Consolation, April 30, 1941

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Contents

The "New Order" in Europe (Part 3) 3

"New Order" Murders 4

Reprisals and Repercussions 5

Lying as a Fine Art 7

Reasons for France's Fall 9

Sufferings of the French 11

The New Government

At the Grand Assembly in San Jose 12

A Prisoner in a California Road Camp 14

Big and Little Witnesses 15

Thrilling Scene in Salinas 16

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

"Mother's Day" 17

Social

Disarm the Children 19

Murders by Children 19

Rocky Mountain States and Alaska 20

Under the Totalitarian Flag

"Lourdes" 24

Mussolini's Tribute to John Huss 25

Jesuitry in Practice 26

The Bible in Spain 28

British Comment

Some Pharisees Exposed 28

Jehovah's witnesses Loyal 30

Clergy Disloyalty 31

Petain and the Pope 2

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Petain and the Pope

◆ Whatever the pope wants is what Petain does. All Masonic property was confiscated and the proceeds will be used for "national charities". If those national charities should chance to be France's horrid concentration camps, the Masons would probably be measurably content. American seamen were so moved by reports of the suffering of Spanish refugees in France that they offered to sail without pay to bring these unfortunates to America.

At the Gurs camp of 14,000, near the Pyrenees, there are 15 to 25 deaths a day. Some starve themselves to death to get out of their misery. They include insane, feeble-minded and 1,200 more than 70 years of age, one of them 106. Lice are omnipresent. There are no glass windows. It is impossible to read, on account of poor light from the skylights. There is no furniture, such as chairs and tables; only filthy mattresses. The children cannot play; nor the women work.

A generation ago the French government got sick of the interference of the "Old Whore" in France, severed diplomatic relations with the Vatican, confiscated much ecclesiastical property, and stopped the teaching of religion in the public schools. Now all this has been undone. See Consolation No. 561, pages 6-7.

For years Vichy has forbidden religious processions, but with old Mr. Petain at the helm religion has come back and put on a procession several miles in length. The account says, "Prominent in the procession was the Papal nuncio, Mgr. Valerio Valeri, in full canonicals, for whom the guards lining the route presented arms." Why, sure! The account also says, "It was noted that all churches this morning had very large congregations." You bet! If you want to live and get along in France now, you had better head for the nearest "church" and pay much and often.

CONSOLATION

"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.

Volume XXII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 30, 1941 Number 564

The "New Order" in Europe (In Four Parts—Part 3)

THE refugee problem is heart-rending. It is claimed that there are 3,000,000 Poles in Germany and Russia, 100,000 Poles in Lithuania, 30,000 Channel Islanders in Britain, 100,000 Spanish Loyalists in France, 70,000 Germans and Austrians in Britain, 30,000 Belgians, Dutch and French in Britain, and millions of others of all nationalities who are victims of the Devil's "new order", "the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION spoken of by Daniel the prophet."

Quisling, alleged to be a Catholic, has withdrawn from Norwegian physicians the right of silence regarding the physical condition of their patients. The death penalty has been declared for any who make contact with the royal family or with the British Government. Sentences of one to two years' imprisonment were given for listening to broadcasts given in Norwegian from London and Boston, U.S.A.

Quisling's Norwegian Gestapo now have to attend every church service, for fear the minister might say something about the need of Jehovah's kingdom, The Theocracy, for which the Savior taught men to pray. This is a waste of their time, however, as few clergymen ever have anything to say on the subject.

In the Netherlands

The Devil is a liar; so are the Jesuits; and so is the Jesuit-trained Hitler. After he had stated he had no intention of invading the Netherlands, and had got the Netherlands to issue a statement that they had no reason to fear such an invasion, he put the long-planned invasion into effect and the 350,000 armed soldiers of the Lowlands were as nothing in the presence of his trained fifth columnists and supporting troops.

