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Japanese Reds Small
But Formidable Force
By Father Patrick O'Conner
Communism’s gains and losses in Japan leave it still
a small but formidable force. Its strength is not so much
in the number of its party members as in the number of
people duped into playing its game.
.Early this year Communist party members in Japan
were estimated at about 60.000.
Catholics in Japan (including
ehildren, of course) number more
than three times that figure. But
in the recent elections for the
House of Councillors, Japan's
senate, the communist candidates
received more than two million
votes. This was only 3.9 per cent
of all votes cast, but it was a
gain over the 2 per cent received
by the communists in 1955. Two
communists were elected to the
280-member body.
Communist influence has
boon strongest in labor unions,
student circles and the class
••norally known as 'intellect
uals," and among some busi
nessmen. But the Red influ
ence over these groups is un
even and variable.
SOHYO, a federation of Jap
anese labor unions claiming a
total of 3,000,000 members, has
felt communist influence for sev
eral years. In its latest conven
tion it voted to cooperate with
the Communist party “if neces-
B*ry.” Its bulky “news releases,”
•ent regularly to foreign corres
pondents, give the Communist
party line in typical communist
diction. Still, a sizable number
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of its member unions are anti
communist. Its newly elected
president is regarded as anti
communist.
A few years ago Japanese stu
dents, ambitious, poor and pain
fully conscious of their country’s
postwar problems, listened read
ily to communist explanations
and promises. Today, according
to a Tokyo university professor,
communism as an organized move
ment is weak among them. They
have been chilled by Russian be
havior, especially in regard V»
the Japanese fishing industry,
the islands claimed by Japan
and the Japanese prisoners of
war still held in Siberia.
But among Japanese students,
professors, writers and the like
there is a strong tendency to
wards materialistic socialism and
especially towards Marxism. Ob
viously this will predispose them
to work for, and even in, the
Communist party.
The Japanese businessmen
who flirt with communism are
gullible opportunists. The Reds
lure them with the tricky bait
of profitable trade with com
munist ruled China.
Among a section of the Kor
ean residents in Japan, commun
ism is strong. In this May Day
procession in Tokyo I saw ranks
of Koreans marching behind a
North Korean (communist) flag).
Koreans in Japan are treated as
undesirables and made to feel in
ferior. That, is probably why
many of them side with the com
munists, by way of protest.
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VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC)
His Holiness Pope Pius XII has
named the president of the com
pany that makes Fiat automobiles
an honorary member of the Pon
tifical Academy of Sciences.
He is Dr. Vittorio Valletta,
president of Fiat (Fabrica Itali
ans Automobile Torino).
In a brief profile, published in
L’Osservatore Romano, Vatican
City daily, Dr. Valletta was prais
ed for his social and technical
accomplishments. It said he has
made many improvements for
well being of his workers.
His technical achievements are
known throughout the world
through the popular Fiat auto
mobiles.
The Pontifical Academy of
Sciences was established In its
present form by Pope Pius XI
in 1936 through his motu pro
prio, "In Multis Solaciis." It has
a membership of 70 scientists.
Catholic and non-Catholic, who
are appointed for life on the
basis of their accomplishments,
influence and reputation in
their respective fields. Honor
ary members are appointed by
virtue of meritorious service to
the academy itself. There are
now three owners in addition
to Dr. Valletta.
The United States has six reg
ular members. They are Peter
Debye, director of the Kaiser Wil
helm Institute for Physics, Ithaca,
New York Edward Adalbert
Doisy, professor of biochemistry
at St. Louis University School of
Medicine, St. Louis, Mo. Herbert
Sidney Langfield, professor of
psychology at Princeton Univer
sity. Princeton, N.J. Franco Ra
setti, professor of physicas at
Johns Hopkins University, Balti
more George S. Sperti, director
of the Institutum Divi Thomae,
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Hugh Stott
Taylor, professor of chemistry
and dean of the graduate school,
Princeton University.
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public and will convene in three
different nearby cities. The open
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public session in St. Joseph’s Ca
thedral, Sioux Falls, on October
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Scaffolding and piles of masonry dom
inate the scene as the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception, located on
the campus of Catholic University of Am
erica, Washington, D.C., reaches 40 feet in
height- First nine feet of masonry wall
is of Milford pink granite, which is topped
You are asked to pray for the
repose of the souls of the follow
ing and the others who havo died
the Diocese during the past
week.
DOYLE, Edward, 78. Sept. 3,
Sts. Peter and Paul church. Wells
ton. Mt. Calvary cemetery.
KESSLER, Ferd. 84, August 31,
St. John church, Logan.
IMLAY, Hugh, 69, Sept. 3, St.
Thomas church, Zanesville. Mt.
Calvary cemetery.
CHAMBERS, Mrs. Helen. 53,
Sept. 4, St. Nicholas church,
Zanesville.
GRIFFIN, Mrs. Mary, 83. Aug.
30, Sacred Heart church, Colum
bus. St. Joseph cemetery.
McPEEK, Mrs. Josephine, 51,
Sept. 6, St. Mary Magdalene
church, Columbus. St. Joseph
cemetery.
