Consolation, November 30, 1938
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Contents
Jesuitized Germany (Part 1) 3
The Demon Back of Hitler 4
To Stuff the American People 7
Cardinal Innitzer Endorses Hitler 9
War the Principal Thing 10
The Massed Glint 11
The New Government 12
Swedish Sinuosities 12
Bethel Publisher Aboard Ship (IV) 12
Model Bible Study of the Air 14
Dickstein's Silly Measure 15
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford 17
"Revival of the Spirit of Religion" 17
Free Counsel for NAB News Review 18
Judge Rutherford's Letter to the NBC 18
Acorn Agency's Caustic Letter 18
Attorney Moyle Takes a Hand 20
The Mourners' Bench 21
Adventure of Two Little New Jersey Rabbits 22
Under the Totalitarian Flag 24
The Innocent Harlot 24
Selling Out the United States 27
British Comment 28
Judge Rutherford's Speech 28
World Convention 28
Freethinkers' Congress 29
The Deer—Cover Design 31
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CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, November 30, 1938 Number 501
Jesuitized Germany (In Two Parts—Part 1)
(Hitler and the German cardinal, Faulhaber, are in constant consultation with each other at Munich.)
IT COMES as no surprise to have the Nazi movement compared to the Jesuit system and to have a striking correspondency brought to notice. The London Catholic Herald says:
JESUITS "JUST LIKE NAZIS"
Yet another book has been written on the Jesuits. In The Jesuits, the author, F. A. Ridley, holds that "hundreds of pages of Hitler's Mein Kampf might have been taken straight from the text books of the Jesuit psychologists."
An astonishing parallel is developed between the Jesuits and the Nazis. Both the Fuhrer and the first General started their respective "movements" with six companions, both movements exact blind obedience from their members, "and have practised to an extraordinary degree all the methods and devices of propaganda to control mass psychology," etc., etc.
Another sinister fact is brought to light: the Jesuit system is originally derived from Islam. Even the motto of the Society and St. Ignatius's writings are almost the ipsissima verba of the spokesmen of Islamic sects. We recommend the book for comment from "a spokesman of the Jesuit sect."
The parallel is a deadly parallel; for as Jesuitism embodies all of the worst features of Catholicism, so Nazism appears to emphasize the worst side of the German temperament without the counter-balancing good qualities generally found in the German people.
Nor is the correspondency between Jesuitism and Nazism without an assignable cause, as is evident from the following from the Daily Telegraph of Sydney, Australia, under date of April 1, 1938:
A strange and sinister phenomenon, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment.
It is the task of Hitler, the emotional, to conquer the Germanic soul; it is the task of Goebbels, 40-year-old peasant-born intellectual, to subjugate the Germanic mind by a drum-fire propaganda which assaults eye and ear unceasingly, wearing down resistance and crumbling and destroying reason.
Trained in a Jesuit school, seven universities, he failed as a creative writer, turned to journalism, and, at 25, found and joined Hitler.
He founded Nazi branches in the Ruhr and Rhineland, and within four years was made Berlin leader and national propaganda chief.
He learnt from Rome the use of spectacle, music, color. Moscow supplied the inventions of propaganda cell, wall newspaper, radio. He added his own devices.
The origin of the official Nazi anthem is of a piece with the origin of Nazism itself, as the following item reveals.
Horst Wessel a Pimp
The American Guardian declares that Horst Wessel was a pimp, living off the earnings of prostitutes. He was killed in a barroom brawl, and because he was one of the first of the Nazis a song was composed in his honor; and that song is today the official Nazi anthem. Such is Nazism in all its glory.
To take good care of one's self is apparently one of the first principles of the good Nazi, as it is in the life of a member of the Roman Hierarchy. Not unmindful of the possibility that the decent element in Germany may rise up and throw off the hated Nazi yoke, Nazi leaders have tried to prepare for the evil day.
Waiting to be kicked out of Germany, Goebbels has a bank account in Lloyd's, London, in the name of his wife. Hess, Hitler's secretary, has an account in Riga in the name of Major Elster. Goering has one in London under his wife's maiden name and another in Stockholm under his first wife's maiden name. Streicher, Bruckner and Von Papen have money deposited abroad. All the principal Nazis are anxious, and may well be. But when Jehovah strikes, where is the bank account that will do anybody at all any good?
The better element in Germany is not in favor. Their sentiments are conveyed in expressions such as that made recently by Dr.
Ernest Wilhelm Meyer, sixteen years a member of the German diplomatic service, when he resigned as first secretary of the German embassy at Washington. He said:
Hitler and his régime have betrayed what I knew to be the lasting interests of the German fatherland. I could no longer conscientiously serve a government which I saw to be the foe of so many things I had been taught Germany stands for. The moral law and loyalty to the true German make surrender to national socialism impossible. I cannot do otherwise, whether as a German or as a Christian.
In passing, mention is made of the fact that the pope confesses his sins to a Jesuit priest, and while there appears to be no direct connection between pope and fuehrer, and there have even been some seeming slight divergencies between the two, the character of the Jesuit organization is such as to assure fairly good collaboration, at least for the present.
It would be in harmony with Jesuit tactics to put machinery in motion with a view to
Getting Rid of the Honest
In order to get rid of such of his diplomats as are honest and truthful Herr Hitler ordered 44 of them to return to Germany. As soon as they complied they were thrown into jail, and one of them, Blissmer, who had been in Moscow, was shot and his widow was forbidden to open his coffin—indicating previous torture.
The following statement has all the earmarks of Jesuitism and the dark ages which produced it, and which it in turn prolonged. The speaker, Gerhardt H. Seger, a German ace, was himself in one of Germany's unspeakable concentration camps:
Hitler purposely picks out sadists as heads of the concentration camps. Hundreds of people are flogged and beaten to death. I remember one incident—one chap in the same concentration camp with me who died in my arms—naked—his body so badly beaten that it was nothing but swellings and black and blue from the head to the feet—he died in my arms.
