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A Good Catholic
Is a Well-
Informed Catholic
Vol. IV, No. 40
Vietminh Reds Hold
‘People’s’ Sessions
To Indict Priests
Ry Father Patrick O'Connor
Society of St. Columban
Correspondent. N. C. W. C. News Service
SAIGON —(NC)— The communist Vietminh have started
a new onslaught on the Church in North Vietnam. In this
attack they are going further than ever before in any area
near Hanoi.
The first phase is a campaign to bully Catholic Vietnam
ese into accusing priests of crimes. Any lie, no matter how
absurd, will do.
"We know nobody will believe
it, but say it anyhow," the Viet
minh have said.
The pattern was shown recently
In the Vicariate Apostolic of Hung
Hoa, where Catholics were compell
ed to spend days in closed meet
ings. finding fault with their
priests.
One meeting was held in a vil
lage near SontAy. 20 miles from
Hanoi. Bishop Jean Maze, Vicar
Apostolic of Hung Hoa, 12 Viet
namese priests and seven French
priests were ordered to go to this
village, at a few hours notice, and
stay there for some time. The Bish
op was ill but was threatened with
penalties if he did not go.
They found about 80 Catholics
gathered there, with a Red Viet
minh propagandist ir. charge. Viet
minh soldiers guarded every lane
and alley.
The Vietminh agent opened the
sessions by listing crimes with
which the Catholics were to charge
the Bishops and priests. They were
to accuse them of working for the
“American imperialists” and urg
ing people to go south. One of
Bishop Maze s alleged crimes was
a letter in which he warned his
priests against the projects nf the
15 “progressive” tpro-Vietminh)
priests in the north.
“Study groups” were then set up,
each comprising about ten lay
Catholics and two priests. Each
group was shut up in the house of
a non-Christian family. Nobody
eould leave the house without per
mission or talk to another group.
All had to follow a strict time
table, from the 5 a m. rising until
night. Every morning each group
had a long session. Evening
brought another group meeting or
a plenary gathering. The main sub
ject throughout was the priests’
“criminal” record. The laymen
were to examine it and find offens
es against “the people” or the
Vietminh government.
Nobody was allowed to call a
priest “Father” or show any mark
of respect. Everybody was “com
rade.”
Some of the accusers had been
held in prison until they agreed
to recite the charge dictated by
the Vietminh. The majority of
Catholics, sometimes an entire
Profession, Reception
Scheduled at Springs
Five young ladies from the
Diocese of Columbus were
among thirteen who received
the Franciscan habit and their
names in religion in Investi
ture ceremonies, Saturday at
the Provincial Motherhouse of the
Sisters of St. Francis of Penance
and Christian Charity, Stella Ni
agara, N.Y.
Margaret Mclxiughlin, daughter
of'Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Mc
Loughlin of Holy Rosary parish,
received the name of Sister Mary
Ignatius Catherine Gale, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William Gale of
St. James parish, received the
name of Sister Mary Pierre.
Marilyn Sue Hopkins, daughter
of Mrs. George Hopkins of Holy
Spirit parish, received the name
of Sister John Marie Maxine Al
banese. daughter of Mrs. Filomena
Albanese of St. James parish, re
ceived the name of Sister Mary
Rebecca, and Janet Kinsel, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Kinsel of
St. Rose parish, New' Lexington, re
ceived the name of Sister Mary
Theresa.
Among the clergy present from
Columbus were Father John E.
Byrne, C.PP.S., pastor of St. James
parish Father John Eyerman, pas
tor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
Buckeye Lake, O., and Father Hugh
Murphy of St. Charles Seminary.
T1
village, has refused to make any
charge.
In Phu-Tho district of the same
vicariate all the priests were round
ed up for another “conference.”
The Vietminh held them 15 days.
By these tactics the Vietminh are
obviously preparing for “trials” of
priests to be followed by expulsion
of foreign priests and imprison
ment of Vietnamese. The timing
will be governed by political con
siderations. including the Vietminh
reading of the current temper of
the weak International Commis
sion.
Meanwhile, Father O'Connor
wrote in another NCWC dispatch
that bitter disappointments are
the chief results so far from the
communist Vietminh's "agree
ment" to extend the period of
freedom of movement for refu-
The extensions are due to end
July 20. but they never really be
gan, Father O’Connor said.
