Consolation, October 18, 1939
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Contents
The Pope’s Responsibility for the New War (Part 1) 3
The Desire to Be Umpire 4
Hundreds of Thousands of Prisoners 4
“The Sufferings Left Behind” 5
Witness Continues Despite Opposition 5
Hitler Guided by Demons 6
Could a Whole People Worship a Liar? 6
Inordinate Vanity and Cowardice 7
Bedtime Stories of Persecution 8
“More Food for Apes” 9
Vain Boasts of Patriotism 10
The Rearming of Germany 10
Preparations for Big Push in Britain 12
America to Go Down Also 13
Gasparri to Put It Over 13
“The Coughlin Terror” 14
Fighting for Liberty in Hubbard, Ohio 15
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
The American Legion 16
Italy—“Mare Nostrum”; Loves to Kill 20
The New Government
Pioneering in Old Kentucky 25
Dog-Collar Religion in Iowa 25
Pioneer Experiences 26
Shintoism in Japan and in Korea 27
British Comment 28
Checking Up on a Jesuit 31
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Definitions
Socialism: If you own two cows, you give one to your neighbor.
Communism: You give both cows to the government and government gives you back some of the milk.
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Too Bad He Lisped
“Sad about the disappearance of Prof. Hill,” said James, polishing his brassie. “He was a profound thinker.”
“Yes—always thinking, no matter where he was,” replied another clubman. “Fancy, the last time I saw him we were bathing, and he suddenly called out, ‘I’m thinking! I’m thinking!’ ”
“You idiot!” roared James. “The professor lisped.”—Kansas City Star.
One Way to Find Out
The fat man and his wife were returning to their seats in the theater after the intermission.
“Did I tread on your toes as I went out?” he asked a man at the end of a row.
“You did,” replied the other grimly, expecting at least an apology.
The fat man turned to his wife.
“All right, Mary,” he said, “this is our row.”
—Labor.
Help! Murder!
A young lady not familiar with the switching language of railroad men chanced to be walking near a depot where a freight train was being made up. One of the brakemen shouted: “Jump on her when she comes by, run her down by the elevator and cut her in two and bring the head end up by the depot.”
“Help! Murder!” screamed the young lady as she fainted and fell into the arms of the conductor.
Courtesy of a Chesterfield
Farmer: “Didn’t you see the notice, ‘Private; No Fishing Allowed’?”
Angler: “I never read anything marked ‘Private’.” CONSOLATION
“And in His name shall the nations hope.”—Matthew 12:21, A.R.V.
Volume XXI Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, October 18, 1939 Number 524
The Pope’s Responsibility for the New War
(In Three Parts—Part 1)
Hitler in St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, Berlin
THE ease and frequency with which the “blessings” of the “church” have been showered upon Mussolini, Hitler and Franco for their separate or joint campaigns in Ethiopia, Albania, the Saar, the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Memel, Danzig, and Spain, and fifteen centuries of European history, prove that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is the greatest mischief-maker on the planet.
While it is not averse to ruling directly, as, for example, at the racket headquarters at Vatican City, yet it gets better results when it has its faithful sons in positions of responsibility as kings, dictators or presidents where they can be played one against the other to suit the circumstances of the hour. Satan’s world is always in disorder, and it is in this disorder that the Vatican has its greatest opportunity.
In the last World War the pope tried to bring about a peace, described at the time as “pro-Roman”, which would have been of great benefit to his establishment. It was not accepted. Now the world is again in tumult, as a result of the activities of the “Practical Catholic”, Adolf Hitler. This time the pope will succeed in establishing peace, but his price will be the control of the whole world. On this point, at page 292 of the book Enemies, Judge Rutherford said:
The prophecy of the Lord shows that modern Tyre, the Catholic organization, commits fornication with all the nations and gains her desire. When the Hierarchy has gained complete temporal power of the earth, that will in her mind fully establish the conclusion that her desire has been fully accomplished, and then she will say, “Peace and safety” (1 Thessalonians 5:3); and then the “ten horns”, that is, all the ruling powers of the nations, “receive power . . . with the beast,” the League of Nations combine being in fact a league of Fascism or combined Fascist governments, dominated by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. “And the woman [Devil’s visible religious organization, the harlot] which thou sawest is that great city [the Hierarchy organization], which reigneth over [combined Fascism,] the kings of the earth.”—Revelation 17:12, 18.
The Desire to Be Umpire
The desire to be umpire of earth’s affairs is always in the mind of every pope. Consolation for August 23, 1939, calls attention to proposals for a peace conference that the pope called or suggested calling prior to the outbreak of hostilities between Germany and Poland.
In his series of collection envelopes on the one for the third week of September, 1939, Andrew J. Brennan, bishop of Richmond, Va., is made to say, “Responsibility to bring about and maintain a lasting peace rests primarily upon the shoulders of Catholics in all nations.”
The philosophy of this is that General Franco is a Catholic; if he had kept the peace in Spain, then Spain would not have been torn asunder by civil war. Mussolini is a Catholic; if he had kept the peace in Ethiopia, the lives of thousands of innocents would have been saved. Hitler is a Catholic; if he had kept the peace in Czechoslovakia and Poland, thousands would now be in comfort who today are either dead or in utter wretchedness. Japan is under Catholic influence, which partly accounts for the fact that there is no peace in Asia.
John T. Archbishop McNicholas, of Cincinnati, wants all Catholics in his realm to pray to Christ to grant peace to the whole world. If they thus pray they will be wasting their breath. The greatest war of all time, Armageddon, is ahead. The only survivors of that time will be those who are firmly on the Lord’s side, on the side of true Christianity, and against the Devil’s religion, which is its exact opposite, and of which the Roman Hierarchy is chief spokesman.
A message from Vatican City stated that President Roosevelt had sent a personal message to the pope inviting him to call on him for assistance in connection with any international political scheme for “peace” he might have on hand. The message was conveyed, not in a state paper, but by word of mouth, through President Roosevelt’s close personal friend, Monsignor Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, apostolic delegate to Washington.