People do not dare do anything, say anything, look askance at anything, whisper so much as a word even to relatives visiting from the United States or other countries, for fear some word dropped will send them to jail. Each day brings the continued dread and fear that the door bell may ring—not for the milkman or the mailman as in this country, but for a storm trooper taking the citizen to some unknown concentration camp on a charge that is not known, for unknown violations of some alleged law, to be kept there for an unknown length of time. All mail in Germany is subject to be opened by any official of any local government.
Hitler's promises are worthless. He said, in August, 1933:
As long as I am chancellor of the Reich there will be no war, save possibly in the event of an invasion of our territory from without.
In May, 1935:
There are no territorial questions about which we will go to war.
On March 11, 1936:
My proposal for the conclusion of non-aggression pacts on the east and west of Germany was meant as a universal one. There is certainly no exception intended. It applies equally to Czechoslovakia and Austria.
Since these three lies were told both Czechoslovakia and Austria were swallowed alive, and the end is not yet.
The Demon Back of Hitler
The following paragraphs from Cavalcade, an English news weekly, set forth sufficiently well the fact that Hitler is demonized and that the whole German people are under hypnotic, i.e., demoniac, influence:
In the war Lance-Corporal Adolf Hitler, of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment, spent four undistinguished years doing the most menial of military jobs as an orderly or "runner". A whiff of gas put him in hospital just before the Armistice. Running true to form as a possible world-leader, he had a "vision" while hospitalized, in which he saw himself as the saviour of Germany. His comrades nicknamed him "ein Spinner" (crazy one). He later blossomed forth as a soap-box orator, preaching Socialism and anti-Semitism. His tub-thumping eloquence had fire. Only those who understand German, and have heard him, can realize the secret of Hitler's appeal to the masses. He talks plebeian nonsense with the hysterical eloquence of a religious fanatic.
The hierarchy around him have capitalized his gift of speech. Before he talks—as at Nuremberg—the mighty crowd is worked up to a pitch of expectancy that becomes almost unbearable. Music, the radio, theatrical lighting effects, perfect timing, are so skillfully handled that the audience is in a state of intense nervous excitement before the leader makes his dramatic entrance. Then he faces the microphones—in the use of which he is now an expert—and, starting slowly, his words become gradually more rapid, swelling into a torrent of impassioned speech, delivered by a gesticulating figure with a trance-like expression. It is a terrifying spectacle—hundreds of thousands of people literally mesmerised by a screaming demagogue.
Hitler is the psycho-analyst's perfect specimen.
He believes himself to be divinely inspired; he has a feminine streak of emotionalism; he is a poseur; has visions of grandeur; alternates between periods of elation, frenzied activity, lethargy and hysterical weeping; denies himself the pleasures and pastimes of normal men; at 49 is a confirmed misogynist [woman-hater].
G. Ward Price, European correspondent of the British Daily Mail, personal friend and confidant of Adolf Hitler, narrates that Hitler hears voices; which voices readers of this magazine know are the voices of fallen spirits, demons, devils, if you please. No doubt the principal voice which he hears is that of Gog, the Devil's own prime minister in the present distressing condition of human affairs. Hitler told Price that on one occasion during the World War a voice said to him audibly, "Get out of here"; and that he obeyed and in a moment a shell killed the fifteen other men who had been with him but who did not hear the warning voice of the unseen spokesman.
Hopeless Hysterical Piffle
Every German is now supposed to hold Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf in higher esteem than the Holy Scriptures, written under inspiration of the holy spirit of God, but Professor Andrew Browning, of Glasgow, who made a study of the Hitler production, declares that it is the most hopeless piffle, a lot of idiotic ejaculations, and a hysterical appeal to sentiment with no sense in it at all.
Yet the correspondency between Mein Kampf and Jesuit principles, already alluded to, argues that this "piffle" has a content of dangerous elements not easily dismissed by a wave of the hand.
Doubtless Hitler and his reign are highly esteemed by a certain element in Germany and elsewhere, and this esteem is sometimes ludicrously shown in instances such as the following, where a truckling attitude is made foolish by a lack of common sense:
"It's gonna be a small world"
New Glories for Adolf
It occasionally happens in the case of an old couple that live together for upward of half a century that when one dies the shock kills the other. This occurred in a village in Saxony, Germany, recently, and the pastor who conducted the funeral had no more sense than to say that this was a divine favor bestowed upon the old couple due to the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler: that since he came to power, God's grace was thus visibly with the German people.
So large a part does the radio play in the Nazi scheme of things that Nazidom might almost be referred to as a
Dictatorship by Wireless
Of all German households fifty-five percent now own the cheap so-called "people's sets" for receiving wireless. These sets, sold for 59 marks or shillings (about $15) are such an important part of the Nazi system of compelling all Germans to think alike that the aim is to put one in every home not Jewish. The tax collectors are forbidden to take them. The purpose is that when Hitler speaks the whole of Germany shall listen in, and woe betide him who does not.
To make sure that everyone listens when the demon-inspired Fuehrer speaks, hotels and restaurants are ordered not to permit patrons to pay their bills during one of these addresses. Listening-in is not by any means left to the option of the individual.
The real state of things is well set forth in an article by Otto D. Tolischus appearing in the New York Times recently. He says:
The National Socialist party has been united with the State by law. It is not, however, part of the State; rather the State is part of the party. The party is greater, and therefore above the State; it "commands" the State, supervises its work and spurs it onward. Thus the one-party State is reduced to an instrument of the party through which it works the people's will.
This will incarnates itself in the person of Adolf Hitler, Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor. Deriving his just powers, first from the consent of the governed, as demonstrated in periodic plebiscites, and second, from his manifest destiny to be the instrument of Providence, he is leader of the whole German people and, as such, head of both party and State. He is, in the words of Dr. Wilhelm Stuckard, constitutional expert of the government, "the supreme political leader of the people, supreme leader and highest superior of the Administration, supreme judge of the people, supreme commander of the armed forces, and the source of all law."
