Golden Age, November 20, 1935

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AN OPEN LETTER

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ON FLAG SALUTING

DESTRUCTION OF

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

WARNING

ROMAN CATHOLIC FASCISM

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Vol. XVII - No. 422

November 20, 1935 CONTENTS

LABOR AND ECONOMICS

Increase in Public Debt 118

Inhuman Speeding Up of Workers 122

Insanity to Join a Labor Union (?) 122

PWA Swindles in Philadelphia 122

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

OPEN LETTER TO ASSOCIATED PRESS 99

FURTHER EXPRESSIONS ON SALUTING 101

Good People Tired 102

American Legion Tricked into Flag Insult? 103

A Non-Hitlerized Teacher 103

A Tyrannical, Anti-American Law 104

WARNING (Part 2) 113

"Kingdom Blessings for the People" 114

How He Saved His Job 114

Rotogravures of Mexico 117

Kernel of the Mexican Situation 117

"Blessed Are the Peacemakers" 118

Publishers Throw Bricks at NRA 119

MANUFACTURING AND MINING

Westchester Lighting Company 120

Associated Gas & Electric Company 120

Why Jacksonville Is Happy 120

Mayor Bangs of Huntington 120

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

More Trade! More Trade! 116

Sikorsky Planes to Europe 121

Aviation in U. S. and Europe 121

Growth of Newark Airport 121

Glider Sails 300 Miles 121

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

DESTRUCTION OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT 105

"WHAT IS FASCISM?" 105

Freedom of Thought in Peril 115

Convincing Argument Against War 118

The Assassinated Senator 118

Fascism in Estonia and Latvia 119

Church and State in Illinois 124

Ratti, Farley and Roosevelt 124

Coughlin Spills the Beans 124

Tenets of Roman Catholic Fascism 126

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

The Deadly British "Z" Ray 116

Earthquakes Quite Predictable 123

Earth the Most Brilliant Planet 123

Lunar Rainbow in Oklahoma 123

HOME AND HEALTH

Something for Howe to Think About 115

Opium Danger to White Children 115

An Inquiry on Cost of Living 115

Victim of Vaccination Assault 115

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

Fire-Walking in Britain 116

"The Isle of Capri" 125

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Williams and Quintanilla 117

Allied with Forces of Ignorance 117

Holler About Holding Companies 119

"I Kissed God" 124

Roman Cult in Accord with Mussolini 127

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The Golden Age

Volume XVII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, November 20, 1935 Number 422

An Open Letter to The Associated Press

Judge Rutherford points out the disadvantages of an organization claiming to tell the truth, and studiously neglecting to do so

October 24, 1935.

Mr. Lloyd Stratton,

Executive Assistant,

Associated Press,

383 Madison Ave.,

New York City.

Dear Sir:

Mr. A. R. Goux has called my attention to correspondence between himself, the New York Times, and your office. I have before me the letter of the New York Times, signed by Mr. Edwin L. James, addressed to Mr. Goux, bearing date of October 23, in which he quotes the following from Mr. Lloyd Stratton: "I am glad to reply to yours of October 21, by repeating that Judge Rutherford's speech was not made at the request of The Associated Press."

Your effort to evade the facts is manifest. By using the word "speech" you hope to be within the clear in denying that you requested me to express my views on flag saluting. By referring to my copy, which I furnished you and which I broadcast, you will see that I said this: "The Associated Press has requested me to express my view of the matter." You certainly would not attempt to deny the absolute truth of that statement.

Your office called my attention for the first time to the fact of the controversy at Lynn, Massachusetts, about the flag saluting. You requested me to furnish you a statement, asking me to dictate it over the telephone. This I declined to do. I then agreed to furnish you a written signed statement and you promised to have your reporter in my office the following morning at ten o'clock for the copy. You failed to keep that appointment. About seven o'clock that same evening you called my office and asked me again for the copy and again promised to send your reporter. And this you failed to do.

As I was going away I sent the copy to the editor of The Golden Age and informed your office that your reporter could obtain a copy from him upon the condition that you would publish it exactly as made. I am informed that you received the copy the next morning but stated that you could not agree to publish it all as made and therefore the copy was returned to Mr. Woodworth of The Golden Age.

A short time after that you called me by telephone at the radio station on Staten Island. I then informed you that I was going to broadcast my statement concerning flag saluting, that this broadcast would be Sunday morning October 6, at ten o'clock, and that then you could have the statement as made. You inquired: "What stations will it be on?" My reply to that, this information would be furnished to you in ample time.

The next day, Friday, October 4, a messenger from the office of the Peoples Pulpit Association delivered to the executive offices of The Associated Press a list of the stations over which the broadcast would be made. I am also advised that the Golden Age editor sent a list to one of your news editors showing over what stations the broadcast would be put, and this was in response to request that Mr. Woodworth had received from your Brooklyn representative, E. A. Lozier.

On Sunday morning, October 6, about 8 o'clock you called my office and asked when you were going to get the copy of that speech. You were told by my secretary that it would be broadcast at 10 o'clock and you could have it immediately thereafter. You sent your messenger to 124 Columbia Heights between 10 and 11 o'clock on that same day and received a full text of the speech, which copy you afterwards mutilated to suit your own wishes, misrepresenting me in fact, and making me appear to say what I did not say.

The above and foregoing facts you will not attempt to deny if you have any regard whatsoever for the truth. In view of these facts [and] your statement in the letter addressed to Mr. Edwin L. James of the New York Times it is patent on the face of it that you are trying to pass the buck and deny that you requested me to express my views and to deny that you had anything to do with my furnishing the copy. I have never said that I made the speech at your request, but I have said and repeat that The Associated Press requested me to express my view in the matter and I took occasion to broadcast because I knew by reason of my past experience with the press that The Associated Press would not publish the statement as I gave it.

It would have been just as easy for you to tell Mr. James of the Times the truth as it would have been to make the statement as you have made it. It seems to be in keeping with the practice of your office to garble the truth when the truth would serve to a better purpose.

Let me remind you again that I told your office over the telephone that I was not asking anybody to publish my views, to which you agreed. I said, however, that since my views were asked I have no hesitancy in expressing them.