Refugees from the Netherlands who reached New York stated that about one-seventh of the people of the country were fifth columnists, wore black shirts, and, when the Nazi invasion occurred, shot their fellow citizens from the housetops. The men who did this are known as N.S.B. The N stands for National and the S.B. is not what you think, but Socialist Bund.

In 28 minutes the Nazis turned the heart of Rotterdam into a complete ruin and then informed the Netherlanders that "henceforth they must think of themselves as one small segment in the 'new European order'."

You know about what occurred at Rotterdam: the heart of the city was destroyed as above stated. Rhenen was completely wiped out because it dared put up a fight. German shells and bombs destroyed everything in the city except the huge Catholic church, manifestly saved because of its friendliness to the "new order" attackers.

The German officials sent in to Holland are of the better sort of military men, serious and well-mannered, but their job is one of rapine none the less.

Some of the features of German rule in the Netherlands are frequent bombings, as in Haarlem and Den Helder, and then the circulation of reports that the bombings were by the British, when the Dutch know better; false reports and false photographs of the condition of Rotterdam; treacherous newspapers, almost as evil as in the United States, which conceal the truth and publish only what will please the invaders; purgings of the bookshops of anything offensive to the Abomination that maketh Desolate, and finally the obliteration from schoolbooks of all references to Queen Wilhelmina. The Netherlands press is completely under Hitler’s control. Telephones and telegrams are rigidly censored and restricted. The radio blares forth only what the invaders want the people to hear. There is no automobile traffic. People may not move about from one town to another without permission. Families cannot ascertain whether missing members are dead or alive. Such is the “new order”.

“New Order” Murders

When the Germans invaded the Netherlands many Dutch businessmen were murdered because they had been unwilling to help market German goods as “made in Holland”. Before the country was entered the Gestapo had lists of all persons that were to be slain, and these were disposed of at once. A few escaped by fleeing without attempting to visit their homes or take anything with them.

The queen had to suddenly pack some belongings in two pasteboard bags and skip to Britain, and even as she tried to get away from the “Aryans” those “master-men” with “new order” consciences bombed the pier from which she escaped. She took along with her a little nine-month-old granddaughter in a gas-proof box with a glass window in it, her choicest possession.

When the Germans entered Amsterdam they called at the head office of Louis Asscher, most famous diamond cutter in the world. He was there with his two sons. They asked him where his diamonds were, and when he reported that they had been sent to America all three Asschers were murdered immediately.

The Chief Justice of the Netherlands, Dr. Visser, was murdered because, as a Jew, he had in private life condemned persecution of the Jews in Germany. Prominent men in various walks of life, such as aldermen and editors, were killed and reported as suicides. Freemasonry was banned.

The German military court that sentenced 18 Netherlanders to die by shooting, and 19 others to long prison terms, made the statement that any person who conspired even in thought against the German army is playing with a death sentence. It is significant that the special object of wrath is a Protestant secret society, known as “Les Gueux”, the name given the Netherlands Protestant soldiers who fought the battles of the Reformation against those Spanish subjects of the pope who sought domination of the world anew in the sixteenth century, as Hitler does in the twentieth. The court fined the city of Amsterdam $8,000,000 for a single week’s disorders, as a warning not to have hostile thoughts against the Abomination of Desolation.

Jehovah’s penalty for willful disobedience of the laws of His Kingdom is death. Hitler would even take the place of the Creator. Disturbed by strikes and restlessness in the province of North Holland, the German military authorities notified the people that violations of orders might result in 15-year sentences or in death.

No Netherlander may listen to a foreign radio station, under penalty of two years’ imprisonment or a fine of 100,000 guilders. Liars must be protected in their work, and the truth is “strange”, just as the Scriptures declare.

No Netherlands housewife may send more than 18 pounds of washing to the laundry in any one week. Dirt and ignorance go together, and the Dutch women are too clean to suit the “new order” mentality.

