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...last month's American Magazine New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman wrote: "There have been many great changes at home since the war began. One . . . has been an increase in the prevalence of bigotry, evidenced by . . . race riots, assaults on groups and individuals because of racial and religious differences, desecration of synagogues and churches...
Last week Archbishop Spellman's chancellor, Auxiliary Bishop J. Francis A. McIntyre, contradicted his superior. Speaking at a Communion breakfast, Bishop Mclntyre denied there was any anti-Semitism worth mentioning. It was just "a stuffed wolf," set up "by paid publicity agents [who] by exaggerating the doodling's in chalk of children playing on the streets . . . conjured up out of their imaginations the phantom of anti-Semitic hate." The whole thing, he said, was "a manufactured movement," created "for the deliberate purpose of besmirching the minority Catholic population...
...Said the Conference's Dr. Willard Johnson: "We believe that Americans of all creeds are in sympathy with this objective . . . the forthcoming picture . . . which deals with the pernicious effects of all forms of bigotry, will be an invaluable help in directing public attention to what His Excellency, Archbishop Spellman, accurately describes as a spreading cancer...
Three dinners are announced for Wednesday 19, January. The largest will be that given for the Roman Catholic chaplains at the Copley Plaza Hotel under the auspices of the Military Ordinary of New York. Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, Military Vicar, and Bishops John O'Hara, C. S. C., and William T. McCall C. SS. R., Military Delegates, will be present. The contingent of chaplains will be led by Chaplain William D. Clark, Commandant of the School...
...Roman Catholics in the U.S. Archbishop Spellman is also Military Vicar of the Armed Forces, an ecclesiastical but not a military title. But Army Chief of Chaplains, Brigadier General William R. Arnold, is a Roman Catholic Monsignor...