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Everybody's favorite target was Episcopal Traveler Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the U.S.'s oldest religious journal, The Churchman, which frequently has hard words for Roman Catholics and soft ones for friends of Russia. Full of news and views after his Yugoslav tour, which included a visit to the prison cell of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, Dr. Shipler stated flatly that he found no evidence of suppression of religious activity there.* Still, he "doubted very much" that Yugoslav clergymen could safely attack the Government from the pulpit...
That "handpicked" remark, retorted Dr. Shipler, was untrue. Furthermore, he found the Archbishop's whole statement "ill-tempered." Said Dr. Shipler: "If the Roman Catholic Church in America wishes to be free from criticism, let it become only a church and not a political state. . . . Increasing numbers are determined to fight the type of political clericalism which has been so disastrous to other countries...
Charge & Countercharge. Meanwhile Dr. Shipler was busy warding off other blows. Mrs. Natalie Wales Paine (the former Mrs. Wales Latham), socially prominent founder of wartime Bundles for Britain, resigned noisily from The Churchman Associates, a sponsoring group which appears on The Churchman's masthead but has no connection with editorial policy. Mrs. Paine accompanied her resignation with a blistering letter...
...York's Communist Daily Worker quoted Dr. Shipler as saying: "The Stepinac case is one of the main reasons for our coming to Yugoslavia. We are certain Stepinac should be imprisoned...
...Bucke returned to his Boston desk. Said he: "I absolutely cannot subscribe to statements by Shipler and others on the justification of Stepinac's jail sentence...