Golden Age, February 24, 1937
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GREATEST PROPHET
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PETITION TO GOVERNOR OF TRINIDAD
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Vol. XVIII - No. 455
February 24, 1937 CONTENTS
THE ROMAN HIERARCHY'S WAR IN SPAIN 323
McGovern Is a Catholic 323
The Hierarchy's Own War 324
Views of Seasoned Reporters 324
Fascism (Catholic Action) in Practice 325
The Churches, Monks and Nuns 326
Bluffing America into Silence 326
Democracy in Peril 327
"Most Reverend" Franco 327
War Supplies for Hierarchy's Army 328
Italian Bombings of Majorca 328
One-sided Neutrality 328
German "Volunteers" 329
German War Supplies 329
Dolsen's Summary of the Conspiracy 330
Hierarchy's Military Operations 330
With an Intimate Knowledge of Spain 331
"A Teacher of Lies" 332
Pertinent Questions for the Honest 332
Butchery of Anti-Clericals 333
Achievements of Jesuits 333
Fascist-minded Governments 334
Fascist-minded Big Business 334
Fascist-minded Churchmen 335
Not All Spanish Priests Fascists 336
Granada—Cordoba—Saragossa—Oviedo 336
Hierarchy Going over the Brink 336
GREATEST PROPHET 337
A NEWSY LETTER FROM SPAIN 338
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN SPAIN MISTAKEN FOR FASCISTS 339
A NARROW ESCAPE IN SPAIN 340
FASCISM IN THE CANARIES 341
PETITION TO GOVERNOR OF TRINIDAD 342
MEXICO 343
Four-Fifths in Hands of Church 343
Mexico's Apology (?) to Italy 343
"Persecutions" of Catholics 343
RUSSIA 344
Jesuit Methods for Disorganizing 344
600 Fighters Dropped from Planes 344
PALESTINE 345
The Clouds over the Dead Sea 345
Arabs Sniping Passengers 345
SOUTH AFRICA 346
Of Interest from South Africa 346
South Africa Empire Exhibition 346
DISOBEDIENCE BRINGS JEHOVAH'S DISPLEASURE 347
David the Beloved 347
Broke Four Commandments at Once 347
Murder Planned and Executed 348
TO SWEAR OR NOT TO SWEAR? 349
THE CASE OF JUDGE RUTHERFORD VS. CARDINAL DOUGHERTY 350
SMILES FOR KINGDOM PUBLISHERS 351
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Volume XVIII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, February 24, 1937 Number 455
The Roman Hierarchy's War in Spain
HAVING brought to a successful issue its wars against the inhabitants of Germany, Austria and Ethiopia, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has hit a snag in its efforts to readily mount once again upon the necks of the Catholic population of Spain. When the conspiracy between the Spanish church and the Spanish army was made it was fully expected that the war would be over in three days. That was eight months ago, and the war is still on.
Just 1,225 years, to the very day, from the time that the Moors, with the help of traitorous Spaniards, landed at La Linea, July 19, 711 (A.D.), and founded the Moroccan kingdom in southern Spain, traitorous Spaniards, with the aid of the Moors, landed at La Linea, July 19, 1936, to fight the pope's battles against the Spanish Republic.
John McGovern, member of Parliament for Shettleston, Scotland, one of the committee of the British House of Commons that visited Spain to ascertain actual conditions there, wrote in the Glasgow Evening Times of the efforts the Roman Hierarchy made to incite heathen aliens to destroy the Spanish Republic. He said:
Moors have been promised "a special place in paradise" for their share of the struggle, been blessed by the bishops, and have had Sacred Heart badges fixed to their rifles, with the "Sacred Host" sewn to their ammunition bags with beads. I have seen for myself this foul evidence and have pictures of it.
"They give gifts to all whores; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee; therefore thou art contrary."— Ezekiel 16: 33, 34.
McGovern Is a Catholic
John McGovern, writer of the foregoing, is a Catholic, but he is honest, courageous and truthful. He spent 27 days in Spain questioning members of trades unions, accountants, regional committees, bankers, lawyers, doctors, schoolmasters, businessmen, soldiers, and peasants, and returned to his constituents and stated that the churches he had seen burned down in Spain were burned because they were Fascist strongholds; that religion had been prostituted in Spain for crude, soulless, materialist ends; that priests were shot because they were engaged in Fascist propaganda; that children had been killed in Madrid by bombs dropped from airplanes and that money had been raised in Glasgow to buy the bombs used to kill them, and raised in Catholic churches at that. Inasmuch as Mr. McGovern is himself a Catholic it will be apparent to all that here is a courageous, trustworthy man. In his efforts to put these truths before his own people he was shamefully interrupted and abused by those whose only knowledge of the subject is what they obtained from their father confessors, themselves prejudiced.
It is admitted by the officials of the Spanish Republic that some Catholic priests were shot for participating in Fascist plots against the state; but it is also of record that at least a dozen priests were shot by Franco’s men because they were honestly opposed to a Fascist state. These were executed without trial and solely for their anti-Fascist sympathies.
Lawrence A. Fernsworth, foreign correspondent of the New York Times, himself a Roman Catholic, wrote to the Catholic magazine America from Barcelona, Spain. After acknowledging that the land literally runs with blood, spilled by both sides, he asked the pointed question:
But what about those persons, the rebels, or insurgents, or "defenders of the faith", or whatever you might wish to call them, who likewise have killed their thousands upon thousands in cold blood, and, may I add, in treachery? Who have systematically killed the Republican and loyal officials wherever they have gone; have packed them in a bull ring to a number of more than a thousand and mowed them down with machine guns; have staged executions to music in the public plazas; have set up in some of the places they hold regularly established human slaughter-houses where men are killed like beasts? Is that not also murder? Does the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill," not apply? Murder on the one side and murder on the other. That is the picture. Who is the guiltier? Who is the better instructed? This is no moment for the church to cry persecution, to raise an arrogant voice, to condemn. I tell you its hands are not clean in this matter of Spain. And itself stands at the judgment bar.
Exclusive Picture of the Hierarchy Suffering Martyrdom
The New York Times, often weak, is to be commended for sending an honest, courageous Catholic like Fernsworth to the Spanish front.