Netherlands farmers have been told by the German invaders that they may raise grains, beans, peas, potatoes, sugar beets and several other vegetables, and flax and hay, but nothing else. The growing of caraway, mustard and poppy seeds is forbidden. The food that will be produced is much needed, but it is the Germans, not the Dutch, that are in control of the banks and of the country and that claim to be there to stay.

It is going to take some work to turn the Netherlanders into slaves, but the process is under way. Every citizen must now render some compulsory State service to the Abomination. The first job assigned was the guarding of army signposts near The Hague for eight days. All forms of enterprises were required to release men for this work.

Reprisals and Repercussions

The Dutch could not do much in the way of reprisals for the loss of their land and their liberties, but they did something. All Dutch vessels were at once made available to Britain, including 26 German merchant ships that had taken refuge in the Dutch East and West Indies. However, Hitler now controls the 35 to 40 shipyards of Holland and in some of these certain warships are now being made.

On the fifth day of the invasion of their land, when they saw that resistance was futile, the Netherlanders had the spunk to burn their great stores of petroleum rather than permit them to fall into the hands of their despised masters. The invasion had the natural result in South Africa of uniting all factions in a determination to win the war. The more countries that are robbed of their liberties by the “new order”, the greater the hatred that is aroused against it.

One of the military orders was that only Germans could have beer; this was in Amsterdam. Hitler’s concept of a master race had its origin in a beer saloon, in the company of pimps; so this was quite appropriate. The Horst Wessel drinking song had a pimp for its hero.

The New York Times tells of some of the tricks the Dutch have used against the Nazis. One was to switch the signposts at country crossroads, so as to cause a lot of fruitless marching. When soldiers march past, the little boys in the street taunt them with their failure to capture England by calling out, “Splash, splash, splash.” A shopkeeper, ordered to remove the picture of the queen from his window, replaced it with a picture of Hitler and placed alongside the picture a pamphlet entitled “How to Swim”.

THE THEOCRACY Is the Remedy

Jehovah’s Kingdom is the only remedy for the horrible state of affairs set forth in the foregoing, and it seems peculiarly appropriate to help believers in God by here inserting a page or so of extracts from the 1941 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses, which all should read:

When the decision was taken to launch The Watchtower in Afrikaans and commence publication on June 1, it was not known that Hitler would invade the Netherlands. The May issue of the Netherlands Watchtower (and which proved to be the last one in that language for the time being) arrived in this country [South Africa] at the end of May. It contained the article which was published in the issue of the English Watchtower immediately preceding the first issue translated for the Afrikaans Watchtower. Thus brethren in this country who formerly relied upon the Netherlands Watchtower continued to receive “food convenient” without a break.

“Nothing is too marvelous for the Lord. No one of the Lord’s people perished in the war. [Written from the Netherlands] Even under the greatest bombardment the brethren were preserved. Also the 100,000 booklets were preserved as a testimony, were delivered to us, and are already distributed. The bound books have all been dispatched and distributed, even by most of the companies. There are now only a few copies left of Safety (Hollandish), of which we had printed a new edition of 50,000 copies. Within two months after the war more than 160 brethren were immersed. A further number will be baptized during the coming weeks. It is not a seldom occurrence that people who know the truth but a fortnight participate in the work and identify themselves fully.

“As we did not receive any literature after the war, I began to have Consolation (Hollandish) printed here in the same size and with the same number of pages, namely, 32, as Consolation English. Of every edition we printed 15,000 copies, while before the war we had been able to order but 4,000 to 5,000 copies. The issues for the month up to and including September had been printed beforehand, and every issue contained 24 pages of the book Salvation. On July 6 the Gestapo came and sealed the machines. Now we have two outside printers. From these we have already received 15,000 copies of the October issue of Consolation (Hollandish) and 2,000 copies of the August issue of The Watchtower. One printing factory is manufacturing the book Salvation, and to another printer we have given order to print the new book Religion, as well as a booklet.”