It is true that nearly 2,000 per
sons have recently been allowed to
cross the 17th parallel, the line of
demarcation, from areas just north
of the line, according to the Viet
nam government. Some additional
hundreds are expected on a ship
returning after delivering pro
Vietminh people to the north
But many thousands, believed
to have made applications for
departure permits before the
May 19 deadline, have not arriv
ed. Most refugees who came dur
ing those last days told of
friends who wished to come but
had been hindered.
Most important of all, relatives
arrested or otherwise blocked on
their way out since last August
have not been allowed to join their
families in the south.
This forcible breaking up of
innumerable families, practiced
by the Vietminh since the refu
gee movement began, has taken
on the proportions of a large
scale social atrocity. It is obvi
ously being done as a means of
pulling families back north as
well as of frightening intended
refugees.
It amounts to a compound vio
lation of the Geneva Agreement
and of basic human rights. It is
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Seven Dominican Sisters from the Columbus diocese,
along with 13 from other parts of the country will receive
the black veil and make their first vows tomorrow in the
Convent Chapel at St. Mary of the Springs. Twelve other
Sisters, including three from this diocese, will make their
final vows the same day. Bishop
Ready will preside at the cere
monies.
Members of the group from the
5 Diocesan
Girls Receive
Habits at Stella
Columbus diocese receiving the
black veil include Sisters Mary
Linus Wilxman and Mary Donald
Colson, Columbus Sister Clarita
Elder, Somerset Sisters Julian
Loraditch and Christine Mack, Lan
caster Sister Verona Starrett,
Zanesville and Sister Madonna
Glaub, Newark.
The others are Sisters Paschal
Baillie, Mary Ferrer Chickory. and
Kevin Marie McGuinness, New
York Sister Joanne McCabe,
Princeton, N.J. Sister James Mc
Mahon, New Rochelle, N.Y. Sisters
Laurene Valdez and Mary Vera
Valdez, Dixon. N.M. Sister Leon
ard Burland, New Haven, Conn.
Sister Faith Reaney, Pittsburgh,
Pa. Sister Joseph Mary Connolly,
Forest Hills, N.Y. Sister Alan
O’Brien, Ossining, N.Y. Sister An
na Mary Sylvester. Steubenville
and Sister John Vianney McCul
loch, Forest Hills, N.Y.
The three Sisters from this dio
cese making their final vows are
Sister Pieta Mattingly, Zanesville
Sister Thoma Swanson, Kent and
Sister Marie Granger, Marion.
Others making their final pro
fession include Sister Giles Brod
man. Carey: Sister Julianna D’Ama
to, Youngstown Sister Madeleva
De Angelis, Steubenville Sister
Rosarii Schmeer. Rocnester, N.Y.
Sisters Edna Allen and Mary Ber
trand Columbell. New Haven,
Conn.: Sisters Malachy O’Brien
and Cecil Grandpre, Pittsburgh,
Pa. and Sister Mary McGuiness,
New York.
A postulant from the Columbus
diocese, Miss Anna Catherine Thie
ken, Wheelersburg, received the
Dominican habit yesterday in a cer
emony at which Father Urban Na
gle, O.P., chaplain, presided. Miss
Theiken received the religious
name ef Sister Frances Anne.
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As Bishop Ready celebrated
a Pontifical Low Mass of
Thanksgiving at St. Francis
Hospital last week, an era
came to an end.
For the Sisters of the Poor
of St. Francis, who have oper
ated the venerable hospital for
90 years, the Mass was the high
light of their final hours of service
at the State St. institution. TJhis
week and next, they are engaged
in the process of moving into the
new St. Anthony hospital, which
the community also operates
At th* Mas* in th* chap*l,
Under the new measure—now in
the form of a clean bill for con
sideration by the full Education
and Labor Committee a state
would be eligible for an outright
grant on a 50-50 dollar-matching
basis, with the state’s share deter
mined by its total school-age pop
ulation.
Both the National Council of
Catholic Women and the National
Council of Catholic Men have al
ready indicated misgivings about
the type of legislation reported
out by the subcommittee. In an
NCCW letter sent to every mem
ber of the Senate last February,
and signed by Mrs. August Desch,
NCCW president, the women's fed
eration noted that pending school
aid legislation “would allocate
funds to the states on the basis
of their total school-age popula
tion.”
