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<p> Bank of Wisdom, Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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<p>THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 4</p>
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<p> THE VATICAN BURIES INTERNATIONAL LAW</p>
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<p> HOW MUSSOLINI AND THE YELLOW BROTHER
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GOT THEIR SHARE</p>
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<p> by Joseph McCabe</p>
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<p> HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATION
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GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS</p>
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<div> **** ****</div>
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<p> CONTENTS</p>
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<p> CHAPTERS</p>
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<p> I The Church's Record In <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> ........ 5</p>
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<p> II Enter First and Second Murders
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Under the Papal Banner ......... 11
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III <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>the Catholic League</ent> ....... 16</p>
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<p> IV Papal Cowardice in <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent> -- And Why ... 22</p>
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<p> V The <ent type='PERSON'>Jap</ent> Gets a Gold Medal for His
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'<ent type='NORP'>Chinese</ent> Incident' ............. 28</p>
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<p> I</p>
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<p> THE CHURCH'S VILE RECORD IN SPAIN</p>
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<p> Some years ago I strolled on a summer day through the drowsy
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streets of <ent type='GPE'>Toledo</ent>, an ancient city in the center of <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. A
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thousand years ago it was one of the richest and most populous
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cities in Europe. More than a quarter of a million vivid,
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prosperous, bright-eyed folk had filled its narrow streets and
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bought luxuries from every part of the world in its teeming stores.
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Such was the fame of its craftsmen that the "<ent type='GPE'>Toledo</ent> Blade" was
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sought from end to end in Europe and is still famous in literature.
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How high <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> would have risen if men had continued to build on
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that superb foundation of that old <ent type='NORP'>Moorish</ent> civilization! But in
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1923 I found only 30000 folk, mostly poor and illiterate, living
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within the ancient walls; and I smiled sadly, when, as I passed
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along the almost deserted streets, a boy offered to show me where
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his ancestors had hanged "those wicked devils the <ent type='ORG'>Moors</ent>." It is
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worse today.</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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THE VATICAN BURIES INTERNATIONAL LAW</p>
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<p> It was the history of <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and its <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in a phrase, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>
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inherited all the stupendous wealth and science of the <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>
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civilization, one city of which could have bought up, ten times
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over, all the cities of <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> Europe, and to this it had added
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all the wealth it had acquired by the discovery of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. It was
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literally choking with wealth by the middle of the sixteenth
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century. And little more than a hundred years later it was the
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poorest, most despised country in the world. About 5000000 folk,
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most of them ragged and unkempt, eked out a poor living on soil
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that had given rich sustenance to 30000000 <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>s and their
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contented subjects. For this awful downfall, one of the saddest in
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history, and for all the later disasters that fell upon one of the
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most attractive peoples in Europe, <ent type='EVENT'>the Black International</ent> is
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supremely responsible.</p>
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<p> By the beginning of the twentieth century <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> had raised its
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proud head once more amongst the nations. It had a fine literature
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and a rising prosperity. The cities that had shrunk within the
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shell of ancient walls were bursting through these in the
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exuberance of the life. The people smiled again, like the roses of
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<ent type='GPE'>Seville</ent> in spring. They had for 80 years fought the strangle-hold
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of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and had loosened if not broken it. A distinguished
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literary traveller, <ent type='GPE'>Thirlmere</ent>, went intimately amongst the people
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and wrote this verdict: "The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> knows that she is doomed in
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<ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>" (Letters from <ent type='GPE'>Catalonia</ent>, 1905, p. 437). Mr. <ent type='GPE'>Thirlmere</ent> ought
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to have been more cautious. He ought to have added: "Unless she can
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return to her old policy of violence and torture." She has
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recovered it. Today <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> is back in the ragged <ent type='EVENT'>Middle Ages</ent>, its
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people begging food of other nations -- in a land which, with the
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crude plows and other implements of a thousand years ago, had
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richly nourished 30000000 folk and borne princely cities -- their
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minds darkened, their hearts broken. And it is the work of the
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<ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent>: of the bishops, priests, monks, and nuns, who
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have returned to their old sleekness while the people have returned
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to their poverty</p>
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<p> In an earlier work I referred to certain evidence of
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government by violence, indeed brutal violence, in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> today. It
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may not have appeared in the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n press, owing to the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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censorship, and it is material to compare it with the suave
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professions of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologists and the beautiful words they
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quote from Papal encyclicals. It is a simple account of the
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experiences of a <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> girl, apparently a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>, of nineteen
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who escaped from the purgatory of <ent type='GPE'>Vichy</ent> <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> into what she calls
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the "hell" of <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. It was published (as it makes no
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reference to the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>) in <ent type='ORG'>the British</ent> News-Chronicle, a paper
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that is very sensitive to <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> influence, on September 24
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(1941).</p>
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<p> Mlle. X was arrested soon after she crossed the frontier and
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was put in jail at <ent type='GPE'>Badajoz</ent>. She was lodged in a large room with
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about 250 women, "an appalling mixture": prostitutes, thieves, so-called <ent type='NORP'>Communists</ent>, etc. "Most of the prisoners were in rags,
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filthy, and covered with vermin." There were no mattresses or
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blankets for the night. After two days she was brought before the
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Governor of <ent type='GPE'>Badajoz</ent> and, without trial or inquiry, sentenced to an
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indefinite term of imprisonment. She claimed that she was of
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<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> nationality, and a few days later, she was taken before the</p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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<p>prison director: a "brute", she says, who bullied her for two
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hours, told her she was "a dirty little liar" and sent her "back to
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hell." Every evening all the prisoners were assembled in the
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courtyard and compelled to sing the <ent type='ORG'>Falangist</ent> anthem and at the
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close cry lustily: "Long live <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. Up with Free <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>,
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<ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>." The jailers lashed with whips any woman who did
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not join heartily in the chorus. The girl endured several weeks of
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this and she was then taken before a <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Consul to prove her
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claim of nationality. She was removed to a jail at <ent type='GPE'>Seville</ent>, which
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was "worse than <ent type='GPE'>Badajoz</ent>" (which she describes as hell), removed
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back to <ent type='GPE'>Badajoz</ent>, and removed to <ent type='GPE'>Madrid</ent>, where she bad a solitary
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dark and freezingly cold cell; and all the time officers "tried to
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be as cruel as they could to me", jeering at her as a <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> spy
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and assuring her she would never leave <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. These <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent>
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gentlemen had her before them standing for two to three hours every
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morning. A girl in the next cell one day cried, "Live, live,
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<ent type='GPE'>Liberty</ent>, Long live <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>". She was taken out and beaten, and
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presently there were shots in the courtyard. every day such shots
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were heard. One less of those who refused to bow to the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>.</p>
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<p> I gather that this girl was not <ent type='NORP'>British</ent>, but <ent type='ORG'>the British</ent>
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authorities humanely lied, and admitted her claim of nationality,
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and rescued her. But think of the thousands of women and girls, and
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the tens of thousands of youths and men, suffering this living hell
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in the jails of <ent type='GPE'>Badajoz</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Seville</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Madrid</ent> and a hundred
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others, after fighting heroically for three years in the cause of
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freedom. And the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> press assures you, the Vatican Assures
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all the world, and far too much of the world-press repeats the
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assurance or refuses to disturb it, that <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> has now resumed its
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beautiful, happy life in the arms of Mother <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>; and won't you
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please contribute for the alleviation of the misery which the
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wicked <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent> had brought upon the country. So it was in the
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beginning -- or nearly 500 years ago, when the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> recovered
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power -- is now, and never again shall be. Do you really wonder if
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in the heat of the hundredth struggle against the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in 1936-1938 some of the men who knew the long record of brutality and knew
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how the priests were using the callous and ambitious <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> to
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recover their mastery of the jails, shot a few of them and trampled
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on their 'sacred' vestments and other paraphernalia of their trade?</p>
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<p> It is nearly forty years since I began writing on <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and
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its <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, and the truth which I told was not a collection of
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obscure and disputed facts resting upon the testimony of Radicals
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and <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent>. My first scalding indictment of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and the
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cleric-controlled state (The Martyrdom of Ferrer, 1909) was fully
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endorsed and whole pages of it translated in the following year by
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one of the most distinguished scholars of <ent type='GPE'>Madrid</ent> University,
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Professor Simarro, in his voluminous study of the trial (El Proceso
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Ferrer). What I claimed for the <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent> civilization (The Splendor of
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<ent type='NORP'>Moorish</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> 1935) is based upon the works of half a dozen <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent>
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professors who are masters of <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>ic and is no more than S.P. Scott
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claims in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> in his '<ent type='NORP'>Moorish</ent> Empire in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>.' And the
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appalling story I gave of the struggle with the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> since 1814
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is fully and truly told in such standard and conservative works as
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<ent type='EVENT'>the Cambridge Modern History</ent> (Vol. XI) and Major M. Hume's 'Modem
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<ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>' (in the Story of Nations series). Yet every time the long
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blood-soaked struggle is renewed in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> the public is puzzled and
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is ready to admit every <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> lie about the innocent <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and
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its "satanic" enemies. I must repeat a few points.
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Bank of Wisdom
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<p> On the broad map of our chaotic world <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> seems to be of
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limited importance. In the fevered and crowded chronicle of events
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during the last five years its recent <ent type='EVENT'>Civil War</ent> and the conquest of
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it by that unholy alliance of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> armies and <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent>
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butchers seems to be just the third step -- after the disarming of
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<ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> and the rape of <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent> -- in the preparation of the
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stage for the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> aggression. But in a study of the share of the
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<ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent> in the world-tragedy it is supremely important;
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and it is to <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, with which it hopes to link <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>
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once more, that the Vatican chiefly looks for the destruction of
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our modern liberty and enlightenment by a bloc of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> powers.</p>
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<p> As far as the last century is concerned it is not necessary
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here to do more than repeat in a more definite form what I said in
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the first book of this series: that in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, as in <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> and
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<ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>. "<ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent>" have always been the clergy and their allies. The
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revolution which put <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> in power in 1938 is the tenth major
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revolution that has occurred in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> since the days of <ent type='NORP'>Napoleon</ent>.
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In six of these the people wrested power, in five cases out of six
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without war, from the clerical-<ent type='NORP'>royalists</ent>. Every member of the
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Bourdon dynasty of <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> monarchs except <ent type='PERSON'>Alfonso XII</ent>, who died
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prematurely, has been ignominiously driven from <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> for his or
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her crimes and vices at one time or other. In four counter-revolutions the clerical-<ent type='NORP'>royalists</ent> recovered power, either by force
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or by perjury or a mixture of the two. These four counter-revolutions, in which the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was as busy as the state, were
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followed by official reprisals of so brutal a character that
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between 50000 and 100000 unarmed <ent type='NORP'>Spaniards</ent> were executed or
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killed in jail and many hundreds of thousands suffered agonies. The
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six popular revolutions were, nevertheless, never followed by
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official reprisals, and the spontaneous local outbreaks in which
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the exploited workers burned churches and killed a few priests and
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monks were checked by the authorities.</p>
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<p> All that may be read in Hume's standard history of the
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Cambridge Modern History, I have told the relevant facts in my
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'Revolt in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>' (1931) and given a condensed account in the
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'Appeal to Reason' Library (No. 1). There is just one point of this
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past history which I would recall, as <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writers are now apt
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to say that all this butchery was perpetrated by the state, and
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even that the clergy tried to check it. Major <ent type='PERSON'>Hume</ent>, the highest
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recent authority on <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, describing the counter-revolution of
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1822, says (Modern <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, p. 256):</p>
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<p> Modern civilization has seen no such instance of brutal,
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blind ferocity as that which followed the arrival of Ferdinand
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at <ent type='GPE'>Madrid</ent>. There was neither justice nor mercy in the
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government of the besotted churchmen who surrounded the King.