The consignment of 100,000 booklets (mentioned in the report) and Consolation (Hollandish) arrived in Rotterdam immediately before the outbreak of hostilities. When Rotterdam was intensely bombarded—one-third of the city is reported to be entirely demolished—the cartons of literature were still lying at the Goods Station which was destroyed by fire. However, the booklets, although surrounded by the flames, were not consumed. They were then transported by lorry to the Society’s office. The driver, an outsider, pale of face and in great excitement, called at the office and asked the brother who received him: “Whatever is there in these boxes? The Goods Station at Rotterdam was all ablaze, and this consignment could be saved in spite of it! And on top of this, I now come from Rotterdam without having been stopped a single time by the military patrols; before and behind me, throughout the journey, all cars, vehicles and passers-by were stopped, and I passed right through.” The brother answered: “This was not allowed to burn; the people must first know of this message.” Naturally the driver was interested and took books and booklets with him.

During the bombardment of Rotterdam a building with 500 people in it was hit. All of them either perished or were injured, with the exception of four witnesses of Jehovah who happened to be at the entrance, and who through the powerful air pressure were thrown onto the street, receiving no hurt.

There was an invalid sister in a flat in Rotterdam, and a few witnesses of Jehovah visiting. Her bed was placed near the window, and as the air-raid alarm sounded a brother advised that the bed be removed to the inner wall. Hardly had this been done when a bomb hit the very place where the bed had stood.

One brother reported that his farm was preserved during the war, while around it everything had been shot to smithereens. This brother grows and supplies vegetables to a pioneer home.

A certain brother was five months in jail, and a few days before the German invasion he was released. The first day of the war a bomb fell on this very prison, killing and injuring many of the inmates; prison guards numbered among the injured ones. Also another brother was held in this same prison a few days before the war, but was released on account of his poor physical condition. Still elsewhere a brother was in a prison which was bombarded; he remained unhurt and fled from the prison with the consent of the superintendent.

All the pioneers from the pioneer home L. were arrested. The soldiers had surrounded the house under the lead of an officer. They thought that there would be Germans in the house, because previously there had been pioneers of this nationality there. The only German sister that had remained had fortunately left a few days before. After a short arrest the pioneers, being all of Hollandish nationality, were released.

Among many others a certain little town was evacuated. A sister living there exhibited in her window an electric sign bearing the words, “The Theocracy brings life—Dictatorship brings death!” which sign she carefully left switched on during her absence for three days and nights. Thus the German soldiers entering the town received an interesting witness, and the neighborhood came to know about it. When the sister upon her return removed the sign, she was asked why she did this. She explained: “The sign has fulfilled its purpose: you will now experience yourselves the truth of those words.” Luxemburg and Belgium

Luxemburg is an almost solidly Catholic country and it was a very easy matter to arrange for the people to sign a "petition" that their country might become a part of Greater Germany. Officials had to sign or lose their jobs and pensions; businessmen had to sign or lose their licenses to do business; workingmen had to sign or they could get no work; peasants had to sign or be driven from the fields. All Luxemburg obeyed the priests and signed. All Jews were deported to unoccupied France.

A British correspondent of the Catholic Herald in Belgium, answering the question "Who sold the pass?" said: "The men who sold the pass are the Belgian pro-Nazi sympathizers, Catholics with confused consciences, men who were my intimate professional colleagues. The pass was sold at the Albert Canal. They sold it. I know now why they pleaded with me on May 11 to flee for my life. Me in a concentration camp would be unpleasant for them. The 'bloody wage' is theirs, if they cash it, in their hoped-for posts of authority."

Experience has taught the greatest and best of the papers never to mention the Roman Catholic church except in terms of praise. But apparently the Manchester Guardian was well convinced of the truth of the above admission when, back on May 31, 1940, it said: "Well-informed persons in Belgium, including many Cabinet Ministers past and present, have often been wondering who exactly were the people that were influencing the mind of King Leopold—it is significant of the thoroughly undemocratic atmosphere in which high quarters in Belgium have been living for years that hardly anybody could pretend to give this question any confident answer." The Guardian goes on to say that "the shocking pro-German propaganda of the Exist and other Fascist papers enjoyed a strange immunity and seemed to have mysterious and influential protection".

