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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorshi<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> This file, its <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rintout, or co<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ies of either
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are to be co<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ied and given away, but NOT sold.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom, Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 6</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> HOW THE NEW POPE TALKED PEACE
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AND WORKED FOR WAR</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS
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GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> **** ****</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Cha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ter</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> CHAPTER</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> I The Church Crowns the Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>al Policy ........... 1</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> II The <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s Peace Efforts ......... 9</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> III Poland Pays for its Piety .............. 17</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> IV The German Church and the War .......... 25</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> **** ****</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> THE CHURCH CROWNS THE PAPAL POLICY</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> At the close of the book on the monstrous <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erfidy of the Black
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International in Czecho-Slovakia I asked: What did Pius XII, the
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new <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>, and his local hierarchies do when the hellish bugles
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sounded and the black flag was unfurled?</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> In our day-to-day reading of the crowded events of our time,
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under the changing strain of feelings which one day are warmed with
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stories of heroism and next day are chilled with des<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>air, we
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naturally lose sight of whatever continuity there is in the
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bewildering <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rocession. We could not readily answer such questions
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as this, although it refers to only two years ago. But I have
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ared the reader for the answer. The Black International has
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ursued a consistent <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olicy during the last ten years, to say
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nothing of earlier times. It has fawned u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on the three <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Powers</ent> which
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had already by 1930 o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>enly exhibited such shameless <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rograms of
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greed and barbaric violence that the war was inevitable. I have </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roved that. So the answer to our question also is inevitable. The
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Black International clung still to the arch-enemies of the human
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race through all their crimes and atrocities as long as they had a
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confident <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rosPect of victory.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Will it change its <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olicy when that <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ros<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ect changes to one of
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defeat and dire <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>unishment? I write with the hum of war-<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lanes
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overhead, the slender fingers of the searchlights <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>robing for the
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enemy that would make a shuddering <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ul<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> of us. Round me are the
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horrid ga<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s in the rows of little <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eaceful homes from which I have
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seen the men -- the garbage-men of a "New Order" -- bring out the
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shrouded, crum<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>led forms of the dead. In the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress daily are the
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rumble of a struggle in Russia that sur<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>asses everything in the
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calendar of human folly and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erversity and the tremulous
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foreshadowing of an agony that the winter may bring u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on
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200,000,000 broken-hearted folk. The end is not in sight, and I
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have no gift of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>hecy. But should, as I confidently ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ect, the
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heroism of the Russian <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le hurl back the advancing wave of
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savagery and give us an unwavering ho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e of victory the Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy will
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change its <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olicy.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Remember the last war. The Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orted Germany, which had
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romised it the usual reward -- more <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ower and wealth to the Church
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-- even against Italy, but as soon as America entered the arena and
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the defeat of Germany seemed <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>robable, it recollected that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>
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is the Great Neutral. The signs of change already flicker in the
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress, but notice how feeble, how anonymous, how easily re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>udiated
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they are as long as the terrific might of Germany still rears its
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brutal head! Whatever be the next or the final <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>hase, let the world
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never forget how the Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed its deadly and unscru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulous
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enemies during the long years of corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aration and su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orted
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them during two years of shuddering criminality. The one virtue
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which its best a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ologists claim for it that it <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>reached the virtues
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of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace, did but hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> to do<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e the innocent nations while the
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crooks armed themselves. At least from 1936 onward war was
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inevitable because Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an, Germany, and Italy could attain the
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objects to which they were o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>enly <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ledged by no other means, and
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they saw the rest of the world so beguiled with their <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>i<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e-dream of
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace that it seemed to them safe to o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>en the insidious cam<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aign.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> And in case the reader has become to some extent confused by
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the mass of details and testimonies which it has been necessary to
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give in su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ort of this indictment let us sum u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> and formulate very
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clearly the charges against the Black International. The intimate
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connection of the Vatican by solemn agreements and the exchange of
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ambassadors with Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an, Italy, and Germany and with such satellites
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of theirs as Franco S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ain, Vichy, Portugal, Hungary, etc., is a
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fact of ordinary record. A des<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erate a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ologist might say that this
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has no more significance than the di<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lomatic relations of other
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neutral <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>owers with those countries. The Catholic a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ologist is so
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accustomed to writing for his own <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le, who are forbidden under
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ain of hell to read criticisms of what he says, and treated with
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such generosity in the general <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress that there is no limit to his
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audacity. Listen to this. On the very day on which I write this I
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receive a letter from a corres<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ondent who tells me that a Catholic
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to whom he s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oke of the infamous agreement of <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> and the
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> in 1929 denies that there ever was such a com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>act and that it </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>is just one of McCabe's lies! Can you beat that? The Concordat and
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Treaty were editorially discussed in every <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er in the world,
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es<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ecially the Catholic <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ers, which hailed the agreement as a
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su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erb trium<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>h of Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>al di<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lomacy, and it seems im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ossible that a
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Catholic should not know that the Vatican City and all its
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rivileges (inde<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>endence, radio, etc.) only began with and were
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founded by that treaty.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> There is one fundamental difference between the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osition of
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secular <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>owers that exchange ambassadors and courtesies with the
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Vatican and that of the Vatican itself: to say nothing of the fact
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that these <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>owers make no <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>retence of moral res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>onsibility and
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s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>iritual guidance of the world. They have not in Germany or Italy
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a black army of 50,000 to 100,000 servants under their control --
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bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riests, monks, nuns, religious brothers, organizers,
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teachers, journalists, etc. -- which <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rofesses that it has to build
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the character of the nation. The Vatican has. It is one of the
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loudest boasts of the Church of Rome over its rivals that it is
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international, its various national branches being entirely subject
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to the Vatican, and that this gives it a unique <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ower to judge
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events from the universal moral, not the narrow national view<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oint.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> What, then, are the vices of this triumvirate of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oisoning
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nations which the Vatican ought, on its own <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rofession, to have
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denounced to the world instead of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotecting them by friendly
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alliance? It will be enough here to select three.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The first is that the war for which they are res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>onsible is
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the most bestial in modern history because it is a war of naked
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greed. Shires tells us in his Berlin Diary that he once said this,
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in less blunt language, to the Nazi Economic Minister <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Funk</ent>, and the
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man admitted that the aim of it was to secure "the maximum economic
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o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ortunity" for Germany. Notoriously its aim is to concentrate
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industrial <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roduction in Germany or to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ermit it in subject
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countries, which are to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovide food and raw material -- a much
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less <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rofitable service -- only under German control. Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an won
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over the mass of its workers to the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lans of its militarists and
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ca<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>italists by just the same bait. Even the leaders of the Social
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Mass (Socialist) Party su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ort the Chinese Incident. They say that
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the British workers have a good status because the country seized
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vast colonies overseas and ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>loits them. I should like to hear
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them tell an Australian, Canadian, or South African that his
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country is a "colony" and is ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>loited by Great Britain. In Italy
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the original idea was the same. The chief argument of the
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government during the Abyssinian War was that the country contained
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at vast amount of undevelo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed wealth which would raise the income
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of every class in Italy. Today, it is true, they com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lain that the
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word Axis is heard no longer, and that their German overlords
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brutally tell them that the destiny of Italy is to be a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>layground
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and kitchen-garden for Germans. But a share in the vast s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oils of
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the war was the lure that brought them into it.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> It is a much-dis<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>uted <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oint whether all modern wars can be
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brought under an economic formula. In the case of the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resent war
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there is no dis<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ute. <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> and <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> may have medieval dreams
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of conquest and em<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ire, and the Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anese fanatics may talk about </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>the divine mission of the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Yamata</ent> race to u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lift the world, but the
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real motive is that the division of the earth into two s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>heres of
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influence means incalculable wealth for Germany and Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an and huge
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fortunes for their <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oliticians, bankers, and industrialists.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> That is the war the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed to bring on. It <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romised more
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wealth and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ower to the Church. It meant the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aralysis of
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industrial develo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ment and its consequences -- education, urban
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life, free discussion and the growth of Socialism and ske<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ticism --
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in the countries in which the Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy had lost most heavily. Notice
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what is ha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ening in France. Petain makes no secret of his design
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to destroy the old industrial life in the interest of the Church.
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Even if you think a bunch of Italian clerics hardly ca<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>able of a
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world-<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lot so subtle as this you have their cry, re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eated for years
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throughout the Church, for the destruction of Bolshevism and
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Liberalism, the most <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rolific sources of rebellion against the
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Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy. Whichever way you take it the Black International has, for
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its own <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rofit, lent its aid in <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aring the conditions of success
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of the most sordid war of greed in modern history and has in each
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country, through the local Church, boisterously su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orted every
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ste<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> that Was taken in the direction of world-domination.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The second general vice is that the ambition of these <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Powers</ent>
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has led to a quite re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulsive degradation of the standards of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublic
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conduct. Here there is no <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ossibility of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>leading ignorance on the
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art of the sim<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le-minded Vatican. The Nazis have lied to and du<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed
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the Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy itself re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eatedly since their first bargain with it in
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1933, and four-fifths of its com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>laints about Germany and Italy are
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grumbles that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Concordats</ent> which were solemnly signed have not
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been observed. Even Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an is now beginning to give it serious
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concern by its scheme to make Christianity <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>urely national and
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inde<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>endent of foreign influence.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Broadly we have seen years of such lying, treachery, and
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corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tion as we thought that we had buried forever. Nearly a
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hundred <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acts, treaties, or international agreements of one kind or
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other have been signed in the last 20 years and cynically disowned
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as soon as it was ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>edient. An Australian <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er, The Vigilant,
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sends me a co<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>y of an issue in which it quotes <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>'s solemn
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assurance of non-aggression to every country he has attacked or
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annexed. "Germany neither intends nor wishes", he says in 1935, "to
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interfere in the international affairs of Austria, to annex
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Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss." His books show that he
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wished and intended it long before that time. "The Sudetenland is
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the last territorial claim I have to make in Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e," he said on
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Se<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tember 26, 1938. Within a few month's he took the whole of
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Czecho-Slovakia and began to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>are for Poland. "Germany has
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concluded a non-aggression <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>act with Poland and she will adhere to
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it unconditionally", he had told Poland and Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e. So with
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Holland, Belgium, and Yugo-Slavia. And all Germany Heil <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>ed
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when on June 22, 1941, he said, with his usual ferocious solemnity:
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"When the German <ent type = 'person'>Reich</ent> gives a guarantee, that means that it also
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abides by it."</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> It is not only that the leading statesmen of the aggressor
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nations have lied so brazenly and cynically for years that the
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roblem of the future historian will not be their <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>sychology but </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>that of the democratic statesmen. No trick has been too dirty to
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use. The corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tor, or advance-agent, was considered as res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ectable
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as the missionary. Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anese young "ladies" <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rostituted themselves
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in the good cause in China and Mongolia, and in France dames of the
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highest elegance used their charms for Germany and the Church.
