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Anglican Clergy's Dilemma Grim Picture of Life Within the Soviet "I CHOSE FREEDOM ff
the Party as a member at the age of 24, he entered on a career of engineering and metallurgy, evenIle A book entitled "I Chose Freedo the press two years ago. tually heading some of the most life of Soviet m," by Victor Kravchenko, a draws a picture important industrial plants in the One fears that the Mr. Menzies' challenge to that to be found? Comevery $hould drive which formes Soviet official in Washing Soviet Union section of the non-Catholic clergy Dean, having found' himself in in- ton, has just reached Melbourne, munist to cover for shame. He which plays up to Communism different company in the Commit- and was reviewed in a daily papa describes the plight of his people Three times he was tried and has received a most extraordinary tee for the Defence of Native r at the week-end. The author in a fashion that will prick the (?) had never been outside Russia un sensitive skin of Australians who acquitted on charges of being an rebuttal in Perth from the Dean Rights, had the happy of St. George's Cathedral, Very thought of citing the aborigines til 1944, and his book, which has have been duped by pro -Soviet "enemy of the people" during the middle and late 'thirties, when Rev. R. H. Moore. According to as exponents of the new Com- caused a sensation in the United propaganda. Stalin "purged" most of the oriBut it really will not States, describes Soviet life from press reports, the Dean said that munism. ginal associates of Lenin and, acthose of the clergy who had deep- do. Even supposing anyone within and contrasts its totalita A Communist From Youth. cording to the author, close to ten ly considered the matter had good could bring himself to believe in rian slavery and terrorism with sufferings the vividly Recalling In his million Soviet citizens. grounds for their discontent with this non-existent form of Com- the propaganda myths about Rus in the book he refers with irony to formendured family and his he the present order. Some of them munism, the Dean would still have sia, believed by Communists and Krav- er Ambassador Davies' "Mission thought that Communism was to explain why he and his con- Russophiles of the outside world. early nineteen twenties, Mr. chenko tells of his introduction to to Moscow" in which the "conies nearer a Christian system of- or- freres are so often to be found in Until March, 1944, Victor Krav- Communism while working in the ganised society than the present the ranks of actual revolutionary (Continued on Page 6.) Admitted to system. But he doubted whether Communists, not as leaders, but chenko had lived all his life in So- mines as a youth. As a member of viet Russia. ' any of the clergy believed in re- as pawns and dupes. the Communist Party he survived, They volutionary Communism. The Dean was completely right pictured the Christian Commun- on one score, however. There is not by too wide a margin, the ism ideal the nearest approach to nothing to choose between politi- "purges" and rose to the top level system Under cal Communism. Nazism and Fas- in Soviet officialdom. He knew which was the other Russians no more than which our Australian natives lived about the outside world, but he He felt in their natural state. was convinced that it could be no that a great many members of By Francis Gilbert worse than slavery under Stalin. the clergy were uninterested and When presented with the opporsilent before the world's greatest problem. They were failing to cism: they are all dictatorship. tunity to go to the United States give a lead to their people in the Why then do the Dean and his he accepted with one object: esreorganisation of society. "It is confreres place themselves in the cape. better to be accused of being a bit embarratsrnent of having chosen? In April, 1944, readers of the The sorry affairs of the Committee 'pink' than to remain silent. New York "Times" were startled There is nothing to choose be- for the Defence of Native Rights to learn that Mr. Kravchenko, a tween political Communism, Naz- will serve as one illustration out member of the Soviet Purchasing They are all of many I am quite prepared to ism and Fascism. in Washington, had believe that the Dean originally Commission dictatorships." In a statement to lent his aid and support to this fled his post. When one comes to analyse body in the belief that it was what the press