Consolation, July 10, 1940
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Contents
The Hierarchy’s Fifth Column (Part 1) 3
Hitler’s Religion 3
The Films of Savagery 5
Hypocrisy in a Patriotic Press 7
Press Calls Attention to the Law 8
Judge Rutherford’s Counsel
from Down Texas Way 9
Harlan Miller’s Apology 10
China and Japan 11
The New Government
Tribunal Report 12
“A Little Gray Home in the West” 13
A Gentleman Not Informed 14
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Loyal 17
Whither Politics 19
Suppose God Does Not Consent 19
Deity Was Never in It 20
Present Rulers Consult Demons 22
What Armageddon Really Means 23
Days of Horror Close at Hand 23
British Government
How Does It Look Now? 25
Cassandra and Judge Richardson 25
Food Allowance for Children 26
Worse Countries than England 27
British “Kingdom News” 28, 29
A Report from Central Europe 30
Smoking for Smartness’ Sake 31
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The Destination of Business
A noted preacher was holding a revival
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CONSOLATION
“And in His name shall the nations hope.”—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XXI Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, July 10, 1940 Number 543
The Hierarchy’s Fifth Column
(In Two Parts—Part 1)
JEHOVAH, the Almighty God, is now maneuvering the enemy into position for the final war, the battle of Armageddon. The exact hour for this has been set for thousands of years, and it will begin on time. In Ecclesiastes 3, verse 8, Jehovah declares that there is a time of war and a time of peace; at Isaiah 14, verse 24, and chapter 46, verse 11, He declares that He will accomplish all His purposes. “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.” (Acts 15:18) The Lord preserves the righteous, but the wicked are certain of destruction at His hands. (Psalm 145:20) Jehovah hates “a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations; a heart that contriveth plans of injustice; feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies”.—Proverbs 6:17-19.
Jehovah foreknew the workings of the Hierarchy and caused this apt prophetic description to be made of them. Note the phrase “a heart that deviseth plans of injustice”. Several thousands of years ago God foreknew that they would lie about His witnesses and devise plans of injustice, such as labeling them as Fifth Columnists, and plant violence in the minds of Legionnaires and hoodlums in their fight against The Theocracy. In actual fact the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and her aids form the Fifth Column or Spy Column of the Murderer-in-Chief Hitler. These facts are particularly presented to those who may have been innocently involved in the attacks on Jehovah’s witnesses in Texas and elsewhere. Let such pause and review the documented evidence herein, that they may not suffer the fate of the deliberate wrongdoers.
The Hierarchy is expecting to increase the operations of the Fifth Column in conjunction with the “Catholic revolutionary movement” of Adolf Hitler. Hitler and the Hierarchy have an identity of design, the re-establishment of the “Holy Roman Empire”, this time to take in the whole earth. To befuddle the minds of the people they are warning them against such inroads from the Spy Column. Thus they are making the fire and hollering “Fire” at the same time. To carry out this deception which is working so much injury on innocent people they have employed the American Legion to denounce Jehovah’s witnesses as members of the Fifth Column, or Trojan horse. This has been especially vicious in Texas, but has also occurred by concerted action in California, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and other places. Everyone who knows Jehovah’s witnesses knows this denunciation is absolutely false. The sufferings of Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany are a monstrous record of infamy against the perpetrators, Hitler and the Catholic Gestapo. But such false accusations of the Lord’s people serve a two-fold purpose: to blacken the Lord’s name and His witness work among the uninformed, and to discredit Jehovah’s exposure of the Hierarchy so that they may calmly carry on their destruction of the democracy of the United States.
Hitler’s Religion
It has never been denied by the Hierarchy that Hitler is a Catholic. It is not likely to be bragged about, however, until he has ravaged all Europe, and then it will be time for an expression of gratitude from the pope and bestowal of the title “Defender of The Faith”. The Ulster Protestant makes this undeniable (April 1940 issue):
The following facts prove beyond shadow of doubt that Hitler is not a Pagan, but a Roman Catholic:
(1) He was baptized a Roman Catholic; (2) he has never left the Roman Catholic Church; (3) he has never been ex-communicated; and (4), what is most significant, he calls himself a Roman Catholic. Our authority for the last statement is Hitler himself. In the most recent edition of the German Who’s Who (Wer Ist’s?), and in his autobiographical sketch (which, in keeping with the Fuehrer’s dignity, precedes all the other sketches in the volume), Hitler designates his religion as kath. Reference to the table of abbreviations (Verzeichnis der Abkuerzungen) shows that kath. stands for katholisch—i.e., a Roman Catholic.
Adolph Hitler was born Roman Catholic; and to carry out his nefarious work has found ready material in sons of the Roman Church. . . .
The Vatican and Nazism . . . [is] packed full of interesting facts which show the papal hand which has helped Hitler, who “has always shown a pronounced bias against Protestant Britain”.
These facts must be kept in mind in considering the advance of Rome in America. Soon the country is to be deluged with Nazi activities; in fact, is already grappling with the Jesuit Gestapo. Subtly they warn of this in advance to divert suspicion:
“We have to remember the Fifth Column. We must be aware of our enemies. It is not out of place today to bring to your attention the Fifth Column. For several years it has been operating in America but little was heard of it.” [Father J. A. McCaffrey, in a speech to the New York Rotary Club, quoted by the New York Times, May 24, 1940.]
“There will be no fifth column among the Catholics of America, for the Catholic when true to his faith is true to the laws of his country.” [William Cardinal O’Connell, in an address “at a solemn high mass in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross”, Boston, Mass., quoted by the New York Times, June 3, 1940.]
These two men probably know more about Fifth Column activities than any others not of the same fraternity in America. As to their protestations of innocence the little verse of Thomas Hardy, English novelist, seems particularly apropos:
“Peace upon earth”, was said. We sing it
And pay a million priests to bring it,
And after two thousand years of Mass
We’ve got as far as poison gas.”