In other words, he combines in his person all executive, legislative and judicial powers; and, hedged by the divinity of such absolute power, like the Tenno of Japan he is not and cannot be an "organ" of the State, but is above the State; he knows no equals, only subordinates; he is master over the life of every German, and he is responsible to nobody but himself.
The manner in which Hitler elections are conducted explains why there appears so little opposition to the rule of Hitler, or rather so little opportunity to express dissent.
In the Hitler elections voters are handed cards. As the cards are collected they are put in piles of 100, with a list of voters' names and numbers for each pile. By counting the cards in order the persons who dare vote "No" are at once identified, and after that they are persecuted to the end.
Charges of Persecution Nonsense
The Associated Press carried a dispatch from Berlin in which a spokesman of the Nazi government denounced as nonsense the oft-repeated charges that the Catholic Church is being persecuted in Germany. Referring to a letter of the bishops making these charges he is quoted as saying:
All one has to do is to compare what the German state has done for the Catholic Church. The government is paying millions of marks annually to the Church and the fact that the reading of the letter was possible clearly demonstrates that there can be no talk of persecution. The government itself has the most earnest desire to protect the Church from anti-religious demonstrations.
Das Schwarze Korps, mouthpiece of Hitler's Schutzstaffel bodyguard, has called upon priestly complainers to "name a country in which within so few years so many churches and cloisters were built, particularly with State allowance, as in Germany since 1933".
When Hitler came to Nuremberg all church bells, Catholic and Protestant, rang for an hour. The London Catholic Herald says "they HAD to". Well, the three Hebrews, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, "HAD" to fall down before Nebuchadnezzar, but they DIDN'T. The very language of the Herald tells the story, and shows the Roman Hierarchy without manhood and without courage. Their time of stress will come, however; and the same paper elsewhere says that a plebiscite is contemplated in which the people will be asked to say, "Do you wish to remain loyal to the Fuehrer or the Pope?" The Herald says that if such a plebiscite is taken, "only appalling results could ensue and irreparable damage would be done."
◆ Here is hoping the plebiscite is taken, and the sooner the better. The Hitler crowd know that the Hierarchy are hypocrites, and wish to show them up. It is a family quarrel among racketeers and ought to be interesting and illuminative.
Working Up Sob Stories
At Salzburg, Germany, is a monastery building that is German state property. The State decided to make use of the property and ordered the monks to vacate. The State offered the services of professional movers, but the monks said they would do the moving themselves. When the due time arrived the monks, in order to attract public sympathy, threw their furniture from the third-story windows into the courtyard, where it was smashed.
All so-called 'priests' and 'ministers' in Germany are compelled to take the oath of loyalty and obedience to Hitler, and thus to put on their garments of Baal (2 Kings 10 : 18-25), or resign, or go to prison.
Further, administration of Protestant church property in Germany is now wholly in the hands of State functionaries who are at liberty to sell it or otherwise dispose of it as they see fit. But the holdings of the Roman Catholic Church have not been and will not be confiscated, though they are extensive and many of these holdings are not used for religious purposes.
Moreover, Herr Buerckel, Hitler's commissar for Austria, in answer to a newspaper-man's inquiry, stated emphatically that there would be no confiscation of the property of the Roman Catholic Church. Of course not!
But the Hierarchy is not satisfied. It wants more, including the privilege of continuing its monastic brothels. The Catholic Herald, London, expresses its hope for complete non-interference in the religious business of the Hierarchy, in these words:
If the spell of the splendour of the Habsburg past steals more and more over Hitler, born Austrian as he is, the whole orientation of Nazi policy will be changed and religious peace for the Catholic Church in Greater Germany (and this seems the only hope) will come as a consequence of a realisation on Herr Hitler's part of the dynamic contribution Catholicism still has to make to the new Greater Germany as it had to the great Holy Roman Empire which drove back the Turks.
It is the only hope: it is the position on the issue as von Papen saw it and as Seyss-Inquart sees it, even possibly as Cardinal Innitzer sees it.
Given the fact that Catholics themselves in Germany, Italy and France are largely to blame, it is useless to take up a purely negative and critical attitude towards Hitler, Mussolini, Franco. The present position must be accepted, religious peace must be found, and then Catholics can begin again to make their contribution to the building up of the new Germany, the new Italy and the new Spain.
To Stuff the American People
To stuff the American people with the nonsensical idea that there is any real friction between Hitler and the pope, newspapers in this land were expected to believe that 10,000 uniformed Storm Troopers, on July 30, went to Ruttenburg, total population 9,000, invaded Bishop Sproll's home, broke his street windows, set fire to his bedroom and threw his prayer book into the street, but quickly left when 80 policemen from Stuttgart arrived and restored order. Now just imagine readers of the New York Times expected to believe such perfectly pure piffle. In the first place, 10,000 people could hardly get into the little town of Ruttenburg; and even if they did they could not all make an attack on one house; and even if they made an attack they could not be chased away by 80 police. How silly! The Times should quit publishing such patent and foolish Roman Catholic propaganda.
Somewhat similar stories concerning Cardinal Innitzer in Austria have recently been played up in American papers. It is almost certain these stories are circulated, under the supervision of the Hierarchy's Jesuit agents, to offset in some measure the telling effect of Judge Rutherford's exposé of the Hierarchy's co-operation with Nazi as well as Fascist totalitarianism.
The stories of the Nazi attack on Innitzer, while he was saying his "Now I lay me", were nicely dressed up. The Nazis are reported to have thrown prayer books out of the window, after breaking said windows, and to have even burned crucifixes (probably provided for that purpose in advance). But it all sounds phoney, what with 90 percent of the Austrian people being reputedly Catholics. In any event, Hitler was said to have been much annoyed by the rioting, during which the rioters are said to have shouted, "Away with the priests! To Dachau [concentration camp] with Innitzer!" Hitler appears not to share these sentiments; NOT YET!