"This would mean," th* NC­
CW said, "that non-public school
children would be 'counted in'
for the purpose of giving federal
money to the states but would
be 'counted out' by the states
when they spent the funds for
public schools exclusively."
The National Council of Catholic
Men, in a later letter sent by Mar
tin H. Work, its executive director,
to Chairman Lister Hill of the Sen
ate Committee on Labor and Public
Welfare, expressed concern as to
whether the pending school aid leg
islation would “authorize grants-in
aid of federal funds for non-public
school construction under substan
tially the same conditions as are to
be required of public schools.”
The measure reported out by
th* Kelley subcommittee in th*
Hous* makes no provision for
aid to non-public schools, and
takes no consideration for exist
ent or needed private school
building.
Bishop Announces
New Appoinlnienls
Father Lawrence Corcoran, as
sistant diocesan director of chari
ties, has been appointed moderator
of the Columbus committee of the
National Catholic Community Serv
ice, an affiliate of the United Serv
ices Organization, it was announc
ed this week by Bishop Ready.
In other appointments, Father
Charles Foelleer, assistant pastor
of St. Aloysius parish, has been
named chaplain of the Knights of
Columbus Santa Maria Council
and Father Colby Grimes, assistant
pastor of St. Thomas parish, has
been named to the board of direc
tors of the Columbus Urban
League.
These duties were formerly the
responsibility of Father John Si
mon who was recently appointed
pastor of Holy Trinity parish,
Jackson.
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, July 8, 1955
Mass Signals End of an Era
A Pontificial Low Mass in tha chapel of St. Francis Hospital was the highlight of
the final days of the E. State St. institution, where the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis
have extended charity to the community for 90 years. Bishop Ready in the picture above
is shown giving the last blessing at the Mass of Thanksgiving The chapel will be moved
to the St. Francis Nursing School
Bishop Ready spoke briefly to
th* Sisters, pointing out that al
though there may be a note of
sadness on th* occasion, it was
also a moment which would mark
the beginning of increased serv
ice to the public as a result of
the merger with St. Anthony
Hospital.
Assisting Bishop Ready at the
Mass were Father George Schorr,
and Father James Carroll.
The chapel in the 107-year-old
hospital building will be moved to
the fourth floor of St. Francis
Nursing Home. Approximately five
nuns will continue to live at the
Committee Bill Would Provide
Aid for Public Schools Only
WASHINGTON —(NC)— A House Education and Labor subcommittee has approved
a bill which would set $400 million in federal funds to work aiding in school construction
each year for four years.
The legislation, which provides that the funds, shall ^jised exclusively for public
schools, was introduced as a new bill by Subcommittee Chairman Augustine B. Kelley of
Pennsylvania after the subcommit
tee reached a compromise on the
school aid question.
It provides for federal govern
ment purchase of up to $750-mil
lion in school bonds from school
districts if the individual district
isn’t able to acquire funds at a
reasonable interest rate. It also
provides U.S. support for bond is
sues for existing or newly-created
state school building authorities,
with the federal government put
ting up half of the credit needed
to set up the authorities themsel
ves.
The compromise school aid bill
is said to face two major threats
on the House floor, if not in the
full Education and Labor Commit
tee itself. They are amendments
providing anti-segregation and fair
wage clauses, which Committee
Chairman Graham Barden of North
Carolina has said would kill any
chance of passage.
Meanwhile, report on educa
tion made by the high powered
Commission on Intergovernment
al Relations said the inclusion of
non-public schools in any pro
gram of Federal aid to education
"would raise difficult legal ques
tions and policy issues."
Though noting that 12 per cent
of the school children in the Unit­
atholic Times
home and serve there in an ad
ministrative capacity.
The nurses will be transported
to St. Anthony Hospital daily in
a bus, purchased specifically for
that purpose.
St. Francis Hospital lost its
identity this week when it was of
ficially merged with St. Anthony
as a single corporation at a joint
meeting of the boards.
