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<p> 26 page printout
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Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship.</p>
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<p> This file, its printout, or copies of either
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are to be copied and given away, but NOT sold.</p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom, Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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<p>Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius</p>
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<p>The Black International No. 1</p>
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<p> THE VATICAN'S LAST CRIME</p>
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<p> HOW THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL JOINED THE
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WORLD-PLOT AGAINST FREEDOM,
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LIBERALISM, AND DEMOCRACY</p>
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<p> by Joseph McCabe</p>
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<p> HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS
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GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS</p>
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<p> Chapter I</p>
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<p> THE FOULEST WAR IN HISTORY</p>
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<p> This war is one of the most deliberately aggressive, one of
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the most bloody and costly, and the most revolting war in history.
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It is not the work, of an Attila or a Genghis Khan, a man from the
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wilds of Asia whose barbaric dreams of conquest had never been
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checked by the ideals of modern civilization. It is the foul work
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of men who know how the race has fought during a century and a
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half, ever since the American and the French Revolutions, to rid
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its life of the last taint of barbarism and had reached at least a
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fair prospect of a final victory over violence and injustice: the
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work of loathsome hypocrites, who masked with a pretense of
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creating a higher social order the most monstrous greed, the most
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abhorrent callousness, that ever debased the human mind.</p>
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<p> Historians have disputed how the guilt of the war of 1914-1918
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must be distributed amongst the combatants. No historian will ever
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hesitate in assigning the guilt for this war. it brands for all
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time a relatively small number of men in Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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It puts upon them this infamy, that from a barbaric lust of power
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and "glory," which ought now to be confined to the idle dreams of
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young schoolboys, and from an almost insane greed of wealth for
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themselves and their supporters they set out to drench the planet
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and in blood and bring incalculable misery upon hundreds of
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millions of innocent men, women and children.</p>
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<p> These men, the Hitler's and Goering's and Goebbels of Germany
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-- "the vilest triumvirate that has appeared in history, said the
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late Ambassador <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Dodd</span>, who knew them and knew history -- the
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Mussolinis and Cianos of Italy, the Hirohitos and Matsuokas of
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Japan saw with wide-open eyes the tragic close of the last war.
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They knew that nearly 9000000 men in the prime of life had been
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slaughtered in altars that were less merciful than those of the </p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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THE VATICAN'S LAST CRIME</p>
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<p>Aztecs; yet they were prepared to sacrifice even more on the sordid
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altars of their hellish ambitions. They had seen desolation from
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Calais to Poland: and they proposed to spread a worse desolation
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over the greater part of the earth. They had learned how in the
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last war at least $100000000000 of the wealth that men
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laboriously create and meagerly share -- not to count the waste of
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man-power and the paralysis of trade -- had been thrown into a
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morass; yet knowing the advance of science and expecting a larger
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theater of war they would squander more than that sum in the
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pursuit of their greed.</p>
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<p> The historian of the future who will coldly write these lines
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will add a fourth count to the charge. During the twenty years
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between the two great wars we had caught a vision of a new and
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better world. That light of science which, as it slowly dawns,
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enriches the imagination of man with plans that are more hopeful
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and more confident than those offered us by any utopian, had grown
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brighter. You remember how ten years ago America rang with
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discussion of the promises of the Technocrats. Professors said that
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we could, if we were wise, "smother every family in America with
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commodities," Engineers became visionaries and made blueprints of
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a world in which poverty would be unknown and no man would feel
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that gnawing anxiety about holding the job which a dozen jobless
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hungrily envied. No more of this niggardly counting of dimes when
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the children want to go to the pictures, of dollars for the winter
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boots and clothe's . . . An exaggeration, if you like, but every
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man knows that there is a great and solid scientific truth behind
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it all. And now, instead of seeing our wealth grow and brighten a
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million drab homes, we must pour down the military drain a sum with
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which we could have transformed the face of the earth, and we must
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see our industrial productiveness pass from prostitution to
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weariness.</p>
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<p> That was only half the promise of science. Those knowing folk
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who read so little and talk so much asked, when you spoke about
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this promise of the future: Can you change human nature? You can
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build a house for a pig but it remains a pig. And while folk were
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glibly repeating this old saw science was quietly proving that it
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is just one more popular fallacy like the luck of a rabbit's foot
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or the ill-luck of number thirteen, the virtue of priests or the
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wisdom of Popes. By 1930 the science of psychology had conducted
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the "soul" or "mind" to its frontiers, thanking it for its
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provisional services -- if any. What was left to study was human
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behavior, and as we examined this in a scientific light we saw
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that, instead of it being unalterable or requiring a prodigious
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time to change, it is one of the most modifiable things under the
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sun. Precisely because it is human. Man's behavior differs from the
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rigid automatic behavior of the pig just in that fact that it is
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not rigid and automatic. It depends upon ideas and stimulations
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from without which can be changed; as Russia changed them for its
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people, with stupendous results, in less than a generation.</p>
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<p> It is one of the tragic ironies of our time that, apart from
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Russia, it was only the criminal Dictators who acted upon this rich
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principle of science. As late as the end of 1929 Hitler had not yet
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poisoned the minds -- the mechanism of behavior -- of one in 350 of
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the German people. He had 180000 followers in a population of </p>
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Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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<p>60000000. Han's wanted a quiet life, his big pipe and mug of beer
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and friendly neighbors, just as we do. He would have shuddered if
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someone had foretold that in ten years he would, because he
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accepted the lead of a criminal lunatic and a bunch of greedy
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adventurers, see his wife and little Gretchen just splashes of
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churned flesh and blood under the ruins of the home he had built
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for them. But Goebbels changed his "human nature" in six years.
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Mussolini, or Gayda, did the same, with the help of the priests of
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Italy. The Japs did the same with their fishers and farmers and
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textile workers, seizing and prostituting all the magnificent means
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of instruction that science has provided -- the school and college,
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the radio and the cinema, the printing press and the library --
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these poisoners of the human race had the majority of folk in three
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nations soon howling like wolves at the scent of blood. Had it not
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been for this we were within measurable distance of a genuine era
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of peace, comfort, and brotherhood.</p>
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<p> This, you may say, certainly looks like what happened, but
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it's impossible. How could a gang, smaller than that which looted
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New York in 1860 or St. Louis in 1890, take over a whole country,
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make a corrupt fortune that beggars Tammany, and have a very fair
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chance of becoming super-emperors?</p>
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<p> Think again; and start with the fact that a small minority of
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men in three countries, men of the vilest character and of colossal
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greed, did secure control of those countries and organize them for
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war. No one disputes that. And if you have had this success
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explained to you on the line that Italy and Germany had, through
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the conduct of Some melodramatic villains called Reds or
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Bolsheviks, fallen into an anarchy that ruined their economies, and
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that Mussolini and Hitler came along with "ideologies" which
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promised deliverance from this anarchy, put the theory in the
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trash-basket with the stories of Washington's cherry tree and
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William Tell's apple. It's worse. It is, as we shall see later, a
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lie. For years Mussolini and Hitler were just small-scale gangsters
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directing mobs of hoodlums with bottles of castor-oil, loaded
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whips, and automatics. They ranked in the European press, when it
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thought fit to notice them, as part of the scum that had boiled to
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the surface in a time of trouble.</p>
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<p> It was just because they had no appeal to thinking men,
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because they had relied upon disorder and brutality instead of
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order and discipline to attain such position as they had, that
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certain larger and more respectable forces -- wealth, privilege,
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and religion -- took them up and gave them that control of the
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spring's of opinion and behavior which has enabled them to make a
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lie look like a grand truth, a gangster's plan seem a schedule of
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national salvation. Thyssen wandering about Europe telling
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everybody how the Nazis took his millions and double-crossed him is
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one of the thousands who thought they could hire the gunman as the
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White Knights of Privilege and then dismiss them with a suitable
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reward. The heads of the German Church are only less outspoken
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because they are still within reach of the Nazi lash. The King of
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Italy fumes in his Quirinal just as the Pope does in his <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>.
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It is -- to borrow a Phrase from French history -- the Day of
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Dupes.</p>
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THE VATICAN'S LAST CRIME</p>
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<p> Until we understand this the blight which has cursed our life
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and the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>'s share in causing it will remain painful and
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disquieting mysteries. Advertisement is a mild variety of hypnotism
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weakened by the fact that the advertiser has limited resources, and
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a hundred rivals. Smith's soup is the finest in the world until you
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see Jones's poster on the next hoarding. Now the Fascist system was
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so successful in corrupting nations, once its highly respectable
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patrons had given it wealth and power, because it uses the
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hypnotism of the advertiser in its ideal form: no rivalry, no
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discordant note, unlimited resources, the employment of every
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device from the pulpit, to the professor's chair or the urchin with
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his bit of chalk. You may object that at all events there must be
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something sensible, convincing, attractive in the message that is
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brayed and blazed everywhere. Is it always necessary? If you assail
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ear and eye at every moment of the day for years with "Heil Hitler"
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or "Mussolini Solo" millions will begin to see genius in a
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neuropathic or a brutal adventurer who ought to be selling beef and
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mutton. however, there was a message, and it was very convincing.</p>
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<p> Take the case of Germany. On April 3, 1938 the leading German
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scientific weekly, Die Umschau, contained an article, not too
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prominently displayed, on the future of Germany in Europe. It was
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the program of the New Order, yet as far as I can ascertain, not a
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single paper in Britain or America noticed it. It described a
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system of ship-canals and canalization of lakes, already more than
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half constructed in 1938, which would connect every industrial town
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in Germany along the Danube and even across France and Belgium,
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with nearly every country and port in Europe. The scientific
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writer, who ended with a "Heil Hitler," coldly explained how all
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Europe would then supply food and raw materials to Germany and
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receive payment in manufactured goods. This, in a respectable
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scientific periodical, was the raw program of the future
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enslavement of Europe, the paralysis of industry in every country,
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and the colossal enrichment of the German manufacturer and worker.
