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Evening star., 1951-04-29
By H. J, J. Soroint

LONDON.-The resignation Of
Aneurin Bevan and others from
the Attlee cabinet is not calculated
to hasten the recovery of Prime
Minister Clement Attlee, who left
hospital only last Thursday after
long treatment for duodenal
ulcers.
Ulcers are commonly supposed
to be brought on by worry and
strain and Mr.. Bevan'S resigna-
ton following so soon upon the
death of Ernest Bevin is bound to
have an effect on Attlee's general
health.
The Prime Minister had already
been in hospital longer than was
at first believed necessary and,
at present, it would be almost
impossible for him to undertake
anything like a strenuous election
campaign.
Political honors for the moment
rest with Hugh Gaitskell, the
Chancellor OF the Exchequer. To
Evening star., 1951-04-29
MoIcontents Inside Soviet
Would Rebel if War Came
Millions Waiting for Chance to Bring About
Collapse of Police Stote Dictatorship
By Edword eronkshow

beginning to hear good deal about resistance to the
been estimates that there
resisters scattered throughout that
their numbers would grow enormously broke out
Certainly constant trouble the borderands above al
Certainly the Kremln bears constantly M mine
Evening star., 1951-04-29
Biportisonship in U. S.
Foreign Policy at Low Ebb
Coming Macarthur Joint Inquiry Moy Serve
To Resurrect Formula Once in Force
By Gould Lincoln

What price united American Far Eastern policy?
could be-put aside partisan politics getdown
fundamentals.
may many lives in Korea
country will in demand military
nolicy
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-21

Catholics are bound TO be unusual They are al
most forced to be mildly exhibtionist They cannot
afford to be non-descrpt run-of-the-mine for in
sofar as they such just so far do they cease to
be what they should be
Many are kept from full and unhampered prac-
tce of their religion by the gnawing fear that some
one will think them odd or maybe little queer,
That, however, is just the point: we are odd and
queer when judged against the background of this
world and its standards We should begin to fear
when the world ceases to regard us different
II is only natural that our non-Catholic friends
should be curious about what they see and hear
when we practice religion openly Ninety-nine
out of hundred though, will never be critical but
only thankful and Impressed when we offer them the
explanation of the practice.
The fear we mentioned is the cause of our down
stairs rooms being devoid Of holy pictures and
statues It Is the reason for the minute fingered
signs Of the cross before grace in public place or
for some, it is reason enough to skip grace al.
together II is ample justification for eating meat
on Friday in the home Of friend. II will Justify
Just about any lapse you can mention.
An open, happy Christian life is still the most
cogent missionary sermon. Where would the pub
cans and sinners be if Christ had feared the sneers
and ieers Of the Pharisee? How many converts
would ST. Paul have made if he had feared the
laughter and jbes Of the naughty Athenians?
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-21

The words christmas" and Peace" 90 nataural.
ly together, not etymologically, of course, but by
connotation. Men Of good will everywhere associate
the two words. The thoughts which they engender
overlap and nterminge like the tones of two great
bells until they become one in an insistent har-
mony
This is no man-made association Of ideas. The
first great advent in the history Of the human
race started with Gods promise of Redeemer
who would bring peace to the souls OF men Men
prayed and trusted that the coming Of Christmas to
the world would bring Him who would be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father
Of the world TO come, the Prince of Peace.
For centuries men lived in the wanting Of
Christmas. There one. And men have never
ceased to rejoice-or have they?
There seems to be doubt, with some, about
Christmas. Where is the peace" they say "of
which He is supposed to be the Author and the
Prince? How rejoice when this very coun
terpart of Christmas peace, is so evidently lacking
in the word2 There is peace-there must there
fore be no Christmas Christmas is failure"
But they misunderstood Christ, the Son of
God, the Prince of Peace did come into the world
fulfilling all the promises of the ages in His com
ing And He did bring peace, too, 10 all mankind
But-and this is the answer to the doubters-there
must be many Chrismasses Bethlehem, in sense,
not enough.
Christmas can never be general failure. II
fails only for individuals, for those who refuse to
accept il. Christmas must take place in every city
and town and in every country and IN every indl-
vidual
Is there no peace? Is Christmas failure? Yes,
but only for those for whom Christmas means
Xmss-with *" fulfilling as usual its role Of the
Unknown.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-21

