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<p> Bank of Wisdom, Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius</p>
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<p>THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 2</p>
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<p> HOW THE POPE OF PEACE TRADED IN BLOOD</p>
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<p> <ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE
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by Joseph McCabe</p>
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<p> HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS
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GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS
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<p> Chapter I</p>
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<p> <ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> RECORD OF THE HOLY FATHERS</p>
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<p> The color chosen by <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>s is <ent type='PERSON'>White</ent>. Their flag, it is
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true, <ent type='PERSON'>White</ent> and Gold, to remind us that they are Kings and need a
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royal revenue of a billion a year, but that is, they say, necessary
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to a ruler of the world. Their personal color-theme is white, a
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flowing white cassock and a white-silk skull-cap: symbols of their
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purity life and purpose and their never-ceasing efforts to keep the
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world in peace and tranquillity. The vast economic organization
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over which they preside, the <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent>, takes its name
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from the black-garbed clergy. For more than a hundred years after
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> had embodied the elementary rights, of man in a
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Constitution the priests called the claim of those rights in other
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countries <ent type='NORP'>Liberalism</ent> and waged a bitter, blood-soaked fight against
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it. This was the historic battle of the <ent type='NORP'>Blacks</ent> and the <ent type='PERSON'>White</ent>s
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(<ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent>).</p>
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<p> Toward the end of the nineteenth century a new color, Red,
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appeared in the arena. <ent type='PERSON'>White</ent>s and <ent type='NORP'>Blacks</ent> shuddered and got together
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to oppress it. Red meant blood, violence, war. As I explained in
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the last book, our folk are now educated in so false a version of
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history, because truth is offensive to our <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> fellow-citizens, that few know the irony of this. Particularly in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>
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men and women were persuaded to greet the new banner with hatred,
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rage, and disgust. These newcomers who preached violence, cruelty,
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and war were outside the pale of our <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> civilization. Shoot
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the dogs down, as <ent type='PERSON'>Luther</ent> said about the rebel-peasants of his time.
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Let me here just outline the historical evidence that the real
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<ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent>, in this sense, are, and always have been, <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>s and their
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bishops.</p>
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<p> We have read hundreds of times the prophecy of the famous
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<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> essayist, Lord <ent type='PERSON'>Macaulay</ent> that when in some remote age a
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traveller comes from <ent type='GPE'>New Zealand</ent> to see the ruins of <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> the
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<ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> will still flourish. These literary men! Not only does it
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seem unlikely that <ent type='GPE'>New Zealand</ent> will ever support 5000000 people
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but the idea that an institution which has lasted 1800 years will
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last another few millennia, or even a century, is childish. In </p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p>Macaulay's time the world was beginning to perceive that
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institutions which appeared thousands of years ago probably had
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their roots in ignorance. There were then twenty Kings in Europe.
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A century later there were ten, and most of them looked nervously
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upon a hostile world. In another ten years they will probably be
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reduced to one.</p>
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<p> The <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> is far more vulnerable than monarchy. As the
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supreme head of the western half of <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>ity it was established
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about the middle of fifth century. It is quite literally what
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<ent type='PERSON'>Hobbes</ent> called it, "the ghost of <ent type='GPE'>the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Empire</ent></ent> sitting upon the
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grave thereof." As long as that <ent type='GPE'>Empire</ent> maintain civilization every
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branch of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, east and west, scorned <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>'s
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pretensions. But in a world of blind men the one-eyed man is king,
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and <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> ruled the ruins. The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s were masters of a that was so
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debased that during the next seven centuries all Europe did not
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produce one book that any but a bookworm now reads or raise one
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building that any but an antiquarian would cross the street to
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examine.</p>
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<p> The brilliant civilization which the <ent type='NORP'>Arabs</ent> meantime created in
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<ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Sicily</ent> at last awakened Europe from its hog-like
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slumbers, and for the next eight centuries the power of <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>s
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was based upon violence and bloodshed. A distinguished <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>
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historian has estimated that their victims numbered more than
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1000000 in 500 years. Certainly they numbered some millions.
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Until the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n and <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> Revolutions these were frankly called
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Heretics. Then the world, under the lead of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, decided that
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it was a crime to put men to death for religion, so they were
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called <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent>, and the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> got half a million of them
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liquidated. By the twentieth century civilization generally had
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become <ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent> so they were called <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent> or <ent type='NORP'>Bolsheviks</ent>. Very few
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people are taught in school -- except in those disreputable
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<ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> Schools -- that it is simply an historical truth that
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their flag is "red with martyrs' blood."</p>
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<p> Is it credible that the Holy Fathers, clad in the symbols of
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peace and purity, were guilty of these things? I recently published
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in <ent type='GPE'>England</ent> a History of <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>s (1939) in which I could pay more
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attention to the characters of <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>s than in my larger True
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Story of the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> (1930). Let me say shamelessly,
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that I read the original authorities in <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>,
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<ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>, and no <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> has ever attempted to
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answer any of my historical work. And I say, coldly, that these
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Holy Fathers shed more blood in defense of their wealth and power
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than all the other historic religions put together and that the
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record of their vices is the worst in the whole history of
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religion.</p>
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<p> There have been about 260 of these Vicars of Christ, as they
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call themselves. It is difficult to tell the exact number because
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in certain periods there were two or three truculently fighting for
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the holy title. In the tenth century there were 30 in 100 years --
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there have been only six in the last 100 years -- and it is
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impossible to be sure how many were murdered by rivals. Let us say
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that there have been 260. We know nothing about the character of
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the great majority of these during the first thousand years of the </p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p><ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> Era. <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> literature gives the title of martyr to
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nearly every <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> to the year 310, though their most learned
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historian, <ent type='ORG'>Duchesne</ent>, admits that only two were martyred. It gives
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the title of Saint to all but one of them to the fifth century,
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whereas we have definite information about only three of them, and
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one of these (St. Victor) was at least shady, the second (St.
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<ent type='ORG'>Callistus</ent>) was definitely a crook, and the third (St. Damasus) was
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a forger, and an employer of murderous mobs and was charged under
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the civil law with adultery. In short, of the 150 or so <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s about
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whose characters we can be fairly sure at least 30 were sexually
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loose men (six or seven of them sodomists) and about a dozen
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murderers. Scores besides these were men of vile temper and great
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cruelty; and most of them were guilty of simony, nepotism, and
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protecting corruption.</p>
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<p> So put out of your mind the conventional gush about "venerable
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heads of the great <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>," and remember that even the best <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s
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were terrible shedders of blood. The holiest of them all, Innocent
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III, was responsible for about 500000 victims in 18 years (1198-1216). The question here is whether this is ancient stuff that
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throws no light or has no bearing on the conduct of the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> in
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modern times. That is what <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s say and most people believe;
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but you will not understand the situation today unless you realize
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that the "<ent type='ORG'>Red Record</ent>" which is the title of this chapter, mainly
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refers to the record of <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>s from the fall of <ent type='PERSON'>Napoleon</ent> (1814)
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to our own time.</p>
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<p> I said in the last booklet that during this period about
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500000 men, women, and children were done to death by the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
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and the feudal monarchs in alliance. With that disgusting meanness
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to which the difficulties of their case drives them, <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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writers represent, and try to compel other writers and works of
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reference to represent, these martyrs as a sort of early type of
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<ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent>, or dangerous agitators against the social order as well as
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religion. On the contrary they were as a rule less radical than
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<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Jefferson</ent>. Republicanism was rare amongst them, and
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the had no idea of persecuting the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> or, even in most cases,
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of disestablishing it. They were just men and women who wanted
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kings to govern them constitutionally and the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> to suppress
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the horrible Inquisition and its vile dungeons. For this Kings and
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s fell upon them, through the armies, police, and fanatical
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mobs, with incredible savagery.</p>
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<p> Do not listen to the excuse that it was still the Middle Ages.
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<ent type='PERSON'>Napoleon</ent> had made an end of that horror. Some now put <ent type='PERSON'>Napoleon</ent> on
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a level with our modern dictators, but with all his faults he was
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a clean fighter, only in one case accused of murder (<ent type='ORG'>the Duc</ent>
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d'Enghien), and he did magnificent work for Europe. He was a
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skeptic, of course, as Lord <ent type='PERSON'>Rosebery</ent> shows in The Last Phase
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(1900), but he showered wealth and favor upon the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> -- on the
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usual terms: the priests must keep the old <ent type='NORP'>Republicans</ent> quiet for
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him. Yet after his fall the bishops joined with the <ent type='NORP'>royalists</ent> in a
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<ent type='PERSON'>White</ent> Terror which was more brutal than the Red Terror.</p>
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<p> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s represent <ent type='PERSON'>Pope Pius VII</ent> as a "martyr" under
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<ent type='PERSON'>Napoleon</ent>. They do not tell how under this Pius VII, when <ent type='PERSON'>Napoleon</ent>
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was beaten, tens of thousands of <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> were martyred and under
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his three successors hundreds of thousands. Well, what were these </p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p>Holy Fathers, of modern times, like, and what were they protecting?
