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Beeinnins the fabul'ous story of Dr, Frank Gtgtlotti -"ftofr-f,"*

*ìtft t is ia-itv at their r,esidence on 'El Capitan.éiéii.':tii: " "o"t--i"o

ai to; an InÍdian at 1l-' '. ' gdecor-ùff-;* hero . . .-io"t ev - . . pastor;- confidant of, Presi-àliì"i st"il n"ri"i tó^iri**ion6r; author . . . breaher ofÈ'iiilii.*ó.5.s. co*ottant' man of mvsterv-' To La $q*+;?ii;"diy lildnmi "n

ardent farmór who sows wheat bv

hand . . . a stauneh Defender of Democracy and those Free-dòms meo live bY - . . and die for'

The roads are many' the roadsare varied which families followon theii waY to l,a Mesa to es-

tablish tJreir Perrnaneot homes'but none can-equal in uousualtwists, in unique side-triPs, inrecord of miles traveled, t}reroute followed bY the FbankGigliotti's who came here 14

years ago.The very birthPlace of tJre

Gigliotti cliildren show the dis-tarices involved, the unusual ca-reer of their father. Ttre oldestchild. Bob. was born in NewYork Staté when Ftank was aPresbyteriao minister th e re ;

Mary was born in ItaIY while heJ

father studied at tlle UniversitYof Rome; John, the Youngest' was

born in Oregon when Dr. Gie!'iottihad a pastorate there'

For Frank the triP to La Mesa

bègaa in 1900 when as a lad of4 years he came with his wid'owed moiher lrom ltalY lo lhelterr ltr/orld of Prqnise- . . - Howmany times since has ftankcrossed and recrossed the Atlan-tic, by ship and Plane, been sent

as a delegate bY orgaoizations, as

a representative of groups, as a

special agent of the U. S. Govern-ment back and forth betweenAmerica and Europe?

By the time he was 10 Yearsold, F'ìrank was helPing hismo*rer in the coal fields in Penn-sylvania. But his helP was notenougb- She died.

Oryhaned at 10, Tifh !o tela'tives in a slrange land vrhoee

laaguage he had iust Piclted uP,

ftark had only himself to whomto lutn. . . . Is there any wonderFlank has consistently fought fortJ:e under-privileged? The or-phans, the aged, the handicapped,and tJle destitute all had an advo'cate in Frank during the dePres-

sion years when Dr. Gigliotti aet-ed as Commissioner of 'Welfare

and Relief for the State of CaIi-fornia upon appointment bY thenGovernor Merriarn

The indlìPendetrt irnmigranf bory

decided Ìo Eo WesL Hoboes

helped him . - . Today Frank is

fighting for ltalY to retain hercolonies. He learned about dis-plaeed pelsons Youog.

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Tiring of the idleness of hobolife, Frank got a job. As assist-ant to a hypnotist! TheY trav-eled the prairie states, the Young-ster acting as a "fall gu/' for thehypnotist's act. One morningFrank discovered he was indeeda "fall guy". The hyPnotist haddecamped during the night !

'Whatever tales the ltalianyoungster had heard about Red-skins, he v/as soon to find outthe truth about Indians.

The Sioux of Souih Dakolafook him in, lreated him as theirow'n . . Frank never forgets akindness. 'When the Social Secur-ity Act was written, the Indianswere left out. Frank secured thebenefits of Social SecuritY forthem a few years ago.

At the age of 12, Frank hoPPedfreights and "rode the rorIs" toMontana. His job of tendingsheep ended vrhen a band of coY-otes attacked his flock and thelad was horse-whiPPed off theranch. He found refuge again'with the Indians, the CheYennes.No money for haircuts had givenhim long tresses and with hisnaturally swarthy comPlexionthe youngster was taken for areal Indian by this band. He didnothing to discourage the idea.

"Jls a matler of fact I claimedt was a Pawnee, spolre in Iialianlo prove it That q-onvincedthem," said Frank with a laugh.. . . Reeently Frank was adoptedby California fndians, given thetitle "Chief Great Heart."

For the next felr Years, Frankihe Pawnee, made moneY, tealnoney. A snakeskin around hishead, a fealher sluck in ii at arakish a4gle, hls long black hairflying, he was a farniliar figurefrom Edmonton to Juarez, one ofihe highest paid iockeYs of thosedays from Canada to Mercico.

Frank's roving, roustabout lifeended abruptly one night inCanada. He listened to an evan-gelist speaking on a street corner,Frank found a purpose for hislife . . . religion, Christ.

Back to Miles Ciry, Mont., hewent, and settled down lo study.He ioined o fine PresbyterianChurch. Later when he cameback to Montana as minister, thebenefactor, who had helped himv-ith his studies, sat in the frontpew. And Frank, being Frank,purchased the several thousand-acre ranch from which he'd beenhorse-whipped; raised shorthornsand wheat in addition to his pas-toral duties.

Frank's formal religious train-ing was to be deferred until afLerWorld'War I. But alreadv he hadhis concept of religion, practicalreligioru following the preceptsof Christ in everyday living,even in government. Havingnever forgotten the Pennsylvaniaminers, Frank went back to themto form Christian studv grotrns'There he was on April 6. 19i?.On April 8 he had enlisted in theUS Army.