I think the Press, and a lot of other would-be loyal citizens of America, have made a mountain out of a mole-hill by magnifying the fact that an eight-year-old boy declined to salute the American flag. I have been interrupted by your office numerous times about this matter and I am very tired of it, and in view of your repeated calls and interruptions and failure to carry out what you agreed to do, I am sending a copy of this letter to the president of The Associated Press at Washington, Mr. Frank Noyes.

It is a great pity that an institution such as yours claims to be would not be willing to tell the truth once in a while rather than willfully and deliberately misrepresent that which is furnished to you, and that at your request.

You knew that I stated positively in my statement that I am not a member of any cult, and that Jehovah's witnesses are not a cult, and yet you deliberately inserted in your report three times the word "cult", as applied to me, and quoted Jehovah's witnesses to make it appear as ridiculous as you could.

I am writing you at such length because I am trying to find some language to express my absolute contempt for a bunch of hypocritical men who claim to tell the truth, and who delight to resort to lies to shield another crowd of men who are foreigners to America and who are inimical to American institutions and who make a lot of fuss about the flag in order to hide their crooked ways.

Let me say this once for all: I am not asking publicity by the press association, and if you don't want my views published as I give them, then please don't ask for them.

You might show a copy of this letter to Mr. Edwin James of the Times, that he may know that you have little or no regard for the truth and that you like to mislead even your fellow members of the press.

Your association poses before the American people as the friend of America and the publisher of all news that is fit to publish, and yet you studiously avoid publishing any statement such as that made on the floor of the United States Senate by such men as Senator Schall, of Minnesota, calling attention to a combined foreign element that is trying to seize control of the American Government. You can spend a lot of time and energy in holding up to ridicule an eight-year-old boy and inoffensive people and make a great hullabaloo about the flag, and yet you sit idly by and close your ears and mouth and remain silent when it comes to saying anything about a foreign power or a combination of foreigners that are attempting to gain control of America and Hitlerize it. The time must come surely when the duplicity of the public press will be properly exposed before the American people.

I quote from Senator Schall's speech made in the Senate these words: "Fully 99 percent of all the statements issued by these Government press agencies are falsehoods. They are designed to deceive the people and make them believe their government is trying to help them, when just the opposite is the purpose of this maladministration of our affairs. Every day a dozen or more of these untrue statements are handed to the press and radio, printed, and broadcast as truth. Not even under the Soviet rule in Russia are so many barefaced untruths given out as Government facts. Our government has resolved itself into a propaganda bureau for disseminating falsehoods to its citizens."

The Associated Press is a part of this propaganda crowd, and the American people are beginning to learn that it does the bidding of a gang of selfish men who have no regard for the true principles of the American Government. If your association were 100-percent as patriotic as you claim to be you would be looking after American interests and not howling about an eight-year-old boy failing to salute the flag. It is about time that you are hiding your face with shame, if it is possible for you to have any shame. The time was when American newspapers sought to get the truth to the people. A few such editors are left, but there do not appear to be many of them amongst the Associated Press organization. This is a deplorable condition to be found in a country that for centuries has posed as the land of freedom.

When I see such a studied effort to dodge the truth as the quotation in your letter mentioned here in the outset I am reminded of the words of Jesus when He spoke to the hypocritical Pharisees, the clergy of His day. He used these words: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." (John 8:44) Jesus spoke with absolute authority, and He is authority therefore for the statement that the Devil is the father of liars and those who delight to lie show that they proceed from the Devil.

Respectfully,

J. F. Rutherford

cc

Mr. Frank Noyes,

Washington, D.C.

Mr. A. R. Goux,

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Further Expressions on Flag Saluting

Christians and the Flag

THE following is an interesting and instructive letter by Reverend Louis L. Perkins, St. Paul's Episcopal church, Kittanning, Pa., in the Kittanning Leader-Times, October 21, 1935:

Recently at a public school in Lynn, Massachusetts, a certain boy of 10 was dismissed from school and his parents were arrested because the boy refused on grounds of religious scruples to salute the flag of the United States according to a new State law of daily salute in all schools for all children of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The man of the street may laugh at such squabbles, and pour out still further contempt on the name of the Christian religion. But no serious-minded Christian can let such an incident go unchallenged. For such an incident bears on a very fundamental issue that has been more or less dormant between church and state ever since the Christian religion came into this world, 1900 years ago. The boy refused to salute the flag because he said to salute the flag was a pagan act and inconsistent with the earnest loyalty of a Christian man to Jesus Christ as our real Lord and Master. The flag stood for the country of the United States, and a salute to the flag was a pledge of allegiance inconsistent with a Christian's supreme pledge of loyalty to Christ—the parents said in backing up the action of their son.

Such an attitude is not a ridiculous one. For, think back over history for a few minutes to the days of the persecutions of the early Christians by the authorities of the Roman Empire. In those days the Roman authorities demanded a pledge of allegiance to the emperor as the supreme symbol of the state. This pledge, given by the sprinkling of some incense on a fire of coals before a statue of the emperor, was demanded of everybody. But the early Christians refused to do so. They said that a pledge to Caesar was inconsistent with and disloyal to their new-found allegiance to the Lord Christ. And these early Christians stuck to their principle in this matter through fire and death, till eventually under the emperor Constantine the status of the Christian religion as over against the state was duly recognized. The Christians won out and their point of view prevailed—the State granted to them a point of supreme loyalty to Christ first. The idea of the supremacy of the State over the Christian religion was defeated.

Down through the ages that principle between State and church, once established under the emperor Constantine, has come through a long and varied history. Sometimes there has been a tendency to reversion to the supremacy of the State over the church—as under Henry VIII in England in the sixteenth century, or as under Bismarck in Germany in the nineteenth century. And sometimes the tendency has swung the other way (which is wrong too), for the church to completely ignore man's ordinary civil obligations to the country in which he may live. But, generally speaking, a just balance has been maintained, with the general assumption in mind that when it comes to a showdown the claims of God in the church really come first over the passing claims of man in the State.

But today and since the World War the swing has been back again toward the situation in early Roman days. Modern States have tended to ignore and submerge man's supreme allegiance to God. Where Fascism and Communism have raised their heads in Russia and Italy and Germany and other countries the idea of the worship of the State to the banishment of the claims of the church has arisen. Since the war in many countries Caesar has tried to take all power to himself and to utterly ignore the things of God!

