The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-10-17
JOSEPH BREIG-
we Need
Help!'

Maybe by the time this is published, Capt. Kuo
Chin will have caught up on some of his lost sleep.
And maybe not. Maybe he will still be forcing his
bloodshot eyes to stay open while he amputates shat
tered limbs or sews gaping wounds which are among
the communist peace offensives newest contributions
to humanity.
Capt. Chin, 80, is chief surgeon in the under
ground clinic on Quemoy Island. 1t is underground
because QUemoy's hospital was hit IL times by Chin
csc communist shells, despite the huge cross painted
on its roof. After the twelfth explosion, Capt. Chin,
his four associate doctors, and the nurses and patients
said goodbye to the face of the earth for the time
being.
THE COMMUNIST bombardment - Is much -
i 900 shells an hour had been going on for fve
weeks when reporter Charles Smith of United Press
international talked with Capt. Chin on Quemoy-or
rather under Quemoy. I'VE need help" said Capt.
Chin simply. There is no rest for Ms. We keep busy
with the wounded and we get little sleep"
'We need help" Reading Smiths news dispatch,
/ thought wryIy about the fact that more moral ind1E-
nation has been expressed in American newspapers
over the baseball dominance of the New York Yanf
ees than over the Smelling of Quemoy. We are getting
accustomed to international eTlmlnallty; we have
come to expect 1t - and this Is one OF the wor4
things that communism has done to our souls.
If oUEMoY had been a communist outpost, and
If the bom~bardments had come from the West, COM
munists and their fellow-travelers would have filled
the press with anguished breastbeatings about agres-
sion and fascist bestiality, and with outcrys for UN
Intervention. Communists and proeommunist hearts
would have bled all over the place.
The two chief devils in the communist hell are
the devil who perverts communists, and the devil
who wearies decent people.
The first devil is the demon of communist
hypocrisy, which by moving men to pose, for bad
motives, as agitators for apparently good ends,
makes a deadly vice out of the noble virtues Of anger
against injustice. 1t causes people to pretend 10
fight on the side of the angels while doing the work
of Satan, because the truth is not in them.
TIL SECOND DEVIL is the one who tempsS men
Of good will to grow tiredly used TO cruelty, oppres-
sion, torture and murder because the communists
mountain. But the operations Of this demon 60 even
farther than that.
The communists have managed to make public
outcries against great wrongs seem almost indecent.
They have made goodness look foolish because they
have constantly worn the mask Of goodness to dis
guise vicious wickedness.
We are rather like children IN m svn neighbor-
hood where vile men and women pirate the gospel
while killing, manning, robbing and lying. Communist
propaganda has seized the very language OF justice and
love of fellowmen, and perverted it into 4 ntany for
fiends.
WE FEEL VAGUELY embarrassed about trying
to find words with which to condemn Marxist crimes.
The MarxiSts have made the words seem almost Ike
insults to God. They have achieved the ultimate In
cynical sin they have made 1t appear that every
wrong committed by communists is virtuous and
noble, and every resistance to such wrong Is wicked
Nevertheless, we must not let these people turn
demonry into goodness, and goodness into demonry.
We must refuse them success in this total blasphemy
which would make God Himself seem diabolical. We
must reject the weary temptation 10 surrender the
very foundations of righteousness.
The blood spilled on Quemoy, the tendons torn
and the bones smashed on Quemoy, CRY out to rs
that right remains right and. wrong wrong. need
help" said Capt. Chin. He spoke for all mankind.