Thomas Hardy did not live to see the more terrible weapons in the pope’s World War II such as tanks and bombers that can annihilate nations. He did not know of the Blitzkrieg that so delights the heart of Prayerful Pius, the “lightning war” that is bringing the fulfillment of the pontiff’s fondest hopes, a Catholic World Empire. A Catholic sympathizer writing in the editorials of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, April 18, 1940, expresses their real admiration of Hitler:
HOW THEY’VE CHANGED THEIR TUNE
Adolf Hitler a half-baked rabble-rouser with neurotic tendencies? That’s what his critics used to say about him, and say no longer.
“Oh, yes, he’s been a shrewd party leader,” other so-called experts formerly stated. “But he knows little about diplomacy, and less about military affairs. He’s a poor judge of men.”
Such stuff is just 100 per cent incorrect, as the events of the last seven years—and especially of the last seven months—have convincingly proven.
Consider the weapons possessed by Hitler at the very outset, when he began tinkering with the rusty economic machine of the German nation and the feeble military nucleus.
Then consider what the man has done since he assumed power on that fateful January day in 1933.
He built a new German army, a new German navy, an air force second to none. He marched into the Rhineland, achieved anschluss with Austria, absorbed Czechoslovakia, grabbed Memel and Danzig, conquered Poland, took Denmark into protective custody overnight, and employed dramatic “Trojan horse” tactics to seize control of Norway.
They said he would be twisted around the little finger of British diplomats. He twisted them around his little finger at Munich.
They thought he would ruin the German armed forces by ill-advised military and naval orders. At present he appears to have the Allies on the run.
They were “certain” Russia would fight on the side of the Allies, and Italy would at least remain neutral. Best current opinion is that both Russia and Italy may end up on the Nazi’s side.
Probably no man in all the world is hated more strenuously than Adolf Hitler. His aims, like his methods, are distasteful to believers in representative self-government. But weak men are not hated; they are merely despised. Hitler, like Napoleon, is hated. Even more than Napoleon, he has gained every objective sought during his first period of power.
The worst mistake any man can make is to underestimate his adversary. Hitler’s adversaries underestimated him. They do so no longer.
For the present at least, it appears that in the person of this once obscure son of a half-forgotten Austrian customs official are combined the diplomatic brilliance of a Bismarck and the military genius of a Moltke together with skill in party leadership which cannot be compared with that of any other figure in German history.
How pitifully puny the Baldwins and the Chamberlains look alongside Hitler!
Hitler and His Church
Writing in the Boston Post, April 17, 1940, Clement A. Norton, just recently returned from Germany, states that after the occupation of Warsaw Hitler ordered that all church bells should be rung between noon and 1 p.m. for seven consecutive days in commemoration of that event. He stated that in Berlin St.
Hedwig’s cathedral church, the one Hitler attends, is thronged and in Munich the Germans parade to church as if nothing had happened. Referring also to the fact that at one time more than 100 Franciscans were on trial for moral rottenness, Norton says, admiringly:
Overnight these trials were suddenly called off and only one man in all Germany could give the order to halt those trials and that was Hitler. For months the German newspapers front-paged those trials and overnight every one of them was dropped.
The Films of Savagery
“The Nazis have made a film of the conquest of Poland—a film described by neutral correspondents as a terrible record of massacre. Cameramen accompanied the bombing and reconnaissance squadrons and thus made it possible for civilians thousands of miles away from the scene to see with their own eyes what happens when savage war is made from the sky. The Nazis are proud of this film and they regard it as most effective instrument. It is an ominous sign that they have now exhibited it in Sweden. They trust to it to help them in their main purpose, which is to break down the morale of Europe. For the most important fact about this war is that it takes us back to the type of fiend and the type of hero that the Nazis admire; it takes us back to the days when Christianity, whose influence on German history they resent as enervating and enfeebling, had not yet softened manners and sharpened conscience. The Nazis set out to convince the world that there is no brutality that they would not commit.
“What Hitler, Göring, and Ribbentrop want to impress on the world is that destruction is the fate of any nation that resists the Nazis, and to teach it that lesson they begin with savagery in cold blood. Methods to which passion may drive a people they use and prepare as calmly as a scientist preparing a chemical experiment.”—Manchester Guardian.
Just what Hitler’s Nazis will do and what sympathy for them or affiliation with them implicates is briefly noted in a few dread instances. First is the statement of Eduard Benes, last president of Czechoslovakia, made to the London Press Club, and quoted in the New York Post, April 30, 1940:
“I do not exaggerate and I have no need to do so. . . . Every political prisoner was questioned alone, while he was at the same time physically tortured, beaten, and humiliated under such physical conditions, in unhealthy rooms, with such impossible food, and under such nervous tension that hardly any left there without being broken for life. Hundreds of Czech officers received such treatment there that they died under the blows of the Nazi police—beaten to death in the most bestial fashion.”
Of the positive atrocities inflicted Dr. Benes said on March 29 that a house in Prague had been turned into a torture chamber where cruelties are practiced more terrible than those inflicted on the Jews in concentration camps.—Manchester Guardian, April 12, 1940.
Perhaps the betrayal of Norway by those whom Norway befriended is more terrible than the carnage of murderous war. “Mr. James,” as reported in the New York Times and the Forth Worth Star, “recounts that the Norwegians were surprised by the large numbers of German officers and men in the invading Nazi force who spoke well their language, which is not taught generally in German schools. In explanation Mr. James reports” that after the World War I many Norwegians out of the goodness of their hearts took in many undernourished children from Germany and Austria. They were voluntarily cared for by Norwegian families without cost to the State. Finally, when they attained manhood, they went back to their native lands and returned with the Nazi invaders. Here is the gratitude of a Nazi.
This is the picture of the subjects of the dictator who said:
“I shall shrink from nothing. . . . We shall be ruthless. . . . The instrument of terrorism is indispensable, less for its direct effects than for its undermining of the opposing will. . . . There is no such thing as truth, either in the moral or the scientific sense. . . .” —Hermann Rauschning, former president of the Danzig Senate; quoted from his Voice of Destruction, page 295; G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York].
