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Indo-China Rich Prize
Sought By Asia Reds
By Rev. Patrick O'Connor
Society of St. Columban
(Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News Service)
HANOI. Vietnam—From somewhere 20 miles away, you hear guns
booming as French and native troops fight against communist-led
guerrillas.
If the communists succeed in taking Indo-China. they will capture
fertile land of more than 20 million people, including about 1,600,000
Catholics. And they will be well on their way to capture all Southeast
Asia.
If Southeast Asia fell to the com
munists, it would add enormously
to their power and prestige in all
Asia. It would also deliver some
20.000.000 Catholics of the Philip
pines. Indonesia, Malaya. Thailand
and Burma, as well as Indo-China.
into communist hands.
A Rich Prize
Manpower, political power, strat
egic positions, huge rice crops to
feed Oriental Red armies and to
use as bait for hungry nations like
Japan, oil, rubber, tin: these are
some of the prizes that Moscow
sees in Southeast Asia. Five years
of guerilla warfare here in Indo
China have brought these prizes
dangerously close to Moscow’s
grasp.
Where exactly is Indo-China? See
Mexico on the map, in relation to
the United States. That’s u’here In
do-China is located, in relation to
China. But where Mexico has the
Pacific Ocean nn the west, Indo-
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China has Burma and Thailand
(Siam).
In outline, the map of Indo-China
has a shape roughly resembling
Italy or Korea, though it has a land
frontier, instead of a seacoast, on
the west. It is about as large as
Italy, or half as large again as
Korea, or a little more than twice
the area of Florida.
Peaceful ISat ion
What are the people like? They
arc gentle, friendly, and instinctive
ly refined, slight of build and quiet
in movement. Most of them are of
the same racial stock as the Chi
nese. Their language is largely bas
ed on Chinese. They were once sub
ject to China’s emperor. Ninety per
cent of them arc poor peasants,
who work long hours in their rice
fields, in a hot, damp climate. They
eat little else but rice, and often
not enough of that. Men and women
wear a simple dark gown reaching
below the knees, like a long frock
coat, over loose white trousers.
Their traditional religion is main
ly veneration of ancestors. The
Catholics arc impressively fervent.
After the war, France yielded to
insurgent nationalism by recogniz
ing the Indo-Chinese countries as
three “Associated States of the
French Union" with internal self
government. The largest of the
three is called Vietnam ("South
People’’),an old name for the re
gion and its inhabitants. Vietnam is
made up of (he former Tonkin, An
nam and Cochin-China.
‘'Vietnam" is therefore the coun
try. "Vietminh" is a political and
military organization that wants to
rule it.
Made In Moscow
What is the opposition to the
French and Bao Dai's State. The
force fighting the French and the
Vietnamese of the Associated State
is called Vietminh. which is entire
ly controlled by the Communist par
ty. Vietminh is a short version of a
six word title meaning Vietnam
League for Independence. The com
munisis here, as elsewhere in the
Far East, use nationalism as a basis
for popular propaganda. Ace Viet
minh soldiers (many were forced
to join) and sympathizers are not
communists. But the communist
leadership and aims of the Viet
minh are obvious,
The French gave Vienam its pres
ent status only tieeause'events fort
ed them to. France had not ad
ministered Indo China with the
purpose td preparing the people Io
rule themselves Hence the Viet
nam government, improvised in
1949. lacks experience and drive
The Vietnam army is still in for
mat ion, though many Vietnamese
fight in French units.
Many of the politically minded
Vietnamese would like to see the
French connection cut outright.
They’re almost willing to buy the
Vietminh package because of the
bright nationalist label and to for
get that the contents arc made in
Moscow and have proved deadly
elsewhere
The politically minded are a
small minority in Vietnam. Nine
tenths of the people want only to
be left alone, to grow their rice and
cat it with their families in peace.
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Family Life
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MILK of HUMAN KINDNESS—The urydernourished, the under
fed, line up every dey, in front of St. Anthony's Church, Damascus
(upper photo) and in Royapuram, Madras (lower photo), to receive milk
and other food, the gift of American Catholics. In your charity give
this Sunday for the 1952 appeal of the U. S. Catholic Bisheps' Emer
gency Relief Committee and War Relief Services—National Catholic
welfare Conference.
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stitutes, conferences, discussion
groups, and a variety of Mr. and
Mrs. Clubs that constitute the lam
ily apostolate today. A number of
these sessions will bo conducted in
the form of panels.
As one of the special features of
the convention. Family Action
Awards will be given to several
Foresees End
Of Segregation
In All Housing
NEW YORK (NO- Interracial
housing has arrived, has proven
successful, is in line with democrat
ic principles and is here to stay.
George Gregory, Negro public hous
ing executive, told a forum of the
Catholic Interracial Council here.
“When I was' a boy," Mr. Grog
ory said, “racial segregation in pub
lie housing was the accepted phil
osophy of both Negroes and whites.
But this sentiment has changed to
the extent that in dozens of neigh
boi hoods where Negroes never liv
ed before, they now reside in per
fect amity with their white neigh
hors. This successful integration
has done a great deal to strengthen
the overall solidarity of the town.
The city may now build housing
on the basis of need, regardless ol
race, religion or color.”
Dr. Gregory, who was one of the
first Negroes chosen as an all
American basketball player during
his college days, is an advisory
board member of Forest Houses,
one of this city’s latest public hous
ing projects. He is known widely
for his work in youth guidance
and in social and community or
ganization. He contends that hous
ing “is as much a fundamental com
munity concern as education, recrc
and health.”