In this turn of affairs our own country has not been immune. This school-salute-to-the-flag law in Massachusetts along with other extremist measures in the past few years are signs of the spread of the idea of the "totalitarian State" (just another word for our rendering unto Caesar everything, and to God only what is left over) to these United States of America. The protest therefore—ridiculous though it may seem—of that little boy and his parents in Lynn, Massachusetts, is to be sympathized with by all good Christian men and women who believe that our allegiance to God comes first in this life. And this protest ought to be sympathized with by all good Americans (whether Christians or not) who believe that our land is a country of freedom of conscience and liberal democracy for every citizen, and not a land of dictatorship and regimentation of anyone.

Shame on Massachusetts, the cradle of democracy, and the place where Pilgrims first came in 1620 for the sake of freedom of religion under oppression of the State—shame on Massachusetts for such an un-Christian and un-American incident!

Good People Tired

FOR many years the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has been stealthily moving to the point where it could seize the American government and rule it by a dictator under the secret control of the Jesuits. Italy, Austria and Germany are now ruled in this manner, and the Hierarchy has its ambassadors in almost all countries. The following news item from Rome published in the New York Sun and other papers will bear reproducing for the benefit of honest American people.

"Rome, March 8.—A definite agreement has been reached by President Roosevelt and the Vatican that diplomatic relations shall be established between the United States and the Holy See as soon as public opinion in America can be brought around to the idea, it was learned here today."

America has long stood for freedom, and its good and loyal people are tired of chicanery and double-dealing on behalf of its public officials, all of which tends to destroy their liberties. They are likewise tired of the new deal, which many of them designate the "raw deal". The following poem reproduced from The Northwestern Miller well expresses the matter:

TIRED

I'm tired, oh, so tired, of the whole New Deal,

Of the juggler's smile and the barker's spiel,

Of the mushy speech and the loud bassoon.

Tiredest of all of our leader's croon.

I'm tired of the tax on my ham and eggs;

I'm tired paying toll to political yeggs;

Tired of Jim Farley's stamps on my mail;

Tired of my shirt with the tax-shortened tail.

I'm tired of farmers goose-stepping to laws,

Of millions of itching job-holders' paws,

Of fireside talks on commandeered mikes,

Of passing more laws to stimulate strikes.

I'm tired of the daily increasing debt;

I'm tired of promises not to be met,

Of eating and sleeping by government plan;

I'm tired of forgetting the forgotten man.

I'm tired of every new brain trust thought,

Of the ship of state turned into a yacht;

I'm tired of beating the courts by stealth,

And terribly tired of sharing the wealth.

I'm tired of seeing Eleanor on page one,

Of each royal in-law and favorite son;

I'm tired of Sistie and Buzzie Dall;

Nobody knows how I'm tired of it all.

I'm tired and bored with the whole New Deal,

With its juggler's smile and its barker's spiel;

Oh, Lord, out of all the available men,

Please grant us a Cleveland or Coolidge again.

Time to Learn Something

"IT IS time for the Lynn school trustees to see a few things in proper perspective. It is not necessary for children of eight years to salute the flag. They should not be forced to do so, nor denied educational advantages for refusal—not in these United States. In Italy, Germany or Russia salutes may be important. Over here we are not regimented to that extent. Not yet. The obstinate children are placed in an impossible position by the school board demands. They are obliged to choose between the commands of their parents and the demands of the school. They are entitled to better treatment all around. They are entitled, among other things, for a chance to love the Stars and Stripes of their own free will and accord. They should not be encouraged to believe that the flag symbolizes force and fear. What if they finally yield and give the salute in order to escape punishment? Can such a gesture mean anything? Reverence for the flag is not taught by such methods."—Ann Arbor (Mich.) Daily News.

American Legion Tricked into Flag Insult?

THE youth drafted in 1917 or 1918 and sent to South Carolina or to France to peel potatoes was not necessarily a better American than a man too old to be drafted. If memory serves aright, only one Legionnaire in seven ever got as far as the trenches. To be thought of as specially patriotic suits many people because of what they gain in the way of a little "honor". The Roman Catholic Hierarchy caters to this vanity and had the use of the American Legion definitely in mind when it caused the selection of J. Ray Murphy, a Catholic, of Ida Grove, Iowa, as the Legion's national commander, and the "Reverend Father" Thomas D. Kennedy, also a Catholic, as national chaplain. In opposition to the American rule and the American custom that the government is the appointed servant and not the boss of the people, the Hierarchy is now engaged in a nationwide campaign to jam a form of Hitlerism down the necks of all Americans. In this campaign to subvert all that the American flag stands for the Hierarchy is trying to use, and is to some extent using, the American Legion. It so used the Legionnaires at Secaucus, N. J., in causing the expulsion from school of two little girls, Alma and Vivian Hering, ages eleven and six, because they preferred to let the flag occupy its proper place (which it occupied for more than 150 years without Roman Catholic assistance or intervention). How can the American Legion claim to be a patriotic organization and justify its participation in a shameless attempt to deprive two little girls of an education because they put God above the flag? Obviously these men have no proper appreciation of what the flag is supposed to represent. At the expulsion of the children from the Secaucus school, official representatives of the Legion threatened violence to those who honestly tried to intervene to safeguard American ideals of liberty and justice. It is perfectly transparent that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy intends to try to use the American Legion in the same way the Storm Troopers were used in Germany. And after the Hierarchy has accomplished its objective not a Legionnaire's head will be safe on his shoulders unless he is a Romanist. The record of the American Legion at its conventions is not such as to reassure Americans who did not peel potatoes in South Carolina or in France that their interests are secure in the Legion's hands. Why should the Legion allow itself to be tricked into denial of American principles and line up with the gang that is working to destroy everything the American flag has represented to Americans for a century and a half? Is it eleven- and six-year-old God-fearing children that the American people need to fear, or the centuries-old sanctimonious frauds who have an unbroken record of torturing and murdering the brave and honest and Christlike in every land where they could gain power? With so much chicanery afoot, one wonders whether it is not a settled policy of the Ratti-Roosevelt administration to give the Legion its bonus a year from now, in good time to throw the whole weight of this extra-governmental organization to aid the purpose of the Roman Hierarchy to henceforth run America with a high hand, for the "pope", and to make Hitlerism or Fascism the order of the day. If this is not an insult to the American flag and all it stands for, what is?

