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Francis Cardinal Spellman's blast against Eleanor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 1) raised loud echoes last week. Public reactions were as might have been expected: Protestants supported Mrs. Roosevelt's position; Catholic spokesmen backed up the cardinal's criticism...
...Manhattan, Episcopal Bishop Charles K. Gilbert defended Mrs. Roosevelt on more personal grounds, criticizing Cardinal Spellman's attack as "bitter and unjust," and adding: "I desire to associate myself with Mrs. Roosevelt in the sentiments she has expressed, which will be shared, I am confident, by multitudes of loyal and fair-minded citizens...
...professional reasons, or curiosity," declared the Rev. Edwin B. Broderick this week, in a sermon at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral. "The toying parlor pink," he said, "must show his true color, red or not red . . . There is no room for pastel shades." Later, Cardinal Spellman, who heard the sermon, modified the interpretation a bit: Catholics who must read the Worker and other Communist literature for their work would be allowed to continue doing so, if they applied to church authorities for special permission...
This week Mrs. Roosevelt emerged from her silence. She would not "discuss this question any further on a personal basis with Cardinal Spellman," she wrote in "My Day." She pointed out that she had supported Alfred Smith, a Roman Catholic, in every campaign that he made. "I have no ill feeling toward any religion or toward any people of high or low estate because they belong to any religious group. I am sure the Cardinal has written in what to him seems a Christian and kindly manner and I wish to do the same...
...uncertain, however, whether the bureau will be. able to influence public pronouncements by such high church dignitaries as Cardinal Spellman (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...