CARDINAL’S CRITICISM

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28792, 13 January 1959, Page 9

CARDINAL’S CRITICISM

“Henchman In Crimes’’

BOSTON, January U. Richard Cardinal Cushing. the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, has described the Soviet First Deputy (Mr Mikoyan) as a "bloody henchman in the murderous crimes committed by Lenin. Stalin and Khrushchev.” “These , include.” he said last night, "the massacres of his. own free Armenian Republic, the

Ukrainian massacres of 1932-33 and the Hungarian msssacres ot 1958." Cardinal Cushing castigated “American business leaders and certain American business circles now singing the praises of Soviet Russia, thereby drowning out the cries for help and sympathy of the Hungarian people, upon whom, in effect, the American nation has turned its back. It has permitted them to be crushed by this Soviet dictatorship and the Bad Army. “The concomitant campaign by Soviet Russia and its agents for East-West trade has reached the point where many ot the trade barriers toward building up Soviet strength have been broken down tor the free world. “The coming of Mikoyan- is for the purpose of persuading the United States to build up Soviet defence, thus making it more imperative that we, in turn, build up a higher wall and higher taxes tor our own defence. “What is particularly Ironic about Mikoyan’s visit is that-ha is being touted as the originator of the fraudulent ’downgrading' of Stalin, whereas in reality ha is the chief creator of the Stalin cult, going to the extent of publishing in 1939 a declaration indicating that Stalin was infallible and applauding the crimes of the late Soviet dictator,'*' said Cardinal Cushing. •