Conditions in Europe
Says Martin Harbeck:
As far back as 1923 and 1924 Catholic priests and writers in Bavaria advocated a crusade against Jews, Communists, Pacifists, and others, and preached the superiority of the Aryan race. The storm troopers are nearly all very young men, taken chiefly from Catholic families. They wear black uniforms, with a skull and crossbones on their hideous helmets.
Germany, in man power, in money and in raw materials, is today less able than in 1914 to conduct a war with England and France on the other side. The arrogant dictators know that the so-called “democratic” and chiefly Protestant nations are readily bluffed by the Catholic-Fascist-Nazi combine.
There is sufficient evidence that neither the Germans nor the Austrians nor the Czechoslovakians ever had the opportunity of a free and uncontrolled ballot. It is now history that Hitler was greatly aided in his apparently miraculous rise to power by the Catholic element. His first success was in Bavaria, the most Catholic part of Germany.
Hitler speaks only behind bullet-proof glass, and for public demonstrations generally uses a double. Recently one such double, who was called his chauffeur, was shot and killed.
My estimate is that forty percent of the people, the young who were greatly benefited by the Hitler regime, support the present Nazi government; a further forty percent are frightened into subjection; and only about twenty percent are engaged in more or less active opposition.
The economic crisis is world-wide; and being a result of the World War, it can not be charged to any one government. But imported goods, particularly foodstuffs, are scarce in Germany. There is a marked shortage of coffee, butter, eggs, pork, good flour, sugar, onions and fruits; also of silks and woolen goods.
Hundreds of Thousands of Prisoners
Dr. Crone and other officials of the so-called “Department of Justice” of Germany have freely admitted the ever more difficult problem of dealing with the many hundreds of thousands of prisoners created by the Hitler regime. Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting a former German Minister of Justice, Dr. Breitscheid. He declared that he greatly respects the Bible Students, or witnesses of Jehovah, 6,000 of whom are imprisoned in Germany; because they are the only group of Christians suffering martyrdom for their faith and loyalty to God and to His Word. These are the only ones who refuse to accept the Totalitarian religion, which places the State above God and they refuse to honor or worship the human Führer as God.
The treatment of prisoners is not the same in all parts of Germany, and those actually in prison are less cruelly treated than those in concentration camps. But the crimes committed by the Nazi-gangsters, with the official approval of the present German government, cry to heaven; and if only a portion of them were known and believed by the honest people of the world, that knowledge would certainly cause all the good people in the world to turn away from such barbarians in disgust and abhorrence.
A truthful report of hundreds of such cases of ill-treatment of Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany was recently published by the Europa Publishers, at Zurich, Switzerland, in the German language, and now by the Presses Universitaires, in Paris, in the French language. The title of that book is “Crusade Against Christianity”. Having read this book, a number of well-known writers, professional men and foremost journalists in Europe have expressed their deepest sympathy with these suffering and persecuted Christians. For example, Dr. Thomas Mann, the bearer of the Noble prize for literature, wrote concerning Jehovah’s witnesses:
“The Sufferings Left Behind”
I have read your book and its terrible documentation with deepest emotion. I cannot describe the mixed feeling of abhorrence and loathing which has filled my heart while perusing these records of human degradation and abominable cruelty. Human speech fails in the presence of the unspeakable perversity revealed in these pages, on which are recorded the awful sufferings of innocent men and women who firmly hold fast to their faith. In viewing such indescribable conditions the voice would fain be silent, but to keep quiet would serve only the moral indifference of the world, and further the despicable non-interference policy, and make for a guilty conscience. Will it be possible to shock the world even for a moment by your presentation of these disgusting facts? One hardly dares to hope for it. At any rate you have done your duty in publishing this book and bringing these facts to light. It seems to me that there is no greater appeal to the world’s conscience.
Pastor T. Bruppacher, a thoughtful and noble-minded Protestant minister, wrote:
While the German church controversy enjoys the favorable interest of official Christendom, we here have an unobtrusive company, standing and suffering in the foremost post. While men who call themselves Christians have failed in the decisive tests, these unknown witnesses of Jehovah, as Christian martyrs, are maintaining unshakable opposition against coercion of conscience and heathen idolatry. The future historian must some day acknowledge that not the great churches, but these slandered and persecuted people, were the ones who stood up first against the rage of the Nazi demon, and who dared to make opposition according to the faith. They suffer and bleed because, as Jehovah’s witnesses and candidates for the Kingdom of Christ, they refuse the worship of Hitler and the Swastika. These peculiar Christians are accounted worthy to suffer for His name’s sake, and they have humbly proved that they really know how to defend their high title—that of Jehovah’s witnesses. Whoever permits these documents to speak to him in all their sincerity will begin to see the maligned Bible Students in a new light. He will not again judge them in his own self-righteousness.
Witness Continues Despite Opposition
The work of Jehovah’s witnesses, of informing the people of good will about Jehovah’s kingdom, and announcing the destruction of the wicked at Armageddon, progresses despite the opposition and persecution in Germany. The witness work is increasing particularly in France, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland. Thousands of people of good will are gladly hearing the message of the truth and are then leaving the Devil’s organization. Where formerly were small companies for Bible study there are now large assemblies and increased activities. In Germany, Jews, Communists, Socialists and other groups are silenced to a large extent by the terror of the blackshirts, but not so Jehovah’s witnesses. It is often reported how they continue to speak of their faith, and they are even heard to sing joyfully in prison cells and concentration camps.
The following is from a Swiss newspaper, “The St. Gall Daily”:
The French journalist, Jean Fontenoy, recently obtained permission to observe with his own eyes the life in the concentration camp Oranienburg. The commander of the camp, a general, personally took the journalist through the camp. A lengthy report has appeared in the “Journal” regarding this inspection. We give herewith an abbreviated but faithful report concerning what the commander thinks of the Bible Students—Jehovah’s witnesses—and how he tries to solve the problem they create for him.