The Hierarchy’s Own War
The Newport Daily Express contains a picture of Cardinal Illundain blessing the flag of the rebels at Seville. The flag was presented by General Franco, rebel chieftain, who has said he is quite prepared to kill half the people in Spain to gain the Hierarchy’s ends.
Stating it just as it is, The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., gives a fine three-column-wide picture showing "Fascists Receive Priest’s Blessing". The text beneath the picture and its caption contains the additional description:
Passing Avila, Spain, en route to the Madrid front, these Fascist insurgents under General Francisco Franco stopped to receive the blessing of an army priest.
Gil Robles, the brains of the forces undertaking the destruction of the Spanish Republic, entered a Jesuit school at the age of six, and at the age of 23 was a professor of law in the Canary Islands. In France, Belgium, Germany, Austria and the United States, he studied all the Jesuit methods for overturning popular governments. He entered Spanish politics, and married the daughter of an aristocratic landowner. He is a capable speaker and writer and highly ambitious. He is described as pasty-faced and stout, with delicate hands.
Views of Seasoned Reporters
Edmond L. Taylor, of the Chicago Tribune, president of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris, remarking that General Franco cannot win unaided, because the Spanish people are all against him, had the following to say of the Hierarchy’s army in Spain:
Franco’s soldiers are nothing more nor less than mad dogs. It is intolerable to see people who profess to be the saviors of occidental civilization act like wild beasts. The spirit that animates Franco’s soldiers is the spirit of a lynch mob. To date [December, 1936] more than 500,000 Spaniards have been sacrificed in this bloody fratricidal struggle. Most of them fell, not in battle, but at the hands of rebel executioners. The Foreign Legionnaires and the Moroccan soldiers perpetrate unspeakable cruelties. They are the first-line fighters. The Spanish Fascists bring up the rear, wreaking vengeance on those suspected of Leftist sympathies, workers, peasants, intellectuals, Protestants, etc.
A newspaper reporter, John T. Whitaker, in a copyrighted dispatch in the New York Tribune, said:
The rebels burned the wounded in the hospitals in Toledo alive and, after all the streets were cleared of resistance, they executed more than 2,000 civilians. “I killed 122 with this automatic pistol,” the leader of the Fascists told me bitterly. “They imprisoned me and made me suffer and I tell you I enjoyed killing them. I shot them one by one, reloading this automatic until it was hot in the hand.”
Jay Allen, in the London News Chronicle, resting from his duties as a war correspondent with the rebel armies in Spain, puts in question form the information that near Torrijos Republicans were hung back to back on a rope stretched between two trees; prisoners were compelled to jump from a fifth-story window; girl militiamen were turned over to the Moors, one to twenty Moors; at Toledo, where 600 Government wounded were in a hospital, Moors came in with hand-grenades and killed them in their beds; aged men were beaten to death with clubs; Masons were compelled to dig their own graves.
The Hierarchy’s army at Badajoz, Spain, had turned over to them by the Fascist Portuguese government Nicolas de Pablo, trade union leader, member of the Spanish Cortes. The Hierarchy’s army put this man in the bull ring, and there he was made to play the part of the bull, while Fascist picadors and matadors slowly tortured him to death.
“It’s just her way of praying for peace”
The Madrid Bar Association protested to the so-called “civilized world” against the killing of 9,000 helpless workers and peasants by the Moors in Seville when they hurled grenades into their homes. Many women were also attacked.
Fascism (Catholic Action) in Practice
Westbrook Pegler says of the failure of “Christianity” in Spain, and the new methods of atoning for this failure “with the blood of the betrayed”, that “Fascism undertakes to redeem their crime against Christianity by killing the flock”.
Pegler begins to suspect that there is something decayed about a brand of “Christianity” that produces such results. He recently visited Spain. On his return he said:
We read of the Moorish troops, who certainly are not Christians, but the blood enemies of Christianity, bearing the brunt of the attack on the government forces of Spain and participating in the shambles at Badajoz, where 1,800 native Spanish people were herded into the bull ring in batches and cut down in heaps by machine guns from the far end of the arena. . . . It isn’t enough and it isn’t honest or fair to denounce as an atheist and Communist anyone in the United States who presumes to doubt that the slaughter at Badajoz, the employment of Mohammedans against Christians, and the generally brutal character of the Spaniards on both sides, represent a creditable demonstration of Christianity.
In a Swiss periodical the liberal theologian and conscientious objector, Professor Dr. L. Ragaz, published a series of articles about the fight in Spain. From one of the articles is selected the following:
And now the atrocities! Where the soldiers are concerned it is better for the reactionaries to keep still. Because right here the deeds of the “defenders of Christendom and order” should be first mentioned.
The slaughter of those two thousand people, men, women and children in Badajoz (Spain) by Fascist hordes, simply because they were on the side of the opponents, is one of the most appalling acts ever written on the pages of history. For the protection of “Christendom and order” those Foreign Legionnaires and Moors, who previously acted like veritable devils in the fall of 1934 in the Asturian mining district, were loosened once more upon that poverty-stricken country. And so what the People’s Front has done in retaliation of those deeds of violence is really insignificant. It was always thus: an aroused reaction is generally more cruel, more reckless, more inhuman, when taking revenge, than an ordinary revolution of the people.
The Churches, Monks and Nuns
What about the churches and monasteries, the clergy, monks and nuns?
First of all, the real facts. At least two-thirds of the reported deeds of violence against them are bare-faced lies. It remains, however, that churches and monasteries were desecrated, plundered and burned, clergy, monks and nuns killed, ridiculed and mistreated. This should not be condoned, any more than deeds of violence in worldly affairs, which have certainly occurred also. But there are three things to be determined:
First: The churches and monasteries in Spain have to a large extent openly sided with the Fascists. Those buildings were quite often gun and ammunition depots, from which people were shot at. Is that a lesser desecration than the sport made of chalices and priestly vestments?
Second: The churches and cloisters were allies and the strongest supports of the social and political slavery of the people for centuries and the chief causes of the boundless material and spiritual poverty crushing the people. In and around these churches and convents immense wealth was heaped up, and that in proportion to the poverty of the masses; and those treasures are now being used for the support of those who seek to perpetuate those evil conditions. Lisbon, the capital of the “Christian Corporative State of Portugal”, ruled by a dictator, has become their actual headquarters and the country itself the most important channel for the importing of guns and ammunition [for the Spanish rebels].
