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CONSTANTINE BROWN Kennedy's View on U. 3. Bases Remark That Some Are Liabilities Is Viewed as Shortsighted Senator John Kennedy met a number of British corre spondents for an informal background chat on a visit to New York in mid-October. A number of questions per taining principally to inter national affairs were dis cussed, and he expressed his views candidly. Senator Kennedy also was asked about his position and opinion on American air bases abroad. He replied that some were “real assets” while others were “liabilities.” In further discussions, the Dem ocratic presidential candidate said our air and naval bases in Spain, for instance, con stitute a liability because they are situated in a country under a dictatorship. The “off the record” agree ment between Senator Ken nedy and the newsmen was observed only to a point. The Britishers have not written anything on the subject so far. But the story has leaked out and has caused some con cern in Washington. As it happens, according to our best military opinion, the naval and air basqj in Spain are among the most impor tant we possess in Europe. The negotiations which re sulted in a 10-year agreement were started while President Truman was still in office and were completed soon after the Republicans took over in 1953. The agreement expires , in the summer of 1963 and must be renegotiated. The question which is now being raised in the State Department and Pentagon is whether this renegotiation will not be handicapped if Senator Kennedy becomes President next year after he described as “liabilities” the bases where we keep an im portant Air striking force and some 15,000 American service men. There has beep a good deal of muddled thinking on the part of political men in both Backers of Gov. Munoz Risk Excommunication SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico, Oct. 29 (AP) .—A warning of pos sible excommunication for any Roman Catholic voting for or supportisg Oov. Luis Munoz Marin's Popular Democratic Party was issued today by the Chancellor of the Diocese of Ponce. The three Catholic bishops of Puerto Rico assailed Gov. Munoz’ ruling party anew yesterday in a second pastoral letter. sayisg the party is anti-Chris tian and that voting for it in the island’s coming election would be a sin. The Right Rev. Msgr. Victor] M. Nazarious, the Ponce chan- j cellor was quoted in the Spanish - language newspaper) El Mundo as saying: “Any Cathqlic preachirfg or publicly supporting the Popular Democratic Party’s program, with its heretical content, not only commits sin but also can be excommunicated (cut off from the church’s sacraments), according to canon 2316 (from the church’s body of canon law.)” First to Mention Action Msgr. Nazarious is the first to mention excommunication. None of the bishops signing the pastoral letter has discussed this. The office of Archbishop James P. Davis declined com ment today. America, an influential weekly put out by the Jesuits in New York, challenged the interfer ence of the bishops in the island's politics. Gov. Munoz is a Catholic him self and favored to win re-elec tion as governor of the com monwealth, whose population is 90 per cent Catholic. The second letter was issued, the bishops said, to correct “certain inexact interpreta tions” of the first one, which had contained the original_order against voting for the Popular Democrats. Archbishop James P. Davis said at first that whether it was obeyed was a matter between a Catholic and his conscience, while Bishops James E. McManus and Luis Aponte Martinez contended disobedience would be a sin. Couldn’t Remain Quiet Yesterday in South Bend. Ind., Archbishop Davis told newsmen the first letter was is sued because he and the other bishops "felt we could no longer keep quiet” after “20 years of constant disregard for moral principles as such and Catholic tradition.” The archbishop continued, “If democracy in Puerto Rico had achieved the maturity of democracy in the United States, the letter would not have been necessary.” He denied that he and the other signers were playing politics. The second letter said the real issue is “whether, to a Catholic, it is licit in con science to vote against his own religious convictions,” not whether the, bishops “restrained or not the free expression of the voting right.” All three bishops said flatly that “it is not licit (religiously permissible) for Catholics to favor with their votes the es tablishment and spread of a morality without God.” The bishops’ chief objections to Gov. Munoz’ Popular Demo crats are that they did not re peal a law authorizing the teaching of birth control, did not repeal until recently an other law providing for the sterilization of some mental cases, and allowed public tol erance of common law marri ages. The Jesuit-edited America said "Catholics in the United States cannot but winder about the nature of a situation which would persuade church leaders major political parties over the question of dictatorships. There is a tendency to divide countries living under that form of government into “bad and good dictatorships.” In the perilous days in which we live