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Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anese and German gold corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ted even Russians. Buddhist monks
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were used in Southern Asia, and women and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romises of advancement
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everywhere to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovide the miserable brood of traitors, almost a
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novelty of our age, whom we call Quislings. In short, the near-
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success of the trinity in crime was won by as vast and
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com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rehensive a debasement of our standards of honor as had not
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been known in Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e since those flowers of the Age of Faith -- the
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Age of Chivalry and the Renaissance.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Now not even <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>a Bernard Shaw</ent> or <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>an Aldous Huxley</ent> will say that
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this foulness, this reversion to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re-civilized ways of living, is
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found on all sides. Paradox is amusing but a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aradox of that sort
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would be revolting. Certainly we all have our faults. I write for
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men and women who discount the utterances of statesmen and bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s
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and do not see the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resent struggle as a Miltonian conflict of
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angels and devils. We are <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oor enough, heaven knows, and much of
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the motivation of our conduct even in this war is far from angelic.
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But that this corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tion of the standards of conduct is
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overwhelmingly on one side will be generally recognized. It is on
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the side of the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s allies; and it has done incalculable harm to
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the democracies, for whom he has not a good word.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> And the third vice, closely connected with this, is the
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bestiality with which the friends of the Vatican have conducted the
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cam<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aign to attain their bestial greeds. A war ins<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ired by such a
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ur<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ose could not very well be otherwise. It is on the gangster
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level. Fear of retaliation has restrained that use of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oison-gas
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which we ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ected but the horrors thicken as I write. We thought
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that we had reached a stage when soldier's recognized the rights of
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man and confined their killing within certain lines. Now some blond
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beast in Paris or Prague, to get <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>raise or higher <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rofit from his
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Fuhrer</ent>, shoots fifty entirely innocent men for the act of an
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unknown. Bulgar officers bloodily exterminate whole villages.
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Russian villagers are shut in their houses and burned alive. The
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food of children is stolen in Denmark and Holland. Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anese
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officers indulge themselves or their men in ra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e and force o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ium
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u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on the Chinese. Gesta<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o men, trained in <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> Colleges to give
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the rein to sadistic im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulses . . . But you have read enough about
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these things.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> What does the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> say about this conduct of his allies?
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Nothing. It would be "interference in <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olities" to notice what the
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Italians did in Abyssinia or are doing in Greece and Yugo-Slavia,
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what the Germans -- But I beg the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ardon. He has twice used
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very eloquent and moving language about outrages. You may not think
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two <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotests in five years of bestiality a very high record for a
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>. In fact, if we look into them the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotests are not so
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im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ressive. On January, 22, 1940 he referred to Poland in a
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broadcast address and lamented that he heard of "infamy of all
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kinds" and "horrible and inexcusable excesses." What did his German
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allies say to that? Nothing. You see, he was referring to the
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Russians. He said that he had heard that these outrages were "not
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confined to districts under Russian occu<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ation." We must, it is </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>true, make some allowance for the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s ignorance. He evidently
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imagined that the Russians had taken over some ten million Pole's
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and were beating the life out of them, whereas, as the rest of us
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know, the Russians had taken back only White Russians and
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Ukrainians and were only too eager to make them feel at home in the
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Soviet Union. In any case, although the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress was still acridly
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anti-Russian no res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>onsible <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er even suggested that they were
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committing outrages.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> A little earlier a censure of the seizure of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art of Finland
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by Russia had shown that the eagle eye of the Vatican ranged even
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over the frozen north in search of outrages to rebuke -- if they
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were not committed by its allies. There were many of us who did not
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at that time know what Russia had offered for the territory and how
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vitally necessary it was in view of the coming war, but we knew
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that Russians did not behave like the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s friends. The Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>al
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organ, however, the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'><ent type = 'person'>Osservatore</ent> Romano</ent>, sur<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>assed itself --
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es<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ecially as it had never condemned outrages before. It had such
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lyrical <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>assages as:</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> "After twenty years of Bolshevik tyranny it now a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ears that
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Communism which had already su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ressed <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olitical liberty, stilled
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individuality, reduced work to the status of slavery, and erected
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violence into, a system, has added a new <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>earl to its diadem . . ."
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After hounding men it now hounds nations.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>laining that some other institution stifles
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individuality is rich, and one cannot hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> reflecting today that
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for slaves the Russian workers fight with remarkable s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>irit. But
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these are incidental trifles such as we <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ick u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> in all Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>al
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ronouncements. The broad comment on this Vatican rebuke of
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aggression is this: by that time Germany had drenched the Jews with
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horrors, carried out its infamous Blood Purge, and savagely
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destroyed Czecho-Slovakia. Italy had <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>etrated the grossest
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outrages in Abyssinia and Albania, and Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an had overrun five
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovince's of China and treated tens of millions of the Chinese
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with barbarity. The Vatican, which had re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resentatives of the three
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Powers</ent> in the Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>al Court, had seen none of this wanton and
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monstrous aggressiveness and its accom<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anying savagery. Just as
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today it knows nothing about the savagery that is being <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>etrated
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on Serbs, Greeks, and other conquered <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>les. But the moment
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Russia enters u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on a normal military o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eration -- not after a
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treacherous <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>act of friendshi<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>, but after an earnest effort to
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bargain for what it vitally needed -- the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> ceases to be the
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Great Neutral and discovers that he is the su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>reme judge of the
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moral life of the world.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The Russians committed no outrages in either Finland or the
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovinces they recovered from Poland, although Poland had, as I
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will show <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resently, shamefully <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecuted those <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovinces for
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twenty years. Today the Germans are in Russia and are sur<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>assing
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their own record of brutality. Mr. <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Winston <ent type = 'person'>Churchill</ent></ent> does not love
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Russia, so when he says that he has, officially, full and solid
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information about the German atrocities we have to believe him. On
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August 24 he said, s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eaking of Germany, in a carefully-<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ared
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broadcast:</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> "As her armies advance whole districts are being exterminated.
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Scores of thousands -- literally scores of thousands -- of
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executions in cold blood are being <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>etrated by the German
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olice-troo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s. Since the Mogul invasion of Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e in the sixteenth
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century there has never been methodical, merciless butchery on such
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a scale or a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roaching such a scale."</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> On Se<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tember 29 he s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oke again about "the absolutely
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frightful, indescribable atrocities which the German <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olice-troo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s
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are inflicting on the Russian <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulation in the rear of the advance
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of their armored soldiers."</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> But the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> has less to say than ever. One might gather from
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the Catholic <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ers that he is so busy <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>raying for <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace that he
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cannot maintain his customary moral survey of the world. Bunk. Not
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even the banks and exchanges are watching the ebb and flow of the
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red tide in Russia and calculating the chances of the issue more
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carefully than the Vatican. He will not utter a word of censure
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until we know that Germany is beaten. The common decent German
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soldier is sickened by the infamies committed by the Nazi-trained
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troo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olice under Nazi leaders. A letter to his wife that was
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found on the body of one ran:</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> "I hate the day when I was born in Germany. I am shocked by
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what goes, on in our army in Russia. Vice, loot, violence, murder,
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murder, and murder. We destroy old men, women, and children and
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kill sim<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ly for the sake of killing . . . If I survive the Russian
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bullets and shells I will, in my <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resent mood, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erish from a German
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bullet."</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Evidence accumulates daily that the Italian <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le and
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soldiers, and most of the officers, are sick of the bestial
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alliance into which <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent>, with the cowardly connivance of the
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King and the blessing of the Vatican, has drawn them. But the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>
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says nothing. The German and Italian clergy, 100,000 of them
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besides <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aid officials, still cry whoo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ee.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Will the Catholics of America and Britain try, when the day of
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human judgment comes, to throw all the blame on Secretary of State
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent> who is now <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> Pius XII? It would not be sur<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rising. A
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year or two ago the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lea was that the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oor, harassed, aged <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>
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felt that he must in the general interest of the Church let S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anish
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bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s rejoice over the brutalities in S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ain, Italian bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s lead
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their <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le in cheering for the "victories" in Abyssinia and
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Albania, and German bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s rub shoulders with the Nazis. Now they
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discover that, as we or they knew all along, behind the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>,
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issuing orders in his name, was the vigorous <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent>, Will they,
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when the war is over or the tide of battle definitely turns, say
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that the Church was com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romised by a man of unfortunate character?</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> We may have to defend <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oor <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent> against the archbisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s and
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cardinals who lifted him to the skies a cou<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le of years ago. He is
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no more inhuman than my of themselves. He is a man of normal but
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controlled sentimentality. In more fortunate circumstances he might
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have been a successful Roman lawyer or banker, kind and generous to
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his wife or some blonde baby. He is just a stricter churchman, more
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narrowly concentrated on the interests of the Church, than any of
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the others, and that is <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>recisely why they made him <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> And as far as one can <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>enetrate the august secrets of these
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roceedings it was not so much the Italian as the foreign,
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including the British and American cardinals, who turned a wavering
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scale in his favor. Pius XI, of unha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>y memory -- no <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> in modern
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times had been so severely criticized by Catholic writers of
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several countries -- died on February 10, 1940, and the cardinal
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voters flew to Rome. The world learned how scru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulous is the
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rocedure of the Church, the cardinals are locked in a room where
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they slee<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> and eat (and drink) until two-thirds of them agree u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on
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a <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> What -- incidentally -- the world did not learn was the rather
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amusing meaning of this Conclave (or "'shut in with a key"). The
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history of Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>al elections for the last sixteen centuries, or since
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the Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy became rich, beats the history of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>residential elections
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to a frazzle for bribery, intrigue, and good honest fighting. If
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you read French and can get it read <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Petrucelli</ent> della Gattina's
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Histoire di<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>loinatique des <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Conclaves</ent> (4 vols, 1864-6), though you
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will find a good deal of the material in Miss V. Pirie's Tri<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le
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Crown (1935). However, in 1271 the cardinals who were assembled for
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an election in the Italian <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovincial town of Viterbo so disgusted
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the towns folk by wrangling for three years that the civic
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authorities locked them in a room and saw that none of them left it
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or intrigued with outsiders until they elected a <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>. From that
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date <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Conclaves</ent> began, though it must be confessed that the new
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institution by no means <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ut an end to bribery, intrigue, and
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fighting.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> On March 2, <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent> was elected. Unlike <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rofane elections that
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of a <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> begins with a very solemn invocation of the Holy Ghost --
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it did even in the days when the bribery ran to a million dollars
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and the murders to 200 -- and then there are grave deliberations,
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and the cardinals visit each other in their cells (the cubicles
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into which <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art of the room is divided). After each vote the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ers
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are burned and the smoke is conducted out by a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>i<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e so that the
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Romans shall see. We thus know that there were three "scrutinies",
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or examinations of votes, so that it took a considerable time for
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent> to get the necessary two-thirds of the votes. In other
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words, although he was certainly the ablest candidate, the best
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ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ert on international affairs, and the best linguist, more than
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half the cardinals were at first o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osed to him. It is useless to
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s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eculate on the reasons, but we receive with ske<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ticism the re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ort
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that German and Italian cardinals tried to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>revent his election at
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the bidding of <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> and <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent>. Had <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent> as Secretary of
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State not done enough for them? The best authority, the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s
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biogra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>her <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Rankin</ent>, says that the non-Italian cardinals carried the
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day for him.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The final vote is said to have been unanimous, as was very a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t
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to ha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>en when it was seen that other candidates had no chance. In
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other words -- this is why I enter into detail -- the Church <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ut a
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crown not merely on the head of Eugenio <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent>, but on the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olicy
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he had <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ursued for ten years. We will remember that if a day comes
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when American and British <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>relates try to disavow that <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olicy. It
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is <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>robably true that he fooled them by his suave assurances when
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he visited England and America that he was a friend of democracy
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and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace. But it would be juster to say that they fooled </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>themselves. The Catholic Teeling, a layman, was fully aware and
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gave it as a fact of common Catholic knowledge, that the Vatican
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had for years been making every effort to counteract western
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[democratic] influence, which is not considered very good for the
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Church (The <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> in Politics, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>. 3). The American cardinals and
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>relates who re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orted after his visit to the United States in 1936
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that he was "a great friend of democracy" knew that his visit to
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South America in 1934 had been followed by the truculent
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su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ression of democracy, in which the Church cordially hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed, in
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nearly the whole of that half of the continent. <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Cardinal Hinsley</ent>,
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who stressed above all others that they had elected a <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> of Peace
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-- even making absurd <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lay of the fact that <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ace is the Italian for
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace -- knew just as well that for three years he had urged an
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attack on Bolshevism that would involve Italy, Germany, Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an, and
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the United States in war, and that he had given his su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ort to
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>, <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent>, and Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an. Whoever was fooled, we will not be.
