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FRANCIS J. L. BECKMAN...
...TIME is glad to know that Archbishop Beckman is no anti-Semite. TIME'S misapprehension (like that of many a Roman Catholic) arose from: 1) Archbishop Beckman's close association with his longtime good friend, Father Coughlin; 2) his use of the term "Christian-Americans," an anti-Semite favorite; 3) omission of Jews in his plea "to unite in the common cause of Americanism...
Bishop Hurley proclaimed Naziism a worse enemy than Communism, clearly favored U.S. intervention. Last Sunday Archbishop Francis Joseph Beckman of Dubuque militantly took issue with him on both points...
Archbishop Beckman denounced the "dictatorship pseudo-officially canonized by a brother cleric"-a reference to Bishop Hurley's suggestion that President Roosevelt alone should decide upon U.S. entry into the war. He assailed the practice of "the secular and even the Catholic press to place official interpretations on the pronouncements of clerics newly returned from abroad" (i.e., Bishop Hurley, who until last fall was stationed at the 'Vatican). He bemoaned the fact that "sadly enough the flagpole on the White House lawn has never lacked for clerical adornment...
Archbishop Beckman's speech set another precedent: he is the first Catholic of his rank openly to show himself an anti-Semite. Emphasizing his words so that they sounded even more anti-Semitic than the text indicated, he echoed some words of Father Coughlin: "Too long . . . the American people have been led around by the nose . . . robbed, kicked and abused by the high-and-mighty masters of international finance. ... It is high time that the Catholic Church in particular and all good Christian-Americans put aside their differences, unite in the common cause of Americanism and . . . put out these...