Third: Those churches and cloisters once lighted the fires of the Inquisition, and President Azana said, rightly, that the flames burning them down are only the reflection of the flames of that inquisition. They are the fiery tokens of a stupendous divine judgment upon such a church, fiery signs of warning, similar to those which occurred in Russia and Mexico.
Bluffing America into Silence
Not only is the Roman Hierarchy waging this war with heathen Moors against its own Catholic population in Spain, but it is unwilling to let the American public know the truth about conditions. The newspapers of America are so generally under Roman control that they have become a stench.
When duly accredited representatives of the Spanish Republic sought to present their side of the Spanish situation to the people of this continent they were hounded from one city to another clear across the continent by those who parade the title of “Bishop”. This occurred in Montreal, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and many other places all over the country, to the lasting shame and disgrace of the American people. In numerous places these noble men and women were denied auditoriums and the newspapers shamelessly took the side of the Hierarchy.
In Philadelphia J. Carroll McCormick, chancellor of the Catholic archdiocese of Philadelphia (Golden Age readers remember him), warned Catholics to stay away from the meeting, and the mayor of the city refused to receive the distinguished delegation.
At the Odd Fellows’ Temple in Cincinnati 500 persons attended the meeting of these Spanish patriots and statesmen, and, will you believe it? the Roman Hierarchy was so beastly small and mean, and the Cincinnati Times-Star was so licked into submission, that, bright and early Monday morning, after that Friday night meeting, it carried considerably more than two columns of simon-pure squawk and complaint by the Hierarchy because that meeting had been permitted. The Hierarchy tried to stage a big meeting itself, in protest, and got out 200 priests “and many laymen” (maybe another 200).
In the squawk the Catholic Hierarchy claim they are “defenders of democracy”. Why, sure! They would defend hell and the Devil himself to get control of anything. They now have (or did recently have) a majority both at West Point and at Annapolis, and when they get good and ready they intend to take over the U.S.A. in toto. Meantime, Roosevelt is helping the Hierarchy’s designs against America all he can.
The Enquirer tried to stand for the truth, feebly, to be sure, and got abused roundly for it. The Post went down on all fours before the Hierarchy and gave even more space than the Times-Star and more sycophantic headlines. It was a grand exhibition of belly-crawling that must have brought joy to the Devil and his ministers.
Democracy in Peril
A call for a mass meeting in Brooklyn, issued in the name of 25 Spanish societies, contains the following truthful statements:
DEMOCRACY IN PERIL. Women and children, their bodies torn to shreds, lie on the streets of Madrid. If this happens there, it can happen here. The American people, the foremost lovers of democracy, must no longer remain indifferent to the fate of democracy in Spain. The Spanish rebels, under Franco, are determined to make Spain Fascist even if they have to murder every woman and child.
Hitler and Mussolini are supplying the bombs and airplanes that attack Madrid by day and terrorize its civilian population by night. The Spanish people are united in defense of their beloved country, their freedom, their chosen democratic Republican government. The people in Spain are determined to die rather than surrender to the same forces that have crushed democracy in Italy and Germany.
Can Americans remain silent? Is America to say nothing when little children are slaughtered? The Spanish people are calling for help. Let us be the first to answer them! We call upon every liberty-loving American to join in a protest that will be heard around the world.
Spanish, Italian and English speakers addressed the meeting.
“Most Reverend” Franco
After all the blessings he has had from bishops and others, the murderer, General Franco, ought by now to be entitled to be called a “Reverend”, or, indeed, a “Most Reverend”, for he is doing that in which their souls delight.—John 8:44.
How strange that any man would dare use for himself a title that belongs only to God!
Leaders in the Catholic Hierarchy’s spiritual revival in Spain, and some of their “Penitentes”
Labels in drawing: MONSIGNOR BOMB; THE SPIRIT OF THE HOLY SEE; BISHOP SHELL; VERY RIGHT REVEREND CANNON
In a single air raid over Madrid his brave (?) Moorish and other heroes (?), fighting on behalf of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, killed 63 persons, all but one of whom were women and children. It is easy to see why Franco has the “blessing” of the “Church” of the Devil. One large bomb dropped by his fliers buried 200 women and children in the Madrid subway. Gas bombs have been used in a small way by Franco, and will probably be used on a larger scale as his cause gets more desperate.*
At Madrid, November 18, it was estimated that in the preceding ten days fifty tons of bombs had been dropped upon the city. Most of these were from German and Italian planes, received at Seville and Vigo in September, some weeks after the Spanish neutrality pact was signed by the European powers. Flares thrown at night, and which water cannot extinguish, are part of the weapons used to destroy the citizens.
By December 9, according to the London News Chronicle, it was estimated that at least one-third of the houses in Madrid had been destroyed by the German planes, manned by German aviators, which have been used to bomb the homes of the working classes. Countless women and children have been thus slain. Members of the British House of Commons who personally saw these massacres attempted to send Franco telegrams of protest, but could not get the messages forwarded.
“The defense of Toledo’s Alcazar by Fascist officers and cadets was described as an epic of human endurance and courage, as indeed it would have been but for one fact. The women
* A British delegation of members of Parliament, all parties, thinks Franco has only 20,000 to 30,000 troops, mostly Moors, before Madrid and that the Government can pit against these between 80,000 and 200,000. In the latter are some French, German, Poles, British, and Italians.
and children kept as hostages in those underground casemates were wives and children of the men of the Popular Front of Toledo. On July 19, just a few hours before the rebellion was scheduled to break out all over Spain, the Fascist garrison of the Alcazar raided working-class districts of Toledo, while the men were at work, and drove the women and children into the enclosure of the fortress. The knowledge that these hostages were their own flesh and blood virtually paralyzed the will to attack the stronghold for weeks."—The Epic News.
