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Open Letter To F. E. Chamberlain
political human guise. Unless I am very much mistaken, no Dear Mr. Chamberlain,-To be frank, when I read complete religious freedom and considerable us consider decent Unionist in this country will want to buy the your two articles last week in the evening paper on liberty. For the sake of the record let In this very goods made inexpensively by slave labour., If that your recent visit to China, I thought you had been some other evidence on these questions. writes in attitude is "stupid" I am more than content to be made the victim of a practical joke. When I realised month the Chinese autocrat, Mao-tse-tung, are first of all numbered among the unregenerate. that they were indeed the works of your pen, I was "Red Flag": "China's 600 million people But it is on the question of religious liberty that poor." He offers this fact as an explanation for their truly on the horns of a dilemma. had choice. I want to take issue with you most of all. Acting on For, whatever our differences in political and accepting the revolution-as if they had Mr. Stanley James, who was one of a delegation requests you investigated the matter, you say, in religious outlook, I don't want to think you could be in "The Peking and Shanghai. In the latter city you talked capable of so many and such heinous lies. On the of Anglican leaders in China last year, writes is a 'with Acting Bishop Francis Tsang and three priests. other hand, it is difficult for me to imagine that a Church Times" of February, 1957: "China today of any All four, you alleged, "stated that no Catholic had man occupying a position of eminence would be so totalitarian society. There is no freedom found in been persecuted because of his religion, that the clergy be gullible as to believe and to publish such absurdities kind, in the liberal democratic sense, toindividuals or were subject to the same laws as all other citizens, that country. This applies equally to as abound in your articles. and that religious worship had not been interfered ." It pains me to record that I found your lyrical out- to organisations When you stood on the walls of Peking watching with." bursts about the May Day procession in Peking a did you HOW THE PERSECUTION DEVELOPED trifle juvenile. Most young men in their twenties go that parade which so stirred you, I wonder through a phase of passionate, Idealistic attachment think of the millions of dead and of those rotting in Now, as an investigation of the religious situation ignobeen not have could You to Socialism as a theory. It is endemic to adolescence slave labour camps. in China, I find your sample rather sketchy and I is affiliated A.C.T.U. the because latter it rant about the over get They much as chicken-pox is to childhood. you did not bother to enquire about the nonwith the International Council of Free Trade Unions, marvel and it leaves no permanent pitting. Catholic Churches. In a word your remarks smell after ago, years Four question. very that many, which probed the it despite over got not have But you like the propaganda they are. grievous lessons to be drawn from the political ex- admitting the existence of forced labour in various It is very curious indeed that you did not know periments of the past 40 years. You, a grown man, parts of the Chinese mainland, the I.C.F.T.U. memo- beforehand or at least find out on the spot facts versed in the ways of men and perhaps not a little randum stated: which every Catholic school child in this country cynical about their betterment, have come back from "The conditions relating to the treatment of pri- knows. For seven years there has been an increasclosely are they that fact the the seen out has China bears who in soners China like a starry-eyed schoolboy ingly bitter assault on all religions in Red China. The related to the Soviet system of forced labour. Governor for the first time. It is a bit silly. Association of Chinese Catholics, whose "Treatment of inmates of the camps seems to be Patriotic in Shanghai, is but the third similar and copied from the U.S.S.R. regulations. The agents you interviewed ENTHUSIASM OUTRUNS THE EVENT schismatic body which the Communist GovernWhat is worse is that your encomium exceeds the majority of the prisoners appear to be 'criminals' who such ment has tried to foist on China's four million significance of the event. May Day in Peking, con- could not be forced to accept Communist thinking Catholics to separate them from Rome and ultimately sidered merely as a spectacle would not rank in the and Communist practice." to reduce them to atheism. first ten such extravaganzas in the world, let alone The first of these was the "Reformed Church" and being "without peer." You could see crowds of that the second, "the Three Autonomies." It is high dimensions several times a year in St. Peter's Square, tribute to the fidelity of Chinese Catholics that both Rome, or at Fatima. You could see it in England at failed miserably to achieve their ends. In July, 1957, the Coronation. And as for costuming, it is a great some 240 Catholic delegates were coerced into attendpity you could not have seen an International Euchaing a "brain -washing" conference in Peking and in ristic Congress in Peking. its wake was established the Patriotic Association of You, of course, know as well as I do that the Um-: Chinese Catholics. Its formation marked a new pressions of a visitor to any country (especially one struggle in the persecution by the Reds. Hitherto the of the size and density of population of China) after to Reds had concentrated on the expulsion of foreign a month's sojourn, are hardly worth committing missionaries. Seventy-nine Bishops, 3,000 priests, paper. Having no Chinese, and being an official 2.0000 nuns and 500 Brothers had been driven out of guest of the Government, you were naturally depenthe country for the greatest of modern crimes-belief dent for your information on "hand-outs." And, my in God. dear Mr. Chamberlain, did they lead you up the Now, as from August, 1957, the atheistic tryants garden path! the were free to