“The Bible Students,” grumbled the general, “I have created special barracks for them, where they are isolated behind barbed wire which is electrically charged, in order that they may not get in contact with the other inmates. It is forbidden for others to come closer than seven yards to the barracks of the Bible Students. But nothing avails. If I forbid them to smoke, they say they don’t smoke at all. If I permit them to write only one letter every third month, they do not even write that one letter. It is really distracting. Recently the wife of such a Bible Student came and begged for her husband’s release. I had the man brought, but he looked at his wife as if he did not know her. She cried and pleaded, saying, ‘We have nothing to eat and I have no one to help us.’ The Bible Student answered, ‘You have Jehovah.’ The woman: ‘I plead with you to sign the pledge and return to us.’ The man: ‘Go and pray more earnestly to Jehovah.’ ”
The general engaged in a dialogue between himself and Johann Huber, 27 years of age. He asked, “Why are you in the concentration camp?” “Because I have worshiped the Lord.” “Which Lord?” “Jehovah.” “Do you acknowledge our Fuehrer as your head or superior?” “I do not know of whom you speak; my superior or head is Jehovah.” “Who am I?” “You are one of Jehovah’s creatures.” “Am I your superior or not?” “You are a creature of Jehovah.” “Do you have to obey me or not?” “I have to obey Jehovah.”
The general turned to me with a bitter smile and said, “You cannot do a thing with them, neither with mildness nor with harshness; it is all of no avail.” This dialogue had been listened to with visible pleasure by about fifty other prisoners near by. The commander asked, “Did you observe these others? Do you understand now why I keep the Bible Students apart from the others? They would start a small revolution within a few hours; they are the worst of them all.”” This discussion had caused me to think and later, at noon, I referred again to this theme of the Bible Students and said, “You have here 450 Bible Students in this camp, but do they really belong here? Most of them must be good and harmless people; they seem to me to be somewhat like saints, at any rate really harmless.”
A Berlin official accompanying the party through the camp stated it is hard to find the secret places in Germany where the Bible Students’ literature is still being printed; no one carries names or addresses and no one betrays another. When 250 were arrested at Hamburg and their papers and press were confiscated, and it was thought that this would stop the circulation of a certain magazine, within two weeks after the raid the paper reappeared as before and the police had not been able since then to discover the place where printed, nor any of the distributors.
This firmness of faith and unparalleled courage causes many who witness the terrible persecutions to inquire as to the source of such steadfastness. A number of cases are known where prison guards and other prisoners have forsaken all else to put themselves on the Lord’s side while yet there is time.
A righteous indignation against the instigators of the persecutions of Jehovah’s Witnesses, namely, the Catholic-Fascist combine, wells up in the heart of every real Christian. This persecution of Christians is a fulfillment of Divine prophecy. Other prophecies show that the day of accounting for the great bloodguilt which the present generation has heaped upon itself is at hand.
Hitler Guided by Demons
The statement that Hitler is a close student of astrology, and that he maps his course by the stars, is only another way of saying that he is guided by demons. The teaching that any man is guided in his course by any star or any combination of stars is a denial of every truth contained in the Scriptures. That does not mean that the demons are ignorant of what is going on in the world, and it does not mean they cannot twist together plausible statements supposedly but not actually in harmony with the movements of the stars. So it is not without interest that in he dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, from Berlin, on July 13, Sigrid Schultz, who familiarized herself with the teachings of Hitler’s astrologers, reports one of them as saying:
Russia and Germany together will settle the Polish problem. The world will be astounded by the developments of the next few weeks. When Russia and Germany co-operate the British empire will automatically fall asunder.
Hitler is guided by “voices” (which are the voices of wicked spirits), and it is all in vain that Churchill appealed to him to consider the consequences of a single rash act which might ruin his life’s work, and that Eden and Halifax tried to reason with him. The demons are out to wreck the world, and only God’s almighty hand can frustrate their design. Human wisdom will be unavailing.
Nothing that the man says can be believed. He is probably the world’s most shameless liar. Somebody noticed that the letters in A-H-I-T-L-E-R and T-H-E-L-I-A-R are the same.
Early in 1937 laws were passed in Germany prohibiting Germans from participating in the war in Spain. At that very time the German troops were pouring in, and it was German transport planes, in the very first hours of the conspiracy, that carried thousands of heathen Moors into Spain to there fight the pope’s battles. Said Thomas Mann, German author, in an address at Princeton University:
Germany fell into the hands of leaders so depraved that perhaps in all history there has been recorded no second case of such dishonor to spirit and intellect, justice, truth and freedom. Their reign of violence has made it impossible for anyone who has some feeling for human dignity and moral responsibility, to breathe the air of that country.—New York World-Telegram.
On Monday, September 4, only the next day after Britain declared that a state of war prevailed as between it and Germany, the British Government bombarded the people of the Reich with 6,000,000 leaflets containing assurance that the war is not against the German people but against this colossal liar, Hitler, trained by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and by the Devil for the work he is now doing. The broadcast leaflets contained in German these statements:
“He [Hitler] gave his word that he would respect the Locarno Treaty; he broke it.
“He gave his word that he neither wished nor intended to annex Austria; he broke it.
“He declared he would not incorporate the Czechs in the Reich; he did so.
“He gave his word after Munich that he had no further territorial demands in Europe; he broke it.
“He gave his word he wanted no Polish provinces; he broke it.
“He has sworn to you for years he was the mortal enemy of Bolshevism; he is now its ally.
“Can you wonder that for us his word is not worth the paper it is written on?”—New York Post, September 4, 1939.
Could a Whole People Worship a Liar?
Oddly enough, the answer to the question, “Could a whole people worship a liar?” is a most emphatic Yes. The world as a whole has done that very thing from the time of Lucifer’s lie in the garden of Eden until this very moment. The Devil, using religion and religionists as his vehicles of expression, has so thoroughly established in the minds of the people that they live on after they are dead that “the whole world lieth in the wicked one” and there are few that believe the statement of the Creator himself that “the dead know not any thing.”
Below is set out some of the evidence that many of the German people have actually made this Jesuit-trained man, Hitler, into a “god” (as Moses was made a god in Pharaoh’s eyes). In its Celebration Number, in answer to the question, “What does The Fuehrer mean to you?” the Schwarze Korps published the following. President Roosevelt, who wants the people to have more religion, and the New York Chamber of Commerce, that wants the people to have more religion, and all the other panjandrums that recommend religion as a cure-all, would do well to ponder deeply.