War Supplies for Hierarchy's Army
Frank H. Kluckhohn, able and honest correspondent of the New York Times, back in London from a stay of many weeks in Spain, claims that more than 100 Italian and German planes, more than 40 Italian tanks and plenty of Moorish troops, equipped with foreign ammunition, have been added to Franco's army besieging Madrid. At the time Franco repudiated his solemn oath to act as his country's defender, and became its attacker, he had but one plane, surreptitiously smuggled to him by a British Catholic. Then he got two more in Spanish Morocco, and finally fifteen all together.
All the principal dangers of the world are agreed that under no circumstances shall the legitimate Spanish government be able to buy arms, but, despite all promises to the contrary, it is all O.K. to send arms to the rebels. Thus, on October 22 the Italians sent 15 Caproni planes; on October 26 the Le Tre Marie and another ship left Genoa with munitions for the rebels; and on October 28 the Fanny Brunner, and on November 10 the Guido Brunner, left with cargoes of shells covered with layers of cement, sugar or flour. Three machines leave every night from Pisa. In the last few weeks the famous Ansaldo works sent 50 small tanks and 10 flame throwers. Coupled to these breaches of the Non-Intervention Pact is the plain statement of the Italian government that it does not intend to see the Spanish Republic survive.
Italian Bombings of Majorca
Without any declaration of war, while the legitimate Spanish government was still in control of the island of Majorca (in the Balearic islands, 100 miles off the eastern coast of Spain), the government forces were bombed every day by Italian planes which flew direct from Italian territory. Though most of the aviators wore Spanish rebel uniforms, they boasted of their Italian nationality by wearing the Italian colors in scarves around their necks.
Count Rossi, an Italian, is virtually governor of the island. Italian bombs and airplanes are landed at Palma openly. All this is acceptable to the British government for the reason that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is in control of its Foreign Office. Majorca is Franco's base of supplies, and by now he has numerous submarines there, known to be on the way.
Indeed, a Havas dispatch from London declares that as early as October 19 fifteen German submarines passed through the Straits of Gibraltar under cover of darkness, and certainly with no good intentions against the legitimate Spanish government.
Gerald Grosvenor, special correspondent of the London News Chronicle, smuggled into the island of Majorca, aboard a private yacht, in a dispatch dated November 25, declared that 1,500 of the inhabitants have been shot dead by the Italians, that airplanes and munitions were constantly being delivered by Italy in Italian ships; that there are hundreds of planes in Majorca; that 90 percent of them are Italian and that the island is flooded with Italian airmen.
Death by ley de fuga (shooting prisoners under pretense that they are trying to escape) is common. The usual claims are made that Italy has no intention of annexing the isles. Anybody who would believe any statements, under oath, made by Fascist rulers, is an easy mark. Force, fraud, cruelty, tyranny, is its all.
One-sided Neutrality
Many would say that General Franco, oath-breaker, is very fortunate in having "neutral" (?) Fascist Portugal in his rear, to act as a constant source of materials and supplies, in his war upon his native Spain. Unknown products covered carefully by sheets of canvas rumble out of Portugal every day on their way to Spain. The bills are paid by checks drawn by Jose Maria Gil Robles, former head of the Catholic party in the Spanish Cortes.
Portugal is "neutral" in the war of Fascism against the Spanish Republic, but it is an odd kind of neutrality. Thousands of refugees from Badajos fled to Portugal as Fascists gained concontrol of the city. The Portuguese government, being "neutral", drove these refugees back to certain death. When they came back into Spain the Fascist troops seized them and slaughtered thousands of them, men, women and children. The wall of the cathedral where the massacre took place was clotted with blood to a height of ten feet when the Fascists got through. Headlines of some of the New York papers made it appear to the casual reader that this slaughter was by the troops of the legitimate government of Spain (miscalled "Reds") instead of by the rebel Fascists.
One of the encouraging things for the Spanish Republic is the report, published in the London News Chronicle of January 5, that the Moors in Spanish Morocco have broken out in rebellion against the press-gang methods employed to raise recruits for the Hierarchy's army in Spain.
The Cincinnati Enquirer comments editorially on the fact that there are no Russian infantry in Spain, but that there are 30,000 Italian and German troops fighting with the rebel armies, as well as many thousands of Moors and some Portuguese.
German "Volunteers"
The American Guardian says of the German boys*:
These boys were ordered here by Hitler, and are not volunteers in any sense of the word. The German people do not know their sons are in Spain. Rebel soldiers constantly desert, and several airplanes have come over to the government in this manner, when the pilots calmly landed in government territory and stepped out of the planes with their hands in the air. One of these gave a report that the snobbish attitude taken by the Germans is making former Fascist sympathizers into Spanish patriots. The Germans are hated within a few days of their arrival at any place, he said, and feeling toward Franco is changing as the people realize he was responsible for bringing the Germans in.
* 30,000, according to the London News Chronicle of December 24.—Ed.
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The German-trained men are doing things that Franco's Moors were not qualified to do. On one occasion they dropped 19 bombs on Madrid, killing 110 persons and wounding 135 more. Hotels and a general hospital were bombed, and a nine-story apartment house was completely destroyed. The dispatches say "most of the victims were women and children". The oath-breaker and butcher, Franco, would be well pleased with this.
When reading sob-stories about the pope's illness or how "religion" is being "persecuted" in Spain, don't forget the baby-killers on the other side of the ledger.
Besides the skillful bombing, German mechanics are also doing what the priests and others who comprise the Hierarchy's army know little or nothing about. The Manchester Guardian says:
Skilled mechanics are being enlisted in Berlin for work on tank production in the factories in the regions under the control of the Spanish rebels. Big wages and future employment are promised, and the strictest secrecy is enjoined. These mechanics are not even allowed to tell their wives where they are going. Special boxes are allotted to them in the post offices nearest their homes. If their wives wish to write to them, the letters are put into these boxes and are then forwarded through a special department of the German War Office. The wives also find the letters from their husbands in these boxes.
German War Supplies
The airplanes for the pope's army in Spain are flown from Germany by night, according to the aviator of one of these rebel planes who surrendered to the Spanish Government in Madrid. In at least two instances the pilots of rebel planes deserted to the Loyalist government, bringing their machines along with them. It is reported that 20 American planes found their way to Madrid via Mexico.
Late in October the German battleship Deutschland landed airplanes, tanks, flame throwers, artillery, antiaircraft guns and ammunition in Spanish Morocco, and at Cadiz, all within the rebel lines, according to the British war correspondent Atergo in the London Sunday Referee.