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VATICAN CITY (Radio, NO
The Most Rev. Pacifico Perantoni,
O.F.M former Minister General of
the Franciscan Order, was conse
crated today as Bishop of the Ital
ian Diocese of Gcrace
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THE CATHOLIC TIMES, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1952
Chari tv Seeketh Xol Her Own Russians Told
individuals at the general session
March 24.
These gold medal awards arc
given each year to individuals who
have distinguished themselves by
particularly outstanding work for
the family. Persons to be honored
are selected by the* Family Life
Bureau of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference, which spon
sors the annual convention. The
Rev Dr Edgar Schmiedeler, O.S.B.,
is director of the bureau.
A Catholic family of the Diocese
ol Columbus will be given special
honor at the general session March
25
Interesting films will be shown
and the possibilities of the sound
camera for television demonstrated
during the convention by the Rev.
Edward Hamacher, director of the
Family Life Bureau of the Diocese
of St. Cloud, and the Rev. Vincent
lluebsch of St. Kathryn’s Church,
Ogilvie, .Minn
A baby sitting service w ill be op
erated throughout the three day
session lor the benefit of parents
who wish to attend the sessions.
Besides members of the National
Conference on Family Life, conven
tion part K ipants expected include
85 Family Life Directors from di
oceses throughout the United
States, many other members of the
clergy, and officials of the Lay
Organizations and Youth Depart
inents of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference.
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Requiem Sunf* Lor
Ex-A quinas 11 etui
Solemn Pontifical Mass was at
fered in Hartford, Conn.. l«A»t
week for the Rev Ferdinand Gas
ton Level. O P., chaplain of Alber
tus Magnus college. New Haven
and former head of Aquinas High
School, Columbus. Bishop .Henry
J. O'Brien of Hartford officiated.
Ordained at St Stephen Bibli
cal School in Jerusalem, the
French born Dominican taught at
Cienfuegos, Cuba, and served with
the French Army in World War
I. France named him a Knight
of the Legion of Honor.
He joined the Dominican Pro
vince of St. Joseph in 1917, serv
ing at Aquinas and later at Pro
vidence College, Providence. I,
before going to Albertus Magnus
College in 1939.
To Fight For
Their Liberty
IN BUYING THE FOR
NEW YORK—(NO—An unprece
dented message declaring “a new
triumph of freedom in Russia”
wound furnish "the best assurance
against a devastating war,” was
flashed today to Russia and coun
tries behind the Iron Curtain.
Signed by a group of prominent
Americans, including Bishop Fran
cis J. Haas of Grand Rapids and
several Catholic laymen, the mes
sage was broadcast by the Voice of
America, Radio Free Europe and
other information media on the
35th« anniversary of the Russian
Revolution of March. 1917, which
overthrew the Tsarist regime and
established a new democratic gov
ernment later destroyed by an
armed communist coup.
The message noted that the
March revolution, accomplished
with little bloodshed, was the cul
mination of a century of Russian
struggle for freedom. It also point
ed out the fact that the United
States was the first nation to recog
nize the new democratic Russian
government.
The United States refused to rec
ognize the ensuing Communist re
gime. set up by force in November.
1917, withholding recognition un
til 1933. Today’s action amounts to
condemnation of the present des
potism by a broad cross-section of
American public opinion
“Today," the signers told the
peoples of Russia, “the tyranny
that stoic your freedom is as much
of a threat to us as it is to you.
Until the democratic principles
which inspired you thirty-five years
ago achieve their secure triumph,
we know that the United States
and other free nations, as well as
the nations held in captivity by
Communist tyranny, cannot return
to the paths of peace and prog
ress."
The message concluded: “We
hold the profound conviction that
in spite of every difficulty you.
like all who have ever tasted free
dom, will find the way to regain
it so that a liberated Russia may
assume her normal place in the in
ternational community and that the
liberated Russian peoples may
again make their great contribution
to the welfare and happiness of
mankind."
Among the signers of the mess
age, are the following Catholic lay
men James B. Carey, secretary
treasurer. Congress of Industrial
Relations: Maj Gen. William J.
Donovan, former director of the
Office of Strategic Services James
A Farley, former U.S. Postmaster
General Senator Brien McMahon
ot Connecticut Philip Murray,
president of the CIO and Dr.
George N Shuster, president of
Hunter College.
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tion of counseling, especially as
applicable in Catholic life and
education.’’
The effect of Father Curran’s
new book, says Bishop Readv,
"should he one of incalculable
benefit.” "It is a great joy to
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book to citizens seeking the sure
guidance of Christian counsel
ing” Father Currans earlier
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Yung Chang Chao of Peiping.
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Richard V. Montag, a graduate of
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NEW YORK (NC) Catholics
believe in the First Amendment to
the Constitution and “do not want
an established church in the United
States,” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
Auxiliary of New York and nation
al director of The- Society lor the
Propagation of the Faith, declared
in a sermon in St. Patrick's Cathed
ral here.
“That is as definite and as clear
as we can make it." the Bishop said.
He asserted that there is “a lie
being circulated which charges that
those who belong to the historical
Christianity that dates back to Our
Lord and Pentecost are disloyal to
their country and enemies of de
mocracy.”
He outlined a five-point declar
ation of faith in the United States
as follows:
1. We believe that religion and
morality are indispensable sup
ports of democracy and that relig
ion and patriotism go together.
2. We believe in the First Amend
ment to the Constitution of the
United States.
3. We believe that the best guar
antee against totalitarianism is a
deep religious faith among citizens.
4. We who belong to the Faith
are determined to make 'spiritual
progress, and we believe spiritual
progress is made when -one is de
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5. We want to keep the United
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