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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950. Seventy -Sixth Year.
Price Th reonsnee
Silent Marchers" Move Again
was shouted down by the crowd FIRST TIME of corn fanned by the by police. wind, the crowd began to it was the first time that any andIt removed was only a fortnight ago kneel, and down a lane kept member of the British Hierclear by the marshals archy had ever mounted the that Bishop Beck, as chairman LONDON'S CATHOLIC MEN RALLY IN kept of the Action Committee, asked walked Cardinal Griffin. plinth for a public Catholic His Eminence, too, spoussted function in this Square, fre- L. Arnold, Supreme Knight, if the base and took hie place quent home of large-scale poli- the Knights could organise a TRAFALGAR SOUARE. among the other Bishops be- tical demonstrations of every march for him. He said yes. Five days later police permistween the great bronze lions shade. By JOHN A. GREAVES sion was obtained Arrangewhich year in and year out or no (Correspondent. N.C.W.C. News Service). were speeches There ments for the march were comguard the little admiral on his other preliminaries. After sing- plete when the police ban was LONDON,"Feb. 6 (Radio).-Because of the Govern- 200 -foot stone pedestal. the Pope," ing of "God Bless the imposed. Arthuc Welland, a London ment's pre -election ban on political parades, a planned "silBefore the rally police cars pastor, stepped to the micro- toured the originally scheduled ent march" of Catholic men through London to Trafalgar Archafter place took d led the crowd in pub- starting points of the march to Square was cancelled. Cancellation Seminarians Escape phone lic recitation of the Rosary inform any people there of the bishop Joseph Masterson, of Birmingham, and Bishop had conn.) o Feo. was relayed by loud- changed plans. Korea, which Brentwood, of SEOUL, Coadjutor A.A., Beck. George A. young seminarian of speakers1 ferred at Scotland Yard withthe Deputy Commissioner of the Two ig Apostolic of Vicariate After the last Amen there was Police. in getting Yang succeeded The "silent march" had been planned as a spiritual ex- through the Iron Curtain and a moment's pause Then the over concern and the hymn, "Faith of FATIMA DEVOTION Credo, of Catholic ercise and also as a demonstration proceeded to this city to con- Our Fathers." was sung. the present status of Catholic schools. London police constudies. their tinue sidered the march within the scope of the Government ban They reported that six more "SIX YEARS" SPREADS. native priests were seized by on political parades. As the singing died Cardinal a precipitated police which Reds, Catholic and the Columb2, St.. Honduras, colourfully TEGUCUGALPA, Instead of the the and forward, stepped Griffin Reds the bloody battle between Feb. 9 (NC.) The crowd welcplanned march, some 20,000 Ca- guild members. as he imparted knelt multitude sprang who area parishioners 200 central and Rapidly the clear tholics gathered in a steady The Bis- oming the plane which delivered aid of their priests and the Papal Blessing. The drizzle packing Trafalgar Square around towering Nelson's col-- to the crowd the statue of Our Lady of Fadown. was terminated when two o. the hops climbed recitation of the Rosary and umn diminished until the seven As Cardinal una upon its arrival at the disperse. to began -msIf gave voluntarily was fathers singing ofJthe Credo. Hritain's foot base of the column his car an un- an port here was so dense that elves up. They said there ,.ere Griffin entered it was impossible to transfer the members of the Hierarchy at tightly enclosed. left at the mis- known man grabbed the micro- statue to a coach for a procespriests six only the to Emsteps His wooden rough Up included ceremony the revoluyelled: "The phone and a been has there that and inence Bernard Cardin Griilin, top of the broad base clamber- sion of 10,000 Korean martyrs. tion will begin in six years." He sion. The crowd themselves proceeded to carry away the hops. Then, like a total Archbishop of Westminster, and ed the statue, in orderly fashion, to the Bishops Beck, Cyril C. Cowdespot where the procession was roy, new Ordinary of Southto begin. wark, Edward Myers, and More than 35,000 people took Auxiliarboth Craven, George part in the procession from the