A Non-Hitlerized Teacher

PHILIP A. JAKOB, superintendent of schools, Norwalk, Connecticut, confronted with the refusal of four school children to salute the flag, instead of expelling them from school, as was done by the muttonheads at Lynn, and instead of pounding them black and blue, as was done by the beast at Nemacolin, Pa., said sanely, "The Constitution of the United States is based upon freedom of religious worship. The youth, a fine student, is simply carrying out his religious convictions, to which we cannot object." This, the true American spirit, is the exact opposite of the spirit which animates those that, like Pashby of Lynn, were "educated" under Roman teachers.

Now in Massachusetts Supreme Court

THROUGH his father, Carleton B. Nichols, Sr., the Massachusetts Supreme Court has been petitioned for a writ of mandamus to compel Mayor J. Fred Manning, Lynn, and "each and every misguided member" of the Lynn school committee to reinstate the eight-year-old lad that these "wise" custodians of educational facilities undertook to deprive of an education. Before they get through with it the Jesuits are going to find that there are still some Americans in America and that not all of them have a ring in their nose or a bell under their coattail.

“A Tyrannical, Outrageous, Anti-American Law”

SAYS Gerald W. Johnson, in the Baltimore Evening Sun:

“In Massachusetts an eight-year-old boy has been expelled from school for refusing to obey a tyrannical, outrageous, anti-American law which compels school children to salute the flag at stated intervals. His father has brought suit to compel his reinstatement. Here is one whoop for the boy and his father. May they be successful in wiping this treasonable and disgraceful statute from the books. Treasonable? Of course it is. Not in the legal sense, to be sure, because ‘treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies’. And ‘enemies’ in this case means armed enemies. But morally this statute gives aid and comfort to everyone who hates the United States and all it stands for. Morally it gives aid and comfort to all the enemies of the republic. For the basic idea on which the republic is founded is the idea that the people are the creators and the government is their creature. They have the right to alter or abolish it whenever in their judgment it seems to be interfering with their lives, their liberties or their pursuit of happiness. Under no circumstances are they obligated to bow down to it or to regard it as a superior being. Therefore, its flag, if it stands for anything, stands for the dignity of free men, stands for the right of the individual to live his own life in his own way. The flag has no other excuse for existence, and anything that negatives that excuse reduces the flag to nothing but a piece of cloth. In brief, anything that sets the flag above the citizen, so far from being an honor to it, implicitly accuses the flag of being a fraud and a cheat, and is therefore the deadliest insult that can be heaped upon it. . . .”

“Nuts”

ACCORDING to some authorities the flag pledge is objectionable because not properly worded; it should be said as follows:

“Hail, flag, full of grace; the Lord be with thee. Blessed art thou, and blessed is the republic for which thou standest. Glory be to America and to Roosevelt and to Farley, graft without end. So be it.”

Further, this pledge should not be repeated just once a week. That is an insult to the flag. It should be repeated by school children and teachers (and politicians) before each lesson hour three times, and fifty times at the conclusion of the school work for the day.

In order to assist in these devotions, each devotee should be supplied with a beanery. A beanery is composed of fifty small beans, while between every five beans there is strung a nut, (some call it a nuttery, or “nutty” for short.) On each bean the flag oath should be repeated; and when a nut is reached the devotee should say fervently, “To hell with the pope.” At one end of the beanery should be suspended a swastika, which should be kissed when the beanery has been properly “said” from beginning to end.

For those who like variety, the nuts may be accompanied with “Hail Coughlin”.

Alden Davis, M.D.

ALDEN DAVIS, M.D., First National Bank Building, Charleroi, Pa., amuses one with his spelling of “ostracized”, “assured,” and “impudence”, in the following letter to an intelligent young woman, 25 years of age, who did not see fit to salute the flag. Mr. Davis should read up on these words “assurance” and “impudence”; for a doctor may have both and not know how to spell either one. Anyway, here is what he said: “Dear Miss Estep: I have just read your lame excuse for action in school. If I were your father I would take you over my knee and give you a good spanking, until you were willing to apologize. You are a cheap advertiser, a fanatic more dangerous than a radical or a red. If I were on a commission to examine you I would send you to Dixmont, where you could tell your religion to people of your own mentality. You are not a good American citizen and should be ostracised by society for being a fanatic. Shame on you for creating such a disturbance in our public schools. Perhaps you should be pitied, but rest ashured the school board will take care of your imputence, and then see what your God will do for you.” The doctor’s concluding statement puts the finger on the real point at issue, and shows exactly where he stands—with the Devil.

Very Enthusiastic About the Flag

VERY enthusiastic about the flag are the following concerns in New York city: American Flag Co., 73 Mercer street; American Flag Barber Shop, 1489 First avenue; and American Flag Hand Laundry, 3343 Broadway and 400 East 66th street; but a little reflection will show that they are not, for this, either better or worse Americans than their neighbors. Flag washing, flag waving, flag making and flag saluting mean nothing in themselves.

Destruction of American Government

THE destruction of the American Government by Roman Catholic Fascism or Jesuitism has proceeded far under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The Jesuit offices, where plans for taking over the government of the United States are worked out in detail, are located at Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, New York. In the Roman line-up the departments are called orders, companies, societies, sons, servants, fathers, congregations, institutes. In the American government line-up the departments go by the names of boards, corporations, administrations, commissions, councils, authorities, committees, banks, divisions, co-operatives, foundations, advisers, projects, agreements, corps, works, co-ordinators, offices and acts.

It is difficult to popularize a tyranny, and, as everybody knows, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is the most perfect example of tyranny the world has known.

The job of the Jesuits is to make it seem desirable, even necessary, that the government of the United States, as of all other lands, should be turned over to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.

ROMAN GOVERNMENT LINE-UP

This issue of The Golden Age goes to many thousands of new and thoughtful readers. Older readers, in the interest of these newer ones, will indulge an omission of some regular features from this number, to permit reprinting, in small type, the article on “What Is Fascism?” which appeared in Numbers 417-419 inclusive.

The writer of the article, a university man of high standing, conceals his identity under a nom de plume, David Wilkie. The article takes down the screens and lets the honest reader see just how the Jesuits are planning world control by Fascism, and how they are succeeding.