New York Times, front page, October 9, 1938, scare headlines two columns wide (with a story 2 1/2 columns long following them), were as follows:
Vienna Nazi mob storms Cardinal Innitzer's home; he is reported injured; windows smashed; prelate is said to have been cut by glass as he prays in chapel.
New York World-Telegram, October 10, 1938:
It was established today that Cardinal Innitzer, far from being injured, was not even in the palace during Saturday's storming. At 7:30 p.m., well before the attack started, he left to visit the monastery in the suburb of Waehring, where he remained until the rioting was over, and was believed to have been unaware of the attack throughout.
What joy it must have been to some tool of the Hierarchy to prepare that 2 1/2 columns of slop for the New York Times, so that Cardinal Innitzer could play the part of a martyr and the suckers that read the Times could continue to believe that the Hierarchy is an object of persecution in Germany!
New York Times, October 10, 1938, Associated Press Dispatch:
The Cardinal suffered a forehead wound from a piece of flying glass last night as he knelt in his private chapel. . . . Parishioners wondered how the Cardinal had escaped with only a forehead wound, suffered when a window of his chapel was smashed by a stone.
Caught with the Goods
New York Times, October 11, 1938 (a day after the whole world knew that Innitzer was not in the palace and therefore not hurt):
The agency Dienst aus Deutschland said in an inspired article from Berlin that Herr Buerckel had taken vigorous steps against demonstrations, including that of Saturday night, when the Cardinal was cut by flying glass in the stoning of his palace in St. Stephen’s Square.
New York Journal-American, October 10, contained an International News Service dispatch that “the prelate had been unconfirmedly reported slightly hurt”; which is merely another way of telling the truth that he was not hurt at all.
An Associated Press dispatch from Vienna, dated October 13, published in the Washington Star of the same date, again made reference to the untruth the Hierarchy is so anxious to put across, when it said:
Windows were broken, the interior damaged and the cardinal wounded by a thrown rock.
An Associated Press dispatch from Vienna dated October 13, published in the New York Times of October 14, peddled the old lie once more in this sentence:
Windows of the archiepiscopal palace were shattered with stones and the Cardinal, at prayer in his private chapel, suffered a forehead wound.
This prayer-gag is being worked to a finish. The United Press, in a Vienna dispatch dated October 13, published in the New York Daily News for October 14, told of the later crowd of Nazis, indignant at Innitzer’s political methods, who dragged a gallows to the door and wanted him hung. How he could be hung on what The Associated Press said was a “sign swinging from a miniature gibbet”, published the same day in the New York Times, was not stated. The Daily News had it in a scarehead two columns wide and three lines deep that “250,000 Nazis lug gallows to Cardinal’s door” and that the cardinal “knelt in prayer in one of the smaller chapels of the palace as the mob surged outside demanding that he be hanged or arrested”. The Daily News is always eager to grovel before the Hierarchy; as eager as the Times.
Stupid Lies Repeated ad Nauseam
The Osservatore Romano of October 14 had the Vatican’s full two-column story of the riot. It did not have the gall to repeat the lie that Cardinal Innitzer was in the palace and was hurt in the forehead at the time of the riot, but still sought the glory of the impression of martyrdom by the evasive statement:
If it was possible to protect the Cardinal from the fury of the rioters, who uttered the most violent and threatening insults against him, violence of the gravest type was being perpetrated in the near-by chapter house of the cathedral.
President Roosevelt and the man in the moon were protected from the rioters for the same reason as Cardinal Innitzer. None of them was there at the time. But you would not expect a clerical organ to tell the simple truth on any subject at all. Now, would you?
The “Irresponsibles” who broke some windows of Cardinal Innitzer’s palace in Vienna, and are alleged to have hurt Innitzer himself while that gentleman (according to the newspapermen) “was reciting prayers in his private chapel” did not do anything that offended anybody seriously. Arrested at the time the windows were broken, they were dismissed the next day. All together, it made a nice little skit to keep up the public delusion that the Hierarchy is being persecuted. As a matter of fact, Innitzer was and is one of Hitler’s strongest admirers. Police are protecting him from further annoyance.
The tale still continued to be told as late as October 19, carefully phrased, as in the Times-Picayune of Romanized New Orleans, which referred to “the stoning of the archiepiscopal palace . . . in which Cardinal Innitzer was slightly injured”.
Nor is it here intended to convey the idea that these stories are manufactured out of whole cloth. Jesuits do not lie as crudely as that. Doubtless there is considerable opposition to the Hierarchy and much suppressed and partly expressed ill feeling on the part of the garden variety of Nazi, who do not see through the Nazi-Jesuit scheme of things.
Such get out of hand every now and then, as in the instance of a pack of paint-smearers who forgot to stick to the assigned job of smearing up the business places of Jews, went to a village near Berlin and began smearing up the business place of a Catholic priest, smearing upon the walls of the Catholic church a picture of a gallows with a priest hanging upon it. The Jesuits, the Hierarchy and the pope will yet be sorry for backing the Nazis.
It is fun to hear the gangsters talk about one another. Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler’s ideologist, in an address in the Reich Culture Chamber, referring to “frightful mess” of immorality among the clergy of Ostmark (Austria), said:
We have no reason for giving the world this picture of the moral decadence of the clergy, and would rather regulate this matter among ourselves. Reasonable men, like Cardinal Innitzer—although I would not even trust him out of sight—will, under pressure of established circumstances, find themselves compelled to submit, more and more, to National-Socialist leadership.