The corporate name of St. An
thony Hospital was adopted in the
merger, which took place under
the state law providing for consol
idations of charitable and benevol
ent organizations.
w
ed States are educated in nonpub
lic schools, the Commission made
no further reference to such
schools and did not indicate what
“difficult legal questions” would
be raised.
The Commission stated that it
did not recommend a general pro
gram of Federal financial assist
ance to elementary and secondary
education, “believing the States
have the capacity to meet their
education requirements.”
The Commission recommended
th* reduction and elimination of
Federal cash grant* for school
lunch program* "after a rea
sonable period of time." Many
children in Catholic schools ar*
benefiting from the school lunch
program.
Asked about that part of the
report that said states are able
to finance their own education
needs, President Dwight Eisen
hower replied that he doubted that
was true in detail. He said the
school shortage is so serious that
the government should take def
inite and positive leadership, with
out relieving the states and local
communities of theii responsibil
ity.
Bishop Will Officially Launch
Fund Drive for Newark School
The campaign to raise funds for a new central Catholic
high school in Newark will be launched Sunday in ceremonies
in St. Francis de Sales Church.
Bishop Ready will address the campaign workers at the
2 pm. gathering, and bestow his blessing on them. All
parishioners of St. Francis and
Blessed Sacrament Churches are
invited to attend the ceremonies.
Afterward, the campaign work
ers will start the solicitation of all
parishioners and non-parishioners.
The memorial phase of th*
fund campaign, which is current
ly in progress, already has ac
counted for $219,330 in subscrip
tions. Chairmer wf Jh* Memorial
Gifts Division are Philip Young
and Arthur Wilson. Matthew
Matesich and Anton Mathy are
the general chairmen of the
drive.
In announcing the amount of sub
scriptions raised to date, Father
Edward McGinty and Father Rich
ard Grosser, respective pastors of
St. Francis and Blessed Sacrament
parishes, expressed confidence that
the $400,000 goal would be surpass
ed.
The new high school, to be built
on a 20-acre sffte at W. Church and
Twenty-Tljjrd Sts., will accommo
date 450 students.
The new brick, concrete and
•ton* building will include a li
brary, medical clinic, administra
tive offices, chapel, auditorium,
gymnasium, chemistry and phy
sics and home economic* and
commercial and business depart
ments.
St. Francis de Sales High School,
in operation for more than 30
years, has become too small to han
dle the rapidly increasing student
enrollment.
Czech Reds Force
Nuns, Priests to
Work for State
VIENNA—(NC)—Some 300 nuns
have been “recruited” to work in
the Skoda Worfis at Pilsen, the big
gest of communist Czechoslovakia’s
rearmament factories, according to
information reaching here.
It was learned also that other
nuns have been drafted to work in
the textile factories in Reichnberg,
an important industrial town in
the Sudeten German region of
Czechoslovakia. Thousands of nuns
were driven out when the Prague
regime dissolved the convents in
1949.
According to the information re
ceived, there is such a shortage of
workers in Czechoslovakia that even
retired priests and monks belong
ing to the dissolved religious or
ders have been forced to go into
coal mines and factories.
So fer th* President he* nam
ed only four of hi* new minis­
A section of the procession will
depict the historical development
of Brazil from the time it became
a Portuguese colony until the coun
try became politically independent
in 1822, remaining a monarchy un
til 1889. when the republic was
proclaimed
Still another part of the parade
will recall the designation of Rio
de Janeiro by His Holiness Pope
Father Riley,
Zaleski Pastor,
Dies at 54
Father James Lawrence
Riley, pastor of St. Sylvester s
parish, Zaleski, died Wednes
day morning in Mt St. Mary’s
Hospital, Nelsonville. The 54
year old priest had been ill for
some time.
In his 27 years as a priest. Fa
ther Riley served four parishes and
three missions.
His first pastoral assignment, af
ter ordination by the late Bishop
James J. Hartley on June 2. 1928,
was at St. Francis de Sales Church.
Newcomerstown. During his five
year tenure there, he also was pas
tor of St. Theresa's at Wainwright,
which was then a mission. One of
the highlights of his work at St.
Theresa's was the completion of
construction of the church.
In 1933, he became pastor of St.
Ann’s Church in Dresden, and at
the same time administered to two
missions—Our Lady of Lourdes,
Wills Creek, and St. Mary s, Mat
tingly Settlement.
