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pourteivJournal — Friday. Sept, 6, 1968 'ThiHs Not a War, It Is a Genocide' BiafraBlockade - Runner Warns Against 7 Didn't Know* Attitude New TTork — (RNS) — The newest hero of the struggle to save Biafra from starvation toidl a news confer- ence bare thafc the tiny country faces as even, \bigger disaster to mankind\ than tfee killisag of six million Jews by Nail Germany. Count CariCustav von Rosen, the Swedlsm aviator of almost legendary fame wiio earlier broke the Nigerian blockade, igafcnst mercy flights to _ Biafra, said \this Is not a war, it is a genocide.\ The Swedlsra nobleman, who is a veteran blockade runner, has under- taken to coordinate the all-but- abandonted airflft to Biafra. He has also made a ligghtning tour or several countries, urging governments and voluntary relief agencies to intensify their efforts in behalf of Biafra's threatened miUlons. \I an. doing this so that we cannot for a awcond time say we 'didn't know,\' he declared. \I am prepar- ed to spend tfcie rest of my life try- ing to taelp th««e millions of women and children.\ The pilot's first wife was incarcer- ated In a Nazi concentration camp for her work with, the Dutch resistance. She mCfered a mental breakdown and, after the war, committed suicide. He said he dare* to crack the Ni- geria! blockade \because I could not refuse saad ha-re my wife and chil- dren thlak I wu a coward. What is one miss's life compared with thoo- saads?*— - The present Countess von Rosen sat by h«r hus*and during the news coflferwvee. The count wau in the United States for a week of planning sessions with Catholic Relied Services, Church World Service mt the National Coun- cil of Cliurcheas, and the American Jewish Emergency Effort for Blafran Relief. Discussed wesre ways of increasing the flow of tood and medicine to Biafra, Count vesn Rosen said he plan- ned shortly to return to the Portu- guese Island off Sao Tome, base of the mercy fligshts off the coast of Nigeria, \I feel terrible every day I'm not there, because If one of our planes is shot down 1 tave to face the widows.\ Count von Rosen, whose name is linked with aerial exploits of heroic proportions sine* 1934, first went to Sao Tome on a more or less routine nusslon, A» chlerf pilot (or Sweden's largest 'plies from Europe to Sao Tome. Ar- riving there, he found the airlift com- pletely paralized by Nigeria's tighten- ed blockade. He thought he saw a way to get in, tried it, and made it \We had to make the first flight in the daylight,\ he explained, \to check the country.\ Other flights have been at night, in extremely danger- ous conditions, \Just scraping the tops of the trees at 200 feet, and often in bad weather with violent rain and clouds at 50t feet\ He said as many as six flights are now getting through daily, with \dif- ferent tactics\ each time. The Biafra rescue operation will have to become \as big as the Berlin airlift,\ he de- clared. Meanwhile, it was announced in Geneva that the International Com- mittee of the Red Cross would start regular daylight relief flights to Biafra in defiance of the Nigerian Government's threat to shoot down planes trying to break the blockade. The flights will operate from Santa Isabel, capital of the Spanish island of Fernando Po, where 3,500 tons of food have been collected. The airlift will be flown by five planes, four of them lent by the Red Cross societies of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. A-Sixth will be provided soon by the Dutch Red Cross. \Before this is over.the world will have a tremendous task. It was a great mistake to put so many guns in the hands of Africans to kill each other.\ He emphasized that he was ready to help the starving and suffering on either side of the conflictrand dis- claimed any interest in political aspects. He also denied that the pilots in his \command\ — about 15 of them now — were \soldiers of fortune.\ They are \Just airline people,\ he said, \settled men with wives and children.\ Count von Rosen, who Hew the first Red Cross air ambulances into Ethiopia at the time of the Italian invasion, said it should be possible to move 50 flights every 24 hours from Sao Tome to Biafra. But even this would not be enough, he said. \And every missed flight means at least 300 babies deadL\ Blafrans have \long ago lost the war,\ the count declared. \They are fighting on with their bare hands against tanks and guns.