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If you want a serious and unchallengeable answer look up that
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highly respectable and most weighty authority the Cambridge Modern
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History (Vol. X). You will find that <ent type='PERSON'>Leo XII</ent>, who succeeded Pious
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-- the Carbolic Encyclopedia admires his "intelligence and masterly
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energy" -- was a converted rake and a doddering old fool who was
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"hated by all, princes and beggars" (as the famous historian L. von
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Ranke who knew him, said) and his death was hailed by the <ent type='NORP'>Romans</ent>
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"with indecent joy" (the <ent type='NORP'>Prussian</ent> ambassador at <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> said). While
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he shot birds in <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> garden his troops, with a sanguinary
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cardinal in command, shot down his rebels, and many thousands of
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them suffered a living death in jails of a repulsive character.</p>
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<p> At his death the cardinals, after invoking the light of the
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Holy Spirit, elected, to meet the grave problems of the new Europe
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a man in the last stage of senile decay, drooling at the mouth as
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they wheeled him round <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> garden in his baby-carriage. The
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carnage of rebels went on. He soon died, and the fierce contest of
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cardinals for the holy office was renewed. The ablest candidate
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<ent type='PERSON'>Albani</ent>, but he was so notorious a rogue that they thought the
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heretics of <ent type='GPE'>England</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent> might make ribald remarks if they
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elected him Vicar of Christ, so they made him Secretary of State
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(and real ruler of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>) and elected a monk Gregory XVI.</p>
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<p> Gregory was according to all <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> historians vulgar,
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sensual, and frivolous. As one of the more distinguished of them
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says, he "absorbed himself in ignoble interests while the country
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groaned under misrule." It was widely believed in <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> that he was
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intimate with the wife of his valet, and he was notorious for his
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love of strong wine and candy. His horrible jails were crammed with
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rebels -- 6000 at one time -- and the best blood of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> was
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poured out or driven abroad. His ignorance was weird. He refused to
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admit even gas and railways into <ent type='GPE'>the Papal</ent> States, as if that meant
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that the devil got his foot in the door.</p>
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<p> After fifteen years of this the cardinals elected what
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s call a <ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, Pius IX. But when he found that
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<ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> wanted real freedom and a share in reforming his corrupt
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kingdom he fled in disguise and called upon the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> powers to
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kill his rebels for him. Then the jails were crammed again. In
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<ent type='GPE'>Civita Veechia</ent>, which had once been enlivened by the orgies of
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medieval Holy Fathers, rebels with a life-sentence were chained to
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the wall and not released even for relieving themselves. So the
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brutality continued until the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>s bought off <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>
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protectors and took over, with an overwhelming vote of the
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inhabitants, <ent type='GPE'>the Papal</ent> Kingdom.</p>
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<p> What was this kingdom (<ent type='GPE'>the Papal</ent> States) which they had shed
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so much blood to protect? There is no dispute amongst non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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historians, and some <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> historian's agree, that it was "the
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most corrupt, backward, vicious, and inept in Europe." The <ent type='NORP'>British</ent>
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ambassador publicly declared it "the opprobrium of Europe." The
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leading monarchs of Europe in 1832 publicly warned the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> --
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which is now pressed upon us as the most profound and serene oracle
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on political morality -- that unless it cleaned up its <ent type='ORG'>Augaean</ent>
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stable they would clean it themselves. <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> was described by a
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devout <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> priest as "the most hideous sewer that was ever
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opened up to the eye of man;" and this is approvingly quoted by a </p>
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p><ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> historian in the Cambridge Modern History (X, 164) in
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which all this is admitted. The real ruler or Secretary of State,
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Cardinal Antonelli, who had been born in a peasant's hut, died
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worth $20000000, and left a bastard daughter, the Countess
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Lambertini clamoring for it.</p>
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<p> <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>the Kingdom</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>, was virtually an extension
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of <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>'s Kingdom in respect of Papal influence; and it
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rivalled <ent type='GPE'>the Papal</ent> States in corruption and viciousness. Its
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monarchs, <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>'s beloved sons, were veritable <ent type='ORG'>Neros</ent>. From 1790
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to 1860 they slaughtered, sometimes with revolting barbarity, about
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200000 "<ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent>." And since <ent type='ORG'>the Kings</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> were
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just as servile to <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>s we are entitled to bring their
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misdeeds also under the heading of the "moral influence" of the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s. Their "Butcher's bill" in 50 years was between 50000 and
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100000. The savagery was so indiscriminate that no one can get
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nearer to the truth.</p>
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<p> Well, well, the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> says, this is still ancient history
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-- less than a century ago -- and with the glorious pontificate of
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<ent type='PERSON'>Leo XII</ent>I a new era was inaugurated; the era of those beautiful
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encyclicals on socio-political matters which are quoted in every
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apology that is put before the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n public. For an
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understanding of the present situation it is very important to
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realize that there was no change of policy whatever at <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>.
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That is why I have given this very slight outline of the bloody
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history of the past, which is fully described in my earlier works.
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The policy of violence was merely suspended until it could once
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more be applied.</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Leo XII</ent>I could not, if he wanted, maintain the vile practices
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of his predecessors. <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> witnessed a rapid growth of
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skepticism in high quarters after 1870 and would not tolerate Papal
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interference or advice. <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent> was under <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, which treated the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> as an <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> monkey. <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, brought down by its defeats was
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becoming very <ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent>. The horrors of the dead <ent type='GPE'>Papal Kingdom</ent> and of
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<ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent> were told by hundreds of writers and orators in Europe and
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. Moreover, the, Vatican had begun to see remarkable
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possibilities of wealth in "converting", <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Great Britain</ent>,
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and the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s in those countries had as yet not the least
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influence on the press and education and could not have concealed
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atrocities as they now do. So the wolf put on sheep's clothing for
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a few years.</p>
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<p> Then the menace of the <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent> began and gave them their
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opportunity. There was still only one country in which the "right
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to kill", which (we saw in the last book) was solemnly reaffirmed
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by <ent type='PERSON'>Leo XII</ent>I, could be made the basis of policy. <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> was
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geographically isolated and few people abroad took much notice of
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it. In fact, in the last decade of the century the ruling and
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wealthy classes everywhere were beginning to sniff at this Red
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menace and would not inquire too closely. So in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> the
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hierarchy, which was more intimately connected with <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> than that
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of any other country, began to cooperate with the corrupt state on
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the old lines. From 1895 to 1909, when <ent type='PERSON'>Ferrer</ent> was murdered and I
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roused so much public attention that the policy had again to be
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suspended, hundreds of rebels were shot and thousands tortured in
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jail.</p>
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<p> They were not "anarchists." I became an intimate friend of one
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of them, Professor <ent type='PERSON'>Tarrida del Marmol</ent>, who fled to <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> and was
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under sentence of death in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. He was a fine scholar and a
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<ent type='NORP'>spanish</ent> gentleman of the best type, a man of aristocratic family.
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loathed violence and was an anarchist only in the <ent type='NORP'>Tolstoian</ent> sense.
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His great crime was that he was a rebel against the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. In the
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vile dungeons of <ent type='ORG'>Montjuich</ent>, where he was imprisoned, he saw what
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was done. Men were fed for days on salt fish and dry bread and
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refused water. Cords were tied tightly on their genitals. It was
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afterwards proved that most of the "anarchist plots" were police
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plots, and the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was fully implicated. This want on under <ent type='PERSON'>Leo</ent>
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XIII and Pius X, and it brings the <ent type='ORG'>Red Record</ent> of <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>s down to
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our own time. It continued in the only country in the world in
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which it could be continued.</p>
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<p> Chapter II</p>
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<p> WHO IS THIS PIUS XII?</p>
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<p> The present <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> Pius XII, is hailed throughout the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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world as <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> of Peace. Cardinal Hinsley explains in his
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introduction to The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> Speaks (1940) that the beautiful motto of
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his ancient and aristocratic family is (translated): "Peace is the
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Fruit of Justice." Yes; <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> has said that hundreds of times,
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with the accent on the word justice. <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> merely wants justice
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and then he will give what is left of us peace. I am going to show
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that Pius XII above any other <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> of modern times, even Pius IX,
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is entitled to be called <ent type='ORG'>the Red Pore</ent>, <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> of <ent type='EVENT'>War</ent>.</p>
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<p> One of the flatterers of "the venerable <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>" has called him
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"the Greatest Neutral." He never has been neutral. For at least
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five years he has openly called for war on <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>,
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<ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>. Does anyone suppose that he was thinking
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of ancient <ent type='GPE'>Jericho</ent> and merely wanted the priests to blow their
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trumpets? He was summoning <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y, <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent>
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States to war. Leaving out <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States, which was unwilling
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to draw the chestnuts out of the fire for <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> and Wall Street,
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in this slogan which <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>, as Secretary of State, sent echoing
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through the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> world he was shrieking for just that war on
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<ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> which we have seen.</p>
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<p> I am sometimes asked what <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologists reply to these
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very serious historical and actual charges which I make. They never
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reply. They forbid their people to read me, which is much easier.
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But do not <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s regard that maneuver with suspicion? Listen.
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The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Truth Society of Ireland published a cheap booklet by
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the <ent type='NORP'>Jesuit</ent> priest D.A. Lord with the title I Can Read Anything. It
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meets the natural wish of many <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s to read both sides, and it
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takes the usual line that the books they are forbidden to read are
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filthy and mendacious but dangerously clever. <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> young men
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and women are asked to be too sensible to "pit their minds" against
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"the trained, clever, brilliant minds" of the Church's critics. And
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lest the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> should ask if the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and its 350000000
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followers does not include a few equally brilliant writers to reply
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the priest goes on (p. 22)</p>
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<p> And when they [the anti-<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> writer's] are utterly
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unscrupulous, as let's say, Joseph McCabe is, and will twist
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any little bit of history to make a case, and pile yarn on
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yarn to construct a proof, and use fable for fact and
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supposition for solid argument, what chance has the average
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reader against them?</p>
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<p> The English <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Truth Society dare not publish this -- as
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my friend Haldeman-Julitis shares the <ent type='NORP'>Jesuit</ent>s' opposition with me
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I gather that the book is of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n origin -- because the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent>
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libel courts are the straightest in the world. In an <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent> court I
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would get as much justice as a <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>, So when folk in
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<ent type='GPE'>England</ent> write to ask for the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> reply to me the officials
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send them an address in <ent type='GPE'>Dublin</ent> where they can get this cowardly
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little rag. Inquirers have reported this to me.</p>
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<p> If anybody is unaware, which hardly seems likely, that the
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present <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> has for the last five or six years used all his
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influence to get <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y, and <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> to make war,
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respectively, on <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, which would mean a
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world-war, he will have ample evidence later. First let us see how
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this Red <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> became what he is.</p>
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<p> Eugenic <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> comes of what is commonly called an ancient an
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<ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> noble family which had lost its wealth but not its piety.