The Religious News Service, in a dispatch dated London, September 17, quotes at length from an address by Alfred Rosenberg, given in Berlin, in the Reich Cultural Chamber, in which that gentleman stated that it is his own and Hitler’s conviction that the Catholic and Protestant Confessional churches in their present forms must disappear from the life of Germany. Rosenberg stated that the clergy that cannot be won over will have their financial arteries cut. Without a doubt, religion is in for a bad time in Germany.
To curry favor with the Nazis, particularly in Austria, some 2,000 Catholic priests there are now, according to reports, demanding some changes in the setup of the priest business. They want to conduct their masses in German instead of Latin. They want, instead of an ordinary cardinal, a cardinal primate for all Germany who shall have the same standing with the pope as the primates of Poland and Hungary. These priests also wear the swastika publicly, pray for Hitler and preach favorably about him. They hope to increase their ranks to 5,000 soon.
“Christian Swastika”
A sculptured swastika found in a Rumanian monastery is being widely publicized all over Europe as illustrating the essential harmony between Hitler and the pope. In the center is supposed to be Jesus on the “cross”, above Him a long-haired old man supposed to be God, and above that the form of a dove representing the holy spirit. At the top right are the Holy Scriptures, and at the left a warrior or something, while at the bottom right there are priests, and the bottom left, what do you think?—“souls in ‘purgatory’.”
It is somewhat of a joke that Belgian archaeologists, investigating a Jewish synagogue in the ruined city of Apamea, Asia Minor, found a number of swastika designs in the floor (but they didn’t have any of the above-mentioned special features!). All of which goes to show . . .
The way in which the Jews are being double-crossed will be shown later.
Hitler was once a choirboy in the Roman Catholic abbey of Lambach, in Austria, and he took the design for his swastika from the coat-of-arms of the abbot of Lambach; so says the “Reverend Father” Canisius Bluemel, O.S.R., of St. Joseph’s Abbey, Covington, Louisiana. Bluemel and Hitler were schoolmates.
Cardinal Innitzer Endorses Hitler
When Adolf Hitler made his triumphal entry into Austria, in March, 1938, after his absorption of Austria, Cardinal Innitzer, the chief standard-bearer of hypocrisy in Austria, was among the first to visit him and pay him honor.
Not only did Cardinal Innitzer “Heil Hitler” in his own handwriting, and write Cardinal Bertram of Breslau that the Austrian Hierarchy would continue to co-operate with Hitler, but he caused the swastika flag to be raised on the Vienna cathedral.
March 27 Innitzer’s declaration in favor of the union of Austria with Germany was read in all Austrian churches and instructed all Catholics in Austria to vote “Ja” in favor of the “Anschluss”, that is, the Nazification of Austria. Shortly afterward the Vatican radio station and newspaper denied that Innitzer had Papal authority for his declaration in favor of the Hitler gang. And within twenty-four hours the pope repudiated the Vatican broadcast. Ho-hum!
Von Papen, who betrayed Austria into the hands of the Nazis and then conveniently disappeared, is one of the pope’s chamberlains. But, of course, he did not have the pope’s approval either. Nobody in the Hierarchy deigns to pay the least attention to the pope, apparently; especially not when anything really important happens. Wonder how long the Jesuits think they can get away with that kind of stuff. You have probably heard the story of the boy who cried “Wolf!” a little too often.
In the overthrow of the Austrian government the Hierarchy also made use of the police (Austria is 90-percent nominally Catholic). On the night of March 11, 1938, when the four years’ conspiracy came to a head, the police in the streets of Vienna suddenly donned the swastika armlet and attacked loyal Austrian citizens and Austria was gone. Well, if nine-tenths of the Austrians are Catholic—and nobody denies that—they had a right, if they wanted to, to join Hitler, perhaps; but why did they want to? Because there is a fundamental agreement between pope and fuehrer, between Nazism and Catholicism; they have a common father. (John 8:44) But the parenthood does not make for permanent family harmony, and signs of discord and disaffection are in evidence.
Meanwhile Dr. Schuschnigg, former Austrian chancellor, is in the hands of Nazi tormentors. A well-authenticated report has it that when the Nazis seized Austria they confined Dr. Schuschnigg in a room where they assaulted him by radio, pouring out a constant stream of personal abuse and invective in the foulest terms. Twice von Schuschnigg smashed the receiving sets, until finally one was fixed in the ceiling out of his reach. Such is Nazism. In Vienna the Nazis unveiled a tablet to the memory of the 13 murderers who assassinated Dollfuss.
Some Material Good and Ill
It is necessary that a totalitarian state should have something to substantiate its claim to distinction and to obscure as far as possible the fact that spiritual and moral decline accompanies its operation.
At noon, June 15, 1938, at sixteen different points in Berlin, road drills and concrete mixers began the work of reconstructing the city. Some of the plans envisage more than 600 years to bring them to completion.
Hitler’s new chancellery has one hall 500 feet long and 400 office rooms for the different departments of his government. The flunkies will be dressed in liveries costing $175 each, one feature of which will be white silk stockings specially made for them in London. Their tail coats will be ornamented in front with silver frogging. In this display Nazism again shows its essential similarity to Roman Catholicism, which likewise stresses display at the cost of truth, goodness, righteousness.
The wolstra mill at Leipzig, covering twenty acres, is believed to be one of the greatest triumphs of technical skill achieved by man. Streams with artificial currents are used to push the timber about, and it is seldom touched by human hands. In actual practice the Germans use a mixture of 70 percent of this artificial wool with 30 percent of natural wool, and the finished product cannot be distinguished from the genuine woolen article, though it is actually much inferior. So Germans today wear wooden shirts, shortened two inches by government decree; their shoes are made of paper; their soap, from coal products; and their pipes of rosin. German bakers are forbidden to sell bread until 24 hours after it is baked. This cuts down consumption, and is said to be more healthful. Sheets and blankets are made of cellulose; shoe polish, of coffee grounds; flour, of corn meal and potatoes; bricks, out of garbage residue; plumbing, from a celluloid-like substance; edible fats, from coal; wallets and slippers, of fish skins. Electric light bulbs are salvaged and made over.