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The gallows was the sole instrument and argument by which they
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ruled . . . The frenzy of intolerance and cruelty spread from
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the preaching friars and ignorant nobles to the brutal mob. .
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. . It is a lamentable truth that much of the atrocities of
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this persecution was owing to the influence of the friars and
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the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. A hideous ecclesiastical society, founded by the
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Bishop of Osuna and called "The Exterminating Angel", which
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spread its ramifications. all over <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> organized vengeance
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upon <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent>; every pulpit, every monastery, every royalist
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club, was a center of persecution.</p>
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<p> That <ent type='PERSON'>Hume</ent> was no friend of radicalism is shown in his remark
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that they surpassed "even the most bloodthirsty wretches of the
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<ent type='NORP'>French</ent> Reign of Terror", and he has to confess that the man who
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"surpassed all previous efforts, even in this blood-thirsty reign"
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was the very pious and priest-ridden Count de Espana.</p>
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<p> It is enough that these horrors were perpetrated by an
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intimate alliance of the clergy and the servants of a King,
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Ferdinand VII who in his depravity is compared by historians to
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<ent type='PERSON'>Nero</ent>; and about the same time even worse butchery was being
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perpetrated in South <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> by the same alliance of the clergy with
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his namesake and rival in vice, Ferdinand of <ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>. Both <ent type='ORG'>Kings</ent> had
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recovered power by a most solemn oath on the Bible during <ent type='PERSON'>Mass</ent> to
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observe the Constitution -- Ferdinand of <ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent> had asked God to
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strike him dead if he was not sincere -- and both were absolved
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from their oaths the bishops and the <ent type='ORG'>Jesuit</ent>s and encouraged to
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wallow in blood. Eighty years later <ent type='PERSON'>Alfonso XII</ent>I stood at the
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perjured altar amidst the crowd of bishops and took this solemn
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oath: "I swear before God and his holy gospels to maintain the
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Constitution". And the priests were silent when the old fortress of
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<ent type='PERSON'>Monjuich</ent> again resounded with the cries of tortured men and the
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reports of rifles: when <ent type='PERSON'>Alfonso</ent>, to check the threatened revelation
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of his theft of millions of dollars -- see <ent type='PERSON'>Alfonso XII</ent>I Unmasked,
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by the greatest <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> writer of the time, <ent type='PERSON'>Blasco Ibanez</ent> -- tore
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up the Constitution and set up the dictatorship of the brutal and
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dissipated General de Rivers. <ent type='NORP'>Spaniards</ent> know these things. After
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the revolution of 1931 a splendid system of education was created,
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and freedom of discussion carried the truth into villages and
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workshops. Did some soldier, worker here and there, knowing these
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things and seeing the priests conspiring with the perjured <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>
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and the butchers of <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>, lose his temper and run his bayonet
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through one or two of them? I should not be surprised. But remember
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that at present we have only <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> statement's about <ent type='ORG'>Red</ent>
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outrages in the <ent type='EVENT'>Civil War</ent>.</p>
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<p> We know what <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> literature is, but we have also here a
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close parallel to guide us. The world-press was inundated with
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similar <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> stories of <ent type='ORG'>Red</ent> outrages after the Socialist-<ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> revolt of 1934. Fortunately, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> had not yet passed
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completely under the control of <ent type='EVENT'>the Black International</ent>, and,
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though some investigators like, Lord <ent type='PERSON'>Listowel</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Ellen Wilkinson</ent>,
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were obstructed at every turn and soon politely conducted to the
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frontier, others got through; and there were weighty and
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unassailable <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> investigations to which I will return later.
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Here let me just quote an incident from <ent type='PERSON'>Leah Manning</ent>'s What I Saw
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in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> (1934).</p>
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<p> The mother-superioress of a convent was pressed to testify
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that her nuns had been raped by the Red's. As it was false, she
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refused. I gather, in fact, that the only outrage committed was to
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the delicate ears of the nuns, as the insurgent miners who had
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taken over the convent as a hospital were not very refined in their
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talk to each other. Probably many of the nuns were disappointed. A
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> will reflect that here at least I confess to the honesty
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of a nun. As not always admitted that there are some good men
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amongst the priests and plenty of good nuns the world over! The
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<p>is whether this particular superioress, out of hundreds, is likely
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to have been the only one to be pressed by the priests and <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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journalists to make a charge of outrages and reminded that the good
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of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is paramount.</p>
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<p> These stories remind us of that historian of the <ent type='NORP'>Russian</ent>
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Revolution. L. Lawton, much quoted by <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s, who tells how in
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the <ent type='EVENT'>Civil War</ent> of 1919-1921 the sadistic <ent type='NORP'>Bolsheviks</ent> slaughtered 1275
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archbishops and bishops, when even the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Encyclopedia
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confesses that there were only about 80 in the entire country. But
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we will return later to these things. Let me lead up briefly to the
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immediate causes of the <ent type='EVENT'>Civil War</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>.</p>
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<p> In view of its disreputable record the Bourbon dynasty was
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irretrievably lost in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> when, in 1931, <ent type='PERSON'>Alfonso</ent> was compelled to
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abdicate and fled for the frontier. For two years after that date
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the opposition to the <ent type='NORP'>Republican</ent> government came overwhelmingly
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from the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. Municipal election's in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> gave a little more
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freedom of expression than general elections, which have been very
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corrupt ever since the Conservative-<ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent> alternation of crops
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began to flourish in the parliamentary field. It was a striking
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victory of the <ent type='NORP'>republicans</ent> and anti-clericals at the municipal
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elections of 1931 that caused <ent type='PERSON'>Alfonso</ent>, after a fruitless attempt to
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get the army to fight for him, to tuck his tail between his legs
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and run. The urban or educated Spaniard's had voted against, him by
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three to one, and it was only in the cities that voting was free
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and the counting of votes honest. Even in a pro-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> history
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like Professor E.A. Peers's '<ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> Tragedy' (1936) we find it
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admitted that there, was "gerrymandering in the country districts
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on a large scale." It used to be of the pleasantries of <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent>
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political life -- it is this kind of thing that gives the country
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so many anarchists -- to work out the results of elections some
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days before the election.</p>
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<p> Two points about these events of ten years ago must for the
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stressed for the purpose of this inquiry. The first is that during
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four weeks after the popular triumph there were not even isolated
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outrages. I was not then in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> but I verified this in the
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'Times,' day by day and that paper was on the alert for <ent type='ORG'>Red</ent>
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outrages. The people knew the whole ghastly 'story of the alliance
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of <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and corrupt monarchy which I have outlined and they had
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just escaped from a seven years' brutal dictatorship which had been
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in the closest association with the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. Yet it was not until
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the twenty-eighth day after the election that the burning of
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churches and convents began.</p>
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<p> The second point explains why groups of young workers here and
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there, dodging the police (who made every effort to check them),
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then began to burn convents and churches; a very shocking thing, of
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course, but compare it to the official <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> reprisals of
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earlier years which I described. In the <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> illustrated papers
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I saw photographs of the young incendiaries politely conducting
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nuns and aged priests away from the burning buildings. Well, the
|
|
fact was that Cardinal Segura, head of the <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>,
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supported by his three leading archbishops, had issued a most
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vituperate attack on the new government and summoned the country to
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resist. He started the myth which, ridiculous as it was, the </p>
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<p><ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> press has repeated ever since, that in some mysterious way
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a small minority of what he called "enemies of <ent type='GPE'>the Kingdom</ent> of Jesus
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Christ" had won a majority at the election (when, under <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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about 12000000 votes were cast). This is still written in spite
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of the fact that the election had been one of the cleanest that
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<ent type='GPE'>Span</ent> had ever had; that in the cities, where there was little or no
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corruption, the voting was three to one against the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> (<ent type='GPE'>Madrid</ent>
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90000 to 30000; <ent type='GPE'>Barcelona</ent>, 90000 to 28000, and so on) and that
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the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> won only in the smaller town's and villages where
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"gerrymandering on a large scale" is admitted by admirers of the
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<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>.</p>
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<p> Segura was driven from <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> by the national flame of
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indignation, and he went to talk matters over with <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>-Pius at
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<ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>. The <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> clergy remained free to agitate for the impending
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general election, which was to ratify the verdict of the municipal
|
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election; the establishment of a republic and the disestablishment
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of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. The result of the general election showed that there
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had been no snap-vote and no intrigue of a minority. The anti-clericals -- <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent>, Radicals, and Socialists -- won 315 seats,
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the clerical-<ent type='NORP'>royalists</ent> 121.</p>
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<p> The new government entered peacefully upon the work of framing
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a Constitution. The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was to be disestablished and the annual
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subsidy to it abandoned; the <ent type='ORG'>Jesuit</ent>s were to be expelled and monks
|
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driven out of trade; divorce was to be instituted and secular
|
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marriage recognized; 27000 new schools were to be built. The worst
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sting was the confiscation of the wealth of the <ent type='ORG'>Jesuit</ent>s and some of
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the orders. A <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> prelate who (like so many priests) detested
|
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the <ent type='ORG'>Jesuit</ent>s and the monks, Msgr. <ent type='PERSON'>Jose Veleda</ent> de Gunjado, had shown
|
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that the monks and nuns had in their hands two-thirds of the money
|
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and one-third of the real estate of <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, yet the state had been
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paying the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> annually more than it spent on education. The
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elections proved that, as <ent type='ORG'>Azana</ent> said, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> "had ceased to be a
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> country", and this state of things was intolerable. Month
|
|
by month the clauses of the new Constitution were carried by five
|
|
to one in the <ent type='ORG'>Cortes</ent>. The country was quiet, except for the shrieks
|
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of the clergy and their dupes. The progress in education attracted
|
|
pedagogists from many lands, the prosperity of the country began to
|
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rise, a fair progress was made with schemes of social betterment.
|
|
This in all sober history, is the regime of savagery, of
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persecution of the majority by a small vicious minority, about
|
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which you read in <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> literature.</p>
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<p> II</p>
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<p> ENTER FIRST AND SECOND MURDERERS --
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UNDER THE PAPAL BANNER</p>
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<p> I have now fully vindicated what I claimed in the first book;
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that <ent type='EVENT'>the Black International</ent>, instead of having disowned the
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violent and bloody policy of earlier years, still pursued it in the
|
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one country, apart from <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>, where it was able to do so. I was
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in the <ent type='NORP'>Canaries</ent>, returning from <ent type='GPE'>Australia</ent>, just after the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
|
|
and King had set up the brutal General de Rivera as dictator in
|
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1923, and men showed me where the pavement had been reddened with
|
|
the blood of anti-clericals. I was in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> next year and saw the </p>
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<p>country cowering under the Dictator and the clergy smiling and
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richer than ever. This continued until 1931; and we saw that the
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anti-clericals in spite of the red record of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> clung to
|
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their tradition of humanity in their triumph.</p>
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<p> This makes it all the more necessary to inquire closely how
|
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the country fell back into the clutches of <ent type='EVENT'>the Black International</ent>.