Before considering the advance of the Nazi-Catholic Fifth Column in Texas let the sober-minded pause and think just what the overrunning of this country by the Nazi-Catholics means. We all know honest Catholics who are loyal Americans. But how many will remain loyal when they are told to support Hitler and this command comes from agents of the pope, whom they are accustomed to obey? How many will question this command? Will not the ignorant fall in line without even reading anything by “heretics”?
The Hierarchy claims 20,000,000 adherents in the United States. Let us assume that 5,000,000 will remain loyal to America even against their “religion.” This means that Hitler and the pope can count on 15,000,000 Nazis to help “convert” the other Americans with the helpful persuasion of bombs and tanks. When it is said "count on" it means that no low crime, from betrayal of relatives to the murder of fellow citizens, will be hesitated at by the fanatical followers of the fuehrer. Secretly at the confessional, even as it was broadcast that the pope approved Hitler, the word will be passed on that Il Papa is really betting on son Hitler despite any "necessary" misstatements made by those not competent to speak the will of the "infallible" pope. It will get around. In a week the favor of the pope made Roosevelt president of the United States! Again a country will be ravaged by madmen fighting to restore the Holy Roman Empire against the American descendants of the Huguenots, the Puritans, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, who escaped the Roman Catholic Inquisition more than two hundred years ago and who established these once free United States of America. Rome is marching! Let no one be deceived by the wolf's Nazi costume.
Mexican Border Barrage
Texas is a state which once had grim memories of the aggressions of priests. So terrible were these experiences that their State Declaration of Independence names the priests as "the eternal enemies of the people". Since then their vigil has relaxed and the infiltration of Rome's hirelings, German, Mexican and Spanish, has been tremendous. New Braunfels, Texas, is a city of Nazis where aspersions against Hitler cause dangerous mutterings against the offender. If he has German relatives the horrible law of retaliation is used to torment them, according to a San Antonio press report. San Antonio itself is the city where "Father" Valenta, a Nazi priest, led several thousand parishioners against a Communist meeting at the beautiful municipal auditorium last summer. The Communists had permission to assemble from Mayor Maury Maverick, but, ignoring all law, the rioters hit policemen attempting to quell the mob and marched with Valenta at the head to the Alamo building. A little over a century ago this mob would have been blasted by the defenders of the Alamo. Today residents of San Antonio profess to believe it was merely a demonstration by some Mexican boys.
Last week [Mr. Groves writes under date of June 8.—Ed.] this Fifth Column advanced under the camouflage of branding innocents as "Fifth Columnists". Thinking to confuse the people and at the same time destroy an enemy of the pope, mobs incited by priests and bigoted members of the American Legion pounced on Jehovah's witnesses. In Brownsville, Del Rio on the border, and in New Braunfels (Nazi stronghold), San Benito, San Antonio, Harlingen, Midland, Odessa, Waxahachie, Stanton, and other near border cities, a concerted attack was perpetrated by lawless bands against Jehovah's witnesses. Jehovah's witnesses were accused of being the Fifth Column of Nazism. Note the newspaper scareheads intended to cover up the real Nazi spies and priests and at once blacken those telling the people the reason for the present conditions, including the Nazi-Catholic advance:
(Brownsville Herald, May 21, 1940)
FIFTH COLUMN COMBATTED
San Benito—Anything that looks like a "fifth column" or a "Trojan Horse" will get short shrift in the Valley, speakers at an American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars mass meeting Monday night told an audience of 300 persons. . . .
The mass meeting was the outgrowth of Saturday's incident in which a group, including a Harlingen man and woman and fifteen girls, were ordered out of San Benito after they had been distributing literature for a religious sect known as "Jehovah's Witnesses."
(Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Texas, May 21, 1940)
LEGION POSTS WILL BATTLE UN-AMERICANS
[Another story of the "bravery" of the Legion in expelling a man and a woman and fifteen young girls.]
(San Benito Light, May 20, 1940)
MASS MEETING TONIGHT IN LEGION HALL
GROUP IS CHASED
LEGION PARLEY ON SUBVERSIVE GROUPS CALLED
[The first scarehead was featured clear across the first page. Same story of the "heroism" of Captain Lew Williams of the machine-gun group, who rounded up a man and a woman and fifteen girls.]
(Detroit News, May 23, 1940)
TEXANS ROUT NAZI AGENTS
Del Rio, Texas. May 23, 1940—UP—The uprising of 400 people here to drive three professed Nazi agents from town was followed by reports from Austin today that Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel had ordered an immediate investigation of reported state-wide subversive activities.
Two of those expelled were women.
The man was threatened with a stoning . . .
The above action of the American Legion and fellow-mobsters was ridiculous as far as catching Nazis is concerned. The fact that Nazism was branded, and pictures of the Swastika displayed, in the copies of Consolation which some of Jehovah’s witnesses carried was used as a club by the lawbreakers in efforts to destroy and discredit their work because it exposes the Nazis and the Hierarchy. In several towns priests were seen going to the city halls just before the mob gathered, and in another instance a priest was seen exhorting a group to action. The American Legion well knows that Jehovah’s witnesses are not Nazis. Their action was a malicious breach of the law which they have sworn to uphold, and instead of serving to stem Nazism and the Fifth Column it had the reverse effect. The real Nazis, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, priests and those under the control of priests, are shielded by the false accusation of others. Jehovah’s witnesses have constantly called attention to the advance of Nazism and its allies the Catholic authorities; consequently an attack on these witnesses acts as an aid to Nazism and strikes a blow at those who would expose Nazism. Again the Hierarchy is pushing forward her schemes behind the smoke-screen of vicious assaults on the Lord’s people, the only friends of the American commonwealth on earth today.
Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego would not bow down to the image made by Nebuchadnezzar, but all were honored officials in Babylon. Mordecai would not bow down to Haman, the appointee of the Persian king, but he held a high position in the realm of Ahasuerus. Nehemiah was the king’s cupbearer under Artaxerxes and he was honored in the palace of Shushan. He was sad because Jerusalem, “the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste,” and he was sent by the king to repair it. He was accused of sedition, but the king upheld him. So it is today that Jehovah’s witnesses do not salute the flag or any man-made thing but are loyal to the principles for which the flag stands. This cannot be said for Catholic priests, and many of their deluded parishioners, among which are members of the American Legion. Their salute of flag is calculated to hide treachery, and had its model in the salute Judas gave Jesus.
