The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1959-04-24

10 lIlUIdIl lclIAdISN 1850
The most perplexing puzzle of the century has
been the unwillingness of human beings to realize the
open, unashamed and even blatantly boastful vicious
ness of the anti-God and anti-human movements OF
our time.
Millions of people chung to imbecilic decisions
about nazsm until nazi bayonetS were at their Threats;
and to this day there are similar millions who refuse
to understand that communism is unalterably sworn
to their destruction.
Incredibly, this obtuseness has persisted despite
the fact that Hitler told us ~forcefully and precisely
what he intended to do to us; and although Lenin,
Stain and Khrushchev have been equally outSpoken
about their intentions.
Now that news dispatches tell us that govern
ment leaders in India have had their eyes at least half
opened by the Chinese communist brutality in Tibet;
At last they have smelled the communist breath; and
have found it bestial and foul.
MEMBERS OF NDIAs parliament shouted down,
with cries OF shame, shame" the communist mem
bers who tried to defend the Tibet slaughter by rep
resenting communist invaders as lberators fighting
against wicked Tibetan t~roublemakerS.
A motion was placed before parliament declaring
that the Communist Party in India, by its attempts to
the truth about where its sympathies lay.
At this point, anyone who has made a cur
sorry study OF communism feels like throwing up his
hands. How on earth could anybody have doubted for
one moment that Indian communist sympathies would
lie with the international communist conspiracy?
It is of the very essence of being a communist
that one must give himself totally to the communist
aim of overthroWing all non-communist governments
and bringing all of mankind under a cOmmuniSt dicta-
torship.
NO N can be a communist and be loyal to any
thing that stands in the way of complete communist
conquest - not to his country, not to his wife and
family, not to his religion, not to his friends, not to
mercy or justice, not even to himself.
The leadership of midas Peoples Socialist Party,
In a scathing attack on Indian communism, said that
If communist China were to invade any part of midas
territory, then midas communists would welcome
the Chinese"
This statement was reported as if the speaker
had said something that was news. Yet those who have
not closed their eyes and ears have known for 40 years
that communists in any land would of course welcome
communist invaders.
Never have communist leaders deviated from the
central communist thesis that every communist must
follow every twist of the party line, and that the party
line aims always at total conquest of humanity.
LET NE TRY to state simply the situation we face
In the world today and have been facing for many
decades. Suppose that we look upon all the earth as a
nelghborhood, which is what it really is, and let us
then examine our %neighbOrS.
Most of the ~neighbors are decent persons, sub
scribing to a code of decency. They have faults and
weaknesses, which they admit; sometimes do wrong
and do not deny it; they fall short of their ideals and
are ashamed.
But one thing they are not = they are not desper-
ADDE'S thirsting for our blood. They are not plotting
TO talk us into letting down our guard so that they can
smash their way into our homes and enslave us.
But their is one neighbor who is different. He
Is the communist ana ne TELLS us Dluntly that he Is
out to break our backs. He intends to crush us, and
he has told us so over and over in his official state
mentS.
WHEN WE ARE STRONGER than he is, he will
cringe and truckle. He will smile upon us and assure
us that he is the incest fellow in the block. But he will
not ~repudiate communism; he will not stop being q
communist pledged to enslave us.
Now we are utter fools if we say that the COM
munists and the other ~neighbors are all the same, and
that there is no reason to take sides in the matter
merely because the other ~neighbors are not utterly
perfect in every respect.
Nothing more than normal intelligence is needed
intentions, and that the communist is a man Of the
most evil intentions who has sold his soul to a con-
spiracy of cutthroats.
Why anybody should have any difficulty in max.
this elementary and obvious distinction, / am unable
to latham.