. On the tenth of October, 1883, the President of the United States cor responded with the president of the All-Union Central Executive Com mittee of the Union of Soviet Social ist Republics in Moscow proposing discussions which might lead to of- ficial recognition of the sixteen year old Soviet government. The pro- posal was promptly accepted and on what will be recognized by future generations as a black day in Amer ican history, November ', 1883, Maxim Litvinov, Peoples Comissar of Foreign Affairs arrived in Amer ica. Several conferences with the President lead to a solemn written agreement between the Soviet gov- ernment and the government of the United States as the condition of diplomatic relations. Briefly this agreement obliged the Soviet gov- ernment as follows:
 Solemn Agreement
 ''To respect scrupuously the indis- pensible right of the United States to order it's own life and to re- frain from interfering in any man. ner in the internal affairs of the United States"
 'To restrain all persons in gov ernment service and all organiza- tions of the government from any act liable in any way whatso- ever to injure the tranquility, prop erty, order or security of the United States .. and from any act tend- ing to agitation or propaganda"
 'lyot to permit the formation of any organization {. which makes claim to be the government of, or makes attempt on the territorial in- tegrity of, the United States"
 Not to permit the formation |. {. of any organization I. which has as its aim the overthrow or the preparation for the overthrow of .. the political or social order of the United States"
 The agreement was pompously signed and before the ink was dry, Litvinov in New York City on his way home gave the signal for the abrogation of his promises. To the Daily Worker, the official organ of the party, he stated: "The third International is not mentioned in this document. Do not read into it more than was intended" Accord ing to congressional investigation there came from Russia almost irn- mediately complete instructions to the Communist party in the United States carrying the plans and methads of preparation for the future destruction of the United States government. Within year every clause of their pledges had been openly and completely repudi- ated by the Soviet government. Let us consider some of these violations of the Soviet solemn" promises.
 Czar Abdicates
 When Czar Nicholas abdicated in 1917 he abdicated to delegates of the Duma, representatives of tn. Rus sian people. The Communist party had little part in the overthrow of the czar,s government. Lenin was in exile in Switzerland; Trotsky was living in New York, and most of the other Communist leaders were either in exile or in Siberia. The czar,s government gave way to Ker- ensky attempt at democracy which in turn was overthrown nine months later by an armed revolt of the Com munists who at the time numbered only about thirty thousand in all Russia.
 But the story of those days be- tween the March of the czar's abdi- cation and November of Kerensky's overthrow is an epic of propaganda Bolshevick printing presses nightly poured out handbills and pamphlets and newspapers which were dis tributed before dawn. Agitators masters of propaganda circulated in every regiment of the army. One loyal regiment would have saved Kerensky,s attempt at democracy But all had been lost through pro- aganda.
 Today in America millions of books magazines. pamphlets and news papers are issued on hundreds oi