Hypocrisy in a Patriotic Press
In the American Legion are many honorable men who are vitally concerned in preserving America and American institutions, one of whom is quoted below as condemning the above outrages. But the Legion organization has suffered an infiltration of enemies, haters of liberty like the Knights of Columbus, and is being used by the Hierarchy to achieve ends destructive to America. If the Hierarchy can camouflage its own Fifth Column activities by accusing those it desires to discredit and use the American Legion to do it, the American people are the losers by having their attention diverted from the real criminals. The Hierarchy’s strategy is merely a modern use of an old trick of thieves of all ages: the thief himself, to elude pursuers, halts and points ahead shouting, “Stop thief.” Of these tactics the American public will doubtless be treated to wholesale examples.
When those who are thus victimized are proved innocent most people will think that such false accusation is merely the mistake of overzealous patriots; they will not realize that behind the rending mobs the Hierarchy’s Fifth Column of Nazi action works unmolested and unsuspected, the mighty espionage system of priests, prelates and worshipers taking orders from Rome. There are countless millions of Catholics in North America who will obey implicitly the commands of pope and priest. It is to be expected that many honest American Catholics will refuse to betray their country to the Nazi terror. But what of the countless millions who do not read except what the priest tells them to read, to whom murder is considered sacred duty if ordered by the bishop, who will move in a solid obedient phalanx under the direction of the Nazi overlord? They will ask no questions, march like sheep to the slaughter, mowing down “heretics”, “Communists” and all the enemies of their only sovereign, “the successor of St. Peter” (who, the Bible declares, has had no successor), and the blackened ruins of America will testify to the folly of religion!
Will any thoughtful man repeat “It can’t happen here”? Let such remember that Rome has the most gigantic spy system in the world, with its myriads of priests, monsignors, monks, nuns, friars, lay organizations, key men in government, business and press, army and navy; who report to their superiors the bishops, archbishops, and cardinals; who in turn report to the absolute monarch of this autocracy, the ally of Hitler, Pope Pius XII. Here is a government having all the efficiency of an absolute dictatorship which it is, operating from Vatican City, the best-informed foreign office in the world, having sources of information denied to others: the secrets of the confessionals where soldiers, businessmen and officials confess all to the Nazi spy who sits in the confessional box. Can anyone doubt that the Hierarchy system is the Nazi Fifth Column fighting to bring all the world to the feet of Rome?
Turning once more to the hypocritical action of the American Legion members in Texas, note the comment of an honest man among them. Major John N. Merrill, United States Army, retired, and now living in Brownsville, Texas, wrote the Brownsville Herald a letter (reproduced in their May 22 issue) which is headed "RETIRED U. S. ARMY OFFICER LASHES ACTION AGAINST 'JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES'," and states:
I think it is time to say Whoa! back up; the report of the action of the American Legion in San Benito against the so-called Jehovah's Witnesses is, to me, bigoted and hysterical.
Lest there be any misunderstanding, I come of a straight American family that has been in this country since 1635 and of a combined English, Scotch, Irish and some French stock; in other words, an American. During the World War I was overseas and wounded. I am a Legionnaire too. . . .
This country was founded on religious tolerance. That Jehovah's Witnesses are a Fifth Column is pure poppycock and bunk and witch-hunting. We need not agree with these people, but they surely have their right to think as they please. For shame that the American Legion should lose its head and take part in such methods. It reminds me of the remark credited to Hudson Maxim that the Puritans came to America to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience AND PREVENT EVERYONE ELSE FROM DOING THE SAME. The prince de Talleyrand once said: 'I do not agree with you but I will fight to the death to protect your right to say it.' In other words, free speech. . . .
These Jehovah's Witnesses are not Guilty as charged.
Let's keep our heads; the government does not need such half-baked action as took place in San Benito. The roster of names of the World War American forces and of all American Legion Posts includes names from all the countries of Europe, of all faiths, all creeds; many of them or their parents came to America, our America, seeking refuge from just this sort of persecution. Again I say, FOR SHAME!
JOHN N. MERRILL,
Major, U. S. Army, Retired
Brownsville, Texas
Press Calls Attention to the Law
Reiterating the fact that constitutional rights have been invaded and the United States Supreme Court decision ignored in the mob action in Del Rio, the San Antonio News of May 24 states:
DEL RIO DISTURBANCE RECALLS COURT DECISION UPHOLDING RIGHT OF SECTS TO DISTRIBUTE TRACTS
Washington, May 24. (UP) The disturbance at Del Rio, Tex., assertedly involving three Jehovah's Witnesses solicitors has recalled Monday's U. S. Supreme Court decision holding that the right of pamphlet distribution by such religious sects is guaranteed by the constitution.
In a vigorous opinion by Justice Robert J. Owens [Error; should be Owen J. Roberts] the Court held that three members of the sect could not be convicted for breaching the peace in New Haven, Conn., even though they passed out violently anti-Catholic tracts to members of that faith and played before Catholics on the street records calling Catholicism a "racket" . . .
From now on we may expect to see more large-scale mob action. This action will be patterned largely after the Nazi Catholic pogroms of Germany, which had their origin in turn in the Roman Catholic Inquisition methods, copied also by the Coughlinites in the streets of New York. Mobs can be made to do acts of violence that sober men would shrink from. Let the honest Legionnaires and honest Catholics take note of this move; for an attack on Jehovah's witnesses the Lord Jesus Christ, now King of the World, counts as an attack upon Himself.—Matthew 25 : 45, 46.
