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Dorothy Schramm newspaper clippings, 1949-1955 (folder 1 of 2)

1951-11-01 Pamphlet: "The Herald" Page 13

U.S. AMBASSADOR AT THE VATICAN

Rather than include my own remarks on this subject, a greater weight of authority and knowledge is gained by quoting from the known interdenominational publication, "The Christian Century," of October 31:

"President Truman has at last capitulated to papal pressure for recognition and to his own greed for votes. By his nomination of General Mark A. Clark as United States Ambassador to the state of Vatican City the President surrendered to a campaign which has been going on for at least a dozen years. The purpose of the Roman Catholic campaign is to undermine the American constitutional principle of separation of church and states. Popes have repeatedly denounced this principle, which stands between the church and the public treasury.....It is ridiculous for the President to pretend that the Vatican's handful of permanent residents or its area of 108 acres - less than that of many an American college campus - constitutes a state which needs even a consul, to say nothing of an 'Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.' The Vatican is not a state, or even a city. It is solely and exclusively the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, and it is this church which the President seeks to conjoin with the United States in illegal union....In seeking to trade a constitutional principle for Roman Catholic votes, President Truman has exposed the United States to a dangerous strain in our national unity at a time when we should be drawing together. On its part, the Roman church has opened a Pandora's box of trouble which it may later wish fervently it could close again.....Every senator must have packed his bags at the end of this session of Congress with a solemn sense of obligation weighing on him. Probably most of the 96 men who must now decide the momentous questions forced upon them by the President's last-minute nomination are irritated at Mr. Truman's weakness in surrendering to papal pressure. No senator likes to make a decision of this kind, and each has legitimate cause to criticize the President for allowing the Vatican to inject religious controversy into American politics, foreign and domestic, at a time when national unity is so sorely needed. But now the Senate must pass upon an appointment which is almost as explosive as would be the naming of an ambassador to Red China. If a senator votes for confirmation he must reckon with Protestants. Write your senator without delay and keep church & state separate.
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U.S. AMBASSADOR AT THE VATICAN Rather than include my own remarks on this subject, a greater weight of authority and knowledge is gained by quoting from the known interdenominational publication, "The Christian Century," of October 31: "President Truman has at last capitulated to papal pressure for recognition and to his own greed for votes. By his nomination of General Mark A. Clark as United States Ambassador to the state of Vatican City the President surrendered to a campaign which has been going on for at least a dozen years. The purpose of the Roman Catholic campaign is to undermine the American constitutional principle of separation of church and states. Popes have repeatedly denounced this principle, which stands between the church and the public treasury.....It is ridiculous for the President to pretend that the Vatican's handful of permanent residents or its area of 108 acres - less than that of many an American college campus - constitutes a state which needs even a consul, to say nothing of an 'Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.' The Vatican is not a state, or even a city. It is solely and exclusively the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, and it is this church which the President seeks to conjoin with the United States in illegal union....In seeking to trade a constitutional principle for Roman Catholic votes, President Truman has exposed the United States to a dangerous strain in our national unity at a time when we should be drawing together. On its part, the Roman church has opened a Pandora's box of trouble which it may later wish fervently it could close again.....Every senator must have packed his bags at the end of this session of Congress with a solemn sense of obligation weighing on him. Probably most of the 96 men who must now decide the momentous questions forced upon them by the President's last-minute nomination are irritated at Mr. Truman's weakness in surrendering to papal pressure. No senator likes to make a decision of this kind, and each has legitimate cause to criticize the President for allowing the Vatican to inject religious controversy into American politics, foreign and domestic, at a time when national unity is so sorely needed. But now the Senate must pass upon an appointment which is almost as explosive as would be the naming of an ambassador to Red China. If a senator votes for confirmation he must reckon with Protestants. Write your senator without delay and keep church & state separate. 12(?)