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...When Heywood Broun died last month at 51 he left the American Newspaper Guild, which he had organized and pre sided over for six years, in a ticklish spot...
Because he was loved for his humanitarian spirit by most newspapermen, be cause he was gracious and a subtle theorist, Heywood Broun's own personality had kept harmony in the Guild. But with Broun gone, there was more than a possibility that these subterranean dissensions might erupt into open revolt...
...fearing Westbrook Pegler, wrote in his own syndicated column of the Guild: "I have long sensed a strong pull toward Communism in its official list. The masthead, so to speak, includes two officers out of five who are, to my satisfaction, either Communists or determined fellow travelers." And of Heywood Broun: "I can quote from his own writing an affirmation which goes far beyond a mere expression of sympathy for the show-window aims of the Moscow government." That such beliefs were harbored by many a Right-thinking dissenter in the Guild was no news either to Guildsmen...
...Heywood Broun, said Monsignor Sheen, had tried psychoanalysis, had lain on a couch for hours of "questionings on trivial incidents," but "never once did he find peace." He turned to the Church, he told Monsignor Sheen, for four reasons...
Monsignor Sheen's remarks were more than funereal eloquence. They were probably intended partly as an answer to those Catholics who still viewed Heywood Broun as an unreconstructed Red, who ought never to have been accepted by the Church. And they were undoubtedly voiced, by one of the nation's most influential Catholics, as the sincerest tribute he could make to a man who had sincerely been his friend...