1) (A Viennese) “My Fuehrer gave me not only a political ‘Weltanschauung’ but also a religion. He gave me a faith, which even as a child I had never possessed. This faith is a faith in ourselves, in our strength and our greatness, in the mysterious power of Blood, our Soil and the German nation. . . .”
2) (An S.S. Man.) “Even to attempt to put into words what I feel for my Fuehrer appears to me profane. . . . It makes my heart heavy to think that the Fuehrer today belongs to so many, whereas during the time of our early struggle, he belonged only to us, a comparatively few. I am jealous of every person with whom I must share him. May I be forgiven for this sacred egoism.”
3) (A Party member in Berlin) “Formerly we were brought up to be religious, trained in a faith divorced from reality, which seemed impersonal, abstract and un-German. This outlook did not improve man, hardly strengthened him, but rather deprived him of courage and initiative. . . . Faith in the Fuehrer and his work have given me strength to force my life to higher things. In this godless, mammon-worshiping world, torn with hate and murder, this world of misery and chaos, a temple of light has arisen, throwing its rays afar and pointing to a future far more beautiful than our past.”
4) (A lawyer from Dortmund) “We know that we are in the grip of a feeling whose essence and depth we can scarcely determine and which renders us dumb. Reverence, love, loyalty, gratitude, self-abnegation—all make up this feeling which yet surpasses them all. But the most revered father, the most deeply loved mother, the most loyal wife, and the most trusted friend rouse in our hearts music far less exalted than the song our souls sing to the Fuehrer.”
5) (A Party member from Berlin) “I left the Church with the firm conviction that the Christian religion was a man-made faith professing to be the will of God, but having nothing in common with that power which we call God. I believe the fellowship of blood and race is a fellowship much more desired by God than all the religious fellowships built up by man. I frequently ponder, could I face my Leader and Father, Adolf Hitler, if he knew my thoughts and my work. My religious observance is a daily hour of quiet thought. . . . And then an inner glow comes upon me, an indescribable feeling of satisfaction, if after mature consideration, I come to the conclusion that my father, Adolf Hitler, would bless this or that action of mine.”
6) (Another Party member) “Every flower that blooms, blooms in gratitude to him; every apple that ripens, ripens in gratitude to him.”
7) (A Hamburg woman) “I should like to say once for all, that the lofty teaching of my Fuehrer is now my religion, the German religion, and I can think of nothing finer.”
8) (A Reader from Frankfurt) “What misuse is made by men of the word ‘Fuehrer’. This word should only be applied to Adolf Hitler himself and we should impregnate our people from youth up with reverence for this word, as the Christian Church reveres the name of God.”
9) (A Mother in Unterammergau) “My children know the Fuehrer as a man, who orders all things, rules all things, who built the world. The Fuehrer is for my children that visible Being, which we as children were taught to recognize as God. . . .”
These people worship Hitler; Hitler worships the Roman Catholic system in which he was trained—it is his god; and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy worships and serves the Devil, manifests his spirit and is his most devoted and most honored child. The chain is complete. The German people that worship Hitler are worshiping the Devil, whether they know it or not.
Inordinate Vanity and Cowardice
The German people in all lands have done all they could to make a fool of Hitler, and he has cheerfully gone them one better every time. The golden crown presented to him at the middle of June is said to have been paid for by Nazis in 61 countries. Those at Buenos Aires alone contributed 31,455 pesos ($7,700) of the amount, so says the newspaper Critica of that city.
It is admitted by all who have listened to him that Hitler has the power to produce mass hypnotism of his audience. Mass hypnotism is mass demonism; but the demons are no fools. They have had centuries of experience, and so they select for their work some manwho can be used to “put it across”, Hitler is such a man. The following from Mein Kampf shows that even he himself does not fully realize that the power working through him is not himself, but that of WHOM?
Meetings at which I talked about the peace treaties seemed never to end, for I considered this a vital subject and repeated my speech of denunciation again and again in endless repetition; I gradually put it in better form until at last I was driving a powerful message into the heart of the people. This constant practice in addressing meetings slowly but surely made me clever in the use of the pathos and the gestures needed to sway audiences of thousands.
I began to talk—and kept on talking for around two and one-half-hours—and I at once felt that the meeting was to be a great success. Immediately I was in contact with the audience. After an hour applause broke out more and more often, in great outbursts, and then ebbed away after two hours, until I finished in that solemn silence which will never be forgotten by a soul who was there, and which I afterwards experienced so many times in this room. Almost nothing but the soft breathing of the mass could be heard, and suddenly when I had finished applause rose like thunder, and then release was found in fervent singing of “Deutschland ueber Alles”.
Every dictator is a personal coward, and has to be; for his life is constantly at stake, because of the wrongs of which he is guilty. The claim is now made that Hitler has a private tunnel twelve miles long, between his hideout at Berchtesgaden and the city of Salzburg, enough to give him a good start if it ever becomes necessary for him to make a quick getaway.
His plane is of sufficient capacity to fly non-stop from Berlin to New York, and it has been fitted with every comfort and safety gadget known to man. It has four engines and a speed of 220 miles an hour. It is not a bad investment for him, and he may need it yet. New York city would find an empty apartment for him and he would hold the headlines for three days, maybe four, before he shriveled to his true size and passed out of public notice.
Bedtime Stories of Persecution
In order to put over its seizure of the world the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is bound to pretend that it is suffering persecution, even while its faithful sons are breaking every law known to man. These columns have contained many pages of evidence that there is no persecution of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. There is fresh evidence for this issue, and here it is, from Catholic sources:
Little by little the truth gradually leaks out on all subjects, for the reason that the Lord Himself has stated that “there is nothing covered but shall be revealed”. In view, therefore, of the oft-repeated yarns in the kept press about mistreatment of the Catholic Church in Germany, it is with some interest that the following statements were taken from a column by the Catholic writer Bertram de Colonna, published in the London Catholic Herald:
While it is true that there have been differences between some Catholics and officials in Germany, there has never been any prohibition of church services, nor have any churches been burned and sacked, or priests ill-treated or murdered in Germany.
