Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 4. April 7th, 1948
Disloyal
Disloyal
Americanism has meant the establishment of a Fascist Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities—which is again government by fear and intimidation, so that anyone who shows concern for the ills besetting the country is declared disloyal.
On May Day of 1947 we Catholics, in our smugness, repaired to cathedral and chapel to pray for Communists. Much more might we well have prayed for ourselves, that we might proceed in charity and understanding of our separated brethren who only too often are Christian in act, despite their Marxian materialism, while we observe the legalities of religion and act alien to the spirit of Christ. Instead our "pious" societies put out vicious booklets, aping the worst features of cheap tabloids and comic strips and which accuse Communists of everything from anti-Semitism to mercy killing. And these manuals of hate are conditioning Catholic youth for war, for organized murder, for Fascism at home.