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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...
Birkhead cited other examples to prove his charge of Communist-fronting: Shipler's participation in the Tito-sponsored delegation that visited Yugoslavia to study religious freedom in 1947 (TIME, Sept. i, 1947); his signing of a statement last April demanding suppression of The Iron Curtain, a movie based on the Soviet espionage cases in Canada...
...Helpful Agencies." Birkhead summed up: "It seems clear that Guy Emery Shipler-perhaps in the belief that he has found the only alternative or antithesis to the Vatican-has gone over to the side of the fronters ... He could not be more helpful to the Kremlin policy if he were a member of the party ... By his gesture of support to countless Communist organizations and his championing of a line consistent only in that it protects Stalin's foreign policy, Guy Emery Shipler and his magazine are very helpful agencies by which the Communist Party does its work...
Quick was Editor Shipler with an angry answer. "It is obvious to me that Birkhead is fronting for the Roman political hierarchy," he said. He flatly denied that he had ever knowingly sponsored any Communist front activity. Said he: "Many Protestants who are opposed to Marxism, as I am, have sponsored a particular conference or dinner in behalf of peace ... by some of the 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...
...Unitarian Birkhead, liberty is not the only thing that Oxnam and Shipler stand for. Said he last week: "Both Dr. Shipler and Bishop Oxnam have become darlings of the anti-Catholic movements in this country...