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The <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rinces of the Church set the seal of his most solemn a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roval
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on <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent>'s <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olicy by electing him King.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Cha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ter II</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> THE POPE'S PEACE EFFORTS</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Many will remember the note of synthetic admiration and
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rejoicing that was struck in the entire <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress of the world when
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent> was elected on March 12. His biogra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>her observes that while
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for some obscure reasons the Italian <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ers grumbled those of
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America and Great Britain glowed with satisfaction. The Archbisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>
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of <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Canterbury</ent> talked like an elderly virgin in the House of Lords
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at Westminster, and his <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romise that if the new <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> would lead the
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world into <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aths of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace and justice he would follow and su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ort
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him was hailed as a new and most <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romising religious <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>henomenon.
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Ransom</ent> sums u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> the general enthusiasm by <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ointing out that u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on a
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world in flames there came at last a <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> with the inflexible
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motto: Peace, Truth, and Charity.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> We ske<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tics are accused of stirring u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> sectarian strife in a
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world that needs coo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erative action, of indulging in destructive
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criticism when what the race wants is constructive idealism. Who,
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in the light of recent events, was right? Four years before the
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election of Pius XII I wrote, in the A<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eal to Reason Library,
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every word that I say in these booklets about the tendencies in
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life and about all events and develo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ments to 1935. My work was
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neither destructive nor constructive. It was realistic: a statement
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of facts. And it differed from the statements of fact of these
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s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>iritual <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le and the news<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ers which broadcast everything they
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said and ignored everything we said in that it was a full and
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truthful statement of facts. If all those facts which I gave -- the
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rograms of <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> and <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent>, the origin and trend of Nazism
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and Fascism, the situation in S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ain and Austria and Poland, and so
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on -- had been <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ut squarely before the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublic in 1938 or 1939 there
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would have been much less school-girlish rejoicing because a new
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oke <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rettily about Peace, Truth, and Charity and much more
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demand for a realistic analysis of what was wrong and for
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a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riate action.
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Bank of Wisdom
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The world was not in flames at the beginning of 1939. It had
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acce<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ted <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent>'s assurance that with the annexation of
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Abyssinia for his sur<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lus <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulation he was now content; <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>'s
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assurance that with his annexation of the German fringe of Czecho-
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Slovakia he had reached the limit of his ambition; Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an's
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assurance that it did not now covet a single additional square mile
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of Chinese or other Asiatic territory.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> But every man who saw the broad truth about the world-
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situation, that the race had entered u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on a titanic conflict
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between <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rivilege -- wealth, Churches, all vested authority -- and
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a new s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>irit that was reviled as Bolshevism, and that the utterly
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corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t and dangerous forces of Nazism, Fascism, and Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anese
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Im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erialism had been enlisted on the side of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rivilege, knew that,
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while the world was not yet in flames, a sinister fire shouldered
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underground, and it was no time for <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>retty talk about Peace and
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Charity. Sluggish as British statesmen were, we now know that they
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were <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aring for the conflict that broke out later in the year,
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though they <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotested that the risks of disturbing the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace of the
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world by overt action (raising vast monition-<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lant's) restricted
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them to such matters as secretly hiring <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>remises for ministries in
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the country, drafting schemes, and organizing medical and
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undertaking services for vast numbers of wounded and dead
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civilians.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> I must confine myself to these matters in so far as they
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involve the Church of Rome. The idea that the new <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> entered a
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world of danger and confusion for which others were res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>onsible
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brought to it a new and beautiful gos<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>el is, we now understand,
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tri<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e. He had had as Secretary of State at least for the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>receding
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five years the same <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ower which he would now wield as <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>, and he
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had deliberately used it to hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> the work of the forces of evil
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because, he believed, it was to the interest of the Church. It was
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nothing new for him to talk about <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace. As the ins<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>irer of Pius XI
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he had <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ut the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>raise of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace on his li<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s or in his fountain-<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>en
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twice a year for years. In the intervals he had called through the
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s mouth for the extinction of Bolshevism and u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on that cry
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only one <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ossible inter<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>retation can be <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ut -- war. We saw that
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Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>al <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olicy after 1919 was bound to seek this end above all
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others. Socialism and Communism were running the Church. And the
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only <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ossible ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lanation of the Vatican entering into and in s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ite
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of every rebuff clinging to the alliance with the corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t forces of
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Nazism, Fascism, and Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an is that they <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romised to accom<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lish
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that. It was the reason, also, why <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent>, in the name of Pius XI,
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wrote an encyclical enjoining every Catholic state to become a
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Fascist Cor<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orative State, and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ractically all the South American
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Re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublics as well as Portugal and Hungary, and later S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ain, France,
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and Belgium com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lied. Coercion alone brought a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ostates to heel.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> I made short reference in one booklet to -- as far as I can
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discover -- the first <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublic declaration by the Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy -- exce<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t
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that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> began to lash out with his hatred of Russia in 1926
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-- of the sentiment that had long been forced u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on it: that
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Socialism and Communism must be destroyed and that, since argument
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about the beauty of the Catholic faith ran off Socialists and
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Communists (who knew its history too well) like water off a duck's
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back, they must be destroyed by violence. As the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oint is </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>fundamental let us return to it for a moment. The occasion was a
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rece<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tion at the Vatican of S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anish refugees on Se<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tember 14, 1936.
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The <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eech to them, which is <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublished in English by the
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Catholic Truth Society -- I do not know if by this time they
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realized their blunder and su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ressed it -- with the title The
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S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anish Terror is no rambling talk of an aged and agitated <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riest.
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It is a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olished rhetorical address, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ared in the Secretariat of
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State. It re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resents the rebellion of Catholic Fascist generals in
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S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ain as a "satanic" attack on the established order by the very
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men who had established it, and it says that this is the work of
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"those forces which have already given <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roof and estimate of their
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quality in the attem<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t to subvert established order of every kind
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from Russia to China, from Mexico to South America". As Chiang Kai-
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Chek had already, under the treacherous guidance of his earlier
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associates in Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an, destroyed Communism in China (and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ared the
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way for Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an), the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s allies were destroying it in S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ain, and
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the Fascist governments of South America had destroyed it there at
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent>'s request, the meaning is clear. The <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> invited Germany
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(with the aid of rugged divisions from Catholic countries) and
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Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an to attack Russia and the United States to attack and annex
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Mexico. From that date the cry for the extinction of Bolshevism in
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Russia and Mexico echoed every month through the Catholic world.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> It is <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lain that this sentiment of the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> is not merely
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inconsistent with his gos<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>el of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace, but it sha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olicy which
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was the very worst <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ossible for the world and for the real <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ros<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ect
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of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace at that time. I do not suggest that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> was either
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muddle-headed or hy<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ocritical. He had made his <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osition clear a
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score of times: <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace -- when Communism was extinct by the conquest
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of Russia and Mexico and his Nazi and Fascist allies had received,
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as a gift, what the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> thought they wanted. It was the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s
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admirers who were muddle-headed or -- when they told the world that
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent> was going to work for <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace without qualification --
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hy<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ocritical.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Recent events have now shown that the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace of the world and
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the removal of the corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tion that threatened civilization de<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ended
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above all u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on the democracies and (in some form or other) the
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United States allying themselves closely with Russia. I may be
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ardoned for ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>laining that this is not on my own <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art a case of
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being wise after the event. In the A. B. C. Library of Living
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Knowledge (No. 3, Economic Gains of the Soviet Union, 1937) I fully
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vindicated that great civilization against calumnies that were
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current in nearly the whole <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress and showed how <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace was the
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first condition it required for the com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>letion of its s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lendid
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work. I <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ointed out that whatever dreams Russians may have had at
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an earlier date of ins<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>iring revolution in other countries had been
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long abandoned, and they were content to let the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>les of the
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world judge for themselves between the civilizations of the west
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and that of the Soviet Union. I warned the reader that it was just
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because the Russians were so successful in creating a civilization
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without <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rivate ca<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ital and without religion that the combined
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influence of ca<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>italism and the Churches used almost the entire
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress to libel them. "This generation," I said (<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>. 29), "is the
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most heavily du<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed and do<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed in all recent history, and its blunder</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>may <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rove the most costly in history to the workers of the world.".
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I insisted that a great war of aggression was, on the o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>en
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rofessions of <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> and <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> and because of this criminal
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aloofness from Russia, certain to come and said:</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> "If this war of aggression, which, if it were successful,
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would be a signal to <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> to take u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> -- at the deadly ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ense
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of France and England -- his dream of an eastern em<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ire, is
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averted, the world will have to thank the Soviet Union (<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>. 29)."</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> I have knowledge of even Rationalists who had long read my
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books but refused to read another line of mine because of that
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little book on Russia. They <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>referred the su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erficial gush and
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treacherous o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>timism of acce<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ted writers and journalists who fooled
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them about the new Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>al era of Peace and Charity.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Since this is the one defence of the action of the Black
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International, that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> used his world-<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>restige to issue one
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fervent a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eal after another for <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace, we must make a decisive
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re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ly to it. We are concerned with the action of the Church and
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will not be diverted by this trick of distinguishing between local
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hierarchies, as if they had a remarkable degree of inde<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>endence of
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the Vatican, and the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>. We shall see, indeed everybody knows,
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that the German Church loudly su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orted <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>, as usual, when he
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launched the world-war and all its horrors, the Italian Church
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fully su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orted <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> in his miserable entrance into the war as
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soon as he felt that victory was certain, and the S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anish, Irish,
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Hungarian, and Portuguese Churches -- and when the time came the
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Belgian and French Churches -- su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orted their governments in
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assisting and fawning on the aggressors.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> But for the moment we must clearly understand the action of
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the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> himself. Chanting the virtues of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace is as idle as
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>reaching justice in the abstract and is often far more dangerous.