In Brief
In brief, this article has advanced evidence to prove: That Hitler is conducting a "holy war" to recoup the "Holy Roman Empire" for his master, the pope; that the vast treachery of the Nazi Fifth Column is made possible by its tremendous personnel of priests, prelates, and deluded followers; that millions of North American Catholics will volunteer or be drafted into Fifth Column activities; that the Hierarchy is taking and will continue to take advantage of the hysterical anxiety in America to incite mobs against any organization that is exposing them, especially "Jehovah's witnesses"; that their actions will be smoke-screens to hide the enormous intrigue of Rome aiming to put all the world under Papal domination; and that Jehovah will exact the lives of those who fight His people. THE THEOCRACY is here, and the great THEOCRAT; "Let all the earth keep silence before him." In Nazi garb the Papal wolf is despoiling Europe, and her triumphs spread to America; but her destruction shall be permanent.—Psalms 9 : 17; 37 : 38; 145 : 20; Proverbs 11 : 21; Revelation 17 : 16.—Elton Groves.
(More evidence to follow in Part II) Judge Rutherford’s Counsel from Down Texas Way
The real explanation of Texas riots is Hitler’s agent, Arthur Dietrich, in Mexico, acting with the Catholic priests of Mexico, directed by Pacelli to destroy both Mexico and America. Dietrich and the priests are camouflaging their own devilish work by wrongfully charging innocent men, women and children (Jehovah’s Witnesses) with the very crime that the Hitler gang is committing. CONSOLATION should emphasize that fact. Note the enclosed clippings! Both clippings enclosed, the first one an editorial by Hugh Johnson, and the second from Associated Press of same date, June 13, are shown below. - Ed. In my opinion many officials of the present administration have connived with the hierarchy and with Hitler to bring about the destruction of every government where democracy obtains, the purpose being to re-establish the “Harlot” Roman empire. Note that the officials ignored Johnson’s warning. - J.F.R.
Johnson
By HUGH S. JOHNSON
WASHINGTON, D. C. — For long this writer has insisted that Mussolini is a mere and recently predicted his June 10 routine and called it “stab in the back of France.” We have at finally awakened to the own miserably inadequate defense and the pitiful defenselessness of the Allies. But all that is no excuse for flopping around like a beached fish. The Administration should have made clear those earlier failures calmly. It knew what the real reasons were, not rank.
The very first issue of this column, March 1, 1935, now reads like the prophet Isaiah. It accused the Administration of “a blindfolded what Hitler was preparing in rearmament with the excellent industries, and aid in part.” Today the French army with its Allies could march from one end of Europe to the other—but not after the Germans re-arm with modern equipment. Fully equipped they would be a million far superior to the French and . . . on no provocation at all could bring down on the world a new Hitler war. . . this third phase of Hitler’s start catastrophe on the way . . . he stops at nothing—ethics, mercy to humanity—and he eventually would, as he has already by political boundary or so slight a consideration of the peace of the world. . . With the Nazi vigor and velocity of a man whose house is threatened by vast conflagrations we should immediately, at whatever the mobilization of our wealth, property and industry as well as our manpower. . . That was written five years ago.
WE AND ALLIES DID LITTLE
Although the disastrous future was then clear as day, that available, we had the Allied did little. Since 1935, when this writer pleaded to persuade Congress to authorize ample funds to mechanize and motorize an Army, he has been clamped many times every year—about our complete military idleness, pestered in modern land and air weapons. Having to advertise the new suddenly proven helplessness of troops who do not have the latest those who have.
With this in view, more than four years later, while the Allies, suffering on the battlelines almost of their senses, defended a defense, fought to prevent Hitler from taking the “German city of Danzig and the Polish corridor from the dictatorship at Poland, this writer predicted the effect of the Russian development and the effect (within 24 hours) Hitler would march. And then this column almost stridently warned that it was not yet time (considering Allies defenseless and Hitler’s strength) to declare war until certainly destroy the weaker nations they had guaranteed, and could not possibly help, and that might possibly destroy themselves and adjacent western civilization.
ADVISED AGAINST MIXING IN DISPUTE
On this reasonable, it said, among several other things, on Aug. 21, 1939: “I plead and perhaps you care to be decided in this statesmanship of Britain and France . . . we certainly are in a hell of a fix . . . let’s run our own policy and not turn it over to Mr. Chamberlain. We are not remotely prepared for war and neither is England or France. Hitler is. If we assent to or engage in a fight, let’s choose an occasion which concerns us and a time at which we have at least a Chinaman’s chance!”
Our Government not only did little to prepare itself, but encouraged the equally helpless but Allied nation to declare the war which has already ravaged or destroyed eight troubled nations and, as predicted, now threatens the Allies and even us. So “they’re fighting our war.”
This is the sort of continuing protest that this Administration still “isolationist” and in the excellent third term atmospheres will presently call treason.
For the present belated panicky and hence unplanned effort to stand up the defense for which we have for seven years clamored myself honest, this column will give it unstinted support—to any length. But as long as there is any freedom of press left in this land political frenzy to perpetuate incompetence leadership, even at the risk of a wholly unnecessary war, this writer, on the basis of his record and experience, is going to continue to protest what he believes are dangerous errors, (Copyrighted by Central Press.)
NAZI’S OUSTER SOON EXPECTED
Believe Mexican Ministry to Reveal Dietrich Exit Demanded
MEXICO CITY, June 13 (AP) — Government circles expected the Mexican foreign ministry to announce officially today that Arthur Dietrich, brother of Adolf Hitler’s press chief, head of the German legation’s press bureau and director of Nazi propaganda in Mexico, had been asked to leave the country.
They said the request was sent to the German legation by the foreign ministry yesterday and that despite reported pressure of the Nazi to prevent Dietrich’s expulsion reversal of the order was unlikely because of United States interest in the case.
These sources said the action was taken after a painstaking investigation into Dietrich activities of which the United States Government was kept informed, allegedly had revealed that:
1. Dietrich’s office served as a relay point for instructions from Berlin to German ships at sea to German agents in other American nations.
2. Dietrich organized and directed, from his office here, a number of secret cells in United States.
3. Dietrich’s offices were headquarters of a propaganda system which spread from Mexico to most of the American republics.
The Nazi press chiefs, through propaganda and other activities, sought to influence Mexican internal political developments.
