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Gdeepiy Into the goad soll Of your
native and belaved Belgium.
Tribute te the Belgians
“In speaking to you today I
am fulfilling a life-long desire to
pay public tribute to a gallant,
God-fearing people. Belgium! 1
salute yout With your storied
cities, your old and beautiful
towns, your celebrated univeral-
ties and your glorious culture, you
te many other
reedom fs from the Almighty.
That ts the baals of our faith;
that is our ultimate gtrength--as
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war upon civilian populations,
the pain and privation it brings
to humanity—ali this I am fami-
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‘with my own eyes, I have seen,
too, the desperate needs created
by war—the need for food. for
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in mysticlam all through postwar
America—in the oxtraord
icea being made by milllons
of American fathers and mothers
for the erection and maintenance
of parochial and private schools |America te
wherein knowledge of God can
be integrated with secular knowle
edge so that religion will be «.
formative and decisive force in
the lives of thelr children——in the
phenomenal response American
readerg bave made in the past
decade to the publication of books
of @ religious and spiritual na-
ture, These are palpable evidences
that thers is a deep hunger for
ure in contemporary American
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house, they
bulla it!
Ours are the faults of youth—we
are impetuous—we are quick to jO°eT
as! speak, and slow to reflect—we
are inclined to think that all our
problems can be solved once
for all by one panace
“There are other
sure, but I think that it is worth
here that Americans
have s conscience about thelr
searching
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the real America
would have you know — the
America which is deeply aware
that ‘unless the Lord build the
labor in vain whe
rather than that of our over-ad-
or another.
faults, to be
“Congressional ing
Communist activities in the United
States are not the result of any
mad legislative whim. There are
atrong reasons for these inquiries
and we thank God that they have
begun while there is still time to
do something about it. In too
many instances the awareness
Communist intrigue hes
when it is too late, The
cries and protests against.
Carthyism’ are not going to
suade Americans from their
to see Communists exposed
removed from positions where they
can earry out their nefariow
plans. If American prestige is
going to suffer in Rurope because
of this understandable desire we
have to keep cur free
immune from Communist
ston, then it seems more &
tion upon European standards
honor and patriotism rather than
on ours,
Americans are published
that Yugoslavia is greatly excited
‘McCarthylam' in the United
States. This from oe country
which holds ite Cardinal-Primate
unicado, from @ country
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