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...vice chairmen of the dinner committee. Minnesota's New Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey canceled his engagement to speak. President Spyros Skouras of 20th Century-Fox withdrew his sponsorship. Like General Marshall before them, some of Dr. Shipler's guests were discovering to their surprise that The Churchman involved more complications than the pious good work that its name implies...
...Churchman has become so involved with the Communist party line that it is quite impossible for me any longer to participate in its activities...
...Selected List." The thin, slick-paper Churchman is the "oldest [145 years] existing religious journal in English." Long-jawed, fiery Editor Shipler, 67, has been guiding its destinies for the last 26 years. He had always wanted to be a journalist. After high school in Clyde, N.Y., he spent a year reporting for a Rochester paper, later worked for two years on the Boston Traveler before he went to Manhattan's conservative General Theological Seminary. "For three years," he says, "I suffered there, cut off from the world's affairs." After his ordination, Dr. Shipler spent a year...
Shirtsleeved Editor Shipler got into plenty of fights, never backed away from one. Pounding out slam-bang editorials against the corruption of Hollywood, he ended up on the wrong end of a $10,200 libel judgment against The Churchman. But in the late '305, his zeal, which was also sharply anti-Rome, began to find new, political channels of expression. The details of the trend were laid down in a 3,000-word document produced last week by Leon Birkhead to support his statement that The Churchman is "involved with the Communist line." The Birkhead document includes "a selected...
...organizations listed by Birkhead. If any of the organizations are in fact Communist fronts, it should be remembered that what was sponsored was not the organization but a particular event in behalf of a worthy cause ... I challenge anyone to find any pro-Communist material in The Churchman in the 31 years I have been on the staff . . . The Churchman and its editor stand for the application of the principles of the prophets and Christianity to all social relationships. That is why we are under attack by those who wish to confuse social Christianity with Communism...