The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-28
ReD. Dr. John Loughrar, Defends Radio Priest"
Former Local Priest Attacks Dr. Wise for Re- marks on Father Coughlin- Quotes Protestant
 Clergyman on Democratic Principles".

A spirited defense of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, the Radio Priest" was given at the adult forum of Christ ian Doctrine at Bridgeport Monday night by Rev. Dr. John L. Loughran. former assistant pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Cancep- tion, Waterbury, and now pastor of the Church of the Holy Family, Tunxis Hill. pr. Loughran attacked charges made against Father Coughlin by Dr. James Waterman Wise in an address at a Bridgeport forum Sunday night.
 pr. Loughran denied a charge by Dr. Wise that Father Coughlin was seeking to pit Catholics and Jews against each other. He declared that the priest had asked for an inves- tigation of his activities by the Dies committee but it had been denied him.
 No Antipathy
 With "The Catholic Church and the Racial Question" as his subject the former local clergyman declared that the church does not counten- ance "any antipathy against Jew because he is a Jew or because of his business methods" He went on to assail the treatment to negroes in this country, declaring that many hypocrites piously praise the Con- stitution and the Gettysburg ad- dress but then treat colored people like animals.
 pr. Loughran referred to an edit orial in Father Coughlin's publica- tion, Social Justice" in the Feb. 19 issue. The editorial asserted that federal investigation is to be sought of the Jewish Peoples Com mittee, which it charged is a Com muniSt front organization. It went on to declare that careful distinction should be made between radicals who claim they speak for Jewry and "the great body of citizens of Jewish faith in America"
 The editorial concluded with an appeal that good citizens and good Christians get to work in peaceful and effective cooperation to rid this nation and the world once and for all of its Communistic virus."
 "Is there anything anti-Semitic in this article?" asked Dr. Loughran
 Democratic Principles
 The priest went on to assail Dr. Wise's understanding of democratic principles"
 "Let us see for a moment to what democratic" principles pr. Wise has, directly or indirectly, lent his approval" the priest lecturer said.
 Tt is fair to judge man by the company he keeps and by the prin- ciples to which he lends approval. There comes to my desk once a month, through the kindness of some anonymous friend. a copy of "Opinion," a self-Styled magazine "of Jewish Life and Letters" the mouthpiece of the Wise family, and other self-appointed advocates of democracy" and friends of free- dom." A contributing editor is the Reverend pr. John Hayes Holmes. pastor of the Community Church in New York City.
 "In the January 22nd edition of the New York Times therelis head line, Holmes Sold Out by Soviet He says, and hereunder appears a most amazing yet courageous con- fession. This Christian Protestant Clergyman says in part:
 T feel that I have deceived my self as well as been deceived. In our enthusiasm over Russia's lb- eration from the Tsar, our hope for the further liberation of the Russian people from economic as well as political serfdom and oui vision of a new world springing from the womb of this Russian experiment, we permitted our- selves to condcne wrongs that we knew to be wrongs.
 We defended or at least apol- ogized for, evils in the case of Russia, which mortified us where- ever else they appeared, and by whenever else they were done. We accepted covertly, if not openly, the most dangerous and ultimately disastrous idea that can lodge within the human mind, namely that the end justifies the means"
 ''Dr. Holmes continues his start- ling confession by getting down to cases. Liberals" such as he con- doned the dissolution of the Con- stituent Assembly by Lenin, .An act of tyranny of the worst des- cription;' they approved the denial of free political institut- tions to @ people seeking nothing SO much as freedom, and .apolo- gized for and frequently denied the horrors of massacre and tor- ture that followed upon the at-