ideological considera tions are not necessarily practical from the point of survival. ' We have been harsh on the Dominican dictatorship, sev ering diplomatic relations and applying economic sanctions. On the other hand we en couraged and assisted Fidel Castro to take over Cuba until he recently became un bearably offensive and so obviously in the Moscow- Peiping camp that we had to apply sanctions, without, however, breaking diplomatic relations. Trujillo has bitterly 'opposed not only communism but naziism. Castro has had a militantly Communist rec ord since 1948 when he was a ringleader at the Bogota uprising. Relations with Spain have been friendly, particularly. since President Eisenhower made a state visit to Madrid last year. But there are many important voices, particularly in the Democratic Party ranks, which continue to de plore the presence of Gener alissimo Francisco Franco at the helm of what is currently described in Europe as Spain’s “managed democracy.” These voices, which seem to include Senator Kennedy’s own, since he spoke about the Spanish bases being a “liability," over look the fact that in our present fight for survival we cannot afford to be over parochial. In World War II neither President Roosevelt nor Prime Minister Churchill hesitated to throw his full weight behind Dictator Stalin, the former partner of Hitler, following the saying that on occasion you may join the devil until you cross the bridge. We hear, even these days. i to embark on a course of action i so open to misinterpretation, not to say futility . . . such a ■ ] step as that taken by the .; Puerto Rican bishops can only > be viewed as profound disrup •‘tion of normal political proc- l esses.” The editorial went on: “It has always seemed un necessary. improper, even some £ thing of a profanation, for the J authority of the church to be [ extended, through the pulpit, to the point of a formal pro j hibition against voting for one . particular party, or for one in dividual candidate.” In an earlier statement Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzl, t Pope John XXIH's apostolic delegate to the United States. > had said, “The Catholic bishops I of the United States have never ) taken any (political) position . similar to that taken by the bishops of Puerto Rico ... I r I am confident, also, that no r such action would ever be taken . by the hierarchy in this coun . try.” Gov. Munoz said the crowds he drew after the first letter ' were bigger than before, and he called it a boomerang. The Popular Democrats are • pitted against the Republicans, Independents and Christian • Action Party, the last of which ■ was formed recently byfCatho ' lie laymen. In their latest letter ‘ the bishops had a warning for r the other two non-religious ■ oriented parties. t They said if the Republicans i and Independents “were to j carry their secularity down to 5 its last cohsequences,” which 5 is what they accuse the Popu l lar Democrats of doing, “then these two parties would fall without need of k any further statement under the same condemnation. . . • I 1 ; Vatican Avoids ! All Involvement 1 In U. S. Election j VATICAN CITY, Oct. 29 f (AP).—The Vatican has care fully avoided becoming involved j in the United States elections, > in which a Roman Catholic for > the second time is a candidate for President. > Pope John XXIII has uttered i no public word on the subject. L’Osservatore Romano, the i Vatican newspaper, rarely hes t itates to express its opinion on 1 elections in Italy but it has f published no editorial word on the United States contest. / The general impression here / is that the Vatican newspaper j has even played down straight - news coverage that it normally i would give a United States elec tion. e, Queries at the Vatican press -office for comment upon the - elections are gently but firmly e turned aside. 1 Even Mr. Kennedy’s father - has contributed, in a negative s way, toward keeping the Vati -1 can from being involved in dis- - cussions. Joseph P. Kennedy, - financier and former United States Ambassador to Britain, el has been in Europe but did not, d so far as is known, come to t Rome. He did not have an au i dience with the Pope, as he has s had many times in the past. important voices advocating resumption of trade and “cultural relations” with Communist China as prep aration for eventual recogni tion of that Communist regime because “we cannot ignore 600 million Chinese.” The fallacy of this reasoning is that we do not extend recognition to the Chinese people but to their oppressive dictators, arch-enemies of America and the free world. Political men of standing openly or covertly express their distaste for our sane policies toward Spain, yet they hanker to shake the bloody hand of Khrushchev who has vowed to bury us and has never recanted. Criticism has been heard from the floor of the Senate and in public statements by political men against eco nomic and military assistance to “Franco’s Spain." But these same men support all out aid to the Communist Dictator Tito who as late as a few weeks ago at the U. N. meeting in New York ex pressed his full agreement with Khrushchev’s foreign policies. We have spent on