train all their guns on the native clergy. For my part, I have no Chinese either and upon to gaze me The P.A.C.C. was established to foment schism in Peking authorities have not asked the dioceses of Shanghai, Sichang, Mukden, Fukien, their Socialist paradise. But I have met and read of Hangkow, and latterly Canton. But it met with men who have spent a life-time in China. Many of resolute resistance as the official Red New China them passed years in torture and solitary confineAgency has complained from time to time. Now, had ment in Chinese gaols. And you have merely spent you reported that you had found division among a month in their palaces. You won't think too hardly knowledge Chinese Catholics, that the breakaway body had of me, I trust, if I seem to prefer their Government support, that the P.A.C.C. was opposed of the matter above yours. to Rome and Rome to it, and that the vast body of Furthermore, most of the facts I will cite here are drawn from official statements of your recent hosts, Bishop Alfonse Ferroni pictured after three years' Catholics were at odds with the Reds, nobody could or from world organisations whose credentials you imprisonment by the Chinese Reds. The "Saturday object (even had he disapproved of that situation). accept or from non-Catholic sources completely free Evening Post" (May 19, 1956) commented: "He is SORTING BISHOPS FROM "BISHOPS" of the taint of Romanism which seems to disturb the a living refutation of the Chinese claim: 'We enjoy But there is no hint in your almost hysterical spate slumbers of Dr. Evatt and yourself. complete freedom of religion.' " The Bishop on his of words of anything of the kind. You discussed Your articles claimed that, beside the Communist 70 lbs. only weighed release Catholicism with "Acting -Bishop Francois Tsang" Party, eight other political parties function in China. v;ith no indication that the lawful Bishop of Shanghai, Unhappily you did not bother to quote Li Wei-han, econothe of documentation a detailed attached It Director of the United Front Department of the mic product of the Chinese Communist system of Bishop Ignatius Kung has been in gaol since 1955 and that "Bishop" Chang Sze-liang (Tsang) was Central Committee of the Communist Party. slave labour, involving millions of men and women. "elected" in his place by the schismatic P.A.C.C. between estimated number has been variously "Bishop" Tsang is as much a bishop as you are. POVERTY AND SUPPRESSION ARE RIFE The 30 millions. Furthermore, the Shanghai newspaper of the P.A.C.C. He delineates the function of the "other parties" in 23 and your Chamberlain, Mr. dead, of number the to As in an editorial dated Feb. 27, 1958, explained the a perfectly straightforward manner: "In thoroughly friends Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai would need of "electing" Bishops by saying that many remoulding themselves, the democratic must first smiling have they as embarrassment without you told have rectify their own political and organisational outlook. told the world. The former has admitted to the Bishops had been expelled from China as "agents of Politically, they should firmly adopt the line of liquidation of 80,000-which is an outrageous piece of imperialism." It further admitted that Bishops Kang serving socialism, not just in name but in reality, and modesty on his part. The latter, in his report of and Tang were in prison. Bishop Dominic Tang, S.J., Apostolic Administrator truly accepting leadership by the Communist Party." exactly a year ago confesses to three million execuof Canton Archdiocese was arrested on February 5 Why you omit facts which are the kernel of the tions. matter, is an intriguing speculation. But in any case And if that evidence is not enough, the report on of this year. Bishop Alphonse Tsung of Chefoo is listed in the I feel free to doubt that any party in China today Labour by the U.N. Secretary -General and Vatican "Annuario Pontificio" as "impeded in the functions as faithfully and subserviently as the Aus- Forced 15, 1955) shows (Dec. I.L.O. of -General Director the Communism. of interests exercise of his office." tralian Labour Party in the eight million slaves, six years ago. You say that there is "plenty of food for all the more than realise, Archbishop Ignatius Pi Shu Shih of Mukden, has of course, that a democrat has to I quite 24 spent who McGrath, Aedan Rev. The people." held incommunicado since December 27, 1957. been not am and I anyone almost with to mix prepared years in China, stated in Perth last year that, "in all be Bishop Joseph Hu of Taichow was reported gaoled whether soul my all with doubt I But -squeamish. over my days in China, even though there were wars, I the Red radio of Hangchow. could have been brought to touch those hands steeped by "Elected" have never seen anything rationed."\ He saw people Iand by a committee of "patriotic" priests are beings. human countless of blood the in caked not was got it, it they queue up for rice and when remaining the following "Bishops"-Fr. Chan Yi-hsin, "Bishop" man every making in succeeded they Had meat and oil Cooking man. working enough for a Fr. Chang Sze-liang, "Bishop" of ShangChina a millionaire, I doubt whether I could have of Canton; are rationed and there is very little cotton cloth, he in Hsi-ting, "Bishop" of Chengtu; Fr. Wang Li Fr. hai; that which on bodies of mountains Since the farms have been collectivised forgotten the "Bishop" of Yungnien; Fr. Shen Chusaid. Shou-Chian, built. been had ("organised into co-operatives" according to you) prosperity rning, "Bishop" of Soochow; Fr. Bernardine Tung China Red want you Chamberlain, Mr. dear My of Hankow; Fr. Marcus Yuan production has so fallen that the Government has And so indeed do I. I want it recognised Kwang-ching, "Bishop" sponsored a plan of birth -prevention to which Mr. recognised. machine that Wen-hua, "Bishop" of Wuchang. oppressive lying, murderous, the for witness. (Continued on Page 4) Kirwan Ward bears to trade with these monsters in In China you found neither poverty nor oppression, it is. You want us .
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