\ \We have to get before the world the fact that this Is a genocide. I am atrrwiilBnrt *tt, .tlrtfrittrt aL.fn.rart . my,. wife and children and put coy life on the line to do what I can about It\ Not Planning to End Rating of Movies, NCOMP Head Says New York—(KNS)—Father Patrick J. Sullivan, S.J., has denied that the National CatholEc Office for Motion Pictures La goings to end its classifica- tion system. \We are not planning the abandon- ment of ratings,*' the NCOMP execu- tive secretary Cold Religious News Service, Father Sullivan's comment was prompted by press reports that the Catholic film office was considering a change Ln operations which included elimination of IWJ traditional system of rating the moral value of motion pictures. The basis for Uie report was a news story which noted that the NCOMP had published for the first time an account of a resolution from the French-Canadian Catholic Film Office. The resolution was presented by the Canadian unSt at the annual con- ference of the International Catholic Film Office (0CT-C) at the 1907 Berlin Film Festival. M declared that the \moral classification of films such as presently done shy most of the na- tional fllnra offices does not respond to the conditions of a pastoral min- istry adapted to our time.\ In urging the abandonment of the current \negative categories,\ the resolution asked the film offices to replace the moral classifications with \mainly a service giving information about the human and Christian value of films.\ The account of this French-Cana- dian resolution was presented in the NCOMP yearly report, which Is en- titled \Films 1967.\ The news report noted that the resolution was introduced by the NCOMP with the comment that the resolution's appearance in the film- office's yearly report was \significant and suggests that NCOMP is weighing Fuch a policy change.\ Father Sullivan noted that the res- olution was presented in the yearly report's section called \Documenta- tion.\ In covering the activities of the motion picture industry during 1067, he said it was \quite logical\ to in- clude the French. Canadian resolu- tion. He termed the NCOMP action \a service to our subscribers.\ Father Baum Predicts Encyclical To Alter View of Papal Authority Buffalo—(ANS])-An International- ly-known theologian predicted here that the world-wide controversy over Pope Paul Vis ban on artificial birth control will lead Inevitably to a re- interpretation of papal authority in the Bbmint Catholic Church. ^Father Gregory Baum, 45-year-old Augmttolasi pries* who is professor of theology at St Michael's College itt the Untvenitr of Toronto, said in an interviewrthat he believes the. dis- sent from the ,e«7 , cllcal-- ? whlch he has «rltid»vd^w*ul bo tolerated by popes and Mahopa.\ '/\I'M* will idsmuod a relnterpreta- tJOn of papal authority in the qjbmhym continued. ;*Theolot»ani will have to study the limits of papal power and provide guidelines for Catholics in situations where the teaching authority (the magisterium) is wrong.\ Father Baum said that \the reason so many Catholics in the U.S. and Canada have dissented, from the papal encyclical on birth control is because the encyclical goes counter to the Catholic theology of today.\ \The area of human responsibility is becoming wider,\ said the Augus- tlnlan priest. \Man is becoming re- sponsible for his future.\ \Man is summoned by God to create his future, and for that reason many aspects of life which in the past we acknowledged as divine provi- dence have become matters of per* •owl responsibility.\ v - Detroit Archdiocese Allocates $ 200, To Urban Project Young victims of Nigerian conflict. Detroit—(RNS) —The Archdiocese .*of Detroit has distributed $210,000 to Mour inner-city projects in an effort to ease the urban upheaval in this area. The allocation was taken from a $1 million-plus collection requested by Archbishop John F. Dearden last May to help meet \the crisis in our cities.