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That was the bait. Neither, Thyssen nor Hans cared the toss of a
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coin about theories of Nordic blood or Nazi ideology. it was a
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stupendous greed that was dangled before the eyes of Germany; and
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the poor fish in Italy, who believes that he would share the loot,
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used the bait to attract his own industrialists and workers. Japan
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notoriously has nothing but the same shameless greed behind its
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bland talk of New Order and Asia for the Asiatic.</p>
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<p> Few took any notice when, in 1938, I drew attention to this
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and similar articles in the responsible German press. At the time
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there was still a world-chorus of praise for the "order and
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efficiency" of the Nazi system, and it would not do to admit a
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jarring note. Folk were told that, while there was no need of
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Fascism in the United States and Great Britain, these other -- or
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inferior -- countries were "without form and void" and "darkness
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was upon the face of the deep," and it was fine that the spirit of
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Fascism "moved upon the face of the waters" creating a new world.
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This Fascism, it was said, menaced only disorderly folk, sadists,
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atheists, corruptors of women and children -- the Reds, in short.
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What a tissue of lies it has all turned out to be! Roosevelt was
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deluded as effectively as Chamberlain or Reynaud; Cardinal
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Dougherty as effectively as the Pope. The historian of the future
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will not ask how a few gunmen nearly became the emperors of half </p>
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<p>the world. That is already clear. He will ask why the world looked
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on supinely, even applauding, while these men built a force. of so
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formidable a character that they almost compassed their sordid aim.</p>
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<p> There can be only one answer. The statesmen, industrialists,
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bankers, and bishops of America are as able and well-informed as
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those of Germany and Japan and far superior to those of Italy. They
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were deluded about the Fascist program because one clause of it so
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far coincided with their own interests that they were not disposed
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to pay close attention to the other clauses. The great thing was
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that they promised to cheek the rapid world-growth of Socialism.
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But the other clauses of the program were plain enough from the
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start. The only change in the scheme of the gunmen in recent years
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is that it has been expanded until it aims at conquering and
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exploiting more than half the earth; and this is not so near to
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lunacy as some would have us believe, It was due to a cold
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calculation of the possibilities in view of the supineness or
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complacency of the democratic governments and their press and the
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support of the Black International.</p>
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<p> Japan, Germany, and Italy have made no secret of their
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aggressive imperialistic schemes during the last ten years. I
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described them in full in 1937 in three booklets of "The A B C
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Library of Living Knowledge," taking the facts from semi-official
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and other reliable publications. There was no secrecy about these
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publications. It was a necessary part of Mussolini's appeal to the
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mob from the first that, once the politicians were cleared away, he
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would make a greater Italy by annexing Malta, Corsica, Savoy, and
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Dalmatia. Little girls read that in their balilia catechisms and
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even little girls knew that this meant war on England, France, and
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Yugo-Slavia. It was equally necessary for Hitler to promise that he
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would restore the greatness of Germany by bringing in all German-speaking lands (Austria, Alsace, and part of Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia and Denmark); and to these he added as early as 1924, in
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Mein Kampf, the annexation of the Ukraine and the annihilation of
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France. That meant a European War. Japan has for the last ten years
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organized great patriotic societies, With millions of members,
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demanding the annexation of the eastern half of Asia and all
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islands of the Pacific. These three programs were the protocol of
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a world war; the war by which we now suffer. In my three booklets
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I showed that there was not the least uncertainty about that. It is
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just another fairy-tale for adults that the Axis has sprung a
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surprise upon an innocent world.</p>
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<p> The vital question which we have to ask is why America, Great
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Britain, and France permitted, without arming themselves, the three
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robber nations to create so gigantic a military force that they had
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a real hope of attaining their object and dividing the earth into
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three Fascist spheres: into two, rather, because Germany and Japan
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never regarded Mussolini as more than a catspaw. In a general way
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you know the answer to this question. The Fascists were going to
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destroy the Reds and that was so monumental a service to the
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democracies, or to their ruling class and their Churches, that even
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diplomats and statesmen and prelates took the word of the arch-liars that they would cultivate peace when they had crushed the
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Reds. They were not ignorant but they were guilty of a gross amount
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of wishful thinking. Even when Mussolini publicly and brazenly said</p>
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<p>that he offered the world "peace resting on eight million bayonets"
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they put it down as a harmless overflow of a strong man's strength.
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When, in 1934, he made the most deliberate and official statement
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of the nature of Fascism (in the article "Fascismo" in his new
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Encyclopedia Italians), saying that Fascism regarded war as the
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noblest work of the race and peace as a degrading ideal, statesmen
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and journalists pretended that they had never read it. So through
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five shameful years the world that was threatened with an appalling
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disaster smiled and praised the "efficiency" of the butchers who
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were sharpening their knives; because the world is now ruled by its
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press, and of the papers on which men relied the world over nine
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copies out of ten came from the editorial offices and printing
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shops of rich men who wanted the Reds suppressed at any price.</p>
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<p> But where, you ask, does the Black International enter this
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conspiracy, as it really was? We are going to see immediately that
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of all the privileged minorities which dreaded the Reds and were
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therefore far too easily duped by the promises of the Anti-Reds the
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Church of Rome had the most urgent need of relief. The cry will be
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raised, of course, that I now accuse the Papacy of causing the war.
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That sort of rubbish is a necessary part of the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>
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propagandist system. What I do say is that the Papacy allied itself
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with Italy, as everybody knows, with Japan, as everybody ought to
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know -- it is only a year since the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> coined a gold medal for
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the virtuous Matsuoka -- and, as far as it was allowed to do so,
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with Germany, and that it used its international organization to
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create that fierce and confused hatred of Communism on which the
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Axis would rely when the crisis of the war was reached. Of that
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international plotting in every country these ten booklets will
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provide decisive evidence. It is shame enough that a Church which
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makes such arrogant claims of moral superiority, a Church which
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professes to have the finest international intelligence-service and
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to be inflexible in the condemnation of crime, should be silent, as
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it was silent, during ten years of monstrous outrages -- Manchukuo,
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Austria, Abyssinia, etc. -- but the Pope has a deeper shame. He
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played an active part over and over again on the side of the devil.
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Because the Church of Rome was not merely threatened, like all
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wealth and privilege, by the growth of Socialism -- it was in fact
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breaking up under the impact, and only the violent suppression of
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the Socialists, if necessary by war, could arrest this
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disintegration.</p>
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<p> Chapter II</p>
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<p> JUST WHAT THE PAPACY NEEDED</p>
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<p> There are various ways of divining into sections the broad
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stream of events which we call human history. One might divide it
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from a sociological viewpoint into two parts: the rise and the fall
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of privilege. During the first 3000 years of history we find an
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ever-widening gap between a privileged minority and the working
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majority. Once upon a time men had chosen able and strong men to
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"rule" them, and these had chosen "companion's" (Counts) and
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"leaders" (Dukes) of the troops who shared their privileges. In
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those days it was considered just as important to ward off evil
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spirits and flatter good spirits, and cunning men who could
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persuade their fellows that they were particularly skilful at this </p>
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<p>sort of work founded another privileged caste. With the growth of
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wealth, when men began to live in cities, the glamour of the sacred
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castes -- kings, nobles, and priests -- increased, The Kings were
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Sons of God, and the priests were his very special friends. Palaces
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and temples, the mansions of the rich, the nobles, and the chief
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priests, rose high above the clutter of mean homes.</p>
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<p> That is another story, but it is necessary to outline it
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because the world-torture which we endure in this generation is a
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vital stage in the second half of history; the era of the undoing
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of privilege. The "profound" folk -- usually literary men whose
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knowledge of any branch of positive learning would hardly fill a
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five-cent note-book -- who now enlighten us about our problems by
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essays, feature-articles, and sermons have made some remarkable
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discoveries about our age. It is sick; it is degenerate; it is