SCHMALZ, Stefan. 58. Sept. 6,
St. Mary church, Columbus. St.
Joseph cemetery.
VENTRESCA, Marion. 67, Sept.
5, St. Thomas church, Columbus.
St. Joseph cemetery.
SCHIELE, Raymond, 46. Sept.
5, St. Thomas church, Zanesville.
Mt. Olive cemetery.
KIERAN, John, 96, Sept. 8, St.
Thomas church, Zanesville. Mt.
Calvary cemetery.
O’NEIL, John, 65, Sept. 5, Sac
red Heart church, Columbus. St.
Joseph cemetery.
NAGLE, Frank, 71. Sept. 3, St.
Andrew church, Columbus. St.
Joseph cemetery.
KELLY, Matthew. 90, Sept. 3.
Sacred Heart church, Columbus,
Mt. Calvary cemetery.
ELDER, Charles, 81, Sept. 2,
St. Catherine Church, Columbus.
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National Shrine Rises Rapidly
The cathedral's mighty St.
Peter bell rang out joyously, re
sounding across the Rhine end
all over this city—a city which
is often called the "German
Rome."
His Eminence Ad^odato Car
dinal Piazza, Secretary of the Sac
red Consistorial Congregation,
celebrated a Solemn Pontifical
Mass. In the huge congregation
that packed the cathedral were
39 archbishops and bishops. Ger
man Chancellor Konard Aden
auer, who is a Catholic, and Pres
ident Theodor Heuss, a Protest
ant.
Earlier, the crowds greeted
Chancellor Adenauer with spon
taneous and prolonged applause.
They also gave enthusiastic greet
ings to Cardinal Piazza and Arch
bishop Aloisius J. Muench, Bishop
of Fargo, N D., and Paual Nuncio
to Germany.
Eleven years ago I came to
Cologne as an N.C.W.C. News
Service correspondent, crossing
the Rhine with our fighting GI's
Then it seemed as though this
great center of Western and
Christian civilization was almost
totally destroyed.
Its marvelous churches were
largely in ruins. War-ravaged
were all its public buildings. Its
streets were virtually deserted
because most of its population
had been evacuated.
Even three years after the
war, when the 700th anniversary
BILLIAN, Mrs. Mary. 87, Sept.
3, St. Mary church, Portsmouth.
DRAKE, Mrs. Ellen. 80, Aug.
30, Immaculate Conception
church, Columbus.
MONAGHEN, Thomas. 63. Sept.
1, St. Francis church, Columbus,
St. Joseph cemetery.
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the inside of the Shrine building. Super
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Shrine should be completed in 1959.
Rebuilt Cologne
Cathedral Reopens
By Father Placid Jordan, O.S.B.
COLOGNE, Germany (NC) The most joyful event
of the 77th national convention of German Catholics (Kath
olekentag) was the solemn reopening of all parts of Co
logne’s world famed cathedral for the first time since it
was heavily damaged by bombs in World Waar II.
of the cathedral’s founding was
observed by an international as
sembly, the gaping hole in the ca
thedral roof and the rubble all
over its naves were all too evi
dent.
“Our Cathedral is again the
great symbol of Christianity it al
ways was,” said His Eminence
Joseph Cardinal Frings, Arch
bishop of Cologne, in his sermon.
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Divided Germany
Clouds Cologne
Catholic Congress
COLOGNE, Germany The
grave issue of the division of Ger
many loomed big in the back
ground of the discussions of lay
and clerical experts attending
the 77th national convention of
German Catholics (Katholiken
tag).
This issue and that of co-exist
ence were evident despite the
fact that politics was ruled out
as a topic of discussion during
the Congress that has brought
thousands of Catholics to Cologne,
including some 30,000 from the
Soviet Zone.
German Chancellor Konrad Ad
enauer interrupted his Black For
est holiday to attend the huge
meeting. In his opening address,
he said Germany can be rebulit
“only on the foundation of the
eternal Christian verties.’’ He
added: “We shall leave no stone
unturned to achieve unity again
and to regain freedom for all
Germans.”
The thousands whn filled the
vast halls in Cologne's Fair
Grounds received his statement
with enthusiastic applause.
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Bishop Sheen Gives Blessing
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Auxiliary of New York, ex
tends his blessing to thousands of worshippers at Mt. St.
Macrina, Uniontown, Pa., in the annual gathering at the
local Byzantine Catholic Shrine. The Mass was the second
annual Greek Rite Liturgy sung by Bishop Sheen in Eng
lish at Mt. St. Macrina. (NC Photos).
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28-29, from 4 30 11 30 p.m. each
day. Rides, games, food and re
freshments will be served with
proceeds from the event going
to the school’s building fund.
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Mioioner Murdered
By North African Rebels
GERYVJLLE, Algeria—(NC)—
Father Jean Tabart of the White
Fathers was murdered as he re
turned from celebrating Mass at
a military post near here.
The circumstances surrounding
the murder are obscure.
It is believed that the murder
may have been committed by
bandits or rebels who hide out
in the neighboring mountains.
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