Denis Weaver, back from Berlin, tells, in the London News Chronicle, of the experiences of a friend with a pair of new German shoes. The shoes were expensive, and nice to look at, but the first time they were used in the rain their owner got his feet wet. The soles had been made of compressed rubbish. Also, Weaver found the bread doughy and of dubious content, the butter whitish and of sickly taste, and markets where, on certain days, one could not get fruit or even onions.
Buna, the new substitute for rubber, is said not to be so good. It is costly, dangerous and inflammable, and will explode in a wreck.
Since the advent of the Nazi régime the German people have been eating horse and dog meat in ever-increasing quantities. Over 100,000 horses and 3,000 dogs are eaten annually, but not by Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, Faulhaber, et al.
German employers are told by the government what price they may pay for raw material, what price they may charge for the finished product, how much they may produce, where they may sell their product, what dividends they may receive from the business, what wages shall be paid to the workers, and the conditions under which the men may work.
In August the Reich Bureau for Employment announced that it had 310,000 vacant posts, despite the fact that 120,000 farm hands had been brought into the country from abroad. Looks as if the best device the Devil has to keep a nation busy were to get them on their toes to murder their fellow men in war.
War the Principal Thing
War is the big thing in Nazidom. It operates in an atmosphere that is perpetually suggestive of war. The babes in school are familiarized with warlike terms, ideas and ideals.
In a widely used German arithmetic, used for the young, occurs the following:
A squadron of 46 bombing aeroplanes throws bombs over an enemy town. Every aeroplane carries 500 bombs, weighing 1500 kilogrammes each. Calculate the weight of all the bombs together. How many fires will start if every third bomb explodes and every twentieth causes a fire?
On this point, Gerhardt H. Seger, former German ace, says:
The children are even regimented and are a definite part in Hitler's plan of future war for the acquisition of Austria, Poland, Switzerland and a large portion of Europe containing Germans or people of German descent. The children learn to add—one and one make two, but not using apples, but like this: one bomb and one bomb make two bombs. Even the examples in the arithmetic book are on military subjects such as: "If a German war airplane capable of traveling 200 miles per hour had to fly to a given point 500 miles distant, drop bombs and return, how long would it require for the trip?"
The beautiful German folk lore is wiped from the text books, especially that by Heinrich Heine, who tried so hard to promote peace and understanding between France and Germany. The Hitler régime, because of the popularity of Heine's Die Lorelei, still prints it in the school books but underneath the title are these two words: "Author unknown." [Since then, the Nazis have entirely discontinued its use, because Heine was not an Aryan.]
Jordan Churchill, an American teaching at Rugby, England, recently visited German schools and found one class being taught:
You must believe, boys, and realize that God and Hitler are working together in co-operation, that God speaks through Hitler. Therefore, Hitler is inspired by God, and everything he does and says is God working through him.
Hitler's Big Guns
At a parade in honor of Admiral Horthy, dictator of Hungary, Hitler had a collection of the largest guns ever moved through streets. There were four ten-inch guns, 30 feet in length, each accompanied by a crew of 30 men and so huge that each gun occupied five trailers. These guns have a range of 17 miles. There were also sixteen-inch howitzers, double-barreled machine guns, extra-heavy tanks and new types of pontoons in a procession that took two hours to pass the reviewing stand.
The new liquid-air bombs thrown upon Barcelona are said to have killed persons an eighth of a mile away from the place where they struck and to have stunned others a quarter of a mile away. A bomb that lit in a central plaza killed everybody there, including all on three streetcars and two buses. The bombs, made in Germany, are considered the world's worst killers.
The Scriptures tell the people of God, "The joy of Jehovah is your strength." Hitler tells the people of Germany that they get strength through joy, by which he means that every German not in a concentration camp is now busy making munitions, and therefore earning enough to live on and enough more to participate in the machine-made gala days of dictatordom. Indeed, the munition makers of all the world are busy, thus showing that their efforts to break up every disarmament conference have not been in vain. It is claimed that the sales of International Murderers, Inc., reached $3,800,000,000 in 1932, rose to $5,000,000,000 in 1934, jumped to $8,800,000,000 in 1935, catapulted to $13,000,000,000 in 1936, rocketed to $15,500,000,000 in 1937, and competed to $17,600,000,000 in 1938. All munition makers will be destroyed in Armageddon.
Publicists are taking note of the fact that in Hitler's drive on Austria not one of the heavy lorries got through to Vienna; their course was marked by a trail of flat tires and burned-out bearings. This took some of the wind out of Hitler's sails and made him, perhaps, more cautious about invading Czechoslovakia.
When that last little steal was planned, all German property was conscripted, as a preparedness measure, the decree requisitioning stores of forage, motor fuel, water, gas, electric current, buildings and factories, for the use of German armies on the march or during maneuvers. This was a natural corollary of the conscription of all men and women; in other words, the possession of the individual by the state.
Conscription provides that specialists in any line may be automatically transferred by the government to any part of Germany, or to any line of work where their services may be required or used to advantage to the German state.
The Massed Glint
The massed glint is the name of the occasion, in the fall of the year, when 40,000 singing boys of 18, armed with spades, and 17,000 service girls parade before Hitler to the pealing of church bells. The boys are representative of 500,000 from every walk of life, who give six months reclaiming wastelands, draining swamps, erecting dikes, planting forests or building roads. It is the intention that the whole nation shall pass through this school. No exceptions are admissible.
(To be continued) THE NEW GOVERNMENT
Swedish Sinuosities
It is with eagerness I receive Consolation and The Watchtower, and with a greedy heart that I peruse its pages, as each one makes its appearance. However, if I am not actually present when the mail is brought in, I may not get my paper right away, as it is usually not brought into the living-room and placed on the table with other mail, but chucked on a high shelf in the kitchen. It took me some time to catch on to this, but you may judge my delight when I sometimes, feeling I should have received my paper, run my hand along the shelf and, lo, there it is. [Persecution fires, perhaps.—Ed.]
