NEUTRALITY AND THE NEXT WAR U.S.A. Catholics Won't Fight For Us

From Our Own Corresponded NEW YORK.
The question whether the United States is to intervene in European and Asiatic wars has once more divided the count ry into two camps, pro-Administration, for intervention, and anti-Administration, for strict neutrality.
As previously reported, Catholic opinion continues overwhelmingly in favour of a rigid neutrality, with most of the Catholic periodicals of opinion fighting 'against Administration proposals.
The Catholic majority view is that the United States should, in general, avoid entanglement in foreign quarrels, and in particular, the power of the executive to involve us in foreign quarrels should be limited, where present laws do not already provide for such limitation.
The Administration favours a policy which will enable the United States to throw its strength on the side of France and Great Britain, versus the Axis Powers—in other words, on the side of the presumed victims of aggression, against the aggressors. Opponents of the Administration hold that such a policy is grossly discriminatory, and in practice, a genuine menace to world peace and American neutrality.
Could be Abused
Anti-Administration forces, suspicious of the anti-Axis stand of the President, fear that any neutrality law which allows him freedom to pick the aggressor would be a law too easily abused to suit Administration foreign policy.
Just how important the Catholic Press regards the fight for non-intervention may be judged by the recurrent discussion of neutrality in Catholic periodicals.
This is especially notable in the diocesan weeklies, which generally confine their editorials on secular topics to the most pressing national issues— leaving the general run of secular affairs to the Catholic magazines of opinion like America and Commonweal.