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His father was a Papal lawyer and, as is usual in such cases, one
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son was destined for the clerical career; especially as in the last
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century government or military service was closed to good <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s
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in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> still branding the government or the royal
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family "robbers." More than four-fifths of the inhabitants of the
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Papal States had voted to be transferred from Papal rule to that of
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<ent type='ORG'>the Kings</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> but that meant nothing to the "<ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent>" <ent type='PERSON'>Leo</ent>
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XIII. He was "the prisoner of <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>", eliciting golden
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sympathy from <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, and the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> statesmen were robbers. So
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careers for <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> youths of noble birth and little money were
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few in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>.</p>
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<p> I do not suggest that Pius XII does not believe his theology,
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as probably half the clergy do not in one degree or other. No one
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is likely to know except himself what he believes. Priests hardly
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ever tell each other. Zeal is no criterion, however. The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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priesthood and hierarchy are an immense economic corporation
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centered in <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> just as <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> Science is, in its official
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framework, a business with headquarters in <ent type='GPE'>Boston</ent>. Naturally its
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members are zealous; and the more responsibility they have (which
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is won by the extent of their zeal) the more zealous they are. The
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> who imagines its <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> and his cardinals regarding money as
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a mundane affair with which they have to soil their white fingers
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occasionally should hear two or three priests talking about them
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when they get to the second bottle.</p>
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<p> Here is some interesting information about the higher clergy
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of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> which came to me a few years ago from a priest through one
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intermediary, a friend of high character. When <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> obliged English
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s a few years ago by making a Saint of witty old <ent type='PERSON'>Thomas</ent>
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More it sent them, to their stupefaction, a bill for $65000
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(costs) and of $20000 for a little present to <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>! This
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present was a gold chalice which, as the price of gold rose, would </p>
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p>be just a lump of pure gold worth about $50000. The ceremonies at
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<ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> were a close monopoly of the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>s -- at least under
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pressure they let one English priest hold a candle and charged him
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$50 -- and every cardinal had his fixed price.</p>
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<p> But understand that I suggest nothing whatever about the
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Pope's belief or unbelief. He has a job of work, and this was his
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apprenticeship for it. In college he discovered an ability for
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learning languages and a special zeal for learning Canon Law, so he
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was drafted into <ent type='ORG'>the Secretariat</ent> of State very soon after he became
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priest, and there he would find himself on the fringe of the
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mysteries of Vatican diplomacy. He also, being of noble birth,
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joined and became a professor in <ent type='ORG'>The Academy</ent> of Ecclesiastics of
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Noble Birth of course, the less said about that the better in
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, where one has to protect the legend that all his life --
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when the great ones of the earth kissed his ring during his tours
|
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of the world, when he occupied a gorgeous suite in <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> as
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Secretary of State, and even now that he sits on the golden throne
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-- his one ardent desire was that he could become a humble parish
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priest amongst the poor. He is an aristocrat to his finger-tips. He
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loathes democracy. He doubles <ent type='PERSON'>Leo XII</ent>I (in his crooked diplomacy)
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and <ent type='PERSON'>Innocent III</ent> (who virtually founded the Inquisition).</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> made such progress in the department that at the
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comparatively early age of 41 he was sent out on a very important
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mission. <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> Benedict XV, who had notoriously intrigued with the
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<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>s and the <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>ns against the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>s, during the war
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recollected that he was a <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> of Peace when, in 1917, it became
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doubtful if the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>s would win. He then wanted to have the
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world-prestige of bringing it to a close, and he sent <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> as
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<ent type='PERSON'>Nuncio</ent> (ambassador) with plans of peace to <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y. <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> was
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announced as <ent type='PERSON'>Nuncio</ent> to <ent type='GPE'>Bavaria</ent>, but within a week he was in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>
|
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seeing the Chancellor. He even saw the <ent type='ORG'>Kaiser</ent>, who told him to take
|
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his plans home because he was sure to win the war. Why doesn't the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> rather, he said, detach <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> from the <ent type='ORG'>Allies</ent> and link it with
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<ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, as they are both <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> countries? Because, said
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>, there is a very strong patriotic movement in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> in
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favor of continuing the war led by a fiery young journalist named
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Benito <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>. The Pope's biographers say that the <ent type='ORG'>Kaiser</ent> told
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> to take no notice of "that scum" but to go ahead and detach
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<ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> from <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>. It is a neat little picture.</p>
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<p> The gaunt, grim, swarthy young <ent type='PERSON'>Nuncio</ent> next year saw the fall
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of the <ent type='ORG'>Kaiser</ent> and the riots in <ent type='GPE'>Munich</ent>. He met the "mob" with simple
|
|
heroism, of course -- in <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> literature -- but the important
|
|
point is that this was the beginning of his knowledge and hatred of
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the <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent>. He remained in <ent type='GPE'>Munich</ent> until 1925, so he saw, with what
|
|
feelings he has not told us, the rise of a similar "scum" in
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<ent type='GPE'>Bavaria</ent> and the comic-opera "March on <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>," when <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> made the
|
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record run of his life -- backwards. In 1925 he was sent as <ent type='PERSON'>Nuncio</ent>
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to <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>, and as this was the beginning of the best period in
|
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recent <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> history, the five years of peace and comparative
|
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prosperity under a <ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent>-Socialist coalition, <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> must know
|
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better than any man in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> that the excuse which was later made
|
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for <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> in the world-press, the flattery under shelter of which
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the <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent> created their formidable power, the plea that they had
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saved <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y from chaos and distress, is a lie.</p>
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p> As part of the evidence, if evidence is required, that Pius
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XII has only one aim in all his policy -- not the peace of the
|
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world but the power of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> -- the twelve years he spent in
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<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y are important. He acquired a thorough knowledge of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>,
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thought he speaks it (and <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>) with, a marked accent, and as far
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as <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> affairs are concerned he has never been at the mercy of
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bigoted And muddle-headed Vatican officials. He saw the years of
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confusion after <ent type='EVENT'>the War end</ent> in a working compromise and a new
|
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<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y rising cheerfully from the ruins. Lamentable as the feud of
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<ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent>s and Socialists was, it was a domestic squabble and did
|
|
not seriously disturb the national economy after 1924; and the
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> had more freedom and prestige than ever. <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>
|
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knows as little about economics as he does about history and
|
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science, but at least he was intelligent enough to see, during his
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four years in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>, that under a predominantly Socialist rule
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<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y was making all the progress that could be expected with so
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|
crippling a debt, and it was not internal confusion but its share
|
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in the world-slumps and the cessation of fat loans from <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and
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<ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> from the end of 1929 that led to the comparative distress
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of 1930-32 of which the <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent> took advantage. We shall see that
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> at one time (1934) in a fit of temper wrote the sharpest
|
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condemnation of <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> that ever came from a clerical pen, He
|
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always loathed <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> as a plebeian upstart and an apostate from
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the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, even when he was compelling the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> bishops to bow
|
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humbly before him and beg to be allowed to have a share in his
|
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dirty work. But <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> promised to make an end of Socialism, and
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that-not (outside of <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>) Communism or <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent> -- is the Big
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Bad Wolf in the eyes of <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>. Socialism has not only a
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constant anti-Papal tradition, which will surprise nobody who knows
|
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the facts I summarized in the last chapter, but to oblige its
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wealthy supporters <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> has been compelled for half a
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century to condemn it as immoral on the ground that private
|
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ownership is a right based upon natural moral law.</p>
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<p> It was, however, not until <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> had left <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y that the
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<ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent> showed any prospect of ever attaining power, and he regarded
|
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them as a vulgar and disorderly rabble led by a bunch of unsavory
|
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apostates and "pansies." Three years later he would, as Secretary
|
|
of State, compel the proud <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> hierarchy, against their very
|
|
decided will, to greet <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> as the Savior of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y and the
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<ent type='PERSON'>White</ent> Hope of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, Let us remember, when we get to that
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point in the next booklet, that <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> did not act from ignorance.
|
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He was less innocent than <ent type='ORG'>Chamberlain</ent>. If he had any ability at all
|
|
-- and he has considerable ability -- he knew <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y thoroughly.
|
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Will <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s call it a wicked suspicion if we assume that this
|
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observer of events, who lived eight years in <ent type='GPE'>Munich</ent> and four in
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<ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>, had read <ent type='PERSON'>Mein Kampf</ent>? He knew the program: the glorification
|
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of the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> race, the domination of Europe, the annexation of the
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Ukraine</ent>, the massacre of the <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>s, the annihilation of <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> -- in
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a word, war on a stupendous scale. <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s do not obtrude today
|
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his intimate knowledge of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y.</p>
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<p> He was recalled to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> in the summer of 1929 while <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y
|
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was still cheerfully recovering and the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s cooperated
|
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amiably with the Socialists and <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> had been head of
|
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the diplomatic corps at <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>. The <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> ambassador had the real
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right to that position and <ent type='GPE'>the Papal</ent> ambassador no right. But the </p>
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p><ent type='NORP'>German</ent>s hated the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> too much to let the honor fall to them. It
|
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is another point to bear in mind about this pre-hitler <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y,
|
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which <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> helped to ruin, that it genially tolerated a Papal
|
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<ent type='PERSON'>Nuncio</ent> at the head of the diplomatic corps and a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
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Chancellor in the Wilhelmsstragse. <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s had never
|
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before seen such things.</p>
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<p> Pacelli's patron, the Secretary of State Cardinal <ent type='PERSON'>Gasparri</ent>,
|
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was now 80 years old and unfit for office. He seems to have marked
|
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out <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> as his successor, and he brought him back to the
|
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Vatican for a few months of final training. Even <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
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literature is a little confused here. <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> became Secretary of
|
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State, which is the highest position in the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> after that of
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<ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>, in February, 1930. In 1931 a gossip-paragraph appeared in
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the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> press to the effect that it was expected in <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> that
|
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the new Secretary of State was about to be dismissed and old
|
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<ent type='PERSON'>Gasparri</ent> reinstated. Clearly the old men were conspiring against
|
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>, but the same <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writers who say that it was because
|
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he was too lenient to <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> had already said that <ent type='PERSON'>Gasparri</ent> had
|
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always been in favor of alliance with that brutal adventurer. We
|
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will return to the point in a moment, but it will be useful first
|
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to run a cursory eye over the ten years' activity of <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> as
|
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Secretary of State.</p>
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<p> He took up residence in the gorgeous suite of rooms, with
|
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heavy gilt furniture and magnificent decorations, in <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>
|
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Palace. Just at the time when <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>, who had in
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the previous year signed the infamous compact by which (in effect)
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the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> undertook to condone all Mussolini's crimes in return
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for $90000000 and a royal independence, had begun to quarrel
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fiercely, as crooks are apt to do, over the bargain. <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>
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smoothed out the quarrel, got <ent type='ORG'>the Duc</ent>e to bend his knees in St.
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Peter's, and got <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> to have a cordial chat with him. So
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<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> was safely launched on his bloody career.</p>
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<p> In the same year, 1931, <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> seized <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent> and began to
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debauch the <ent type='NORP'>Chinese</ent>. While all the world looked on with disgust at
|
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the brigandage <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> accepted the overtures of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> and the more
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<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> advanced and became a menace to half the world, the
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deeper <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> made <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>'s alliance with the callous and
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unscrupulous bandits. In 1932 <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> made his supreme bid for power
|
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and failed, and <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> then ordered the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> hierarchy to
|
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withdraw their opposition to him so that he secured power and enter
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upon his career of blood.</p>
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<p> In 1934 <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> went to <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> to preside at a
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<ent type='NORP'>Eucharist</ent>ic <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> and saw the heads of each "Republic and their
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bishops; and by a remarkable coincidence, if you can think it that,
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Fascism began to sweep the country, rebels against the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> went
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to jail in tens of thousands, and the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>s and <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>s in <ent type='LOC'>South</ent>
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> entered upon their audacious plans. In the same year the
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<ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> Socialists of <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, after their leaders visited the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, treacherously crushed Socialism and prepared the way for
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<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>. In the same year <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> began the slaughter of <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>
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and the whole <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> made whoopee, and at the end <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>
|
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gave the Queen of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> as <ent type='ORG'>Empress</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent> Golden Rose, which
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is the highest mark of Papal approval.</p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p> In 1936 General <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> visited <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>, and his revolt,
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which had the most open and solemn blessing of the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent>, was the
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first serious step of the <ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent> bregands in their projected
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campaign. In 1938 <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> annexed <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> with the full support of
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the <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>n <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, which is one of the most docile to <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>
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in the world. In the same year the Sudeten <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s at one end of
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<ent type='GPE'>Czecho</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>Slovak</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s at the other betrayed
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their country and put <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> in a position to defy the rest of
|
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Europe and prepare for his insane attempt to dominate the world.</p>
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<p> A remarkable ten-year record for <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> of Peace, the
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Greatest Neutral, the Friend of Democracy, and the Black
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International which carried out his instructions! That record we
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have to examine in detail, proving it by public acts and published
|
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utterances, and then to consider <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>'s first two years of
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pontifical activity. But, as we go into detail, do not lose sight
|
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of the fact that <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>-Pius's ruling idea throughout is "the
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extinction of <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent>" by the peaceful bombs and bayonets of the
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<ent type='NORP'>German</ent>s, <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>s, <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese; to which, in furtherance of the work
|
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of peace, he now wants to add the bombs and bayonets of <ent type='GPE'>Vichy</ent>
|
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<ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, Salazar <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>, and <ent type='ORG'>Horthy</ent> Hungary.</p>
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<p> Chapter III</p>
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<p> HIS GLORIOUS ALLY MUSSOLINI</p>
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<p> It was on March 12, 1939, that <ent type='PERSON'>Eugenio</ent> reached the summit of
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ambition and was crowned in St. Peter's. Next day a man who lived
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on the frontier of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> sent to the most respected
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newspaper in <ent type='GPE'>Great Britain</ent>, the Manchester Guardian, a letter which
|
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it -- and probably it alone of the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> or <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n press -- had
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the courage to publish. The writer reminded people that March 12th
|
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was also the last day for <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>s to remain in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>. He described
|
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from personal observation the appalling sufferings of the 70000
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<ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>s who, robbed of their goods, were racing for frontiers which to
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a large extent were sealed against them. He saw old men, women, and
|
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children panting up the <ent type='ORG'>Alpine</ent> slopes to <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and says that the
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<ent type='ORG'>carabineri</ent> and frontier-troops had "orders to facilitate their
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migration if necessary with the help of a bayonet." He saw elderly
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folks "collapse on the way up the vast acres of the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> slope";
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little children "stagger, their feet bleeding, into the frontier
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villages"; women try to throw themselves under the traffic when the
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<ent type='NORP'>French</ent> at last put up the barriers; babies abandoned or lost by the
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wayside.</p>
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<p> This had gone on for a week and it was continuing in a last
|
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frantic rush of the robbed <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>s while the bells of St. Peter's and
|
|
all the churches in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> rang out joyously over the sunny land.