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The only occasion on which I ever addressed a meeting of a Peace
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Society was in 1938. I at first declined the invitation and
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consented only on the understanding that I would tell them truths
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which they would not like. The bulk of the members refused to
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attend -- the local Churches had been busy -- and to the few who
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did I <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resented a realistic analysis of the state of the world,
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which the chief officials described as masterly and worthy of their
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dee<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>est consideration, and a solemn warning of what was coming. I
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was not further invited to address one of the hundreds of Peace
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Societies in Great Britain, and a few months later they were all
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enthusiastic over the new <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s beautiful sentiments! These <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le
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flatter themselves that they have su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erior sentiments to the rest
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of us when they really differ from us in flabbiness of intellect
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or, in the better cases, in lack of realism.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lain truth is that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> talked <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace and worked for
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war. He had a very large share in the libel and hatred of Russia
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which <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>revented the one combination of sound forces that could
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ensure <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace. France had entered into an alliance of mutual defense
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with Russia, but the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>enly condemned it, and the Catholic
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military chiefs robbed it of reality and effectiveness. On the
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other hand the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> clung to the alliances with the corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t forces
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which he had cemented. It required very little intelligence and </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>study of world-affairs at that time to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erceive that the only
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ossible danger to the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace of the world lay in Germany, Italy,
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and Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an. A closer student, as the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> was su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osed to be, could
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go further. He would know that those three <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Powers</ent>, his friends,
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were determined to start an aggressive war. What, in such
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circumstances, was the value of his a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eals to the world at large
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to see the beauty of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace?</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Well, says the a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ologist, wearily, at least he soon <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erceived
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his error and entered u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on a series of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ractical <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osals for
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ensuring <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace. Did he? He was crowned <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> on March 12. I said in
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an earlier essay that it detracts somewhat from the beauty of his
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words about Charity that on the very day of his coronation the Jews
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were, with terrible injustice and suffering, turned out of Italy,
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and he said nothing. Again I beg his <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ardon. He <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotected some of
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the Jews. In October (1941) the Italian <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er La Vita Italiana
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sourly com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lained that not only were there still Jews in Italy but
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some of them were millionaires and occu<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ied very high <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ositions in
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the state-service. One of these, a <ent type = 'person'>Signor <ent type = 'person'>Sacerdoti</ent></ent>, had just been
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a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ointed Director General of all the shi<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>yards of Italy. The <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er
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went on to say:</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> "The a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ointment again confirms the general conviction that
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Italian Jews are strongly favored and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotected by the Catholic
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Church and that wealthy Jews in Italy are still very influential."</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> I always acknowledge without a qualm these little injustices
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to the clergy into which incom<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lete knowledge betrays me at rare
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intervals. At the same time I must <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oint out, in case you do not
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know, Italian, that "<ent type = 'person'>Sacerdoti</ent>" means "Priests", so that this one
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotected Jew of whom I have heard was obviously a Roman Catholic
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as well as a millionaire, and therefore a fit <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson, to come under
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the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s mantle of Charity: which did not cover the 69,999 Jews
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who were robbed and cast out.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> March 12 was not merely a real Yom Ki<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ur for the Jews of
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Italy. It was the day on which, as I have elsewhere stated, the
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sleek and treacherous <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riest, Msgr. Tiszo, went from Slovakia to
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see <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> and arrange with him for the final betrayal, or sale, of
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Czecho-Slovakia. That foul deed was certainly done with the
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agreement of the Vatican. It made a final end of the Liberalism,
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which the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> hated, of the Czechs, and it made solidly Catholic
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Slovakia an inde<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>endent state, another member of the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s new
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dream of a Catholic bloc and abjectly submissive to the Vatican. As
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I said, you can believe if you like that Tiszo accom<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lished this
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without consulting Rome. But the ste<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> meant far more. It finally
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remained the great obstacle to <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>'s march to Russia and the
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Balkans. How did the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> of Peace regard that? It is well known
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that even Chamberlain was now convinced that war was absolutely
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inevitable. The whole world saw it. Are we to su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ose that the new
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> in the weeks, intense brooding and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>raying, with three hours'
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slee<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> a night, that followed his coronation (his biogra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>her, says)
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did not see what every statesman and editor in the world saw?</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Well, says the a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ologist, still more wearily, <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent> girded
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his thin loins and settled down to six months' fighting to avert
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the great calamity. Let me say at once that <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent> was not such a
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fool as one might be tem<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ted to think when one reflects how he had </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ared the irresistible conditions of a great war. He is a man of
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considerable ability and I suggest the alternative view that he
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knew well that war was inevitable, was convinced that Germany,
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Italy, and Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an -- we shall see later that he was aware of the
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joint <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lan -- would win, and was equally convinced that this would
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rove to be to the advantage of the Church. The known facts <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ermit
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us to make only one concession to the claim that after all he was
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human as well as ecclesiastical: he would work sincerely for <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace
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in the sense of a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>easement or granting <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>, <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent>, and
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Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an what they quite obviously wanted, and he <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>robably did not
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realize how much they wanted that they did not make obvious.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> In this light we may review his <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace-efforts in the fateful
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summer of 1939. The first was unfortunate. He was crowned on March
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12 and he emerged from his week of <ent type = 'person'>Yogi</ent> meditation on the "9th.
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Easter Sunday was to fall on A<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ril 9, and he had to have a
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>articularly fervent a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eal to the world for <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace ready for that
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date. But on Good Friday <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> took the second ste<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> in his war
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by invading Albania! The <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s biogra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>her tells us that he was
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annoyed, in so far as consecrated <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersons can be, both by the
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desecration of the holy day and the need to rewrite some <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>assages
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of his a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eal for <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace. To what extent he was really du<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed we do
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not know. Catholics say that he wrote a letter to <ent type = 'person'>the King of Italy</ent>
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to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>revent the invasion. It would be as futile as writing to the
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king of toyland, but there is no evidence that such a letter was
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ever written. Everybody in Italy knew -- was bound to know -- that
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a large Italian force was concentrating at the Adriatic <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orts for
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the invasion of Albania; and every thoughtful Italian must have
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known that Albania was for <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> just the same stage in a
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journey to the East as Czecho-Slovakia had been for <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>. But
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whether or no it is true that <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> double-crossed his <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>artner
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in crime by taking the ste<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>, in order to make sure that he got the
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southern half of the Balkans for Italy, need not be discussed here,
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and the desecration of Good Friday does not interest us. We will
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examine the eastern ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ansion as a whole and the Vatican's relation
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to it in a se<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>arate essay.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>shot was that, while nice-minded <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le all over the
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world read the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eal with the usual moist eyes and muddled
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brains, for serious folk it was at the best a dam<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> squib, at the
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worst a mockery. And the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> soon knew it. Many believe that,
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while <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> has certainly not the vast <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lanning and organizing
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intelligence with which Nazis credit him, he <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>robably does throw
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off the general <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lans or imaginative scheme's which the massive
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military and economic brain behind him then works out in detail.
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However that may be, we see a steady and very able method in the
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great <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lot: a ste<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>, very carefully <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ared (the Saar, the
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Rhineland, Austria, etc.) every six months or so, then six months
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of covert <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aration for and o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>en lying about the next ste<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>. After
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Czecho-Slovakia the lying became useless. Only Dutchmen and
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Belgians were du<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed by it. Poland was to be the next stage; and the
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next stage meant war on a Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ean scale.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> There is evidence, which we will see later, that, as we should
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assume, the Vatican knew this as well as the French and British
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Foreign Offices. A fortnight after Easter the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>, his biogra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>her
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tells us, received so secret a message from his <ent type = 'person'>Nuncio</ent> in Berlin </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>that he o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ened the letter with his own hands and ke<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t the contents
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secret. Only his Secretary of State, Maglione, knew what re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ly he
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made to it. Is it fanciful to su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ose that it a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rised him of the
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next ste<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> that <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> meditated? It was followed, the biogra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>her
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says, by "feverish activity" at the Vatican, the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> consulting
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his <ent type = 'person'>Nuncio</ent>s from Berlin and Warsaw and seeing numbers of bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s
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from France, Germany, and Poland. As the quarrel about Dantzig, the
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unmistakable herald of <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>'s next ste<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>, soon broke out, the
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Vatican could not even <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>retend to be taken by sur<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rise.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> What, then, were all these efforts to secure <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace of which
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the Catholic a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ologist s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eaks? We ignore the Easter lyric. It
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reminds us of one gangster sending a wreath to the funeral of
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another. In May he suggested -- so unobtrusively that it could be
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denied when the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lan failed -- a Five Power Conference over the
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German-Polish dis<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ute. The five <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Powers</ent> were to be Poland, Germany,
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Great Britain, France, and Italy. You may think him either
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un<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ractical or insincere but the fact is that he wanted Russia,
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which was dee<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ly interested, excluded, on his usual assum<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tion that
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it was not a res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ectable Power, and Italy, which was not interested
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and would intervene only to su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ort <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>, included. France, which
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was now, to the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s annoyance, allied with Russia, and Great
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Britain refused. The Conference would certainly not have checked
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> It is said -- and, of course, denied -- that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> then
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suggested a Conference on the economic grounds of the world-unrest.
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> had been com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>laining for some time that Great Britain and
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France were trying to starve the Axis economically, and that Tunis,
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Jibute, and a share in the control of the Suez were vital economic
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requirements of Italy and would entirely satisfy it; while his
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troo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s were trying to cross Albania to Greece and his Fascist
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toughs were encouraged to bawl in the streets and theaters that
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Italy must have Savoy, Corsica, Malta, etc. <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> was <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>leading
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that once the question of Dantzig and the Corridor was settled he
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would lay aside his armor forever. Any man who wishes may assume
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that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> really believed them. His economic <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lan was an
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attem<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t to get Great Britain and a France that was already weakened
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by treason to give them what they wanted. In any case his
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suggestion was rejected as amateurish.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> These various <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osals are interesting only in connection
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with the belief of many that the Vatican has as fine an
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intelligence-service as any Chancellory in Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e. If that were so,
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the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> would know that these <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>retended economic grievances of
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Germany, Italy, and Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an were dishonest <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>retexts for crime. They
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were based u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on two lies: over-<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulation and a disadvantage in
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getting su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lies from <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>arts of the world which were included in the
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em<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ires of Great Britain and France.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The grievance about over-<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulation is nauseous when we recall
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how <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> for six years and <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> for fifteen years had been
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whi<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ing u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> the birth rate by every means in their <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ower; and in
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this their action coincided with that of the Catholic clergy.
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Neither in Italy nor Germany was there the least reticence about
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the reasons for demanding early marriages and giving s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ecial <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rizes
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to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>arents of large families. They wanted soldiers. "We were born </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>to die for Germany" was <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ainted u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> in boys schools in that country,
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and leading statesmen urged mothers to look anxiously for the first
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mystic flicker of the "starlight of battle" in a baby boy's eyes.