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You know the theory of the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> press; in fact, at the time the
|
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theory of almost the whole <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n press. The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> nation, it
|
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said, was roused to a consciousness of its enslavement by a small
|
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<ent type='ORG'>Red</ent> minority, and <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> merely helped it to express
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|
itself. This is made more comical sometimes by calling the wicked
|
|
minority "<ent type='NORP'>Communists</ent>". The <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Communists</ent> were so small a body
|
|
that they had only one representative in the 300 deputies of the
|
|
Left coalition in the <ent type='ORG'>Cortes</ent>! I may add that they had leaders of
|
|
high culture and character and often rendered humane service during
|
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the war.</p>
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<p> If you want a common-sense view of the tragedy in a few words
|
|
consider first the composition of the anti-clerical coalition. Most
|
|
of the deputies returned to the <ent type='ORG'>Cortes</ent> were <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> (145) and
|
|
Radicals or Radical-Socialists (56). It is one of the painful but
|
|
inevitable facts of the struggle of democracy since 1848 that
|
|
whenever such a coalition as this wins a victory it splits up as
|
|
soon as constructive work begins. <ent type='NORP'>Liberalism</ent>, which had to that
|
|
time a very fine record in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, was still very powerful in the
|
|
cities, but it now had to face, as allies, a larger body of
|
|
Socialists, <ent type='NORP'>Communists</ent>, Syndicalists, and <ent type='NORP'>Anarchists</ent>. These had
|
|
been brought up in a tradition of hatred of the middle-class, and
|
|
in any case a split on the proposal to pass even moderately
|
|
collectivist legislation was inevitable. And the more advanced
|
|
workers, full of the mischievous principle that the proletariat
|
|
needs no help from any other class, were by no means averse to
|
|
irritating <ent type='ORG'>the Liberals</ent>. Government became very unstable and was
|
|
often changed. The <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent>, we shall see, for the most part
|
|
deserted the coalition against the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, and their leader,
|
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<ent type='PERSON'>Lerroux</ent>, a grand fighter (as friends of his told me) in the
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|
nineteenth century, but now a weakling, is strongly suspected of
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accepting <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> bribes.</p>
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<p> Further, the radical rump was composed of four mutually
|
|
antagonistic parties. The <ent type='NORP'>Anarchists</ent>, whose main principle was that
|
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central government s always corrupt -- it always had been in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>
|
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-- and the Syndicalists, who wanted the chief functions of state
|
|
transferred to the unions (syndicates), would not vote at
|
|
parliamentary elections until it was too late. In 1934 a Socialist
|
|
government (or largely Socialist) had to crush a revolt got up by
|
|
these elements and the <ent type='NORP'>Communists</ent>. We shall see what happened, but,
|
|
while the existence of these masses of <ent type='NORP'>Anarchists</ent> and syndicalists
|
|
who did not vote makes the anti-clerical majority in 1931 even
|
|
larger than the election-returns make it, they were an element of
|
|
great danger until they agreed to form a <ent type='NORP'>Frente</ent> Popular (Popular
|
|
Front). It was then too late.</p>
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<p> A third point is of almost equal importance. With that noble
|
|
un-wisdom into which enthusiasts have so often driven advanced
|
|
governments the Socialists prematurely granted female suffrage. Not
|
|
only were there in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> 500000 more women than men but <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> </p>
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<p><ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> had, for selfish reasons, made the same blunder as the
|
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<ent type='NORP'>French</ent> and resisted the modern movement for the emancipation of
|
|
women. They left them to the priests; and the priests raised their
|
|
neurotic mixture of thwarted sex and religion to fever heat in 1934
|
|
and 1935. There must have been smiles in Pacelli's gilded chambers
|
|
when the "<ent type='NORP'>Bolsheviks</ent>" enfranchised the women. Woman's place is the
|
|
home, except when her vote is of value the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>.</p>
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<p> Meantime the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s got a leader, <ent type='PERSON'>Gil Robles</ent>, of just the
|
|
type that was fitted to take advantage of such a situation. Imagine
|
|
Hearst and a <ent type='ORG'>Jesuit</ent> rolled into one. The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was then organizing
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Action everywhere, or getting its lay members to do work
|
|
(intrigue, journalism, bribery, intimidation. etc.) which the
|
|
public might not allow the priests to do. <ent type='PERSON'>Robles</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Jesuit</ent>-trained,
|
|
robust and unscrupulous, was a newspaper-owner, and he introduced
|
|
a new strident note into <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> papers. With funds supplied by
|
|
the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> millionaire, <ent type='PERSON'>Juan March</ent>, and the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, he began to
|
|
organize "<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Youth"; with a leaven of the sort of scum that
|
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> had attracted in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>. People
|
|
began to hear of <ent type='ORG'>Falangist</ent>s, which is much the same as <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent>s, or
|
|
Soldiers. The prospect, of a fight gives pep to any creed.</p>
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<p> In 1933 the Constitution was passed, and the government
|
|
appealed to the country; and a wave of enthusiasm swept over the
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> world when it was announced that the Right had won 207
|
|
seats, the Left only 99 (including one <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent>), and the wobbling
|
|
Center (<ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent>) 167. It was not explained that the Right now
|
|
included 150 <ent type='NORP'>Agrarians</ent> sent by peasants amongst whom the late
|
|
government had promised to divide the confiscated religious
|
|
property and had been too slow about it, or that women now had the
|
|
vote. <ent type='PERSON'>Robles</ent> knew that there had been no change of heart, and he
|
|
worked harder and more unscrupulously than ever. He drew <ent type='NORP'>Carlists</ent>
|
|
and <ent type='NORP'>royalists</ent> into his camp and encouraged the kind of rowdyism
|
|
that <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> had found attractive in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>. He won <ent type='PERSON'>Lerroux</ent> -- one
|
|
hopes that it was not by money -- and <ent type='ORG'>the Liberals</ent> split. Against
|
|
the agreement of <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> and Socialists three <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s were
|
|
planted in the cabinet, and the more radical workers began to
|
|
collect arms to meet a <ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> coup. <ent type='PERSON'>Lerroux</ent> became Premier
|
|
and declared the country in a state of war, and the workers of the
|
|
north raised the flag of revolt.</p>
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<p> It was the usual pathetic failure. Addressing a large meeting
|
|
organized by the <ent type='NORP'>Communists</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> at the beginning of the Civil
|
|
War, I had to listen to one of the leading <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> speakers
|
|
predicting that the victory of democracy was certain, because she
|
|
had just heard that the government had served out rifles to the
|
|
workers. Rifles -- and to untrained men -- in an age of tanks,
|
|
planes, and big guns! When will such people cease to think about
|
|
the barricades of 1848 or even about the <ent type='NORP'>Russian</ent> revolution of 1918
|
|
with its unique conditions? The poor men made a heroic fight, but
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Foreign Legionaries</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Moors</ent> were brought over and the peasant-regiments of the army on which the clergy could rely were used. The
|
|
chief result was to accelerate the withdrawal of <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> and give
|
|
more color to the clerical cry of bloody <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent>.</p>
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<p> Still the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s were far from having won <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Robles</ent>
|
|
called for the execution of leaders of the revolt, and the
|
|
government refused. Very promptly, as we shall see, <ent type='NORP'>Spaniards</ent> of
|
|
great authority and integrity had established that the stories of
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Red</ent> outrages were fabrications and that real and disgusting
|
|
outrages had been committed by the <ent type='NORP'>Moorish</ent> troops, the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Civil Guards</ent>, and even by religious communities. But <ent type='PERSON'>Robles</ent> got the
|
|
post of Minister of War, and <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>, Queips de Llano, and other
|
|
tools of the priests, were appointed to commanding positions in the
|
|
army.</p>
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<p> In view of the seriousness of the situation, all radical
|
|
parties, united in a <ent type='ORG'>Popular Front</ent>, and at the election of
|
|
February, 1935, they -- though it is evident that at least more
|
|
than a million <ent type='NORP'>Anarchists</ent> and syndicalists still refused to vote --
|
|
proved that the educated <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> people remained, in spite of all
|
|
the scares, anti-clerical. Robles's Right coalition won 165 seats,
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>the Liberals</ent> -- those that remained <ent type='NORP'>republican</ent> and anti-clerical --
|
|
52, and the Left, 256. <ent type='ORG'>Azana</ent>, the able Radical-Socialist leader,
|
|
became Premier.</p>
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|
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|
<p> This last free expression of the will of the <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> people is
|
|
important because not only <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writers, but the press and
|
|
foreign statesmen, generally represented it as a victory for the
|
|
Right. This was done by a sophistical, indeed dishonest, quotation
|
|
of the votes cast instead of the seats won. <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> statesmen often
|
|
gave this as an excuse for their scandalous protection of the
|
|
intervention of the <ent type='NORP'>Germans</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Italians</ent>. The vote's cast for
|
|
deputies of the Right were 4750000; for those of the Left,
|
|
4536000. But apart from the fact that women now voted -- and aged
|
|
nuns were carried to the polling station in litters -- and that the
|
|
Right coalition included <ent type='NORP'>Agrarians</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> who hated the
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> but dreaded Communism, we have not only to add the <ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent>
|
|
vote (340000) to the Left votes as far as the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is concerned
|
|
but to take into account its immense number of <ent type='NORP'>Anarchists</ent> and
|
|
Syndicalists who still did not vote. It is enough to say that,
|
|
although no election was ever more fiercely contested, of a total
|
|
electorate of 12548000, less than 10000000 voted.</p>
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<p> Broadly speaking, in any case, it was a scare-election, like
|
|
that which put <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> in power in <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>. There was no longer a
|
|
clear-cut issue on the question of supporting the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. The
|
|
tremendous fall in the <ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent> vote sufficiently shows this. It was
|
|
a popular slogan of Freethinkers of the last century and the early
|
|
years of this that the destruction of superstition is "the greatest
|
|
of all causes." But when the economic issue was raised it was
|
|
discovered -- in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, and <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent>
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> -- that the defense of the chance to make a fortune (which
|
|
not one in a thousand had any effective chance of making) was a
|
|
still greater cause. Let not the opponents of "the bloody
|
|
bourgeois" crow. In most countries they made a similar blunder in
|
|
abandoning the traditional Socialist fight against the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. It
|
|
was, they said, converted; and it smiles today over spacious
|
|
cemeteries of their dead. <ent type='ORG'>Reform</ent> has to be won by concentrated
|
|
movements, but they must be united in an ideal that all reaction
|
|
must die.</p>
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<p> These facts and reflections give the answer to the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
|
cry, which was lamentably accepted in the world at large, during
|
|
the <ent type='EVENT'>Civil War</ent>, that the <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> people had repented of the hasty
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enthusiasm of 1931 and 1932, or had discovered that it had been
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duped, that the <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> combine was a force of
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liberation. The <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> people did not vote on the same issues in
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1931 and 1935, and they were in large part not the same votes.
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There were the women, who had been left to the priests because this
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was supposed to help to keep them chaste while their husbands had
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mistresses's or frequented brothels, and there was a new generation
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of voters of the age to which <ent type='PERSON'>Robles</ent> and the priests particularly
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appealed.</p>
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<p> But the chief fact to bear in mind is that the election-figures themselves testify that the country was still in the
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majority anti-Papal. The 4750000 votes cast for the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
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candidates, swollen by seared <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent>, disgruntled <ent type='NORP'>agrarians</ent>,
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credulous dupes of outrage-stories, etc., were little more than
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one-third of the electorate, or of the adult <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> people. And,
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like Hitler's push in 1932, it was a supreme effort. Other means
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had to be sought, and the forces of the Right began at once to
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organize them.</p>
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<p> The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> (and at that time general) theory is that, seeing
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the tide flow against them, the <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent> began to murder their
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opponents and plunge the country in an anarchy from which it had to
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be saved. We have just the same plea in the case of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and the
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glorification of <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> as its savior, and Professor <ent type='PERSON'>Salvemini</ent>
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has patiently and thoroughly proved that it is a tissue of lies.