Senl overseas wíth the FÍrsf Di-vision, Frank rras so badlyrrounded on several occasionsthat when he was discharged heraled a 56 per cent disabilitv....Frank's been working for a Vet'sHospital for San Diego. Duringthe years most of the shraPnelhad been removed from his headand body, rbut the old woundsthrob like rhad whenever he hearsof a vet being ill-treated.

Back frorrt Worl<l War f. Frankearried his fiery belief that thewar had been fought to make theworld safe fot democracy straiqhtinto the theological seminarYwith him.

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There, to his a.biding joY, hodiscovered that ChrisiianitY andDemocracy walk hand'in-hand-

One Easter vacation the deanof the còllege took the Youngstudent home with hirn for theholidays and Frank met thedean's daughter, Mabelle, a Co-Iumbia UniversitY student' TheYwere married in 1922 and settleddown to the tranquil life of aparsonage, Frank having beenordained.

On the walls of Dr. Gigliotti'sstudy is a written and Pictorialhistory of the steps bY which heachieved his eminence, bY whichthe family came to La Mesa: let-ters and pictures from ALL thepresidents of the United Statesbeginning with Coolidge; fromgovernors, senators, and congress-men; from generals of both warsbeginning with General Pershing;from newswriters and columnistsbeginning with Arthur Brisbane.

Yes. and on one shelf is Frank'ssteel helmet of World War I: theGigliotti's came to La Mesa insearch of health for Frank, who,has never completelY recoveredfrom wounds which gave him 56per cent disabilitv.

Bul under the "GI Bill" of ihatother post-war period, Frank wassent lo studv al the UniversítY ofRome. In 1924 there were 30,000Vets of World War I in EuroPewho were being denied. re-entlYinto lhe United Slales because ofa change in ímmigration laws. fnFrank thev found their cham-pion. . . Today his daughter1\4ary. wife of Vet Joe Mock. ison a committee fighting for Vetsto retain their home in a housingproject in San Diego.

Organization was needed bY thevets marooned in Europe, andFrank founded the A.rnerican Le'erion of ltaly' . Years later hewas given a medal for bringinginto the Legion the most mem-bers anybcdy ever did' 1500'

The European Vets sent Frankto the United States to plead forthem before Congress. He is oneof the few individuals, not a gov-ernment official or member ofCongress, ever to address ourhighest lawmaking group. Buthe did. And so well that finally30,000 vets were permitted toregain their citizenship, to comeback to America!

(The New York and Washing-ton newspapers, and the late ,{r-thur Brisbane, plugged Frank'sstruggle with Congress.)

Mabelle Gigliofti wrote thepoigmant poem, "Once We WereYanks". wbich was printed acîossJ\merica and Europe as lhe battlecry around which the Vels whohad lost their citizenship raltried"

That battle over, Frank wentback into the ministry and heldpupits in Montana, Oregon. In1933 his health broke, and upondoctor's orders the family camestraight to La Mesa, purchasedtheir home at ?903 El CaPitan.

But soon Frank found strengthto accept the colossal responsibil-ity of being Commissioner of Re-lief for the State of California. Hehad a staff numbering 4000; of-fices in Sacramento, San Fran-cisco. Los Angeles and La Mesa.A total of 500.000 were on reliefro1ls. The aged, the handicaPPed,the orphans and the state hos-pitals rvere all under his directionthose four years.

Then one day in 1939 the tele-phone tang. Washinqlon rwas

calling. And Frank began hísservices wlth the federal goveÍn-ment on defense work so secre!that it still cannot be discussed.

During the u'ar, Frank lived inWashington, rtas home onlY forflying visits. He was "in" on theplanninq of the Afriean cam-paign, the invasion of Sieil.rr andthe invasion of ltall'. StrategicServices vras his department, withthe overthrnw of Nlussolini one ofthe major assignrnents'

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Although Ftank is a Republi-can, Franklin Roosevelt foundhim a man after his own heart,and nicknamed him "Buddha,'f aname which Frank says had moreto do with his figure than hisphilosophy !

After the war, a friend saidto Frank, "You helped destroy anempire, Mussolini's Italy, Nowhelp rebuild the nation." AndFrank has been trying to do justthat. His booklet on religiousfreedom has been reprinted 14million times. He wrote Articles17, 18, 19 for the new Italian Con-stitution, which guarantee forfreedom of religion and press andspeech. As once before he ad-dressed Congress, this year ftankstood before the Italian Constitu-tional Assembly, speaking in be-half of the Articles he wrote.

Flank h:s brought distinctionto his home town. At 'rre eod oftbe five inches devoted 16 himin \Fbo's gAo iÈ Anerica iscapital letters, IlOIkrF:, LA MESA,CAIJF1ORNIA.

îte foregoing was written earlyiD 194? as part of a series of fea-ture stories about La Mesa fami-lies. f,asb f:nily had played asignificant part in the develop-ment of the small city, nestlingamong the Foothills 12 miles eastof San Diego. Two of the fami-lies had, through their heads,taken world roles: the one, Ad-miral Iil'. H. Standley, the òtheaDr. Frank B. Gigliotti.

This addiiion Ís being writtenÍn fateful midsummer, 1950. Wévranted anolher closeup view oflhe rian who had predicied theoutbreak of war, almost to ihemonth, the man who had minis-tered lo lhouspnds during lhe 3years inlerval.

