Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-07-25

effective-that is, the Catholic
minority by indirection, by
sly insinuation, by mean reserva-
ton and by every slick device,
she has time and again expressed
prejudice against the Catholic
faith"
Msgr. Cartwright's remarks
came two days after Francis Car
dinal Spellman had published a
letter to Mrs. Roosevelt charging
that her defense of the Barden
bill prohibiting the use of public
funds for parochial schools was
discrimination unworthy of ar
American mother" Mrs. Roose-
welt has indicated that her reply
to Cardinal Spellman would not
be made public.
Again Refuses Comment.
From Hyde Park, the Associated
Press said today, that Mrs. Roose.
velts secretary said Mrs. Roose'
welt would have no public com
ment on Msgr. Cartwright's re-
marks.
Cardinal Spellman last month
attacked the Barden bill as "un-
American, anti-Catholic" legisla-
ton. His charges were answered
at that time by Methodist Bishop
G. Bromley Oman of New York
and others.
Msgr. Cartwright said Cardinal
Spellman's letter has unveiled 1.-The
secret intolerance of a very not
able public character who has for
many years unjustly enjoyed the
reputation of tolerance. Loud
protests will be the order of the
day. but. nevertheless. the car
dinals facts stand firm"
when we have a long. clear
record, year after year, of sly,
carefully worded, covered utter
ances which were always against
us, then we know what kind of a
mind and heart they come from, -
Msgr. Cartwright said.
Stand on Spain Criticized.
I'VE always remember that the
good woman was. for as long as
it was safe to be so, very senti-
mental and a little more than toll
Grant towards the Reds and the
Communists and the friends of
Russia in this country" he con-
tinued. I'VE remember that dur
ing the Spanish Civil War she
lent all her prestige to the side of
what she called the Loyalists. and
what honesty would call the Com
munists or Reds in Spain: and
that IN spite of their peculiarly
revolving atrocities practiced
against thousands and thousands
of Catholic people. she never
raised voice to censure them"
He then pointed out that Mrs.
Roosevelt refused to recognize
the martyrdom of Archbishop
Stepinac of Yugoslavia or that of
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty of
Hungary.
THE treatment OF Archbishop
stepinac and of Cardinal Minds
zenty is among the glories of the
American press" he continued.
Our Washington Star, for ex-
ample. used its freedom to ex-
press large. generous and noble
recognition of a noble man =
I remember many similar mani
festations of fine and enlightened
opinion on these subjects both in
the press and on the air. But
remember no generous, no open,
no wide-hearted, noble. charitable
thing said about any Catholic
cause by Mrs. Roosevelt, who,
= God knows, has found time to
express herself on everything else
In the universe"
Msgr. Cartwright then told his
listeners that they should pray fol
Mrs. Roosevelt in order that some
how or other some light will
touch her mind and some grace
will touch her heart, so that the
immense influence she exercises
will no longer be exercised for
one of the most malevolent and
hateful features in American pub
lie life, and that is the hatred, not
of religion, but of Catholicism"