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The Italians were less absurd but equally frank. The men who will
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be called to account in future history are the states-men and
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writers of other countries who saw year by year this frenzied and
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artificial attem<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t to increase the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulation, accom<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anied by
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hy<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ocritical <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>leas that the countries were already so
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over<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulated, that they must have more territory. The Catholic
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clergy were the worst offenders. They <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>retended to discover that
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birth control was immoral. Their real <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ur<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ose in their ban on it
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was to secure an increase of the Catholic <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulation while the non-
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Catholic <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>racticed birth control.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> In <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oint of fact, Germany was very far from over<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulated, and
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Italy was by no mean's one of the most densely <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulated countries.
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England has about 800 <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le to the square mile, while Italy has
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only 350 and Germany 322. Belgium, Holland, and other countries
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annexed by Germany on the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lea of wanting more "living room" for
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its distressed <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulation are twice as densely <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulated as it is.
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The whole economic <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lea of Germany, which the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> wanted gravely
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discussed, stank with mendacity. Sir <ent type = 'person'>Norman Angell</ent>, one of the most
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anxious of men to remove grounds of war, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roved years ago in a
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s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ecial study "that England had very little economic advantage from
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its em<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ire." You can trust the Canadians and Australians to see
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that any advantage is mutual. <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> says re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eatedly and
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em<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>hatically in Mein Kam<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>f that Germany does not want colonies: in
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which he includes dominions of the British ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e. It wants land in
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Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e, he insists, and we now see it clearly. He wants to reduce
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Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e to economic servitude to the Nazis.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s biogra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>her com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lains that after a time both Great
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Britain and Germany refused to take the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> further into their
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confidence. We do not wonder. But, whether you <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>refer to believe
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that he was not willing to be <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ushed out of the s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>otlight or that
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he really thought he could hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> the interest of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace, he tried
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again. He issued a very <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>retentious document in which he stated the
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conditions of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace, and half the world began again to discuss the
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marvelous sagacity and moral serenity of his famous "Five Points".</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> It was, in <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oint of fact, his worst effort. The material <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art
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of his first and most im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ortant <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oint was: "A fundamental <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ostulate
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of an honorable and just <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace is that of the right to life and
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freedom of all nations, big and small, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>owerful and weak." It is
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exas<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erating that most <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ers, in their eagerness to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lease
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Catholic readers and advertisers, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romised this as a very clear-
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headed <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>iece of moral guidance in a world of confusion. Such a
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right has been a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>latitude in <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olitical theory for more than half
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a century. One is tem<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ted to say ever since the ro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>es were
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com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>elled by the Italian armies to let the inhabitants of Central
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Italy decide by <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lebiscite how they <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>referred to live. But for
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent>-Pius to formulate this <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rinci<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le solemnly to the world in
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the year 1939 was a breath-taking <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>iece of audacity.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> As I showed in an earlier booklet, four-fifths of the
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Catholics of the world live under a Fascist regime, and they are
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assured by their <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riests that this is in accordance with the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>teaching! What is worse, most of them have had this des<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>otic regime
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im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osed u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on them under <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent> and at his direct instigation. I
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have shown how freedom disa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eared almost whenever he visited a
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country or it came under Catholic authorities: in 20 Re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublics of
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Central and South America, Portugal, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and
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in the end France and Belgium. The Black International was solely
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res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>onsible for robbing the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le of Vienna of their right to
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choose their mode of life and cordially coo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erated in de<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riving the
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S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aniards of that right. The Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy had been an intimate ally of
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the Fascists for ten years in refusing the Italians the means of
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ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ressing their wishes and of the Nazis for six years. It had
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consented by silence to the theft of that right from the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le of
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Abyssinia, Bohemia, Moravia, and Albania. It demanded almost every
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month that the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le of Russia and Mexico should be violently
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de<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rived of that right. And the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> crowns this formidable list of
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encroachments on the liberty of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>les which he ins<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ired or
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blessed by assuring the world that to res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ect the right of self-
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determination is the first condition of the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace it ardently
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desires! I need not go on to ask what serious <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ros<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ect he thought
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there was of Germany, Italy, and Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an, the only three <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>owers to
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whom it was necessary to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>reach, agreeing to it.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The least that the world could do, since the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress is not o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>en
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for candid reflections on the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s actions, was to ignore him and
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his Five Points. The other <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oints were <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>latitudes. The second
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condition of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace was disarmament: a very <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ractical thing to say
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in 1939. Then we get counsels to learn from the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ast, to consider
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the demands of racial minorities, and to cultivate mutual goodwill
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and a sense of justice. It was like <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osing to sell a man
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asbestos <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aint when his house was burning furiously. If the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>,
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had framed these <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oints in the office of the Secretariat of State
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in 1929 and had broadcast them sternly whenever a violation of them
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seemed imminent he might not have averted the coming tragedy but he
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would have saved the honor of the Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy. He could not. Authority
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is the first <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rinci<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le and coercion the indis<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ensable instrument of
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the Church. Some Protestant bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lauded the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s Five
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Points. Others asked what freedom, good-will, and justice non-
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Catholics had in Poland, S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, and a
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score of other Catholic states.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Cha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ter III</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> POLAND PAYS FOR ITS PIETY</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> What <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>assed between the Vatican and the Nazis before the
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invasion of Poland and the o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ening of the Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ean War only the
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> and a very small number of his collaborators know. On A<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ril
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24, as I said, the question of Slovakia being now settled and
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> in <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ossession of the bridge to the Ukraine and the Balkans,
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the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> got a letter from his Berlin re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resentative in a secrecy
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that sur<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rises and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>uzzles his biogra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>her, it took two days of
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solitary reflection for him to decide u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on the answer, and only he </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>and <ent type = 'person'>Cardinal Maglione</ent> know to this day what the answer was. Then
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there were visits to the Vatican of the Rumanian and French
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ambassadors and various German and Polish bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s, and there was a
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brisk secret corres<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ondence with the <ent type = 'person'>Nuncio</ent>s at Berlin, Warsaw, and
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Paris.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Clearly the new <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> was confronted with a terrible dilemma
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and he was anxious to kee<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> secret even from the Church what
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decision he took. Rome is one of the busiest sounding boardes of
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rumors in Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e and the Vatican <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress bureau is as <ent type = 'person'>Pegler</ent> has
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shown, one of the leakiest or most venal, but at this stage the
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secret was guarded with un<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>recedented rigor. If you will next
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notice the significant fact that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> refrained from an
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ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>licit condemnation of the invasion of Poland as carefully as in
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the case of Abyssinia and Albania -- he certainly never used a word
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to com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>are with his language about the Russians when they sim<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ly
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took back Rusalan <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovinces which Germany would have annexed -- you
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will hardly hesitate in your guess what the secret was. The <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>
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was informed of the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lan to invade Poland and was induced to assent
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on certain conditions: <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>robably that the occu<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ation of Poland would
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be tem<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orary and was indis<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ensable for the attack on Russia, that
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religion would be res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ected in Poland, and that the Church would
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get concessions in Germany and great o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ortunities in Russia. The
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idea seems to have been that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> would <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersuade the very
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docile Poles to submit on these conditions and would continue to
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inflame them against Russia, the only Power that could save them.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> In refraining from condemning the invasion of Poland -- I do
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not count later <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotests when the Catholic, body was threatened
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with annihilation -- the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> could not <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lead, as he did in the
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case of Norway, that the Catholic body was small and he must think
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of his German Church and not offend the Nazis. Whether or no that
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is a res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ectable ground of action in a <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>, the fact is that there
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were twice as many sincere Catholics in Poland as in the <ent type = 'person'>Reich</ent>. A
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cynic would add that, though it had more adherents and of a more
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>assionate loyalty, the Polish Church was not a quarter as rich as
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the German Church. We will, of course, not admit that the Vatican
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was moved by so <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rofane a consideration, but the numbers are
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indis<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>utable. We have seen that by 1939 there were not 12,000,000
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Catholics left in Germany: <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>robably not more than 10,000,000. No
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one dis<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>utes that of the 33,000,000 <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le of Poland more than
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20,000,000 were sincere Catholics and several further million were
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com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulsory members of the Church: a ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e of Catholic of which the
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Vatican seems to be equally <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roud.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> This strange situation requires an historical ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lanation, but
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for even a short summary of the history of Catholicism in Poland I
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must refer to my A<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eal to Reason Library (No. 5., "Roman
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Catholicism in Poland and Russia") and confine myself here to a few
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oints which are essential to understand what follows. There is, as
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I have often <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ointed out, a close <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>arallel between Poland and
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Ireland, es<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ecially if you think of Catholic Ireland before British
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Liberalism relieved many of its grievances. Both countries suffered
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from their geogra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>hical <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osition, on the outskirts of civilization,
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and in both cases this gave the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riests a rich o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ortunity to
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ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>loit the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oor and very backward <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulation. And just as the
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earlier tyranny of Protestant England had hardened the faith in </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>Ireland and brought <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riests and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le closer together, so had the
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long tyranny of Orthodox Catholic Russia in Poland. While, however,
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Britain had very materially modified its treatment of the Irish
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more than half a century ago, Russian tyranny had continued until
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1917.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> We thus recognize a very serious traditional ground for that
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hostility to Russia which <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>revented Poland from entering into
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alliance with the one Power that could <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotect it, but it is due
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mainly to the Black International that hostility became worse after
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1918 and com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>letely destroyed the chances of checking Nazism on
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that side.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> At Versailles, to which the Poles sent <ent type = 'person'>Paderewski</ent> to lull the
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ears of statesmen with his music, a Re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublic of 30,000,000
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inhabitants was set u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>. Not much more than half of these were
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Poles, so that there were few <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>arts of Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e in which the
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Conference of Versailles sowed the seeds of a future war so
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recklessly as in Poland. In <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>articular the Poles claimed Russian
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territory (White Russia and the Galician Ukraine) containing seven
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or eight million <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le of alien race and generally alien religion,
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and, to the disgust of the British re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resentatives, the French
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bulldozed <ent type = 'person'>Wilson</ent>, who reeled under the shower of weird geogra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>hical
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names (and lies) into consenting. The Poles also claimed Silesia
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from Germany, but it was so obviously far more German than Polish
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that the League of Nations was directed to take a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lebiscite.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The time came when the French were disgusted with their Polish
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>et -- they had su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orted it as a bulwark against Bolshevism -- and