WASHINGTON ~ (NC)-The
call of the Bishops TO American
Catholics to make Sunday, Dec.
30, a day of prayer and mourn
ing for the millions suffering
persecution in commissioning
ated lands is very timely.
Not only is Divine assistance
needed particularly in these eX-
tremely trying days, but we have
reached a point in our national
history where the people are
urged to pause and study the
reasons why we arc making one
of the most gigantic national ef-
forts the world has ever known.
There is an essential need to-
day for the people of the Free
World to appreciate fully that a
fearful, all-out persecution of re-
ligion is being carried out be-
hind the Iron Curtain, Catholics
of this country, by and large, al
ready understand this fact.
There is no reason TO believe
that many of their fellow coun-
trymen at least do not know fully
what this fact means. II will be a
blessing to the United States,
and to the world, if the forth
coming day of reparation arouses
people generally to an aware
ness Of what is going on in Red
controlled lands.
The United States has Just en-
tered upon the second year of
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-21
Bad Taste Toward
The President

No one could help but admire the rebuke given
by the White House TO the people in California who
we're planning float for the Tournament Of Roses
parade which would have been insulting TO the
President OF the United States A group of re-
sponsible business men, the report goes, had the
undesired float in mind II may be granted that
they were quite sincere in their thoughts but their
action gives to pause.
II may be well for Americans TO stop and take
stock OF their present attitude, not only toward
the high office of Chief Executive OF this great
nation, but toward government IN general. Too
many accuse themselves OF indifference, and
not a few OF definite disregard and dsrespect for
those in civil authority OF course there others
and we hope their number Is few-who have
nothing but contempt and hatred for authority
There comes to mind the recent annual state
ment of the Bishops OF The United States about the
law OF God being the measure oil mans conduct
They clearly pointed out the need of respect for
and obedience to law They did so knowing the
the extent Of the lack of regard for law in this
nation serious study OF the Bishops statement
would help change the attitude OF great many
citizens toward recognized authority.
Now some may present q thousand and one rea
sons to show that the President has conducted him
self so as to lose the respect of others Be that
il may. he is still the duly elected President of
these United States and by virtue OF his position
should receive the Difference due him. To answer
any objection one may point 10 the election ballot
and say that is where the problem Is solved. but II
is solved correctly only when the people going to
the voting booth have already deep regard for
authority in government with the result that they
cast their vote only for competent and honest can.
didaes If there is anything wrong with public
officials it is in the final analysis the fault of the
voters; which is another way OF saying that the
trouble lies with tie American people II Amer
lean citizens really cared, they would soon clean
house" many heard saying should be done
today.
A deep reverence for the law Of God and the
Law of the country which comes from God, should
put honest In public office. It should make
people generally careful in their cheoiee Of
public officials and IT should create an atm0s
phere of condemnation all sides for corruption
in any public trust There was time when divorce
not accepted in polite society but It Is accept
ed now There was time when George Washington
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detectives of the Soviet fifth col
umn. There is reiteration, very
strongly, of the necessity of per-
suading the American people
to approve the recognition OF
Red China, which is still the
cardinal item in the present
communist line There is also
the repetition of the urgency for
"a Pact Of Peace" which would
bring Red China into the higher
councils of the United Nations.
We hear again that the Reds
must campaign for a prevention
of arming in West Germany and
Japan. But the new note, now
reinserted, is that they must
also plug for "uHificdtion Of
Korea. "
Most Americans, including
community leaders, would not
even know about this newly
inserted phrase. II they did
read it, without a course on COM
munist strategy and tactics,
they would be unaware of its
vital significance. That phrase
contains a whole campaign. 1t
pledges the Reds TO continued
disorder in Korea, truce or no
truce. For any "unification' Of
that unhappy country proposed
by the Kremlin will be on such
terms as will lead to Red
Korea.
Vantage Point
Il is unfortunate that the
United States and the United
Nations have not taken the in
itiative in insisting upon a uni
fled Korea, along democratic
lines. In this instance, once
more the Stalinites have seized
the vantage point
Anyone aware Of the nature
Of the Soviet dictatorship. and
Of its strategy and tactics, would
have known in advance that this
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-21
WASHINCTON LETTER
Day of Prayer and Mourning
Will Spotlight Prosecutions

its enormous defense mobiliza-
ton program. We are making
the greatest expenditures in hls-
tory to arm ourselves and our
friends among the other nations
against aggressive. attack. De
spite that this is in itself stu
pendous undertaking, we are try
ing 10 achieve our purpose while
maintaining stable economy.
Some sacrifices have already
been demanded Of the American
people We are promised that
they will prove to be small com
pared with the sacrifices and in
convenlences that must yet be
suffered Leaders here in the
capital have urged the American
people to pause and think and
try TO understand why this eff
fort is inescapable.
The reason for this mobiiiza-
ton cannot be wholly clear un-
less one knows the threat against
which we are defending. The
threat is communist aggressions,
which is rooted in godlessness.
That is important because relig-
ious freedom is basic to all free
doms. When one understands
that this is the first freedom that
is snatched from the people
when Reds take control of a
country, we have a good picture
of the danger from which we are
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-21
Women s Council Leads the Way

