DOUGLAS HYDE'S COLUMN

The Reds and the Rosenbergs
S evidence of the new antiSemitism of the Communist Governments of East Europe mounts, the Daily Worker makes
increasing use of the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. They are the young Jewish couple who were sentenced to death in the United States for being concerned in the passing of atomic information to the Soviet Union.
The paper's indignant denials that there is any anti-Semitism behind the Iron Curtain are published side by side with reports and pictures of the two American Jews whose cause they are exploiting. This juxtaposition is intended to suggest that the Communists are, after all, the champions of the Jews.
But their defence of the Rosenbergs has nothing to do with defending Jews as such. The Communists' interest in them is as people who owe a loyalty to Russia, not to Jewry. And the campaign has the added Continued from preceding column despite their disenfranchisement!) are making an increasing impact in an indirect manner on the whole life of the nation. The apostolate, therefore, is one that is supremely important.
How long will it take the Catholic body as a whole to awaken to this fact? We are certainly schoolconscious. And the university is the crown of the educational system.
We have not got a Catholic University and there is no sign of the emergence of one since the disaster which befell Cardinal Manning's Kensington scheme. Nevertheless, under the guidance of the Hierarchy, we are determined that Catholics shall not be deprived of this crown. The concession for them to attend the secular universities was given grudgingly 60 years ago. But, generally speaking, it has been more than justified. And now that it is taken for granted, the possibility of a great apostolate thereby has become apparent. The Catholic body, following the lead of its Hierarchy, must awaken to this: must do all that it can to maintain the Catholic chaplaincies; must help the Chaplains by informing them when their sons and daughters are "going up." (It is not easy for headmasters and mistresses to do this nowadays with the interval of national service.) And to pray for this great and vital field which is white unto harvest.
advantage of conveniently lending itself to the discrediting of America and democracy—abroad.