It is all simple enough. King Leopold's sister is the wife of the crown prince of Italy, and it is generally conceded that he was tipped off to betray the French and British troops he had requested to come to his defense. When he surrendered his 500,000 soldiers to Hitler he left a great hole through which the Germans poured behind the British and French. His own government disowned him from Paris. The Vatican can tell every European and American ruler what he must do to have Catholic backing and to save his hide.

When the Belgian government was moved from Brussels to Ostend it was self-evident that the Catholics in the most influential positions were all tipped off as to what was going to happen. Among those that stayed behind at Brussels, waiting for their fellow-Catholic Adolf Hitler to take things over, were the Papal nuncio, the Italian ambassador, the counselor of the Spanish embassy, and John Cudahy, United States ambassador. It was natural enough for Cudahy, Papal ambassador of the United States to Belgium, and Kennedy, Papal ambassador of the United States to Britain, that they should get together and decide, as loyal Catholics, that Pacelli and Hitler are all right and Britain all wrong; that Hitler is a fine fellow, as proved by his throwing Nazi troops around Catholic churches in Belgium.

Lying as a Fine Art

Lying is a fine art among the Jesuits; and Hitler has all the advantages of such training, and loves it with all his heart. It is a fact that just ten hours before the German planes were roaring over Belgium the radio was protesting the unfairness of the Allies in claiming it was Hitler's intention to invade Belgium.

In preparation for overrunning the country nothing was overlooked. At many points there were posted large roadside maps showing alternate roads for military vehicles. Everywhere there were arrows and directions in letters easy to see, even in a blackout, the way to the next town, the next military post and the next gasoline station. Almost a million soldiers were disarmed in 17 days in Netherlands and Belgium taken together. The Netherlands were cut in half in four days.

In the sack of Louvain, Belgium, in 1914, the famous library was destroyed. After the war a great effort was made, the library was rebuilt and again stacked with 700,000 books like those previously destroyed. Numerous American universities joined in this work of restoration. Now the library is again ruined, a startling commentary on the fact that what took place November 11, 1918, was merely an armistice, merely that and nothing more.

Following standard Nazi tactics, the Jews of Belgium, 40,000 of them, were rounded up and put in concentration camps. All Jews over 15 years of age must be registered as such. Jews who fled the country when it was seized by the Germans may not return; and there is no conceivable reason why they would wish to do so. Significantly, there was no persecution of Catholics; all priests returned and are carrying on their regular racket in their respective dioceses.

In its issue of December 13, 1940, the London Catholic Herald, after explaining that there are thousands of Belgian refugees in Britain who are Catholics, spills this one, which shows what the Catholic “Hierarchy of Authority” has everywhere under consideration:

Our method here in England is to create groups of young people who may take part in Continental Catholic Action. These groups will work to give to the refugees a little more comfort, both material and moral, and to prove to them that Catholic Action has not crumbled away as the effect of war, but, on the contrary, when there is need of their help, the members reply “present”.

Cruelties of the “New Order”

The New Leader, issue of March 15, 1941, quotes an American newspaperman as having been told the following by a French soldier, now released, of what he actually saw when en route through Belgium:

I was an artillery man, 75 guns, and was taken prisoner in Belgium. Our misery began immediately. In spite of the immense heat we had to walk 50 kilometers a day, while for every twenty men there was one loaf of bread. Sometimes we also received a herring and some tea. Often people of the villages, through which we passed, placed buckets of water before their doors for our thirst, but the German officers kicked over these buckets, and the water flowed away.

After arrival in the camps, Jewish, Polish and colonial soldiers were segregated. The treatment of the colonial soldiers is more inhuman than any I have ever witnessed. They were whipped across their faces, so that blood ran in streams. There were whole sections in which all the colored persons had been killed. The Germans simply stated that some colored soldiers, hiding behind dying horses, had gunned the German troops after their capitulation. That’s why they were to be killed, said the officers.