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What did <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> of Peace do? The writer of the letter says that
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the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> carabinieri and soldiers were so moved that they forgot
|
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their instructions about the bayonet and carried children tenderly
|
|
to the frontier. What did <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> do? Nothing: except receive the
|
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splendid congratulations of <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> and his ministers. <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
|
biographers boast that during the week which followed his
|
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coronation <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>-Pius, sinking under the burden of work, slept
|
|
only three hours every night. Very heroic, but a little puzzling,
|
|
because as Secretary of State he had been doing just that work for </p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p>ten years. Why the arrears? But what did he do for the <ent type='NORP'>Jew</ent>s, for
|
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crushed and bleeding <ent type='NORP'>democrats</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, for the heart-broken and
|
|
suffering <ent type='NORP'>Czechs</ent>? Nothing, just nothing.</p>
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<p> The <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> problem had, as I said, been the first to engage
|
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> when he became Secretary of State. I have told elsewhere
|
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(Little Blue Book No. 1501 and <ent type='ORG'>ABC</ent> Library No. 2) the story of the
|
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rise of Fascism and its early relation to the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, In 1917
|
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<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> and his cut-throats were, as the <ent type='ORG'>Kaiser</ent> had said, "scum."
|
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They were atheists, <ent type='NORP'>republicans</ent>, and gangsters until 1921. Then, to
|
|
the surprise of many, <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> asked Cardinal Ratti for permission
|
|
for <ent type='ORG'>the Black Shirts</ent> to make a solemn procession to the tomb of the
|
|
Unknown <ent type='EVENT'>War</ent>rior in <ent type='GPE'>Milan</ent> Cathedral and the cardinal gladly accepted
|
|
and gave them a place of honor," says the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Teeling (p.
|
|
106). Next year was the march on <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> (with <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> 100 miles
|
|
away), and <ent type='ORG'>the Duc</ent>e pompously declared St. Peter's and all church
|
|
property under his special protection and ordered a thanksgiving
|
|
service with the King in attendance, At one of the principle
|
|
churches of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> for the salvation of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>. From <ent type='PERSON'>Scum</ent> to Savior of
|
|
his Country in two years!</p>
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<p> There is no secret about it. It is one of the most painful
|
|
features of the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n literature of the subject that the
|
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respected head of a great university, <ent type='PERSON'>Nicholas Murray Butler</ent>, dupe
|
|
of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s, lent his pen (Looking Forward) in that
|
|
glorification of <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> which was as useful as a smoke-screen to
|
|
the <ent type='NORP'>Fascists</ent> while they prepared for war, Professor <ent type='PERSON'>Salvemini</ent>
|
|
(Under the Axe of Fascism, 1936) has given Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Butler</ent> a
|
|
chastisement such as few scholars ever give each other for his
|
|
gullibility in accepting <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> lies about the "confusion and
|
|
ruin" caused by the <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent>s from which <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> saved <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>.
|
|
The author Selde's shows that <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> later confessed that he
|
|
invented the <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> boogie to help the loan he had floated in
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. The danger was Socialism which was conquering <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, and
|
|
so politicians, <ent type='NORP'>royalists</ent>, generals, and industrialists put
|
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> in the saddle, after fumigating him of his atheism and
|
|
republicanism.</p>
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|
<p> But in spite of this powerful support of throne, army, and
|
|
capital the seat in the saddle remained very insecure for seven
|
|
years. <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> had not dared to extinguish the democracy for
|
|
which <ent type='NORP'>italians</ent> had fought so nobly from 1790 to 1870. <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> and
|
|
Socialists were powerfully organized and, as in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, commanded
|
|
the majority of the votes in the cities, where the most intelligent
|
|
and the best-informed of the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>s lived. When, in 1924,
|
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> was believed to have had the most respected leader of the
|
|
Socialists, <ent type='ORG'>Matteotti</ent>, removed by murder -- his public utterances
|
|
on the murder were so gross and callous that his guilt seemed clear
|
|
-- so many turned against him that at the elections of 1926 his
|
|
power was ominously shaken. He needed just one element to turn the
|
|
scale in his favor.</p>
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|
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|
<p> The peasants and a certain number of the urban workers were
|
|
organized in a powerful <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Democratic movement. The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> had,
|
|
as in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y and <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, allowed this bastard Socialism to grow
|
|
up under their eyes as one way to cheek the loss of so many
|
|
millions to the Socialists and <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent>s. These <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='NORP'>democrats</ent></p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
|
|
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<p>fought the <ent type='NORP'>Fascists</ent> as truculently as the <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent>s did and while
|
|
they equally detested the Socialists and <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> and would not
|
|
cooperate with them, they at least represented further millions in
|
|
opposition to <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>.</p>
|
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|
<p> As <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> was in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y during these years we do not suppose
|
|
that he had much to do with Vatican policy in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and will
|
|
dismiss events with a brief notice. Both sides, <ent type='NORP'>Blacks</ent>hirts and
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent>, saw that they must sooner or later enter into
|
|
alliance against Socialism, and Mussolini's backers, the throne,
|
|
army, and capital, insisted on it. <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> on his side sacrificed
|
|
his convictions and restrained his anti-Papal followers with all
|
|
the ease of an adventurer. He, as I said, ordered a superb
|
|
thanksgiving service in church for his accession to power and
|
|
presented a very valuable, old library to <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>. He then
|
|
complained to <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> about ending the conduct of the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>democrats</ent> under the priest <ent type='PERSON'>Sturzo</ent>. The priest disappeared because
|
|
of obscure <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> threats of reprisals against the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Selde</ent>s
|
|
says (<ent type='ORG'>The Vatican</ent>, p. 331) and the party was weakened. But the
|
|
opposition went on and <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> made little progress. <ent type='ORG'>The Vatican</ent>
|
|
knew the strength of its hand and wanted a price that <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>
|
|
feared his followers would never agree to pay.</p>
|
|
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|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Selde</ent>s says that the revelation of <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>'s prestige in
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> the Chicago <ent type='NORP'>Eucharist</ent>ic <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> in 1926 at length stirred
|
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> to bold action. It was more probably the menace of
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> elections. Secret negotiations began at that time but the
|
|
Pope's terms were so exorbitant that they dragged out for two
|
|
years. In 1926 Farinacei, Mussolini's bulldog and leader of the
|
|
anti-clerical Old Guard of the <ent type='NORP'>Fascists</ent>, publicly declared that the
|
|
alliance was necessary. <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>, he said -- <ent type='PERSON'>Selde</ent>s gives his
|
|
words -- was ready to deal with <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> "in return for the moral
|
|
support of <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> for his policy." What the policy was" every
|
|
child knew -- the final extinction of liberty in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and, as a
|
|
minimum, the recovery of <ent type='ORG'>Savoy</ent> and Corsica from <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Malta</ent> from
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>England</ent>, Dalmatia from <ent type='GPE'>Yugo</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Slavia</ent> -- and, instead of talking about
|
|
peaceful recovery by negotiation <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> was thundering about his
|
|
millions of bayonets whenever he opened his elegant mouth.</p>
|
|
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|
<p> In 1928 the <ent type='NORP'>Maltese</ent> got up a kind of revolt against <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>.
|
|
There was a trial of strength between the civil and the clerical
|
|
authorities, and the Premier, Lord <ent type='PERSON'>Strickland</ent>, though a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>,
|
|
bitterly resented the interference of the clergy in the elections.
|
|
It was proved that they even used the confessional to intimidate
|
|
voters. <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> watched with great interest, and, when the
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Government in the end began its historic policy of
|
|
appeasement and <ent type='PERSON'>Strickland</ent> was sacrificed, <ent type='ORG'>the Duc</ent>e had a new proof
|
|
of the utility of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. A high <ent type='NORP'>Anglican</ent> official in <ent type='GPE'>Malta</ent> at
|
|
the time informed me, privately, that the Governor of the island,
|
|
who let, down <ent type='PERSON'>Strickland</ent>, was "grossly deceived by <ent type='GPE'>the Papal</ent>
|
|
Delegate, Msgr. <ent type='PERSON'>Pascal Robinson</ent>"; and he added "more mischief-making in <ent type='GPE'>Dublin</ent>." The <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent> won first blood for
|
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>.</p>
|
|
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|
<p> So <ent type='NORP'>Fascists</ent> had to swallow the condition's, and in 1929 the
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Blacks</ent>hirts and the Blackmailer signed their compact. The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> got
|
|
nearly $100000000, the independence and sovereignty of the
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Vatican City</ent>, the control of all <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> education except in the </p>
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|
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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.
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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|
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<p>universities, and the enforcement of the Canon Law, the
|
|
establishment of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and endowment of the priests. The <ent type='NORP'>Duce</ent>
|
|
got a hand for the complete destruction of democracy in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and
|
|
the silence of <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> while he murdered <ent type='NORP'>democrats</ent> and get out on
|
|
his glorious campaign to make <ent type='GPE'>Empire</ent> by selecting weak countries
|
|
for aggression.</p>
|
|
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|
<p> This was the year of Pacelli's return to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>, but his
|
|
biographers are not lavish with detail at this point and do not
|
|
enable us to say definitely -- and I refuse to go on suspicions --
|
|
what, if any, share he had in this sordid business. I have to
|
|
recall it, as briefly as possible, because it was the first great
|
|
triumph of the <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent> in our time, and it was one of
|
|
the most important steps in the advance of the brigands toward the
|
|
realization of their, plot. It finally established the power of
|
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>. It caused <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> papers and writers (and sympathizers
|
|
like Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Nicholas Murray Butler</ent>) to take the lead in that praise of
|
|
Fascism in <ent type='GPE'>italy</ent> -- had not <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> blessed it? -- which was of
|
|
the greatest importance to the brigands in preparing their
|
|
armaments. And it gave Mussolini's imitator in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y the idea
|
|
that after all it would pay to come to terms, hypocritically, with
|
|
the <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent>.</p>
|
|
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|
<p> But, whatever share <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> may have had in drafting the
|
|
treaty of alliance with <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>, he had a full share in securing
|
|
that the alliance was not wrecked. The <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> Party was still so
|
|
bitterly anti-Papal that <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> had, in soothing his followers,
|
|
to use language which <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> angrily described (in the
|
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Osservatore</ent>, May 30) as "heretical, and worse than heretical."