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World-weary; it has the insolence of youth; it relies too much on
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old men; it misses the firm guidance of religion; it talks too much
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about rights and too little about duties, and so on.</p>
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<p> It is all bunk. For instance, one of the most persistent
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charges is that, being irreligious, our younger men have lost the
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Spirit of sacrifice, whereas in Europe and China at least
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15000000 bravely confront the horrible dangers of a modern war,
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and certainly four-fifths of them (Germans, <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Russians</span>, <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> and
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Chinese) have no religion. The truth is that our generation, our
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degenerate, frivolous, selfish generation, has taken up, and more
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vigorously than ever, a task which the race has approached whenever
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and wherever it was free during the last 2500 years; to reduce the
|
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harsh contrasts of privilege and service, idleness and work, wealth
|
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and poverty. Our age does not mind paying a good price for high
|
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service, but it doubts if the services of priests and kings are
|
|
worth billions of dollars to a nation, and the conviction spreads
|
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that the entire system of privilege is the chief obstacle to the
|
|
scientific organization and betterment of life. The world of
|
|
privilege is, as it has always done, reacting bloodily to the
|
|
revolt.</p>
|
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<p> The work of undoing privilege began 2500 years ago in the
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cities of Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor, where Greeks mingled
|
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with men of many races on free soil. There were no kings or nobles,
|
|
the priest's had little power, and the rich -- moderately rich --
|
|
men served as merchants and in their leisure did some very useful
|
|
thinking for the race. Privilege -- the Kings of Persia --
|
|
scattered them, and Greece took up the task. It got rid of its
|
|
kings and listened to philosophers rather than priests; and if the
|
|
Romans to whom the torch was next passed, apostatized to the extent
|
|
of restoring monarchy and allowing some to become very rich --
|
|
though not nearly so rich as our multi-millionaires -- they at
|
|
least exacted a princely price in superb free services to the
|
|
workers. Then the night of the Dark Age fell upon Europe.</p>
|
|
<p> Now that Professors as well as politicians have a great
|
|
respect for "the venerable Church of Rome" and its "august head" we
|
|
must, it appears, not talk about a Dark Age. Please yourself. The
|
|
facts are that whereas in the later days of the Roman Empire three
|
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workers out of four had been free men, nine out of ten of them were
|
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during the Dark Age (500-1100) serfs, which is the polite French </p>
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<p>way of saying slaves; whereas the Roman workers had all free
|
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education (and free bread, free games, free medical service, etc.),
|
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nine out of ten in the new Europe were totally illiterate and of an
|
|
incredible ignorance; and that whereas the Roman and Greeks of the
|
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fourth century had had the protection of a fine code of law and in
|
|
general character were as good as we are, law was almost as extinct
|
|
as art in the new Europe, and the grossness of manners and morals
|
|
was indescribable. But please yourself, I am merely, in all
|
|
clarity, explaining why the work of human redemption was dropped
|
|
for five or six centuries.</p>
|
|
<p> What it is important to know if we want to understand our own
|
|
age is that from the time when Europe mentally awoke, in the
|
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eleventh century, to our days this attempt to put the world right
|
|
has inspired three great revolutions, and what we witness today is
|
|
the most logical and the broadest of the three. After five
|
|
centuries of revolts -- the Popes had to fight a republican
|
|
movement in their own city for two centuries -- and bloody
|
|
reprisals Europe saw that the Roman Church was the arch-enemy and
|
|
its power must be broken. Hence the Reformation. On the last
|
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ghastly fields of the Thirty Years' War, the War of <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>ism and
|
|
Protestantism, which was one of the most savage and squalid in
|
|
history, the race won its first great victory over privilege; and
|
|
it is pleasant as well as informing to recall that this first
|
|
instalment of freedom was won in large part through the criminal
|
|
misbehavior of the Popes themselves. They had stored away in Rome
|
|
a treasure of at least a quarter of a billion dollars to help the
|
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<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s when the war came, and when it reached its crisis Pope
|
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Urban VIII gave the whole vast sum to his greedy and vicious
|
|
relatives. You can read that in the latest <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> History of the
|
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Popes (Hayward's, 1931).</p>
|
|
<p> Some of our advanced writers smile at the Reformation, but in
|
|
point of fact it released forces which brought about a rapid
|
|
progress in wealth and science and inspired the deeper revolt; the
|
|
revolt which flared up in the American and the French Revolutions
|
|
and then for a hundred years sustained a struggle against reaction
|
|
and privilege which was as heroic as any in history. The fight was
|
|
now against Church and feudalism as against priests and kings (and
|
|
their politicians) in alliance. America, having abolished
|
|
feudalism, had no share in it except to welcome refugees, and so
|
|
there is some excuse for the very shabby treatment of it in
|
|
American schools, colleges, and history books. But the chief reason
|
|
for the suppression of it is <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> influence because it knocks
|
|
into a cocked hat everything that the apologists say about the
|
|
Church. I gave a fairly full account of it in various volumes of
|
|
the Appeal to Reason Library and must here confine myself to what
|
|
is vitally required in order to understand the Black International
|
|
and the lies of its apologists.</p>
|
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<p> Five year's ago, when we began to try to help Spain and I
|
|
recalled Spain's magnificent record in the nineteenth-century
|
|
struggle, a Communist leader, a friend of mine, disdainfully swept
|
|
that struggle aside as "merely a political revolution" and -- this
|
|
was the main point -- thought it wrong to antagonize <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s by
|
|
talking about it. I doubt if the economic revolt would have been
|
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possible if the political-religious revolutions had not been </p>
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<p>carried first. In any case, a few years later Communism was extinct
|
|
in most of Europe and South America, and the Church of Rome was
|
|
shrieking for the blood of "Bolsheviks" from one side of the planet
|
|
to the other. In fact, <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> writers are now saying everywhere
|
|
that this Liberalism of the last century is the real root of all
|
|
our modern disorder, and the official attitude of the Church is to
|
|
claim a full restoration of the royalist-clerical regime for which
|
|
it had fought in the last century. Would-be kings, semi-consecrated
|
|
loafers, wait with its blessing, on the frontiers of France, Spain,
|
|
Portugal, Austria and Hungary; and of course poor Leopold of
|
|
Belgium, whom the Church has white-washed, is going to be put back
|
|
on his golden throne.</p>
|
|
<p> Whatever satisfaction anyone finds in dismissing the
|
|
revolution of the last century, the fight to hold the gains of the
|
|
French Revolution, as "a mere political struggle" or a "bourgeois
|
|
revolution," the story of it is vitally relevant to our tragedy
|
|
today, and it is just on that account that it is suppressed or
|
|
toned down in our educational and historical literature. For it
|
|
shows, even as you find it told in the most important European
|
|
manuals, that it is the black priests and their white allies who
|
|
were guilty of just such murderous excesses and vindictive
|
|
massacres as they now mendaciously attribute to the Reds.</p>
|
|
<p> In the course of the Nineteenth Century nearly half a million
|
|
unnamed men, women, and children were done to death, on scaffolds
|
|
and in massacres and deadly jail's, for claiming less -- they were
|
|
as a rule not republicans -- than the rights granted in the
|
|
American Constitution of 1787. If we care to add the men who, from
|
|
Poland to Peru, died on the battlefield for the sacred cause the
|
|
number rises to more than a million, but let us keep to the unarmed
|
|
victims and their very moderate demands. These men and women, and
|
|
often children, were crushed with a savagery that surpasses even
|
|
the worst features of the untruthful stories about the Reds in
|
|
Spain and Russia; and the murderers and torturers were in nearly
|
|
every case directed by priests and bishops who cooperated with
|
|
monarchs (of Naples, Spain, and Portugal) of the vilest type of
|
|
character. The outrages were so revolting and the complicity of the
|
|
Church so clear, that the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> historian, Lord Acton, the one
|
|
outstanding historian the Church can claim in modern times, wrote
|
|
to the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> historian Lady Blennerhassett:</p>
|
|
<p> The accomplices of the Old Man of the Mountains (the
|
|
classic assassins of history) picked off individual victims,
|
|
but the Papacy contrived murder and massacre on the largest
|
|
and also on the most cruel and inhuman scale. They were not
|
|
only wholesale assassins, but they also made the principle of
|
|
assassination a law of the Christian Church and a condition of
|
|
salvation. (Selections from the Correspondence of the First
|
|
Lord Acton, 1917, Vol. I, p. 55.)</p>
|
|
<p> You may read the horrible details in the Cambridge Modern
|
|
History (Vol X) the greatest historical work in the English
|
|
language, or in any standard history of modern Spain, Portugal
|
|
Italy, and Austria.</p>
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<p> These are the undisputed historical facts and the recognized
|
|
authorities upon which I base the statement which I have put in
|
|
italic's and in bold face words. And on the same solid ground I now
|
|
make another statement in bold face words, because these are the
|
|
essential points to remember: The people recovered power from the
|
|
clerical-royalists repeatedly but they never indulged in reprisals,
|
|
much less savagery, as the Black-and-Whites always did. There were,
|
|
naturally, local outbursts against the defeated tyrants, a few
|
|
churches were burned and priests killed, but the authorities always
|
|
checked these spurts of violence. Who, then, are the real Reds?</p>
|
|
<p> What about the famous French Revolution, you may ask? You will
|
|
find it strange, if you reflect, that when <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> (and some other
|
|
writers) want to show you how the "mob" is prone to commit
|
|
outrages, especially if it is deprived of "the restraints of
|
|
religion", they skip from the French Revolution of 1789 to the
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Russian</span> Revolution of 1917. They refuse to glance at the dozen
|
|
important revolutions which lie between because these were always
|
|
followed by clerical-royalist, savagery when the Whites recovered
|
|
power; a savagery which led Lord Acton, in his day one of the
|
|
leading historians in England, to denounce his own Popes and the
|
|
worst assassins in history. But they also tell long discredited
|
|
lies about the French and the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Russian</span> Revolutions.</p>
|
|
<p> Historians are now agreed within narrow limits about the
|
|
September Massacre and the Terror which are the chief charges
|
|
against the French Revolution, as you will find in Lavisse's
|
|
standard history of France, the equivalent of the Cambridge
|
|
History, and more recent French works. In the September Massacre
|
|
there were only about 1100 victims, and most of these were
|
|
criminals and prostitutes from the jails. It is agreed that only
|
|
about 500 men were involved in the butchery, and the hundreds of
|
|
thousands of citizens of Paris were horrified. In the Terror
|
|
(1793-4) there were about 18000 victims -- there had been at least
|
|
30000 in a few days in the horrible <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> St. Bartholomew
|
|
Massacre -- and only one-fifth of these were nobles, priests, and
|
|
nuns, while 67 percent were atheistic working men. It was a fight
|
|
of rival political parties, and the leader of the winning party,
|
|
the director of the carnage, Robespierre was a fanatically
|
|
religious man who hated Atheism. What is worse, <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> writers
|
|
never mention, and very few other writer's ever mention, that there
|
|
was a White Terror in 1794 and after the fall of Napoleon which
|
|
was, more brutal, than the Terror of 1793. You probably never heard
|
|
of it. That is how the education of democracies is conducted today;
|
|
to the great satisfaction of the Church and the reactionaries.</p>
|
|
<p> The long and bloody fight which, as I said, dragged on through
|
|
the nineteenth century and was maintained in Russia and Spain until
|
|
our own time was part of this second European Revolution. By 1920
|
|
it seemed to have triumphed everywhere, but the third revolution
|
|
had already begun. We may call this the Economic Revolution but it
|
|
was much broader. Socialism -- not the Anglo-American anaemic type
|
|
but as the world knew it -- threatened a comprehensive war on
|
|
privilege; on rank, wealth, priestly immunities, political
|
|
corruption, and all sorts of "rulers." And just because it was so
|
|
all-embracing, every variety of privilege that it threatened took
|
|
alarm, and they formed a grand coalition. The Unholy Alliance of
|
|
1814 was alive again.</p>
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<p> To enlist in its support the more simple-minded folk and the
|
|
masses who had no wealth or privileges to fight for the cry of
|
|
Communism, Bolshevism, or the Reds was raised. The enemy is, of
|
|
course, Socialism, because it aims to create a new social order in
|
|
which there shall be no great private wealth, no chance to make a
|
|
million, no rich landowners, no hereditary rank or office, no
|
|
parasitism, no privileges of priests. The present Pope may be as
|
|
ignorant as you like to think him outside of his theology and
|
|
Church Law but he did know, when he told his <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s that
|
|
"Communism is the greatest evil in the world" and called for a
|
|
crusade against it that outside Russia Communism never had a
|
|
prospect of attaining power and in Russia -- the Union of Socialist
|
|
Soviet Republics, remember -- it is an ideal of the future.