Nobody in Europe needs any proof of German conspiracy against the Spanish Republic. A Spanish officer who deserted from the Fascists stated it had even been fixed up beforehand that if Franco could not win otherwise, he was to get his own men in Seville to attack the Italian and German consulates, so as to provide an excuse for Germany to land marines from the 15 warships she has in Spanish waters.
The conspiracy is also self-evident from the haste with which both Germany and Italy refused to permit the legitimate government of Spain, elected by the people, to buy arms to put down a rebellion, but readily permitted the Hierarchy's troops to buy such arms, and were the first to recognize the Franco "government", though without cabinet, foreign office, courts or the faintest resemblance of "civilized" modes of warfare.
In spite of all the wickedness of the Hitler crowd, there are still some true and honest and courageous hearts in Germany. At great risk to themselves some workmen in munition plants in Germany filled bombs with sawdust, and thus gave the poor people of Madrid a chance to laugh in the face of death.
Dolsen's Summary of the Conspiracy
"General Jose Sanjurjo, who had been chosen to head the revolt by the multimillionaire Spanish tobacco magnate, Juan March, spent several months last summer conferring in Berlin with Hitler and the German army staff. The Spanish ambassador to Rome during this time was similarly conferring with Mussolini and his staff. The Fascist dictator of Portugal, Oliveiro Salazar, was likewise in the plot.
"Huge war supplies were rushed into Spain with the connivance of Spanish customs officials sympathizing with the Fascists. Concrete placements for heavy artillery were constructed at strategic places. The upper strata of army officers openly expressed contempt for the republic. . . .
"In this line-up of the most reactionary, oppressive and antidemocratic elements the princes of the church have taken their stand. . . . At the present, due mainly to the position of the pope in unreservedly supporting the Fascist rebels, the Catholic Church in Spain is openly allied to these reactionary forces."—James M. Dolsen, in Pittsburgh (Pa.) Press.
Franco claims that, with a few exceptions, "those who are dying for their God and their country" are Spaniards, but skeptics will suspect that most of them, when they show up with the other thieves in paradise (if they do), will wonder why it is no longer necessary to "Heil Hitler".
Hierarchy Military Operations
Dr. Orts Gonzales, Spanish Protestant, resident of Malaga, Spain, on a visit to England declared that the Spanish rebel commander issued a military order, when a town is captured, "Go to the priest, and he will give you a list of the persons to be killed or put in jail."
According to O. D. Gallagher, in the London Daily Express, this gentleman, just back from Spain, interviewed one Fascist chief who boasted that these chieftains did not take part in the front-line actions against the Spanish Democracy, but followed the Moors and the Italian and German troops with clean-up parties, and that he himself had slain 72 Government supporters with his own weapons. The priests furnished information as to whom to kill.
Writing of the fall of Irun, Jossleyn Hennessy, special correspondent of the London News Chronicle, describes a scene that occurred immediately after the capture of the international bridge by the rebel troops:
An American photographer who crossed a minute after its last defenders had been killed found the rebels dancing around and singing songs over the dead. One drew his bayonet and gashed a dead militiaman's throat again and again, inviting the photographer to take his picture.
"In Saragossa, where a general strike was persisted in, 50 strikers were duly executed at the stroke of each hour. The Socialist deputy in that city was tied hand and foot in the middle of the street, while thousands lined the sidewalks in front of the ‘Church of Our Lady of Mercy’, and was then slowly crushed to death by a tank.
“To satisfy the blood-lust of the Moroccan troops, who are shut up in the city, beleaguered by the workers’ militia columns from Barcelona, a human corrida was held in the arena the Sunday before I write these lines. Fifty workers, men and women, were tied in a bunch, their bodies wrapped in red rags, and so left to face nine ferocious bulls, whose horns had been filed to razor sharpness for the occasion. For half an hour, the wild beasts were allowed to gore and toss—and then the martyrs were piled up, dead and wounded, and a huge pyre made of their bodies.
“But Fascist terror finds its match in workers’ courage. I was present at Huesca while the workers were fighting, house to house, for the possession of the important key city. On the roof of the cathedral the Fascists had installed dozens of machine guns which held up the advance and cut heavy casualties into the ranks of the militia. There was no choice but to dislodge them. Two anarcho-syndicalist workers loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite, 40 pounds in weight, and made a dash for the church, fuse in one hand and lighted cigarette in the other. One of them was hit, for he was seen to fall. He nevertheless crawled up to the church. There was a sharp crack as the living pillars of dynamite exploded. Then a roar, and the church wall caved in in a tornado of dust and powder, opening the way for a victorious loyalist advance.”—Pierre Van Paassen, Federated Press dispatch, on the Saragossa front in Spain.
Since the foregoing was written Van Paassen was hired by Hearst and sent to Russia. Why?
Whose Vicar?
With an Intimate Knowledge of Spain
With an intimate knowledge of Spain, Leland Stowe, one-time foreign correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune, in an address at St. Paul, Minn., said that in that unhappy land the Roman Catholic church and religious orders owned railroads, mines and banks and paid no taxes; they controlled education, and 45 percent of the people were illiterate; one five-hundredth of the people controlled 50 percent of the land; four million farm workers were always on the edge of starvation; only one-third the land was under cultivation.
In the first six years of the Republic 8,000 schools were opened. He considers Franco’s army as a foreign invasion. There were no radical members in the Spanish cabinet until after the second month of the attack by the Moors, Italians and others waging the conquest of the Republic by Fascism.
Robert Neville, New York Herald-Tribune correspondent, who spent a month at Granada, Spain, during the fighting there, in an address at Baltimore, Md., denied the atrocity stories circulated by Fascist sympathizers, but declared that, on the other hand, Franco’s army repeatedly bombed and shelled the workers’ section of the city and twice daily took civilians to the cemetery and there shot them.
Carleton Beals, for many years a newspaper correspondent in Spain, fully cognizant of the conditions leading to the present conspiracy against the Spanish Republic, at an address before the Foreign Policy Association in New York said:
The Spanish people were betrayed, not only at home, but abroad as well. The rebels are the moth-eaten aristocracy, the feudal army, great landowners and the feudal-political church combining because of the threat to their powers.