Some of the German soldiers even told proudly of not having had to waste any bullets in killing the Negroes. The Negroes themselves had to prepare their mass graves. Then their brains were beaten out with the back of the fusil, and bodies were flung into the grave. Others were murdered with shovels. Those who had not been killed suffered enormously in the camps. In one of these camps in East Prussia, there were dangerous epidemics, and most of the inhabitants died. We had the definite impression that these colored people were to be systematically annihilated.

The world is still on a gold basis. When the Belgians saw Hitler at the gates they divided up their gold among England, the United States, Canada, South Africa and France, $260,000,000 going to the latter country. When Hitler started to overrun France the French took all their gold, $1,400,000,000, to Dakar, Africa, and this included the $260,000,000 that belonged to the Belgians. One of the terms of the armistice arranged was that, the Abomination having stolen the country of Belgium, they must also have its gold; so the French betrayed their trust and gave it up. But the French have money in America, and the Belgians attached their account for the $260,000,000 here.

For the occupation costs of having its country overrun by the German army, Belgium is assessed a sum in excess of its previous entire annual budget.

The eighteen days of blitzkrieg in Belgium destroyed 100 railway stations, 1,425 bridges and tunnels, 6,000 miles of highways, and 34,000 houses. Business is almost at an end for lack of materials, with the consequence of 2,000 workers a week being sent into Germany, where their wages are barely sufficient to pay for their board and lodging.

Within three days after the German invasion eighty percent of the Belgian coal mines were flooded, the preparations for the flooding having been made long in advance, but this act of sabotage accomplished nothing except perhaps some added cruelties from the chieftains of the "new order".

"National Whirligig," as published in the Seattle Star, says that the Belgians have become so disgusted with their Nazi rulers that now whenever they hear explosions that may be British bombs they rush to the housetops to cheer, because they regard a British victory as their only hope of liberation.

When the Germans were about to close in on Antwerp, Belgium, three brothers, diamond merchants, chartered an ambulance and raced across France, Spain and Portugal with diamonds worth $338,000. They finally reached America, passed their cargo of diamonds through the custom house, and, as most of their customers are in America anyway, their business was not badly disrupted. But this is only one case in a million.

With the disappearance of the Netherlands and Belgium into the Nazi maw there arises at once the question of how the Dutch East and West Indies, Dutch Guiana and the Belgian Congo are to be governed. All together, there are something like 100,000,000 human creatures vitally interested in these matters, aside from the Dutch and the Belgians themselves. Theoretically, the Netherlands will continue their government from their place of exile in Britain. What will become of the Belgian Congo, after Leopold's betrayal of the cause of the Allies, remains to be seen.

Reasons for France's Fall

Various explanations have been offered for the French collapse. A dispatch from Vichy attempts to divert suspicion by saying (New York Post): "A government spokesman said that alcoholism was the chief cause of the moral collapse of the French army. He said that drunkenness was rampant in the army and that the disastrous 'era of intoxication' by young French soldiers had caused most of the cases of nervous breakdowns and shell shock when they had to face the German dive-bombers and tanks."

The famous columnist Westbrook Pegler attempts to account for France's fall by the argument that the journalism was corrupt and most men in public life were grafters; but the real reason, as set forth in Part 1 of this article, is that France was betrayed by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and its underlings. They felt that they could do a better, safer and more profitable business with a dictator in control. Germany is now busy tearing down the Maginot Line, built at a cost to the French people of $500,000,000. The land occupied will be used for agricultural purposes.

A former United States Marine says that he wonders that no real attempt was made to stop the Germans when they came across France: that he guarantees twenty Marines would have done more, by felling trees, blowing up bridges and other military tactics, than seems to have been done by the whole French army. He insists that there must have been rank treachery somewhere. Others share the same view.

