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North CarolinaCatholic Volume I. Nazareth, N. C., Sunday, November 17,1946 Number 7 Interviewed in Washington where they discussed Christian trade unions in post-war Europe are Gustav Tessier, secretary Of the Christian Trade Union Movement in France with Rev. John S. Cronin, S. S., of N. C. W. C. Social Action Department. (NC Photos) Resignations May Kill Magazine Often Accused of Anti-Catholicism The entire executive force of The Protestant, a monthly maga zine that is unaffiliated with established Protestant church groups despite its name, resigned this week in protest against “one-man con trol” by the editor, Kenneth Leslie. In a joint statement, tne six re signing members said that The Protestant was. “dead” and charg ed that Leslie’s control had result ed in “tragic collapse” of the mag | azine. ■Members tof the group that re signed included Pierre Van Paas en, contributing editor; Rev. James M. Freeman, managing editor; Joseph Brainih, associate editor; Rev. Ben Richardson, associate editor; Gerald Richardson, asso ciate editor, and Neil MacNeil, ed itorial advisor. ' Confusion has often been caused by the name of Neil MacNeil ap pearing on The Protestant editor ial advisory board. New York Times Editor Neil MacNeil, a well known Catholic lay leader, report ed this week in 9 letter to the .North Carolina Catholic, that the Neil MacNeil who just resigned from the Protestant is a Washing ton man and the confusion of names has caused Catholic Leader . / MacNeil “considerable embarrass ment.” The Protestant was recently bit terly criticized by the American Jewish Committee for fostering inter-group dissension. This stand was taken despite the fact that the publisher solicited funds for the purpose of combating anti-Semi tism. The Jewish group criticized the magazine for its alleged anti Catholic views. ' The resigning board members said their resignation was not re lated to the criticism of the maga zine by the Jewish group and add ed that they shared the views of The Protestant. The group plans to start a new magazine. The Protestant has since its prst day of publication in 1938 been highly critical .of the Catholic Church. It has also been accus ed of being pro-Russian. During the war Leslie urged that Timo shenko-be named Supreme Allied Commander rather than Eisen hower. The board members who plan to form a new magazine say they will solicit the cooperation of “all democratic groups and agencies, both religious and lay, engaged in the fight against anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism and anti-Negro * it ‘ ism. Communist Party Scores Victory In First French Assembly Election Red Cross Fundi Misused Is Charge Worcester, Mass. — (NC) — A shocking charge that $27,000,000 in relief supplies donated by the people of the United States through the American Red Cfcoss to alleviate needy Russians in World War II was gobbled up by the N. K. V. D., the ministry which operates the Soviet secret police, to use as it saw fit, has been made in a public statement by the Rev. Leopold Braun, A. A. of Assumption College, here, who for more than a decade was the only Roman Catholic Priest in the Soviet capital. Characterizing the incident as the “Red Cross Scandal of Mos cow,” Father Braun said that he made protestations as the “Red (Continued on Page 6) Russia Is Saboteur Cardinal Charges New York.—(NC)—“If Soviet Russia or any other nation truly wants peace—a peace that will not shame our ’sons who lived and died to protect the freedoms they have bequeathed to us—let her not in stubborn blindness vengefully op pose the principles of justice for which we are still fighting; nor through brute greed demand gains which will prolong the wretched ness and agohies of men; nor through insane malice incite an other war that will sound the death knell of civilization.” This counsel is voiced by His Eminence Francis Gardinal Spell man, Archbishop of New York, in an article entitled “Do We Want A Soviet Peace?” which appears in the current issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. The rights to the arti cle were given by the Cardinal to the New York Foundling Hospital. (Continued on Page 6) William Lennox of Philadelphia, business manager of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, who was elected to the Supreme Board of Directors of the Knights of Co lumbus at the quarterly meeting of that body just held at Ashe ville, N. C. Mr. Lennox is execu tive vice-president of the Phila delphia Catholic Laymen’s Re treat League. (NC Photo) Russian Bishop Becomes Convert Vatican City.—(RadioNC) — A Bishop of the schismatic Russian Orthodox Church, and his half sister, formerly the superior of an Orthodox community of Religious, both of whom suffered . torture, imprisonment and deportation to Siberia at the hands of com munists, have been received into the Catholic Church. ' Eighty-six-year-old Bishop Paul Melitzev vjas received by His Emi nent^ Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, Secretary of the Sacred Congre gation for the Oriental Church, at the Russian "College in Rome. He (Continued on Page 6) communists led this week in France’s election of the first Na tional Assembly under the new Constitution. The Popular Republicans, which was the leading party in France, lost the lead to the Communist1 party in an election that saw the lines between left and right re main about the same but marked the loss of support by the Social ist party. Most of the Communist gain was made at the expense of the Socialists: The Popular Republi cans, who are classified as right but are actually roughly equiva lent iu political viewpoint to groups considered “a little left of center” in this country,* failed1 to hold their Jead because of the loss of support from DeGaullist groups. DeGaulle had criticized the constitution formed under the Popular Republican leadership. The Communist party is now the largest party in the National (Continued on Page 6) Wisconsin Voters Veto Bus Plan Madison, Wis.— (NC)—A pro posed amendment - to the State Constitution which would have au thorized legislation to provide transportation of children to paro chial and private schools in pub Jic school buses, waa voted down by Wisconsin votfrs in the gener al election? In the State, which is 29 per cent Catholic in population, the vote*was nearly 45 per cent in favor of the amendment. The referendum was voted down by a 5 to 4 count. Unofficial returns from 3,112 of the State’s 3,147 precincts, showed 428,174 in favor of the measure and 523,706 against. Thirty-five daily and weekly newspapers throughout the State, including the influential Milwau kee Journal, Wisconsin’s largest paper, came out editorially in favor of the referendum, while (Continued on Page 6) The Futuba Catholic'School in Tokyo, bombed out during the war, is being rebuilt With the financial aid of the alumnae who sold their personal possessions flrwi the students who help in the manual labor needed for the re building. The name “Futuba” means “Two Leaves” and is the symbol of Eastern plus Western culture. The school is conducted lay the Sisters of St. Maur. In these’ photos taken by the W S. Army Signal Corps photographer, high school students are shown gathering bricks from the ruins; Sister St. Cecelia, Superior, in structs her students in the proper method of digging potatoes; Father Patrick O’Connor, S. S. C., correspondent of N. C. W. C. News Service in Japan, gives the students a word of praise for their diligence in keeping the school going after it was bombed out during the war. The girls un derstand a little English, as they study the language at the school. (NC fihotos)
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