Transcription meeting in Finland
Prejudice here is very strong against many phases of the truth, such as denial of the "immortality of the soul" theory, "hell-fire" and other "fundamental" beliefs which are wholly unscriptural. These errors are deeply entrenched, and to such an extent that the latest translators have in places made the text according to tradition. For instance, 1 Corinthians 15:45 in the 1917 version reads, "The first man Adam became a living creature (or being) with soul," whereas in the older version it read that "man became a living soul". The commentary at the end is exceedingly poor. In places the correct meaning of a word may be given in the explanation, as in "paradise". Belief is expressed first; correct translation follows. The traditional belief is presented in such a way that the reader naturally accepts the latter as the correct interpretation. These translations are made by men of the state church, unquestionably.
The people seem to be in a quandary in regard to the many dictatorships, war preparations in the various countries, and different phases of the general unrest. The newspapers we receive here are not subjected to any sort of censorship, but boldly expose the wickedness of the aggression in Spain, the tactics of Mussolini, the brutality of Hitler to a certain extent, and the absolute fiasco of the Russian attempt. The so-called "religious papers" do not hold forth any solution, but express hope for world peace, still. These papers have a strong influence; they continue to establish people in error.
I hear of no compulsory flag salutes here. The national emblem is often hoisted on a festival occasion in the home, such as an anniversary or a wedding, when the people are in a happy mood.—Emilia Johnson, Sweden.
Bethel Publisher Aboard Ship (IV)
◆ On another ship of the same British line as the Monarch there was great opposition. One angry steward flung a bucket of water, but missed. Another threatened me with a quick trip over the side, but didn't get away with this either. Still another took it upon himself to follow me around and try to drown out the phonograph by excelling even the common hog in uncouth sounds. In spite of all this there were several honest-hearted who wouldn't be intimidated, and took books. And then came a tribute to the work that made all the foregoing feeble attempts to stop the witness pale into the shade. I had noticed, on going from place to place on the ship, that one particular seaman had always stayed close by. He had asked many questions about the work, all of which I had answered the best I could. Finally he turned to me and said, "You know, we're a rough bunch on this ship. We've been all over the world and we've seen many strange sights. But I for my part believe you have the truth there." Not another word would he say; but that was enough.
On the Northern Prince the engineers, mostly Catholic, were highly incensed after Enemies had been left on the previous trip. One in particular got greatly worked up at what he termed our "nerve" in coming around with books that showed up the Catholic religion. I offered there and then to debate the question with him from his own Bible; but he said he had no time, and refused. Of course, he hadn’t a leg to stand on, and knew it. Many times the same thing has happened on other ships, and they have always been invited to give their side of the argument, but the end has ever been the same as in the above instance. On another of the Prince ships an officer took exception to several statements made on one of the records, and said so in no uncertain terms. I read out to him something a little stronger from Cure that he couldn’t gainsay, and he went away muttering, to the great delight of the rest.
Here on the Northern Prince again it is the colored messroom attendants that really see the depth of the truth and always take what they can. One of them has taken several records from me.
They now have something to live for. As one put it, “I can see that there are just two things today that are really important, religion and Christianity, and they are direct opposites.” Last time I was there this same good man rushed off to find an engineer to whom he had been talking the truth. Overjoyed, he returned with the engineer in tow, who readily took Enemies and Cure. Truly the Lord ‘uses the weak things of this world to confound the wise’.
Transcription meeting in Britain
On another British ship it is only the skipper, strangely enough, who is interested. He told me last time that I was welcome on his ship any time. Right gladly did he take the latest combination and listened to the record in his stateroom next the bridge.
Here is an experience that very well illustrates the wicked, vindictive spirit that animates the agents of the Roman Hierarchy and their great determination to stop the truth from going out, by fair means or foul. At one pier a Catholic watchman had done his level best to pick a fight with the witness and cause trouble. It was the usual thing to engage in much argument with this man before an entrance to the pier could be obtained. There was no trouble with the other watchmen on duty with this line, and they always wished success and more power to the work. Finally things got so bad that a visit was made to the general manager of the steamship line in question and the whole facts laid before him. He was sympathetic and promised to intervene, and doubtless did so. Anyway, all went well for a time, and then this poor fish started his usual howl again, this time demanding a pass before giving admittance. After a short delay a pass was obtained from the company. When the watchman saw this he said: “All right, we’ll have to find out some other way to stop you fellows from coming here.” On being asked to repeat this for the benefit of the customs man, he did so, thus showing his supreme disregard for law and order. Beyond a few snarls and sneers now there’s nothing more he can do, and the work goes merrily on to his chagrin. The other day he had the galling experience of having to stand and listen to the “Enemies” record played on invitation from the customs official. The Lord will have His truth delivered and the people of honest heart must get the message, “harlot” or no “harlot”.
Several of the British freighters have libraries on board for the benefit of the officers, and many times I have observed one or more of our books therein. This paves the way for more literature, as might be guessed. On one such ship a set of five books was left with an officer whose interest had been aroused after reading Creation from their library, and which book had been left by some faithful worker while the ship was in port in New Zealand.
On a Canadian freighter two records were run for the seamen, who were hot and dusty from unloading great rolls of paper shipped from the land of the caribou. At the finish they all trooped out without saying a word; and I was just preparing to pack up and leave, thinking they were opposed, when back they all came, some with Canadian money, some with American, and much literature was left there. These hard-bitten silent men had recognized the truth when they heard it, and wanted the books for their own. On many British, and other foreign ships too, for that matter, it is necessary to deal in the local currency and change this to American money with the purser or other official before going ashore. This increases placements of literature.