But the Germans had new weapons and new methods. They had tanks able to cross a trench or gunpit twenty feet wide, and such trenches are not built in a day. The tanks are armed with machine guns and light cannons and have fourteen wheels on which the caterpillar track revolves. Such an instrument of warfare would go over the ordinary trench, such as was dug by the soldiers of 1914-1918, with no more concern than it would go over a pebble in the road. Old methods of warfare are gone.

For the first time in history, the armies at the front were supplied with motor fuel by temporary pipe lines, made of flexible rubber hose such as is used in city fire departments. ◆By the use of these pipe lines the Germans obtained much greater use of the highways for the transportation of ammunition than would otherwise have been possible.

For the first time air squadrons located with accuracy where enemy troops were moving, learned their strength and weapons. Then the dive-bombers (Stukas) dived down upon them, smashing towns, railroads, telephone lines, industrial plants and the troops themselves. Then the tanks rushed in and finished the job. Talk about devilishly cunning planning; the Germans brought along with them ready-made bridges to take the place of those dynamited or damaged.

Efficiency! On the day that France asked Germany for armistice, and while the telegrams were going around through the Vatican (as might be expected), the city of Rennes was bombed for only 2 1/2 hours. Most of the inhabitants rushed for the fields and gardens, but when the 2 1/2 hours were over they came back and gathered up their 4,500 dead that had not been able to get away quickly enough.

Dr. Charles F. Bove, French surgeon, now in America, in the New York World-Telegram January 6, 1941, says that in Amiens he saw 4,000 people killed in three minutes; saw women evacuees giving birth in ditches, on the roads and even beside a pig in a stable. Such is the "new order". Did not the Lord describe it well when He modestly called it "the ABOMINATION that maketh DESOLATE"? Dr. Bove says that he has seen the bombs of typhoid, typhus, dysentery and cholera which will most certainly be loosed by the Germans if and when they see they are about to lose the war. Your nation has the same weapons ready, too.

The Spoils of War

Hitler will never be anything but a low gangster, even though he gains control of the whole earth. When the request for an armistice reached him the camera showed that he shook with laughter, thrust his arms straight before him, snapped his fingers and lifted one knee in what looked like the first step of a solo victory dance.

The spoils of this war are unlike those of any other. A French woman in unoccupied France writes of incidents of which she had personal knowledge: of a truckload of chocolate and a truckload of butter seized and shipped to Germany; of stores emptied of clothing, underwear and shoes; of the seizure and removal of all stocks of gasoline; of the torpedoing of a boat bringing French soldiers back to their own country, and the machine-gunning of the survivors; of French homes stripped of everything except the sheets on the beds; and of many French families returning to their homes to find them occupied by Germans, sent there on the plea that the British have damaged West Germany; and, finally, that all the healthy young men have been made into slaves to work on German farms and in German factories. Of the 1,200,000 French prisoners of war, 200,000 are native colonial troops, 200,000 are officers, kept along the Loire river, and the remaining 800,000 are in concentration camps in Germany.

Nazi troopers in France pay themselves exactly fifty times what French troopers on active duty receive. The moneys received, 40 francs a day in occupation marks, are used to buy up everything in France that can be taken to Germany, including goods and merchandise of every sort. All the valuable things of the French, their house and store and hotel contents, are being carried to Dresden, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, and Berlin. The occupation marks will never be redeemed, but are legal tender and may not be refused. Besides stealing all the physical assets, the Germans have opened every safety box, listed the contents, and intend, when the peace settlement is made, to take every item of liquid capital out of the country.

The Royal Institute of International Affairs asseverates that by the end of October, 1940, 800,000 tons of wheat had been removed from occupied France, and a million pigs and cattle were exported to Germany in one fortnight alone.

Bordeaux is a wine center and was cleaned of all its rare wines, champagnes and brandies. Even before the occupation of Paris was complete, the bolts anchoring machine tools, presses, looms and other factory equipment to the floors of factories on the outskirts were being loosened and the machinery was being crated and sent to German factories. All occupied France is being similarly stripped, so that if and when the French prisoners are returned from Germany there will be nothing left for them to do but the hardest kind of manual labor. Such is the "new order".