Frank is a sort of thorn tomany of his townfolk, particular-ly to those of his age group. He'sa grandfather now, three yearson the wintery side of fifty.fsn't it time he should be runningdown, becoming crockety andsedate? Is it quite fitting thethe should be bouyant, as full ofplans, as active vrith a dozenpursuits as he was ten and twen-

ty years ago?The January night of 1948 that

began the Big Freeze in these al-most tropical Foothills, Frank ar-rived at the installation meetingof Kiwanis Club ruddy faced andglowing. He had been out ail daygathering wild mushrooms!

"You'I[ poison yourself andyour family", a remark frequent-ly made that evening, only mad.eFrank hoot. Twenty-five yearsbefore he'd grown mushroomscommercially in of all places,Montana. He had supplied mar-kets as far east as Waterloo,fowa.

A few months ago, Frankgrinned as he notieed from awindow of his hillside home aboy filching a ride on his Arab-ien horse. His face blenched ashe realized, a split second that theboy was ao rider, that the spiritedanirn4l was set on throwing him.Ftank dashed down the hillside,vaulted onto the animal's back,rescud the frightened boy. Thepfunging horse threw him to thegroun{ fracturing three ribs.

Ph5rsieirns at Naval Hospitalwere inclined to be grateful forthe cracked. ribs. Frank who suf-fered three sets of serious woundsin World 'War f, badly needed acheckup, one he wouldn't takettre time for normally I

Actually the several telephoneinstruments in the Gigliotti homeeaeh have a 25 foot cord. Thereare days when Frank must carryon from his bed or a couch.

If Frank's physical energy, de-spite his disabilities, is bafflingto his neighbors, downright my-sterious is tÌ15 stream of callersto his home. An average of adozen people with problems, Vets,members of minority religiousgroups, foreign born, seek himout each day.

His mail runs as high as fiftyletters daily.'What goes on?

"f am still a minister of God,although poor health forced myretiremenL My home and I areat the service of any one in need"is the way he expresses it.

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Evangelical action

prctesting Persecutions'

ffiro',."*nal Associarion of Evangelicals of the uni-

ted states callins o" arJ'*'"ao'-llb"Io :11:1Î"t TJ."il':tli:f::'::'T:;3*J;i;;-oi r'*i"' Protesianrs' rhose in ihe

Diclure are: center, tfoJ"nmbassador' To- ihe Arr'bassador's lefi

"rT.'Ha];; ;;;; n"J. uil"'io Gcrieiti' Presicleni or the As-

sembiies af God i" 'ituìy'

Rev' 'Alexander I'faurielio' Rev'

Francis J. Panetta' T;;h" Ambassaclors righi are: Dr' Frank

B" Gigliorti, irnmediaie"ly--i" ftft, back Dr' Clvcie Tavlor' Sec'v'

of lLffairs of the Xufio""f ÌLssociation of Evangeli:als' Dr' 'An'

selo Di Donnenica, ""*;;;b;:bi Domenica is I"{:' l\nthonv Piraino

and the Rev. Dcmenittt Lin"ia"'A"ello organizer of the lialian

ilti""'f,-nt-l*UU"u of God in the United Staies'

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To a considerable extent it isthe lowly who climb on foot orcome in old jalopies to Frank'shiltside home. If Frank believestheir cause is just, he will espouseir.

And it is not onlY the unknownhe'tl defend. In the June 1950issue of "The Chaplain" Magazine,Frank has had published a ring-ing tribute to General HarrYVaughan, aid to the President.General Vaughan had been underfire on all sides when Frankelected to defend him.

An ordained PresbYterian min-ister, Frank has since his retire-m.ent cut across denominationallines. His scrapbooks tell of talkshe has given before practicallyevery denomination.

This summer he undertook aprodigious amount of travellingto address camp meetings of As-sembly of God groups the lengthof the Pacific Coast. his audiencetotalling over 12.000.

As author of the religious liber-ty articles in the New ltalian Con-stitution, Frank is waginq a bat-tle to see them enforced. His deskis covered with communicationsc{ealing with infractions andFrank's outgoing mail bulgeswith letters to the State DePart-ment, to church councils, to highplaced individuals on both sidesof the Atlantic demanding promptaction.

At home as well as abroad, itis to Frank that pathetic appealseome for immediate action. Lastsummer the teen-age son of aneighbor. a socially prominentand wealthy Je-wish familv wentfor a walk. "As darkness fellLlfonday night, a distrauqht fatherknocked at the door of the FrankGigliotti residence. He told Frankthat his son had set out from hishome nearby, to take his dogBruce for a walk about threeo'clock in the afternoon.

Shortly after 5 p.m. the doglimped into the yard. whiningpiteously. The peculiar actionsof the dog alarmed the Parents.Thinking their son may have fa1-len into the old quarry nearby,

they had telephoned the poiiceand the sheriff's office. Patrolcars had been sent to the area,but had found nothing to report.

And now it was almost dark.The bleak hills, the old quarry,the canyon all exceedingly rougirterrane were frowning black.

Asked to help, Frank Gigliottiswung into action. "To cover thatarea, we need plenty of man-power", Frank pointed out. Hetelephoned for volunteer search-ers from the La Mesa AmericanLegion.

In record time a searching par-ty assembled at the meeting point,the Legion Hal1.

Frank called radio station KGB,and asked that a broadcast bemade for searchers to meet onthe Quarry Road. He put oneneighbor on the telephone to callthe others, asking those '"vho hadhorses and dogs to use them tolook for Art.

Frank rushed to the pastlre,jumped on his horse bareback.rvhistLed for his dog, and was off,to lead the search.