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Blacks</ent>hirts in <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> and the country insulted the priests and the
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> spoke publicly of the possibility that he would
|
|
repudiate the Treaty, and in that case, he said, "<ent type='GPE'>Vatican City</ent>
|
|
itself would fall together with the state that is dependent on
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Vatican City</ent> for its being" (same letter in the <ent type='PERSON'>Osservatore</ent>). The
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> world and the world-press were alarmed. If <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> fell,
|
|
they said, Socialism would capture <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>. As Cardinal Hinsley, head
|
|
of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>, said at a later date, Fascism was "in
|
|
many respects unjust" but it "Prevented worse injustice -- if it
|
|
goes under, God's cause goes with it." (<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Times, October
|
|
18th, 1935). God's cause is, in the mouth of a cardinal, the power
|
|
of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>: and the end justifies the means.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> to the rescue. Old <ent type='PERSON'>Gasparri</ent>, who was stirring <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>
|
|
to resist, was pushed aside, and the <ent type='GPE'>Saint George</ent> -- who wanted to
|
|
save the world -- the world of wealth and privilege -- from the
|
|
Dragon, Socialism donned his shining armor. Friction continued, of
|
|
course. Most of the leading <ent type='NORP'>Blacks</ent>hirts hated <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>, and the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> and his new Secretary of State heartily hated them. But the
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alliance was indispensable. <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> now roared like any sucking
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dove about the beauty of religion. "I wish to see religion
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everywhere in the country," he said; "let us teach the children
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their catechism" (Manchester Guardian, June 19, 1931). He, as I
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said, publicly prayed in St. Peter's. Cardinal <ent type='PERSON'>Gasparri</ent> at the
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<ent type='NORP'>Eucharist</ent>ic <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> of 1932 hailed him as "the man who first saw
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clearly in the present world chaos" the man who is "getting the </p>
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<p>State to work in accordance with the moral law of God" (<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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Herald, September 16 1932). The, friction was reduced and the world
|
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was officially assured that the last <ent type='ORG'>Census</ent> had proved that 99
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percent of the, <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>s were <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s.</p>
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<p> It was an insincere alliance. The organization of lay dupes
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known as <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Action now gave <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> trouble. He demanded
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that <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> check it, and something seems to have been done, but
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secretly <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> got the pope to write glowing praise of the
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international <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Action and knowing that in spite of the
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sacred independence of <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> City Mussolini's spies watched
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it closely he sent the document by two priests to <ent type='GPE'>Paris</ent> for
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publication. The old trickery of Vatican diplomacy was cultivated.
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When, as in the case of the annexation of <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, local prelates,
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who would not dare to stir a finger against Papal policy, acted in
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support of the <ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> Radio would announce to the world
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that <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> disapproved. When this angered <ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent> supporters they
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were assured that the radio message was unauthorized and sent out
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without consulting <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>. Sometimes <ent type='GPE'>the Papal</ent> newspaper, the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Osservatore</ent>, was used and, to please both sides, was then declared
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unauthorized. Neither the Radio nor the <ent type='PERSON'>Osservatore</ent> would dare to
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send out or print an unauthorized message on an important point.
|
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Foreign correspondents in <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> received telephone messages from the
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Vatican which were later declared unauthorized. Ambiguous
|
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utterances, as in the case of <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>, were put into the mouth of
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<ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>, and <ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s were encouraged to read them one way
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and <ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s to read them in the opposite way. And
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every <ent type='LOC'>East</ent>er and Christmas the beautiful message of Peace rolled
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out, while between those festivals the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> world was inspired
|
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everywhere to demand war on <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>.</p>
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<p> There was another aspect of the alliance. While Cardinal
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<ent type='PERSON'>Gasparri</ent> assured the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> world that <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> was "getting the
|
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state to work in accordance with the moral law of God" and Cardinal
|
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Hinsley was warning it that "God's cause" would be lost in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> if
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<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> fell, it was open to anybody to ascertain what social
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improvement, if any, <ent type='ORG'>the Duc</ent>e had actually accomplished. Reference
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books like the Statesman's Year Book which were in every good
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library gave year by year the official <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> returns of crime,
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education, production, trade, debt, etc.</p>
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<p> It is astonishing today to reflect how very few people thought
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of testing in this simple and positive way what truth there was in
|
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almost universal press admiration of the efficiency and national
|
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service of Fascism. It must, at least, seem astonishing to any man
|
|
who does not accept my suggestion that Mussolini's work in crushing
|
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a great Socialist movement was so appreciated in the world-press
|
|
that it would not inquire whether his boast of efficiency was true
|
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or not. It reproduced everything that its correspondents in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>,
|
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generally, <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s, cared to send it about finer rail-services
|
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(on some lines), new buildings, great farms on reclaimed land, and
|
|
so on, and it refused to see in works of reference, which were at
|
|
every editor's elbow that production was decaying and the internal
|
|
debt (chiefly due to forced loans) was increasing at so formidable
|
|
a rate that bankruptcy loomed ahead -- unless <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> brought
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off, and brought off successfully, the aggressive war he promised
|
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his people, and founded an <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Empire</ent> by murdering and looting
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other peoples.</p>
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<p> On the religious side it was worse. The only definite test
|
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weather a nation is or is not getting more in accord with "the
|
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moral law of God" is to examine its criminal statistics. In the
|
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Papal States, before <ent type='GPE'>the Kingdom</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> had been established,
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there had been no statistics of any sort, but not a single
|
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authority questions the statement of contemporary <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> statesmen
|
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and foreign visitors that crime and corruption were appalling.
|
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<ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> then, from 1870 onward, had a very fair success in reducing
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crime, though the success was not nearly so great as in less-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> countries. But from the time of the accession to power of
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<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> crime increased amazingly. Convictions rose from about
|
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500000 a year in the period which Dr. Nicholas Murrak <ent type='PERSON'>Butler</ent>
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describes so darkly, the Socialist-<ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent> period (before
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1923), to 800000 a year in the period of Mussolini's remarkable
|
|
efficiency.</p>
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<p> It makes it rather worse that this was due to some extent to
|
|
the poverty and distress he had brought upon both the workers and
|
|
the middle class while the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, as I said, got an enormous
|
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accession of wealth. Other causes were the impoverishment and
|
|
prostitution of education and the preparation of the people for the
|
|
wanton bloodshed of aggressive war. It was at the very time when
|
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>, the future <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> of Peace, was bringing <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> and the
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<ent type='NORP'>Duce</ent> to have a cordial meeting in <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> that <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> was
|
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writing the most official statement of the nature of Fascism for
|
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the new Encyclopedia <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>a (article, "Fascism")</p>
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<p> When Fascism looks to the future, the general development
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of humanity, apart from considerations of present polities, it
|
|
rejects the idea that perpetual peace is either possible or
|
|
desirable. It repudiates <ent type='ORG'>Pacifism</ent>, which means a renunciation
|
|
of struggle, a refusal to make sacrifices, <ent type='EVENT'>War</ent> alone raises
|
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the energy of man to the highest pitch and impresses a seal of
|
|
nobility upon the nations which have the manliness to
|
|
undertake it. All other trials of strength are substitutes
|
|
which never prove a man's worth by confronting him with the
|
|
alternative of life and death.</p>
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<p> That was taught to every child in every school in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>.
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Didn't <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> know it? Are we supposed to find documentary
|
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proof that <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> knew what was going on in every part of
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>?</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> had come from <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y where he had seen Socialism as
|
|
a mighty power already in control of more than one-third of the
|
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country, dreaded by the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> hierarchy because, though the
|
|
Social Democrats now worked with the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s, they drew millions
|
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from the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, dreaded by imperialists, militarists,
|
|
industrialists, and landowners. He came to <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> where he saw how
|
|
just such a powerful Socialist organization had been completely
|
|
destroyed as it was from 1928 onward by just such a coalition of
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>royalists</ent>, industrialists, militarists, and landowners taking up a
|
|
brutal spearhead resembling the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent>m and consolidating its
|
|
position by an alliance with the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> just as in the good old
|
|
days of the early nineteenth, century. His grand idea, war on
|
|
Socialism, gradually took shape. How in its interest he kept the
|
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> silent and the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> wildly patriotic when <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>
|
|
began his imperial brigandage in <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent> we shall see later.
|
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Other problems meantime confronted him and the <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent>.
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Bank of Wisdom
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p> Chapter IV</p>
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<p> HIS DEAR YELLOW BROTHER IN BUDDHA</p>
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<p> the year 1899 the <ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Leo XII</ent>I had made the ears
|
|
of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n Catholic's burn. Their apologists and prelates had
|
|
begun to put before the public that conception of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> as the devoted ally of democracy and freedom with which we
|
|
have grown very familiar in recent years. <ent type='PERSON'>Leo</ent> smote them hip and
|
|
thigh. That was "<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>nism" not sound <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism. The arch-bishops writhed but were silent. <ent type='PERSON'>Leo</ent> was not very far from death,
|
|
and "from that time to this no <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> has spoken out." So says the
|
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Teeling, and he adds: "The reason would seem to have been
|
|
that <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> has provided an ever-increasing supply of funds and an
|
|
ever increasing supply of missionaries." (The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> in Polities, p.
|
|
150). Certainly a golden reason; though why, on <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
|
principles, a particular version of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism not backed by gold
|
|
Should be so humiliatingly denounced and then tolerated when it was
|
|
gold is not clear. If I assigned that reason for <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>'s
|
|
change of policy in regard to <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> propaganda I would
|
|
be angrily accused of wicked suspicions and suggestions where I
|
|
could not give positive evidence.</p>
|
|
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|
<p> But <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> only changed its tactics not its policy. Pius
|
|
XI, says Teeling, was particularly zealous to bring the oriental
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>es into his fold -- "so that the growth of <ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent>
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism in <ent type='EVENT'>the New World</ent> be counter-balanced." At <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>,
|
|
he says (p. 3), "Western influence is not considered very good for
|
|
the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>." That we shall see, is one reason why, <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> was
|
|
encouraged in the rape of <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent> and his design of becoming
|
|
Emperor of the <ent type='LOC'>East</ent>, why <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> flirted for years with <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>,
|
|
and why it approved the savage aggression against <ent type='GPE'>Yugo</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Slavia</ent> and
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Greece</ent>. To sustain this policy the Secretary of State had to do
|
|
some very neat tight-rope balancing. For <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> opinion, in spite
|
|
of all the "<ent type='ORG'>Lords</ent>" and aristocrats the <ent type='NORP'>Jesuit</ent>s have captured, he
|
|
seems not to have cared much. If for once I cared to indulge in a
|
|
conjecture I should say that he detests <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>. Whether that is
|
|
connected with his chilly experiences when he was sent to represent
|
|
the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> at the coronation of George V or whether he sees through
|
|
the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> pretense that they are "converting <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>" I don't
|
|
know, but Teeling, who made a number of visits to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>, says that
|
|
after <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> became secretary of State English <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s found a
|
|
reception at <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> and could with difficulty get an audience
|
|
with <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>. They were told to see <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>, and they discovered
|
|
that they were "not popular," though doubtless they left the
|
|
customary purse with <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>.</p>
|
|
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|
<p> But <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism was a very different matter. It
|
|
claimed 20000000 members and said that it would have the majority
|
|
in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> by the end of the century. Its wealth is already in the
|
|
billions of dollars; its annual income $800000000. Imagine
|
|
Pacelli's eyes rolling as he turned these sum's into <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> lire!
