Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-04
The Political Mill
Meeting for Tolerance
IS Attack on Catholics
Writer Attends Supper at Hotel Pierrs
And Hears Communists Extolled
By Dorothy Thorn pson

by D0T0IHp thompson
The other night there was q supper meeting
in the fashionable Hotel Pierre. New York.
There were coffee, sandwiches, cookies. ADJ
mission price was $3.50 and the speakers:
Kenneth Leslie. editor of The Protestant:
Rev. Paul j. Folino. Chicago pastor and menu
Der OF the Ministerial Action Committee, and
Johannes Steel. nee Herbert Won Stahl, ex-
trafdcker In illegal German ornaments and
black marketeer Chis autobiography. Hailed
by the chairman as the leader of new party"
he proclaimed himself only one Of the minor
poets in the chorus of resistance" behind the
"crucifed" Henry Wallace.
went to widen my education, because we too
much tend to listen only to persons who reflect
our own viewpoints, My arrival caused some
furry before it was decided to admit me. my
husband and my son.
There were some 200 people there, all Of
them from the middle class, some apparently
well to do. On the tables were copies of The
PROTESTANT y. publication which sponsored
the meet bomic book. called THE Cfal-
lenger," left-wing ideas to youngsters,
and advd hents for Mr.. Steel's mimeo-
graphed report, issued monthly for IS per year.
Ostensibly for Tolerance.
The meeting ostensibly was for racial and
religious tolerance and the protection Of the
dignity Of man, regardless Of race or creed
Immediately, however, 1t became Nrulent at
tack upon Catholicism. and eventually upon
all Christianity, except such as is represented
by thin red lire of Christian Communists, who
=. do not forget that Jesus preached what
today would be called Judeo- Bolshevism"
Quotation from The PROTESTANT.
Mr.. Leslie said, in part:
THE Catholic Church wages eternal
war on the human race
Most cartel barons are Roman Catholics.
"Fascism and Catholicism have gone to bed
together.
Church influence is cancerous within the
ranks of labor.
Clerical fascism Yields diabolic influence.
'FHitler could not have got to first base with
out the Catholic Church"
Testifies to Conversion.
Not one word was said about Hitlers anti
Christian and anti-Catholic bias; nor that IS
documents reported Catholicism as Nazisms
most obstinate foe; nor of the Pope's encycli-
Gals against raeism, nor of the thousands OF
Jews saved from determination by European
monasteries. Mr.. Leslies speech was incite-
ment to riot against Catholic institutions.
But it wasn't only Catholics. 1--WE Christians
are the anti-Semites," said the Rev. Mr.. Folino.
sion under the influence of Mr. Leslie, resem-
bling that of Saul of Tarsus. He warned, how
ever, that the Ministerial Action Committee
was not run of the mill" but leaven in the
body of Professionalism which, it seemed, was as
whole only shade less vicious than
Catholicism
Mr. Steel started with a remarkable II untn.
telligible TRADE against criminal" who was
"blackmaling me" and threatened to bring
along nationally known journalistic figure"
who might cause a riot"
Bund Incident Recalled.
was the only dissident journalist present
and nobody brought me. Maybe Mr.. Steel was
thinking of little incident years ago at .
German American Bund meeting.
Mr.. Steel attacked the American press In
Moscow "A fabulous tllree-ring circus" He
quoted a journalist who wrote that che had
fallen on his knees in the Red Square and
thanked God he was an American" This
brought derisive laughter.
Mr. Steel declared: Foster Dulles dominated
the conference CMoscow) to put over his plan
for migrating the German cartel system with
the American" He said American advocacy of
a federaliZed instead of centralized Germany
was a plot between carteists and the Vatican.
Part of a scheme to revive lot Of little
Hitlers. Charles de Gaulle is financed
by American money"
duplicates U. S. in Pogrom.
He echoed Mr.. Leslie's remark that "the
Truman Doctrine is food for rodents" but re-
marked, to applause, "if this continues all
Europe will go Communist. That's why I'm
not really opposed to it,
We left during the question period. Waiting
for the elevator heard Mr.. Steels amplified
voice answer question about who made the
pogrom in Poland: Underground Fascists In
touch with the American Embassy"
Oh, yes, he also said; "Al the scum will
be swept out" BY that time the scum included
the Catholic Church, most of Christianity,
President Truman the American press, the
American military government, Mr.. Byrnes,
and that Protestant, Mr. Dulles
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