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they gave away the fact that the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lebiscite was corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t. See the
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Catholic <ent type = 'person'>Rene Martel</ent>'s La France et la Pologne (1931). The Poles
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had formed a s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ecial organization for corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ting and intimidating
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voters and officials, and one of the three directors of it was
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Msgr, Adamski, Catholic Bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> of Posen. The Black International
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had begun its record in Poland, and there is no other <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art of the
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world in which it has <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roceeded with such gross inhumanity, as we
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shall see <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resently. The vote was still 700,000 for Germany and
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400,000 for Poland, and the Commissioners decided to divide the
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovince. This division was, carried out with the same corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tion,
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the richest districts going to Poland even when the great majority
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of the inhabitants were found to be Germans. They had to sell out
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to Poles, at a heavy loss, and transfer to Germany. Still the Poles
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were not content. The League of Nations <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ermitted them to take
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advantage of Russia's distress and seize Vilna and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art of
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Lithuania. Ever since that <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eriod of grab and corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tion there has
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been a monument on German soil facing Poland with the inscri<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tion:
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"Germans, never forget of what blind hatred has robbed you."</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> How in s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ite of all this greed and the large loans extended by
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France and Britain, Poland sank to the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osition of the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oorest
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country in Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e -- read S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ivak's Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e Under the Terror if you
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want to know what ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>loitation really is -- cannot be discussed
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here. The <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oint of interest to us is that the country no sooner rid
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itself of the tyranny of Czarist Russia than it set u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> a still more
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galling tyranny over its own minorities, and in this the Black
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International worked in intimate coo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eration with the Dictator
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<ent type = 'person'>Pilsudski</ent>. Marshal <ent type = 'person'>Pilsudski</ent>, over whose death in 1935 we shed </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>tears as we read the record of his virtues in all our <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ers, was,
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not to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ut too fine a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oint on it, a brute and a crook. He had led
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the Poles who fought for Germany against us in the 1914-1918 war,
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and they had not thought it discreet to send him to Versailles. He
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had joined the White War against Russia, which he hated with all
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the bitterness of (like <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent>) a renegade Socialist, and only
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the French had saved him from losing Poland to them. He disgusted
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every grou<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oliticians, and the Socialists saved him from ruin
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and he then sent their leaders to a fortress and tortured them
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exactly (even to the guards <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>utting excrement in their food) as
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Nazis later tortured Jews in Germany.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> As far as I can discover <ent type = 'person'>Pilsudski</ent> never became a sincere
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Catholic -- again like his friend <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> -- but he acted with
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and on behalf of the Church, which is more <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>owerful than in Ireland
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or Peru. Let me ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lain at once that the a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>alling <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution that
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lasted twenty years in Poland was a joint affair of Church and
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state and aimed equally at destroying the nationality and the
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religion of the immense non-Polish minorities. In the Galician
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Ukraine alone there were 1,000,000 Catholic Poles, 1,250,000 Jews,
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4,000,000 Greek Uniates (acknowledging the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> but with a Greek
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liturgy), and 4,000,000 Orthodox or Greek Catholics. In the west
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were about 1,000,000 German Protestants; and there were, of course,
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re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resentatives of all minorities and not a few ske<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tics in the
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cities. For twenty years every device of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution and brutality
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was used to destroy the religious liberty and the national tongues
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and customs of these minorities, although the Poles had given
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Versailles a solemn engagement to res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ect them. I am concerned only
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with the coercion in religious matters, and the reason for
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recalling it here is obvious. During all the years when the Vatican
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and the Black International in every country, but es<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ecially in the
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United States and Canada, was ins<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>iring, on the ground of its
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"<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution of religion", that hatred of Russia which has been of
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incalculable service to the Nazis, this same Black International
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not only knew that there was no <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution of religion in Russia
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-- it was Polish cons<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>iracy that brought <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>unishment on the
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Catholics there but was conducting a quite fiendish <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution of
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religion in Poland and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>reventing the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress in other countries,
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with only four exce<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tion's amongst all the dailies of Canada, the
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United States, and Great Britain, from <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublishing the facts. The
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honorable exce<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tions were the Toronto Evening Telegram, the Chicago
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Daily News, the New York Herald-Tribune, and the Manchester
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Guardian (England); and the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecutions had been in <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rogress for
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eleven years when they discovered it.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The Ukrainians of Galicia had sent a de<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>utation to Versailles
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to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotest against incor<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oration in Poland and claim inde<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>endence.
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The French had got the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>etition dismissed, and the Poles had
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romised to res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ect their minority-rights. Six months later they
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addressed to the French a memoir (Les atrocites <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olonaises en
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<ent type = 'person'>Galicie Ukrainienne</ent>) which showed a very brutal <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution,
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olitical and religious raging over the whole vast area. In one
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overcrowded and filthy jail 200 of the 2000 <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>risoners were Orthodox
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riests. More than 1000 <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riests had been arrested and Polish Roman
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riests stalked like ghouls in the rear of the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olice and soldiers
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taking over the schools and cha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>els of the dis<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ossessed Greek
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riests. The soldiers were instructed to subject the Greek <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riests </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Bank of Wisdom
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>to every kind of humiliation and mockery so as to break the
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attachment of the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le. But the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>easants and farmers reacted with
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the fiery <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotests that might have been ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ected, and "whole
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villages were de<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulated by massacre." The women were ra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed and
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beaten, the men shot by the thousand. In other words, the Catholic
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Poles were <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>etrating in Poland twenty years ago just those
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atrocities which are now exercised u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on themselves by the Germans,
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and, exce<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t for this authoritative account in French, which was not
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translated into any other language, the world was not <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ermitted to
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know anything about it.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> It is an im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ortant secondary aim of these booklets to warn the
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reader of the extraordinary extent and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ernicious nature of the
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Catholic censorshi<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> of the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress and of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublicity generally. Just
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about that time, twenty years ago, I s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ent six months in New York
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and when I suggested to a well-known <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublisher, who asked me for a
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book, that I should write on the Catholic Church, he refused and
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assured me that I would not find a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublisher for such work in New
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York. Few <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublishers have any sym<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>athy with the Church -- the only
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one I found with such <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersonal admiration of it was, curiously, my
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Rationalist friend G.H. Putnam -- but the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress would not bring to
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the notice of the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublic, in the usual way, books that were
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(offensive to Catholics", and they submitted that it was useless to
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublish them. Libraries were often intimidated from buying them and
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booksellers from ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osing them for sale. Haldeman-Julius is the
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only <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublisher in America during the last ten years who has enabled
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me to tell truths of the kind I tell here, yet it will be evident
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that the world would have been far better equi<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed to meet the
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darkening future if the whole truth had been <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ut before it year
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after year.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> I have devoted a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aragra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>h to events of twenty year's ago
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because they were but the first <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>age in a cha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ter of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution
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which covers the whole intervening <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eriod and is very material from
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several angles to my <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resent theme. The matter not only affords a
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very striking illustration of the su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ression of truth which it is
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im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ortant to know. It shows that the worst blunders of Versailles,
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which we blamed so fluently, were enormously aggravated by the
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conduct of the Catholic Poles. It ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lains that bitter hostility of
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the Poles to the Russians which caused them to lend a hand in every
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cons<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>iracy against the Soviet government since 1919 and brought
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u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on the Catholic <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riests in Russia, most of whom were Poles, the
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legitimate legal <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roceedings which the Vatican and the American
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bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resented as <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution of religion. It shows that
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outrages as vile as any committed by the Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s in China and now by
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Nazis in many lands were being <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>etrated by the most <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rofoundly
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Catholic state in the world for twenty years while nice-minded folk
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everywhere were wondering whether the new barbarism was not due to
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a decay of religion. And it <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>uts in a strange light that standing
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excuse of the Vatican for its conduct, that the extension of its
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rule over further millions of men or the maintenance of that rule
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over million's who seem to be rejecting it is so im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ortant for the
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moral and social good of men that we must be lenient in regard to
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the crookedness of its <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olicy.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> If ever this a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>alling record of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution in Poland by the
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Catholic Poles is forced u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on general <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublic notice we shall
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>robably hear the usual distinction between the action of a local
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hierarchy and the action of the Vatican, I need not re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eat that we
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are here considering the conduct of the Black International as a
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whole not sim<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ly of the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>s, and we are not embarrassed by being
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unable to trace in every case the instructions of the Vatican to
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national Churches. But this distinction is not even <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lausible in
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the case of Poland. The <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resent <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> Pius XII, has, we saw, an
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intimate knowledge of German affairs, and no <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lea of ignorance or
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misinformation can be made in connection with any of his relations
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to that country. But the late, <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> Plus XI, had the same <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersonal
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interest in Poland, his <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ontificate (1922-1939) exactly coincides
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with the Catholic Reign of Terror in that country.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Any writer must dwell with reluctance on the misconduct of a
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le which bore, and with great heroism, the first brutal onset
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of the Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ean War and suffers so bitterly for it today. It is,
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however, necessary to tell the whole truth if we are to a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>reciate
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the insincerity of the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>retensions of the Black International, the
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truth about its conduct, and the mendacity with which a good deal
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of that conduct is concealed. It is fortunately easier in America
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than elsewhere to learn the truth. When the Chicago Daily News and
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the Herald-Tribune disturbed the clerical folk who were raving
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about <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution in Russia -- Jewish rabbis joining in <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rocessions
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with bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s in New York while financiers a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lauded from the
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windows -- by showing that the real <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution was in Poland,
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officials in Washington answered inquirers with the suave
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assurances of the Polish Catholic re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resentatives that it was "all
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lies." But there is a large body of Ukrainians in the United
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States, and in 1931 they collected and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublished a large volume of
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testimony (letters, re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orts, journalistic accounts, etc.) of the
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outrages.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> No im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>artial <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson who reads this (Atrocities in the Ukraine,
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1931, edited by <ent type = 'person'>Emil Revyuk</ent>) can for a moment doubt the truth of
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the statements. The authority is absolute. The details are
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revolting. The defense urged by some is that, the Ukrainians had
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rebelled against their Polish masters. Yes, after years of brutal
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treatment in violation of the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romise's made by Poland when it
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received the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovince. But a nation of 30,000,000, s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ending a very
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high <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ortion of its revenue on an army which could stand u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> to
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Germany for three weeks hardly needed torture and brutality to
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su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress any revolt in a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovince. Flogging, with whi<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s loaded with
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wire or iron, was a daily occurrence. Pregnant women and girls were
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beaten. Heated irons were a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lied to the feet. Water, sometimes
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mixed with oil, was forced down their nostrils. Men -- not merely
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>easants but <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rofessional men and scholars -- were de<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rived of
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slee<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> until they became half-insane. There were 200,000 in jail in
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1930 and torture was used lavishly on them to make them betray
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others. The brutality was even worse in 1934 and 1935, though it
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seems to have relented a little after the death of <ent type = 'person'>Pilsudski</ent> in the
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latter year.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The first encyclical that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> issued in 1939 de<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lored
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that the root of all evil in the world was the decay of religion.
