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The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
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Rev. A. Locke Maureau responds to an editorial questioning history's truth, advocating for deeper insight beyond appearances. He cites historical examples like Pope Gregory's encounter with Anglo-Saxon children, critiques economic injustices fueling communism in Spain, shares personal experiences overcoming prejudice, and praises a book on Ignatius Loyola, emphasizing love of neighbor for accurate history writing.
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Editor, The Citizen:
In The Citizen's profitable editorial "Is History True?" let me add that before recording feelings and opinions we should not be guided by appearances. When the patricians passed through the streets of Rome, beholding the captives in the market-place they pinched the muscles of the future slaves.
When Pope Gregory halted by these children with fair complexion, blue eyes of innocence and gold curls like aureolas about their heads, under their animal skins, he beheld their souls.
"Who are these?" he asked.
"Angles," was the reply.
"Not Angles, rather Angels."
The result was he sent missionaries to England.
In the present crisis from Communism though we must blame the Reds for their ghoulish savagery in Spain. We should go deep into the issue and condemn the immoral economic order there and elsewhere, defrauding workmen of a living wage, whilst the higher-ups and their abettors are rolling in wealth,
Dr. C. K. Vliet, whom I visited, said that in his trip to Europe he found "Americans did not understand the people there."
The cause: want of contact,
I was brought up in the post-bellum carpet-bag misrule in New Orleans and in prejudice against the North. Traveling later and meeting other persons have changed my views.
We now have facilities to dispel prejudice... access to libraries, printing, radio and aeroplane service which bring nations closer together and dispel die-hard propaganda from greed and nationalism, often under the mask of religion.
In the XVI Century some regarded the Jesuits collectively as anti-Christ. It is refreshing now to find a champion of their founder, who has written a book "Ignatius Loyola, Soldier in the Church Militant." (The Bruce Publishing Co.) It is by Rev. Robert Harvey, scholar, associated with the Fort Garry Protestant United Church, Winnipeg. It is praised by Catholics and has charmed Protestants with its graphic style.
Love of neighbor... viz., every man of whatever tongue, country, creed, caste or color (Col. III-11) will aid to write history correctly.
REV. A. LOCKE MAUREAU, S.J.
Key West, Fla.,
Nov. 27, 1936.
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Rev. A. Locke Maureau, S.J.
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Editor, The Citizen
Main Argument
history should be written with deep insight beyond appearances, condemning immoral economic systems that fuel crises like communism, and promoting understanding and love of neighbor across differences to dispel prejudice and write true history.
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