Bishop Joseph P. Hurley has declared he questions the credentials of some of the men now seeking peace because the same men have been inciting to racial war in the United States. “The most serious and insiduous attack upon our national spirit” is being made by “certain men who, after a series of public defeats, have now taken refuge in the sanctuary of peace,” Bishop Hurley told the Florida division of the National Council of Catholic Women last week.
Declaring he questioned the credentials of some of the men now seeking peace because “a few months back they were inciting our people to the worst kind of war–civil war,” the prelate said: “I refer to the men who were responsible for that vulgar, hate-inspired campaign against our Jewish fellow-citizens which eventuated in attempts at racial discrimination and mob violence. It has been said that liberty is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Peace, as I have described it, may well be the last refuge in this country of the Nazi propagandist.”
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