The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-13
Contrasting AnslUers" !"
Catholic Transcript in Current Issue Replies Edi- toriaIly to Waterbury Republican's
 "Maggoty Answer"

may well wonder whether the pro- posed alternative to his regime is genuinely democratic and how much of the opposition to it in these parts Is inspired by sym. pathy with the virulently aflti- Catholic Masonry of the Conti- nent. The point was not advo- cacy of Franco, but an indictment of what Is plainly hypocrisy, namely . double standard of po- litical morality.
 The Waterbury Republican un dertook to supply an answer to the query. The answer was that nothing can be done about totall- tarianism in those enormous areas of Europe which are being treated by the USSR a mere extensions of It's own territory. We must, the editor declared, get along with stalin ''as Q matter of practical politics. We're in the position of not being able to do anything about him."
 But Francop An, there we can Do seif-righteous: there we can be morally indignant: there we can unaheathe and wieid the sword of justice: there we do not have to trim and torture principle to the pattern of expediency.' Here as the noble dictun handed down by the editor of the Republican: we don't have to get along with Franco. We don't have to ccHn- promise our conscience there" The italics are ours: the genti- inent is the Republicans, and may it retain exclusive rights thereto. Tor this memorable piece of casuistry. of . sort most sinuous and delicate, is the kind of thing which has been rosponsi- ble for an intolerahle and dis- astrous situation In international relations.
 How intolerahle and dlsastruus is well illustrated by the gtaiemate at London. At London the Wsst- ern Allies at long last made Q stand for single standard 0f principle and morality in inter- national dealings, driven Co it by the tardy realization that their concessions and comprOmeies on principle had oil but wrecked the worlds hope Of peace.
 This was made clear by John Poster Dulles, Republican adviser to Secretary Byrties. in his radio address after his return from London. He supplied . real all- swer (and what Q contrast to the Republicans Slaaggoty a1swegl e the questions propcunded on this page. Here is Q part of is: aBFiEi- cipie and morality must be re- established in the world. The United States ought to take 6 leed in that. 1t devolvos upon us to give leadership iEa restoring pEin- cipie as c guide to conduct, Il VIC do not do that, the world will not be worth living ail. Indeed it will probably be Q world an which human beings cannot live.
 Just SO. And remember that this affirmation was in explnS1a- ton of the United States Mat re- fIisal to be Q party to fslFtheEana totalitarianlsni iii such countries as Romanla adn Bulgaria. xe- ferred to in the sitting Floor izi. Quiry. It is . declaration thai We don't have to comprolxll1e our conscience" as regards tnG achievement of sovereign peopleI anywhere. It iS good to know that our country b not gong te attempt the impossible, as vel as ignoble, feat of adhertng o tMk contradictory standards at 0ncg to try to live by Q divl9iblo asae piebaid morality isa iglternatlonAl affairs such as the cynical CT th. schizcphrenic champion.