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”v . [ - z= a, ae bs Address of His Eminence at Belgian Conference Ravaged Countries Will Remember America as Land Easily Touched, Whose Heart Is Cardinal Asserts The following ts the text of the address, “America, Grateful Chid of Europe,” detivered. by His Eminence Francis Cardinal Speltman, Archbishop of New York, et Les Grandes Conferences Catholiques in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct. 23: “Few words in any language have dearer or richer associations than the word, patria. Suggesting at once that eternal homeland in Heaven towards which all our here below should be same land from eprings—that place of origin we call our native land, whose cul- ture and national character shape ws and give we our distinctive cast as men. “Here in Belgium there & no need for me to spesk of the , 0 overpowering physical . i F § E ATH He Hil Fit . HE ry Europe have not hon- Siti thete +) fudgments America. They see us only in our worst light. Their in crit- fel scorns to hurt, not to help. The Utany of tired, Jaded charges agains us is run through with Httle or no attempt made to understand our true na- ture as @ people, Thus to such critica we are a gromly niaterial- wile mation. We are vulgar, pre- decade I have visited every part of the globe amd have thrice cir cled the earth! I trudged with soldiers over the battlefields of Europe, Africa, the Middle East have been by-pased; and by others they have ben exploited, In neither case haw their needs been cared for. “By mintstering to the unfort- unate victims of maa’s inhuntan- ity to man, America has fulfilled the vocation of mexy to which she has been called. To whom much is given much is expected in return. Prom her rich bounty, America has given unstintingly and for this she expects no praise insight then America’s patronis- ing critics have mech to jearn from her! The Real Americs “Tt is so easy to see only the lees desirable aspects of American life precisely because they are so apparent to the eye—the frantic pace of our dally existence, the blatant and often objectionable | fties. character of some ef our adver- tising techniques, the cultural poverty and the perversive qual- ity of many American films and popular magazines, But there ts much more to America than meets the eye af first glance. There is the great mass of Amer- terms of them. There is a Seep Teligious strain in America whic embodies these ideals and keeps them fresh. “We have, like every country in Europe, gone after false gods, but we have not set them up in the place of the One True God, At the present time America is experiencing ® deep spiritual re- newal, Evidences of this are on every hand—in the thousands of young men and women who have turned from the lure of lucrative positiona to seek in contemplative been ite quiries into the infiltration Government by Communist,| sentence It is tmpossible for me to under- stand why any American shoul id refuse to declare himself free of Communist affiliation, unless be has someth! te hide, In event he deserves to be hel suspicion because he const a threat to our country’s fri which has been won,at @ cost to be lightly loa! is no reason to doubt the al the Communists. The histo: unist treachery all ove: world is tragic and the sub! tion by them of one country, another makes grim reading. “Our American Government would be utterly nalve if it did gE t i s fe & i re iH trail ge, gee gl! Eats f ipl H t take all the necessary steps understand the loud to preserve its own existenes. It| outcry It made in the one in- has the right to know the kind and its complete silence in of men !t employs. to expect that ite eftisens will net ear ped the other, It has a right “Having said z ft tn ne enirit of harshness bu