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What exactly happened in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> we do not know. The confusion of the
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<ent type='EVENT'>Civil War</ent>, which soon opened, prevented any dispassionate Study of
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the events which had immediately preceded it, and we can no more be
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asked to accept statements about those events which were made under
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the <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> regime than we can be asked to pay serious attention to
|
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<ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> legends about Mussolini's early struggle and his thousands
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of <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> martyrs.</p>
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<p> But so much is reliably known that even Professor <ent type='PERSON'>Peers</ent>, the
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pro-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> author of 'The <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> Tragedy,' speaks of "an
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epidemic of murder by gunmen, for at least some of which there was
|
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an uncomfortably and rapidly growing suspicion that Fascism was
|
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mainly responsible (p. 195). The phrase is inimitably professorial.
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In the two chief incidents which were made the pretext for the
|
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revolt the evidence is clear enough. A group of leading Socialists
|
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coming out of a building in <ent type='GPE'>Madrid</ent> were shot down by gunmen. Can
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there be a moment's serious doubt to which party the gunmen
|
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belonged or by which they were hired? This led to the retaliatory
|
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murder of a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Falangist</ent> leader, and we shall equally not
|
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hesitate to judge to which party the murderers belonged. Frango at
|
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once declared that the country must be delivered and organized his
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mercenaries, the <ent type='ORG'>Moors</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Foreign Legionaries</ent>.</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Robles</ent> had got <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> appointed to the command in <ent type='GPE'>Morocco</ent>
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where he had under his hand the force, which, as experience in the
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revolt of 1934 had proved, could be relied upon to fight, and fight
|
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brutally for its paymaster whatever the merits of the cause. In the
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south of <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, which is much more <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> (largely for business </p>
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<p>reasons) than the <ent type='GPE'>Madrid</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Barcelona</ent> regions, the command was
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given to the brutal and fanatical <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Queipo de Llano, the
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<ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> gentleman, who, in a broadcast from <ent type='GPE'>Seville</ent> during the war,
|
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said that they would pound up the <ent type='NORP'>Bolsheviks</ent> to make mortar for the
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rebuilding of the churches. As many more <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> officers as
|
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possible had been put in the higher commands in the army and navy.
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Few of them had more military ability than <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> and de Llano, but
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they were Catholic's, at least in profession.</p>
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<p> This had been done while <ent type='PERSON'>Robles</ent>, the friend of the <ent type='ORG'>Jesuit</ent>s,
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was Minister of War (May to December, 1935), a year before <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>,
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on July 19, 1936, led his noble band of crusaders for the Holy
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Faith, the half-savage and fanatically <ent type='NORP'>Moslem</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Moors</ent> and the scum of
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<ent type='ORG'>the Foreign Legion</ent>, across the straits to the South of <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, where
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his fellow-conspirators waited, No serious writer hesitates to
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conclude that it was done in preparation for a revolt against the
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government and Constitution to which these <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> gentlemen had,
|
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and like <ent type='PERSON'>Alfonso</ent> the Great, taken an oath of loyalty. The
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government leaders, in fact said, when the rebellion broke out,
|
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that they were fully aware of the plot and did not fear it. They
|
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believed that the far greater part of the <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> army was loyal,
|
|
and this proved to be the case in <ent type='GPE'>Madrid</ent> and many other places.
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Their conduct seems feeble and incompetent unless we suppose that
|
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they regarded a revolt, which they would certainly defeat, as an
|
|
opportunity to destroy the growing menace of the <ent type='ORG'>Falangist</ent>s.</p>
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<p> The early course of the war fairly justifies that expectation.
|
|
and one cannot say that they ought to have foreseen that <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and
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<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> would play the part of the First and Second Murderers.
|
|
Careful attention to Franco's pilgrimages to <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> in
|
|
1936 might have warned them but we must admit that no one would
|
|
have expected <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> to look on placidly, and even give
|
|
most vital assistance, while <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> troops butchered
|
|
the heroic <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> people and even, as in the bombing of <ent type='PERSON'>Guernica</ent>,
|
|
coldly gave their airmen practice for the coming war on <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>. </p>
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<p> In the case of <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> Vatican influence counted very
|
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materially. We shall see in a later book how close at this time was
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the cooperation between the Vatican and what it called "the
|
|
government of <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Freemasons</ent>." For the shame and hypocrisy of
|
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Britain's action, there is no excuse. The so-called Committee for
|
|
the Protection of Non-Intervention in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> ought frankly to have
|
|
been called the <ent type='ORG'>Committee for the</ent> Protection of Intervention. The
|
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very moderate supply of arms by distant <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> -- and even this
|
|
began only after the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> intervention -- was made an excuse for
|
|
condoning the massive and indispensable assistance of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>. Nearer the truth was the plea that <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> "Could not
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|
afford to see a <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> state established so near to <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>".
|
|
These <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> statesmen know now, to their cost, how
|
|
little they could afford to see a <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> state created in <ent type='GPE'>Span</ent>.
|
|
But the plain truth which illumines the whole of that dark and
|
|
ghastly and stupid period of preparation, is that they did not want
|
|
to see a Socialist state set up anywhere, and, with all their
|
|
hypocritical professions, they murder the <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> people, although
|
|
their Foreign Offices must have known that Communism was the
|
|
weakest element in the <ent type='NORP'>Frente</ent> Popular and there was no question of
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following the <ent type='NORP'>Russian</ent> political model in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>.</p>
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<p> SPAIN AND <ent type='ORG'>THE CATHOLIC</ent> LEAGUE</p>
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<p> Whether or no <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>-Pius had from the start a further
|
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intention than the restoration of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> he clearly
|
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saw it in time as part of a larger plan. For <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>, the
|
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conquest of <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> was, part of his design of securing mastery of
|
|
the Mediterranean and cutting one of the main arteries of the
|
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<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Empire. For <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> it was the removal of a possible menace
|
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to his conquest of <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and the possession of a bridge to <ent type='LOC'>Africa</ent>
|
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when the time came to enslave the <ent type='NORP'>Italians</ent> as well as the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>.
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Blinded by their anti-Socialist zeal, no English statesman foresaw
|
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this and realized of what enormous value to them in the coming
|
|
struggle against Fascism a <ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> would be. <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>
|
|
shared their "sacred fury" against Socialism, but the course of
|
|
events now gave him the plan of a bloc or League of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Powers
|
|
by which he hopes to counteract <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> even if it is victorious,
|
|
and in any case to, in his own words, counterbalance the influence
|
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of the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n and <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> branches of his <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>.</p>
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<p> There is no need to wait for the tranquil post-war days to
|
|
get a just estimate of the action of <ent type='EVENT'>the Black International</ent> in
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. Even if there were not a scrap of documentary evidence no
|
|
one with even an elementary of the Vatican and of modern <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent>
|
|
history could daub that the plot was concerted and carried out in
|
|
the closest cooperation with the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, which would gain most of
|
|
all by the success of the revolt.</p>
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<p> But there is plenty of evidence: not evidence of a secret
|
|
plot, but of the most open and enthusiastic support of the rebels
|
|
by the <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and the Vatican. There was nothing secret
|
|
about it. Whether <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> in his visit to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> before the revolt
|
|
apprised <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> of his plans and asked the Papal blessing --
|
|
remember that this is just what the <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent> rebels had done in 1916
|
|
-- does not matter. He was in the closest touch with the hierarchy
|
|
in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and as he raised the flag of revolt (and perjury) all the
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> bishops but three, who were in a delicate <ent type='ORG'>Position</ent>.
|
|
declared for him. Every priest and every convent welcomed the
|
|
rebels as they came along and helped them. It would be very
|
|
extraordinary if they had not done so, seeing that <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> came as
|
|
a crusader to smite the infidels, who, they said, had persecuted
|
|
them for five years. <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s everywhere provided the mass of
|
|
traitors within the gates which has added a new term to military
|
|
literature: the Fifth Column.</p>
|
|
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|
<p> But the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> or its Secretary of State very soon made a
|
|
declaration which identified it with the holy war from the
|
|
beginning. Bishops, priests, and nun, who had understood that
|
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> and his had pious colleagues had corrupted the entire army
|
|
and had, in the expectation of speedy victory, declared themselves
|
|
prematurely, had to fly before the just anger of the people and the
|
|
government troops. It will be remembered that with all his <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
|
troops and <ent type='NORP'>Moslem</ent> fanatics, his jail-birds of <ent type='ORG'>the Foreign Legion</ent>
|
|
and his <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent> Brigade, his <ent type='NORP'>Germans</ent>, and his <ent type='NORP'>Italians</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> took
|
|
two years to conquer half of <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>: a very singular situation if it
|
|
were true that the anti-clerics were a minority. A large number of
|
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bishops, priests, and nuns made their way to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>, and on September
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14, 1936, the aged them.
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<p> The speech which was published, has none of the halting
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senility of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>. It was a carefully-prepared address. lt would
|
|
in any case commit the Vatican to the side of the rebels as well as
|
|
the local hierarchy, but it is easy to recognize the accents of
|
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>, to whose department the preparing of the address properly
|
|
belonged. It was this document written for broadcasting through the
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> to world, to which <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> was now appealing to work for
|
|
the extinction of <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>. It was
|
|
published in <ent type='GPE'>England</ent> by the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Truth Society with the title
|
|
'The <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> Terror' and might be described as the bugle-call of
|
|
that war upon <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent>, which made the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> the intimate ally
|
|
of all the forces of privilege and of the vilest criminals in five
|
|
centuries of European history.</p>
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<p> Frankly, though the press generally reproduced some of its
|
|
sonorous phrases with deep respect, it was ludicrous. "All that was
|
|
most fundamentally human and most profoundly divine" was being
|
|
trodden under foot. This is bad enough when we reflect on the
|
|
splendid human service that the Socialist-<ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent> coalition had
|
|
rendered and the clerical <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent>s have destroyed, but Some of the
|
|
priests and nuns must have had difficulty in refraining from
|
|
Smiling when the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> included amongst the victims "the fruitful
|
|
activity of lives wholly dedicated to religion, to science, and to
|
|
charity." The morals of the <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> clergy are notorious, but their
|
|
devotion to science must be a profound secret. All these holy
|
|
things were "assaulted, violated, destroyed" -- it reads like the
|
|
first sentence of a famous speech of Cicero's -- "in the most
|
|
ruthless and barbarous ways, in an unbridled and unparalleled
|
|
confusion of forces so savage and cruel", etc. There had been a
|
|
"satanic preparation" -- a perfectly childish representation of the
|
|
facts -- for "the flame of hatred and savage persecution" such as
|
|
the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, and it alone, is so apt to experience. There
|
|
was, in fine, an attempt to "subvert established order of every
|
|
kind from <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> to <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, from <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> to South <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>."</p>
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<p> The reader will not expect me to analyze this preposterous
|
|
stuff -- the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> talks as if it were the anti-clericals Who had
|
|
revolted -- but he will reflect that it served Pacelli's purpose.
|
|
From the time of its distribution over the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> world and the
|
|
reproduction of its gorgeous phrases in the secular press it
|
|
prepared men to swallow every tale of <ent type='ORG'>Red</ent> outrages that the
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Falangist</ent>s cared to concoct; it made <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s more blindly bitter
|
|
than ever against <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>; it put in a good word for the Pope's
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Japanese</ent> friends; and it represented <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> as
|
|
respectable crusaders who at great sacrifice, were striking a blow
|
|
for civilization. The Papal banner was the first foreign flag to
|
|
wave over Franco's diplomatic headquarters at <ent type='ORG'>Salamanca</ent>, and even
|
|
such ghastly massacres as that at <ent type='PERSON'>Guernica</ent> did not receive a word
|
|
of disapproval. <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> was encouraged to act as a
|
|
feeding ground for Franco's armies. <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n and <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s
|
|
poured their dollars or pounds into a common collecting box with
|
|
the bankers and stock brokers. <ent type='GPE'>Ireland</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent> -- pathetically
|
|
-- resounded with the slogan, "For God and <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>," and <ent type='PERSON'>Duffy</ent>
|
|
pompously led his <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent> Brigade to join the young English <ent type='NORP'>Tories</ent>
|
|
who were enlisted in a <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> hotel to serve under <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>. So mean
|
|
a disposition was create by the Pope's words that <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s
|
|
threatened to secede from the Trade Unions if the collection of </p>
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<p>funds for loyalist <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> was not stopped, and <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> mothers in
|
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some places compelled <ent type='ORG'>the Cooperative Movement</ent> to abandon its
|
|
humane plan of sending milk to the half-starved <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> children.