|
|
In 1936 he visited <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, Did he encourage the efforts as
|
|
described by <ent type='PERSON'>Selde</ent>s, of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s, in cooperation with
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Mexican</ent> refugee priests, to get an alliance with Wall Street in
|
|
order to secure the liquidation of <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>? Had he any
|
|
meetings with the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> plotters in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>? Did he </p>
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p>harden that feeling against <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> which <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y counted as one of
|
|
its favorable conditions? But we must not be suspicious. There is
|
|
no Proof. We know one thing that he did do. Instead of rebuking the
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n propagandists who represented the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> as spontaneously
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent> and a lover of freedom and peace he went out of his way
|
|
everywhere to leave the impression that he cordially admired the
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n spirit of freedom and democracy. He certainly did not
|
|
mention that <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> policy was to augment the oriental
|
|
elements in the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> so as to counter-balance "western influence"
|
|
which was "not considered very good for the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, in the mild
|
|
language of a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer. And he certainly did not call the
|
|
attention of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>ns to the fact that <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> had entered
|
|
into a close alliance with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>.</p>
|
|
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|
<p> This alliance with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> ran the usual course in <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
|
literature. At first it was indignantly denied. Where was the
|
|
proof? When the <ent type='PERSON'>Osservatore</ent> itself proudly announced on May 5,
|
|
1935, that <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> was to send an ambassador to <ent type='GPE'>Tokyo</ent> and that
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Tokyo</ent> was to appoint a representative at <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>'s court in
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Vatican City</ent> a new note was struck. It was <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>'s duty to enter
|
|
into negotiation with any government to protect the spiritual
|
|
interests of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s under that government. Had not even <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>
|
|
sent a representative to <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>'s court? Yes: but "poor rich
|
|
powerful <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>" as Ambassador <ent type='PERSON'>Dodd</ent> called it, was up to its eyes
|
|
in a policy of appeasement, while in 1936 <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> had started on its
|
|
full career of aggression and of the massacre, debauching, and
|
|
exploiting of hundreds of millions of weaker folk. That is some
|
|
difference. And when, in the spring of 1941, <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>-Plus had a
|
|
most cordial interview with that other Man of Peace <ent type='ORG'>Matsuoka</ent>, the
|
|
most brazen liar in a world of fluent liars, in <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> and,
|
|
just when <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> was plotting to take advantage of the heavy burden
|
|
of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> to defy them by worse aggression and more
|
|
insolent outrages than ever, <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> smilingly presented him with
|
|
a gold medal . . .</p>
|
|
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|
<p> The story of the <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese share in the world-crime is now
|
|
fairly well known -- see <ent type='ORG'>ABC</ent> Library No. 6 -- and cannot be
|
|
repeated here. All the world has seen its steady aggression for ten
|
|
years, and all the world ought to have known from the start that
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> meant to conquer the whole eastern half of <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent> and all
|
|
islands in the <ent type='LOC'>Pacific</ent>. That the truth of this depends upon the
|
|
disputed authenticity of some memoir by Baron <ent type='PERSON'>Tanaka</ent> in the year
|
|
1927 is nonsense. I have described, largely from <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n
|
|
journalists and authors (like Upton Close's Challenge. 1933), the
|
|
very open growth of the plot since the later years of the last
|
|
century. <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> was in fact so well aware of it that it alone of
|
|
the democracies began years ago to take defensive naval measures,
|
|
but there was, under the usual trade-interests, a lamentable lack
|
|
of warning in the <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent> an almost general failure to see that
|
|
Japan's were part of a world-plot and in this case a very
|
|
mischievous appeasement-policy in religious periodicals on account
|
|
of Japan's threats to the <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> missions.</p>
|
|
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|
<p> To state events very briefly up to the time when the <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese
|
|
criminals, the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n and European encouragement of modernization
|
|
in <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> (while it paid better not to encourage it in <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>), the
|
|
disbanding of the old <ent type='NORP'>Samurai</ent> swashbucklers (which sent vicious </p>
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
|
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<p>elements into the army, politics, and journalism), and the
|
|
successful wars of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> on easy victims like <ent type='GPE'>China</ent> (1895) and
|
|
Tsarist <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> (1904) gave the yellow men inflated ideas of their
|
|
ability and importance. <ent type='ORG'>The Black Dragon Society</ent>, which wanted the
|
|
conquest of north-eastern <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, was founded in 1901 and inspired
|
|
aggressive fanaticism in naval and military circles. Advantage was
|
|
taken of the European <ent type='EVENT'>War</ent> of 1914-18 to get a strangle-hold on
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>China</ent> but a terrible earthquake and the quick recovery of the
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Allies</ent> checked the ambition, though propaganda continued. By 1931
|
|
there were patriotic societies enthusiastically preaching it and
|
|
running to two or three million members. General <ent type='PERSON'>Hayashi</ent>, who had
|
|
led the invasion of <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent> in defiance of the civil government,
|
|
said in a speech to foreign correspondents; at the close of the
|
|
campaign:</p>
|
|
|
|
<p> Japan's desire for expansion on the <ent type='LOC'>East</ent>ern <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>tic
|
|
Continent manifested in her <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent>n police has been her
|
|
unalterable policy since her foundation.</p>
|
|
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|
<p> The development of the gangrene differed little from the
|
|
development in Europe. In <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> the army and navy were the nucleus
|
|
and source of infection. The score of rich families which mainly
|
|
represented capitalism were easily persuaded to see that it was the
|
|
destiny of the <ent type='ORG'>Yamato</ent> race to extend its culture to (or exploit)
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>China</ent>. The Emperor hardly needed persuading that soldiers know
|
|
best. The politicians and the heads of the <ent type='NORP'>Buddhist</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Shinto</ent>
|
|
religions were bought. For the quite open share of these religions
|
|
and their sudden enrichment by the imperialist brigands see the
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speeches at <ent type='ORG'>the Chicago International Conference</ent> on Religion in
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1934 (edited by A.E. Haydon, Moderit World-Trends in Religion).</p>
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<p> The occupation of <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent> in 1931 was the first step in the
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realization of what would prove to be a plot of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y and <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>
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to control and exploit the world: a crime which in future history
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dwarf every other crime that was ever committed or attempted. The
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world now pays a ghastly price for the obscene squabbling of trade-interests which prevented the destruction of the plot at this early
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stage by an economic ostracism of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>, but few people still seem
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to understand that the <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent> at once moved to the
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support of the aggressor.</p>
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<p> This is no matter of "suspicion." It was done quietly and in
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such a form that it could, if the world's attention was drawn to
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it, be represented as an inevitable exercise of <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>'s
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religious functions. It was first disclosed, as far as I can trace,
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in an article by a <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> priest in the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Review des Deux
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Mondes in 1935 (January 15). The negotiations which were then going
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on at <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> for mutual ambassadors with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> made it clear
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that some years of cordial cooperation had preceded; and in any
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case the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> had played as sordid a part in the matter as the
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<ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent> and they were disposed to boast about it.</p>
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<p> The facts are now so well known that <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writers like
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Teeling discuss them freely. It appears that <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> had
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approached <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>, seeking favored-nation treatment, in 1922, but
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the <ent type='NORP'>Buddhist</ent> authorities, already brought (or bought) to the
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convention that <ent type='EVENT'>the Yellow Race</ent> would sweep all <ent type='PERSON'>White</ent> influence out</p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p>of eastern <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, successfully resisted the application. <ent type='NORP'>Buddhist</ent>
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monks might take that view but <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese statesmen knew that the
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<ent type='PERSON'>White</ent> Race was not to be turned down too openly until the plot was
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far advanced. It was to be duped by smooth assurances that it would
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have its share in a regenerated <ent type='GPE'>China</ent> and its enormously increased
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capacity for consumption. It was particularly necessary to do this
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after the first rape of <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, so <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> got its opportunity.</p>
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<p> The <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> clerical writer says:</p>
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<p> "A short time after it had given birth to the new state
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of <ent type='GPE'>Manchukuo</ent> the <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese government advised its ward to turn
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to the Holy See with a request that it should be officially
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recognized; an event of some importance seeing that the <ent type='ORG'>Powers</ent>
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refused to recognize it and <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> had left <ent type='ORG'>the League</ent> of
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Nations. These <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese-<ent type='GPE'>Manchukuo</ent>an overtures did not secure
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formal recognition but, as the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> missions in <ent type='GPE'>Manchukuo</ent>
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supported them <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> appointed a <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> Vicar Apostolic
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to negotiate with the government of <ent type='GPE'>Manchuktio</ent> about religious
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affairs." (p. 297).</p>
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<p> He further explains that it was the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> missionaries in
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<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> who persuaded the <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese government to approach the
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Vatican. <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> was at the time, for reasons which will be given
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later, working very amiably with <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>, and <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>
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missionaries would not be ignorant of the golden rule that trade
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and the evangelization of the heathen go together. <ent type='ORG'>The Vatican</ent> was
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to get a monopoly of missionary work in <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, which it
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fully expected to be taken over by <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> (Teeling), and <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>
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would be rewarded with trade.</p>
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<p> It was a nice problem for <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>, the new Secretary of State,
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and he solved it in his characteristic manner. Formally to
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recognize the annexation of <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent> just when merely secular
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governments all over the world were condemning it as an outrage and
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a danger to the peace was out of the question. Even the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n
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apologist would hardly be able to explain away that. So <ent type='GPE'>the Papal</ent>
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organ announced quietly, as a matter of routine, that a Vicar
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Apostolic had been set up in <ent type='GPE'>Manchukuo</ent> at the request of its
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government. That was for the Japs a sufficiently clear recognition
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of that government by <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> as a sovereign power. Does any
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man suppose that the <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese statesmen and military leaders nearly
|
|
all of whom are skeptics, cared the toss of a coin about the
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spiritual interests or the immortal souls of the <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent>n
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peasants? Or that <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> supposed they did? The brutalized
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condition to which the Japs soon reduced the natives is answer
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enough.</p>
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<p> The <ent type='NORP'>Chinese</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Shanghai</ent> sent me copies of bitter complaints of
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the Protestant missionaries in <ent type='GPE'>China</ent> about the way in which the
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Japs were persecuting them in favor of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> missionaries, but
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a more important feature of the matter is that from that time the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> damped down in the whole <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> world all criticism of his
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dear <ent type='PERSON'>Yellow Brother</ent> in <ent type='PERSON'>Buddha</ent>. By 1934, the clerical writer in
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<ent type='ORG'>Revue des Deux Mondes</ent> said, the cordial relations of the two had
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gone so far that "no <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese prince or mission now passes through
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<ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> without paying its homage to the Sovereign Pontiff." And to </p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p><ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>, of course, who was now in prayerful communication with
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<ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent>. Again, does anyone suppose that <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese diplomats and
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princes called upon <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent> to thank him for caring for the
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immortal souls, in which they did not believe, of <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent>n
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peasants?</p>
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<p> But the alliance was brought into full light in 1935 when the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Obsservatore</ent> announced the proposal of an exchange of ambassadors.