|
|
Mussolini, we shall see, confesses that he laughed in his sleeve
|
|
when he raised the boogie of Communism in Italy, and in Spain the
|
|
Communists were the smallest, if not the most respectable, of the
|
|
popular parties. But it would not do to talk of extinguishing
|
|
Socialism when the Labor Party in England occasionally calls itself
|
|
Socialist, so they set up the scarecrow of Communism or Bolshevism
|
|
and clothed it in ragged stories of rape and murder.</p>
|
|
<p> In view of it's history the Papacy would inevitably join its
|
|
natural allies -- wealth, power, and privilege -- but in the
|
|
present state of the world it had a special and very pressing
|
|
reason. During the fifteen years -- say from 1919 or 1920 -- after
|
|
Socialism began to spread from Russia over the world the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>
|
|
lost, mainly through its influence, more than four times as many
|
|
followers as it had lost at the Reformation.</p>
|
|
<p> The Press is now so much controlled in the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> interest
|
|
that this will seem to many a startling statement. It is, in fact,
|
|
well within the range of demonstrable facts. If you reflect that,
|
|
as you will find, the population of Great Britain, the largest
|
|
seceding country, in the days of Henry VIII was only about
|
|
4000000, you easily see that the total loss to the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> at the
|
|
Reformation could hardly be more than 12000000. But beyond
|
|
question it lost, mainly to Socialism and Communism, at least
|
|
50000000 between 1919 and the beginning of the Fascist reaction.
|
|
The largest items in this total will be vindicated as we proceed
|
|
but a few words of explanation will reconcile the reluctant reader
|
|
to it.</p>
|
|
<p> In countries where there was a clear-cut issue of Church and
|
|
anti-Church at the polls -- Spain, the South American Republics,
|
|
Italy, Mexico, Germany, and Austria -- the election figures give a
|
|
very safe indication, and they show that in each of these cases
|
|
(except Mexico and Austria) the Church had lost, and the Socialists
|
|
had gained, at least 10000000. Add Russia (where <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>ism was
|
|
nearly extinguished), Mexico, Czecho-Slovakia (where, we shall see,
|
|
the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> clergy admit a loss of about 2000000), Holland, and
|
|
Austria (where the Socialists held Vienna until they were
|
|
treacherously disarmed for Hitler by gallant little Dollfuss), and
|
|
further losses in France, Belgium . . . Need I say more? The loss
|
|
was probably nearer 70000000 than 50000000. After the anti-clerical revolution in Spain in 1932 the only countries in the
|
|
world that remained officially loyal to the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> were Poland and
|
|
Hungary. We will not count Mussolini's Italy.</p>
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<p> The Roman Church knows from seven centuries of experience,
|
|
ever since the Albigensian Massacre, that it never recovers ground
|
|
by an intellectual appeal, by honest propaganda. How was it to
|
|
check this new and appalling leakage? Only, as in all ages, by an
|
|
alliance with forces which could and would trample on the ideals of
|
|
peace and freedom. Fascism was just what it needed.</p>
|
|
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|
|
<p> IS THE CHURCH OF ROME FASCIST?</p>
|
|
<p> America has been so drenched in recent years with <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>
|
|
claims that the Church is ideally democratic and that the Pope is
|
|
-- or has been since democracy seemed to have won its battle
|
|
against feudalism -- the inflexible champion of political justice
|
|
and freedom that some may imagine that an alliance with Fascism is
|
|
unthinkable. We shall see largely on the testimony of <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s, in
|
|
the following booklets that this alliance is an elementary fact of
|
|
the present situation, but it is easy to show at once that this
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> description of the Church's attitude which is broadcast in
|
|
the United states -- and now in the United States only -- is a
|
|
mockery.</p>
|
|
<p> The <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span>
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> writer, W. Teeling (The Pope in Politics,
|
|
1937), who has quite a reputation for boldness, almost heresy, is,
|
|
his own sect, says that there are 350000000 <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s in the
|
|
world. How Teeling came to be described as bold and critical I do
|
|
not know. He criticizes the Church only in the matter of Abyssinia
|
|
and only the most expert clerical -- shall we say manipulators of
|
|
truth? try to defend it on that point. With his 350000000
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s he goes 20000000 better than the sufficiently audacious
|
|
official claim, and, recalling how Macaulay gave the total as
|
|
150000000 a century ago, he ask us to admire the miracle of its
|
|
growth. But when you reflect on the high <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> birth rate -- you
|
|
go to hell, the priest tells <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> parents, if you cheat the
|
|
Church of possible subscribers by using contraceptives -- and when
|
|
you learn, as you easily can, that according to the experts, the
|
|
population of a modern State would, without birth control, double
|
|
every third of a century, the miracle looks rather tawdry. The
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> total now obviously ought to be 600000000. It is in
|
|
point of fact less than 200000000.</p>
|
|
<p> You smile at the figure of 330000000 when, if you take the
|
|
trouble to look up <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> statistics, you find that it includes
|
|
30000000 in France, where optimistic <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> writers do not
|
|
claim 10000000; 30000000 in Germany, where Hitler plays
|
|
skittle's with the Church; 40000000 in Italy, where as long ago
|
|
as 1919 the banned Socialists polled 1840593 votes (more than
|
|
half of the literate adult males) out of 3500000; 24000000 in
|
|
Spain, where it took the armies of three nations two years to put
|
|
the clerical Humpty Dumpty back on the wall; 60000000 in South
|
|
America, where the Blacks keep power only by the use of violence,
|
|
torture, and the zeal of masses of illiterate <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Indians</span>. And so on.
|
|
These are the little pleasantries of <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> arithmetic.</p>
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<p> Let us say 200000000. Where are they? Now, no sophistry can
|
|
obscure the lesson of the answer to that; and it is the same
|
|
whether you prefer to speak of 150000000 or 350000000
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s. Apart from the "converts" on foreign missions, who might
|
|
be classed as consumers goods, nine-tenths of the Pope's subjects
|
|
live under a Fascist flag. That fact is so uncomfortable that even
|
|
the most ingenious American apologist prefers to say nothing about
|
|
it. They live under the regimes of Vichy France, Franco Spain,
|
|
Salazar Portugal, Mussolini Italy, Horthy Hungary, and in the
|
|
Republics of South and Central America, nearly all of which are
|
|
Fascist, Poland was Fascist before it became compulsorily Nazi. And
|
|
not the boldest apologist can say, even to his own flock, that this
|
|
fact gives pain to the democratic Pope. Everybody knows that he
|
|
warmly blesses the Fascist regime under which they live and urges
|
|
it as the model for all <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> countries. He has to. In an
|
|
atmosphere of freedom his Church always crumbles.</p>
|
|
<p> Who are the enemies of Fascism? Russia, where the Church has
|
|
virtually perished because of its political intrigues, is the most
|
|
effective and most thorough going enemy, Great Britain, where
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s are less than one-twentieth of the population, is next.
|
|
I do not say the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> Empire because the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> half of <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Canada</span>
|
|
is Fascist, and the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s of Australia are, under the lead of
|
|
anti-<span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> Archbishop Mannix, by no means united for the struggle
|
|
against Fascism. Third is the United States, where genuine
|
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<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s are less than one-tenth of the population but very much
|
|
more than one-tenth of the Isolationists. In sum, there are in
|
|
Europe and America 350000000 non-<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> thorough opponents of
|
|
Fascism to about 20000000 <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> more-or-less opponent's. Add
|
|
Asia, and you have 1000000000 non-<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> opponents, fighting
|
|
or ready to fight against Fascism, and less than 30000000
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s.</p>
|
|
<p> Who were the chief traitors to the cause of democratic
|
|
civilization? <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> France -- that is to say, the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> and
|
|
Pope-directed part of France, Belgium (or its Fascists, royalists,
|
|
and priests), and the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> Croats of Yugo-Slavia.</p>
|
|
<p> Who made the best fight against the invading Huns? Norway,
|
|
which has only 2000 <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s to nearly 3000000 Protestants; the
|
|
Serbs, who are bitterly anti-Papal and were let down by the
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> provinces of their country; Greece, where the Pope has no
|
|
influence; and Russia, where, if you will forgive in Irishism, he
|
|
has still less. Not for a moment do I belittle the fine resistance
|
|
of Poland, but it was not fighting Fascism as such. It was already
|
|
Fascist and had for twenty years persecuted religious minorities.
|
|
It fought for its national independence and to prevent the
|
|
extension to Poland of the anti-clerical elements of Nazism.</p>
|
|
<p> What is the Constitution of the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> Church? It is the
|
|
newest approach on earth to that of Nazi Germany. The Church is a
|
|
despotic monarchy. The Pope may not only disregard the collective
|
|
opinion of his cardinals (his cabinet) but he is not bound to
|
|
submit to the decisions of a general council of all the bishops,
|
|
arch-bishops and abbots of the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> world. He is the Fuhrer,
|
|
with the additional prerogative of infallibility.</p>
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<p> What is the law of the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> Church? The most tyrannical
|
|
code of law in the world. The Church has two sets of laws: a code
|
|
of Public Law, which in plain English means Private Law because it
|
|
is kept in a dead language and taught to very few priests and no
|
|
laymen, and Private Law, which you may prefer to call Public Law
|
|
because it alone is translated into modern languages and accessible
|
|
to the general public. You may read this in an American
|
|
translation, if you are able to disentangle the text from the
|
|
artful commentaries of the translator's. It is Fascist enough, if
|
|
Fascism means tyranny. It treats the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> laity like sheep.