“A Teacher of Lies” (Habakkuk 2: 18)
The Associated Press formally admits the bias of its dispatches from Spain in the following statement:
The only reason the word rebel is not used is because the AP has American correspondents in Spain who have been told at Fascist headquarters they would be punished if the term “rebel” were applied to the insurgent forces.
Speaking of this curious position Fred Hodgson, veteran newspaperman, said:
This is the first time I’ve ever heard a great news service admit in so many words that its dispatches are colored to suit an armed bandit’s orders. This simply means that every so-called “news” story from within the rebel lines can be discounted or denied completely.
The rebels have murdered three Paris newspaper correspondents for failing or refusing to send out untrue reports. Protestant pastors have been murdered by them at Saragossa, Granada, Cordoba, San Fernando, Ibaherando, and Santa Amalia.
It is getting more and more dangerous to lie, and harder and harder to get away with it. A dispatch from Toledo, Spain, sought to incur sympathy for the rebel cause by stating that “many old paintings had been destroyed by bullets or slashed by knives”. The dispatch was dated October 3, but Joseph Cadden, of New York, was in that city September 19 and knew for a fact that the art treasures of the city were being carefully guarded.
Indeed, a People’s Committee for the Defense of Culture has been organized at Madrid; it is under the direction of a prominent Catholic editor, Jose Bergamin. Almost nothing that appears in the papers antagonistic to the Spanish Republic contains any truth at all.
Not only have the art treasures of Spain been carefully preserved, but the Republic’s Committee for the Protection of Art Treasures has done its work so thoroughly and well that the artistic wealth of Spain has actually increased, for the reason that numerous valuable works were found in convents which the inmates did not know were there, and of whose value they knew less.
When the rebels burned the palace of the Dukes of Alba the militiamen in charge remained in the burning palace until they had rescued most of its art treasures, and among these militiamen were some whose own homes were burning at that very time.
Pertinent Questions for the Honest
Writing in the Manchester Guardian* a British socialist asks some questions that are in the minds of honest thinkers everywhere:
Is the right of the lawful Spanish Government to buy arms in self-defense against horrors that take us back to the Thirty Years’ War a mere technicality? Is it not true that the survival of democracy and civilization in Spain depends on the victory of the Government over its perjured generals and their Moorish savages and foreign mercenaries? Is nonintervention merely a camouflage for allowing Spanish democracy to be butchered to make a Fascist holiday rather than risk offending Hitler and Mussolini? Are we to put an end to the division—which already exists—of Europe into democracies and Fascist states by the simple expedient of the democracies’ surrendering piecemeal to the dictatorships, and re-enacting on the world stage the tragedy of Social Democracy in Germany?
Frederic B. Acosta, Spanish instructor in one of America’s largest universities, writing of conditions in his native land, said:
Stripped of political nomenclature (Leftist, Rightist, Fascist, or Nazi), the present civil war in Spain is a duel to the death between the common people fighting for their very lives against the return of ecclesiastical oppression, the despotism of the nobility, and the dissatisfied minority of army generals who aim to establish military dictatorship which will sweep away every vestige of democracy—thus reviving the old order.
Men have to be well convinced of the justice of their cause to die as did some of the Loyalists at Oviedo, who tied dynamite sticks into their belts, lit them and then leaped into the machine-gun nests of the rebels, killing themselves and many of their foes in the assault.
Referring to the powerful enemies of the Spanish people, the New York Daily News said:
The Zamora laws dissolved the Jesuit order in Spain and took its $30,000,000 worth of property; nationalized the Catholic Church’s $500,000,000 worth of property; and disestablished the Church. They cut down the Army radically, thus sending out a lot of soldiers to grumble and mumble in civilian life. And they decreed the parceling out of 52,000,000 acres of big estates among the peasants. Thus, in about a year of lawmaking, spurred on by the world panic of 1931-33, the Zamora government stabbed at the vital organs of the three biggest power groups in Spain—Church, Army, landed nobility.
* The Spanish Republic’s foreign minister, Don Julio Alvarez del Vayo, was for many years the Spanish correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, the most reliable newspaper in the entire world. He is tall, slim, with gray hair, a soft, persuasive voice and exquisite manners. He speaks German, English, French, Italian, and Russian.
The troubles of the immediate present are a grand rush of Jesuits, priests, nobility and landowners to get back in the saddle—using the army as a tool to do so. The men in the army see nothing to be gained by turning against their own flesh and blood, and so, in many instances, they turned against their own officers and either killed or imprisoned them. The people all know that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy were at the bottom of the conspiracy, hence many priests have been killed.
Butchery of Anti-Clericals
Union, the organ of the pope's army in Spain, has demanded the heads of all Protestants, with the result that several Protestant pastors have been shot by Franco's hordes. They also destroyed the Protestant church at Jerez and turned the Granada mission house into a munitions magazine.
The Manchester Guardian gives two columns detailing the butchery of anticlericals in La Linea, one mile from Gibraltar, at Almendralejo and other places. Doctors, hospital directors, shopkeepers and others suspected of being against the priests were put to death, 1,400 of them at Almendralejo in two days; 8,000 at Seville. Before being murdered by the Hierarchy's soldiers, they are told they will be released if they sign checks for their entire bank accounts. The murderers then put them to death and use every penny of their savings. This is Fascism, Catholic Action, in actual practice.
Among the interesting things set forth by John J. McGovern, M.P. for Shettleston, Scotland, on his return from a trip of inspection to Spain (and all the more interesting because Mr. McGovern is himself a Roman Catholic) are the following: The church owned land, railways, slum property, banks, telephone companies, engineering concerns, film production, cinemas, theaters, cafes, hotels, and even dog racing establishments and bull rings. Every time the dog chased the hare it made a profit for the "Church". Every time the bull was stabbed to death or a toreador shed his blood, the Jesuits drew a profit. At Saragossa the Catholic Church owned a cabaret costing £500,000. The less said about that cabaret the better.
Achievements of the Jesuits
Have they ever done anything but mock and crush with violence the common man's desire for something better?
