The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09

It seems to be that new kind of democracy" that Franco is fight ing the ''Russianized" democ- racy of Stalin which has made men slaves and God an enemy.
 What is General Franco fight ing againstp I quote @ sentence from very eloquent plea read in- to the Congressional Record of last May. The author is M. Cam eron Forbes, former ambassador to Japan and Governor-G General of the Philippines. "The National ist Government (Franco) is de- termined to end the horrible evil things being done by the Reds, whose weapons are fear, hatred and destruction, and to wipe them from the soil of Spain for all time."
 Nom Catholic Americans
 Tn the course of his criticism MT. Smith speaks of the number of eminent" Americans urging the lifting of the Spanish embargo and then asks the stupid question: And what eminent American is not urging it?" It seems there were enough to keep it MT. Smith. But to marshal facts we might array the names of prominent and intelligent American Catholic clergymen such as: Rt. Rev. Mon- signor Joseph M. Corrigan, Presi- dent of the Catholic University; Very Rev. Robert I. Cannon, Pres- ident of Fordham University; Rev. John F. O'Hara, President of No- Ire Dame; Very Rev. Joseph P. Zuercher, President of Creighton University. But perhaps these would not be eminent" enough. Let me bring forward (most of them non- -Catholic) Irwin Lough- lin, former American Ambassador to Spain; Ogden Hammond, for mer American ambassador to Spain; M. Cameron Forbes, for mer ambassador to Japan; pr. AL exander Hamilton Rice, Head of the Department of Geological Sur vey, Harvard University; Ellery Segdwick, former Editor -in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly; H. L. Mencken, the Baltimore Sun; Brigadier- Gen. Henry s. Reilley, U. s. Army; Martin Conboy, law advisor to "Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt; Seward Collins, Edi- tor of the American Review: Mer- win K. Hart, President of the New York State Economic Council and many more whom we cannot list here-eminent not as the dub- ious John Dewey, Upton Sinclair, Paul Remand those authorities on Spain, Lawrence Tibbett, Jes- sica Dragonette and Walter Dam- rosh who are listed to add weight to the "Open Letter" of The New York Times.
 I stated in my letter that "the Catholic Press mas contended that, in America, the breater part of the supporters of the Barcelona Government are honest and we'll meaning Americans who have been deceived by paid propagan- da." MT. Smith, after eulogizing several foreign correspondents. calls my attention to an open let ter in the New York Times of Jan- uary 31st, signed with many of the greatest names in American art, science, literature and rel- gion." How their proficiency in art, science, literature and religion gives them any more than a cur sory newspaper knowledge of the facts of the Spanish Civil War. MT. Smith does not state. But let that pass. Then MT. Smith angri- ly asks: "Are these people misin- formed? Or are they perhaps Communists?" May I repeat MT. Smith that I think most of them are misinformed. Some of them I am sure are not misinformed- nor are they sincere. further state, emphatically MT. Smith, that in general the reporting of the Civil War in Spain by the American Press has been one of the greatest disgraces in the his- tory of American journalism.
 London Tablet
 Have the American people been told the truth about Spain? Let me quote for you, MT. Smith, these few lines concerning the reliable reporting of news from Red Spain. q insist on Red" and refuse to further propagate the lying "loyalist"). The quotation is from the London Tablet of May 8, 1887. "The well-informed cor- respondent in Spain of the Bel gian paper La Metropole states from Salamanca the grand total of government (Communist-Loy- alist) success gained on paper up to April 18th. He says that the government claims to have won 1,5O0,O00 square kilometers-which is three times the total area of Spain. They claim to have killed or wounded 100000 of the en- emy, to have captured 345.000 prisoners, to have taken 4l5,000 cannons, 775, 1000 machine guns and to have shot down 56,779 areo- planes. They have captured Heu- sea 26 times, Toledo Il times, Oviedo a times.
 For a thorough discussion of this subject may I refer you to Editor and Publisher" of either May or June of 1887. May I refer you, too, to the American Mercury" of August, 1888 where e MT. Fletcher Platt in an article entitled Pro- paganda Captures the American Newspapers" takes up story after story of the Spanish Civil War, talks of suppression of fact. and invention of falsehoois, how the American newspapers have been duped by Red propagandists, how five of the seven leading war cor- respondents went to Spain with ready-made prejudices in favor of the Spanish Reds. He might have