Within half-an-hour, more thana hundred searchers, with theirflashlights Frank had asked themto bring, had assetnbled.

Frank dispatched thern ingroups of four and five each,told them to keep 50 feet of eachother, to comb the quarry. Addi-tional searchers arrived until theynumbered about 400.

A child approached Frank, said,"I saw Art heading up the canyonthis afternoon." Gigliotti sentnew arrivals up the canyon,q'heeled his horge and rode withthem.

Fiashlights dotted the hillsidelike erratic night blooming florr'-ers. The neu'ly risen moon castan eerie glorv over the carefuÌlystepping searchers.

And then a boy, his face dralvnrvith the lines of age, came run-ning to Frank, "'We found Art.He is dead."

The terribly sad tiding fannedout over the hills. The flash-ligh-ts faded one by one.

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to their cars. and silentlY theYcìrove away. Frank rernained withihe hoy's bodY until the coronertaok charge. He was there vrhenthe bcy's father arrived, facedgrief almost too rrruch to bear.- And there on the hillside theneighbors and strangers who hadcome to helP, remained with thefather and the Presbvterian min-ister to pray for consolation andGod's HelP."

First, last and all the time,Frank is a ll{an of God. Gracesanctifies the table in hÍs home,each meal.

Other men maY talk of PlaY-ing goif or cards with Prominentfigures. V/ith Frank it is, "Sec-tetary Acheson and I had Prayertogether."

.dctually press cliPPings, againand again during the 1930's whenFrank was directing Californiarelief as Commissioner of Welfareand Relief, tells of his custom'From time to time, Gigliotti hadtr'",o mínutes of Prayer with theGovernor and other officials ofthe State.

Strange mixture of mYstic andshov,rman. Frank Gigliotti. Dur-ing these sarne dePression Yearshc"grew a bearcl, dressed himselfin overalls and slouch hat. be-came incarcerated in Californiajails to find out first hand theconaitions. What a story the Pressmade of that. When Frank heardabout wives of migrant w-orkers,sivins birth io babies aiong Cali-iotr',ii irrigation ditch banks' hecan'ìe out flamboYantlY, accusingthe State of giving better care toIitters of Pigs than it did to ba'bies. WitÉ headlines and a shock,oublic opinion made mandatoryparental care and hospitalizationior the women.

Frank has alwaYs had that flare,that spark that touched off re-norters' tYÌrenriters. Back ini92t. M.ty Margaret McBride dida trvo column bYline story abouthim in the Nev"r York EveningGlobe, head-lined "Ex JockeY NowSoul Rider:." During the same

period, a staff writer of the WorldSupplement wrote a full page,illustrated with drawing on"Eronco Busting The Gangs ToSalvation."

Frank the evangelist needs nopulpit. While on board in cross-ing the Atlantic, he set up a groupof four, one an industrial mag-nate, for talks on the Meaningof Life. Among his treasures isa letter, in which the industrial-ist says, "Frank it was good tohave met you. I will from nowon try to do more for the Mas-ter."

There is nothing lugubriousabout Frank. His sense of humoris hearty. He has a liking forgood stories and is fond of tell-ing them. And there's not toomuch meekness about the man,In his scrapbook are stories aboutthe "fighting parson," wading inwith his fists when words failed.Short. and with a lengthy waist-line measure these days, Frankstill carries a wallop, as severalhave found to their surprise.

For so glib a talker and soready a wi| Frank has the abilityto hoid his tongue. It was notuntil 'World War II was over thatthe hornefolks knew what Frankhad been doing all the years inWashington.

A letter from his superior inWashington indicates the partwhich he played in the Officeof Strategic Services.

Back in 1924 Mary MargaretMcBride wrote: "This young man'slife would fill a volume." A quar-ter of a century later, it wouldtake several volumes to tell hisstory completelv.

tn ttris fàteful- summbr, perhapsit would be r.vell for America toremember one of Frank's accom-plishments which may have great-est importance in the monthsahead.

In the words of Drew Pearson:By Drew Pearson

"One of the hottest strugglesduring the closing days of Con-gress was over the appropriationfor the domestic branch of theOffice of War Information. The

House had eliminated OWI do-mestic activities in toto. But theSenate finally reversed the Houseand these activities will continue.

Few people knew that it wasDr. I'rank Gigliotti, prominentItalo-American of California, whopulled the strings to save OWI'sdomestic branch. One day lastweek the Senate AppropriationsCommittee, meeting to considerthese controversial funds, senteveryone out of the room exceptGigliotti. Then for more thanan hour they listened while Dr.Gigliotti told how Italian propa-ganda spokesmen broadcast short-wave to ltalo-Americans tryingto influence them against buyingWar Bonds and giving full sup-port to our Government. Gigli-

otti pointed out that it was asimple matter to refute this Ital-ian propaganda and that it mustbe done by OWI operating in theUnited States.

One point Rome propagandistmade, Gigliotti said, was the de-struction of civilian and non-mili-tary objectives by Amerlcan air-planes. On the contrary, Chiefof Staff General Marshall, retrrrn-ing from North Africa, had ex-pressed amazement of Americanprecision bombing, noting parti-cularly that American airplanesin Tunis had laid waste [o thedocks and shipping in the har-lor without dèitroyine a singlebuilding one block behind thervater front. The Senators lis-tened attentively, congratulatedDr. Gigliotti. voted funds forowr."

OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICESWASHtNGTON, D. C.