Anyone who takes the trouble to visit a Catholic part of Germany will see that priests and lay brothers go about their business untroubled. Lay brothers serve in the beer rooms attached to monasteries in many parts, and groups of excursionists, largely wearing badges of the National Socialist Party, drop in there.
The London Catholic Universe states that on Hitler’s birthday Cardinal Innitzer ordered all Austrian churches to ring bells, fly the Swastika flag and say special prayers for the Fuehrer. Does that look like persecution?
Mostly, Britain’s would-be Hitler, in a speech at North London, said of religious persecution in Germany:
I think the clash between State and Church in Germany will soon end. There has, after all, been friction between the temporal and spiritual power in Germany for centuries, on and off. At present more money is paid by the State to the Church than ever before and more people attend church than ever before.—In London Catholic Herald.
Disposing now of a couple of widely publicized claims of “persecution”, here are the facts, and facts are all anyone should desire. Read them and judge for yourself. Hereafter, in what was once Austria, there will be joint control of promotions in the Roman Catholic’s clergy. There are to be no changes in personnel except such as meet Nazi approval. The Nazis will also decide who are to study for the priesthood. The New York Daily News devoted its entire front page to the idea that the Nazis had stormed the archbishop’s palace at Salzburg, whereas the simple facts are that the building belonged to the Government since 1802, and the latter part of April notice had been served on the archbishop to look for other quarters. He neglected to do so and, after a UNDER THE TOTALITARIAN FLAG
month’s delay, one time when he came back he found the landlord in control and himself dispossessed. Subsequently the archbishop Sigismund Waitz was offered the free use of several rooms in the palace, but he thought the Hierarchy would gain more by maintaining its pretense of “persecution”, so he took up his residence in one of the many monasteries with which the neighborhood is cursed, instead.
In Austria and Czechoslovakia
The basis for stories of persecution of the Catholic Church in Austria seems to arise from the fact that up to September 1, 1939, each Roman Catholic priest received from the government an allowance of 120 marks monthly, but after that date Catholics, like other persons, would be taxed to maintain their churches and priests. Hitherto, because theirs was the State church, Catholics did not pay any religious tax.
Having conspired with Hitler to destroy the Republic of Czechoslovakia, and his own priests having been in the forefront in the betrayal of that country, once the center of Protestantism in Europe, the pope now tells the Slovak premier that he will need “much perspicacity and prudence, a great deal of brotherly feeling”, etc., etc., to get along with the present situation (in which everything of any value in the country is being lugged off to Germany and the Czechoslovakian people are being turned into slaves).
Under the title “Who Sent Reverend Kochis to Make Speeches Here?” the Gary (Ind.) Post Tribune quoted the “Reverend Father” John Kochis as lauding the German government to the skies and saying that the people of Slovakia are perfectly satisfied with it. The Post Tribune knows perfectly well who sent the “Reverend Father” Kochis to Gary. It also knows that if it mentioned the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in that connection it would lose most of its advertisers and subscribers. But, viewed from a distance, it is a safe bet that it will be disciplined for its editorial which winds up with this paragraph:
When Reverend Kochis attempts to present the Hitler thugs, gunmen and plain assassins as worthy rulers for their own protection he is dealing in a brand of bunkum that won’t go far in this country.
The editor of the Post Tribune is no fool. He knows that the “Reverend Father” Tiso betrayed what was left of his country into the hands of Hitler, and did it to crush Protestants throughout the republic. Earlier in the editorial he said:
Who is this Reverend Kochis, and what is his purpose in this country? Was he sent over here by the German-controlled government of Dr. Tiso to pull the wool over the eyes of Slovaks living in America?
“More Food for Apes”
The London Catholic Herald contained a five-column interview with Sir Oswald Mosley entitled “Mosley Discusses Need Church and State Clash”, in which Mosley made it clear that his outfit, if it gains control of Britain, will “always treat the spiritual and moral authority of the Vatican in international affairs with the utmost respect”. In the next issue the Herald seemed to be referring to its own readers when it used the headline which introduces this paragraph. Mosley admits that he has more Catholics in his outfit than their proportion in the country would warrant. It is all as plain as day.
Our Sunday Visitor takes gleeful note that the Rome-directed Germany-Italy-Japan axis could, in a few years, crush the democracies by birth rates alone. It mentions that while, in England, other schools are forced to close because of decreased attendance, yet Catholic schools in that country have actually increased in number, even though there has been a slight decrease in attendance.
Speaking of conditions in France, Our Sunday Visitor of July 16, 1939, also said:
The older ones among our readers will recall that, nearly forty years ago, the then President of France dissolved the Concordat which France had had with the Holy See, and not only forced all Religious Orders to give up the work of teaching in school, but forbade them to wear their religious garb. Such a change has come over France in recent years that these laws have been disregarded, but because they are still on the Statute Books, there is now a movement in Parliament itself to repeal the hostile legislation. In fact, a bill is ready for presentation to Parliament, already backed by more than 200 Deputies, to repeal the law against Religious Orders.
It is hard to choose between murderers, and say which is the more shameless, Hitler with his rapes of Austria and Czechoslovakia, or Mussolini with his rapes of Ethiopia and Albania, or both of them in the rape of Spain. The pope has just now “blessed” Mussolini, publicly asking God’s blessing on his head. Now he should do the same for Hitler, and then for Al Capone, “Father” Coughlin and Judge Manton.
Within the past few years three prominent persons have been made knights of the Order of the Annunciation. The first was Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, the second was King Zog of Albania, and the third was von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign minister.
Vain Boasts of Patriotism
In every land the Roman Catholic Hierarchy trains its spokesmen to boast of their patriotism. It is a settled policy of the “church”, and is policy only. It is perfectly willing to have millions of Catholics killed on each side in any war, if only the interests of the racket operating out of Vatican City are taken care of.