He continued as pastor of St.
Ann's until 1945. w hen he w as nam
ed to a similar post at St. Bernard s
Church, Corning. He served for
eight years at St. Bernard’s, before
becoming pastor of St. Sylvester’s.
Born in Zanesville, Father Riley
attended St Thomas School there,
and was graduated in 1917 from St.
Nicholas High School. He studied
for the priesthood at St. Vincent's
College, Latrobe, Pa. (1917-1919),
St. Joseph College. Renslaer. Ind.
(1919-1922), and Mt. St. Mary of
the West Seminary, Norwood
(1922-1928)
An aunt Zanesville is the only
survivor.
Bishop Ready will be Celebrant
of the Pontifical Funeral Mass at
St. Nicholas Church, Zanesville,
this morning. The Mass will follow
recitation of the Office of the
Dead, w hich will start at 10 o'clock.
Burial will be in Mt. Olive Cem
etery, Zanesville.
Peron’s Peace Moves
Toward Church Gives
Cause for Skepticism
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina —(NC)— President Juan D. Peron has still to complete
the new Cabinet which is expected to usher in a new era in the history of his relations with
the Catholic Church. Whether this will be good or bad, remains to be seen.
Conciliatory moves toward the Church have been made by the peronists, but they
continue to be* met by Catholic1---
leaders with outright skepticism.
These leaders believe that in spite
of changes in names and tactics,
the regime has preserved the same
dangerous ideology which has
brought it into conflict with the
Church.
ters, but two of the appoint
ments ar* considered exception
ally significant, so far es future
Church state reletion* er* con
cerned.
The four new Cabinet members,
all of whom have already been
sworn in. are Minister of Interior
and Justice Oscar Edmund Nicolas
Historical Procession
Will Herald Opening of
Eucharistic Congress
RIO DE JANEIRO —(NC)— An elaborate procession de
picting the history of Brazil as a Catholic nation will march
through the main streets of Rio de Janeiro on July 17, the
day on which the 36th International Eucharistic Congress
opens.
Heading the procession in honor
of the Holy Eucharist will be the
brass band of the military police,
followed by 150 crew members of
the Santa Mana. This is the boat
on which His Eminence Emanuel
Cardinal Goncalves Cerejeira, Pa
triarch of Lisbon, is due to arrive
in the capital at the head of more
than 400 Portuguese pilgrims.
The sailors, wearing the ancient
garb of Portuguese manners, will
carry banners recalling the discov
ery of Brazil in 1500 by Pedro Al
vares Cabral
Seminarians marching in the pro
cession will display symbols recall
ing the celebration of the first
Mass in Brazil by Fathe» Hennque
de Coimbra a Franciscan priest
who sailed with Alvares Cabral.
Others in the procession will
include Brazilian naval, army
and air force contingents, and
units of the uniformed police
carrying the shield of the city of
Rio de Janeiro and also a statu*
of St. Sebastian, patron of th*
capital. Th* official name of th*
capital is the City of San Sebas
tian of Rio de Janeiro.
Pius XII as the seat of the 36th
International Eucharistic Congress
The procession will end with the
triumphal entry of the “First pil
grim. Our Lady Aparecida (Appear
ed), patroness of*Brazil, who pre
sides over and blesses the opening
of the 36th International Eucharis
tic Congress.”
The Mother of God he* been
specielly honored under this title
since 1717, when some Seo Paolo
fishermen discovered smell,
dark image of the virgin envel
oped in their net while fishing
in th* Paraiba River. The statue
remained at first in th* home of
one of th* fishermen, but it is
now preserved in a national
shrine which many thousands
visit each year. Our Lady Ap
peared was proclaimed patron
ess of th* country by Pop* Pius
XI in July, 1930.
It was announced that special
privileges and honors will be giv
en to foreign delegations from the
more than 30 countries to be
represented at the week-long Con
gress. Each of the groups will be
assigned a special church during
the period so that the Cardinals or
Bishops representing the various
countries may offer Masses for
their countrymen and preach to
them in their own language.
One of the most brilliant solem
nities of the Congress will be the
Pontifical Mass of the Byzantine
Rite offered by six prelates in the
great plaza.
