The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-01
Catholic Thought And Opinion
By REV. JOSEPH F. DoNNELLY

mention of God as the Source of these virtues seemed little too re- ligious perhaps for the planners. But there was one exception, one eminent exception.
 The distinguished Under Secre- tary of State sumner Welles dellv- cred the outstanding address of the gathering. Concluding 1t he quoted the President as we have quoted him here before: We shall win this war and in the victory we shall seek not vengeance but the establishment of an international order in which the spirit of Christ shall rule the hearts of men and nations" Finishing the quotation Mir. Welles picked up his paper. looked out at his audience and added a last sentence thus: And ladies and gentlemen, we won't get free world in any other way"
 This blunt profession of the need of the spirit of Christ in any plans for a just and lasting peace should give heart to those who hope to build better world in the peace of tomorrow. Victory will be vitiated by hatred and revenge, Mir. Roosevelt and we hope MT. Welles will sit in with those who fashion the peace; we hope that their respect for the spirit of Christ will be shared by many of the peace.makers.
 JAMES GORDON BENNETT
 "The Man Who Made News Is the recently published biography of the founder of the New York Her aid, James Gordon Bennett. Re- viewing it in the New York Times, Neil MacNeil wrote a paragraph re- vealing some interesting facts in the life of Mir. Bennett.
 Bennett was born in l795 in old Town Keith, Scotland, into a Cath olic family. Despite the persecution of the Catholics he was educated in the local Presbyterian school His father sent him later to seminary in Aberdeen, with the intention of educating him for the priesthood, There Bennett did not make the grade enthusiastically or devotionally, but he did get large doses of the classics and a working knowledge of several languages.
 After leaving the seminary he spent several years visiting Scot tish shrines and reading Thomas Paine, David Hume. Thomas Reid and Adam Smith. He turned sav- agely against the Catholic Church and British rule At the end, however, the old sinner sent for Archbishop McClosly, and made his peace with the Chmch-and died full of piety,'
 NAZI TORTURE
 The torture of the Nazi concen- tration camps has claimed another prominent victim in the person of the Rev Marian Morowski, profes- sor at the Catholic University of Lublin and the University of Cra- COW According to the report re- ceived by the N. c. w. c. News Service he had been incacerated in the notorious camp at Oswiecim where in addition to the usual beat ings and lack of food, the priests are subjected to a special torture.
 Father Morowski was forced to push in bare feet a heavy iron roller over the flinty ground of the camp day after day. In time his torn feet became gangerous and he died. AS he lay in agony he recalled for the solace of his companions the passion of Christ and exhorted them to courage in the face of the sufferings inflicted on them.
 The case of Father Morowski which seems so horrible to us in commonplace in Oswiecim where the mortality rate of prisoners last year was fifty-four per cent