Text extracted from opening pages of book: and Paul Blanshard
Boston THE BEACON PRESS 1951 Copyright 1951 By PAUL BLANSHARD I
BOOKS BY PAUL BLANSHARD AN OUTLINE OF THE BRITISH LABOR MOVEMENT
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH NEW YORK with Norman Thomas DEMOCRACY AND
EMPIRE IN THE CARIBBEAN AMERICAN FREEDOM AND CATHOLIC POWER
COMMUNISM, DEMOCRACY, AND CATHOLIC POWER Printed in U. S. A. I have
sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of
tyranny over the mind of man. THOMAS JEFFERSON Contents Preface
........ ix 1 . PATTERN AND PANORAMA 1 e 2. THE KREMLIN STRUCTURE
OF POWER ... 23 3. THE VATICAN STRUCTURE OF POWER ... 43 4. THE
DEVICES OF DEIFICATION . . . . 65 5. THE KREMLIN AND THOUGHT
CONTROL . . 84 6. THE VATICAN AND THOUGHT CONTROL . . . 105 7. THE
KREMLIN AND THE VATICAN VERSUS THE PUB LIC SCHOOL 131 8. DISCIPLINE
AND DEVOTION 159 9. THE MANAGEMENT OF TRUTH: THE KREMLIN . 183 10.
THE MANAGEMENT OF TRUTH: THE VATICAN . 212 1 1 . THE STRATEGY OF
PENETRATION: THE KREMLIN . 243 12. THE STRATEGY OF PENETRATION: THE
VATICAN . 263 13. THE AMERICAN ANSWER 287 Appendix 302 I. The
Mussolini-Vatican Agreements of 1929 ( Excerpts) II. The
Roosevelt-Spellraan Correspondence Bibliography 313 Notes 316 Index
333 rrerace MY ORIGINAL INSPIRATION for this book came from reading
the lectures delivered at Butler University by the well-known
scholar, Professor George La Piana of Harvard, and published in the
Shane Quarterly ( 1949) under the title, A Totalitarian Church in a
Democratic State: the Ameri can Experiment. Professor La Piana
spoke in those lectures of the impressive parallelism of
theoretical principles and of institutional fea tures in a
totalitarian church and in a totalitarianstate. He pointed out that
the totalitarianism of the Catholic Church differs from that of the
state, because it has a spiritual content and a spiritual purpose
which are completely lacking in the latter, but that nevertheless
there is a real structural parallel between this Church as an
organized system of power and the totalitarian states bent on
expansion and domination. I have applied that suggestive remark of
Professor La Piana to one segment of the problem, the three-way
struggle between the Vatican, the Kremlin, and democracy; but its
elaboration and interpretation are wholly my own. Two noted experts
on Russian affairs have reviewed the portions of this book which
deal with Communism Warren B. Walsh, Chairman of the Board of
Russian Studies at Syracuse University, and Frederick C. Barghoorn,
Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. I am
grateful for their - constructive suggestions, but I am entirely
respon sible for any opinions expressed or for any errors in the
text. Kenneth Dailey, of Syracuse University, has also helped me
materially with re search among Russian documents. Over a period of
several years, the editor of the Beacon Press has contributed to my
files a mass of revealing material from Communist and Catholic
periodicals published in this country and abroad, together with
many helpful quotations from democratic periodicals. Edward Darling
of the Beacon Press has been immensely helpful to me in many ways,
especially in the period when I was overseas. The officials of the
Baker Library at Dartmouth have been unfailingly generous with
their literary treasures. Although I have relied heavily on
documentary material in this study, no survey of such asubject
would be complete without on-the-spot obser vation. My previous
studies had included five periods of observation in Europe and two
in the Orient, with a short period of residence in Moscow; ix X
COMMUNISM, DEMOCRACY, AND CATHOLIC POWER but it was the weekly
magazine The Nation which made it possible to gather together all
these past threads of observation and experience into a book, by
sending me to Europe in 1950 as its special correspondent in Rome
for the Holy Year. Some of the incidental facts in this book ap
peared in The Nation late in 1950 and
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