WASHINGTON (NC)
The United States has called
on Russia to admit an Amer
ican Catholic priest to Mos
cow to replace Father Georg
es Bissonnette. A.A., who was
expelled from the Russian ca
pital last March.
At the same time, the United
States has offered to admit a Sovi
et clergyman to the United States,
“in the interests of reciprocity.” to
administer to “the religious needs
of Soviet nationals.”
Since the expulsion of Father
Bissonnette last March, an appli
cation for a visa for Father Louis
F. Dion. A.A., of Worcester. Mass.,
to go to Moscow as a replacement
for Father Bissonnette has been
on file at the Russian Embassy in
Washington.
Father Bissonnette’s expulsion
last March came suddenly. The So
viets gave the Assumptionist priest
only a few days to leave the coun
try. Father Bissonnette had been
2nd Vocation Day
To Take Place at
Seminary Sunday
The second of three summer
“Vocation Days” will be held Sun
day at St. Charles Seminary for
graduates of diocesan high schools.
Conducted by members of the
seminary faculty, the vocation day
is intended to supply information
and inspiration for young men who
have decided to enter the seminary
or who are thinking about a voca
tion to the priesthood. There is no
formal registration. High school
graduates from the entire diocese
may attend without previous no
tice.
The program will begin with a
2pm registration, and will end
at 5 p. m. following a conference
and Benediction.
Ask Mary for Help
In Choosing Your
Vocation
Price Ton Cents $3.00 A Year
Albrieu, Minister of Education
Francisco Marcos Anglada, Minis
ter of Agriculture Jose Maria Cas
tiglioni, and Minister of Transport
Alberto J. Iturbe.
The first two of these appoint
ments are the ones that have a
direct bearing on the Church situa
tion.
With these appointments, the
Peron government has parted of
ficial contpany with former Minis
ter of Interior and Justice Angel
Borlenghi. and former Minister
of Education Armando Mendez
San Martin. Both of these men
played dominant roles in an 8
month campaign against the
Church which was halted abruptly
after the abortive revolt of June
16.
An appreciable interval it ex
pected to elapse before President
Peron has finally completed his
new Cabinet. Catholic leader*
meanwhile are particularly in
terested in who will be named
the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
This office was filled by Jeroni
mo Remorino, to whom the Ar
gentine hierarchy vainly protest
ed when the first measures of
the anti-Church campaign were
edopted.
Remorino has recently conferred
with Archbishop Mario Zanin, Pa
pal Nuncio tc Argentina, reputed
ly on the possibility of establish
ing a Vatican Argentina concordat
to regularize Church-state rela
tions This seemed to indicate that
President Peron would rename Re
morino to his old post, but persons
in informed circles predicted that
a neu man would be appointed in
stead.
Eleven other appointments have
to be made before the new 16-man
Cabinet is completed. With the ex
ception of the Minister of Labor
and Social Welfare, none of these
posts has been associated, directly
at least, with the anti-Church cam
paign The former Labor Minister,
Alejandro Bautista Giavarini was
responsible for causing nuns to be
expelled from administrative posts
in Catholic schools.
Besides the 16 ministerial posts,
the government includes also five
Secretaries of the Executive Pow'
er including Vice President Alber
to Tesaire—said to be a Freemason
—who was in charge of political
affairs. The other secretaries have
control of economic affairs, nation
al defense, technical affairs, and
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Reds Asked to Admit to Moscow
Replacement for Fr. Bissonnette
on dutv in Moscow since January,
1953.
At the time of the expulsion,
the Russians acknowledged that
the reason for the action against
Father Bissonnette was because
the U.S. Government refused to
extend a visa for Russian Ortho
dox Archbishop Boris, who had
been visiting the United States.
In the note to Moscow asking the
Father Dion
admittance of an American priest,
the State Department renewed its
protest against the expulsion of Fa
ther Bissonnette, who administered
to the spiritual needs of the U.S.
and other western diplomatic colo
nies Moscow.
The expulsion, the U.S. note con
tended, violated a 1933 agreement
drawn up between former Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt and So
viet Foreign Minister Maxim Lit
vinov, which pledges the Moscow
government to permit clergymen
to enter Russia to minister to the
spiritual needs of U.S nationals.