The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-15
Catholic Thought And Opinion
By REV. JOSEPH F. DONNELLY

the approval OF Suner, then For
eign Minister for Spain, M. Pages
spent year in Spain taking the
pictures and all of them were pass
ed by the censor. The pictures were
a true history of SPANS efforts at
reconstruction but the March of
Time editors "cleverly linked The
scenes alongside of a sound track
which Is less hostile hands, and
with the very same scenes unaltered
could have been made as sympathe-
tic toward Spain and its Catholic
ism as it Is in fact antagonistic to
it,"
And the Herald charges further
that: Shots taken in prison of men
at Mass gives the speaker an ex-
cuse for inSinuating talk of a politi-
cal nature which can be construed
as a proof that the Church's bless
ing goes with anything that Fran
co as a politician might do.
Spotted with gratuitiouS aSser-
tions such as the talk of hundreds
Of thousands of political prisoners
when at least one reliable report
puts the number as low as ten
thousand, and the foolish charge
that the Flange absconded with
SPANS gold, the narrator could not
have been less reliable if he were
quoting from the Daily Worker.
MISSION TO MOSCOW
Since 1t will soon arrive at the
neighborhood theaters 1t should be
noted that widespread criticism of
Warner Brothers Mission to Moscow
continues. F1fty-two American edu-
Gators, writer's and labor leaders
have signed a statement declaring
that the film is the first full-dress
example of the kind of propaganda
movie hitherto confined to the to-
talitarian countries"
In Moscow Joseph Davies is re-
ported to have shown the film to
Stain who was greatly pleased. -
But the professors in New York
state: 1T falsifies history and glo-
rifles dictatorship Congress is
slanderously portrayed and if
successful the film will create an
impression in the minds of tens of
millions of Americans that the meth
DDS of Stains dictatorship are in
no wise incompatible with genuine
democracy
JAMES BYRNES OF OWN
1t seems to some political writer's
that Justice Byrnes, the newly-ap-
pointed Director of War Mobiliza-
ton, is being groomed as President
Roosevelt's running mate for the
fourth term. But one of them
pointed out last week "one possible
flaw
ut is the fact that he was born
Catholic and in early manhood
renowned that faith to join Pro-
testant Church while living in XII
Klux Khan territory. There are pol
iticians who believe that this back
ground would inject religious is
sue into the presidential campaign
but the Frankfurter-H Hopkins school
proposes to ignore it."
In Who's Who in America Mr..
Byrnes does not list any religious
utilization. The editor of the Dem
yer Register, however, offers this in
formation: I'VE are told that he
used to serve Mass as a boy. We
would be willing to bet, brainy
though he Is, that he fell away from
the Church not only through poll
teal opportunism but because he did
not know nearly so much about the
Church as an intelligent man should
know.
If he runs for the Vice Presi-
dency he will find that 1t will not
be the Catholics who will knife him
but fanatical anti-Catholics to whom
an ex-Catholic is as obnoxious as
practical one. We saw the rule
work infallibly during the Khan
agitation. The late Judge Ben Lind
sey Is an example"