The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-20

Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy, in an address last night at the annual Knights of Columbus convention at Atlantic City, N. J., declared that Catholics and mern- bers of all faiths should back all possible aid to Soviet Russia in its war with Nazi Germany. He sharp ly attacked Communism but as- serted that with a fire raging in the neighborhood which threatens to take your house, or with a dan gerous animal loose in the streets, you aren't concerned about the re- ligion or politics of those who join in the effort to put it down"
 "In present circumstances" Jus tice Murphy said, "any nation re- sisting the might and aggression of Nazi Germany is, whether inten- tionally or not, advancing our m- terest as well as its own.'
 Stating that for people who love freedom there is little to choose be- tween Communism and NaZism, Jus tice Murphy asserted that i've want neither in this country" But Naz- ism, he said, is the most dangerous menace to free nations and free in- Stitutions.
 At Crossroads
 The New York Herald Tribune re- ports Justice Murphy's speech fur ther as follows:
 We are at one of the crossroads of history" he said. Tn the light ot what we have seen and thee vi- dence already available, there can be little doubt that complete Ger man victory would mean 8 profound reshaping of the world. Not only Europe and Africa, but Soutt America as well, would conceivably 1 fall under the sway of the Nag economic and political philisophy directed and upheld from Berlin by g. thoroughly ruthless government supported by a military juggernaut of matchless power and skill ane dedicated to political doctrines which are tahe very antithesis. fC principles we hold sacred ar1c | fundamental to individual freedom and happiness.
 "Whatever you or may think al individuals, as nation we have ir effect committed ourselves to tht policy of aiding those cgountrie' which are offering resistance to tht aggression of NaI Germany and hel associates"
 Because of the tremendous Nag threat to the institutions American! hold dear, the people of this nation ought not to allow themselves to bt confused by the German war or Russia, Justice Murphy continued.
 We know" he said, "that witt only negligible exceptions tht American people are 'uneQuivocally and unalterably opposed to Com. munisrn. We reject it for its denia and contradiction of elemental hu' man wants. We reject 1t for its de sertion of religion and its suppres. sion of religious bodies. We rejeci its opportunism in resortine to the aggression which in others Il has so stringently condemned. w know from the records of our court. of law thrat its agents have sought with premedittion to upndermtnt our democratic form of government.
 He said that when the Nazi lead CTS, in attacking Russia, @piohsly proclaimed they were fighting ths battle of Western Christian civili- zation'." 1t was doubtless theil hope to divide and confuse opinior in this country, especially among the people of Catholic faith, who ars notoriously abborrent of the tenets and practices 6f Communism"
 Hypocrisy
 Then Justice Murphy proceeded by q calm recitation of the Nag record, to tear to slreds the cloal of '.hypocrisy" by which, he said the German masters sought to dis. gulse their attack on Russia as [ 'hoIy war;. He started with Hit. ler's "Nein Kampf," pointing to { paragraph which declared Christi. anity was . force which oppressed and dominated" the world ant added that "force can only be brok. en hy force"