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pERTE,WEDNESDAY, FBBRUARY 7, 1846.
NO.. 3,168.
BEVENTYBEOOND YlAIR
ou Spaniards are Rated, !lot For our faults ... JSut . For our 'Virtues Last Bastion of Christian Sanity has dared to apply it even
her history, and her culture are Catholie and because I see the character of her enemies. As a citizen of the United States, with a particular love for my own country, I am grateful to / ' Spain not only for saving Christian civilisation so many times in the course of centuries, but p:.rticularly for standing as a bulwark between the western world and -the menace of Communism in 1936. The plain alterson; the theory that men exist for the native then was Franco' s victory, or sake of the State, and not vice versa, Communism.... And what is the alas the Catholic Church teaches. Stalin, ternative to-day? What will happt^ for example, is the worst kind of Fas pen to Spain if you sweep the present and the Red er - ^ cist. And let me say now, that I de. government aside through violence or spise Communism and every other treachery? -communism. The eneU.S. WB; ITER' S ADDRESS. quarters, and I asked myself why. antiChristian ism; and I would not mies of the Christian order know this, \"as it on account of your faults? I accept a decoration from any Fascist and that is precisely why they are could think of none that we do not government. I do not for a moment "No, Air. Ambassador, it is not for moving heaven and earth to destroy your faults that you Spanish Chriscondone in other nations with which believe that Spain has such a governyour government. With Italy and we do not wish to quarrel, none in merit. 1 know that General Franco tians are so bitterly hated. You are France bleeding and exhausted, you truth that you do not share with us has repeatedly said in; public that his hated rather for your virtues, especialstand there unafraid .the last bastion and with most of humanity. ' Spain; government acknowledged the higher ly your love for the Redeemer of manof Christian sanity between us and kind," said Dr. W. T. Walsh, worldsaid one of my friends, 'is a dictatorauthority of Almighty 'God and of the the universal Red peril, Well, yes, I suppose it is. But Church established by Him. . known author and historian, in a :hip: "And surely some thanks are due notable address in New York. in this country we are not opposed to " Our Holy Father Pope Pius XII you for a benevolent neutrality which dictators as such.. . True , we don't congratulated General Franco mor e The 1944 Literary Award of the Gal• has made possible our present victory, want a dictator for ourselvesl But than once, in April, 1939, on 'Spain's levy of Living Catholic Authors was and saved thousands of precious Amwe have no real objection to dictatorCatholic victory: Du I hear some presented to Dr. William Thomas erican lives that might have been lost ships for other peoples. We have one say that this is ancient history? Walsh at it reception in his honour at if you had been our foes. been maintaining one in Mexico , unWell, then ,in April of last year, 1943, \lanhattanville College of the Sacred "We hear a great deal nowadays der the flimsiest pretence of republican Pope Pius, in receiving the Spanish Heart here on Saturday, October 28. about the importance of our twinning forms, for some years past . Again , Ambassado r said : 'We have seen The presentation was made by the the friendship of our neighbour repubour citizens feel no compunction Christ triumph in the schools, and Rev. Francis X. Talbot, S.J., retiring lics of Ibero-America;" Dr. Walsh con about accepting decorations from the have seen the Church rise up out of president of the Board of Governors. tinued. "Thus far, I am afraid, our King of England, who is also Emperor smoking ruins to infuse the Catholic At the same time, Juan Francisco progress has not been conspicuous ;' of India—an office to which Z have spirit into your laws, your institutions, de Cardenas ,Spanish Ambassador to he said. "Sometimes a base alloy of never heard that he or his ancestors and all the manifestations of official •the United States, formally presented self-interest is discernible in the fine were elected . What is that but a life.... We have seen God present to Dr. Walsh the Cross of Commander gold of our altruism. Just now the dictatorship with a tenure far longer once more in your history. of the order of Alfonso X, known as organised ministers of several sects are than Generalissimo Franco ? And " No, Mr. Ambassador,it is not for the Alfonso El Sabio Award, the high• industriously trying to persuade the finally, do we not fawn ,officially in your faults that you Spanish Chrisest cultural and scientific honour grantpeople of Mexico to be converted from the press, on one Joseph Stalin , the tians are so bitterly hated. You are ed by the Spanish Government. Catholicism to what they call Chrir absolte dictator of Russia,a notorious hated rather for your virtues, especi• Dr. Walsh, professor of English at tianity, The people there have not murderer of Christians, one of the ally for your noblest virtues, your love responded very cordially . Trade, yes, Manhattanville , is also- author of worst in 2,000 years? The very peofor the Redeemer of Mankind. Spain bn equal terms . But they want none "Isabella of Spain ;' "Characters of ple who grovel most shamefully bewas always greatest when most loyal the Inquisition ;" and " Philip II;' as of our proselytising, our patronising, fore this enemy of God and of the to this love , weakest, when her sons well as a novel, "Out of the Whirl. our materialistic culture. . . human race are those who cry most forgot it. It was her greatness, not "Yet the friendship of those repub• wind," and several plays. vengefully against the dictatorship her weakness ,that earned for her the In accepting the Spanish Govern• lies is a vital necessity to us. I do that saved Spain from the fate of Rus• unly-ing hatred of the children of this not refer now to the low plane of es' merit' s award,Dr. Walsh said that the sia. This is rank dishonesty , crass, world. Her noblest heroes have been honour, obviously not political but litportimport, desirable as that may be diabolical hypocrisy . The Spanish blackened and misrepresented for the if honestly conducted . I am thinkerary, coming as it did after the pub• people alone have a right to decide supreme virtue of placing the service ing of strategic considerations. With lication of his work on St. Teresa, inwhat form of government they shall of Christ before all else. . You the enemies we have or are likely to dicated " the great love of your warmhave Spaniards of our day have a right to have both in Europe and in the East, hearted 'people for her." "One of my friends then warned me , he proud of the fact that you too are He spoke of the admonitions of "cer. it is imperative, it may even be a cow that Spain was a Fascist country. hated by pharisaical enemies, precisedition of our existence as a free and twin friends;" who reminded him that "Now that is a more serious accu• ly because you saved `your 'country Spain is " very much hated ;" and that prosperous nation, that we achieve in sation . Of course ,the word Fascist frorri total destruction at their hands, any gesture of friendship toward that this hemisphere a genuine unity based , is flung about pretty recklessly nowa• after they had burned 20000 of your not upon force or chicanery ,but upon nation was bound to be unpopular. Addays, and seems to be applied to any churches and slain 11,000 defenceless mutual respect and esteem , freely dressing the ,Ambassador, he said: one who opposes Communism or incurs Priests and Nuns. "When I sat down and thought this given on both sides. Now, below the the displeasure of Communists for any "Mr. Ambassador, I love Spain. As over, I had to admit the fact of an (Continued on Page 17.) reason . The inspired Soviet press a Catholic,I love her because her soul, intense hatred for Spain in many
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