At an address in the Hotel Biltmore, New York, "Reverend" Francis X. Talbot, S.J., Jesuit author and editor of the Roman Catholic weekly America, made the statement that "Catholicism through all its centuries has been working to raise the lowest class to the highest".*
Professor Pedro Villa Fernandez, instructor in Spanish at New York University, in an address in Yonkers declared that the present Papal war against the Spanish Republic is blamable to the Jesuits, who owned one-third of the land of the country and paid no taxes on it. In the thirty years from 1900 to 1930 the number of priests grew from 65,000 to 112,000; the 4,000 convents and monasteries were devouring the best of everything; the church sent $20,000,000 out of the country every year and yet 50 percent of the children had no schooling.
In 1900, when the church was in the saddle, the Spanish government appropriated only $8,000 for education, while in 1932 the Spanish Republic appropriated almost eleven times as
* Compare this statement with that of "Reverend" Wilfred Parsons on page 335. One of the policies of the Hierarchy is to have spokesmen on both sides of mooted questions, so that in case of running into a jam they can point with pride to what was said by one of their great men at such and such a time and place, as expressing the true sentiments of the "Infallible" Hierarchy.
much. Meantime the Spanish people were paying the bishop of Toledo six times as much salary as is paid to the president of the United States.
The nobles and military men are all strict Catholics, and in pursuit of Catholic Action the nobles paid 19c an acre taxes, while poor persons paid $7.24 per acre taxes for land lying alongside. There is a Spanish officer for every five soldiers, while in the United States there is but one for every thirty soldiers.
The Moroccan war was fought for mines owned by Jesuits and on which they never paid one cent of taxes, and was prolonged for years because the officers of regiments without soldiers sold ammunition to the Moors wherewith to kill Spanish soldiers. These are the men now fighting to overturn the government. “American rackets are tame compared to those in Spain.”
Earth’s Fascist-minded Governments
With but one or two exceptions all the governments of the world want the Roman Catholic Hierarchy to win its war against the Spanish people, but the people, at heart, secretly hope that the people will win. The reason why the governments want the Hierarchy to win is that they want her support. They figure on forever deceiving, bulldozing, bluffing, bossing the people.
Future historians will marvel at the ease with which Italy and Germany bluffed Britain and France into not sending necessary arms to the legitimate Spanish government, but as soon as those two Fascist (Catholic Action) nations had recognized the rebels (whom they had been helping all along with planes and other war equipment) they boldly announced that henceforth they would supply such arms and ammunition openly to the rebel cause. How the British people can have any respect for their government after this betrayal into the hands of the pope is hard to understand.
Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, British citizen and resident in Malaga, Spain, in an interview in London said he had been through twenty air raids, that he is convinced the war could have been prevented altogether if the British government had not wanted Fascism to win in Spain, and that he believes a world struggle between Fascism and democracy is at hand, all because the British government, including the Labor wing, was too cowardly to intervene at the right time and save the world from “the inconceivably horrible mass killings of Fascism”.
It is worth noting that the counselor of the British embassy at Madrid is Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes, a pupil of the Jesuits at Beaumont, a former chargé d’affaires in Mexico City and in Vatican City.
Fascist-minded Big Business
Under the caption “Germany Wins in Spain” Gordon Rend presents evidence that the Standard Oil crowd, General Motors and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company are more friendly to the rebels than to the Spanish Republic. That would not be in the least surprising. There is no sentiment in business.
The American League Against War and Fascism claims that a certain Captain William B. White is in command of a fleet of 10 bombing planes and 15 pursuit planes, all of American manufacture, and manned by American Fascists, now engaged in fighting against Spain’s legitimate government.
Mrs. James B. Donahue is accredited in the New York papers with financing this murder mission. At last reports none of these aviators had been killed, but plenty of Spanish mothers and their babies had been killed in the streets of Madrid.
Bert Acosta went over to fight on the side of the Spanish Republic. He stayed a month and when he came back was met down the Bay by highly indignant army officers demanding to know why the citizen of a republic should fight on the side of the citizens of a republic and not on the side of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy?
Walter Duranty, world-famous for his description of things in Russia as they really were, is equally truthful about Spain. In a dispatch copyrighted by the North American Newspaper Alliance he said:
However much they may try to disguise it, their [the Spanish rebels’] movement was a frank attempt to restore or maintain the special privileges previously enjoyed by the military clique, the church, the landlords and the barons of industry, finance and business. In other words, they were trying to set the clock back, but, by a curious paradox, their action drove the clock forward helter-skelter and brought into being the very revolution against which they professed to be fighting.
William P. Carney, in a wireless dispatch to the New York Times, says of the struggle in Spain:
The Republicans are fighting for ideals of liberty long since secure in other lands; the Fascists, for traditions venerated for centuries. The rebellion of the military chiefs seems stupid, for they must have known their men were not with them and they should have been able to discern that the era of pronunciamentos is past.
Other dispatches from Spain show that in some instances when the grandiose military commanders issued pronunciamentos against the government the soldiers instantly put them to death. Also, when the same thing was done on shipboard the marines threw their officers into the sea.
On billboards and on the sides of army trucks in use in the Spanish Republic are painted the words,
It is better to die standing than to live the rest of our lives on our knees.
The war correspondent Karl H. von Wiegand speaks of the strange omen of the war in Spain:
Russians, British, Belgians, Germans, French, Italians, Poles, Dutch, Swedes, and Austrians are fighting on both sides here.
Fascist-minded Churchmen
Writing in Columbia Magazine, "Father" Wilfred Parsons, Jesuit, explains the Spanish situation as follows, and it has the self-evident marks of truth:
The great tragedy of Spain was that in the nineteenth century the working masses apostatized from the church, as Pope Pius X once remarked. And it is well to remember it was poverty, destitution and injustice which made them apostatize. They got to hate the Church because they hated the friends of the Church who exploited them and whom the Church did nothing to rebuke or correct.
Satan's efforts to bring his kind of "peace and safety" in Spain may spread over all the earth.
"Papa is still seeck"
Reverend "Father" Aguila, one-time priest of the Roman Catholic church in Spain, upon enlisting for service in the army of the Spanish Republic, made this statement:
I have been realizing for years that the church in Spain was a perversion of true Christianity. I have seen a rich abbot buy his own comfort with tens of thousands of pesetas and then lower the wages of the peasants on his farms. For these reasons I am going to fight for the cause of the Spanish people.
