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Yale Varsity entries will be Captain Bill Bird, Wil Castle, John Ashton, Charles Cleaver, Grange, Coffin, Bill Coughlin, Bill Gardner, Dave Harris, Walt Mann, and Roy Schwarizkopf...
Catholics point to a variety of attitudes in their press ranging from the socially radical Catholic Worker, to the liberal Commonweal, to the Brooklyn Tablet, and Father Coughlin's quasi-fascist Social Justice (the last two called by the Florida Catholic "the Brooklyn-Royal Oak Axis"). They point also to the pro-Roosevelt cast of such leading diocesan papers as the Chicago New World, the San Francisco Monitor, the Pittsburgh Catholic. But the influential Catholic newspaper-the Brooklyn Tablet-and the two most influential magazines-America, the Catholic World -are still isolationist. Commonweal (most widely read by non-Catholics...
...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...
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...
...would like you to realize that Halifax is not a representative specimen of the English people any more than Coughlin could justly be described as a "typical American", and I am only expressing a revulsion that is shared by the great majority of the people of Britain. They, unhappily, are not in a position to give expression to their feelings, consequently I feel that the least I can do is to repudiate this cold Tory, not only on my own account but for those who are silenced and terrorised by Emergency Regulations and similar repressions from demanding a delegate...