In an address in New York city, as reported in the Baltimore Sun, the “Most Reverend” James E. Kearney, bishop of Salt Lake, made the statement,
“There is only one flag for our children and that is the American flag. The children are taught to salute it under penalty of disrespect to Almighty God.”
The bishop could use the same argument to Hitler regarding saluting the swastika and it would be just as true. Indeed, Catholic bishops in Austria and Germany have repeatedly urged their flocks to vote for Hitler and to support him in every way in the work of the Devil in which he is engaged.
The Commonweal, a Catholic magazine, seems to hit the nail on the head when it says of “Reverend Father” Coughlin that he is given to “all too pious acceptance of propaganda from a party whose Fuehrer proudly boasts his machine is based on huge lies”. That is an ingenious way of calling both Hitler and Coughlin liars in a single sentence. And it diverts attention from the wicked Hierarchy itself.
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is not being persecuted in the United States, but it is persecuting others for the very same reason that it is now sympathetic with the idea of another huge war. It hopes to stop the mouths of Jehovah’s witnesses.
Governor Lehman, of New York State, is an intelligent, well-read man. He can hardly be ignorant of the more than 2,000 cases of persecution of Jehovah’s witnesses, in almost every state in the United States, their arrest, imprisonment, beating, choking, tarring and feathering, and other abuse, mainly by agents of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. How, then, is it that he could say, in his address to the United Spanish War Veterans:
This country was founded by pioneers who came here to escape political or religious persecution. Since then millions of others have followed them. They have found happy homes in the New World. When they sailed from their homes in the Old World they left behind the enmities which divide nation from nation, race from race, creed from creed, class from class. The spirit of democratic America will not tolerate such hatred and division here.—In New York Times.
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is not being persecuted in South Africa. Far from it. It is doing its best to align the natives on the side of Hitler and the totalitarian states with which he is associated. Under the headline “Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia” the London Daily Telegraph of August 1, 1939, contained a report of a discussion in the British House of Lords on the possible amalgamation of the two colonies. One of the speakers was Lord Marley. In one of these two countries (he did not say which) he said:
In a school for native teachers I found books containing pictures of Berlin, swastikas and “Heil Hitler” and the various insignia of aggressiveness. These came from a German Catholic mission.
Afraid the people will learn some of the truths of history, the representatives of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in South Africa hollered “Bloody murder!” because one of the postage stamps in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Huguenots showed a sun rising over dark clouds. The Roman Catholic Church was not mentioned in any way, but, for reasons best known to the squawkers and to every student of history, it is believed by the Hierarchy that the dark clouds represent earth’s greatest curse, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and its teachings and practices.
The Rearming of Germany
In the year 1938 the following democracies did what they could to rearm Germany and prepare her for the Munich peace which ensued. Opposite the name of each democracy is set the number of tons of scrap iron and steel which each such democracy sold to their avowed and prospective enemy:
United States 462,782 Netherlands 93,679
Belgium 244,842 France 82,560
Great Britain 117,818 Luxemburg 58,219
For the past fifteen years Germany has been buying the entire output of a Swedish arsenic mine, and storing it, 100,000 tons at a time. At the I. G. works at Essen are 28,000 workers engaged in making bombs which have this arsenic as a base. When the bombs fall there is no gas mask that can withstand the smoke that issues forth from these bombs. As the odor penetrates the mask the wearer becomes deathly sick, yanks off the mask and dies. Persons in this day would be hard put to it to imagine a worse hell than has been developed right here on terra firma. The clergy are ready to bless any part of this hell, for a consideration. All they ask is that the big Devil whom they love and whom they serve will make it hot for those who are exposing their racket throughout “Christendom”.
None of this has been done without the knowledge of the pope, and none of it without his approval. Plenty of newspapermen know this, but fear to tell it, and cannot get the newspapers to put their stories in type even if they do tell it. The exceptions are few and far between, and they have to be mighty careful what they say. “Perdix” is one of the exceptions.
“Perdix,” noted foreign affairs expert, contributes a column to various western papers that has something in it besides words. The Tacoma Times and the Santa Barbara News Press recently carried a column well worth reading, which the Times labeled “Perdix Points to Pope; Sees Practiced Hand of Vatican Behind Political Moves of Europe’s Powers”. This column, published June 21, drew attention to “the published intimation that His Holiness the Pope would look with apprehension upon a tripartite Anglo-French-Soviet pact” (because that would hinder the loyal Catholic Hitler from overrunning the world), and contained the following paragraph which, for reasons best known to themselves, other newspapermen avoid mentioning.
Economic experts believe the church’s holdings in Greater Germany, which (excluding Czechoslovakia) are reliably estimated at equivalent to about $20,000,000,000, may have been a determining factor. Also, the Vatican’s conviction that German expansion into the east—into predominant Catholic areas—is a foregone conclusion; hence, that a modus vivendi with the reich is not only desirable, but imperative. High Catholic circles, incidentally, are convinced that a growing number of Catholics among German population will in time be a moderating influence per se, and should therefore be cultivated. That Vatican influence has been steadily rising in England in the last two years is an open secret.
Cologne (Germany) Cathedral flying swastika
As is well known, the rearming of Germany was both physical and mental. Hitler is a past master in the art of rabble-rousing, feebly imitated in the United States by “Father” Coughlin—both trained in the same devilish school, and, to date, both abject followers of and worshipers of the Roman Catholic system. Respecting Hitler’s achievements over the radio (worked out largely by Goebbels, his propaganda manager) Edgar Weir, in the London News Chronicle of April 11, 1939, wrote:
Radio propaganda is like the fascinating eye of a serpent that attempts to hypnotize its victim until it allows itself to be swallowed without resistance.
Germany has recently developed an entirely new system of expansion. After a period of “build-up” to win the confidence of foreign listeners, they are gradually treated to more and more propaganda describing the beauties of Germany and how smoothly everything works there. Then they are told of the terrible conditions in other countries, including their own. They are taught to be discontented with their own governments. They are promised mountains of gold and good things. Finally, the broadcasts take on an aggressive tone. They become less truthful. What the Germans call “Hetzpropaganda” and “Atrocity Propaganda”, and of which they accuse the foreign Press and radio, is used with great effect by their own stations.
