Evening star., 1939-02-18
Plus Early Warnings
AGAINST 'Isms' Cited
By Dr.. Walsh
Nuzis Are Rebuked for
PopoI Attacks. Held
Inspired by Fear

The peace of the world would not
now be endangered by the "specter
of NaZism, Fascism and racism," !"
DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., of
Georgetown University declared last
night. had European statesmen
needed the prophetic warnings of
Pope Plus XII in early protests
against "the grave dangers and in
evitable injuries Of Socialism and
Communism"
A sympathetic audience of $500
persons in Memorial Continental
Hall heard the regent of the For
eign Service School open his 81
teenth series of public lectures.
champion the policies of the pontiff
and administer sharp rebuke to
Nazi attacks and criticism. These
attacks on Plus XII, before his body
was cold" DR.. Walsh asserted, were
inspired by fear.
With the long record Of Chris
tianity spread before him, Plus XII,
in his relations with Soviet Russia
and Nazi Germany, simply stood
firm and consistent against all and
any invasion of conscience, against
denial of natural rights, against
tyranny of the state over individuals,
over family life and over its natural
social evolutions," he said.
Cites Navy's "Statement."
The latest Nazi attack on the dead
pontif1 was delivered Thursday, DR..
Walsh said, by Adolf Hitler's Am
bassador to the Vatican State, Diego
Won Bergen, in his address to the
Sacred College. The formal visit of
the diplomatic corps to offer con-
dolences. he charged. was utilized
for another lecture from Berlin on
the need of electing Pope who
shall be more acceptable to the Nazi
government"
Hatred is not only the absence
OF love but the presence of fear
the Georgetown educator added.
This same fear of the pontiff was
displayed, he explained, in the "arro-
CANT diatribe" against the holy
father in Hitler's Voelkischer Beo-
bachter and again in "the spiteful,
sneering editorial from the same
neurotic source" DR.. Goebbel's
paper, Der Angriff.
The crucial failure of European
craftsmanship. DR.. Walsh said, oc-
CURED from 1922 to 1924, when the
great powers refused to heed the
Pope's prophetic warnings of the
danger to religion, family life and
all human dignity In the threat of
bolshevism.
Russian Communists. tolerated by
other states, provoked violent re-
action from the Right" he declared.
Exaggerated nationalism replied to
the insolent internationalism of the
Komintern, and highly centralized
state control over the individual was
contrived by the Right to combat
the collectivized enemy from the
Left"
Dedication of Brute Matter.
Pope Plus" he said, early de-
tected the modern phase of ancient
paganism, whether it originated in
Moscow or Berlin.
IF he recognized bolshevism for
what it was-the deification of brute
matter and the degradation of the
spiritual in man-he equally recog-
nized and denounced in Naziism a
return to the multiple mythology of
Valhalla and an attempt in modern
terms to elevate Caesar to command
the things that belong to God"
DR.. Walsh had been scheduled last
night to speak on "Czecho-S -Slovakia
and the pact of Munich" but de-
ferred the subject until next Fridays
lecture in order to discuss the Nazi
attacks on the Pope. AS the official
representative of the holy see in
Russia as the time of the great
famine, he replied also to the Nazi
charge that the pontiff's opposition
to the totalitarian concept of gov
ernment was purely political" even
in his defense of religion in Soviet
Russia"
II am in position to characterize
that charge as pure, unadulterated
fiction cut from the whole cloth of
a dictator's private resentment" he
said.