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Visits Ten Countries, In cluding Iceland and Russia (Special to The Bulletin) | ATLANTA, Ga.—J. J. Haverty, K S. G., first vice-president of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia, returned September 4 from a tour of Northern Europe and the British Isles which took him to ten countries. He was accompanied by his daughters, Miss May Haverty and Mrs. Russell Bellman. Mr. Haverty visited Iceland, May, Sweden, Esthenia, Russia, Denmark, Germany, England and Scotland. The Scandinavian countries appear to be prosperous, Mr. Haverty said, as far as one could judge by appearances, but Russia was depressing. The men are for the most part reduced to a level by their uniform clothing, and the women work along with the men in the most laborious undertakings. There is none of the buoyancy in their appearance that one finds in most of the other countries visited, he reports, but sullen reserve In stead. There is but one Catholic Church in Leningrad, and the pas tor, a French priest, lives at the French embassy; no others are al lowed. Protestant denominations fare no better. There are few Catholics in the Scandinavian countries, Mr. Haverty says, but wherever one goes one finds a Catholic Church; Iceland has a Bishop. Mr. Haverty stood the trip splendidly, and returned to Atlanta much refreshed. The weather most of the time on the trip ranged from cool to chilly. Mr. Haverty was impressed by the indications of prosperity in Finland, whose government has the unique distinction of being the only one to pay its war debt to the United States. Germany shows signs of economic strain, Mr. Haverty said, but it was his observation that Hitlereemed to have a strong hold on the people because of their conviction that he had saved them from the plighting which Russia now finds itself, and because of their fear that even now the Communists may seize the reins of government should Hitler fail. This explains why millions who find his anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-Protestant revolting neverthe less support him politically, he as serts. One of the high points in the trip for Mr. Haverty was his visit to Dresden to see Raphael's “Sistine Madonna”, thus realizing the ambi tion of a lifetime and climaxing his visits to all the great art collections of Europe and America as well as others in other parts of the world. Nor nd,
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Monroe Bulletin
Monroe, Georgia, US
Sat, Sep 21, 1935
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