|
|
The activity of <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s materially helped to sustain the
|
|
government in that ignoble surrender to <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> by
|
|
allowing unlimited intervention, for which it has paid so dearly;
|
|
and they felt no misgivings when the Vatican, asked to join in the
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>French</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> protest against the beginning of the bombing of
|
|
civilians, replied that it must avoid even the suspicion of
|
|
interfering in polities!</p>
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<p> At the time when the drowsy <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> spoke about the satanic
|
|
preparation and the unparalleled outpour of barbarism, phrases
|
|
which were simply an expression of Pacelli's bitter disappointment
|
|
at the failure of the rebellion -- no one seriously believes that
|
|
it would have won without the <ent type='NORP'>Italians</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Germans</ent> -- there had
|
|
probably been a lot of rough treatment on both sides. The <ent type='ORG'>Moors</ent>
|
|
were furious at winning so little of the promised loot; the <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent>
|
|
people were furious because the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> again resorted to bloodshed,
|
|
and against a government returned to power by the majority of the
|
|
people after the priests had called up every <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> voter in the
|
|
Republic. Some day we may know just what was done, on both sides,
|
|
in violation of what are called the usages of civilized warfare. We
|
|
cannot expect to learn this from <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> as it is today, but if any
|
|
man imagines that the priests and nuns just went on serenely saying
|
|
their prayers until the "sadistic" <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent> burst in upon them he must
|
|
take his information from novels and <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> newspapers.</p>
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<p> We are, however, not without helpful material. Two years
|
|
earlier there had been, as I said, a minor war of the same
|
|
combatants, and the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> press and much of the secular press
|
|
had given terrible stories of outrages by Socialists and
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Communists</ent>, There always have been such stories since the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>
|
|
Revolution, and <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s, being forbidden to read the truth, still
|
|
cherish some of the picturesque lies -- like that of the prostitute
|
|
on an altar of Notre Dame -- told by the refugee priests of a
|
|
century and a half ago.</p>
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<p> After the suppression of the revolt of 1934, Lord <ent type='PERSON'>Listowel</ent> and
|
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Ellen Wilkinson</ent> went to <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> to investigate the stories. of
|
|
outrages. I had a talk with them after their return. They had the
|
|
written assurance of the President of the Republic Zamora (a
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>) and the <ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent> premier <ent type='PERSON'>Lerroux</ent>, that the stories of
|
|
outrage's committed by the anti-clericals were false, and when they
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went to the supposed locality of the outrages to verify this, the
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> authorities prevented them, and, on the absurd pretense
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that their inquiry so infuriated the people that their lives were
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in danger, rushed them to the frontier. But in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> itself the
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boot was rather on the other foot. It was the champions of the
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<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> who had committed outrages; the <ent type='ORG'>Moors</ent>, the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> soldiers
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or <ent type='ORG'>Civil Guards</ent>, and in some cases religious brothers. These
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stories of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> brutality were severely investigated on the
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spot by Professor Fernando de los Rios, an ex-Minister of
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Education, Senior F.G. <ent type='ORG'>Ordas</ent>, a <ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent> ex-Minister of <ent type='ORG'>Commerce</ent>,
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and the lawyer <ent type='PERSON'>Alvarez</ent> del <ent type='GPE'>Vayo</ent>, and they were found to be horribly
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true. They made independent examinations and, unlike the retailers
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of <ent type='ORG'>Red</ent> atrocities, they gave full names and places in their lengthy</p>
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<p>reports. Mrs. <ent type='PERSON'>Leah Manning</ent> has a digest of these three reports in
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the appendix of her book, 'What I Saw In <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>' (1934), and she
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tells how some of the stories of <ent type='ORG'>Red</ent> outrages were fabricated.</p>
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<p> The best one can say, therefore, for Pacelli's scalding
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rhetoric is that he had made no serious inquiry, but he inflamed
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the entire <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> world and so gilded the action of <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> and
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<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> in the eyes of the world in general that he is in a large
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measure responsible for the failure of democracies to see what the
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real and ulterior aim of those butchers was. On the other hand,
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>, like every <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer in the world, and a good many
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others, perpetrated an utter absurdity and declined to notice it.
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It is the contention that <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> is overwhelmingly <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>, yet a
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small minority of "satanic" folk carried every free election for
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five years and held half the country for two year's against the
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other half, and the fleets, air-fleets, tanks, and guns, of the two
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most powerful nations in Europe! It is stupid to talk about <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>.
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It did what it could, but for sheer geographical reasons it could
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not do much.</p>
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<p> Before the end of the war a reluctant press felt itself
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compelled to speak admiringly of the heroism of the <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> people.
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Theirs, on the anti-clerical side, was a war of the common folk,
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the workers and their wives and sons and daughters. They had no
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mercenary foreign troops, for the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> volunteers,
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hampered in every way in their enlistment by their governments,
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were comparatively very few, and there were still less <ent type='NORP'>Russian</ent>s, as
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was proved at the close. It was the people of <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> who held up the
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<ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>, and <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> armies, backed by Portuguese <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent>
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help -- that was why <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> had at once secured the Portuguese
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frontier -- and <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n funds for two years. Yet the
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same papers that told the story continued to repeat that <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> was
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Solidly <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>, though every loyalist soldier, every boy and girl
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who helped them, was under the direst ban of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. And
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s continued, and continue, to drone about that remarkable
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minority of <ent type='ORG'>Satanists</ent> who are supposed to have carried every
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<ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> election for five years and then somehow contrived to get
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the people to fight passionately for them for two years. The
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miracles of <ent type='PERSON'>Lourdes</ent> are pale in comparison.</p>
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<p> Yet, in face of the most elementary common-sense, there is
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hardly any lie that has been put out by the Vatican to cover its
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policy of cooperation with crime and consecration of bloodshed that
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has had a wider acceptance. I do not know whether <ent type='PERSON'>George Seldes</ent>,
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author of 'The Vatican,' is or is not a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>, but on this point
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he beat the <ent type='ORG'>Jesuit</ent>s, He says that there are only 30000 non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, and then he sees nothing to be explained in the
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magnificent defense of the people of <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> under a shower of
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anathemas from the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>! Then there is that quaint political
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sport -- in the biological sense -- <ent type='PERSON'>McGovern</ent>, the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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Socialist Member of <ent type='ORG'>the British</ent> Parliament, the man who was chiefly
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responsible for the abandonment of the anti-church policy of the
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<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> advanced <ent type='ORG'>Labor</ent>; and his <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> now gloats over the
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destruction of Communism. He is supposed to have studied <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> on
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the spot, and he is an honest man whatever you think of his
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ability. He says that all but about one million of the <ent type='NORP'>Spaniards</ent>
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are <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s; which still leaves the tail wagging the dog for
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seven years in a most mysterious way.</p>
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<p> Curiously enough the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer who comes nearest to the
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truth is a <ent type='ORG'>Jesuit</ent>, the <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent> priest, Father <ent type='PERSON'>Gannon</ent>. In the '<ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent>
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Times' (January 23, 1937), he said that there are "ten or fifteen
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million <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s" in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. Apparently he thought it wise to admit
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how far the corruption of the innocent people by the sadistic
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minority (as the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>, sir P. <ent type='PERSON'>Gibbs</ent> deliberately calls them)
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had gone. The phrase "ten or fifteen" is rather loose even for a
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<ent type='ORG'>Jesuit</ent>, especially when you are thinking of millions. Let us split
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the difference and say that the priest claims only about 12000000
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> out of a total population of 29000000. We get
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near commons-sense at last, and we will not quibble with so
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generous an admission. The only interpretation of <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> life from
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1931 to 1938 that is not completely ridiculous is that the majority
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of the <ent type='NORP'>Spaniards</ent> had quitted the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. That, means a loss of at
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least 15000000 and fully explains the policy of the Black
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International in that country.</p>
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<p> The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> shared the spoils, in fact got most of them. It was
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restored to the despotic and parasitic position it had had before
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1931, and the tinfoil Dictator, the most ridiculous specimen of the
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brood in Europe, awarded it an annual subsidy of 65000000
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pesetas. The country was and is, half-starved, reduced to
|
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international beggary, but the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> has always been willing to
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overlook that misfortune of its supporters. From all sides the
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priests called for the rebuilding of their churches, seminaries,
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monasteries, etc., and this made a further drain upon the slender
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public purse. The remains of the dissipated General de Rivera,
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whose character, Ibanez, had so ruthlessly revealed to the whole
|
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civilized world, were transferred with gorgeous religious and
|
|
secular ceremony to the <ent type='NORP'>Escurial</ent>, the palace of the dead <ent type='ORG'>Kings</ent> of
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<ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. If the flimsy structure of the new dictatorship lasts long
|
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enough I expect to hear of him being canonized. Many young ladies
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in <ent type='GPE'>Madrid</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Paris</ent> will be interested.</p>
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<p> Naturally all the fine work of the <ent type='NORP'>Liberal</ent>-Socialist coalition
|
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was destroyed. It is one of the gems of the Papal speech which I
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quoted above that the satanic <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent> destroyed science, whereas, they
|
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had done splendid work in restoring science in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, and a child
|
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would know that the rebels and their priests would ruin this. The
|
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system of education which had drawn hundreds of students of
|
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pedagogy from all parts was abolished. Manuals of history of a
|
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childishly mendacious character were substituted for the excellent
|
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text books and priests and nuns had the run of the class rooms.
|
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Whatever dropped and withered there must be money for "religion."
|
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So greedy was the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> that by the end of 1940 there was bitter
|
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murmuring against the priests among the <ent type='ORG'>Falangist</ent>s, and <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> was
|
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compelled to defy the Vatican over the appointment of bishops. It
|
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only required this "quarrel over investitures" to complete the
|
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restoration of the <ent type='EVENT'>Middle Ages</ent>. But the Vatican won, of course.