Vincent O'Connor, courageous Catholic, wrote the following letter, published in the Washington Post of November 16, 1936:
A letter from the Rev. Urban Adelman, O. M., Cap., says among other things ". . . there are those of us who believe that under the leadership of Gen. Franco are fighting all those who love Spain . . ."
It is pertinent to remember that there are also many of us, including members of Father Adelman's great communion, who believe that under the leadership of Gen. Franco are fighting the renegades, the mercenaries, the ambitious and disappointed army officers, the Moors who love Spain so much that they fought Spanish armies to a standstill in the Riff, the feudal landowners and the liberty-loving Italian and German Fascists. So well do these groups love Spain that they are exterminating the Spanish population which has dared to oppose them. So strong is their belief in democracy that they are attempting to wash out the result of a democratically conducted election which they lost by flooding the records with a torrent of innocent blood.
Yes, they would restore feudalism in Spain. They would maintain Spain's high standing as one of the most illiterate white nations in the world. They would continue to rule over a nation of serfs while their puppet leaders continue the tradition of degeneracy which marked the Bourbon kingship and its nobility. In the name of civilization, saved from Moscow, economic poverty and a dead culture would again stalk Spain.
Fortunately for Spain and the world, the battle is far from lost. Even though the rebels conquer, which is not likely at the present time, many generations of the Spanish people will not forget those who murdered their relatives, destroyed their homes and their progress, and restored them to serfdom. The spark of liberty has been kindled by the fires of war. These moribund institutions which enslaved Spain will never regain the affection of those whom they now seek to destroy. The history of France provides a good example.
Not All Spanish Priests Are Fascists
Not all Spanish priests are Fascists. Sometimes there is an honest man among them. Such a one is the Franciscan, Luis Sarasola. He came to America to deliver lectures in favor of the legitimate government of Spain, but on arrival in Montreal found an interdict launched against him, not first served upon him personally, as would have been the right course, but printed in a Montreal newspaper. Interviewed in New York “Father” Sarasola denied emphatically that he is either an apostate or a Communist. He said:
There are eminent Spanish Catholics—those who are best known in Spain for their great intellectual culture—who are condemning the civil war and who have placed themselves with a firm decision on the side of the legitimate government of the Republic. And, furthermore, there are very important regions in Spain, as, for instance, Catalonia and the Basque country, where the Catholics are fighting together with the Peoples Front. It has been said that the Basque country is the most Catholic country in Spain, where Christian religion is not an empty phrase as in most of the other Spanish provinces. And the Catalan Catholics, which have all joined the Peoples Front, are the most active and the most cultured Catholics in all Spain.
“Father” Sarasola has a poor opinion of the Jesuits, despite the fact that the present Pope Pius XI confesses to one. Explaining why they were expelled from Spain, he said:
The Jesuits were exercising an extraordinary social and political influence in Spain; they were enormously wealthy people and they were always the friends of the rich. It is in that way that the Spanish people considered them—with reason or without reason—as the firmest enemies of the Republic and the aspirations of the workers. The Jesuits educated in their pompous colleges only the sons of the bourgeois and ruling classes. They were exploiting the tears and the sweat of the peoples. It was therefore not a religious question which was at the origin of their expulsion, but purely social and political reasons. Their presence was considered fatal and harmful to the prosperity and greatness of Spain.
Granada—Cordoba—Saragossa—Oviedo
You have heard all these names before. They are all famous cities. In preparation for the campaign now being carried on by the military traitor Franco, the depots for arms and ammunition in these cities were as follows: the church of San Geronimo in Granada, the Mosque cathedral in Cordoba, the church of Pilar in Saragossa, and the cathedral in Oviedo. Under the circumstances it might not be a half bad idea to accept the offer of the bishop of Marseilles, France, to have his church (and all the rest of them, to make sure) searched for arms and ammunition. Why should a gunman cry “Persecution”?
The best proof that France supplied no weapons to Spain is found in the fact that at Irun, within a half mile of the French border, all the men were killed, and all the women and children were massacred by the rebel forces, whereas the town could not have fallen into rebel hands if the defenders had been able to secure munitions. In many of the trenches the militiamen were wiped out to the last man. One trench was defended by only one woman in charge of a machine gun. She stood the rebels off until her ammunition was exhausted and then made her escape to safety.
Hierarchy Going over the Brink
Spanish resistance to Fascism (Big Church, Big Business and Big Landowners) surprised almost everybody. The government financed itself by raids on the churches, collecting 20,000,000 pesetas in one bishop’s palace; in another place 1,000,000 pesetas from a fleeing priest. The rebels were in command of Ecija, but when one of their planes came down just outside of town, the two aviators were killed by the people before they could be rescued by troops.
A friend in Britain tells of a man in his neighborhood who was a Catholic. On a certain date he went to “church” and the priest prayed for the success of the rebels in Spain. The man got up, walked out, and has not been back since, and does not intend to return. After a Britisher has had enough of anything, it is best not to try to feed him too much through a tube in his nose.
Greatest Prophet
A five-minute talk by Judge Rutherford
A PROPHET is the servant of Jehovah God who utters God's word as he is commanded. The detailed explanation is found in the book Prophecy, which you should carefully study. Moses was a prophet of God and was sent to Egypt to declare the purpose of God. God caused Moses to write concerning things that would come to pass in the far distant future; therefore Moses was a servant of God. Concerning Moses it is written, at Hebrews 3:5: 'Moses was faithful in all His house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after.' Moses was a type foreshadowing the greatest of all prophets, to wit, Christ Jesus. When Moses, under the direction of Jehovah, addressed the Israelites, he said, in Deuteronomy 18:18, 19, that God would raise up a Prophet, of whom Moses was a type, and would put the right words in the mouth of that Prophet, and that it should come to pass that all who would not obey that Prophet should die. These words were quoted by the apostle Peter, at Acts 3:22. Who is that great Prophet, of whom Moses was a mere type? The Scripture answers, it is the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom God has committed all power in heaven and earth, and who is the rightful King. Concerning Him it is written, in Hebrews 3:1-3: "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house."
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