|
|
They must not read a criticism of the Church and its untruthful
|
|
literature without the permission of a priest who will insist on
|
|
"replying" to it. Penalty -- hell. They must not discuss such
|
|
matters with a critical non-<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> friend or hear a lecture that
|
|
may be critical. They must urge non-<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s to read both sides
|
|
but never do it themselves. They must not marry except on lines
|
|
prescribed by the Church whether these accord with civil law or
|
|
not. Penalty -- hell. They must never get a divorce. Penalty --
|
|
hell. But if they are rich the Church will find, even if they have
|
|
been married twenty years and have ten children, that they never
|
|
were married at all.</p>
|
|
<p> The Public Law of the Church is the most arrogant and most
|
|
truculent code in the history of jurisprudence, It is supposed to
|
|
define the relations of the Church to other corporations (states,
|
|
etc.) but if the Church has a bit of legislation which might look
|
|
rather naked and immodest in English, it keeps this also under the
|
|
veil of the dead language of the Public Law. For instance, it is
|
|
one of the most emphatic principles of this Public Law (which is
|
|
never made public) that you cannot leave the Church and so escape
|
|
its jurisdiction, and that if you say that you no longer believe in
|
|
it and have quitted it the Church has "the right and the duty." to
|
|
put you to death. I pass sleepless nights under the shadow of this
|
|
awful sentence which has been hanging over me for 45 years. The
|
|
fundamental principle of the law is that the Church, being the only
|
|
institution on earth that has been established by God, is the only
|
|
"perfect society," and therefore it has the right to overrule and
|
|
dictate to merely secular and human states on any point which it
|
|
chooses to regard as affecting religion or morals; and believe me,
|
|
the clerical genius could prove in five minutes that the color of
|
|
your wall-paper or the number of your blankets is a question of
|
|
morals. It follows at once that the Church will, where it has the
|
|
power, not tolerate the practice or propaganda of any other
|
|
religion, much less irreligion, or any criticism of itself or its
|
|
priests; that no priest must be tried in a civil court; that all
|
|
schools must be subject to clerical authority, and so on.</p>
|
|
<p> Well, you may say, a dead language means a dead letter. Pardon
|
|
me. Latin may be a dead language to you but it is the living
|
|
language of the Church. This ultra-medieval law is not dead letter
|
|
but is taught today in the international Papal (or Gregorian)
|
|
University at Rome, to which selected American priests are sent,
|
|
just as a few are sent from all countries, and Latin is their
|
|
Esperanto. It is, in fact, mainly to give them a thorough knowledge
|
|
of this secret law that they are sent to Rome, for it is not taught
|
|
in the education of ordinary priests, and not one in 100000 of the
|
|
zealous laymen (Knights of Columbus, etc.) who help the priests
|
|
knows anything about it.</p>
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|
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|
<p> But you may be sure that the priestly writers, who tell
|
|
America about the beautiful harmony of Church Law and American Law
|
|
know all about it. The chief manual of it, Father Marianus de
|
|
Luca's Institutiones Juris Ecclesiastici Publici is in every
|
|
seminary. It is not one of those Yellow and dusty tomes that are
|
|
considered too valuable to open every day but a modern book,
|
|
published by the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> in the present century. It has a
|
|
particularly warm letter of authorization from Leo XIII, the great
|
|
"democratic Pope," though about ten pages of it are devoted to
|
|
chastising priests who say that the Church his abandoned its "right
|
|
of the sword" or any other medieval claims. I have quoted
|
|
extensively from it elsewhere (Appeal to Reason Library, No.1), and
|
|
you can spend a pleasant hour comparing the nice sentiments which
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s quote for you from Pope Leo's inspiring Encyclicals with
|
|
the sentiments he endorses in Marianus de Lucas book.</p>
|
|
<p> In fact, it comes a little closer to Americans. A more recent
|
|
but equally truculent manual of this Public Church Law is Cardinal
|
|
Lepicier's De Stabilitate et Progressu Dogmatis, Lapicier is a
|
|
Canadian, the oracle of the Canadian <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s. So white priests in
|
|
Detroit were getting round Henry Ford and the American public with
|
|
stories of how Thomas Aquinas and the Jesuit Suarez laid down our
|
|
most modern principles of political morality centuries ago, and how
|
|
the Pope is the incorruptible protector of democracy, justice, and
|
|
freedom of conscience, other priests just across the river, were
|
|
chuckling over Lepicier. Perhaps they were also in Detroit.</p>
|
|
<p> From the ease with which the American public were duped in
|
|
this matter one would imagine that Quebec is an obscure place round
|
|
Hudson's Bay or in Greenland. Quebec is, under Church law, a
|
|
Fascist state. It is the only free country -- if you can call it
|
|
free -- in the world where Petain's miserable senile corruption of
|
|
our civilization is hailed with joy and admiration instead of
|
|
curses and derision.</p>
|
|
<p> A few years ago a Canadian Journalist, Grant Dexter, had an
|
|
article in the London press (News-Chronicle, August 18, 1938) with
|
|
the title "There is Fascism under the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> Flag," and it opened
|
|
with the words: "The facts about Quebec are not in dispute; Church
|
|
and State are combining in an effort to suppress freedom and to
|
|
create a Fascist State on the Italian model." Dexter might have
|
|
said that there has always been Fascism in French <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Canada</span>. When the
|
|
British took it over from the French the clergy made with them one
|
|
of the usual selfish deals; they would stamp out revolt in the
|
|
people if the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> would give them tyrannical rights and powers
|
|
over the people. I found the place a paradise of sleek priests,
|
|
monks and nuns in 1925, but it has become much worse just when the
|
|
British Empire was getting up its courage to "rid the world of
|
|
Fascism." Under the new "Padlock Law" (1937) against Communism,
|
|
which means anything the priests don't like and was directly
|
|
inspired by the present Pope, the police became gestapo. They can
|
|
invade and close premises and arrest men without appeal to the
|
|
Courts. The censorship is tyrannical, and Protestants and <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Jews</span> who
|
|
have nothing to do with Communism are persecuted. In 1940 a
|
|
respectable girl of sixteen was sentenced to jail (or a heavy
|
|
payment) for distributing tracts of the International Bible
|
|
Students' Association.</p>
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|
<p> Bank of Wisdom
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|
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|
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|
|
<p> To these French Canadians -- and they are four out of the 12
|
|
million people of <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Canada</span> -- Franco Spain is an idyllic land, and
|
|
Vichy France is making a noble effort to reach its level. Salazar
|
|
in Portugal and Horthy in Hungary are ideal rulers, and Mussolini's
|
|
sale to the Pope of the liberties which the Italian people had won
|
|
with their blood was a grand victory over the materialism of the
|
|
age. That this encouraged Hitler and his gang, led directly to the
|
|
rape of Ayssinia, and had a considerable influence on the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>'s
|
|
alliance with Japan is -- well, it is just one of those things.</p>
|
|
<p> How American priests and their writers and politicians were,
|
|
while these sentiments were rampant in canada, assuring the
|
|
American public that the Church stood inflexibly for democracy and
|
|
freedom we shall consider presently, but we must notice here one
|
|
very ironic occurrence. In 1929 the papers announced with great joy
|
|
that Mussolini and the Pope had entered into a Holy Alliance. They
|
|
did not recall that Mussolini had recently said, or roared out on
|
|
a public platform, that he had "marched to victory over the rotting
|
|
corpse of liberty." They did not mention that he had 10000
|
|
political prisoners in jail, many under torture. They said nothing
|
|
to disturb the soothing assurances of <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> writers, even of Al
|
|
Smith during his presidential campaign, that it was only when the
|
|
founders of our liberties "wedded themselves to ancient <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>
|
|
political principles that they were able to give birth to modern
|
|
democracy as we know it." Shades of Franklin and Jefferson!
|
|
However, just when <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> mendacity of this sort was given place
|
|
of honor in the American press the Pope himself was angrily tearing
|
|
it to tatters in Italy.</p>
|
|
<p> Mussolini had bluntly declared in the Italian Camera
|
|
(Congress) that he had made no concession to medievalism, and the
|
|
Pope retorted at once, in an open letter to his Cardinal Secretary
|
|
of State which was published in the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> organ, the Osservatore
|
|
Romano (May 30, 1929), that in accepting the Canon Law (Public
|
|
Church Law) for Italy the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Duce</span> had conceded everything. The Pope,
|
|
exactly on the lines which I have described above said that
|
|
Mussolini had admitted the thesis that the Church is a "perfect
|
|
society" and he must accept "the logical and juridical consequences
|
|
of such a situation according to constitutive [Church] law."</p>
|
|
<p> We saw what these consequences are. Naturally the Pope did not
|
|
dare assert his "right of the sword" or his duty to put apostates
|
|
to death. It would have meant a claim for the execution of about
|
|
20000000 Italians; and, in spite of the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> censorship,
|
|
those blamed Americans might have heard of it. He could not demand
|
|
the suppression of every other religion, because the Americans and
|
|
British had chapels and missions in Italy, but he insisted on
|
|
severe restrictions, complained bitterly that it was only the
|
|
pressure of circumstances that forced him to make any concession,
|
|
and secured at least that the civil law would deal with any free or
|
|
critical discussion of religion. He did point out that one
|
|
consequence of recognizing that the Church is a perfect society is
|
|
that it is "absolutely superior to the State": another is that "in
|
|
matters of conscience the Church and the Church alone has competent
|
|
authority;" another that this particularly applies to "the matter
|
|
of propaganda" and criticism of the Church: another that "the full
|
|
and perfect right to educate does not belong to the State but the </p>
|
|
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|
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|
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|
.
