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Membership in the anti-religious Soviet League of Militant Godless has declined, according to official Soviet statistics last week, from over 5,000,000 to under 2,000,000-this being doubtless due in part to a widespread impression that religion in Russia was just about dead, until the election eruption of religious news proved otherwise...
...pickets begged the priests to cover the word "Radical" on their signs. Night before an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, the three priests appeared at a mass meeting of Heinz workers, Monsignor O'Toole telling his predominantly Catholic audience that "modern finance-capitalism" is as Godless as Communism. The Pickle Workers' Union (A. F. of L. affiliate) won the election hands down...
...Catholic homes, on the ground that most Basques are Catholic. In the U. S. last week, a different Catholic reaction met the O'Day-Woolley-Shotwell project. The U. S. hierarchy and Catholic press have had trouble enough explaining away the alliance between the Catholic Basques and the Godless "Reds" of Madrid. Making a fuss over 500 young Basques in the U. S. would, said U. S. Catholics, curry favor for the Leftist (Godless) cause in Spain. The secretary of the Massachusetts State Council of Knights of Columbus wrote to President Roosevelt...
...others, pinned her faith in collective security. Since then Belgians have seen the League fumble and haggle while Dictator Mussolini walked into Ethiopia; they have watched Dictator Hitler's Storm Troops calmly goosestep into the demilitarized Rhineland zone (TIME, March 16, 1936), and France form a pact with godless Stalin (TIME, May 13, 1935) whom Belgians, most of them devout Roman Catholics, hate. More recently they have watched 27 neutral nations ignominiously fail to let Spain destroy itself unassisted...
Soviet Editors scarcely knew where they stood on religion last week, printed such official facts as that the League of Militant Godless (i. e., atheists) has fallen in membership from 5,000,000 to 2,000,000; that the Commissariat of Education has just closed five big anti-religious museums which until a few weeks ago were one of the major tourist sights of the Soviet Union; and that the Komsomols or Young Communist Leagues have now abandoned their anti-religious propaganda among Russian youths. All this must gratify every Russian Orthodox, but it infinitely pains every Old Bolshevik. Since...