Marshal Tito in the last 10 years more than 81.5 billion. Ih the event of a showdown with tho Soviets he will cer tainly be in the Kremlin comer. Spain on the other hand is unqualifiedly against inter national communism, whether supported by us or not. In these dangerous days for our survival there is no room for parochialism, as reportedly expressed by the Democratic presidential can didate. There are no “good” or “bad” dictators only friends or enemies of this country which continues to bear the major burden of resisting international com munism. ■ Premiere Showing aZ I Potomac View Cordially Invites You to luw Cosmopolitan Living at Lowest Budget Prices 1 potomac view 77 APARTMENTS •• IN HISTORIC ALEXANDRIA, VA. I UMMRIWMMK ’ MBH,. .i| Mm ■ BIHMBmMMI aasas—iMMMiaiiii ■ z\ J* - Mek ISPII —j W-Jbk ! 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Instead of working, everybody is either taking a poll or taking a powder from poll-takers. •• * * Kennedy, who always wants to move ahead, drew such big crowds in New York City, he couldn’t even move sideways. ** * • Cook’s glossary: New England boiled dinner—Tourists in a Vermont restaurant after three drinks. ♦* * » Campaign manager: “I’ll race you to Scotland." Candidate: “Whaduyah mean?” Manager: “You take the high road and I’ll take the low.” Attack on Quakers Laid To Carolina Governor GREENSBORO, N. C., Oct. 29 (AP).—Gov. Luther Hodges has been accused by a Quaker minister of injecting religion into the presidential campaign. The accusation was contained in a letter to Gov. Hodges from the Rev. Robert M. Jones, pastor of the First Friends Meeting here. Mr. Jones said Gov. Hodges should apologize to North Carolina’s Quakers, i Oov. Hodgek could hot be reached for comment. The minister quoted Gov. Hodges yesterday as saying in a speech in Charlottesville, Va„ Monday, “We elected a Quaker and lived to regret it, and if you vote for a Quaker this time, you will live to regret it horribly.” Methodist Group Hits . Religious Intolerance EVANgTON, 111.. Oct. 29 (AP).—Nine Methodist edu cators protested yesterday against “all forms and expres sions of religious intolerance” that would deny the presidency to Senator Kennedy or anyone else. “As Methodist ministers,” they said, “we view with con siderable concern those ser mons and organized meetings which have occurred in cer tain Methodist contexts across the country and which have intended to influence the elec torate against Senator Ken nedy's election on the grounds that he is a Roman Catholic. "We recall with gratitude that the Methodist Church ini America has a well-known rec ord of supporting the forces of justice and fair play.” The ministers who issued the statement are members of the faculties of Northwestern Uni versity or of Garrett Bibical THE EVENING STAR Wethington, D. C., Saturday, October 29, 1960 5 1 The minister said the refer ence was to the portion of the i Governor’s address “where you 1 , said we had to choose between ■]a Catholic and a Quaker in ; 1928.” t Former President Herbert Hoover, elected in 1928, is a Institute, an independently administered affiliate of North western. They are Edmund Perry, Paul Schlipp, Ralph Dunlop, Ernest Saunders, Henry E. Kolbe, John C. Irwin, Rockwell S. Smith, Richard S. Ford and Charles Ellzey. Their statement sad Senator Kennedy has been under oath 1 for 14 years to defend the United States Constitution “and without exception has done so.” It added: “He has given his word of honor that he will not allow his ecclesiastical affiliation nor the official spokesmen for his church to interfere with his de- I tense of the Constitution. “To our knowledge to date, this affirmation has neither been demanded of nor made by Mr. Nixon, nor should it be. “To ask Senator Kennedy to solicit assurance from the Ro man heirarchy that there will Quaker, as is Vice President Nixon. > The letter from. Mr. Jones said in part: “In your speech recently . .. just why did you inject the re ligious element into the presi dential campaign with an un mitigated attack upon the So ciety of Frends?” Mr. Jones continued. “I cer tainly feel there was no justi fication for your attack upon Quakers, even though you may not have liked Herbert Hoover, or like Richard Nixon now.” He said “it would be in line for you to issue an apology to the over 14,000 Quakers in North Carolina who are, by and large, good citizens and will vote Ac cording to their consciences No vember 8, and not whether a man is a Catholic or a Quaker.” President, Anderson On TV Tuesday By the A»ocl*ted Preu President Eisenhower and Secretary of the Treasury. An derson will join Tuesday night to discuss the Nation’s money policies in a Nation-wide tele vision broadcast. The half-hour show over toe CBS network will be broadcast at 8 p.m. in the Washington area. The program will be spon sored by the Independent Tele vision Committee, a Republican organization. j be no attempts from that body to influence him if he is elected (President of the United States is to invite the very kind of alien Intervention which our Constitution forbids and which Senator Kennedy opposes.” I What li the LOWEST PRICED I 1961 FORD Answer on Page A-JO A-5