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Without <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>, and clerical protection, the <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent>
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people, low as they have fallen, would sweep away the perjured
|
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adventurer and his popin-jay brothier-in-law in a month. The army
|
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is divided and in large part ripe for rebellion.</p>
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<p> And the 15000000 who had quitted the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>? Turn back to
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the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> girl's narrative which I have quoted. Tens of thousands
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of the rank and file of them are taken out of vile jails to sing
|
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hymns and <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> chants with a whip raised over their backs, while</p>
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<p>the chaplain enjoys his bottle in the background. Hundreds of their
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leaders who survived the war are buried like dogs. Still the firing
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squads are busy all over <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. The <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> must not read
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these things. He is told that there are only 30000 folk, who had
|
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quitted the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and they are "under restraint." He will find it
|
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out when Fascism is destroyed and something more painful than the
|
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"terrific propaganda" which Cardinal <ent type='ORG'>Hinsley</ent> foresees will fall
|
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upon his <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>. <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, and <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent>
|
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> knows it and stakes everything on the victory of
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Fascism.</p>
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<p> The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> linked <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> with <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> in the <ent type='EVENT'>Civil War</ent>. Here
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again the record of <ent type='EVENT'>the Black International</ent> is vile. To the middle
|
|
of the last century, <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> had the same fate as <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. A king of
|
|
disreputable character surrounded by fawning bishops, slew or
|
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tortured tens of thousands of rebels against <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and feudalism.
|
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But reform, or moderation set in earlier in that compact little
|
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country than in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>. When another disreputable monarch began to
|
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play tricks in the early years of this century the middle-class
|
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<ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> drove him out, set up a Republic and stripped the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
|
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of all its privileges. Then came the tragic dilemma -- feudalism or
|
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Socialism, finance or freedom -- and before the specter of the down
|
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the <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent>, men took down their anti-clerical banners. <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>
|
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became a military dictatorship with the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in full power once
|
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more.</p>
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<p> Under President General <ent type='PERSON'>Cremona</ent> and Premier Dr. <ent type='PERSON'>Salazar</ent>,
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<ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> is what is humorously called a corporative state. The late
|
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, who knew as much about economics and sociology as a child in
|
|
a primary school does, gave the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> world one of those
|
|
Encyclicals which it admires so much, saying that Italy's
|
|
corporative state is the ideal for reconciling capital and labor
|
|
and honoring the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. Naturally, you would not expect a
|
|
churchman to notice that this corporative state was a ghastly
|
|
failure, even economically, in his own country, <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>; that crime
|
|
was rising by leaps and bounds, and the schools were rotting. In
|
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<ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>, where more than half the people are still pious,
|
|
illiterate, and densely ignorant, it was comparatively easy; and
|
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the <ent type='ORG'>Jesuit</ent>s, who had been expelled, were brought back to help. So
|
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the corporative state was established. What did it matter to the
|
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<ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> that, concentrating power over capital and labor in one pair
|
|
of hands, it was the ideal form of state for an aggressive
|
|
imperialistic dictator? <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> must have smiled.</p>
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<p> We may take it that <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> was the chief author of the
|
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Encyclical 'Quadragesimo Anno' (1931) in which the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> summoned
|
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all <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> countries to adopt the form of the corporative state.
|
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They were then a ragged regiment; <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>, Eire, and (more or
|
|
less) Hungary. To these <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> in 1934 added <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> and in 1935
|
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most of <ent type='GPE'>the Republics</ent> of South and Central <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. When he saw
|
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<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> guaranteeing the success of his plot in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>,
|
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and <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> had bowed to the Papal orders in 1934, he began to
|
|
dream larger dreams. He worked, we shall see, in <ent type='GPE'>Yugo</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Slavia</ent>, to
|
|
prepare the way for Mussolini's legions and win at least a Croatian
|
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<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> for the Vatican. He courted <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and encouraged the
|
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<ent type='GPE'>Rexists</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Belgium</ent>. His dream took the shape of a bloc or League of
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> corporative states, very docile to the Black </p>
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<p>International, spanning the planet, following Mussolini's
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"victorious eagles" eastward, ready in time to check either a
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<ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> empire in north Europe or a <ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent> Anglo-<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n
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combination.</p>
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<p> PAPAL COWARDICE IN <ent type='ORG'>ABYSSINIA</ent> -- AND WHY</p>
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<p> The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer Teeling (The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> in <ent type='ORG'>Polities</ent>) is
|
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generally understood to have made a protest in the name of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
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<ent type='NORP'>democrats</ent> against the anti-<ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent> policy of the Vatican. He is
|
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not very emphatic on any point except the Papal attitude to the
|
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conquest of <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>, and he is far from satisfactory on the
|
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point. He says that <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s "sighed in vain" for a Papal
|
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condemnation of Mussolini's crime, but "the poor old man" was
|
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content with a refusal to bless the war, as <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> pressed him
|
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to do, or to restrain the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> from blessing it.</p>
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<p> It is something to have a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer admitting that all
|
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the world condemned <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> except the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>" (p. 130). The
|
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> press generally tried to twist vague Papal words into a
|
|
condemnation. But it is misleading to talk about the "poor old
|
|
man." <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> was the director of the Papal policy, and there was
|
|
nothing vague or evasive about it. For ages the Vatican has cast a
|
|
covetous eye on the <ent type='GPE'>Ethiopia</ent>n <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. The existence of a branch of
|
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<ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>ity which had as much right to call itself <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> as
|
|
that of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> and was equally Apostolic in its foundation, has
|
|
always been a challenge and a reproach to the Vatican, but it was
|
|
little use dreaming of getting the submission of the Greek <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>.
|
|
At the <ent type='NORP'>Russian</ent> Revolution, we shall see, there was some hope of
|
|
inducing the atheistic new rules to sacrifice to the Vatican the
|
|
rich and populous branch of the Greek <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in that country, and
|
|
for Years the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> courted the <ent type='PERSON'>Hammer</ent> and Sickle as eagerly as it
|
|
later courted the Swastika. The hope died, but the Vatican kept its
|
|
eye on such independent branches of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> as that of <ent type='GPE'>Ethiopia</ent>.</p>
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<p> This was the bait which <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> dangled before the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> in
|
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1934. By the "gentleman's agreement" he had made with the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> in
|
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1929, he had, he supposed, secured Papal support in advance for his
|
|
imperial adventures, but the whole world was so shocked in 1934 by
|
|
Mussolini's obvious preparations to attack <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>, so disgusted
|
|
that his "invincible legions" chose the weakest possible opponent,
|
|
that the Vatican had to consider its position in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>. The solution of the difficulty was Pacellesque, if I may
|
|
coin the word. Let the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> pose as a moral coward; a poor old man
|
|
who was bewildered by the sudden development -- so bishops said in
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> -- and its menace, and let the entire <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
|
|
boisterously support <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> and secure the unanimous support of
|
|
the nation. The Vatican tried at a later stage to explain the
|
|
situation by saying that the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> hierarchy and clergy acted in
|
|
this as <ent type='NORP'>Italians</ent>, not as representatives of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, and there
|
|
were <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> who repeated this miserable subterfuge.
|
|
As if it were not one of the very strongest claims for the moral
|
|
influence of the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> that on any moral issue it
|
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sublimely ignores national limitations and judges them in the light</p>
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<p>of eternal principle alone! You might as well imagine the police of
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<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> consorting with criminals under the window's of the
|
|
White House as the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> hierarchy acting on so delicate an issue
|
|
without Papal instructions.</p>
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<p> As to the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> himself, which really means <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>, we will
|
|
not waste time discussing whether he condemned the war, especially
|
|
when we have <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writers saying that he did not, until someone
|
|
quotes a clear and verifiable word of condemnation. The editor of
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>the British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> paper (<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Times, July 17, 1936),
|
|
challenged by the Protestant Bishop of Durham, replied: "I grant
|
|
you that throughout these months of crisis the Holy Father has said
|
|
no word in favor of <ent type='ORG'>the League</ent> of Nations nor in favor of that
|
|
united stand against <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, which was so much desired in this
|
|
country." Cardinal <ent type='ORG'>Hinsley</ent>, it is true, says in his Preface to
|
|
Rankin's eulogy of <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>, 'The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> Speaks' (1940), that in his
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presence the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, before the invasion of <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>, spoke of "all
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my efforts to prevent the barbarous tragedy." What a pity <ent type='ORG'>Hinsley</ent>
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did not quote the words six years earlier and spare <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s in
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> so much pain and humiliation! And what a pity
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<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> did not hear that the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> was talking of his grand
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imperialist design as "barbarous."</p>
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<p> Cardinal <ent type='ORG'>Hinsley</ent> does not think it necessary to explain why a
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> who privately thought the invasion of <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent> barbarous had
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not one word of public condemnation of it. He could be very
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eloquent on events far away in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, of which he could have no
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exact knowledge and on events still farther away and more difficult
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to check in <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>. They hurt the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. But on
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an outrage which was organized under his nose, a tragedy which was
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so notorious that all the world except himself condemned it, he had
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nothing to say as a world-oracle. It would hurt the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> if he
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said it.</p>
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<p> Once or twice he tried the tactics of that other famous
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oracle, the ancient oracle of <ent type='ORG'>Delphi</ent>. On July 28, 1934, speaking
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(domestically) on a saintly missionary who had worked in <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>,
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he glanced at the war-talk and said that he "hoped for peace,
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truth, justice, and charity." On August 28th he had to address a
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body of <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> nurses, many of whom were destined for the
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war-zone, and he could hardly ignore it. He said, with a calculated
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vagueness that <ent type='ORG'>Delphi</ent> never surpassed, that while folk abroad
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described it as "a war of sheer conquest and nothing else", which
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would certainly be an "unjust war", the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> authorities said
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that it was a war of defense against <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>n aggression and to
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find room for some of Italy's surplus population (for which the
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priests were even more responsible than <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>). He ended in a
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mumble that God would find a way to a just peace. <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s
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rejoiced that the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> had endorsed Mussolini's motivation of the
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war and we shall see that archbishop's declared it to be a war of
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defense. <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n and <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s boasted that he had
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denounced the war of conquest.</p>
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<p> It occurred to some that if there is a particle of truth in
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the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> claim for the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> it was the Pope's duty to go
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beyond abstract principles which everybody recognized and say in
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plain <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> whether Mussolini's enterprise, which had not the </p>
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<p>least ambiguity in the eyes of the rest of the world, was or was
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not criminal. <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> therefore had an explanatory note put in the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Osservatore</ent>, (August 29) saying that surplus population was "not by
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itself a ground of war", which left matters just as they were.
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s felt that all the gorgeous claims that their
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apologists had made for the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> were stultified, and Price Bell
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of the 'Chicago Daily News' was instructed to get the truth from
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the Pope's own lips. He wrote a moving four-page article on
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"interview" in '<ent type='GPE'>Liberty</ent>' (October 19, 1935), but had to confess
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that he had not got a word on <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent> from the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>. One gathers
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that he had just paid the usual fee from $10 upward, according to
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the size of the crowd -- to be admitted to a reception.</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> knew that, after a little grumbling behind closed
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doors <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n and <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s would, in their own interest,
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submit to anything that the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> said or did, so he let him pose to
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the outside world as a moral coward and effectively satisfied
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<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> by a glorious unity of the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in support of
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the war. Professor <ent type='PERSON'>Salvemini</ent> has collected the utterances of 7
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cardinal archbishops, 23 archbishops, 44 bishops, and 6 archbishops
|
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with titles abroad. It is almost enough to quote from the Papal
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organ, the '<ent type='PERSON'>Osservatore</ent>' (August 22, 1935), the fact that from the
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Eucharistic Congress at <ent type='ORG'>Teramo</ent> a telegram was sent to <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> in
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the name of 19 archbishops and 57 bishops saying: "<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>
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thanks Jesus Christ for the renewed greatness of the <ent type='ORG'>Fatherland</ent>
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made stronger by Mussolini's policy." Will anyone suggest that the
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dispatch of this telegram and the Publication of it in the Papal
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newspaper were contrary to the wishes of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> and his vigorous
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Secretary of State, the real and very despotic ruler of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>?</p>
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<p> The prelates continued all through the war to keep <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s
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-- and practically all <ent type='NORP'>Italians</ent> were now compulsory <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> --
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loyal to <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>. They gave a most unctuous consecration to a
|
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shameful war of aggression, barbarously conducted, and openly
|
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represented it as a gain to the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. In a diocesan letter of
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October 15, 1935, the Bishop of <ent type='ORG'>Nocera</ent> explained that <ent type='GPE'>Ethiopia</ent> was
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uncivilized be cause it was not subject to the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> and the war
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would be a great blessing for it:</p>
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<p> It is a People which, having became detached from <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>,
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can cannot get full benefit of the <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> ideas: which has
|
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not been able, therefore, to produce those beneficial
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conditions to which <ent type='LOC'>the West</ent> of Europe owes its greatness.