COPY September 29, 1948

D?. trlank B. Gigliotti7903 El Capitan DriveLa Mesa, California

Dear Frank:'whire you arreadv have from me a more formar. retter of appreciation,r have just thought that r shourd ìike to wiie yó.,.tni" very personal retler,at the time of thp lemination of the Offioe of Étrategic Services, to tel vouhow srateful I am ro you _for your un..iiisri oà""ìùfi'"iìi"ià, "irrl"rsi'i à"oactivity jn our military and assocjatcd acrivtiiÀJ of the nasr'i;z'ì,.ii"'" $have-. indeed, given ge"nerously of y;u; thò;;ii.-'";à 'J;:rÉ}:'"íd ír'iíà; à?lsianttv been a sreat comforr 10 mv immediaie srà.rr as we-:í'rJ'iivii.ri'?na"'"uthose associated r*.ith me in our aótivities in ihe-lteai1e"."ir"."'iiàn"^ tt"tar"not only your advice and sound counsel. but also the^moral susiainlnE stie^rihf,of vour associarion wirh us. in our con-stantlr r"currinà-o-iirì"ùii'iì,iiE"l"i' fu o1oo. in this connection, th,1l vour eood l.ife, IavUerte] ú;;""i;";à";;eaity'inlhe contribution througrì her graciousness and unserfishnàss'à;;ì;.ilùì;'É *long: and constantly dgring thé th-ree long and aàiX years while you were fre_quently absent from home in order to help us. And all ti,iÀ - .ìr-"^..'*" 'ú

speeiai emphasis wrren one knorvs ttat li-i*,aJ'-r";;''o;; ;;J;rY,i,riHti?f; lîìto be compensated financially or matérially for j.our time and;.:ì*;;;;' '. The purpose of îhís is to reu vou in'this simpre pei"olàr l;ii;;:Tùi y."in y9!ìl assistancc. to us, have made durins rhe cr.it'ical'yeà""1uÀ,'i""t.'!""i,n_slantial contribution ro ihe succe,"s of .{merican u.-s'i"- tde-i[;àiù.à;;""Theater. of-operations, and to the liberation of the neople oi rtàìv-ir"or*"nul'éi"*and Axis domination. and also to the s.etfare ot it

"'pèoi,lu 'oi"lrrjú'^fòfffiij"g

their liberation.I know that a1l the ofJicers of my staff in .Washington

and of my orsar_ization in the field, as Í'elr as att of -our

asiociates witn_ir1 -lh; i"èà""i)à?iir",

-will rÀ/ant to join me in $'hat r sa_y_to you at this iime, and also in affectionat€best wishes for the continued sood health of vou àna úavljàrù-ànà'iii^ii;;';r"-ber:s of vour famil]'; vre hope t-hat -vou wili be abìó to cb"iinuà-ìa"*-"ov'ii".eyears to serve in the same helpful way our country anO oui f"1i;*-;;"".'"

Very sincerely yours,Earl Brennan

Chief, Itatian & Atbanian Section

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Waahington conference

on religious libertY.

Fronl RowDr. Frank B. Giglioiti, National Vice-Chairman on Evangelical

À.ciion. cenier - Hon. John D. ilickerson, Jlssislant secrelary

of State, Rev. .à. G. Yuppa, Fres. Universal Pentecoslal ChurcÌ't"

Back RowDr. Ellis McGoy, H'epresentalíve of Church of Chrisl of Tdxas'

Dr. Ctyde W. Taylor, Nalional Secretary of Affairs, Nalional A,sso-

ciatioi of Evanàelcals, Dr. D. G' Scoit' Represenlafive of the

General Ccuncil Assernblies of Gcd, and Mr' Green' Chief ltalianDesk, Deparlment of State of ÎI"S'

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The ranch home in LemonGrove to which tr'rank moved hisfamily two years ago is not Yetfinished and probably never willbe as long as Frank lives there.Tiue the house is charminglycomple,te wiih its floor to ceil-ing windows commanding sweep-ing vistas. It is harmoniouslYfurnished and well cared for.

But the study off the livingroom was found to be inadequatefor Frank's endless conferences,for his mementos. A two-roomoffice, built alongside the houseis crammed with filing cases andpapers waiting filing. Maybewhen Frank builds a lot moreshelves, there will be room foralt the things he wants close by.

With his sons, Frank is build-ing a swimming pool at his hornesweating in the summer sun."This time next year it will becooling us all o{f" he grins.

If Frank hasn't changed duringthe three year interval, whatabout his family? They are stillrank individualists. The marrieddaughter, an intense liberal, su-pervises her 4 ,uz year old daugh-ter with one eye while she holdsforth on a philosophic point withall of her father's eloquence.

The older son is a conservativeand defends his beliefs with hisfather's fiery vigor. The young-er son, still in high school, is most-ly concerned with teeo-age topics.

And Mabelle Gigliotti, her ser-enity is as unruffled as ever. Hercalmness is the same as always.And right now she is busy com-pleting a course at San DiegoState College in biography.

How often she must identifyherself with other wives whosehusbands made of their lives highdrama, renderd such service thàttheir names live on.