he charged that the Sosuch a statement, try as one will, it seemed to be-a humanitarian viet Government "has failed to DR. ELIZABETH GIBSON. it seems to say exactly nothing at effort to ameliorate the lot of the take a single serious step toward AT CENTRAL CATHOLIC LIBRARY, LECTURE all. Let us commence with the aboriginal population. God knows granting elementary liberties to FRIDAY, JULY 19, at 8 p.m. discontent of the "pink" clergy there is need enough of such ef- the Russian people." He declarwith the present system. This is fort. Experience as a prisoner of war in Japanese hands will be the But it very soon became ed that "more than any other so platitudinous as scarcely to clear that this was not the prim- people, the Russian pedple resubject of the first lecture of this season at the Library. Dr. elethey be granted warrant comment. The concen- ary intention of the Committee at quire that Gibson has the material for a most interesting discussion, and rights-genuine political mentary tration of wealth in a few hands all. Their organiser among the already she has many friends among our Catholic people in freeand speech, of press freedom and the reduction of the workers natives was shown on his own Perth. from and freedom want from dom to a state of servitude were round- written evidence to be an organMemories of missionaries and her long association with them, fear." XIII. Leo ly condemned by Pope contribute a note of unusal interest and colour to her talks, and iser for the Communist Party. Everyone, Surely this should have been the over fifty years ago. In his book, "I Chose Freedom," all readers and former patrons of the Library lectures are astherefore-Catholics , Communists signal and the opportunity for Mr. Kravchenko has published a sured of a most enjoyable evening. and Anglicans-is agreed about anyone who did not believe in re- completely detailed explanation Remember the Date: Fri day, July 19th.; at 8 p.m. the necessity of radical changes in volutionary Communism to with- not only of his personal action in the social order. What are the draw and even to be indignant at fleeing from the tyranny of Mos- Included in the Overseas Arrivals NUN'S PRIEST'S TALES (Chaucer). 3s. alternatives? According to Dean the deceit which had been prac- cow but also of his statement to for this week are: Prayer The First Principles of Know- FOR THE BRIDE: Moore, the intellectual outlook of tised. If the Dean has resigned Ils. Rickaby. By John ledge. Books, in beautiful white and certain Church of England clergy- I have not heard of it; if he is in Maher. Michael By Psychology. PRAY bindings-I silk gold men is very circumscribed, for dignant he has not been vocal. ed of being a bit 'pink' than to reI ls. THE MASS and MARRIAGE they can think only of CommunCharles find By I personally Economy. main silent." Political £2. SACRAMENT. But perhaps the evidence of ism as an alternative to Capitallls. this kind of logic rather paraly- S. Dewas. Into the Library This Week: ism. But. he hastens to add, this single instance is not com- sing. It is as though a man who A Book of Unlikely Saints. By Frances Parkinson Kyes' "CHRISThe Dean might, there12s. they don't believe in revolutionary pelling. Margaret T. Monro. loved horses but who could do DAUGHTIN MARLOWE'S Communism (as in Russia), but fore, profitably inquire into the nothing effective to control horse- The Coming of the Monster. By Ion Idriess's "IN TER." 0. F. Dudley. 9s 6d. in living like the Australian abori- antecepents of the Hands Off In- racing had taken to horse-stealing CROCODILE LAND"-"HEAD This is arrant nonsense. donesia Committee, to which sev- on the grounds that it was bet- Spiritual Readings from Mother gines. HUNTERS OF THE CORAL 23s 9d. St. Paul. For of all primitive people the eral members of his Defence Com- ter to be associated with horses SEAS," NEMARLUK." 16s 9d. Reconstruction. in Essays a including mittee also belong, Australian black shows the least By "THE FAMILY THAT OVERin some capacity than to remain The Origin of the Jesuits. that fellow cleric. He will find TOOK CHRIST" (Rev. M. Rayaptitude for communal living or James Brodrick, S.J. 16s 9d. Surely in this, ,as in unhorsed. mond). for even elementary social organi- this organisation is a blatant aux- other matters, the best of all The Splendour of the Rosary. By One can only suppose iliary of the Communist Party. It things is to be right. 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