Politics, programs, and protests: Catholic relief services in Vietnam, 1954-1975

Catholic Historical Review

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 223-250

  Kauffman, Christopher J ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

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EID: 60949645945     PISSN: 00088080     EISSN: 15340708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cat.2005.0157     Document Type: Review

References (42)

1. Eileen Egan, Catholic Relief Services, The Beginning Years (New York, 1988), p. 12.
2. Laurence Bourassa, "Catholic Relief Services, Sixty Years" Baltimore: a privately circulated work, Catholic Relief Services, 2004), Archives of Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore (hereafter cited as ACRS). I am grateful to Mr. Bourassa for providing me with his many insights. To Ms. Regina Martin, archivist of CRS, I extend my hearty thanks for her advice and service.
3. Bruce Nichols, The Uneasy Alliance: Religion and Refugee Work, and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York, 1988), p. 3.
4. Raymond Kupke "James Norris: An American Catholic Layman" (Ph.D. dissertation, The Catholic University of America, 1995).
5. Joseph G. Morgan, The Vietnam Lobby: The American Friends of Vietnam, 1955-1975 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1997).
6. Two dissertations are related to CRS in Vietnam: Scot Eric Flipse, "Bearing the Cross of Vietnam: Humanitarianism, Religion, and American Commitment to Vietnam, 1954-1975" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 2003),
7. Delia Thompson Pergande, "Private Voluntary Aid in Vietnam, The Humanitarian Politics of Catholic Relief Services and Care, 1954-1965" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1999).
8. Stanley Karnow, Vietnam. A History (New York, 1983), pp. 199-204, 537.
9. James F. Fisher, Dr. America. The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley (Amherst, Massachusetts, 1997), p. 47.
10. Joseph Harnett to Edward Swanstrom, December 9, 1954 Swanstrom Papers, XX1B Vietnam Folder, ACRS.
11. Harnett to Swanstrom, January 16, 1955, copy in the Spellman Papers, Archives of the Archdiocese of New York, Box 34, Folder 9 (hereafter cited as AANY).
12. James T. Fisher, "The Second Catholic: President Ngo Dinh Diem, John F. Kennedy, and the Vietnam Lobby, 1954-1965," U.S. Catholic Historian, 15 (Summer, 1997), 131.
13. Paul Blanshard, American Freedom and Catholic Power (Boston, 1949).
14. Fisher, Dr. America, pp. 248-249.
15. Joseph G. Morgan, "A Change in Course: American Catholic Anticommunism and the Vietnam War," U.S. Catholic Historian, 22 (Fall, 2004), 120.
16. Quoted by Joseph Buttinger, Vietnam, A Dragon Embattled, Vietnam at War (New York, 1967), II, 1126.
17. Harnett to General John W. O'Daniel, June 10, 1962, Harnett Papers, Box 1, Folder 4, AUND.
18. Howard Jones, Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War (New York, 2003), pp. 247-275.
19. Quoted by Morgan, "A Change in Course," p. 120.
20. Harnett to Swanstrom, November 7, 1963, copy, Spellman Papers, Box 76, Folder 2, AANY.
21. Quoted by Scot Flipse, "The Latest Casualty of the War: Catholic Relief Services, Humanitarianism, and the War in Vietnam, 1967-1968," Peace & Change, 22 (April, 2002), 251.
22. Perry Bush, "The Political Education of Vietnam Christian Services, 1954-1975," Peace & Change, 22 (April, 2002), 251.
23. Report to the Board of Trustees, 1966-67, p. 2.
24. Michael Novak, "CRS Supports South Vietnam's Militia," National Catholic Reporter, August 24, 1967, pp. 1, 9.
25. Patrick Allitt, Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics (Ithaca, New York, 1993), p. 260.
26. Flipse, "Bearing the Cross of Vietnam," p. 422.
27. James Forrest to Edward Swanstrom, October 27, 1967, Swanstrom Papers, Box 2, Folder 38, ACRS.
28. "Chauvinistic Catholic Charity," Commonweal, November 10, 1967
29. "The Militia," America, November 10, 1967
30. "When, Lord, Were you in Vietnam," Ave Maria, October 7, 1967
31. Bernard Weinstraub, "U.S. Catholics Feeding Saigon Militia," New York Times, August 27, 1967, p. 15A.
32. Gabriel Kolko, Anatomy of the War: Vietnam, The United States, and the Modern Historical Experience (New York, 1994), pp. 312-336.
33. Also see: Mark Kurlansky 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (New York, 2004), pp. 50-60.
34. Kenneth Briggs, "Catholic Agency Linked to U.S. Military In Vietnam," New York Times, January 17, 1977, p. A8.
35. "Priest Denies Mishandling Viet Aid," Washington Post, January 14, 1977, p. A3.
36. Kenneth Joyce, "Tell All Charlebois Said," "Reparte" NCR, January 21, 1977, p. 8.
37. Kenneth Jadoff, "CRS Story: Vengeance," "Reparte," NCR, January 7, 1977, p. 8.
38. Judy Danielson, "ExCRSers Stayed and Worked," "Reparte" NCR, January 29, 1977, p. 8.
39. Garry Wills, "Warfare State," "My Opinion," NCR, January 15, 1977, p. 8.
40. Patrick Buchanan, "Pro CRS," "My Opinion," NCR, January 15, 1977, p. 7.
41. Morgan, "A Change of Course," p. 130.
42. Oral interview with Father John McVeigh, December 5, 2004.