We might close with the Edi-torial from the American Legionin ltaly, or rather a portion ofit, which says; "If Gigliotti wereany other man than he is, an.edi-torial like this never would havebeen written, but he has dedi-cated his life to his fellow man,and he is not to be turned asidefrom by such a personal expres-sion like this. Handicappedthough he is by the fate of war,to his fellow workers he mustalways be an example, temperedalways by that personal. devotionthat contact with him always in-spires.

lVe {eel possibly that we shouldquote more from this editorial.His is a great faith in the ulti-mate triumph. Let the cause bejust and he is ready to attemptanything in bringing about it'sultimate triumph. Like Garibaldi,his personal magnetism and un-seUish devotion to a cause de-stroys obstacles that.would baf-fle older and mole powerfulleaders.

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From The American Legioneer

Mont'hly of ItaIY - APril 't'926.

THANKS TO GIGLIOTTIIf we have mentioned Rev. F' going, so that it will be able

g.-èigfi"tti in this number of the shortly to complete its first _year;;;?;;; L"cioneer \[onthlv of of e-xistence with an unusual re-

i;;il;;"e"iio*u"" of timès it eord of service to the ex-service

is because he has been so much man'of ifr" """ttal

figure in this last Not long ago we lreard hirn re-

;ff;;ot-ttte f,egion to be of as- ferred to as a missionary of the

"irtuì"" to the ex-service man in best of Italy to America,-and- of

ii"i".'-e; -ull

-ì"tio" does not the best of America to Italy. His

;;fíi;. l" rftò* the debt that the idealism, his unstinted devotion

""t""." in Italy owes to him, nor to the thing in which h.e believes

;;il;; lhe"unselfistr devotion comes of the same ltalian char-

*irí.t rró has given to the work acter that produced.a-.Mazzini.iir"iìir" f,"Ciol has ahead of it. His ability to make his life count*ffir'i;

;ó;;t faith in the ulti- for something' even when he was

*"i" i"i""iph of the thing that in his bovhood thrown on . his

i"lìri^""i-.letrt. Let the cause own resources, is a characte-ristic

;e i;;t t"J ft" it readv to attempt that America particularly holds

I"rilrr"í'ì,i--tìi"eilÉ aUoq! -if dear as one of highest expressions

iiffi;É triumph. LiÈe Garibaldi of national life';il;;;";;ì maenetism,-and un-

-- So badlv wounded in the world

,uiti-rn ìu"otion to a cause, de- War that he has been given per-

;ó. "friÀ"f"r that would' baf- manent fifty-six percent disabilitv

Ii"-""fa"l and more powerful pv . trre American Government

leaders. ^ he has not only obtained -an un-

ì;;;, his enthusiasrn that first usual scholastic record in his vo-

"t""tàJ1tr" erne"i"att Legion in cational training, bgt las Jound

ii"iil-sJ"ttoituryuvthe"united time to work for the Legion so

states veteran,s BurJau fo" uo."- effectively that- the American

tlo.rài t"alning itt p"epa"àtion for vet.erans of ltaly voted him a

hú;;f ;a ""*i"iìt"i among the la1t-ing.debt of gratitude.-

iìJi""r-1"-er""ti.* fr" too"it"w If Gigliotti wa1.9t\e1 than the

;h;; tÉ American Veià"a" i" fta- man- he is an Editorial like this

i;-;;J uuén ""sre"iàa

-ty o". would never be written, but he

;à";;;,";;:' wiil- tr; "ia ot has dedicated his life to the ser-

others, but based ttpàtt ftit o*tt vic.e of his fellow man' and he is

;;;;;t;;" *eà"itàÀ-thà-Roma not one to be turned down frornpost, and ttren servJd-às adju- it by.a personal expression ;rrchtant until the forma'tìo"-oi iftu as.this. Handicapped though he

Department ot rtarJ"i"""[:.i i:J"#"?"tiJ'nf J;,1 :Î*?,tithis activities to a wider field' But an example, tempered always byit is his personal work that has the personal devotion that con-

kept the Dept. and the Rome Post taet with him inspires'

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Letter to the Hon. JohnHickerson regarding religious

liberty

wAsHlNGTON, D,g.COPY

Hon. John lfickersonAssista,nt Secretary of StateljglErtment of StateWashington, D. C.

My Dear Secretary Ifick€raon:

in ltaly.

May 8, 1950

It is vrith considera,ble -thought, medtitation ffid pray€r that yre cbme toyou, as thè representative of o_ur"Gón-uÉ-""iJ'o""e ag?in with the problemsof our Chrisrian -ercrhren _in Irary "ria iii"^-hé"t "ùiióri"j-*,"ì,"trrÉJ"i.rruendured at the hands of t-hose -io-À""e*tLii"à .o ,ro"r"tand ths spirit ofwhich W.orlal -War ft. was foug]rt. -

After milrions of men ai;u on _th6 bea,chheads and on the batueftelds ofthe worrd tha.t men mient rrwe'-fi"àa-óti,"iià"àù6ve.all things, freettom of theright to worshi' cod icmraing ì" irr"'àifràì"3"Xt tn"i. conscien@ as qr'e are!*d bv ttu Hort spirir throuÀi rî"-i&"d.í,ì["tdoia or._-coa, the Hory Bible, tobelreve, we now find that in an enlighteneO corintry-tike ltaly, therè has lrcena complete failure to unOel*iinà it%-,.*à":"irrg*àr-tfr" ,islrt* of others. per_secution afrer persecution of rlaJian nóióiliìÌs"or the various denominationson the part of the Tra.tian populace t a* òòóirì.à. agita.ted by the locai prist_hood and local and provinciat' óiiùirill"ià"iir'eiationar covernmert hai doneI;T '$"iî,J',|'îil:'lfj"". recuri"nce ;i "6;i";';;à'morestaTions';i';;;'Èliù.""Some two and r-half .years ago, the National Assgciation of Evangelicatsof the united srares. rhe dm;iica;-b;;";iiià'J'il" n"riÀior"--LiÉ"fi,l,rìji"rv,and other interested o"op1g 5eni-ó.. Ct"rr*"rima.of New york City, anctrr.ry_setf, on a mission to- llati *ir""à ivà:'rriir.',i

r ràrian con sii t ri tiJ,i- àr " ih " t h-.o " À"t";