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There seems to have been some hard bargaining, but in 1936 a <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> prelate appeared, incongruously enough, at the Mikado's
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court and a yellow man in <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> City. By this time the
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<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese pretense of merely wishing to civilize <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent> was a
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mockery. It had now advanced far into <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, having taken <ent type='GPE'>Jehol</ent> in
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1933 and broken through the Great Wall in 1935. The mask was
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cynically thrown aside just when the diplomatic relations with the
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Vatican were put on the most respectable footing. By the customary
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<ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent> method of brazen lying excuses for further aggression upon the
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weak <ent type='NORP'>Chinese</ent> were invented, the "incident" was conducted with
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|
appalling outrages, and a trail of misery and demoralization spread
|
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in the wake of the <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese armies. <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> was now as deadly a
|
|
menace to civilization as <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y and <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, and the bland lies
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with which it met every inquiry were nauseating.</p>
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<p> During these years very little was said in the world-press
|
|
about this beautiful friendship of the supreme head of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
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of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> and the supreme head of the degenerate <ent type='ORG'>Shinto</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Buddhist</ent>
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religions. <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s had won their claim and censorship of the
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press on the edifying principle that it was not right to print
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anything that was "offensive to <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s"; and to obtrude this
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cordial alliance of <ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> with the <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese government, which
|
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had by this time incurred the loathing of every decent man and
|
|
would be decidedly offensive to <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s. Yet the cordiality
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continued through all the years of mendacity, hypocrisy, outrage,
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and increasing menace to the world.</p>
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<p> On December 26 <ent type='ORG'>Matsuoka</ent>, who was particularly used for some
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years to dupe <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>ns because he was a <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>, said in the
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<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese <ent type='ORG'>Diet</ent>, dropping the mask of lust now that <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> could take
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advantage of the war in Europe, that there would be peace only if
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> agreed that <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> should "dominate the mainland and occupy
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a preferential position in Indo-<ent type='GPE'>China</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>Dutch</ent> Indies," and to
|
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"dominate the Western <ent type='LOC'>Pacific</ent>"; not for its own profit, of course,
|
|
but for "the good of humanity." In March, 1941, this slimiest of
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the yellow reptile-group went to <ent type='GPE'>Moscow</ent> and signed a cynical pact
|
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with <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>. We will not call that hypocrisy because <ent type='PERSON'>Stalin</ent> was
|
|
certainly not duped, but that was not for lack of intention on
|
|
Matsuoka's part. He went on to <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> to discuss with the
|
|
other gangsters the real plan for the summer, the sudden attack on
|
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<ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> and the question of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese intervention, and he had also
|
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a long cordial talk with <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>, who presented him with a gold
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|
medal. All this can be verified in Keesing's admirable day-to-day
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|
survey of the world-press. Are we asked to believe that with the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Matsuoka</ent> discussed only the spiritual interests of the <ent type='NORP'>Chinese</ent>
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who were under the loving care of the <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese army of occupation?</p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p> What exactly the situation is today it is impossible to
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ascertain. <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> will, of course, soon or later double cross the
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Vatican, as those super-crooks always do. Has it already done so?
|
|
The latest news is that the <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese are organizing a National
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Spiritual Mobilization Campaign in which three recognized
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religions, <ent type='ORG'>Shinto</ent>, Buddhism, and <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>ity are to cooperate. But
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the <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is to be purely <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese. It must receive no
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funds from abroad -- which opens up a nice prospect for the
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n Protestant missions -- admit no foreign influence, and
|
|
make minute reports of all its services and activities; and the
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worship of the Son of Heaven must be included in the cult
|
|
everywhere. Has <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>-Pius swallowed that pill?</p>
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<p> In the eighteenth century <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> made it, one of its chief
|
|
counts in its indictment of the <ent type='NORP'>Jesuit</ent>s that, in order to win more
|
|
converts than other missionaries, they had mixed heathen rites with
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> has done just that. An <ent type='NORP'>Anglican</ent> prelate who was
|
|
present at the large <ent type='ORG'>International Conference</ent> on religion in India
|
|
in 1938 wrote me that the representatives of the Protestant
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>es learned with a shock that "the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent>, after much
|
|
wavering, has finally given permission to <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese Papists to
|
|
indulge in Emperor worship." Presumably they do not tell their
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese converts how early <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>s died rather than worship the
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<ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> Emperor.</p>
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<p> It should prove, when the details are known, a picturesque
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|
development, but to most of us trifle in comparison with the
|
|
Vatican's moral apostasy and betrayal of civilization. For an
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|
exhibition of greed, hypocrisy, and condonation of crime its
|
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alliance with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> would be hard to beat. During these ten years
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when <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> was vilifying <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, which was building up in peace
|
|
and with a sense of international honor what most people now call
|
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great civilization, he was cultivating friendly relations with and
|
|
giving aid and encouragement to one of the real blackguard-nations.
|
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It is futile to protest that we must look at the Situation from the
|
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Papal angle. The most respectable light in which you can put it is
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that a <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>man would be bound to consider that a prospect of
|
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bringing into the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> sphere of influence, which is so much more
|
|
morally effective than any other, all the missionary work in
|
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eastern <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, outweighs all other considerations. So much the worse
|
|
for the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>man's creed or policy. It puts the increase of the
|
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power of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> above all decency of international intercourse,
|
|
above the appalling sufferings of hundreds of millions of <ent type='NORP'>Chinese</ent>
|
|
and their right to a national life of their own, above the ghastly
|
|
and very imminent chances of a world-war. it means that the Black
|
|
International tramples on those social, moral, and humanitarian
|
|
principles which are said by its apologists in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> to be just
|
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what the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> holds most sacred.</p>
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<p> Chapter V</p>
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<p> HE ORGANIZES THE <ent type='ORG'>PLOT</ent> IN SOUTH AMERICA</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>-Pius was rightly selected for the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> as the ablest
|
|
cardinal in the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>. That does not imply genius. Half of
|
|
these cardinals would not successfully run a large grocery store.
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> has considerable ability. He is also the most widely-</p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p>informed cardinal on the world-situation. His immediate
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predecessors were of the type that asks: What are <ent type='PERSON'>Keats</ent>? Even <ent type='PERSON'>Leo</ent>
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XIII was amazingly duped by his Vatican 'specialists' about the
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state of affairs in <ent type='GPE'>England</ent> -- they persuaded him that if he
|
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recognized the validity of <ent type='NORP'>Anglican</ent> "orders" the whole <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of
|
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<ent type='GPE'>England</ent> would join up under <ent type='GPE'>the Papal</ent> banner -- in <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, and
|
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elsewhere. <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> has travelled more than any. Besides spending
|
|
twelve years in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y he has made three visits to <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>,
|
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travelled all over <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent> and <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, and visited <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>,
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Hungary, and other countries.</p>
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<p> Upon which boast of his biographers we may make two comments.
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First that in very few of his acts can any apologist make the
|
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excuse of ignorance or misinformation, the common <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> excuse
|
|
for Papal misconduct. <ent type='ORG'>Matsuoka</ent> might deceive some people with his
|
|
bland assurances that his country sought "not the good of the good
|
|
of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> but the good of humanity" and (in the spring of 1941) that
|
|
it had "not the slightest idea of taking advantage of the
|
|
misfortunes of <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>," but he no more deceived Pius XII than he
|
|
deceived <ent type='PERSON'>Stalin</ent>. The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> knew well that <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> was pledged to a
|
|
course, in its selfish interest, which would lead inexorably to war
|
|
math <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Great Britain</ent>. So it was in every other part of
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his policy.</p>
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<p> The second comment is that, instead of flowers springing up
|
|
wherever <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> trod, as is told of holy men in earlier ages, the
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path might generally be traced by blood and misery. The violence
|
|
had occurred in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> before he returned to it, but he took care
|
|
that it was not relaxed. He compels the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y to help
|
|
to power the most dangerous psychopath in Europe. He goes to <ent type='LOC'>South</ent>
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, and his visit is followed by the triumph of <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent>
|
|
violence everywhere. He goes to <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States, and there is a
|
|
fresh demand for the extinction of <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>.