Red demand for "unificataion"
was bound to occur OF its very
essence, committed to the world
soviet dictatorship, the kremlin
will never let up in its con
quest aim until a firm policy
rocks ii back on its heels. There
should, then. have been todrn-
ing from alert citizens on this
matter, written to the press and
discussed in organizations.
As it is, the new communist
admission that there will be no
peace in Korea until there is
Soviet-controlled state there,
does seem to call for an alert
ing of public opinion to this
reality. Those community lead.
erS who are trained in critical
observation and analysis of the
communist line can do yeoman
service to the United States
in this field. They can certain
ly make clear that only a Korea
made into one nation on dem
ocratic basis can preoent fur.
ther trouble in that area Of The
Far East.
AwsrenesS Inadequate
The same observation may
be made of the big domestic
item in the current Red line:
THE fight on the fascist dan
ger" and against thought con.
troll Fascist" and ''fascism"
have been terms long used by
the communists to frighten
large sections of the people
away from any realistic dealing
with the Soviet fifth column.
The Daily Worker and other.
Red organs are now busily en-.
gagged in seeking to convince
Americans that any curbing OF
the conspiracy directed by Mos
COW viii iniure the civil liber-
ties" of other people within this
country. This is utterly false.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-21

new pagans. More than so mil
lion Americans today have no
church affiliations whatsoever.
and millions of the rest, calling
themselves Protestants on form
al questionnaires, are pagan both
in belief and practice.
So how shall we treat our
times? What is the kindest ther-
apy for an age of vast confusion
(Which calls its chaos wisdom)
and time of disbelief (Which
imagines that it has outgrown re-
llgion)? How can we help? What
can we do?
We can, for one thing, take a
leaf from the experience of the
most successful apostles in the
history of the Church: the Apos-
ties. II is stated in the learned
books that the achievements of
these simple men in the first
half-century of Christianity were
a moral miracle What they
preached was utterly foreign to
anything the ancient world had
ever believed before; they knew
it, and they said so. There was no
temporizing in their doctrine, no
fear of giving offense. They
preached the Risen Christ-and
the whole world hushed its noisy
turmoil to listen.
No Future Goal
This is an age with many sim
ilarities 10 the First Century; il
is a period of pagan despair, and
of pagan pride. The Roman En-
pire had extended itself to the
known reaches Of the ancient
world when the first Apostles
started out. II was not only Alex
ander who wept that there we're
no other worlds to conquer; pag-
an CIVILIZATION itself Wept with
him-the bitter tears of those
who see no future goal.
Today, too, the men who wear
the academic honors, the states
men who get the banquet awards,
have largely exhausted the pos.
sibilities of achievement within
their own narrow conceptions of
the kind of universe 1T is. When
you have cracked the atom, you
have intruded into the almost.
ultimate secret of Dame Nature
you have pushed scientific
learning to its farthest bound
airy. And when you have gather.
ed together in council the lead.
ing men of every country in the
world, and dominated them.
then you have made political
power a superlative, not to be
exceeded by any who will follow
after you.
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trying to protect ourselves. Re-
ligious freedom is of essential
Importance even to a man who
boasts that he is not religious.
Without religious freedom you
end up by not having any free
dom. That's the nature of god
less dictatorship.
Propaganda, cunningly contriv-
ed, has everywhere preceded and
accompanied this 20th-century
persecution of things of God.
Coupled with the impenetrable
curtain of silence that has been
lowered between these persecut-
ed countries and the rest of the
world, this propaganda has had
a head start and a rather easy
time. 1t has led all too many
people to believe, or at least say,
that, at worse, what is going on
in the Iron Curtain countries is
some sort of a fight between the
Church and the State.
OF course, it is nothing as
simple as that. II is certainly
nothing as even as that-in the
way of a contest.
II is not that the Church is
contending with the State, The
State is trying to kill the Church,
to usurp her powers, to own peo-
pie body and soul. And the State
is furious because the Church is
trying to defend herself against
murder
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-21
RICHARD PATTEE
Technique of Terror