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT LINE-UP

“What Is Fascism?” By David Wilkie, Great Britain.

THE Church of Rome is definitely not a “religious” body such as, for example, the Baptists, the Congregational church, the Unitarian church, or the Salvation Army. It is a religio-political organization, as much political as religious. The pope regards religious belief merely as a means to the realization of world dominion, an “empire” ruled over by the Roman Society of Priests, of which he is the head. Of course, he is bound to pretend to his followers that he is acting only as their spiritual chief.

The Jesuits have captured the Church of Rome; the pope, indeed, is their nominee. The Jesuit Order is the “political priesthood” (per se) of the Church of Rome. Both the general of the Jesuits and the pope are capitalists, or rather financiers, of world-wide influence. It is the Jesuits who are the real managers, the organizers, and the financiers of Fascism throughout the world. They work behind the scenes, of course, using other people as their tools (and many as their dupes) as they have always done.

AN ALL-TIME POLITICAL MACHINE

Think over this carefully. According to official Roman Catholic figures there are, roughly, 400 Jesuit priests in Great Britain and about 2,880 in the United States. Has any political party in the country a larger staff of full-time organizers than this? These Jesuits know the innermost secrets of almost every Foreign Office in Europe. Has any party in the country a better intelligence service? In this country, too, they have their agents and spies, i.e., Roman Catholics, in the press, the police, the army, the civil service, in society, and in all political parties. They have tremendous funds at their command. What’s to stop the Jesuits from capturing political power in any country? They have the machine; all they need is a political “story” and a “party”. Fascism supplies both the story and the party. Its “creed” (promptly cast overboard by every Fascist leader the moment he comes to power) is simply a sales talk to put Fascism across a gullible public in order to establish, in the end, a Jesuit dictatorship. Every Fascist is merely a tool and a dupe of the Jesuits. The rank and file do not know this, but their leaders (who are “in the know”) do.

Socialists have made the mistake of reasoning that a movement, in this case Fascism, which stands for “private ownership”, must, necessarily, be “capitalist”. Socialists have missed this fact: that “private ownership” existed before “capitalism” was heard of.

The Church of Rome’s ideas about property are not the same as “Capitalism’s”. Fascism wouldn’t be Roman Catholic if it were capitalist.

FASCISM AN INSTRUMENT OF ROME

Fascism is NOT an instrument of capitalism; it is an instrument of Rome. Its aim is not to “reinstate” capitalism, but to take advantage of the political and economic situation in its entirety to re-establish the political supremacy of the Vatican. This, to use Cardinal Bellarmine’s words—the “pontifical supremacy”, temporal as well as spiritual, remember—is the “fundamental article” of the Roman Catholic religion. The aim of Fascism is to establish, by force, the Romish rule, and to continue it by force, with book-burnings, suppression of the press and of freedom of speech, and with the torture and terrorist methods of the Inquisition up to date.

In the course of its history the Jesuit Order has been expelled from the following countries and places (by Roman Catholics as well as Protestants), not for religious reasons, but on political grounds: [see page 106]

It is worth recording that when Pope Clement suppressed the Jesuits on August 21, 1773 (they were “re-established” by Pius VII, in 1814), part of his words were: “We have remarked to our deep regret that our admonitions to them (the Jesuits) to serve God and not to mix themselves up with other matters, especially secular and political, and many other practical measures, have been almost powerless and of no effect...."

LET THE SCOFFERS SCOFF

If I regard the Jesuit Order as a menace (as I most certainly do), I can support my attitude, as the table [below] shows, by saying that this has been the experience of generations of governments and statesmen in every country in Europe. Let the scoffers scoff that off.

Take away from the Communist party the Catholic-born element in Glasgow, Dundee, Newcastle, Liverpool, Bristol, and Cardiff, and it is a well-known fact that the Communist party in Britain would cease to exist. Take away the Scoto-Irish element in Scotland, and the Anglo-Irish element in England, in London and Liverpool particularly, and there would be no "Communist Party of Great Britain". Every member of the House of Commons knows that the Catholic population of Britain is the spawning-ground for the Communist party.

The truth about Communism and Fascism is that there is ample evidence to show that the Roman Catholic church has been, and is, the spawning-ground of both of them. (This is exactly what was "arranged" in Germany: the Roman Catholic Rhineland was the hotbed of "Communism", and Roman Catholic Bavaria the homing-ground of "Nazism".) The Communist party in Britain, and in most countries, is one half captured by the Jesuits, and the fake, promoted, systematic conflict of these two anti-democratic forces, "Communism" and "Fascism", is a conspiracy to lead the public to accept "Fascism" as the alternative to "Communism".

¹By the inhabitants. ²For ever. ³By the people ⁴From all private and public schools in Belgium. ⁵Namely, Aix, Billon, Dole, Forculquier, Mont-Morillon, St. Acheul, and St. Ann. ⁶Prohibited from entering. ⁷By the inhabitants. ⁸For ever. ⁹Expelled from all their establishments.

TAMMANY IS A SAMPLE

Any man who ignores the existence of the Jesuit order is unfit to govern. They are the Grand Masters of Devilry behind Tammany Hall (the U.S.A. Roman Catholic graft institution called after "St. Tammany"); the Zinoviev Letter; the murders of President Duca of Rumania, Barthou, King Alexander of Yugoslavia, President Obregon of Mexico, Sir Henry Wilson; the "Holy Vehme"; Eugene Chen (really a Mr. Bernard Achem, a R.C. from Trinidad); the Moplah risings in India; Ivar Kreuger; the Zimmermann Note; Senor Gil Robles; Skoropadsky's Ukrainian "Nationalist" movement; the "Protocols of Zion"; the German-Irish Society; Adolf Hitler; etc., etc., etc. The climax of their machinations during the last 100 years is, they have virtually recreated the "Holy Roman (Catholic) Empire" in the heart of Europe—Fascist Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Hungary. And these countries, as "swords of the Vatican", are about to plunge Europe into war, to spread the power of the Jesuits over the rest of Europe by military force.