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One wonders how many sage editorials took u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> and confirmed that
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text; and not one in a hundred of these <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ers had informed its </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>readers that bestiality of the kind that will make sociologists of
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the future hesitate to call our social order a civilization had
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been going on for twenty years in the most religious country in
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Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e. Poland was to 1939 far more Catholic than Eire or Peru. A
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French Catholic visited it in 1932 and wrote an article on it in
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the Catholic Revue des Deux Mondes (February 1, 1933). He describes
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exhibitions of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>iety in <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublic to which you will find no <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>arallel
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in any other country. American Catholics were, at the time, telling
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non-Catholic neighbors that if they could only see religious life
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in a solidly Catholic country they would <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erceive the beauty of the
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Church. Well, Poland was the most solidly Catholic country in the
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world, and its <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riests and bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s were equally behind this
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution, which extended also to German Protestants and Polish
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Freethinkers, with the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oliticians of the <ent type = 'person'>Pilsudski</ent> school, They
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were just as eager to destroy the Uniate, Orthodox, and Protestant
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Churches as the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oliticians were to make everybody thoroughly
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Polish. That is abundantly shown in Revyuk's book.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> It is hardly necessary to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oint out how these facts make a
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mockery of the Vatican's assurance to the world that when the
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Russian troo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s entered this Galician Ukraine in 1939 they committed
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outrages as the German troo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s did in Posen. Roman Catholic Poles
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and the few other Roman Catholics in the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovince fought against
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the Russians, but what was likely to be the mutual attitude of the
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Ukrainians and the Russian's after 20 years of this agony? The
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Ukrainians hated the Poles mortally. The Russians were an army of
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liberation. The jails were o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ened. The farms were restored to their
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owners. But the Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>al lie was re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roduced res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ectfully in the world-
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress. I remember very few <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ers which even troubled to ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lain
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that the two <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovinces taken over by Russia, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>al<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ably to antici<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ate
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a German annexation of them, were Russian <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rovinces wantonly torn
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from their natural unity by Versailles, but I do not remember a
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single <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er that ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lained what grounds the Ukrainians had for
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relief and how bitterly they hated the Poles.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Another reason why I enlarge on this <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ainful cha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ter of Polish
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history just before the war is because it has a vital bearing on
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one of the grossest blunders of the democracies and greatest
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advantages of the Nazis, the estrangement from Russia. Since I
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cannot <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ut before the reader any corres<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ondence of the Vatican with
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the Polish hierarchy he must decide on a general knowledge of
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Church methods how far the Vatican knew and a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roved of the brutal
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution I fancy he will not have much difficulty -- but that
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the Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy inflamed the Catholic Poles against Russia is <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>atent.
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The Poles had, we saw, very strong traditional grounds to hate
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Tsarist Russia, and <ent type = 'person'>Pilsudski</ent> had carried his hatred over to Soviet
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Russia and had gravely im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>licated the Roman Catholics in Russia in
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the White War and subsequent cons<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>iracies. Grave difficulties were
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bound to arise when there was a common frontier between the most
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religious and the most irreligious country in Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e. It will,
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however, not be questioned that these difficulties were immensely
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aggravated by the a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eals to the Catholic world of the Pa<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>acy to
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work for the extinction of Bolshevism after 1926. It was in large
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art owing to this that the democracies lost the last o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ortunity
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of either <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>reventing the war or making it short and restricted.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Poland had signed a non-aggression <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>act with Germany in 1934,
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and there cannot be the least doubt that, imbued as it was with the
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s idea of a crusade against Russia, in which Germany must <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lay
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at least the leading <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art, Poland regarded this as a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aratory
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condition for the eventual attack on Russia. When <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> and
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> had hamstrung Czecho-Slovakia, Catholic Poland and
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Catholic Hungary had, like wolves waiting until a buffalo is
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wounded, bitten large <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ieces of territory out of its flanks. On
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January 25, 1939, <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> had sent Ribbentro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>, the vilest agent of
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his more treacherous moves, to Warsaw to re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resent Germany at the
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celebration of the fifth anniversary of the non-aggression <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>act. It
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was, he said in his s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eech, "one of the firmest bases of Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ean
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace." What children these Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eans were the historian will one
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day reflect! Germany was then, he knew, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lotting the destruction of
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Poland and a world war.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Ribbentro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> returned to Germany to join in the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lot against
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Czecho-Slovakia in which, as I have elsewhere ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lained, it
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received most valuable hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> from the Black International. The
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Germans entered Prague on March 15 (1939), while the new <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> was
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aring his moving address on <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace and charity; and the world
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began to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>are for what seemed to be the inevitable war. Most of
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my neighbors in London had gas-masks by that date and looked
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forward with amazing a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>athy -- or was it lack of imagination? -- to
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the horrors that were <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>redicted. The French signed a mutual
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defensive alliance with Poland. In fact, in the course of the next
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few months France and Great Britain had such alliances also with
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Rumania, Greece, and Turkey.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> We can imagine some im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erfectly informed reader of the next
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generation exclaiming im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>atiently: But why string together these
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small, scattered, and not wholly reliable nations and omit the one
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great <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ower, Soviet Russia, which was Germany's natural enemy and
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was worth all the others <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ut together? We did not ask the question
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at the time because we knew the answer. These Catholic countries
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and even Great Britain regarded an a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roach to Russia much as a
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Ba<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tist mothers meeting would regard a suggestion, in case of need,
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to call in the aid of a gunman to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotect their virtue. For that
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the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> had a very large <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art of the res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>onsibility.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Naturally there were a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roaches, of a sort. The French signed
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a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>act with Russia, almost useless because it did not include a
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military alliance, in A<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ril. The Vatican <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rom<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tly condemned it. The
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British asked Russia to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romise military aid to Poland and Rumania,
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but only in such form and measure as those <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>owers decided, and they
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would not <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romise British aid to Russia if it was attacked. Russia,
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sore about the insulting exclusion from Munich, rightly distrusting
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a Britain which, it knew, regarded it as an outlaw, refused. Poland
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refused to have adequate Russian armies in it, and the little
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Baltic states, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rizes set u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> by Versailles for the first grabber,
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also refused. Great Britain half-heatedly <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ushed on. It sent a
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di<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lomatic mission, of a character it would not send to any other
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country, to Moscow, then a military mission of the same inferior
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quality. Russia did not need to read how one of the Blim<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s of a
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London club had said: "We may, of course, have to get Russia to
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hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>, but, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lease God it will not come to that." It, in August 23,
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sent the old women of the clubs into hysterics by announcing that </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>it had signed a non-aggression <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>act with Germany. A few weeks later
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it sent the Nazis into what we might call a subdued hysteria by
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snatching the Galician Ukraine -- for reasons which I have surely
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fully ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lained -- from under their guns.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> We quite understand Russia. We also now understand Poland,
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which entered u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on its three-years war-agony on Se<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tember 1st, and
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its three-years <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace-agony a few weeks later. Only one feature in
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that year of tragic blunders concerns us here. Poland, which
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thought it had been following the luminous lead of the Church for
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so many years, had been led by the nose. The brave, ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>loited,
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erversely educated <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le had been cursed with blundering leaders
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who were in closer alliance with the Church than leaders were in
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any other Catholic country. They had brought u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on the land the
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contem<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t of Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e and had made it refuse the aid of the big
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brother who, with real aid from the British and French fleets,
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Rumania, Yugoslavia, and Greece might have averted its tragic fate.
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The <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oles <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aid for their <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>iety. Little did the French dream that
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they also, the least religious <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le in Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e after the Russians,
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Would soon be led by the Black International, and without the
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redeeming trait of honor and bravery which we accord to the Poles,
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into same black <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>it. Never was there before such lack of
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foresight in an age of mortal danger. We know why the statesmen and
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churchmen of democratic countries were reluctant to face realities.
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> and <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent> and their satellite <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romised to kill
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Socialism. Would the catastro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>he have been as grave if the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>les
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of the world had had all the facts candidly before them?</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Cha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ter IV</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> THE GERMAN CHURCH AND THE WAR</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> On Se<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tember 1st, 1939, began, with the invasion of Poland,
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the greatest war, it maybe the most terrible and tragic three-year
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eriod, in the whole of history. The aggression-mongers, the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s
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biogra<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>her affirms, thrust him aside and excluded him from their
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counsels. "When the swords flash let the lawyers be silent" said an
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old Roman <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roverb. The new Roman a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lied it to churchmen: <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Mussolini</ent>
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assured the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> that he would see that Rome was res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ected as a
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sacred city, and, although Italian <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lanes have taken <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art in the
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foul bombing of London, Rome has never been bombed. <ent type = 'person'>Churchill</ent>
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersistently refuses to tell why. Perha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s the Catholic authorities
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of the United States and the British Em<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ire could tell us. The
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>, to make doubly sure that he would remain out of heaven some
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years longer, had a luxurious shelter <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ared under an ancient
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tower with walls fifteen feet thick. Germany would not require his
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services again until the attack on Belgium and France.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> A <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>athetic s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ectacle for the moral ruler of the world! If he
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had been the austere world-figure that Catholic literature
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re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resents him -- nay, if he had been a man -- what would he have
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done? He would certainly not have been content, as he was to ask
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the nations of the world, as if they were equally guilty, to make </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace: certainly not have <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osed economic conferences, as he did,
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to make the aggressive <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>owers still stronger by conceding territory
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for which they need not ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>end any of their forces. Indeed, the
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whole world knew at that time that only one nation threatened its
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace, Germany. The Italian and Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anese jackals would not move
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until the lion had scattered a few cor<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ses about the landsca<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e. So
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the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s function, unless America a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ologetic literature is
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admitted to be insincere, was clear. He ought to have branded as
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criminal in the highest degree the ambition to annex and ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>loit
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other countries, one by one, of which Germany had given am<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roof. He ought to have condemned in the most ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>licit and severest
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terms the glorification of war by the German and Italian leaders,
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the lies they <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ut forward about encirclement and over-<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ulation,
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the racial arrogance with which they were <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oisoning their <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le,
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the murderous outrages with which they had begun to say to all the
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little nations of Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e: See what you will get if you resist us.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> It is hardly worthwhile discussing the immediate <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>retexts of
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the o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ening of hostilities. For my <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art -- I have never hesitated
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to say that Dantzig was a German city and ought never to have been
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taken from it, and that to take from it a slice of East Prussia
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measuring 260 miles by 80 to give the Poles -- Polish ca<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>italists
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and French bond-holders, that is to say -- a "Corridor" to the sea
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was little less monstrous. But no one in Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ected Germany to
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be satisfied with these. The situation was as clear as the Eiffel
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Tower at Paris. Germany meant to take Poland, and England and
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France were sworn to regard such a ste<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> as <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roof of a large
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aggressive design and declare war. Those of us who knew the facts
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reflected, sadly, that the democracies could hardly choose a weaker
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case to cham<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ion than that of the synthetic Poland they had set u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>
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at Versailles, the Fascist state which had bludgeoned its
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minorities for twenty years. It was all the worse that, as was soon
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roved, they could give no hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> to Poland and were not even able to
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hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> themselves.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The very difficult and still obscure question of France
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require's a se<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>arate book but I can s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eak for England. About mid-
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day on that fateful Sunday the news was broadcast that Chamberlain
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had declared war on Germany. By an extraordinary blunder the sirens
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wailed within half an hour and, to make matters worse in my own
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street, a stu<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>id warden gave the signal to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>are for gas. I will
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not describe the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>anic -- which does not detract from the fine
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courage of most Londoners when the blow fell later -- but it
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reminded us of one thing: we had no armament whatever for the war
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we had declared. It has since trans<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ired that England then had only
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18 good fighter <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lanes. Germany had thousands. Nine months
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aration had done little more than give most of us gas-masks --
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I had none -- accommodations for a million or so in the hos<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>itals
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and coffins for hundreds of thousands. Yet for once Englishmen
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might be <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roud of the folly of their government. It cried a halt to
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brutality and criminal greed.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> And the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> had nothing to say. Someone ought to collect a
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bouquet, or encyclo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>edia, of all the im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ressive assurances of
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American Catholic a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ologists that their <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> is the ideal
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inflexible, international and irre<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ressible arbiter of right and
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wrong, justice and injustice. Of all the excuses that they bleat </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>today the funniest -- and even bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>'s mumble it -- is that he is
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the Father of All Peo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>les and must not take sides! We had been told
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that it was just that <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osition of cosmo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olitan and international
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judge which made him a unique and incorru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tible tribunal. Was there
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some doubt from the moral <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>oint of view on which side the guilt
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lay? Can one even imagine Britain and France, with their miserable
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armament, having any other aim than to cheek a brutal
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aggressiveness? In <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lain English, and in the light of the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s
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own words, this <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lea means that he would not denounce a wrong if
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his interests and those of his Black International were to suffer
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for it in any country. And that is the gist of our accusation. The
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Black International <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ursues its own interests though it be through
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the ruin of civilization and of all human idealism.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> As I have re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eatedly <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ointed out, it is rather this Black
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International than the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> that interests us. We must not allow
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ourselves to be distracted when the end comes by Catholic or any
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other criticisms of Eugenio <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent>. Any <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> would have acted as
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he did. No <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> ever acted otherwise. The great French scholar, A.