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"iti" *X:with freedom of assembrage, rró"aó- ói"as"'o'di'dtior, and freedom of reli*iousvrorship. îhese Articres- a.s ye unaerstood-it-Éil. *"." to be a further Àuar_antee on the part or *r'e riarian-ò;i';;;-""iitrl"t

^t-rrgv wo,lra_taE6 seri-olslyArticle XV of the peanc Treary betwee-n-ih;'U";ia srates and the Nev/ ltalianRepublic. But since irs gn2g.fmsnl

", ";;ri;i"ìh-e .fundamenta-I law of ltaly,there has been verv liffl6.syi6sps. on the paù ot lhe Clergy of the Romm"",n"lh$|t';:nJ:J"?1"9t these thres iiiiJrEi'ià.*oros o-r it spirit.rr,*. p"oté"iunt"ciii'"èr,Lt

ift"d{t?f5T.,l?fî8"SJ1.,",1"",i ;1,"i:1""{"X;f**their C_gmmu-nion tables desecEted.'We took to Sicily with us, i'number of Americ.an-journalist.s and Dhoto_graphers, includirrq thc repre5g;tative of-ìfrl- CtTà",eo î4bune. When ie ar_rived there this eénue.man*ryage the-statement j-ì.A" " Roman cathotic, it ishard for me to b;tieve." ,lut he éòito-lài'"iiii hrs own eyes and toucli withhis own hands the cha.rmd nvmnbooÉs, l-rót""'pL#",ra tle smashed. windowsthe fruit of mob violence,-.agitai;d-É'y"i;;"ì;íài"cr""sv, while rhe potice ffirepresentatives of the rfajia; covern;r";i; ;i;;à.:lì.d did- a,bso_lutett' nóiiinswith the exceprion that thev aia aÉèìt^iiiè'd"t"tilturt" and rried ro holtt themrncommunicado, until we protested.

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This action deseribeil above, has been r€peeted a number of times, notonly in Sicily, but in Southem ltaìy, in Central Italy and in nome. Now wefind in the hovinco of Treviso rilhere they refuse to Bfve a citlzen of tleUnited St:ltes, and a Minister of the Gospol. licensed by the Assemblies ofGod of Sprin€field, Missouri, water for domestic use. (Find enclosed, esEx-hibit No. 1, statement fitom the Mayor of Tomba). You u-ill further find,upon examination of the document, that wh€n Rev. Cosimo Caruso, of theCity of Detroit, Michig:an, a citizen of the United States, together with hiswife, altempted to dedicate a new Italian Church in February, 1948, that tvrentyItalian policemen and tlìe local priests turned out in masa to stop this peace.ful a.ss€mbla€:e and the rights of these Americar citizens to €xercis€ theirtreaty ri8'hts in the country where they were sojourning. This was donein violatíon not only of the Constltution but also in vlola,tion of the Tr€atybetween ltaly and the Unitetl States, known as the Treaty of Peace, trtlend.Fhip, Navigation a.nal Commerce. The Cong:regation refemed to had b€en foirnd-ed in 1921 by Americans of Italian extrìactlon wbo had rètulfied. to lta,ly tem-porarily to share with their kinsfolk and. neighbors this ner Joy of knowingJesus Christ. Americans of Italim extraction in Detroit had saerificially givenover two million lires to build the llouso of God where men coulal com€ inthe Bpirit of prayer to $'orship their Creator in peac.e and harmony. (Pleasefind enclosed Exhibit B notarized Statement of the Rev. Cosimo Caruso).

trhrther let me state that the first of the yea.r 1948 qrhen the ItallarConstitution riíent into effect, a large number of Italian Prot€stants gather€alat Sonnino, then just a few miles off Monte Casino, wh€re many Americanboys had died for the cause of liberty, and while théy were worshipping andelebmting' the inclusion into the new ConBtitution the Articles on lleedomof Assemblage, Association, anal Relig:ious 'Worship. they were mobbed bypeople who came in tmcks from their towns led by some priests. On thiboccasion, the pollce stood around doing nothing until a, la.rge number of ourpeople wore hurt and then the Protesta,nts were put in Jail. One of tìreProtestants wa^s killed. (News release ftóm tho Nevrspa,per of the Republicof Italy of Janua,ry 11, 1948).