Dietrich, who is about 40, married and a resident of Mexico City, and on a matter 11 years, he is believed to consider or deny the expulsion order when reached at home early this morning. “We are going to see” was his only comment.
How About the Mohammedans?
THE government now deserts a traditional American policy by entering the church life of the nation. Millions of Protestants and more others were disturbed when the president saw fit to appoint a personal representative to Vatican City.
This arrangement, as cautiously as it is being advanced, is an unmistakable violation of the principle by which the church and state are to be completely separated. This republic should have no political contact with any religious group. Besides, this is an unmistakable preference for one church group.
The White House does not suggest sending an envoy to the Lutherans of the world, the largest Protestant group, nor do we want one. The president does not have a personal representative among the 240,000,000 Mohammedans.
Finally, we are distrustful of this arrangement because it may be the beginning of other encroachments and further discrimination. We demand the government follow the constitutional principles and keep its hands entirely off of our religious life.—Dr. Walter A. Maier, professor of Semitic languages at Concordia (Mo.) Seminary, in a Lutheran coast-to-coast broadcast.
Harlan Miller’s Apology
for His Awful Lies, Reproduced Below, Which Lies Caused Terrible Sufferings to Jehovah’s witnesses That Expose the “Fifth Column”
WASHINGTON
By Harlan Miller
LOOPHOLE FOR ENEMIES.
WASHINGTON, May 31. — Justice Roberts, of the supreme court, is a calm gentleman of enormous self-control. So he should not be surprised if any day now a loin-clothed Hindu knocks on the door of his home, enters the hall, lays down a board thickly studded with sharp nails and lies down upon it, meanwhile exhorting the justice to do likewise in the true faith.
Nor should Justice Reed bat an eye if a little group of flagellants invade his living room, begin to beat each other with whips, denounce the justice's religion and beseech him, either orally or with a phonographic transcription to become a flagellant.
And why? Well, because on a recent Monday the supreme court unanimously upheld the claim of three members of a sect called Jehovah’s Witnesses that they have the “right” to enter a Catholic’s home in New Haven and in its sanctity play a phonograph record denouncing the Catholic faith.
On the following Thursday three avowed nazis, claiming some allegiance to this same sect, peddled tracts in Del Rio, Texas, with the nazi swastika on the cover. When they declined to salute an American flag and called it “a dirty rag,” they were run out of town.
It appears that the fifth column is alert, for the time being at least, to decisions of the United States supreme court. It is ready to take advantage of any such strange ruling. Any fifth columnist can join any sect it chooses, apparently, or create a new religion, and then operate with impunity.
So the members of the supreme court might as well prepare for callers. If there are any Doukhobors abroad in the land, eager to parade evangelically in the nude through someone’s living room, they know where they may expect a tolerant reception.
It is fair to assume that Justice Douglas, for example, is ready to abide by the unanimous decision of the court and welcome, with at least a minimum of hospitality, any wandering holy roller who wants to do a little rolling on the Douglas hearth rug.
Socially, Justice McReynolds is no pushover. But a unanimous decision is a unanimous decision. So it would scarcely be cricket for him to object, if a whirling dervish were to drop in on him at his apartment on 18th street and whirl and whirl, with outcries to persuade the justice of the error of his ways.
Alas, the possibilities are manifold. Any pacifist sect may now call on Secretary of War Woodring or Gen. Marshall, the chief of staff, and implore them to toss the army into the ashcan. Or it can, if it wishes, aim its solicitude at less eminent members of the United States army.
And what is to prevent Berlin from sending over a flying squad of missionaries for its new pagan religion, to incorporate under the laws of Delaware and then proceed to sell paganism in the places where it will do the most good, with a side line of Hitlerism?
An ardent missionary might even preach to gullible workers in airplane factories and arsenals that it is their lofty duty to commit sabotage, or to a gob that he must jam the gun turrets or scuttle the ship if he yearns for heaven hereafter.
We democracies are so delightfully tolerant. We are still so sure of ourselves that we don’t plug up the rat holes. We are strong for free speech. We will continue to be, until someone makes us yell “Uncle,” and that may be the last free word we ever utter.
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON, D. C.
June 8, 1940
Mrs. Leonard L. Kugler
216-23 Hollis Avenue
Queens Village
Long Island, New York
Dear Mrs. Kugler:
I have read thoughtfully your letter about my column concerning the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ decision.
The point I was trying to make in the column is that someone may be using this innocent sect to spread subversive foreign doctrine or religious hatred. I have no desire or intention of reflecting unjustly on the sect itself.
In other letters which I received, the suggestion is made that the swastika which appears on the literature has nothing to do with the Nazis, or is used with an ironical intent.
I’d like to make it clear to you that I do not approve of mob action against Jehovah’s Witnesses or any other sect. I shall try to make this matter clear when an opportunity arises and in the meanwhile I wish to express my thanks for your intelligent letter.
Sincerely yours,
Harlan Miller
Harlan Miller
HM:vw China and Japan
What Do You Think?
◆ What do you think of soldiers that indiscriminately rape all the women of the towns they conquer; that use the furniture of the poor people for firewood instead of coal offered to them, on the ground that it is dry and burns well; that stable their horses in the best rooms of the homes of the well-to-do; that feed their horses on grain intended to preserve human life, even when other food for them is provided; that turn their horses into wheat fields to graze, thereby destroying more grain than they consume; that use the open streets for the consummation of attacks upon helpless women; that enter homes and machine-gun all the inmates? And, finally, what do you think of the individual soldier who demanded and received a man's quilt and paid for it by thrusting his bayonet through the giver's body? If this is civilization, do you blame the Chinese for resisting the process?
The Saiki Food Plan
◆ Everything in Japan that could be remotely described as food has been scheduled, in a list comprising more than 6,000 items. The Japanese government may at any moment put the Saiki plan, based on these schedules, into operation, with the result that all workers will be fed collectively in factories, schools, barracks, town and village halls, at a cost per day of less than twopence (4 cents) each. Some of the possible foods that have been studied are dogs, cats, rats, grasshoppers, snails, and frogs.