|
|
He goes to <ent type='GPE'>Paris</ent> in 1937 and <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> prepares to betray <ent type='GPE'>Czecho</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent> and, when the time comes, to betray itself. He goes to
|
|
Hungary in 1938 and it is ready to see <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Czecho</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>
|
|
enslaved and to march itself against <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> and help in every way
|
|
the destroyers of civilization.</p>
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<p> The visit to <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> was in 1934, when the usual excuse
|
|
for Papal intrigue was given: he must preside at the <ent type='NORP'>Eucharist</ent>ic
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> at <ent type='GPE'>Buenos</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Aires</ent>. Twenty years, even thirty years ago, the
|
|
priests of <ent type='GPE'>Buenos</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Aires</ent> would not have dared to hold such a
|
|
function. When it was proposed to hold one in <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> Protestants
|
|
appealed to me to cooperate in getting <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s forbidden to have
|
|
a procession of their <ent type='NORP'>Eucharist</ent> in one street. I said that I would
|
|
rather encourage them to do so -- and take care that the crowd
|
|
understood what it meant. The doctrine is so monstrous and
|
|
incredible that the journalists who every year write with profound
|
|
respect about the holding of the <ent type='NORP'>Eucharist</ent>ic <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> cannot have
|
|
the least idea what it means.</p>
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|
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<p> You see a priest carrying a star-shaped golden vessel in the
|
|
center of which, enclosed in glass, is the white disk of a wafer of
|
|
wheaten flour. To the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> it was a thin wafer until the priest
|
|
breathed his magic wards over it, but there is no longer any flour
|
|
there. The substance of the cake has been annihilated: only the </p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p>accidents (the color, shape, feel, etc.) remain. As I have hid to
|
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swallow it -- the wafer, I mean, as well is the doctrine --
|
|
thousands of times I can assure that the "accidents" are very much
|
|
like those of a dry cracker. It sticks to the pilate, etc. And on
|
|
the strength of this prehistoric theory of substance and accidents,
|
|
begot by the genius Aquinas out of <ent type='NORP'>Aristotle</ent>, the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> today
|
|
sternly insists that the wafer has been annihilated, and the living
|
|
divine-human person of <ent type='PERSON'>Jesus</ent> has taken its place -- quite literally
|
|
-- that if you broke it into a hundred crumbs the living and entire
|
|
body of <ent type='PERSON'>Jesus</ent> would be present in each, and that this is true of
|
|
each one of the millions of wafers (<ent type='NORP'>Eucharist</ent>s) which are stored in
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little safes on the altars of all the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>es in the
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world. <ent type='GPE'>Pfew</ent>!</p>
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<p> I say that in the earlier part of this century priests in
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<ent type='GPE'>Buenos</ent> Aries or <ent type='ORG'>Rio</ent> or <ent type='GPE'>Lima</ent> would not have made a parade of that
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belief in the streets The historic conflict of the <ent type='NORP'>Blacks</ent> and
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<ent type='PERSON'>White</ent>s in <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> had ended in an incomplete but considerable
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victory for the <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent>. The middle-class was substantially
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skeptical. In 1906 the Freethinkers of <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> held a
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<ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Buenos</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Aires</ent>. The delegates crowded the Teatro
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Argentino. <ent type='NORP'>Argentinians</ent> of high position (Vice-Admiral <ent type='PERSON'>Howard</ent>, Soto
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and <ent type='PERSON'>Alvarez</ent> of <ent type='ORG'>the Council</ent> of <ent type='EVENT'>War</ent>, etc.) supported them. The
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Presidents of <ent type='GPE'>Guatemala</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Uruguay</ent> sent telegrams of
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congratulations in the name of their republics. <ent type='ORG'>The Women</ent>'s
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Committee, of 50 members, included some the most brilliant writers
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in <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. The leading papers treated the <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> with
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respect . . .</p>
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<p> And in 1934 the public men of <ent type='GPE'>Argentina</ent> were falling Over each
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other to kiss Pacelli's ring. What had happened? The <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent>, of
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course. Socialism spread through <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> with extraordinary
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rapidity after the last war, and the news of the revolution in
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<ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> in 1932 gave a powerful impetus to the movement. So impartial
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an observer as the famous woman traveller <ent type='PERSON'>Rosita Forbes</ent> said in
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1933 after a prolonged visit that "it is possible that the
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organization and method's of <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> may be destined to
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provide the machinery necessary to liberate the <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n
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Republics" (Eight Republics in search of a Future, p. 7.) In <ent type='GPE'>Peru</ent>,
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she found that "the educated youth of <ent type='GPE'>Peru</ent> is in the hands of
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<ent type='GPE'>Moscow</ent>." A minister who introduced an anti-<ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> law in the
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<ent type='GPE'>Chile</ent>an <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> was compelled to resign, and the government
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refused to recognize degrees granted by <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> universities. An
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n merchant who had lived 25 years in <ent type='GPE'>Chile</ent> reported that
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"Communism of the intellectual type" was very widespread. The
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Alianza Popular Revolutionaria <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na (Apra) swept the
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continent, and its leader would have become President of <ent type='GPE'>Peru</ent> but
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for Black corruption of the vilest kind. The Rev. Dr. McKay, a
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Protestant missionary in the <ent type='NORP'>Argentine</ent>, said that the Trade Unions
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turned out any worker who supported the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, that the workers
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now commonly called a man they wanted to vituperate "you poor
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Christ" (equivalent to the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n "son of a lady-dog"), and that
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one of their leaders said publicly that the sound of the word God
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made him spew. I was editing the Militant Atheist in 1933 and gave
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plenty of details of this sort.</p>
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<ent type='ORG'>THE RED</ent> POPE</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> to the rescue. Returning to the subject in the 'Appeal
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to Reason' Library (No. 3) in 1935 I gave the symptoms of spreading
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reaction and asked: "Will the struggle end as in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, and
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<ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>, in a coalition of all political parties with the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
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again Labor?" At the time <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> was still an obscure emissary of
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<ent type='ORG'>the Vatican</ent> whose position as Secretary of State was according to
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the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent>, not very secure. How bitterly we pay for not
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watching the <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent> more closely! In <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, as
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in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y, there were Socialist
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leaders who said that the fight against the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was over -- some
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wanted friendly alliance with it -- and all attention must be
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concentrated on the politico-economic struggle. And in the whole of
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<ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> as in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>y, <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Czecho</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, etc., within a year or two Socialism was bloodily trodden
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underfoot and the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was triumphant.</p>
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<p> The change did not begin in 1934. The <ent type='NORP'>Blacks</ent> were already
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organizing and intriguing everywhere, and futile revolts
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strengthened their hands. But after 1934 the clerical-capitalist
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revolution proceeded at a great pace. I have not a shred of proof
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to offer that, <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> counted in the organization of this. Just
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naughty suspicion, and you may please yourself whether you accept
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it. I do not say that <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> intrigued to bring closer together
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the heads of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and the heads of the army and state who in
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every part of <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> were shuddering before the Red Menace.
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The only facts we know are that the situation was completely
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transformed after 1934; that within a few years six of the ten
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Republics of <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> including <ent type='GPE'>Brazil</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Peru</ent>, were
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truculently <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent>, and even <ent type='GPE'>Argentina</ent> (where the priests have no
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millions of <ent type='NORP'>Indians</ent> to stir up) and <ent type='GPE'>Chile</ent> were semi-<ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent>; that
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most of the <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> had in fact lined up with the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>; and that
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this coalition was first revealed on a large scale when <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>,
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the arch-intriguer and hater of Socialism in every form had gone
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from capital to capital and soldiers and statesmen knelt for his
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blessing. You may want to go father than I do and believe that
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> not only promoted the entire cordial of <ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent> statesmen
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and their traditional enemies, but encouraged also the leaders of
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the millions of <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>s and <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>s, who, as the duped statesmen
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have now found, were already secretly weaving their great plot.
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Please yourself.</p>
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<p> The upshot was that not only was "the menace of <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent>"
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destroyed in <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> but the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> got between ten and
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twenty million apostates bullied into silence and their leaders
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flung into jail. Figures are farcical in <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. In <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>
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a high official warned me privately that their published statement
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that their population consisted of 4000000 <ent type='NORP'>Indians</ent> and 12000000
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<ent type='NORP'>Mexican</ent>s might be turned the other way round. A careful recent
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estimate is that there are 90000000 Indian's in <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> and Central
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. Few people seem to realize that these provide about one-third of the total number of <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>'s real subjects. As in
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<ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>, the majority of them would turn against the priests as soon
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as they got encouragement to do so from their government. The
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situation was closely parallel to that of <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>. Within another
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ten years the great bulk of the 90000000 would be lost to the
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Vatican. Are we asked to think that <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> scrupulously avoided </p>
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<p>political maneuvers that promised to avert that tragedy? Remember
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the <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent> revolutionaries confiding their plot to <ent type='LOC'>the Pope</ent>;
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remember Dollfus's, <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Henlein</ent>, and others.</p>
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<p> But we are concerned with actualities. The cream of the
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<ent type='NORP'>Indians</ent>, of the millions of workers of such mixed blood that it is
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time we dropped these racial distinctions, are the industrial
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workers. The majority, we saw, had abandoned <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>, Add the
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university youths and a large number of their professors and other
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middle-class men and <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> of the old school, and it will be
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seen that <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> had to envisage an actual secession of between ten
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and twenty millions. They are now back in the fold -- on paper.
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They are bullied into silence and their most active representatives
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are in jail. By the end of 1935 there were 10000 political
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prisoners in jail in <ent type='GPE'>Brazil</ent> alone. Yes, says the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>, the scum
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who had recently organized a rebellion. So it was reported in
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. But the very impartial <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> 'Annual Register' (1935)
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which gives the above figure adds: "Among these were university
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professors and many other distinguished <ent type='GPE'>Brazil</ent>ians belonging to the
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best society" (p. 312). They were victims of the Black
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International.</p>
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<p> And by one of those blunders into which the brutally and
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callousness of the agents of these <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> governments are always
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betraying them we learned that this <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>-Wealth coalition is not
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only using force but, as it has always done, using it savagely. The
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<ent type='GPE'>Brazil</ent>ian police arrested as spies two ladies of the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent>
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aristocracy, Lady <ent type='PERSON'>Hastings</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Lady Cameron</ent>, who were visiting <ent type='ORG'>Rio</ent>.
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Viscount <ent type='PERSON'>Hastings</ent> wrote a letter to the <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> press (News-Chronicle, July 14, 1936) on what they saw. It contained such
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things as:</p>
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<p> In the prison they saw men and women who had been so
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badly beaten that they could only move with the greatest
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difficulty; a man's wife had been beaten insensible in front
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of him to make him confess; the hands of another man had been
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mutilated by having iron spikes driven underneath the nails
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... The day before my wife and sister were arrested, the
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n boy <ent type='PERSON'>Victor Baron</ent> was found dead in prison after
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'questioning' . . .</p>
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<p> Immutable <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>! So it was in <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> in the thirteenth century,
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all over south Europe in the nineteenth, in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> forty years ago,
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and is now in many countries. If a mere working man, or even a
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professor, had reported these things, moat people would say "Red
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lies." There is obviously some use in <ent type='NORP'>Aristocrats</ent>.</p>
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<p> In <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> the struggle with the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and the attempt of
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> to get intervention, which would certainly
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mean war and annexation, had begun long before <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> became
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Secretary of State. I am tracing the action of the Black
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International not of <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> alone but I have written this earlier
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history so fully elsewhere that I will not return to it. I need
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repeat only about the acute conflict of 1926 that I was then in
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<ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> and saw with what remarkable indifference the people
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accepted what was <ent type='PERSON'>mendaciously</ent> called the persecution of the
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<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, and read articles by <ent type='NORP'>Mexican</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> journalists in the </p>
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<p>leading <ent type='GPE'>Havana</ent> paper a little later expressing deep disgust with
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the lies (executions of priests etc.) sent by the priests to the
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<ent type='ORG'>Knights</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Columbus</ent>, who zealously enlarged them and circulated
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them in Wall Street. If you want a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> (or at all events pro-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>) witness to this close alliance for years of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s. and Wall Street read George <ent type='PERSON'>Selde</ent>s' '<ent type='ORG'>The Vatican</ent>' (1934,
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pp. 278-86). There was, of course, an outcry and the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> bishops published a letter denying that they were working
|
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for armed intervention." They merely felt it their duty to "sound
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a warning to <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> civilization that its foundations are being
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attacked and undermined." God, they said would find a way to,
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destroy the evil. By priests blowing trumpets, I suppose. A thinner
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pretense of pacifism it would be hard to find. It has a <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese
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ring.</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> did not go to <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>, but the brilliant <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent>
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success that followed his visit to <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> had echoes in the
|
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north. In 1935 F.V. Williams, Al Smith's publicity agent, had a
|
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revolting article in '<ent type='GPE'>Liberty</ent>' (Aug. 24) calling for intervention.
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A <ent type='NORP'>Mexican</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> annihilated his statements in the 'Forum;' in
|
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fact, they had been answered in advance by various visitors to
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<ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> (World-Telegram, June 8, 1935, etc.) The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Teeling
|
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also admits that <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s intrigued at <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> to get
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intervention and that Msgr. <ent type='PERSON'>Burke</ent> served as intermediary.</p>
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<p> It is, at all events, true that from 1936 <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> included
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<ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> in the list of countries in which he invited the great
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powers to "extinguish" <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent>. It was so clearly a war-program
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that I have never read even a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> attempt to give his words,
|
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the slogan he sent through the whole <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> world, any other
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meaning. An innocent young nun or a Lord <ent type='GPE'>Halifax</ent> might suggest that
|
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he "extinguish it by prayer." Is that what he meant when he sent
|
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Cardinal Faulhaber, as we shall see, to beg <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> to allow the
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<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> to cooperate with him in the good work? It was a war
|
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program; a call to, as it has proved, the bloodiest war in history.
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So who are the real <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent>?</p>
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