FASCISM IN AUSTRIA

To get the exemplar of the Vienna massacre one has to turn to the history of the Albigensians in France, or the massacre of the Huguenots, begun on St. Bartholomew's Day:

"The growing influence of Admiral de Coligny filled Catherine de Medici with terror. An attempt to have him assassinated miscarried, so she ordered, purely as a 'measure of public safety', the murder of all Protestant leaders in Paris. The provinces adopted the measure, and between August 24 and October 3 fifty thousand Protestants were put to death. For that Catherine received the congratulations of all the Roman Catholic States, and the pope celebrated the occasion by having a special medal struck and bonfires lighted."

The late Dr. Dollfuss, dictator of Austria and a "zealous" Roman Catholic, was leader of the Austrian "Christian Socialists (i.e., Roman Catholic) Party". His successor, Dr. Schusnigg, is the leader of the Austrian "Clerical Volunteers"; he is another very "zealous" Roman Catholic.

The massacre in Vienna was St. Bartholomew's Day over again, with Austrian Social Democrats taking the place of French Huguenots.

On one side were ranged the Social Democrats; and on the other, as Fascists in the army and in the Dollfuss front, the "Holy Roman Catholics", the minions of the pope. The result was the holocaust of St. Bartholomew's Day over again: "Rationalism" instead of "Protestantism"; the slaughter of men, women, and children; cruel and ruthless—worthy of the superstition-sotted, confession-poisoned, priest-drenched dupes of the Haroun of Rome.

THE DOLLFUSS MASSACRE

"The papal nuncio in Vienna and the Catholic bishops Gfollner and Waitz were pushing the Government (i.e., the Dollfuss régime) forward along the path of Fascism. Here was the right opportunity, they thought... to transform Austria into a Catholic authoritarian State," says Otto Bauer, the Austrian workers' leader, in his pamphlet Austrian Democracy Under Fire, page 22. It was, in fact, the bishop of Linz and Mgr. Sibylla, the papal nuncio, who urged Dollfuss to begin the massacre, said Otto Bauer (see Sunday Times February 18, 1934). The Roman Catholic "statesmen" in the pre-Dollfuss Government, Vaugoin, Bishop Seipel and Prince Starhemberg, paved the way for Dollfuss' "iron rule", just as the succession of Roman Catholic chancellors in Germany, Wirth, Marx, Bruening, and Papen, prepared the way for Hitler.

The Universe, Roman Catholic paper, April 6, stated: "The new Constitution (of Austria) now to be promulgated is based upon the conception of a Catholic Corporative State." The first article of the old Constitution laid it down that "Her laws originate from Almighty God". In plain English, Austria's laws will henceforth originate in the will of the pope, who is "God Almighty's" interpreter.

Everything Austrian in the future is to be worked in the interests of one man, Ambrose Ratti, a foreigner and a tyrant. That's what the Fascist "patriots" have done for Austria!

As is to be expected, therefore, it was reported in the Austrian Reichpost, March 23, 1934, that Bishop Innizer had been made "leader" of the Youth Movement in Austria. And the Vienna correspondent of the New Statesman and Nation stated, July 14: "Workers' rights survive on paper, or rather as Catholic workers' rights in the Einheitgewerkschaftsbund," i.e., Unity Association League.

Then came the murder of Dollfuss. And after Dollfuss, Dr. Schusnigg was appointed chancellor. Schusnigg is the leader of the "Ostmarkische Sturmscharen", the Clerical Volunteers! And Schusnigg has as his deputy Prince Starhemberg, another papist, who marched alongside Hitler at the time of Hitler's 1923 Munich 'putsch'. Starhemberg is also the "friend" of Mussolini. Observe this chain of pals: Hitler, Starhemberg, Mussolini.

Who rules in Austria? The capitalists? Bunkum. The capitalists, like the workers, have the thumb on them. Austria's laws "originate" from "Almighty God". "Almighty God" rules in Austria: "His Excellency," "His Eminence," the pope. As a London Daily Telegraph correspondent reported, Austria is now an "Autocratic Roman Catholic State".

FASCISM IN SPAIN

There are two Fascist parties in Spain. One is led by Gil Robles, and the other by Primo de Rivera, eldest son of the late monarchist-dictator of Spain.

There was a pen portrait of Gil Robles in an article in the Daily Herald (Britain) May 17, 1934, by Don Fernando de los Rios, late Spanish minister of education and foreign affairs:

"In the first speech of his electoral campaign last year, he (Gil Robles) spoke of the necessity of purging Spain of Jewish sympathizers and freemasons. At a recent mass meeting of his supporters at the Escorial, where they took an oath of allegiance, they had to repeat, hands lifted in the air, that 'the leader can do no wrong.' Just a political version, you see, of the "Papal Infallibility" doctrine—"The pope can make no mistake."

In Spain the attachment of the Roman Catholic church to Fascism is open and unconcealed. It was reported in the Spanish press, April 1, 1934, that three Roman Catholic priests had been arrested for taking part at a Fascist meeting at Oviedo.

The Spanish Fascist movement is frankly one of "Catholic reaction" (to use Mr. Vernon Bartlett's expression, News Chronicle, March 13, 1934) against the recent Spanish reforms, which drove out the Jesuits, prohibited priests from interfering in politics, and gave Spain a democratic constitution.

The other Fascist party in Spain, led by Primo de Rivera, calls itself "Falange Espanola". That there is no breach between "Nazism" and "Fascism" is illustrated by the following from the Madrid correspondent of The Times:

"J.O.N.S., an incipient Nazi organization, has recently concluded an alliance with the Fascist group, Falange Española, whose leading spirit is the young Marqués Primo de Rivera."

Incidentally, Primo de Rivera's younger brother visited Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist headquarters at Chelsea, London, some time ago.

The following is a report from the News Chronicle of June 4, 1934. The headlines, crossheads, and bold type appeared in the report:

FRUSTRATED BY PHONE ERROR

SECRET PLAN REVEALED

Nuncio Who Got Wrong Number

From our own Correspondent

MADRID, Sunday.

A telephone comedy of errors that has resulted in a diplomatic upheaval between Spain and the Vatican has just been revealed.

A few days ago, shortly before the Spanish foreign minister, Señor Pita Romero, was due to leave for Rome to negotiate the concordat with the pope, Monsignor Tedeschini, the papal nuncio in Madrid, rang up a secretary at the Vatican in order to instruct him secretly on how to deal with Spain's foreign minister when he arrived.