Japanese in Manchuria
◆ After six years of occupation only 5 percent of the population of Manchuria are Japanese. Last year it was the announced intention of the Japanese government to settle 6,000 men with their families; but the records show that only 600 men without families left their homeland for Manchuria.
A War of Extermination
◆ The war in China is not a mere war: it is an extermination. No prisoners are taken: all are destroyed. No enemy wounded are cared for: all are left to die on the field of battle. And the Japanese make no provision for the existence of the noncombatants in areas taken over in the fighting.
Extending Civilization to Kaifengfu
◆ While the murderers roared away into the east, we hurried to the stricken area near the East Gate. The bombs had fallen into the poorest quarter where the coolies were nearly all absent at work. The number of women and children killed and maimed was nearly a hundred. I counted several bodiless heads of babies. From piles of rubble came faint groans. A woman sat speechless beside the prostrate form of her dead husband, in her arms a baby missing from the waist down. The Japanese airplanes that did the killing were manufactured in the United States.—Edgar Ansel Mowrer, in his book The Dragon Wakes.
Japanese-Vatican Unity
◆ In an address in the city of Quebec, "Reverend Father" Hugo Lassalle, director of the Jesuit Japanese Mission, claimed that a great future awaits the Catholic Church in Japan, because the government and people are now very sympathetic towards it, and the "Church" is sympathetic with the aims of the Japanese government in China.
Not All Profit
◆ It seems that the introduction of opium into China is not all profitable to the invaders. At a session of the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, Victor Hoo Chi-tsai stated that at one time in three hospitals in Nanking 1,000 beds were filled with Japanese soldier addicts.
Oysters Darken the Hair
◆ A Boston scientist announces that melanin, a pigment which supplies the dark color, is found most plentifully in oysters. So if you want to dodge gray hair, eat plenty of oysters. There are almost no gray-haired Japanese, and it is claimed that their heavy consumption of oysters is the reason.
Pounding Away at the Jews
◆ Pounding away at the Jews, the German "government" succeeded in getting two German Jewish professors of music dismissed from the conservatory of music at Kobe, Japan—another great victory for the monstrosity now directing the destinies of mittel-Europa. (Continued on page 24) RIGHTEOUS RULER
THE NEW GOVERNMENT
Tribunal Report
GLASGOW TRIBUNAL Oct. 24, 1939.
Members of Tribunal
Sir A. Campbell, K.C. Sheriff of Lanarkshire (Chairman)
Sir Robert Bruce, LL.D.
Professor J. J. Craik Henderson
Mr. R. Bryce Walker, C.B.E.
Mr. W. Lorimer, C.B.E.
Applicant
Mr. William Young, 112 Rogart St., Glasgow
The Chairman: What is your occupation?
Mr. Young: I am one of Jehovah's witnesses and am devoting my whole life to preaching the gospel of the Kingdom.
The Chairman: How long have you been wholly engaged in this work?
Mr. Young: For about a month.
The Chairman: What were you doing previously?
Mr. Young: On account of my sight I have never been able to take up a proper trade.
(Then R. Gough, Glasgow company servant, was called as a witness.)
The Chairman: Are not all Christian bodies preaching the gospel of the Kingdom?
Mr. Gough: No. The gospel of the Kingdom is the truth concerning the setting up of the kingdom of God on the earth today, and this is not taught or believed by any so-called Christian church.
The Chairman: What do you mean by the kingdom of God being set up on earth?
Mr. Gough: A righteous government established by Jehovah in the place of present governments, with Christ as King, operating through faithful men who in the past have proved their faithfulness to Jehovah's laws.
The Chairman: You mean a Theocracy in the strict sense?
Mr. Gough: Definitely. Where the law of God is the only law, when God's will shall be done on earth as in heaven, and when all present forms of government now violating that law will no longer exist.
The Chairman: Do you mean that there is no righteous government on earth today?
Mr. Gough: Not one. All governments are against Jehovah, because all are striving to maintain the present order of things, which the Bible declares is against God, and which order must be destroyed.
The Chairman: Do you mean that there has never been a righteous government on the earth?
Mr. Gough: With the exception of the nation of Israel, there has never been a righteous government; and that was only a typical arrangement picturing how God's kingdom would operate when established.
The Chairman: You say that that was a righteous government, yet the nation of Israel went to war and had God's blessing?
Mr. Gough: True, because Jehovah was demonstrating through that typical arrangement that all opposed to Him and His kingdom are His enemies and will be destroyed. The nation of Israel went to war at the express command of Jehovah to execute His judgments, and not for any political reasons or commercial gain.
The Chairman: Would you not say that the present war is being fought for a righteous cause and has God's approval?
Mr. Gough: No. Jehovah takes no part nor favors any side in a war between nations, but allows them to take their own course, and commands Christians to stand separate and take no part in any such wars.
The Chairman: You will not fight, yet you take all the benefits?
Mr. Gough: Whatever benefits we take we pay for by taxation. We are law-abiding citizens and only refuse to obey a law when that law conflicts with the expressed law of God.
The Chairman: Are there any of you—Jehovah's witnesses—in Germany?
Mr. Gough: Yes. Thousands of them, but most are in concentration camps because of their refusal to obey the laws of that government which are against the laws of Jehovah, whom we serve.
The Chairman: Do you all hold to the same teachings; I mean as a body?
Mr. Gough: Absolutely. We were all conscientious objectors during the last war. We take no part whatever in the maintenance of the present form of government; we do not even vote.
Member of the Tribunal: It is very evident that you are definitely more united in your views than other Christian bodies, and I must say that your stand is a very bold one.
Mr. Gough: It is not only our privilege to be bold in our stand in proclaiming the Truth today, but we would be willing to suffer anything rather than violate our integrity before the Lord.
(The decision was announced by the chairman's granting unconditional exemption, and recorded on the register of Conscientious Objectors.)