When the Titanic was finished and started on its maiden trip it was announced that it was unsinkable. It never got across even once. It ran into an iceberg and, after being sliced from end to end, went down off Newfoundland, to rise no more. More recently the Fuehrer completed, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars and with the aid of 300,000 slaves, a 400-mile line of forts from Switzerland to the Netherlands. Hitler pronounced the completed line as invincible and impregnable, and within a week the Rhine rose to an unwonted height and swamped machine-gun nests and would have drowned their occupants except that they could and did flee to higher ground. The story came from France. The Germans say it is not true.
Preparations for Big Putsch in Britain
Major Hugh B. C. Pollard, English Catholic, has the unique distinction of being responsible for the death of 2,000,000 of his fellow men. It was he who, under instructions from higher-ups in his “faith”, illegally flew a plane to Franco the Butcher, then in exile in the Canary islands. He occupied a seat of so-called “honor” in the victory parade in Madrid, because without his treachery the 2,000,000 would never have been slain and Franco would not now be privileged to murder whom he will. It was a Roman Catholic achievement throughout and typical of the history of earth’s most diabolical system of rackets.
No sooner had Britain begun to take refugees from Czechoslovakia than the dreaded Gestapo of Germany began to come in, in the guise of refugees themselves, and they had no sooner than landed when they began the works of intimidation of German servant girls and other German workers as only the Gestapo could or would do.
A sad note, since Britain entered the war, is that the new gas masks for babies were made in gay and attractive colors so that their mothers could teach the little things to play with them. What a travesty this so-called “civilization” has become!
One of the principal vehicles that the Hierarchy uses at a time like this, or at any time, to carry on its work of promoting the rise of the totalitarian states at the expense of the people is the confessional. Speaking of this diabolical system of snooping into the public and private affairs of everybody, Sydney Morrell, writing in the Glasgow Scottish Daily Express, lauds the pope to the skies, exaggerates the number of his followers and spills the beans when he says of the espionage branch of the racket:
Pius the Twelfth is the head of 375,000,000 Roman Catholics and the Vatican is the best informed of all Governments, which is to say that it is best informed on the ways and thoughts of millions of men and women who build up nations. The archbishops and cardinals who send their regular reports to Rome obtain their material from the pastors and parish priests who are intimately in touch with their flocks.
America to Go Down Also
America is part of the “Seventh World Power”, and is scheduled to go down also before the totalitarian monstrosity which has its real headquarters at Vatican City. It will be grabbed peacefully, if possible, and politicians, preachers and plutocrats will be used to put it over, but the Hierarchy is not taking any chances and intends to silence Jehovah’s witnesses, law or no law, and utterly regardless of what may be the desires or even the knowledge or intentions of the American people. To do this they have to have the aid of the Press, and that they have, for they control it absolutely. No American newspaper dares buck the Hierarchy. To do so is to lose all its advertisers and many of its subscribers, and thus to FAIL.
Says Roy Goodrich, on this subject of the Press and the weak-kneed public officials who do nothing even when the evidence is in front of them constantly:
The Saturday Evening Post of May 27, 1939, features an article entitled "Star-Spangled Fascists", under a large photograph of a nocturnal conclave of such, in which the American flag occupies a prominent place. To the average American reader, blindfolded and unwary, this article puts across with power the idea that American democracy is both helpless and hopeless before a few un-American upstarts whose background is dark, whose organizations are secret, and whose mysterious finances "come in over the transom". This article is cited at random as a fair sample of that which is supposedly and allegedly "best" in American journalism. Such journalism is supposedly and allegedly "uncensored" and "free", and is confessedly 100-percent (or more) "patriotic".
Why, in such published articles, is not the darkness of the average unwary reader enlightened with a reminder that democracy has plenty of old, gray-headed laws on the subjects of sedition and treason? Why is not the public awakened to know that the mass of published and admitted facts prove beyond all doubt that there are many Fascist and Nazi seditionists and traitors at work in this country, and that the laws have teeth in them for such? Why is real 100-percent democratic action, that is, patriotic law enforcement, not even mentioned, much less advocated? Why? The plain answer may be summed up in two words, namely, "Catholic Action"; but from the sepulcher of a free and patriotic journalism comes only the resounding echo, "Why?"
All national, state and city officials have taken patriotic oaths to promote the general welfare of the people who pay them by justly and diligently upholding and enforcing the Constitution and laws of America. Where are these officials while American liberties are sacked and exported to Rome? Why is no traitor even "out on bail"? Why do seditionists roam at large with unlimited freedom of press and radio to advocate "bullets instead of ballots" and the impaling of law-abiding citizens on red-hot spikes? Why are such wicked and wholesale crimes camouflaged and countenanced as "constitutional liberties" by an emasculated press and by a supine and cringing officialdom? To real patriotic, law-abiding Americans such as Jehovah's witnesses, the strong-arm squad makes answer with a cuff and a curse: "Stop telling on them! Shut up!! Salute the flag, and be patriotic like they are!!! Come on with us for a ride!!!" Democracy? Catholic Action? Look in the WATCHTOWER publications, unwary reader, and lift the blindfold!
Pope's gift to America
Gasparri to Put It Over
Cardinal Gasparri left Rome, so Rome dispatches to the New York Times say, for the express job of doing his part in bringing about the opening of diplomatic relations between the United States Government and the pope at Vatican City. He is "to work out a legal framework" for the job, and is sure to have Jehovah's witnesses in mind.
The New York Times has a headline entitled "Catholic Airmen Gather". What is strange about that? A lot is strange. Suppose the Methodists had been parties to the destruction of the governments of Ethiopia, Albania, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Spain, and had outspokenly proclaimed their intention to seize the United States, and incidentally to murder everybody who teaches differently from the Methodists, and you should see a headline "Methodist Airmen Gather". Would it make you think? It surely would, if you have anything above your neck.