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|
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|
|
<p>Church": another that "in a <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> State liberty of conscience
|
|
and of discussion must be understood and carried out in accordance
|
|
with <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> teaching and law"; another, referring to the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>
|
|
scheme of controlling marriage, that the Church "can and must
|
|
enforce it."</p>
|
|
<p> From the viewpoint of the man who wants to know the truth
|
|
about the relation of <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> law to civil law, who wants to
|
|
examine whether the Church is really democratic or Fascist, this is
|
|
the most important and most explicit document that has emanated
|
|
from the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> for fifty years. But no American or <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> paper
|
|
reproduced it; and even the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> who wants to read his own
|
|
Pope's words on the subject will find that he would have to read
|
|
them in my books or one of Marshall's -- which he is forbidden
|
|
under pain of hell to open! Remember what Heywood Broun, a
|
|
journalist of knowledge and character, said about the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>
|
|
censors of the Press: "There is not a single <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span> editor who
|
|
does not live in terror of this group,"</p>
|
|
<p> One of the aims of this general intimidation of editors or of
|
|
newspaper owners by threats to withdraw <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> advertisers or
|
|
readers is to protect the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>-American fiction that the Church
|
|
never interferes in polities. The <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>, we are told, cooperates
|
|
at one time with a democratic state and at another with a Fascist
|
|
state because it leaves to the people the choice of its political
|
|
form. It must cooperate with the established state in protecting
|
|
the interests of religion. Did not the great Pope Leo XIII
|
|
formulate that principle in golden words which have been reproduced
|
|
so many hundreds of times that there is no excuse for any writer
|
|
who does not know it?</p>
|
|
<p> We smile. Until 1939 the assurances of Hitler and Mussolini
|
|
that they ardently desired peace in Europe were reproduced just as
|
|
many hundreds of times. And the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> writer who quotes the
|
|
Encyclical (Immortale Dei) of Leo XIII as a sublime utterance on
|
|
"The Constitution of Christian States" and the freedom of people to
|
|
shape their own constitutions is no more honest than Hitler or
|
|
Mussolini. The very title given to it in the English translation is
|
|
a trick. The Pope's title is "On the Constitution of <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>
|
|
States." A few other neat little changes conceal the fact that the
|
|
aim of it was almost the exact opposite of what <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> writers in
|
|
America pretend. It was addressed to France, and its chief object
|
|
was to chastise the French for daring to choose a constitution
|
|
which put all religions on the same level by excluding the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>
|
|
Church from polities, the lawcourt, and the school: which is just
|
|
what the American Constitution does. The Encyclical was written in
|
|
1885, and the French people had then lived under a Republic for
|
|
fourteen years. The Papacy had during all that time refused to
|
|
recognize the political form which they had chosen in a free
|
|
Congress and with the full support of the country. Leo XIII, who
|
|
never interfered in politics, had stubbornly insisted that they
|
|
must take back either the royal or the imperial family.</p>
|
|
<p> The whole <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> propaganda on this point is nauseating in
|
|
its dishonesty. The world does not need a Pope to tell it that a
|
|
nation can choose its own political form, and the Pope forgot this
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> principle when the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Spaniards</span> set up a Republic in 1932. It</p>
|
|
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|
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|
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|
.
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|
THE VATICAN'S LAST CRIME</p>
|
|
<p>is not the business of a moralist, however richly oiled he may be,
|
|
to dictate on such matters as choosing between a royalist and
|
|
republican form. But if there is any such thing as political
|
|
morality or principle in public affairs, the Fascist form of a
|
|
state, being imposed upon a people by force, does concern it. And
|
|
when those who have imposed it are corrupt adventurers like Hitler,
|
|
Mussolini and Franco, or senile splutterers like Petain, when they
|
|
lie and cheat like medieval Popes and princes, when they debauch
|
|
their people with sentiments of banditry and commit outrages on a
|
|
vast scale, it is time for the Pope, to speak out. Yet, while
|
|
statesmen all over the world who do not claim to be "holy men"
|
|
loathe and execrate them, the Pope enters into alliance with them.
|
|
He has a concordat with every Fascist ruler in Europe and South
|
|
America, but he goes far beyond that.</p>
|
|
<p> Does the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> apologist mean that men in power, no matter
|
|
how criminal they may be, must be taken into alliance if they
|
|
promise to protect and promote "the interests of religion"? What
|
|
interest of religion, in the best sense, can such men promote? And
|
|
what are their promises worth? A man's principles are suspect if he
|
|
deals with them, but his intelligence is worse than suspect.
|
|
Religion in such a case obviously means the power and wealth of the
|
|
Papacy and the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> hierarchy, And it will be shown
|
|
overwhelmingly in this series of booklets that for the last ten
|
|
years or more the Black International has intrigued with the powers
|
|
of darkness in its own interest and condoned every outrage and
|
|
deception that prepared the way for this ghastly crime against
|
|
humanity.</p>
|
|
<p> Chapter IV</p>
|
|
<p> HOW THE CRIME WAS ORGANIZED</p>
|
|
<p> Aggressive war was always barbaric. Priests reserve the
|
|
richest section of their vocabulary of vituperation (loathsome,
|
|
swinish, filthy, obscene, bestial, etc.) for the man who loves a
|
|
woman without their blessing, but they have always contrived to
|
|
keep their dignity when they condemn aggressive war. They know that
|
|
whenever their own nation enters upon one they will support it. Yet
|
|
it is a crime on so vast a scale that no individual crime can for
|
|
a moment be compared with it.</p>
|
|
<p> It was always a relic of barbarism. Today it stinks. There
|
|
used to be, and still in defensive war are features -- a superb
|
|
courage, a heroism, a self-sacrifice for others, a splendid
|
|
challenge to our common cowardice -- that have moved quite
|
|
respectable writers to praise it. Sir Arthur Keith, one of the most
|
|
kindly And most humane of men, said some years ago that war is
|
|
necessary. He could not say that today. Modern aggressive war,
|
|
Fascist war, the war launched by the men who mouth about their
|
|
invincible legions, their indomitable courage, their noble blood,
|
|
is an incarnation of cowardice. What is called the Age of Chivalry
|
|
in European history is a <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> lie. Historical experts -- not
|
|
writers of manuals of general European history for American
|
|
colleges -- consider the period (1100-1400) one of the most brutal,</p>
|
|
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|
|
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|
.
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|
THE VATICAN'S LAST CRIME</p>
|
|
<p>dishonest, treacherous, and aggressively sexual in the chronicle of
|
|
civilization. What we see today is not a decay of chivalry but
|
|
precisely a return to the so-called Age of Chivalry, with certain
|
|
diabolical improvements (from the bandit's angle).</p>
|
|
<p> You prepare the way for your war by years of lying, cheating,
|
|
corrupting, prostituting your women, seducing soldiers and
|
|
statesmen, and buying traitors and Fifth Columnists. Meantime you
|
|
forge your weapons in underground arsenals. When you are ready, you
|
|
look round the map for the weakest victim, and you bear down upon
|
|
him with a force four or five times as great as his. You shelter
|
|
your men behind an advancing war of steel. You drive hundreds of
|
|
thousands of frantic women and children and old men along the roads
|
|
before them, knowing that your enemy is less inhuman than you and
|
|
it will paralyze his defense. You pour hell upon the towns where
|
|
the women and children and old men live so as -- this is laid down
|
|
in German and <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Japanese</span> military manuals -- to take the heart out of
|
|
their husbands or sons in the field, and you then announce that you
|
|
have bombed their "military installations." You flood them with
|
|
poison gas -- unless you learn that they have enough to retaliate
|
|
A your cities . . . In a word, it stinks. And the Black
|
|
Internationals, the Pope and his cardinals, archbishops, bishops,
|
|
priests, monks, nuns, and paid journalists and organizers, have for
|
|
ten years or more cooperated with the arch-criminals who have
|
|
brought this blight upon civilization. They have done more. They
|
|
have summoned the bandits to the foul work and called it a Crusade.</p>
|
|
<p> Now that, you say, is really too strong. But is any man really
|
|
ignorant that the present Pope raised the cry, years before the war
|
|
started, before we heard those first shots in Spain which were the
|
|
curtain-raiser of the great tragedy, that the powers must unite to
|
|
"extinguish Bolshevism in Spain, Mexico, and Russia," and that the
|
|
cry was taken up by the whole <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> world? How did <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>'s
|
|
think that Bolshevism was going to be extinguished? With rose-water? Seldes is very frank in his work The <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> about the way
|
|
in which the Knights of Columbus joined the Wall Street Choral
|
|
Society in demanding war upon Mexico, that is to say, of course,
|
|
upon its Bolshevism, though it hasn't got any. Is a war less
|
|
criminal when the defender is incomparably weaker than the
|
|
aggressor? Profane moralists think otherwise. Has any man now any
|
|
serious doubt that the Pope encouraged Franco to rebel and the
|
|
Italians and Germans to assist him? As to Russia, Pacelli, who is
|
|
now Pope Pius XII, has howled for the extinction of its Bolshevism,
|
|
and in particular has appealed to Germany to allow him to cooperate
|
|
in this, in explicit terms since 1936 and implicitly long before
|
|
that. Crushing Bolshevism in Russia meant, as we now see and as any
|
|
properly informed man could have foreseen, the bloodiest war in
|
|
history.</p>
|
|
<p> If, as one can hardly suppose, a man has any doubt about this
|
|
charge against the Black International, he will get ample
|
|
information in the following books. We shall, in fact, see all
|
|
about Pacelli Pius in the next book. But proofs meet the eye every
|
|
day. Why do you suppose that the head of the Roman Church in
|
|
Britain, Cardinal Hinsley, has warned <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s to be prepared for
|
|
terrible propaganda against the Church when the war is over? Why is
|
|
Archbishop Mannix, the head of the Church in Australia, permitted </p>
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<p>to make such attacks on the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> effort to extinguish Nazism,
|
|
that on the latest count, only 16 percent of the Australian
|
|
volunteers are <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s and 65 percent Protestants? Why do
|
|
international radio experts complain in England (News-Chronicle,
|
|
August 21, 1941) that Italian broadcasters address English
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s "as if they were a ready-made Fifth Column"? Why does the
|
|
<span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> radio find it necessary repeatedly to meet the charge that
|
|
the Pope is pro-Axis? Why does it denounce as traitors to the
|
|
Church Polish and other officials who adhere to the Anglo-<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Russian</span>
|
|
alliance? Why do those servile followers of the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>, Franco and
|
|
DeValera, help Germany? What about the Pope's latest pet scheme, a
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> bloc to be formed with the help of Germany?</p>
|
|
<p> But this booklet must be a preliminary general survey. The
|
|
plot will be shown and proved in detail in the following booklets,
|
|
and on the most positive evidence. It is sometimes difficult, even
|
|
impossible, to prove the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>'s share in international intrigues
|
|
and crimes. <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>ism is not the same thing in America as in
|
|
Italy. It is a minority <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>ism and most behave very prudently.