"A little gray home in the West"
"A Little Gray Home in the West"
◆ When we arrived here the publishers were meeting in a dirty, shabby old broken-down church. After much effort we managed to find a broken-down old house in a wonderful location halfway between the twin cities of Centralia and Chehalis, which cities are but four miles apart. A publisher gave us lumber, which he took in place of money owed him by a mill, and we were off on a building program. I put on overalls to help my husband, and together we tore down the place and reconstructed the Kingdom Hall shown herewith. Here is now a clean, orderly and attractive meeting place, book room, sound equipment room, and a suitable headquarters in this vicinity for Jehovah's Theocratic organization.
In two months, with the help of the local publishers, the place was completed, inside and out. Fifteen cars go by every minute, as it is on the main highway to the north and south; and do the people stare? Sometimes we see them lean right out of the windows of the automobiles. If anyone had told me years ago that I would have had a share in building "an house for the Lord" I could not have believed it possible. We could never have done it in our own strength. The Lord must have wished it; for He helped in every way.
Now we have a nice little company with 22 publishers. In the attic we have two dear old pioneers. We live next to the hall, in our trailer. There are plenty of "Silver Shirts" here, clamoring for the Jews' blood. At the present time nothing else will satisfy them, and they will not read. The town is crowded with churches. I doubt if you ever saw so many in proportion to the population. Yesterday and today the local broadcasting station put on the recordings "Instruction" and "Miracles" and we are interested as to what will be the reactions from the clergy.—B.
A Gentleman Not Informed
◆ A gentleman in Alabama who was not acquainted with the fact that a wife may believe what she wishes and serve God in any way she sees fit wrote the following letter to one of Jehovah's witnesses, expressing his displeasure at the interest his wife is taking in the truth. As the letter contains noteworthy spelling, punctuation, etc., as well as enthusiasm for his viewpoint, it is presented as written:
Mr T. M. floyd. Dear Sir for The last 3. or 4 Months Me and My Do not get along. Just Since 2 or 3 People are Been Teaching hir This Junk about Runing around to These Meetings and Putting it in hir head to Run around and Witness Just to Be Mad fun of. Mr floyd if That Was The Right Teaching Why isent Thire are Not But 3 or 4 People Blong to it I No Thire are Plenty good Pople in your Comunity and I Do No it good People in My Comunity Why is Thire No Moore gets in That Then it is. No Mr floyd Beasue Tha No it is Not The Right Teaching and Thire fore I Do Not Wont No Body Trying to Teach My Wife That My Wife has a good Bible She is Doing Just fime Readeing it and The old and New Testment Bible is The only good Book for Enney Body to Read. The friend slaughter The head Manager I Dont Wonts him Not to Turn around in My farm Not Even to Come in my hause Enny Moore or Willie Rece oveley. Ar No Body not to Mintion That Kind of Teaching I Mail your Wife a card asking her for her not to and she Do not Pay me no mine But I am got Plenty of letters That I am going to Keep if This Keep going I am going to use Thes letters in Cort Some of These Days. No My Wife Shall Not Run around from hause to hause and She shall Not go to Non of That Kind of Meeting and I No Thire Better Not Dair for No one to Try to have a Meeting heare at our hause and Do Not Wonts to order No Body out of My hause But if a Lady Comes and Start That Kind of Teaching I will have to Do so and I am Not On Easy about a Man for I no if he has The Right Mine he had Better Not Inter my Place With Nothing like That. and Mr Floyd I am asking you as a friemd to ask your Wife to Please Not Write Enny Moore of That to My Wife. if That is all I Rather She Wauld Not Rite at all for My Wife is Not going to get out Witness no Wheare and I am Sure No Body are Comeing around hir With Nathing of That your Truly
Jehovah's Kingdom publishers and Kingdom hall, St. John's, Newfoundland
Receiving "Government and Peace" at Columbia, S. C., Convention
In Quebec
◆ On March 24, 1939, about 7 p.m., four police officers (two being Provincial police and two city police) entered the headquarters of the pioneers located at Montreal, searched the premises and seized all the books, phonographs and records in the house. All suitcases and dresser drawers were searched, and among the literature seized were Bibles, Yearbooks, and even the Campaign "Thermometer" chart. There were seven pioneers in the home at the time, two or three others being out making back-calls, and the names of those present were taken by the police.
The following afternoon two Provincial police again called at the house, stating that they wanted to get a statement. Only two were in the house, and they would not give them any information. They stated that they would return in the evening to get the information they wanted; but on arriving they were disappointed, as only one person was there, and no information was given. Announcement was made over the radio that evening, on the "French Radio News" hour, that "police were combing Montreal for Jehovah's witnesses".
Ten days later the seven pioneers whose names the police had taken on March 24 were summoned to appear in court the following day. They all appeared at the high constable's office and warrants were produced charging them with "being parties to a seditious conspiracy in uttering a seditious libel". They were taken before Judge Guerin for the arrangement of bail, and all were allowed to go on parole after giving their word to appear for preliminary enquiry on April 12. They were then taken to the Provincial Police headquarters, where they were photographed and fingerprinted.
On April 12 the Crown asked for a postponement of the preliminary enquiry until April 27; and on that date the hearing took place. Judge Langlois was on the bench, and he is a Catholic, and bitter against Jehovah's witnesses. The enquiry was a record session for shortness. The one and only exhibit was Enemies. The brethren were sent up for trial at the next Assizes.
After several postponements, they came up for trial on February 12, 1940, and the case moved with lightning speed, being completed in one day. In the absence of Mr. Justice Wilfrid Lazure Chief Justice Greenshields was on the bench. As two of the defendants are English, an English jury was allowed. An Anglican clergyman and a priest from the University of Montreal appeared as "expert" witnesses for the Crown. These testified that the book Enemies was capable of arousing animosity and creating discord and discontent among His Majesty's subjects. In his address to the jury Chief Justice Greenshields, who showed his prejudice throughout the trial, made the statement that "the author of the book might have sung a different tune had he met a good Anglican or a good Catholic who had a horsewhip handy".
Immersion scene, Leeds, England
These Jehovah's Kingdom magazine publishers, 8 and 4 years of age, Enid, Oklahoma, have been in the work from the first and are now buying a phonograph for their mother.
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