on their own deficiencies over.
looks the all-important role OF
violence.
The Rumanian paper holds
that in the present struggle the
United States has sensed the is
sues far more clearly than west
ern Europe, and has appreciated
the fact that the techniqueS of
violence have been developed to
a degree which refined Europe
an sentiment rejects as simply
impossible on the present polit-
ical scene. Hence the endeavor
to find more rational explain
alton of the phenomenon of abb
sorption and conquest. If Ruman-
la fell to the Reds. it is contend
ed, then there must be some
thing inherent in the political
and social order of the Ruman-
ian people that made this pene-
tration relatively easy. To ascribe
it entirely to violence and ter.
ror seems, to certain minds, an
oversimplification.
The Norm
1t is frequently contended that
Finland and Yugosiavia have
demonstrated that sound in
ternal order and population
heartily devoted to that order
can resist effectively. 1t must be
clear, however, that these two
countries have remained outside
the Soviet orbit not through any
virtue of their own, but because
of circumstances that rave moth
ing to do with either structure or
national order. Finland, obvious
ly, could be taken over at once
if Soviet policy so dictated.
Yugoslavia enjoys a certain de-
fense thanks to a set of circunn-
stances, internationally, that do
not concern the excellence or
the evil of her government or So
ciety. Neither of these countries
experienced actual occupation
by the Red army or the tactics OF
violence and suppression employ
ed as its normal methods of OPP
Grafton.
It is not easy to convince
world become accustomed to vio-
lence that violence can be ele-
waited to the level of a policy of
state, or that it can become the
normal thing. Even Nazi brutal
ity was looked upon as a subsid-
iary thing, used as the supreme
solution of certain unpleasant
situations. t
Never Through Conviction
In Europe there is not much
of a problem in keeping people
from becoming communist. No
single state has ever turned to
this solution except under press
ure. Even the Soviet Union itself
became Marxist through violence
and terror, never through con-
viction.
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well as the day by day
conditions inside of Ru-
mania. l have rarely found
more satisfactory source for au-
thentic reports on what is hap
pening in an Iron Curtain coun-
try. A recent issue takes up for
consideration a problem which
merits more than passing consid-
Grafton.
II is apparent that in western
Europe there is considerable dis
quietude concerning the degree
of effective sJvietization that
may be attained in the subjected
countries. A writer in the Swiss
periodical Weltwoche attempts
to establish the thesis that inn
plantation of sovietism is in di-
rect proportion to the internal
instability and disintegration Of
the country submitted to Soviet
penetration. In other words, if
the Sovietization of Runania
makes great advances this is
proof of the fact that the domeS.
tic structure of the Rumanian
nation had left much to be desir-
ed and collapsed once submitted
to the Marxist pressure. This is
along the same line as the the
ory, so fondly repeated in the
United States, that a higher
standard of living is the main
bulwark against communism;
that if enough people have
enough food, the danger literal
ly disappears.
The Rumanian exile journal
takes to task this oversimplifica-
ton of the question. The imposi-
tion of communism in eastern
Europe has nothing to do basic
ally with either standards of liv-
ing or internal weakness. Admit
tedly none of the kidnapped
countries has the military might
to resist the actual occupation
by the Red army. That in itself
is nothing of which to be asham-
ed - there is serious doubt that
anyone, as the world stands to-
day, possesses such power of re-
sistance. But to base the inter
pretation of the degree to which
these unfortunate peoples have
been absorbed by communism
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-21
A RetOrt Courteous 10 Il
Shayian Insult

That was rather silly thing for the widow of
the famous George Bernard Shaw TO do, to make
arrangements in her will for Of money to be
used in polishing the manners and culture OF the
Irish people. Now that thinks of it, il was far
more silly for those responsible to give publicity to
such thing.
If there is thing that the Irish people have
done through the ages ii Is contribute TO the deposit
of literature and culture and faith in God What
else is there that matters? All around the world
they have gone to become leaders in many en-
deavors They have been towers OF strength in
the civilizng OF more than one other nation. II is
ironical that someone should think that they
need some social polish
1t is not known whether the Irish will refuse
this insult whether they will take the monetary
legacy and il for further advancing things
worth while in their midst II would make little diff
ference either way. But ii hardly be denied
that the reaction around the world among the great
army of Irish descendants will be definite and IN.
dignant. Because OF this il is unfortunate that the
Shavian action was given any publicity. II will do
England no good around the world
Perhaps the 'retort courteous" is IN a story told
Of young Seminarian of Ireland When asked il
he intended to study for foreign missions, or wheth
fr he wished 10 remain as a parish priest in his
native Ireland, he said that he hoped to become a
priest and spend his life converting to the Faith
his neighbors across the Irish Sea And he was
dead serious about il for he knew the great mum
bers of Engshmen that have no faith
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was held UP as the great American patriot who
could not tell lie; but it is not done in many
schools and homes now.
Verify, Americans examine their conscienc-
es with regard to their reverence for law and or
der, for honesty and morality in all dealings, com
mereial or governmental or industrial; they can
check their attitude Of respect for the office of the
President of the United States and find that ult-
matey when offering insult to the one occupying
that exalted position, they only insulting them
selves for the simple that it is through them
that he is there, worthy On not as he may be- And
it is in bad taste to offer him insult