Somebody's cat came near getting out of the bag at Los Angeles when "authorities couldn't locate anyone who would admit owning $70,000 worth of artillery shells and hand grenades stored in a Los Angeles warehouse". Probably the trail got too hot. After America has been grabbed, as it will be, a lot of the “authorities” will poke one another in the ribs and laugh at the close calls they had while the conspiracy was on, and how only the co-operation of the Rome-controlled press enabled them to get away with it.
“The Coughlin Terror”
Under the title “The Coughlin Terror”, James Wechsler, in The Nation for July 22, 1939, has over five pages of exceedingly interesting information regarding the peculiar conduct of many of the 12,000 Irish Catholic policemen in New York in Coughlin’s so-called “Christian Front”. One of their number boasted that 6,000 of the police are members of the “Front” itself.
Mr. Wechsler mentions the repeated stabbings, street fights and neighborhood tensions that have come to pass, and how, because of fear of the Catholic Church, the reporters of the New York Times take their stories to the executive offices, not to the composing room, and the antique Herald Tribune follows suit.
A young girl hears one of the Coughlinites making attacks on parties designated only by the word “they”. She timidly asks the speaker who is meant. Immediately a hundred Catholics are kicking and pushing and pummeling, and two men grab her and throw her down. She is rescued by two policemen, but no arrests are made.
Samuel Applebaum, for saying to a husky Irish Catholic gangster in Union Square, “We Jews also fought in the World War,” was attacked and stabbed and at last accounts the case had been postponed four times.
Coughlin’s followers sell his paper “Social Justice” all over New York, but when a gentleman who believes in fair play was handing out reprints from the New York Post showing where Coughlin had been repeating the very words of Goebbels, John Dugan (guess his “church”) walked over and without warning knocked the man senseless on the ground. Dugan offered no defense, was praised for his frankness, was told to count thirty before doing it again, and sentence was suspended. At his trial one of the judges on the bench admonished witnesses to disobey the command of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and to refer to Coughlin as “Father” Coughlin.
By contrast, when Thomas Maloney called a girl who was passing by a “Jew bastard”, and Nathan Smulin, also a passer-by, seized one of Maloney’s papers and slapped him with it, Smulin was arrested, not Maloney, and Magistrate Burke (guess his “church”) added “malicious mischief” to the charge of simple assault and held him in $2,000 bail.
When a public-school teacher started to argue with one of the “Social Justice” salesmen she was called vile names and jostled, and when a near-by storekeeper went to her rescue he was arrested. The salesmen of “Social Justice” have developed the lying technique of punctuating their cries of the name of their paper with expressions such as “A big Jew hit me” or “The Jew spit on her”. And this method works.
At Rockaway Park, where “Social Justice” has been sold on the streets for months, when a man undertook to sell “Equality”, telling the other side of the story, his papers were thrown to the ground, and as he stooped to pick them up he was kicked in the head; and while he lay sprawled on the ground one of the two idle policemen standing by fractured his skull by a blow with his club. Fine officers of the law!
On the other hand, at Union Square, William Frank, previously arrested for raping a minor and for burglary, accosted a young girl, calling her a “red whore”, but because he was selling “Social Justice” his sentence was deferred. In the court of Magistrate Michael A. Ford, Miss Florence Nash, another abusive salesman of “Social Justice”, was given a suspended sentence of thirty days in the workhouse. All she had to do was to weep a little. The magistrate did say to her, “He who instills such ideas in your head, be he a priest or anyone else, does not belong in this country.” Coughlin can take that or leave it; and he will probably leave it.
Of course, it is enough of a disgrace to be a Coughlinite. That of itself is bad enough. It is well known that Allen Zoll was chairman of the meeting, addressed by numerous Catholic priests, which resulted in the picketing of radio station WMCA because it would not broadcast Coughlin’s addresses. It seems that five days after the Coughlinites tried to break up the meeting of Jehovah’s witnesses in Madison Square Garden, Zoll thought the time had come to cash in, so, as alleged, he offered, for the sum of $7,000, to have the picketing of WMCA cease and was paid $200 in marked money, cash in hand. Then he was arrested and jailed.
(To be continued) Fighting for Liberty in Hubbard, Ohio
HUBBARD, Ohio, is only a small village of about 2,500 inhabitants. Yet, in the more recent past, it has assumed the position of censoring other people's activities. It has gone on record "against God's kingdom".
In the following I shall relate a remarkable story of chicanery on the side of Hubbard, and of faithfulness on the side of Jehovah's witnesses.
Some months ago a company of Jehovah's witnesses was organized, a hall was rented in Hubbard, and from the very small beginning of 8 publishers this company rapidly flourished all the way up to 28 publishers. The enemy did not like that.
Like all companies, this company began walking on the sidewalks of Hubbard, advertising their public meetings. The religionists there, led by one "Rev." Brennan, Catholic priest, objected strenuously to the sign "Religion is a Snare and a Racket" and caused the police to remonstrate with the witnesses.
On May 13, a Saturday, the witnesses walked up and down Hubbard streets. They were stopped by the marshal. He told them they had to get a permit. The witness went on, heedless of this marshal's warning. On May 15, the very next legal business day, the council of the village scurried together, which meeting resulted in the concoction of "An Ordinance of Emergency" ostensibly directed against Jehovah's witnesses. Ordinarily, hereabout, it takes three readings to make an ordinance lawful. In this case it was done overnight. This ordinance made the securement of a permit mandatory. The speed with which this ordinance was enacted, the language in which it was couched, and the extraordinary power it grants the executive, form only a thinly veiled attempt at coercion and intimidation.
Thus they hoped to stop the work of Jehovah's witnesses. But Jehovah's witnesses do not scare. On May 27, Hubbard police picked up two men, and charged them with violating this ordinance. A trial was set. The arrests took place at 6 p.m. on Saturday, and only fourteen hours later Jehovah's witnesses retaliated with a blast of publicity. Fifteen thousand folders entitled "Two Christians Arrested in Hubbard" were spread all over the Mahoning Valley, inviting the people to come to a Protest meeting to be held at the hall of Jehovah's witnesses at Hubbard at 3 p.m.
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