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Roman <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> has the duty of bringing to populations
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deprived of them its principles of equity, charity, and
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fraternity. We pray God that he should use <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> as His divine
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instrument for the evangelization of the whole world.</p>
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<p> One can say these things in a country where the Black
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International controls education. A bishop ought at least to know
|
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that until the 15th century the <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>n <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> had had no
|
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connection whatever with <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>; that submission to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> was then
|
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imposed from Portuguese as a condition of their help in saving the
|
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country from the <ent type='NORP'>Moslem</ent>; and that it led to a grave demoralization
|
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of <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent> and was fiercely rejected as soon as possible. And
|
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note carefully the hope of <ent type='EVENT'>the Black International</ent> that God will go
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on to choose <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> to "evangelize" -- that is to say, bring into </p>
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<p>submission to the Vatican -- the whole world. We know how it was
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evangelizing <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>; with poison gas, bombing natives, and
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massacre (as at Addis <ent type='GPE'>Ababa</ent>). The interesting point is the allusion
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to Pacelli's growing Plan of a league of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> powers.</p>
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<p> A fortnight before this the Archbishop of Taranto had said
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<ent type='PERSON'>Mass</ent> in a submarine and given an address to the officers and men.
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They were, he said, fighting a war of defense -- was there ever a
|
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more brazen apology? -- not conquest, and it would not only relieve
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<ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> of over-population and supply it with raw material, but it
|
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would lead to "the expansion of the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> faith". It was
|
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therefore "a holy war, a crusade". The archbishop was worse than
|
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the bishop and the cardinal-archbishop, Sehuster, of <ent type='GPE'>Milan</ent>, bead of
|
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the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was worse than the archbishop. Speaking on
|
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October 28 he said, as quoted by <ent type='ORG'>Salvemin</ent>:</p>
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<p> The <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> flag is at this moment bringing in triumph
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<ent type='ORG'>the Cross</ent> of Christ in <ent type='GPE'>Ethiopia</ent> to free the road for the
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emancipation of the slaves, opening it at the same time to our
|
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missionary enterprise.</p>
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<p> Apart from their lies about <ent type='ORG'>Red</ent> outrage one can at least
|
|
understand the action of the <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> prelates in supporting <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>,
|
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but these <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> prelates, the nearest to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> and the most
|
|
rigorously controlled by the Vatican, consecrated the crime of
|
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their dictator and their Papal Secretary of State with all entirely
|
|
nauseous mixture of greed for the country and greed for the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>.
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I saw two of the picture postcards that then circulated in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>.
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One bore a map of <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent> showing treasures of corn, gold, oil,
|
|
etc., in different regions. The other was a tank taking a statue of
|
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the Virgin to the <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>ns.</p>
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<p> So it was to the end. When, in May, 1936, the <ent type='NORP'>Italians</ent> entered
|
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Abbis <ent type='GPE'>Ababa</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> announced victory, the church bells rang
|
|
everywhere and the churches were illuminated and decorated. There
|
|
was one exception, St. Peter's. Its bells rang -- because peace had
|
|
come, of course -- but it was not illuminated. The fox retained his
|
|
cunning, and probably <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> grudgingly allowed that he had to
|
|
save his face as well as he could in <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. It had to
|
|
suffice that the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> blessed "the triumphant happiness of a great
|
|
and good people for a peace that will further and will initiate the
|
|
true European and world-wide peace" (News Times and <ent type='GPE'>Ethiopia</ent> News,
|
|
October 31, 1936), and that the bishops fell over each other in
|
|
hastening to congratulate the <ent type='NORP'>Duce</ent> and his "defence of <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>
|
|
civilization". Not a word was said when <ent type='PERSON'>Graziani</ent> perpetrated one of
|
|
the foulest massacres of this foul period as when the butcher's
|
|
butcher-son published a book glorifying war as such and explaining
|
|
what fun it was to drop bombs on natives.</p>
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|
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<p> <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> did little for <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>. Production fell, and a mere
|
|
title of the surplus population of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> which was supposed to be
|
|
panting for room beyond the seas would go to <ent type='LOC'>Africa</ent>. The <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>
|
|
authorities made no haste to educate the natives, and such
|
|
industries as were set up were reserved for <ent type='NORP'>Italians</ent>. <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>ns
|
|
were not allowed to become artisans. They were to be the hewers of
|
|
wood and the drawers of water. Make all allowance you like for
|
|
Italy's lack of capital, of which <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> had drained the </p>
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<p>country, but the truth cannot be obscured, <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> wanted only
|
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two things: the "glory" of founding an <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> empire and a
|
|
backward country for Italian's to exploit. And in 1937, the
|
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'<ent type='PERSON'>Osservatore</ent>' announced, the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> blessed this enterprise by
|
|
awarding the Golden Rose, the supreme honor that the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> has for
|
|
mere women, to the Queen of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> as <ent type='ORG'>Empress</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>.</p>
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<p> He had ground to do this. Whatever else <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> failed to do for
|
|
the <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent>ns it spent a vast sum in giving them the treasure of
|
|
the Papal faith. At government expense priests, monks, and nuns
|
|
were shipped out and chalets and houses built for them. There is an
|
|
account of it all in the '<ent type='ORG'>International Review</ent> of Missions,'
|
|
(January, 1937, p. 103). The Vatican sent out a set of <ent type='GPE'>Ethiopia</ent>n
|
|
type and a press, and <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> papers told how the natives
|
|
eagerly pressed for the good words. Protestant missionaries found
|
|
that they might as well pack up. <ent type='NORP'>Moslem</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> had hitherto
|
|
shown a mutual toleration. Now they were set against each other
|
|
Whatever the state gained or failed to gain by the conquest of
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent> the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was determined to profit. All this, the
|
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> protests, follows inevitably from <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> principles. So
|
|
much the worse for those principles; though we seem to have heard
|
|
a hundred times that the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> emphatically disowns the maxim that
|
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the end justifies the means.</p>
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<p> It is impossible to write these chapters on the action of the
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> without irony and
|
|
repugnance, and many will find that it raises a problem about the
|
|
attitude of the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> layman. As far as <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> is
|
|
concerned there is little to explain. His daily paper spoke of the
|
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<ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent> probably in the same language as his <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> weekly.
|
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<ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent> was growing like a poisonous plant in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, and
|
|
practically all the world wanted it eradicated. There was, it is
|
|
true, that intriguing paradox which I have discussed; how the <ent type='ORG'>Red</ent>
|
|
tail -- and such a small one -- had succeeded in wagging the
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> dog for seven whole years. But when there is a question of
|
|
smiting <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent>, you do not notice these trifles.</p>
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<p> In the case of <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent> the situation was very different. The
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|
whole world, outside Eire, <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>, and a few other potato patches,
|
|
condemned <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>, and the facts were not in dispute. Such
|
|
writers as <ent type='PERSON'>Seldes</ent> and Teeling make it clear that there was some
|
|
dissatisfaction in the body of the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> laity, but the tone of
|
|
the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> press and the utterances of the hierarchy show that it
|
|
did not reach very far. Yet you find it impossible to believe that
|
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the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> men and women whom you meet in business or at the club
|
|
or a friend's house, are so docile to their priests that they will
|
|
read without a shudder the shocking language of the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>
|
|
prelates I have quoted, or be easily persuaded that turning
|
|
Oriental <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s into Roman <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s throws a mantle of justice,
|
|
if not nobility, over Mussolini's enterprise.</p>
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<p> I cannot here go deeply into this matter, but I may make one
|
|
point. The relation of a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> to his priest is not the same as
|
|
that of a Protestant to his minister. Periodically he hears a
|
|
sermon on the priesthood, and the gist of it is that, if he accepts
|
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the creed at all, he must regard the priest as something totally
|
|
different from any other minister of religion. The preacher insists</p>
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<p>that he shall not look to the priest as a man -- his intelligence
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and even his character do not matter -- but to his office and
|
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powers. He can turn bread and wine into God (in the <ent type='PERSON'>Mass</ent>) and can
|
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forgive sins. He has, whatever his personality, been endowed with
|
|
tremendous supernatural powers. You may find this difficult to
|
|
follow, but a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> is as strictly bound to believe these things
|
|
as to believe in God. That medieval superstition, on which the
|
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<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> still literally insists, is the root of the power of the
|
|
priests. That is why, for instance, they can do what no other
|
|
ministers can do, such as to forbid a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> to read any
|
|
literature that criticizes the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> or its teaching, and in this
|
|
way they protect the superstition which is the root of their power.
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism is not a collection of beliefs. It is an organic whole,
|
|
and you cannot be a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> and question a single "article of
|
|
faith." If in addition to this you remember the tremendous hypnotic
|
|
force wielded by the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, corresponding very closely to the
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>German</ent> boasting of <ent type='NORP'>Aryan</ent> blood or the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> boasting of
|
|
Mussolini's infallibility you will begin to understand. But it is
|
|
not a case of "to understand all is to forgive all." Your
|
|
conclusion is more apt to be: Away with the whole damn lot -- to
|
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give a rough translation of Voltaire's polite phrase.</p>
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'<ent type='ORG'>CHINESE INCIDENT</ent>'</p>
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<p> It is one of the consequences of this doctrinal mentality of
|
|
the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> that he can be persuaded to accept propositions which
|
|
to you and me look childish. I am, of course, speaking of the
|
|
general body of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s and am quite aware that you will meet a
|
|
man here and there who seems fairly liberal; though you will find
|
|
that either he is not liberal at all on these dogmas which the
|
|
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, for reasons (as they are the basis of the power of the
|
|
clergy), declares indispensable, or he is a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> only
|
|
nominally. One such proposition is that the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> faith is so
|
|
unique, so profoundly important for this life and the next, that
|
|
when there is a prospect of getting further millions of men to
|
|
accept it, he, in spite of his having the same sentiments as we
|
|
have, agrees to wars, executions, imprisonments without trial,
|
|
compulsory hymn-Singing and jailers'
|
|
whips. After all, the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> has "the right of the sword" over
|
|
these people. That is an indispensable article of the creed.</p>
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<p> A second proposition which is relevant here is -- this will
|
|
seem incredible to any who are not familiar with <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
|
literature -- that the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> accepts the belief, on which the
|
|
priests insist, that his <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is hated and persecuted by wicked
|
|
men with a rancor that other <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>es do not experience. It is a
|
|
sheer legend, but very useful to the clergy. For the last fifty
|
|
years at least the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> has been treated by non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s with an indulgence, even an admiration, which has enabled
|
|
it to secure by intrigue, a power far out of proportion to the
|
|
number of its members in <ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent> countries. In <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> doctrine
|
|
-- again indispensable doctrine -- a large part of the explanation
|
|
of this legendary hatred is the devil. Naturally he hates, and
|
|
moves bad men to hate, that which is holiest . . . I feel that I
|
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ought to apologize for talking like this to educated men and women,</p>
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<p>but believe me, that is the ordinary <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> mentality. And it is
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in virtue of this proposition that <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent> is in the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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mind associated with the devil, and he is ready to cry for its
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extinction in <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>. <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>. You will not be so
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churlish as to remind him that he is really calling for aggressive
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war.</p>
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<p> Hence the Vatican's beautiful friendship with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> and
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positive hatred of <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>. We will consider in a later book the lie
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which is used to give an odor of sanctity to this hatred, the claim
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that <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> persecutes religion, but by 1934, when <ent type='ORG'>the British</ent>
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government had officially reported to the contrary, as we shall
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see, any ground for a charge of persecution had disappeared. Yet
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when, in that year, <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> applied for admission to <ent type='ORG'>the League</ent> of
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Nations, the Vatican whipped up its representatives at <ent type='GPE'>Geneva</ent> to
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oppose the application. I will deal at length with the matter
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later, but it is necessary here to point the contrast. <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>
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stirred every nerve to get a great civilization, which already had
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the finest record in Europe of humane service and social
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betterment, publicly insulted and represented as a nation far
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inferior to Mussolini's <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> or Piludski's miserable <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent> (which
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was at the time very seriously persecution religion). On the other
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hand, he drew nearer to <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>. <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> had long discarded the idea,
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which some had had, of spreading Socialism by aggressive war. It
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was, if only in its own interest, very earnest for the peace of the
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world. But it was damned and vituperated by <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>. <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> was just as
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clearly aiming at, indeed already engaged in, a disgraceful
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aggressive war. The Vatican took it to its bosom.</p>
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<p> The point arises here because just in that year there was some
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prospect of war between <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>, and <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s everywhere
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loudly proclaimed that, should it occur, they would side with
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<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>. "In the event of a war between <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>," said an
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editorial in one of the leading <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> papers, (<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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Times, November 23, 1934) "<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s would sympathize with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>,
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at least in so far as religion is concerned, so let us beware of an
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Anglo-<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n 'bloc' against <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> involving us on the side of
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<ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>." These apologists for a bad case find it difficult to write
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plain English. The editor obviously means that <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s would hope on religious grounds -- that is to say, for
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the profit of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>China</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> -- to see <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> beat
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<ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>. We do not think less of sympathy with crime because its
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motive is said to be religious. It is only one mare of a hundred
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proofs that the interest of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, which always the means the
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interest or profit of <ent type='EVENT'>the Black International</ent>, is different from
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and often opposed to the interest of the race.</p>
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<p> In the second book I described the beginning of the alliance
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of the Vatican with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>. The country had just taken the first
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step in a monstrous plan of aggression and exploitation which must
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have been known in <ent type='ORG'>every Foreign Office</ent> in the world, and its
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conquest of <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent> was sternly condemned everywhere. The <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>
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were, as we shall see, then playing a dangerous game, for which
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they now pay so dearly, with the Vatican, and -- I quoted this on
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<ent type='NORP'>French</ent> clerical authority -- the advised the <ent type='PERSON'>Jap</ent>s to apply to the </p>
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<p><ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> for recognition. As the idea was put to the <ent type='NORP'>Japanese</ent> by <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>
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missionaries, you may wonder whether the initiative did not come
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from the Vatican; but you will have to be content to wonder, as the
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beginning of the negotiations is left in obscurity.</p>
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<p> It was not difficult to persuade the <ent type='PERSON'>Jap</ent>s to apply to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>.