By a curious coincidence the name of the Spanish attaché at the Rome embassy is almost identical with that of the secretary at the Vatican whom the nuncio was ringing up, and by an error at the Rome telephone exchange the papal nuncio at Madrid was connected with the attaché at the Spanish embassy.

ASTONISHED DIPLOMAT

All unaware that he was talking to the wrong man, the papal nuncio gave the Spanish attaché confidential instruction to extend to the Spanish foreign minister every hope of the early signature of the concordat, but to delay the actual signature.

The reason, he confidently explained to the astonished attaché, was that he felt sure that Señor Gil Robles, the Spanish Fascist and Catholic leader, would soon be in office and then the concordat could be arranged on terms more favorable to the [Roman] church.

The attaché hung up the receiver without revealing his identity and immediately rang up the Madrid foreign office and gave word for word the secret instructions he had just involuntarily received.

NUNCIO CONFRONTED

The acting foreign minister, Señor Rocha, then called on the nuncio, who blandly expressed his confidence that the concordat would soon be signed. Señor Rocha cut him short by showing him the full text of the secret instructions that the nuncio had just phoned to Rome.

Despite his great diplomatic experience it was some time before Monsignor Tedeschini found his breath.

He finally explained that he had acted under Señor Gil Robles' formal promise that he would soon be in power.

This diplomatic comedy is much commented upon here and the Labor papers are demanding the withdrawal of the Spanish envoy in view of the Vatican's duplicity.

This exposes the trickery the "Holy" Roman church is capable of; and it shows, too, quite unmistakably, what Fascism is in Spain.

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As a special correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor reported, July 24, 1934: "That Spain's problem is now definitely Vatican versus Labor is a conviction that is rapidly growing."

The rising in Asturias in October of last year was a fight between reformers and Jesuits for Oviedo city, the center of the Spanish armament industry. The Reformers were beaten, owing to the introduction against them of levies of Moors, and the treachery of certain Catalonian leaders. Since the Asturian rising the Spanish Fascists and the Roman Catholic-owned press have been loudly demanding a wholesale slaughter of the leading spirits of the rising. The Government, however, more wary than the fanatical Fascist-Clericals, has turned a deaf ear to these demands. The vigor of the Asturian defense, many of them miners, by the way, and the knowledge that what the Asturians stood for has many friends in Spain, and in Europe, has prevented the Government from committing further excesses which might inflame the Reformers, and tempt them to another rising which, if it did not succeed—and it might (there are not enough Moorish janissaries to cover the whole of Spain, and even if there were their employment on a national scale would in all probability defeat its object)—would at least do incalculable damage.

HONEST AND OVERZEALOUS REFORMERS

The Reformers made the mistake at the beginning of the revolution of being overzealous in the application of their democratic ideals. Without any apprenticeship in the new ideas, votes were granted to women, and the women, easily swayed in the confessional and still in fear of the priests, voted for the friends of the Clerics and against reform. Characteristically, no sooner did the reactionaries find themselves in legal control than they started to abuse their authority, to use all the forces of the state at their disposal to subdue and crush the opposition by force. It was this that caused the Asturian affair. Fortunately for the Reformers, stalemate has been reached, owing to the fact that they (i.e., the Reformers) have many sympathizers in the army and the police; otherwise there would have been no necessity to use Moors in Asturias. The reactionaries (Fascists) are straining every nerve to raise a dependable private army.

Spain, where the "Holy" Inquisition came into being (the appellation "Holy" reminds one of another "Holy", which has not yet received pontifical blessing, however, the anti-Jew, Nazi "Holy Vehme" in Germany), is, no doubt, a fertile soil for anti-Semitism. Gil Robles' cry of "Down with the Jews!" and the overt Jesuit alliance with Gil Robles definitely identifies the Jesuits in Spain with anti-Semitism. For centuries Roman Catholics have hounded Jews with the cry of "Christ Killers!" When, or where, did a Jew ever prosper in a Roman Catholic country? It was a pope who compelled Jews to wear the so-called "Medal of Infamy"; and the establishment of the Inquisition (established to hunt, burn, and torture Jews in Spain) was sanctioned and confirmed by papal decrees, and the Constitution of the Inquisition was drawn up by a Dominican priest, Dominicans were the "judges" of this awful secret tribunal, and Dominican novitiates in many cases acted as the torturers. (It is significant that, during the reign of the "Bloody Mary" in England, the Dominican house was at Smithfield, where the autos-da-fé were held.) Within living memory Jews were massacred in Limerick, (R.C.) Ireland, on the charge, the timeworn one, of holding a "Black Mass". One cannot conceive of such a thing's happening in Protestant England, or Scotland, or Wales. Indeed a "Black Mass" has no significance or meaning to anybody but a Roman Catholic. And in France, at the time of the Dreyfus affair, it was Papists and Jesuits, as is historically well known, who were ranged openly against Dreyfus. The defeat of the anti-Dreyfusites was followed immediately with legislation against Roman Catholicism—in which Jean Jaures, who was assassinated in 1914, took a leading part.

ANTI-SEMITIC PROPAGANDA

The Fascists in Spain will make the most of anti-Semitism. Whether it will help them any, or much, is a moot point. Anyway, it will take more than ingenuity to prove that there is anything like a "Jewish menace" in Spain, where, until the revolution, the Jesuits were the big landowners and business monopolists. The only "menace" there is in Spain (and it is obvious to anybody who looks for one) is the menace of a corrupt, absolutist "Church", supported by secret orders, who brought Spain to decay and its people to depths of illiteracy—as they reduced Poland, too, to impoverishment and, finally, servitude.*

One more quotation, from an article on Spain by a V. S. Pritchett in The Fortnightly Review, July, 1935, a highly reputable British magazine: "The question is, What will Senor Gil Robles do? Before last October the answer was some kind of Fascism; now it is, Nothing this year. His strength is that he has the rich and powerful backing of the adaptable Jesuits . . . The Jesuits have already bought up many of the best provincial newspapers, and they are determined to redeem Spain from anti-Clericalism, Socialism, and indeed Liberal policy . . . for Spanish clericalism will put the clock back if it gets the chance."

