Evening star., 1939-11-15
Dr.. Walsh B|ames
Browder Attack on
New Soviet Tactics
Answers Communists
Criticism of Catholic
Hierarchy in U. S.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Dr. Ed
mund A. Walsh. vice president of
Georgetown University, declared
last night that an attack made by
Earl Browder. the national Com
munist leader. upon the Pope and
Catholic hierarchy in the United
States was part and parcel of the
Soviet governments new tactics"
Dictatorship, autocratic tyranny,
ruthless confiscation, class warfare,
obscene atheism and the despiritual-
izing of the human soul are carried
on the tip of every Soviet bayonet," :"
Father Walsh said in an address in
suburban Jackson Heights.
(BroWder, in speech at
Communist demonstration Mon
day night in Madison Square
Garden, asserted that the hier-
archy was represented among
powerful forces at work in our
country to undermine and de-
stroy the great American tradi-
tions. -
owe have no quarrel" he
said, with the great mass of
Catholic workers in America:
we support their religious liberty
unconditionally; we find grow
ingly sympathetic attitude toward
Socialism among them which we
welcome - All the more neces-
sary is it to point out, however.
that the first encyclical of Pope
Plus XII contains a direct at
tack upon a fundamental Amer
ican principle, the separation of
church and state. ~
Charges Answered.
Father Walshs answer, in part:
"On November Mr.. Molotov, the
premier of the Bolshevik state, pub
icly gave the word for abandon
ment of the previous policy called
the united front and urged all its
agents throughout the world to pre-
pare for a direct offensive against
democracy and the principles on
which the Government of the
United States is based.
with his usual promptness Mr.
Browder-who was once a revolu-
tionary propagandist for the Soviet
government in China-directs a spe-
cial broadcast against the Catholic
Church in which he recognizes a
formidable obstacle in the way OF
MoscoW's hopes for the overthrow
OF Christianity and democracy.
Mr.. Browder's new forgery is in
line with his admitted use of false
passports and fictitious names as
sumed in his long subversive activ-
ity. for which he is now under in
dictment."
DR.. Walsh recalled the Soviet
march into Poland, after the Ger
man invasion. and said the COM
missars then began the intimida-
tion Of Latvia, Esthonia. Lithuania
and Finland. which resulted in
further substantial gain of con-
trolled territory and enhanced abil-
ity to propagate Communism"
"Anti-religious propaganda with
its threat to Christendom and ha-
tired of democracy, constitutes a
permanent element in Soviet state
craft" he added.
Pravda Article Quoted.
"The official publication of the
Communist party, Pravda, reminded
its Russian readers on August 20
1889: Many Soviet organs do not
understand that anti-religious prop
aganda in our country is a state
activity Socialist society will
then shake itself free from the re-
dictionary influence of its past and
thereby quicken the tempo of our
movement towards Communism
In the face of this clear admis-
sion of the anti-religious content
of Communism Mr.. Browder
makes himself ridiculous once more
by seeking to placate American
Catholics and separate them from
their hierarchy
The traditions of loyalty
sound patriotism and answering
devotion to the American democracy
now and always cherished by the
Catholic Church date back to 1776
when the founder of the Catholic
hierarchy in the United States, John
Carroll, labored side by side with
Washington, Jefferson. Benjamin
Franklin and Charles Carroll OF
Carrollton in establishing the new
republic.
And at the very moment Mr.
Browder was attacking the supreme
pontiff for 'subversive' activities
Plus XII was issuing second en-
cylical to the hierarchy, commend
ing the heroic labors of Bishop Car
roll and suggesting certain spiritua.
remedies against such modern
abuses as might endanger both state
and religion in the United States
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