NAMED PASTOR Sarong. Inc. REV. JOS. B. O'CONNELL, S.J. NEW PASTOR GOES TO ST. IGNATIUS Rev. Joseph O'Connell Succeeds Fr. Keenan At Brooklyn Prep Rev. Joseph B. O'Connell, S.J., been appointed Vice-Rector and President of the Board of Trustees Brooklyn Preparatory School and of the Church of St. Ignatius 1150 Carroll St., Brooklyn. succeeds Rev. Francis E. Keenan, who has left to assume duties at Auriesville, N. For many years Father O'Connell been engaged in secondary work, having spent eight at Georgetown Preparatory School, Garrett Park, Md., first master in the classics and English and later as headmaster. the past five years Father O'Connell has been principal Fordham Preparatory School, Bronx. He has also served as ministrative assistant to the rector St. Ignatius House or Studies Manhasset, and at Fordham versity, which post he left to his new office. Father O'Connell was born York City in 1901, the the late John J. and Margaret O'Connell. His early studies made at Fordham and after entering the Society of Jesus, ordained to the priesthood Woodstock College, Maryland 1931, by Most Rev. Michael Archbishop of Baltimore Washington. Pius Sends Medals To Displaced Lithuanians Bregenz, Austria, July 16 (Radio, -Pope Pius XII has donated rosaries 15,000 pictures and medallions to be distributed displaced persons of Lithuanian nationality in Germany and Rev. Joseph B. Koncius, director of the United Lithuanian Relief Fund of America, Inc., has disclosed here. POLITICAL ANGLE IN JEWS' MURDER AT KIELCE IS SEEN Kielce Killings Not Primarily Anti-Semitic Washington, July 15-"Human Events", the well-known news weekly printed here, made the following reference to the recent killing of Jews in Kielce, Poland: "It is believed that the pogroms at Kielce were not primarily anti-Semitic; they were directed not at Jews, as such, but at Communist and pro-Russian elements which included Jews. The Government, it is said, labelled them 'anti-Semitic' in order to conceal their real character." KILLING OF JEWS SEEN PROVOKED George Sokolsky Calls It Technique of Red Secret Police George Sokolsky, well-known newspaper columnist, in an article entitled "Poland's Death Rattle"-printed in the New York "Sun," July 13-asserted the recent pogrom in Poland was provoked by/ the Russian invaders. Whenever/ the going gets tough for Russia, the writer asserted, a new issue is introduced to divide the people/ and get them excited over something other than their own oppressors. The article follows: / "Poland's Death Rattle" /"Poland is a small country that makes a big noise. The significance of Poland in the past has been was the outpost of Western civiliA zation in the Eastern world. At Warsaw, Europe ended culturally and spiritually; Asia began. Today, this role has been reversed. Poland has become an Asiatic bulwark, the ramrod, as it were, of Soviet Russia in Europe. In the past, Poland never 'acceded to being partitioned and controlled. When the Polish language was forbidden, mothers taught it to their children in secret. When Polish scheols were forbidden, they were conducted in cellars and caves. When Polish newspapers were suppressed, they were published clandestinely. "The heroism a people, their intense nationalism, their love of country and liberty, aroused the sympathy of the world. It was for Poland that England went to war in 1939 against Germany. Soviet Russia was then an ally of Germany. "Poland was the last Roman Catholic country in Europe. BeContinued on Last Page Cardinal Hlond Flays Making Racial Issue of Incident; Blames Polish Puppets ILL- FEELING ISAROUSED Groups Make Vatican Target After Polish Reds Create Anti-Catholic Issue to permit it to be printed. Bishop's Condemnation Although murder and worse has been the daily fare for all in Poland since its "liberation" from the Nazis in 1944, little public attention was given to the lawlessness in that country until 41 Jews were murdered at Kielce on July 4. The obviously political crime was dramatized as a "pogrom" directed solely by Catholics motivated by antiSemitism. Foreign correspondents went to the residence of Cardinal Hlond in Warsaw and received from him a formal statement (which is printed below) released for publication only outside of Poland. The statement declared that His Eminence regarded the murders at Kielce as "& tragedy which fills me with sadness regret." Cardinal Hlond, however, repudiated the charge that the reasons for the slaying were racial, adding that "they grew up on a totally different painful and tragic foundation." Charging the Soviet puppet Polish Government responsibility for the Kielce incident, the Cardinal asserted: "In the fatal battle of weapons on the fighting political front in Poland it is to be regretted that some Jews lose their lives, but a disproportionately larger number of Poles lose their lives." He called attention t to the significant fact that priests in the neighborhood of the murders attempted to get to the scene to intervene but were stopped by soldiers, The following day the Polish Bishops prepared a prociamation to calm the people; the Government authorities approved it but refused to permit it to be published. It was read, however, in all the churches on Sunday, July 7, reaching only the Catholics who attended Mass. Deputy Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, head of the Peasant Party, also. issued a public condemnation of the murders for publication in the party paper, "Gazetta, Ludowa," but the Government censors refused Bishop Teodor Kubina of Czestochowa immediately issued a statement to his people condemning the murders and calling for the punishment of those involved. The Kielce crime, Bishop Kubina declared, according to the Jewish Telegraph Agency, in a release generally ignored in the American press, "is deserving of the wrath of God and man. The perpetrators debased the honor of man and violated the Christian commandment to love thy