\ A special appropriations committee made the following distribution of fi- nances from the Archdiocesan Devel- opment Fund (ADF): —A $101,000 grant to start an edu- cational center which will pioneer a method to aid children handicapped by their early environment —A $174,000 loan to be used' as \seed money\ to test the feasibility of having housing prefabricated by the hard-core unemployed for erec- tion in the inner-city. —A $30,000 grant to help finance interfaith Suburban Action Centers which will seek to determine the basis on which racial prejudice is built. —A $5,000 grant to continue a vol- unteer program which aids the poor in Pontiac, Mich . In the prefabricated housing proj- ect, according to Father Robert V. Monticello, appropriations committee chairman, it is expected that 15 two- bedroom units will be produced. They will sell for from $9,500 to $9300, plus $2,500 a unit for land. The plant planned to handle the project would produce 100 housing units a month, giving; work to approximately 350 per- sons, he said. Mortgages would be obtained, he said, permitting return of the arch- diocese's loan so that it could be used in similar projects in other cities within the eight-county archdiocese. The educational center wilt take 6- to-10-year-olds with serious, learning problems from three innercity schools. Its staff will consist of a Ne- gro \community agent\ who will also be principal, three black lay teachers, and two specially-trained nuns—one black and one white. The grant to the interfaith Subur- ban Action Centers, Father Monticello said, will go into a pool contributed by various religious bodies to finance the work of clergymen who are 1 edu- cating affluent people to what it costs them in moral, emotional and finan- cial terms to ding to harmful preju- dices. Dissident Priests Should Resign, Diocesan Aide Says Cleveland (NC) — Priests wh<rdiis- agree with the Pope's encyclical on birth control should ask to \be r-e- lieved of their responsibilities an teaching, preaching and confessional guidance,\ according to Msgr. Franeds W. Carney, director of the Clevelarad diocesan Family Life Bureau. Objecting to the statement was Father Michael J. O'Boyle, a mem- ber of the diocesan Priests Senate, who said it \does not in any way retp- resent the teaching authority of thme Church and should be treated as at obviously was Intended, as a private opinion.\ In urging priests who disagree with the Pope to resign, Msgr. Carne?y said: \A priest should echo the voice of the Church in this important matter under discussion today and If his per- sonal conscience will not allow suc-h >*giwaaMe*v he- \ought \«•» 'SUMMMriig- and properly ask to be removed fronn situations which would necessitate -a position contrary to his conscience. \A number of Catholic priests to- day are genuinely and sincerely ex- periencing a crisis of faith that hats been augmented by the Holy Father's statement on birth control. Their per- sonal crisis of faith, however, shoul«l not be visited upon students of a col- lege in which they teach, upon th«e good people of God in the parish tm which they serve, or in the confes- sional In which sacramentally the-y give guidance to sorrowful penitents.' 9 ' o Bishop Urges Stronger Parish Schools (Continued from Page 1) Bishop Sheen cited three reasons parochial schools must continue: • To give children the meaning and purpose of life. • To preserve our rights and lib- erties. e To correct outer violence by ln=- ner violence. In expanding on his first -reason., the spiritual head of the diocese salcl that children must be given a \mean- ingful contact\ in the \confused! world we bequeathed them.\ \This is precisely what our reli- gious schools do,\ he said . Citing the second reason, the Bish- op warned of the encroachment of the State on man and that an education is needed to teach that cltlicns* rights are inalienable because they comes from God and not from the govern- ment \Inner violence\ or self-disciplines must be taught to strengthen charac- ter and to make children \good ass well as smart\ \The Bishop quoted the warning off George Kennan that a seriously dis- ciplined nation such js Soviet Russia- is more than a match for any natloa that accents personal comfort and amusement. In concluding, the Bishop said thar America is \fed up with lawlessness, dishonesty and dishonor\ and that we must make sacrifices to maintain the parochial system \for the good of the Republic.\ Vol. 79 No. 49 — Sept. 6, 196& Published Weekly by the Roch- ester Catholic Press Association. SUBSCRIPTION BATES: Single Copy 15c; 1 year Subscription ln U.S., $*,©0>; Canada, $7.00; For- eign Countries, $8.00. 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