ies of Westminster. to the Church of Los airport From 2.30 in the afternoon China See athwart the Pacific Dolores of the Redemptorist subways, buses and other vehicService). News (N.C.W.C. flank of United States forces. It Fathers, permanent throne for les disgorged a steady stream of The Kremlin -led world war on the Catholic Church may be significant, in this con- the statue, which was flown neopie into the cold, wet Square, along offensive an nection, that the U.S. Navy has from Lisbon, President Galvez with crowd week past ever-growing the the during where erupted again was marshalled by Knights of the entire stretch of the Soviet's sphere of domination from reduced the status of the recent- personally financing the trip. ly refloated battleship Missouri The procession covered four Berlin to Peiping to that of a training ship, and miles, with the participants alTzeMao Communist with -treaty has decided to send two more ternately reciting the Rosary Concluding a 30-year its 400,000,000 satellitised formally has aircraft carriers into the Pacific and singing hymns. Moscow tung's China, HELPING THEIR the treaty to codicil secret a in with the expenses saved on the that say Reports people. Missouri conversion. CALLAO, Peru, Feb. 9 (NC.) it also established a Kremlin -sparked secret police in China, but existence, The people of Peru paid where the Church has maintained a hazardous NEIGHBOURS KEY POINT. in as such to Our Lady of Fatima -out homage black yet successfully resisted a complete Russia's on the arrival of the statue Observers regard LOS ANGELES, (NC.) Russia. China coup as a resounding vicJuan Members of a west side parish Already tory for Moscow over the West- presented to His Eminence In Washington President Tru- sian labour camps. Gualberto Cardinal Guevara, here decided by vote to give interview with a 300,000 are said to be on the ern World. Columnist Anne Archbishop of Lima, by His away all the money not needed man said in an correspond- way from Manchuria. O'Hare McCormick, of "New Eminence Emanuel Cardinal for the maintenance of their "New York Times" In r_'..urn, China gets a pal- York Times," says ent, that he had lost hope of that as Goncalves Cerejeira, Patriarch own parish. at the any accords with Tius- try loan of £140,000,000 Greece is the next step of the of Lisbon. The statue of Our reaching At Sunday Masses in St. Gre- sia which the Kremlin would rate of £28,000,000 a year for Russian march in Europe and Lady of Fatima was borne mengory's Church they marked bal- abide by. The President ,aid the next fi..'e years. No bridgehead to the Mediterrai through this seaport city during lots by which they indicated he was reliably informed that tion is made. however, of the ean, so Indo-China is becomin_ tour -hour long procession and their willingness to share their Russia held 16.000,000 slay, 'ab- two billion _lollars' worth of ma- Russia's key to south-east As' gill be enthroned in the Church blessings with others. Specifi- ourers. Secretary of State Ac- chinery and other items which Russia has already recognised if Our Lady of Fatima, recently cally, by a vote of 753 to 1, they heson, comment' on the Sino- c reprised Russia's loot in Man- the Indo-China "government" completed. chose to use the surplus parish Soviet pact, said that China's churia. of Moscow -trained Ho Chi -min money to support Catholic edu- real troubles were now only beENEMY COIN GOOD. in opposition to the French supcation in a crosstown parish not ginning and clung to some little - stricken ported legal government of ex famine Moreover, as fortunate materially. of his earlier .ope for a kind of China, with 32,000,000 people Emperor Bao Dai. Indo-China, DE LA SALLE The benefitting parish, which eventual Titoism there. He said to be starving in it is said, would be a rich rice was not named, is one in which added that China should realise already alone, bowl for a Communist southvicinity Shanghai th-, no one earns more than $50 a that treaties are but scraps of REMEMBERED. must repay this loan with Chin- east Asia, week; where each family has paper to Moscow. Although ,ironicalPassing through Bangkok, ese goods. an average of four or more The ROME, Feb. 9 (NC.) is to China loan Thailand, N.C.W.C. Russian News SerAs to slave labourers, China ly, the children; where people have