To the Editor of the "Normn-Emma Dany News"
Sm—Ah, dear Mr, J. Brax, forgive my disagreeing with you, but I really believe that you and not I should be credited with an oratorial genius. I laud you! Bravo, Sir!
With such adroitness does your mighty pen twist all I have written—and then points out—"Sir, do not twist."
With the greatest of tact you point out that I have misinterpreted your "phraseology" and hasten to prove it misinterpreting me.
But, before I go on, I must ask you, Mr. Berk, whether you have really read my letter.
If, so, I would appreciate it very much if you would discredit me with the following phrases with which you so generously credited me: parent unrest in Soviet-"imminent fall of Kremlin tyrants." Where you got them is quite beyond my poor imagination quite within yours.
Now for your letter.
1 did not "correct your phraseology."
I merely corrected your allegations. 1 did not "interpret advantageously"—I repeat, I only corrected—no twisting.
It was not "regarding the purge" that I said "a knowledge of the facts would be useful to you." I would call that defending the purge. Please do not credit me with that. In my original letter to the "N.C.D.N." I numbered each of your paragraphs, correcting each sentence as I went along. This first phrase of mine was in answer to your first paragraph where you said "I correctly assume that they speak of the imminent downfall of the Kremlin." Kindly don't assume—better find out.
My "bold bad cats" have nothing on earth to do with "the cruelty of the regime," as you try to make our readers believe. And you said I twist.
Please, for the sake of truth, if not for fairness, do not credit me with "prophesying the downfall of the Kremlin for the past 21 years." I have never done so, besides I haven't lived 21 prophesiable years. And besides, I would hesitate even to hope for the downfall of the "Kremlin"— but I pray with all my heart for the downfall of the "Comintern." And if you, sir, have any claim whatsoever to being a Russian, you should know the difference.
To conclude—you asked why insist on calling myself" (together with Russan Pamot) a Russian Patriot—I have this to say: If you refer to my letter again you will note that I have called myself ANALYSIS. But, if I did call myself Russtan Patriot I would give this reason: Patriotism means love for your country. That is why I have that right—that too is why no Communist can do so.
Glasses, dear Mu, Berk, are very inexpensive nowadays. Try them.
Are Catholics forbidden to read the
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Bible? Not Catholic Bibles, On the title page of the older English Bibles is a letter, April, 1778, of Pius VI to the Archbishop of Florence, wherein he urges Catholics to read the Bible. "At a time when a great many books which grossly attack the Catholic religion are being circulated even among the unlearned, you judge exceedingly well that the faithful should be urged to read the Holy Scriptures." Pius VII later wrote in the same strain to the English Vicars Apostolic asking them to encourage their people to read the Scriptures." Bistra should read all-of Lee XIIs "Providentissimus Dens," not Dr. Robertson's false insinuations, or his deliberate lie that secret instructions Shanghai, Mar. 13.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.