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Loisy, scourged the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> during the last war for exactly the same
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conduct. And the a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ologist has not sim<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ly to ex<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lain way his
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"neutrality," though that is a vice in a moralist in face of a
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grave crime. He had hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed bring on the war. He had made it easy
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for <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> the annexation of Austria. He had coo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erated with him
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still more closely in the destruction of Czecho-Slovakia. He had
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turned a blind eye to his vile conduct in Germany and hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed to
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rotect his intervention in S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ain. He had been in large <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art
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res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>onsible for the weakness and incoherence of the world-
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o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osition to him by his <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>reaching of hatred of Russia -- and --
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not to s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eak of matters which will be discussed in later booklets
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-- he had encouraged his monstrous <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lans by allying himself with
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the two other <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>owers which had similar <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lans.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> But when we say that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> was silent we mean only that no
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clear messages were <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rinted in the <ent type = 'person'>Osservatore</ent> or broadcast from
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the Vatican Radio or sent out to the world in encyclicals. His one
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encyclical at this time, when the flames of war were lit from
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Poland to England, was, as we saw, a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lea that the world, not one
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or two nations, was evil because it was losing religion, and
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Catholic Action must come to the rescue. Catholic Action! It had
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been busy in the Polish Ukraine for twenty years, in S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ain for
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Several years, in Hungary and Portugal, in Austria and South
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America. No one took any notice.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Was the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> acting through the German hierarchy? We do not
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care two <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ins whether this can or cannot be <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roved. One thing we do
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know as we have already seen. The summer had seen "feverish
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activity" at the Vatican, and an outstanding <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art of this was
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corres<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ondence with the <ent type = 'person'>Nuncio</ent>s at Berlin, Warsaw, and Paris and
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the rece<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tion of German and Polish bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s. As the whole world was
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now discussing the chances of <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aring for an invasion of Poland
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and a general war we shall hardly be accused of undue
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sus<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>iciousness's if we suggest that this was the chief to<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ic of the
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very busy corres<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ondence and interviews. What was decided we do not
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know. The most sensible theory in view of the facts is that <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>
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informed the Vatican that he was taking over Poland, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eacefully, as</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>the first ste<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> in a cam<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aign against Russia, <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romised to turn over
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a new leaf in Germany, and wanted the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> to kee<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> France out of
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it; and that the Poles, not being as trustful as the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> rejected
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his advice to submit.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> However that may be, he must have had an understanding with
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the German hierarchy, and we know how it behaved. lt was as
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>ite as the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> youth. <ent type = 'person'>Edith Moore</ent> quotes a number of the
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ronouncements of the German bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s in her No Friend of Democracy
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(1941). The very sound and im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>artial Manchester Guardian (May 24,
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1940) thus stated the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osition:</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> "Among the higher ranks of the Catholic clergy a decisive
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majority desire to see the victory of the <ent type = 'person'>Reich</ent> or at least a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace
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that will leave Germany's <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>olitical and military strength
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unim<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aired. At the same time they still look to an eventual
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Catholic-Conservative restoration. The National Socialist State
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has, it seems, been able to reach an understanding with the
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Catholic leaders. Assurances have been given as to the status of
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the Church in the Bohemian-Moravian Protectorate and in Germany
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itself. The s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ecial <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osition of the Catholic Church in Poland is
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also to receive due recognition. In s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ite of the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ersecution of
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laymen and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>riests by the Nazis, in s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ite of all the attacks u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on
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the Christian religion now ho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>es have been raised among the German
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Catholics as a result of these negotiations."</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> As I suggested, the hierarchy -- and the references to Bohemia
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and Poland seem to bring in the Vatican -- was soothed with
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>romises of greater advantages to the Church and in view of these
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saw nothing of the enormity of the annexation of Norway, Denmark,
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and Holland which had then taken <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lace. On August 22 the bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s
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held their annual meeting at Fulda, a national shrine from which
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they were accustomed to give guidance to their Church. Usually only
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a score of bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s attended, but this year the whole 45 were
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resent, and, according to the German <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ress, the advice they gave
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to the faithful was a very em<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>hatic "Heil <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>." By this time, I
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may recall, the German army had swe<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t over Holland, Belgium, and
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France and, exas<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erated by the o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osition of those countries, had
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stoo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed to outrages and infamies which shocked the world. Yet the
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German <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ers revealed that the bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s decided that "after the
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com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>letion of the final German victory s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ecial ceremonies of
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gratitude to the German troo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s and of loyalty to <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> will be
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announced." It was said that the bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s submitted their <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>osals
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to the Vatican and that the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> who was at the time bargaining
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once more with <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent> (Catholic Herald, August 9, 1940, and
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Catholic Tablet, Se<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tember 21, 1940), forbade them to <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ublish their
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resolutions: clearly to avoid scandal in Britain and America.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> The Tablet found a significance in the fact the final address
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at the Fulda Conference was given by the bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> of Osnabruck, who
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was a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ointed by <ent type = 'person'>Goering</ent> the re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>resentative of the Catholic Church
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in the Prussian State Council, and the New York Times re<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orted that
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"the leaders of the Catholics in Germany . . . exhort their
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believer's in and outside the <ent type = 'person'>Reich</ent> to do their utmost in the
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righteous cause of the German nation under the leadershi<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> of
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Chancellor <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>." The hierarchy, in other words, did not merely
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urge Catholics to su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ort <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>, but went out of their way to </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>affirm that the miserable bandit had "a righteous cause." A British
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Catholic <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er, the Herald (October 18, 1940) quoted a <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>assage from
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a Pastoral Letter which the chief Catholic cha<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lain, Bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>
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<ent type = 'person'>Garkowsky</ent>, addressed to all Catholics in the Army, Navy, and Air
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Force. He said:</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> "The German <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le have a clear conscience and are aware which
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le will have to bear the res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>onsibility before God and history
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for the gigantic struggle that is now going on. The German <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le
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know who <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rimarily started this war. Just as certainly as God is
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the Father of all Peo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>les, He is also the judge of right and wrong,
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of honor and deceit."</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> Those who find it <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ossible to imagine that these German
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bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s honestly blamed Britain and France for the war because,
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after a reiterated solemn warning, they had declared that they
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would o<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ose further aggression may do so. I would not argue the
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matter. Most of us can see nothing but nauseous hy<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ocrisy in German
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>relates who invoke God as a witness to the righteousness of the
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Nazi cause and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rogram.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> We have already seen that the new <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> had, a year before,
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issued an Encyclical, Summi Potitificatus, on the state of the
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world it was very wicked because the nations had lost the Christian
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sense of brotherhood -- so cons<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>icuous, of course, in the
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nineteenth century and earlier -- and had ado<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ted theories of
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racial su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eriority. Even Catholics in England and France were very
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uneasy in commenting on this. Could the <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ossibly mean that the
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democracies were at least so close to the dictatorshi<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s in these
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res<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ects that he was not called u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>on to draw any distinction? And
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why did he not say that he meant Germany, Italy, and Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an? One
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French Catholic writer evaded the difficulty by saying that "in
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time of war the Church of Rome has to observe an im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>artial
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reserve." The same writer said, incidently, that in no other war in
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history was good so clearly on one side and evil on the other. The
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<ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> was just a moral coward, and a consequence of his cowardice is
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seen in these quotations from the German bisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>s. Their stern
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inexorable moral guide left them free to tell <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le that the
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vilest cam<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>aign in modern history, both in its aim and in its
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<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rocedure, had the full a<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>roval of the Black International and
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their God.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> But the cordiality between the butchers and the black-cassocks
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was never long maintained in its <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>urity. <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>, who seems to have
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regarded the com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>laisance of the hierarchy and the Vatican with
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com<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lete cynicism, threatened a new blow at the Church in the
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S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ring of 1941. He returned to the ideas of Mein Kam<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>f and said
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that both Protestant and Catholic Churches must be blended in one
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Christian body which must be strictly "national" or inde<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>endent of
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Roman authority and ada<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ted in its moral teaching to Nazi ideas.
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The <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent>'s s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>okesman on the Vatican Radio now discovered some moral
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courage -- not in excess, it is true -- and summoned German
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Catholics to "wake u<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> and see clearly the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>agan tendencies which
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were s<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>reading everywhere." The sordid behavior of the Gesta<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>o and
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the soldiers in half of Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e -- in the concentration cam<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>'s of
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Germany itself, in Austria and Bohemia, and now in Norway, Holland,
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Belgium, and Occu<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ied France must not be censured exce<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>t where </<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>Russia can be made to bear the greater <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>art of the censure. The
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bloody ruling of this intoxicated blonde beast over Euro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e must be
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viewed with "im<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>artial reserve." But to tam<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>er with the Church and
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the interest of the Vatican . . . And still the hierarchy su<ent type = 'person'>p</ent><ent type = 'person'>p</ent>orted
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the war. The Archbisho<ent type = 'person'>p</ent> of Freiburg, who had denounced the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>lot to
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the Vatican, added:</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> "Far be it from me in this terrible struggle to say anything
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that would turn aside the energies of the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eo<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>le or <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>rejudice their
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devotion to their country. Everyone who thinks as a German desires
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to secure for his country a lasting <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>eace with honor."</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> With honor! There's the rub. It was left to <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Hitler</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Goering</ent>,
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Goebbel's, Ribbentro<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>, and <ent type = 'person'>Himmler</ent> to inter<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ret the <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>hrase. They
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smiled and <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ushed ahead, and we shall later find them again
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courting the Vatican.</<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>>
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<<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>> When Eugenio <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Pacelli</ent> became <ent ty<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e = '<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>erson'>Po<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>e</ent> in 1939 he had to choose a
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coat of arms and a motto. He chose a dove with an olive-branch in
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its beak and the words "Peace in Justice"! He had by his ten years
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of inflaming <ent type = 'person'>p</ent>assion against and libelling Russia, to his unctious
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benediction of corru<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>tion in S<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ain and Austria, by his intrigues in
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Czecho-Slovakia, and es<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ecially by standing out before the world as
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the friend of Germany, Italy, and Ja<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>an, hel<ent type = 'person'>p</ent>ed to make the world
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