|
|
Sometimes American <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s tell you, when you point out the
|
|
irrepressible absurdities and eccentricities of their Church, that
|
|
you "ought to see it in a <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> country." You may be sure these
|
|
men have never seen it themselves in Eire, Spain, Italy, and
|
|
Poland. In these countries <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s can from long familiarity see
|
|
and hear without raising an eyebrow things that would make an
|
|
American <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> pale. Very often, in fact, they are kept in
|
|
complete ignorance of what the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> is doing in their own
|
|
country with its underground diplomacy and secret agreements, and
|
|
the apologist flatly denies these things -- until they come to
|
|
light years later.</p>
|
|
<p> What do you think of this choice specimen? In the years when
|
|
Britain obstinately refused Home Rule to Ireland there was very
|
|
serious trouble, and it was often said, and angrily denied, that
|
|
the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> secretly negotiated with the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> Government to use
|
|
the influence of the priests to cheek the people in return for
|
|
concessions in England. The Irish leaders knew that it was true. I
|
|
have myself heard John Dillon in the last century exclaim: "I take
|
|
my religion from Rome but not my polities." It all came out in the
|
|
official biography of Leo XIII by Msgr. T'Serelaes, but it had an
|
|
ironic sequel which American papers have probably not noticed. The
|
|
British statesmen and the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> lords never thought that in the
|
|
end the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> would double-cross them, but it did. The Irish
|
|
Press, a staunch Valerist paper, said in an editorial in its issue
|
|
of May 26, 1933:</p>
|
|
<p> Today Ireland learns for the first time one of the most
|
|
moving and glorious stories in connection with the Easter Week
|
|
Rising [1916]. Before it took place Pope Benedict XIV received
|
|
a mission from the Irish Volunteer Executive in the person of
|
|
George Noble, Count Plunkett. The Count had a private audience
|
|
of two hours with His Holiness and disclosed to him the
|
|
decision to rise and the date of the insurrection and received
|
|
from him his Apostolic Benediction on the men who were facing
|
|
death for Ireland's liberty.</p>
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|
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|
<p> You may admire the pathetic rebellion or you may think it
|
|
foolish in its plain futility. You may acknowledge the right of
|
|
rebellion yet feel that these secretly organized revolts, when a
|
|
country is engaged in a terrible war, are not pleasant to
|
|
contemplate. But the only point of interest here is that if we had
|
|
suggested at the time that the Papacy was in any way involved in
|
|
the movement we would have raised a storm of indignation. Yet it
|
|
was not simply involved. The Pope outwardly friendly with the
|
|
British, gave his most solemn encouragement to the enterprise by
|
|
giving it his Apostolic Benediction. Now that De Valera has got all
|
|
that he expects to get out of England he reveals the truth.</p>
|
|
<p> Should we be unduly suspicious we suggested that the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>,
|
|
through the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> hierarchy, encouraged De Valera to refuse the
|
|
use of ports to Britain and so prolonged the carnage of seamen and
|
|
the brutality of the Nazi regime? Especially when we have the heads
|
|
of the hierarchy in Australia publicly threatening what the Church
|
|
will do if Britain forces a temporary occupation; especially when
|
|
De Valera, Franco, Salazar, and Weygand (who would grant the
|
|
Germans the use of ports tomorrow if they were more confident of
|
|
its final victors) are abjectly amenable to Papal direction. We
|
|
remember how Leo XIII's clerical biographer boasts of the
|
|
cleverness of his hero in making deals with Prussia at the expense
|
|
of the Poles, which was denied at the time, just as he boasts of
|
|
his diplomatic intrigues in London at the expense of the Irish. We
|
|
remember how American <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>s raged when Pegler in one of his
|
|
syndicated articles accused the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> of supporting Japan. Now
|
|
the Pope receives Matsuoka in great honor at the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> and gives
|
|
that arch-hypocrite a gold medal.</p>
|
|
<p> But do not get a false impression. This exposure of the plots
|
|
of the Black International will not at any point rely on
|
|
suspicions. It is based on such positive evidence is I have just
|
|
given of the Irish plot. The only suggestion or suspicion I
|
|
introduce is that the plot most probably goes far beyond what we
|
|
can at present prove. That is a plain inference from the historic
|
|
way in which <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> intrigues are angrily denied at the time and
|
|
later revealed or -- as is the case with the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Japanese</span> alliance --
|
|
indignantly denied by American priests and at the same time claimed
|
|
by French and Italian priests as proof of the Pope's cleverness.
|
|
The known facts, the Pope's published words and actions, are,
|
|
however, grave enough and, in view of the criminality of the Axis
|
|
plot against the world, the infamy of the way in which it was
|
|
organized, the bestiality with which it has so far been carried
|
|
out, they make a mockery of what <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> apologists have said in
|
|
America for half a century.</p>
|
|
<p> Let us first be quite clear on this organization of the plot;
|
|
and this I particularly recommend to men and women of fine
|
|
sensitivity who are tempted to say that the whole world has somehow
|
|
apostatized from its ideals. Three nations only want aggressive
|
|
war: three nations out of fifty, or one-tenth only of the race.
|
|
Another tenth (backward people) know nothing about it, but eight-tenths loath aggressiveness and the brutality it causes. Don't
|
|
blame the world.</p>
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
<p> Even in the case of Germany, Italy, and Japan, the nation is
|
|
not so much corrupt as corrupted by a minority; and this corruption
|
|
was accomplished in ten years and can, by a reversal of the
|
|
educational machinery, be redeemed in less than ten years. Nations
|
|
like France and Spain may seem under <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> influence to have
|
|
adhered to the corrupt gangs, but we know that the majority are
|
|
sound and when the time comes for the final and drastic,
|
|
destruction of this clerical influence they will rise to greater
|
|
heights than ever.</p>
|
|
<p> The second point to hold clearly in mind is that it is a
|
|
military-economic plot. It appeared first in Japan, where a score
|
|
of very wealthy families wanted more wealth and hundreds of others
|
|
wanted to reach the same position. Fortunately for them <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Japanese</span>
|
|
naval and military commanders are still at the medieval or Samurai
|
|
level of mentality. They want to win "glory" by conquering half of
|
|
Asia. The miserable politicians and the heads of the Shinto and
|
|
Buddhist religions were bought -- literally -- to support the plot,
|
|
and the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> promised that if it were given a monopoly of the
|
|
Christian missions it would see that the Gospel was accommodated to
|
|
this noble design of exploiting the slave labor and vast resources
|
|
of China, indo-China, Thailand, etc!. In Germany the economic
|
|
element precedes the military, as it had to create the army afresh,
|
|
and in the case of Italy we will not venture to speak of military
|
|
"glory." In sum, the world is darkened by a plot of two nations to
|
|
create a vast wealth by exploiting all the other nations. Italy was
|
|
never seriously meant to share it. Mussolini ought to have paid
|
|
more heed to Hitler's emphatic statement in Mein Kampf twenty years
|
|
ago that there is no room in Europe for two great powers.</p>
|
|
<p> The third point to keep clear is that Mussolini and Hitler had
|
|
not at first any idea of the ultimate plot. Mussolini, a brutal,
|
|
scatter-brained adventurer, was too busy breaking the heads of
|
|
Socialists with whom he had quarrelled, to write programs, and
|
|
Hitler just put together a few Christian Socialist ideas
|
|
(especially anti-Semitism) and the already familiar demand that all
|
|
sections of the German-speaking race must unite. Add the spice of
|
|
denouncing Versailles, though it had treated Italy far too
|
|
generously. How these mob leaders and saloon-bar politicians came
|
|
to have definite and rapidly expanding programs is a long story
|
|
that will, as far as, is necessary, be told in later booklets. In
|
|
a word, it was due to the adoption of the parties by the
|
|
capitalists, who in time saw an opportunity of acquiring amazing
|
|
wealth by enslaving Europe, Asia, and Africa; the majority of the
|
|
workers, who were diverted from dreams of dispossessing their own
|
|
wealthy to a dream of taking England's lucrative place as "the
|
|
world's shopkeeper"; the army, which is always ready to "conquer"
|
|
when you give it the tools; the Churches in each country and the
|
|
<span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> for the whole world.</p>
|
|
<p> The question that will interest the future historian is, as I
|
|
said, not how the plot grew, which it is very easy to trace, but
|
|
how the rest of the world was so duped that it made no defensive
|
|
preparations, except the futile Maginot Line in France. Again there
|
|
can be only one answer. The world was duped by its statesmen and
|
|
its rich newspaper-owner who refused to see anything except that
|
|
privilege would be saved by the extinction of Bolshevism in Italy, </p>
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
<p>Spain, Germany, China and Russia. These are large questions to
|
|
which a full answer will be Provided in the later booklets, but
|
|
most people will remember how the press of America and Britain (and
|
|
France) was filled for years with (1) lying stories of the
|
|
confusion and inefficiency into which Socialism had led Italy,
|
|
Germany, Spain, and Russia; (2) lying, stories of the efficiency of
|
|
the Nazi and Fascist regimes; (3) sympathy with the pressure of
|
|
population in Italy and Germany, though everybody knew that
|
|
Mussolini and Hitler were forcing the birth rate, and every expert
|
|
knew that there was far less pressure than in England or Belgium.</p>
|
|
<p> To what extent statesmen and editors and heads of Churches
|
|
really fooled themselves into thinking that the vast armaments
|
|
which Hitler and Mussolini were creating would be allowed to rust
|
|
when they had crushed Bolshevism in Spain and Russia as well as
|
|
their own countries is not my concern. Perhaps you remember how a
|
|
few years ago an French journalist in an interview (arranged for
|
|
the purpose,) asked Hitler about his emphatic statement in Mein
|
|
Kampf that France would be ground to powder, when he airily brushed
|
|
it aside as an ebullition of younger days -- it was still printed
|
|
in every edition on a score of pages. -- the press everywhere gave
|
|
prominence to his assurance; and the same press everywhere, with a
|
|
few honorable exception's, repeated every lie and libel about
|
|
Soviet Russia that anybody cared to send in.</p>
|
|
<p> Chapter V</p>
|
|
<p> HOW UNCLE SAM WAS DUPED</p>
|
|
<p> The verdict of this generation of young folk, when they grow
|
|
up, will be that the "Guilty Men" -- journalists use that language
|
|
at last, forgetting that editors were as guilty as statesmen -- who
|
|
let the monstrous evil attain such proportions are only a little
|
|
less guilty than the bandits. In this respect I approach death with
|
|
clean hands. In my Haldeman-Julius publications for the last six
|
|
years, especially the Appeal to Reason Library, and the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">ABC</span>
|
|
Library, and The History of the World Since 1918, I have thoroughly
|
|
exposed the current untruths, described the growth of the plot, and
|
|
made clear the true attitude of the Roman Church. This attitude and
|
|
the work of American <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> apologists in falsely representing it
|
|
are the last point to be noticed in this introductory booklet.</p>
|
|
<p> The <span class="ORG" title="ORG">New York Times</span> of May 12, 1940, contained a very special
|
|
apology for the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> by Dr. Ryan, <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> bishop of Omaha. That
|
|
paper has, as many quotations in these booklets will show, given us
|
|
a fair news-service both from the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> and Russia, and it was
|
|
right to publish the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> case. Ryan, formerly head of the
|
|
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> University, is the fifteen-inch gun, the 50-ton tank, of
|
|
American <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> apologetic on these matters. His strength is,
|
|
besides his <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> learning, that he is so solemn that he always
|
|
gives you the impression that he believes what he says. Even when
|
|
in the course of this article he says that today "the place of
|
|
Papacy in world affairs seems to stand out in bolder relief than at
|
|
almost any other epoch of its long existence," he is quite serious,
|
|
though he cannot possibly refer to the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>'s share in the
|
|
world-plot.</p>
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
<p> Dr. Ryan's complete vindication of the wisdom and the
|
|
integrity of the Papacy is this. In the last century it fought
|
|