a but solid, vice's correspondent, the Rev. feast of the Translation of the hard time making ends meet- paid a heavy price for its treaty fixed in the hated, is Baptist de John of St. Relics Peiping Patrick O'Connor, said that- its and where in spite of this people: w:th its "benevolent neigh- United States dollar, Salle from Belgium to Rome in and pastor have been struggling bour." Communist chief Mao, must sell its goods to Russia at blazing sun "may serve as an 1937, a feast accorded to the additional reminder to Amerito support a new parochial of C r.ina, 'a the reported secret Soviet-fixed prices. of the Ch_istian Schools Reported secret codicil con- can diplomats and consuls meet- Brothers school filled to capacity with clauses of the treaty, is said to for observance in ',heir own 400 children, few of whom can have promised to send hundreds cessions by China also are said ing there that the so-called "cold chapels throughout the world, afford to pay tuition. of thousands of Chinese to Rus- to give Russia access to the war" is far from cold in East was obseri,ed at the General Asia. Communist forces, he Headquarters with Pontifical The idea of adopting the said, are engaged in shooting Mass celet.rated by Bishop Marpoorer parish was put to the wars in Indo-China, Burma, tin J. O\'. nnor Recto of the people of St. Gregory's by their the Philippines, and North Ame 'Ica College. pastor, white-haired Fr. Victor POLITICAL ETHICS. Malaya, DETERMINE PEOPLE Korea. He had hardly stated J. Follen. He first reviewed St. A Hungarian and a Spanish Gregory's parish history, told WASHINGTON (NC).-"Politics may be as pure or this fact when it was reported Monsignor and a Chinese priest how in 25 years it had been impure as the people themselves determine," James A. Far- in Bangkok that the U.S. was assisted the Bishop at the altar to be ready to give military during the r.iass and 16 semipossible to build a church and General of the United States, told said school, purchase a rectory and ley, former Postmaster students. equipment and economic aid to narians from :he North Americonvent-and pay for all of Georgetown University south-east Asiatic nations willr can College vibe(' the minor ofthem "because you folks have The Chairman of the Demo- ment adopts a policy which ing to resist the southward fices. been giving so generously." cratic National Committee in the they deem harmful to their own surge of Communism. This was personal interests or withdraws declared to be a major result of "Wouldn't you like," Father Roosevelt administration said: err arms to re: st the Commun"If there is no public cons a privilege they have enjoyed." Americans in Thailand. Follen said, "as long as we have "Politics," he declared, "has Half of Burma, the ist march. no special needs, to give just cience, why should there highof conscientious, share its in NEXT? WHO'S speaks none that Reds say, is 7.1ready in their that necessary lift to a strugg- complaint And men. ling parish and help 400 to 800 the politician's breast... If the minded, incorruptible In Malaya the Cominform hand,. India announced itself has its share of scoundrels. I claimed that 12',000 Pritish ready to assist the "roof of the Catholic children get a Catholic wrong kind of politician gets it of the proportion to think like for office his uses control and education under the care of the mired in a long war world," Ilii-alayan Nepal, againthat of the troops are encroachment. Our Christmas and his own advantage or that of his the latter is small Itowill Sisters? tt.e Red People's Na- st Communist against content However, former. Easter collections each year organization, it is frequently tional Liberation Army. Thai- Even forbidding Tibet is seeking the that saying with myself conceive who fault of those the threat to would almost do it. We can get is land's Premier, Luang Pibul aid following a Chinese along on the Sunday collections themselves to be too busy to be number of honest politicians we deserve Songgram, alarmed over inter- "liberate" the land of the "Livand budget-if you just stay as interested in their own goirerr- no more or less than mod seeking is Buddha." activity, ing Red ior ment. except when the govern- and greater than we think." nice as you are." field
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