FOR DIRTY WORK, CALL THE JESUITS

And again from a recent observer, a Leah Manning, an ex-M. P. for Islington, London, in her newly published book, What I Saw in Spain, calls Gil Robles' party "a Vatican party", and "a Jesuito-Fascist organization". Yes, in Spain the Jesuito-Fascist alliance is stark and obvious. It is indeed not an "alliance", for Gil Robles is a tool of the Jesuits, not an equal. And the same is true of every other Fascist boss in Europe (and candidate for the job), but in most cases the truth is hidden from public view by the Jesuits, the world's masters in the art of "back stage" politics, as well as the world's champions in the art of "gulling" the masses. To make the people of Italy believe, when it is expedient, that Mussolini is not a militarist, but a cooing dove, is surely child's play to a gang of experts who have been making almost whole nations believe, for generations, that a bit of paste is the body of the Son of God. If they (i.e., the Jesuits) have not a correct appraisement of the gullibility of mankind, after a 1,000 years' experience at the game, then who has? It is a historical truism, When you want dirty work done, call in the Jesuits. But (and since this is an article on Spain, the simile is becoming) the Jesuits, like the Moors who were invited to Spain, have the knack of pinching the prize which they have been called in only to safeguard. They got their postwar start in Italy, thanks to the—at least neutrality, of U.S.A., Britain, and France (and they got a start, too, in Poland), and now it won't be their fault if they don't soon own and control a half of the continent of Europe. But alas! and fortunately for others, it is ALSO a historical truism that the triumphs of the Jesuits are always short-lived.

There are only two persons in Germany "privileged" to call themselves "Leader". One is Hitler, and the other is Baldur von Shirach, the leader of the Nazi Youth Movement. Both Hitler and Shirach are Roman Catholics. Goebbels, Roman Catholic, the minister of propaganda, the prime molder of Germany's mind, was educated by the Jesuits. In 1923, when Hitler's revolt in Bavaria failed, Goering fled to Rome. Later, in 1931, Goering was sent to Rome as Hitler's envoy to the pope and Mussolini: "a mission," says the German author of Why Nazi? (a Nazi sympathizer), "which was highly important for the further progress of the National Socialist movement."

In Mein Kampf Hitler says: "After all, the only infallible touchstone for distinguishing right action from wrong is: visible success." This makes Al Capone a saint until he was pinched. This is the Jesuitical "code" of morality upon which Nazism, and Hitler's philosophy, is based. This somewhat prepares one for the following observation by one of Hitler's semi-admirers, An Eyewitness in Germany, page 78: "Adolf Hitler has with profound insight made use of the Roman propaganda's many centuries of experience, and National Socialism's whole organization betrays the Papal Hierarchy as its model."

* The first partitioning of Poland was made by Frederick of Prussia and Catherine of Russia, the two European monarchs who gave the Jesuits harborage in their domains on the request of Voltaire, after the papal suppression of the Order.

Hitler is a Roman Catholic, like every other European 'dictator'—the late Pilsudski, Mussolini, and Dollfuss. He acquired his anti-Semitism, so he says himself, from Lueger, a burgomaster of Vienna, a well-known anti-Semite preacher, and a "devout" Roman Catholic. In the story of the actual intrigues that made Hitler the chancellor of Germany there lies the truth about Nazism.

MADE CHANCELLOR BY PAPAL INTRIGUE

Hitler became chancellor of Germany, and later "constitutional" dictator, purely and wholly by papist intrigue. Hitler was not made chancellor by popular vote or voice. He was called to the chancellorship by Hindenburg after von Papen had persuaded Hindenburg to dismiss Schleicher. This is well known. What is to be noted is that von Papen, like Hitler, is a Roman Catholic.

It is amazing how this has been forgotten in the rush of events since. Nazism rules in Germany today, thanks to von Papen. Democracy has been trampled on, the Jews beaten, Karl Ernst, Strasser, and Schleicher murdered, thanks to von Papen, the Vatican's 'lay nuncio' at Berlin.

As a matter of fact, von Papen, so-called "Nationalist", and not Hitler, was Germany's first Nazi dictator! Von Papen was chancellor before Schleicher. He, too, was "invited" to the chancellorship by Paul Hindenburg, without either parliamentary or public support.

Yet this von Papen, whose party had won only 10 percent of the votes at the election, while he was chancellor in June, 1932, summarily "dismissed" and "forcibly removed" the Prussian cabinet led by the Labor ministers Braun and Severing, who had held office for ten years as heads of an efficient administration. Thus, a year before Hitler became chancellor, was the commencement of Nazism in Germany.

Bruening was connected with the Catholic trade union movement. To use Walton Newbold's words, he was "always cajoling the Social Democrats, more particularly their trade unions". Elsewhere Newbold refers to "the Catholics of the German Centrum and their allies, the Social Democrats". These quotations are from Newbold's book Democracy, Debts, and Disarmament. The papist chancellors Wirth, Marx, Bruening, and von Papen prepared Germany for Hitler; and the Social Democrats, stupidly enough, made themselves the "allies" of the Roman Catholic Centre Party whose vote later on made Hitler the "constitutional" dictator of Germany!

After being elevated to the chancellery, Hitler held a general election. He wanted to win two-thirds of the seats in the German Parliament in order to enable him to abolish it "constitutionally", to vote itself out of existence.

THE "ELECTION"

Hitler obtained permission from Hindenburg to dissolve Parliament and to hold the election, but on condition that whatever the result the composition of the government was not to be changed!

Can you beat that? Hitler was taking a chance to get supreme power, but he was not risking the loss of the power he already had!

No sooner had the "election" started than Goering got to work. He had newspapers suppressed for publishing a report that stock exchange prices had slumped. He prohibited the entire Social-Democrat (e.g., Labor) press from publishing a Social-Democrat manifesto!

At this stage Goebbels was appointed to the newly created post of minister of propaganda. This gave Hitler control of broadcasting and cinemas, and of the press, through a system of censorship which Goebbels introduced.

Then six days before the date fixed for the election the Reichstag went up in flames. Does any common-sense person doubt for a moment that it was set on fire by Goering? The effect of the fire was stupendous; and Goering, Goebbels, and Hitler made the most of it. The Communists were accused of setting the Reichstag on fire, and the Socialists with "complicity". Van der Lubbe was said to have confessed his crime and association with both Communists and Socialists.

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