Quite often the officers on one ship will send the books to their brother officers on another ship of the same line, and it is no new thing to find a ship already prepared in this way. The men, too, are beginning to see the difference between the Watch Tower Society and the missions, and the fame of the Enemies book is spreading from ship to ship like wildfire. The customs men, also, are talking amongst themselves about our work, which impresses them very deeply. They are able to help out by putting in a good word with a watchman that might be dubious about passing the worker through to the ships.
The present world crisis and the consequent shipments of war munitions to other lands is causing much discussion. On a British ship some officers were considerably interested in the work and said that at that time their ship was loaded with a cargo of tank plates from the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The holes for the rivets were already drilled: all the inoffensive Japs had to do was to set them up, put in the motors and the guns, no doubt already supplied by the Vickers-Armstrong company, with the bishop of Hereford to rub in the necessary "holy oil", and let them go 'in the interests of world peace'.
On the ships of the Scotch Anchor line the Roman Hierarchy has done its work well. Originally with some semblance of Protestantism, this line within the past year has sold over to Catholic interests and now carries a priest on each of its ships. Masses are said daily, not once, but many times. There is bitter feeling on the ships of this line between the Catholic element and those who still like to think for themselves. The line has refused a pass, but the ships are worked nevertheless, and several were covered with Cure and Enemies in the recent campaign. There are many honest persons there who have no use for the Hierarchy and its methods, and are not afraid to say so. The Catholics raise the usual cry of "Reds!" and "Communists!" as soon as they come in contact with the truth. Asked how to explain why these books, if Communistic, should be banned in Russia itself, they are silent and shortly change the subject. It has frequently amazed me considerably to find on these vessels, as indeed on all others, so many people of good will who are so completely in harmony with our work and recognize it as the truth and yet have never heard of it before. It seems to show very definitely that the Lord himself is "bringing" these people to His organization, even as He said He would do, and we are now privileged to come along with the food they so much need at just the right time.—Eric W. Symondson, New York.
Model Bible Study of the Air
Ever mindful of the public interest, convenience and necessity, Watchtower Radio WBBR, of Brooklyn, New York, offers its listeners a unique program feature designated "Model Bible Study of the Air". The program, a weekly feature at 7:30 Tuesday evenings, is an open discussion of vital questions considered from the Bible viewpoint. It is not a "religious" meeting, but rather a sincere effort on the part of the participants to search out the Truth in the light of what the Scriptures teach. Free from all sectarianism or creedal fetters, the discussion is uncensored and entirely open to present the Truth. Each study centers around a five-minute recorded lecture carefully prepared by Judge Rutherford, foremost Bible authority of modern times, and is conducted by a competent 'study leader' who directs the questions and answers along the lines of the subject matter under consideration. The Bible, recognized as final authority on all questions, is copiously cited. Thus at a time when there is such universal ignorance of the Bible, the "Model Bible Study of the Air" seems a commendable service to all persons of good will who long for the Truth in a world of lies. Those fortunate enough to be able to hear WBBR will readily attest to the effectiveness of this method of studying and gaining a better understanding of the world's greatest book, the Bible, especially as its prophecy and doctrine sheds so much light on current world happenings.
12,996,571 Hurried to Church
◆ Impatient lady to Jehovah's witness: "I have no time to talk to you; I have to hurry to get ready to go to church." "That is too bad, lady; there are millions of young men moldering in their graves because they were in too big a hurry to get to church." "How is that?" "12,996,571 went and heard the clergy say they should go kill their fellow men; but THEY got killed instead — in the World War."
(To be continued) California and Hawaii
Dickstein’s Silly Measure
House Joint Resolution 519, introduced by Congressman Dickstein, and now pending in Congress, would inflict a penalty of five years in jail and a $5,000 fine for mailing or taking from the mails “papers, pamphlets, magazines, periodicals, books, pictures and writings of any kind, and every article or thing designed or adapted or intended to cause racial or religious hatred or bigotry or intolerance, or to, directly or indirectly, incite to racial or religious hatred or bigotry or intolerance”.
Sounds laudable until you start thinking it over. Under this law an editor would run the risk of a $5,000 fine and five years in jail for adverse discussion of Communism, Nazism or Fascism. How easy it would be to make the charge that any article upon those political questions was “adapted to cause racial hatred”!
And think of the religious publications! It would be no trouble at all to jail many editors with the charge of bigotry and intolerance, because those who expound their doctrines vigorously would become victims of a rigid interpretation of Dickstein’s law.
Why, you wouldn’t even be permitted to send the Bible through the mails. For the Good Book has things to say about a “generation of vipers”, warned to “flee from the damnation of hell”. Even Christ pronounced a woe upon “hypocrites”. “For,” said He, “ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.” Even the Savior spoke about those who “make clean the outside of the cup and the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess”. He also criticized certain religious leaders who are “like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness”.—Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel.
All in Knowing How
◆ At Redwood City, California, Jimmie Saunders, jailed as a vagrant, was discovered to have his neck out of joint. A chiropractor snapped the vertebrae back in place and Jimmie suddenly came to himself, knew who he was, where he came from in Ohio, and wanted to know why he was in jail. His injury, probably suffered in an automobile mishap, had taken 2 1/2 years out of his life. His wife did not know what had become of him, and is glad to have him back.
Panning Consolation’s Winter Covers
◆ Regarding the winter cover designs: I can never forget the shivering that I endured in cold countries, where I shivered most of my life. When one has to sit on a roof shingling in wintertime, when all his fingers are thumbs and numb with cold, and water freezing at his nose, then are all the pleasures of winter snowed under.
Please give me Honolulu, where I can sweat the year round. I would rather be a pauper here (there are many—thanks to the missionaries) than a millionaire in any cold climate. I am not complaining about the wisdom of the Creator in giving summer and winter. The missionaries came here with boatloads of “hell-fire” to scare the natives out of this paradise into a heaven of hypocrisy. Now they are in poverty. Aloha, Hawaii.—Jas. S. Watson.
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