Chile Firsthand – A Report From Santiago (Part VI)

CHILE FIRST HAND – A REPORT FROM SANTIAGO

By W.H. MARSHNER

THE WANDERER
(Section Two)
August 8, 1974

PART VI: THE REAL POSITION OF CHILEAN BISHOPS

It isn’t only Salvador Allende and General Pinochet whose views and policies are misrepresented in this Country. That is bad enough, but it is only politics. When the Chilean bishops, however, successors to the Apostles, are subjected to the same treatment, then a far more profound mischief is done, to the hurt of God’s people throughout the world.

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Chile Firsthand – A Report From Santiago (Part II)

Chile First-Hand — A Report From Santiago

By W. H. MARSHNER

THE WANDERER
June 13, 1974

PART II: ALLENDE AND WATERGATE

People in the United States have no conception of how people in Chile feel about their former President, Salvador Allende. We Yankees, with our tame politics, have never felt that way about one of our Chief Executives. We have historical memories which give us some basis for comparison; for instance, we remember how Americans in the millions turned against Herbert Hoover, and the older Republicans among us can remember the peculiar hatred that blazed in some quarters against Franklin Roosevelt. But these comparisons do not bring us very far. We have never had the firm conviction, in the majority of the electorate, that one of our duly elected Presidents was using the full power of his office not only to enrich himself and to pervert justice but to change even the basic rules of the game: to bend and break the Constitution itself.

But maybe we are getting there. What if it’s all true, what they say about Richard Nixon?

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USCC’s Fr. McGuire Challenges Truth Of Wanderer’s Chile Report

USCC’s Fr. McGuire Challenges Truth of Wanderer’s Chile Report

W. H. Marshner

THE WANDERER
June 13, 1974

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Fr. Frederick McGuire, C.M., head of the U.S. Catholic Conference’s Latin American Division, has challenged William H. Marshner’s report “Chile First Hand — A Report From Santiago,” which was published in the May 23rd issue (and subsequent issues) of The Wanderer, describing the story as “propagandizing for the bloodstained Chilean junta.” Marshner has responded to the charges, calling them libelous, and he demanded an immediate retraction.

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