"political liberalism." This is now dead and "on its ruins there
|
|
have risen such extremes as communism and fascism" which "meet on
|
|
the common ground of state totalitarianism." Against these new
|
|
dragons the Papacy steps out again in shining armor, and they "have
|
|
thrown down the gauntlet to <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>ism," which cannot possibly
|
|
"capitulate to the new theories," Thus "the democratic regimes"
|
|
have no stouter champion than the Pope, and all Americans must
|
|
rally to him.</p>
|
|
<p> Two months later, when the pious and purblind Petain trampled
|
|
on the last remnants of democracy in France, the Papal newspaper,
|
|
the Osservatore Romano (July 8), hailed his restoration of "the
|
|
principle of authority" with enthusiasm and Said that in this
|
|
respect "the aims of the dictatorships coincided with those of the
|
|
Church." What the leading <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> apologist felt when the same New
|
|
York Times (July 19) gave the gist of this Papal article one
|
|
wonders. The Osservatore quoted its pet dictator Salazar saying:
|
|
"The authoritarian regimes have the purpose of creating a civic
|
|
conscience as a way to create a moral conscience", and in the name
|
|
of the Pope added: "Such are also the desire, the aspiration, and
|
|
the program of the Church." And the Times Rome correspondent, went
|
|
on to say that the Germans rejoiced at this "complete about-face by
|
|
the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> in its position toward totalitarian states!" You see,
|
|
the terrible case with which Germany crushed Holland, Belgium, and
|
|
France had convinced the Pope that it was going to win the war; and
|
|
from that time onward the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>'s one great idea was to set up a
|
|
bloc of totalitarian <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> States in cooperation with Hitler.</p>
|
|
<p> Pity the poor American apologist in these days. But Ryan's
|
|
plea was gross even at the time. In the last century, he begins,
|
|
the Church fought political liberalism. Yes, at a cost of half a
|
|
million lives of Liberals and with such documents as its moth-eaten
|
|
Syllabus. Political liberalism means simply democracy, sol the
|
|
Church fought democracy, which Ryan has always denied. Other
|
|
apologists prefer to say "economic liberalism" but they obviously
|
|
do not know what they are talking about because the Church joined
|
|
with economic liberalism in a violent attack upon its opposite,
|
|
Socialism. This political liberalism is now "defunct," Ryan says.
|
|
Yes -- in all <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> countries. As we saw, nine-tenths of the
|
|
Pope's subjects live under a Fascist flag, and the Pope presses
|
|
upon them as the political ideal the totalitarian regime of Italy
|
|
and Portugal. It is upon Protestant lands that the Crusade for
|
|
democracy and against Fascism vitally depends. And Ryan's final
|
|
point that the principles of the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> Church compel it to fight
|
|
for democracy and freedom is even worse. If it were true, the
|
|
<span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> is guilty of a monstrous moral apostasy. But it is the
|
|
reverse of the truth. We have seen that the Church of Rome is
|
|
Fascist in its Constitution, its law, its principles, and
|
|
everything about it. It coquetted -- cocotted might be better --
|
|
with democracy as long as it paid.</p>
|
|
<p> The recent history of <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> policy -- it has no "principles"
|
|
in the ordinary sense -- is not obscure. It was fiercely anti-democratic, until the last quarter of the last century. It still
|
|
remained anti-democratic, expressing this plainly in its relations </p>
|
|
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|
|
<p>with France, until near the end of the century. It insulted and
|
|
humiliated the heads of the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> Church in America by
|
|
addressing to them an Open Letter, published all over the world,
|
|
condemning what is called Americanism. What it condemned was
|
|
precisely what Ryan and other apologists teach: that there is no
|
|
lack of harmony in any respect between the spirit and law of the
|
|
Church and the American spirit and law But the "century ended with,
|
|
apparently, the triumph of political liberalism all over the world,
|
|
and the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> ceased its mumbling. On political matters it became
|
|
ideally neutral; and the Church in America began to store up
|
|
billions of dalliers while the Church in France and Italy shrank,
|
|
so much that its contributions to the treasury were meager. One
|
|
must keep an eye on these Americans.</p>
|
|
<p> Then began the golden age of <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> propaganda in America.
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The Church, they said, was essentially democratic; always had been
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in fact. The apologists grew bolder and bolder. Not only is the
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eternal political truth in the Encyclicals (slightly retouched) of
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Leo XIII (who hated democracy) but it was now discovered in the
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writings of the Jesuit Suarez (who would have had a man burned at
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the stake for professing it) and even in the works of Thomas
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Aquinas (who had picked a few ancient Greek ideas out of the works
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of Aristotle but otherwise defended the most merciless principles
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of medieval clerical tyranny). The flag of freedom had been first
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set up in <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> Maryland; which, Bancroft had clearly shown,
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never had more than a <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> minority, and these had passed the
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policy of toleration in their own defense.</p>
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<p> Year after year American <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> writers and journals
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broadcast this monumental untruth, but the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> itself was
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meantime watching for the first opportunity to get rid of its
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misalliance with the vulgar drab Democracy and recover its
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association with its elegant Aristocracy. Ryan says: "Political
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liberalism and not the Papacy was almost completely destroyed in
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the cataclysm of the World War." He ventures to say that in one of
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the best-informed countries in the world! Just think for yourself,
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for no reading is necessary in order to test this.</p>
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<p> Democracy was not destroyed in Russia, for it had never had
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democracy. It was not destroyed but for the first time set up in a
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pure form, by getting rid of Kaiserism and the Junkers, in Germany.
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It was not in the least weakened, but invigorated by the collective
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war-effort in America, the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> Empire, France, Italy -- in
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fact, all over the world except in Japan. Oh, Ryan will say, I take
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a long view; I see Communism already growing. We will not press his
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language -- that democracy was destroyed in the World War -- but we
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reply that he is using one of the flimsiest tricks of propaganda.
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Outside Russia, where the conditions were unique, Communism, which
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must be taken in this connection to mean the dictatorship of the
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proletariat, never had a chance of attaining power. Bela Kun was an
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episode. What did show a prospect of gaining the world was
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Socialism, and it is the only pure form of democracy. But the
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<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> apologist, like his colleagues as fellow-crusaders in Wall
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Street, finds it more useful to say Communism. They could never
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have made America quite so red-hot about Socialism.</p>
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<p> What are the facts? Dictatorship began first after the war in
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Poland; and no government in the world was more subservient to the
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<span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> than the Polish, no other nation so solidly <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>. The
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democracy began next in Spain where in 1923, the King and Church
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had, to prevent an inquiry into their corruption, set up a
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dictator. He had the blessing and cordial cooperation of the Pope.
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Mussolini had marched on Rome in the previous year, but his
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dictatorship was very imperfect -- as late as 1925 more than
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2500000 or half the country voted against him -- until he came to
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terms with and bought the support of the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>. This was in 1929.
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During ten years after the war the only blows at democracy, which,
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instead of being "defunct," as Ryan says, was as vigorous as ever,
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had been dealt in <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> countries with the warm support of the
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hierarchy, and the Pope.</p>
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<p> In 1929 Pacelli-Pius became Secretary of State at the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>,
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and democracy began to bleed. Japan started on China, (1931) and
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the only power in the world to enter into close association with it
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was the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span> City. Germany still rejected Nazism, but in 1932
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the Pope made an underhand deal with Hitler, and this was one of
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the chief reasons why he won and destroyed democracy. In 1934
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democracy was destroyed in Vienna, after Dollfuss had had an
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interview with the Pope and with the zealous cooperation of the
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Austrian hierarchy; and Mussolini, loudly cheered by the whole
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Italian Church, entered Abyssinia. Next year (1935) Pacelli visited
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South America, and the statesmen and generals who fawned upon him
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made a bloody end of democracy. In 1936 Franco, with the Pope's
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blessing, began his vile work in Spain, and the way was prepared
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for the world-assault on democracy. It survives, fighting for its
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life, in non-<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> countries.</p>
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<p> That is the story we shall tell in detail, but that this is
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the true outline of it everybody knows. The Church of Rome is
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vitally implicated in the most criminal and most gigantic
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conspiracy in history. It blesses or courts men to whom lying is a
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pastime and wholesale murder and brutality are necessities which
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they defend with amazing callousness. Perhaps it is the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>'s
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last crime, for when this war is over a grim reckoning will be
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required of the Pope. He clings to his infamous association while
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every sane and free part of the world covers it with obloquy.</p>
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