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Most of the educated and ruling men of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> are atheists of the
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type who regard religion as a very useful institution -- for women
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and workers, In 1871, when the Europeanization of the country
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began, they sent a large and unique deputation to Europe to study
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<ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>ity and report whether it was a more 'suitable -- that is
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to say, more effective in securing the docility of the masses --
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religion to give to their people than Buddhism. Lafeadio Hearn
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tells how their report on the influence of <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>ity in its own
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field was so poor that they abandoned the idea, but much water had
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gone down to the sea since 1871. One change was that the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> was
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again a secular as well as a spiritual monarch, since <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> had
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created the state of the <ent type='GPE'>Vatican City</ent>, and the mixture of small
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sovereignty and vast international religious power gave him a
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unique position.</p>
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<p> We saw what happened. Even <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> dare not, while the whole
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world was inflamed against <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>, pledge the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> as a temporal
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ruler to alliance with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>, but he appointed a Vicar Apostolic
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"to negotiate with the government of <ent type='GPE'>Manchukuo</ent> about religious
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affairs." Other powers might sacrifice their trade-interests to
|
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their principles by declaring that they would have no truck with a
|
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bloody usurpation, but the interests of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> missions are too
|
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sacred to be sacrificed for mundane considerations. Whether there
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was an understanding that the Vatican promised to work to prevent
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<ent type='ORG'>the League</ent> of Nations from applying sanctions to <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>, as it later
|
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worked for the exclusion of <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, we do not know. The Vatican
|
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does not issue a <ent type='ORG'>Blue Book</ent> -- not even a Little <ent type='ORG'>Blue Book</ent> -- when
|
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it has completed a deal. Few would trust the book if it did.</p>
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<p> What we do know, however, is enough. The representatives of
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the Vatican in <ent type='GPE'>Manchukuo</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> worked so amiably with the army
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and the government that by 1934 the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer I quoted
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was able to boast that "no <ent type='NORP'>Japanese</ent> prince or mission now passes
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through <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> without paying its homage to the Sovereign Pontiff."
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Incidentally, <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> trade in the <ent type='LOC'>East</ent> benefitted very happily.
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s raised their familiar cry of libel of Holy See,
|
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wicked suspicion, etc., when the growing intimacy was mentioned in
|
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the press, and it transpired that the news had came from the
|
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clerical officials (whose pockets are always wide open) of the
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<ent type='GPE'>Vatican City</ent> pres's bureau that negotiations were in progress for
|
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an exchange of ambassadors between <ent type='GPE'>Tokyo</ent> and the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent>. There was
|
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more indignation and surprise that people should malign Holy <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
|
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so much; and on May 5, 1935, the Papal organ, the '<ent type='PERSON'>Osservatore</ent>,'
|
|
joyously announced that the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> was sending a representative to
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Tokyo</ent> and the Mikado sending an ambassador to <ent type='ORG'>the Papal Court</ent>.</p>
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<p> You make short work of all the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> sophistry, about this
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ominous development if you consider the run of events at the time.
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The world at the conquest of <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent> had evaporated. Trade-interests had again beaten principles. Sanctions against <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> had
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not been imposed, and the trading nations were on friendly terms </p>
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<p>with the <ent type='PERSON'>Jap</ent> and willing to take his word, as they would take
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Mussolini's word after <ent type='GPE'>Abyssinia</ent> and Hitler's word after <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>,
|
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that absolutely no further advance would be attempted; while all
|
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three adventurers were quite openly dangling before the eyes of
|
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their respective peoples a program of conquests that promised
|
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wealth to every class in the nation.</p>
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<p> The case of the alliance of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> and his Yellow Brother"
|
|
was the worst of all. At the beginning of the century Count <ent type='PERSON'>Hayashi</ent>
|
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(Secret Memoirs, 1915), had written that "<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> must keep quite and
|
|
lull suspicion and wait her day; then not only put the meddling
|
|
powers out but meddle herself." After 1930, with the growth of an
|
|
aggressive Fascism in Europe and a general profession of admiration
|
|
of its efficiency, the <ent type='NORP'>Japanese</ent> concluded that they need not keep
|
|
quiet in their own country; they could not, indeed, if they were to
|
|
educate their people in the ground plan of dominating <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>. One of
|
|
the most spluttering firebrands was <ent type='PERSON'>Yosuke Matsuoka</ent>. He had been
|
|
educated in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and was a <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>, so he was very useful for
|
|
lulling suspicions abroad, especially in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, but he was very
|
|
patriotic in <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>. Upton Close in his book, 'The <ent type='ORG'>Challenge</ent>,'
|
|
translates an article which <ent type='PERSON'>Matsuoka</ent> published in 1933. It
|
|
coruscated with gems like this: "The mission of the <ent type='PERSON'>Yamata</ent> race is
|
|
to prevent the human race from becoming devilish ... The one
|
|
nation not subject to the universal law of decline is that which is
|
|
ruled by a divinity and a permeated by the spirit of the Gods ...
|
|
the fated time has come to effulge its benefits to the world". Not
|
|
very <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>, but plain enough. At the following <ent type='EVENT'>New Year</ent>,
|
|
<ent type='NORP'>Japanese</ent> stores displayed gorgeous paint-and-pasteboard panoramas
|
|
of Japan's coming victory, the sinking of the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n fleet, etc.</p>
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<p> This was the symphony of events which accompanied the
|
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negotiations in Pacelli's opulent chambers in the Vatican. Let us
|
|
charitably suppose that in 1935, <ent type='PERSON'>Matsuoka</ent> earnestly assured <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>
|
|
that <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> would not steal another acre of <ent type='NORP'>Chinese</ent> soil, that
|
|
<ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> was simple-minded enough to believe him, and that the
|
|
highly favored <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> missionaries in <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> did not report to the
|
|
Vatican that the entire country, including the <ent type='NORP'>Buddhist</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Shinto</ent>
|
|
priests, was joyously chanting the national anthem of domination of
|
|
the <ent type='LOC'>East</ent>. A <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> can probably believe that, although the
|
|
steeling of <ent type='GPE'>Jehol</ent> from <ent type='GPE'>China</ent> had already followed the stealing of
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent>. But in 1935 the sacred representative of the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> in
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>Tokyo</ent> would find it one of his first duties to report that, under
|
|
cynically mendacious pretexts, the <ent type='NORP'>Japanese</ent> were moving south over
|
|
<ent type='GPE'>China</ent> proper. By June, 1935, they had appropriated a further vast
|
|
area of <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>. In November, 1936, they tried to set up a puppet
|
|
government for five whole provinces besides <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent>.</p>
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<p> In short, from that day to this, it has been one long story of
|
|
conquest officially described in the most brazen language. It was
|
|
not a war, but an "incident" -- thus escaping the economic
|
|
inconveniences of a war -- it was for the "cooperative prosperity"
|
|
of <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>, Europe, and <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, it was just a police measure,
|
|
and so on. And all the time it was exultingly represented in <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>
|
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itself as the mere beginning of a career of conquest that would
|
|
enrich every class in the country. It was, further, a war conducted
|
|
with the full bestiality of the methods of the Pope's allies.
|
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Brutality to civilians in actual fighting was supplemented by
|
|
brutality after conquest. The <ent type='NORP'>Chinese</ent> subjects were debased with </p>
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<p>dope and exploited mercilessly. Soldiers and officers used <ent type='NORP'>Chinese</ent>
|
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women as <ent type='NORP'>Goths</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Vandals</ent> had never used <ent type='ORG'>Roman Women</ent>. A <ent type='NORP'>Chinese</ent>
|
|
lady told me of an incident reported to her by her family in <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>:
|
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an old woman in the occupied zone traveling from village to village
|
|
was raped six times in a few hours by soldiers of the nation which
|
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is "ruled by a divinity and permeated by the spirit of the gods."
|
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. . .</p>
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<p> By 1941 the whole diabolical plan was clear. Japan's service
|
|
was to be to draw off a very large part of the <ent type='NORP'>Russian</ent> forces to
|
|
the <ent type='LOC'>East</ent> while the "crusade" destroyed <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> in Europe. We now
|
|
know -- if anybody required any evidence -- that the <ent type='NORP'>Russian</ent>
|
|
campaign was decided and plotted very early in 1941 after the
|
|
failure to reduce <ent type='GPE'>England</ent> by aerial bombardment or invasion, which
|
|
was originally intended to precede the attack on <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Matsuoka</ent>;
|
|
the <ent type='ORG'>Versatile</ent> was sent to Europe. He visited <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>;
|
|
and the '<ent type='PERSON'>Osservatore</ent>' (March 31, 1941) told with pride how he
|
|
visited <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>. Did he carefully conceal from <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent> that
|
|
the war for the extinction of <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent>, the bloodiest war in
|
|
history, the most ardent desire of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, was to be launched?
|
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That <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>, besides its designs in Southern <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent> and its bestiality
|
|
in <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, was to help by destroying <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> and threatening to
|
|
intercept <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n supplies? Believe that if you can. the Vatican
|
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organ tells us that at the close of their cordial interview, the
|
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> presented <ent type='PERSON'>Matsuoka</ent> with a gold medal; and <ent type='PERSON'>Matsuoka</ent> declared in
|
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the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> press that his talk with the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> was "the prettiest
|
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moment in my life."</p>
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