Since then, we have had a large number of distur'bances. f have tfledocumentations in my possession which have treen written up by the ItallanGovemment. Other of our people have been slapDed, stoned, threa,tened. endstriously molested. whíle holding prayer-m€€tings in their own home. - Weha,ve a case of one minister who was hurt ìÀ/ith hls hands in the air blr enIta-lian policeman while _a Priest continued to slap -him. During this iime,the man tried to pra,y. Every Éíesture that is made by those of us who aretrying to bring about a better untlerstending between the peopìe of Itaty anclthe United St .t6s win be done in vain until this conditlon is corrected.'We have the case of the Church of Christ of ?exas going: ln and a,t-tempting to establish an or?hanage and they ha.d no thought ln mind butto preach the Gospel and- to help orphans and people who a1e in neecl. Theysay tlìose people are making' converts. Certainly they axe making conveÉs-.Isn't it better that they be converted to Chrìstianity than Communism whme.ight million nine hundred thousand Ita,lians in the la,st election voted. forthe communists and. pro-Communists.dictatorship? -where does this clalmcome fiom that Italy is 99.97r Roman Catholic? Is this a, wtsh on the partof the F,onan Catholic Church or "\Mhat is it?'When the Italian Government sig'ned the trea"ty of peace, dld it makemental reserva,tions that -it _woultl_ g:ive- relig-ious liberty to people whom theyliked and would withhold the right of worchip to those whom they dirl noilike regardless whether they -wers Pentecosta-ls; thoee of the Church -of

Chirst,Baptists, Methodis,ts -anal other minorities. I thtnk that Italy surrendereéluncondltiona,lly and the Treaty of Peace had no reservations. -

Artiele 15 of the Peace Treaty specifically provides for the Drotecfionof religious mlnorities. It does.not say Pentecostals, Baptists or'anythlntelse and the Italian Government a.greed túthis as a solemn covenani. Oiéit mean this, .or ilitl _it not?, îhat is all w€ want to knovr. 'With these fa,ctsbefore you, Sir, we know that our Government Flll take .whatever measuresare ne€€ssarJr' to brlng about the application of the taw in full lib€rty underthe 8uída1ce gf- Godr - TIe wish for the lta.lian GovemmeDt and the- ItalianDeople Cod's richest ble-asirl€i.

Yours in service to our countrJ.,

I ,ANK B. GIGLIOTîI, D.D. Ph. D.National Vice ChaimanCommlssion on Christian ActionNational Association ol Evangelicals of theUnited State8

Christians listen attentivelyto story of fight

for religioue liberty.

Dr. Frank B. Gigliolti -speaking lo the Oregon Camp rneeilng ofthe -À,ssem.bties àf cod;;;-lísi""i'iil-"iii. -\udienre of abo"_ri{,000 peoplo juty 5, rgso

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t-ctter from His Exc€ilencY

Randolpho Pacciardi' Minister

of National Defenge of the

Republic of ltaly.

t 0 tu6. t950lones lI

D?ar Gi€llottltI bal'o rscclv€a Jrou! Ièttór ilEtea JuE€ t4 co8ceú118 !Ir'

brlco il.Liltf tbo llves Èt cavÈso ilèI loDbat ltslt' 3nd I

bav6 aoott illlGctèat thÈ Autboritles concefts'lt so aB to

lsrsdy tbc rtoB€ Coae bt srDitmry and tniquitous astioD

aectdt€il ùy thG uÀto! of tbst co{r@mity.-

Iou Eslr b. lure tbs! latter ttl1 ùe scttlsc 1tt tba

taat tavr lot odt oa huEqd.ty grou[itst but slDe€ lr€edoq

ot rB1l€toua fèlth It olcèrlI l)roYtdt'a for anil Pr'ontl8at'ù

lg aot Costtttutto[ of tbc ltalfaf} E t'ubllc'-fì11. thsùtlg you lor yout tllil iDf,otilaùiolt X beg

ton to rI'I)lV lrr€1' to re tor ely euoh $restlo! that Dsy

lrlsèr aaa I tl]l D€ nrob ilaelcò to r3!o?è rr$ dflffcdtJi

or 8lluJld.rltaBillB€ ls"olY.at. -t trta tblr oPortuútfr to soBil !t'u !Y rÀ8aEt 6l3e-

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Letter from .Hon. Homer M. Byington, Jr.,Acting Director, Office ofWestern European Affairs,

Department of State,Washington, D. C.

DEPARTMENT OF STATEWASHINGION

In re'pty r6f€r toflE Juúe 50, 1950

l{t d3a! Irr. glglrotu!

In !rou! lotter of tls,y 9, 1950 to llr. ElohersoD.you encloEsd, photogtats of d,ocuents lnd.lcatlnE thaitha neyor of tb€ Co$mrle of Cavaao ats]. ToEba, Frcvlnooof Trevlso, It&ly, baa deúlea rater faolltttóe toEnrl@ Narln, a! ADerlcan cltlzen reDreeentlE fld6lentecoetaL Asseebltss of ood, on thè grouó.-of bl!r6L1glou,s sffl].latlo!.

You y111 b€ lntErested to L.nor that, ilb8equ€nt toatl approsch by ths Aoerlcs EÀba8sy at Ròoe on f,lr1enètter, the lta].lan Forelgn Offtoe bas reoontly reportea.thet tfr. t{slnrs yatsr np=ply has Ue"" ràÀióiÉ.--fii"À&a Deen cotrf1rnod,, the Eúbassy advlses. ln a letteryrltten bJr !lr. U{1n to tb€ &Èassy.

9l,!0o161!r tours,

Se RsvererilfranÈ E. elgllottl,

Bor 6,Lelon Crors, Ca].lforala.

Uoner tt!-:y{ng\oÈr-}r. VAotlng Dlr€ctor, Offls€ of

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terial has been made possiblethrough the generosit5r of a smallgroup of Christian friends andespeeially Edwina Hegland whoworked diligently in examiningthe original documents in thepreparation of this booklet.

F. B. G.

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