In moving about the Alsatians, Walloons, Poles, Czechs and even the Germans themselves, without any regard to their wishes, Hitler has shown the Jesuit spirit to the full, but he is calculating too. It was impractical to remove in a hurry a certain huge airplane factory from Paris; so it was allowed to remain and is being worked day and night, turning out 300 Messerschmits monthly, wherewith to bomb Britain. It makes a good advertisement. Another advertisement was the return of the ashes of Napoleon's son from Vienna to Paris, so that they might rest beside the bones of that other cruel murderer, Napoleon I, who also covered Europe with blood and tears.

Sufferings of the French

In the winter now drawn to a close many French were frozen to death. Hardly enough fuel was obtainable to cook the food. A common sight was to see elderly women trudging home with wheelbarrows containing the pittance of coal or wood obtainable. In Lyons the people were reduced to eating crows and hawks. There was immeasurable suffering from bursted plumbing and water pipes.

Is your work hard? How about the two French shepherds, out with their flocks of 800 sheep, near Arles, in the month of January, who were frozen to death, and their sheep with them, in the coldest weather known in the south of France?

Leather is so scarce that in the village of Bessay, in midwinter, there were only nine pairs of shoes available for a population of about 2,600. Thousands of the trees which line the roads have been cut down for fuel purposes.

In Paris a man and woman were taken into custody for catching and eating too many cats. When the new regulations were issued rationing cats (as well as dogs) for human food, it was discovered that this couple had eaten 100 pussies.

All French were evicted from Lorraine and their farms and homes turned over to Germans. The Germans that had to move out of the portion of Rumania taken over by Russia can be placed in these homes. The result, so far as the Germans are concerned, is that all Germans in middle Europe are being welded into one compact company with definite borders. The French were ousted from their homes on the edge of winter and 240,000 persons were added to the list of homeless refugees by this one act of cruelty. Lorraine contains vast iron reserves; hence the removals.

At Paris British aviators appeared and wrote in the sky the words "Courage

(Continued on page 21) THE NEW GOVERNMENT

At the Grand Assembly in San Jose

◆ At the grand assembly at San Jose, California, February 24, 25, God helped us to see where we were—in or out of the picture—by the changing in His manner for our assembly and service.

A stranger approached me, said he had some of the books, had talked several times with a Jehovah’s witness, but could not just get clear in his mind what constituted the end of the world. While he hesitated my mouth flew open, of course, and the conversation ran something like this:

J.w.: The end of the world does not mean the destruction of this beautiful planet; oh no! This planet or literal mundane sphere on which we live that produces our food, raiment, and means for shelter will never end. No, sir! Religion says “Yes”; but Christianity says “No, sir!” This planet, revolving around our sun, is Jehovah’s footstool, is eternal, and made for one grand purpose. This truth, contrary to religion, is derived from the Bible, if you please, and now nicely written out for us in these lovely books; and the order for writing these lovely books is also stated in the Bible.

Stranger: Then, what in hell is to end? —as you are talking so much about.

J.w.: Pardon me, sir, but there is nothing in hell—hell means complete destruction; but what is meant by the end of the world is this: the complete wiping out of this system upon this planet, this present setup, this wicked disorder of things, under which we have all been brought up; this religious, rack-rent commercial enterprising, politically besmirched, dragged in and upon us all and run by the Devil. All of this is to end now, and the Devil thrown in for a while for good measure.

Stranger: You are helping me to understand.

J.w.: Let me ask, How would you like to live in a new world or a new setup on this planet wherein all things are new and established, grounded, made in truth and righteousness, with everything and everybody made perfect, and thus to remain upon this planet everlastingly?

Stranger: There wouldn’t be room in a short time; this planet would be overcrowded.

J.w.: You are thinking, sir, and following me nicely. The facts are that the very few people now on earth are in huddles or little spots on this big planet, scheming and arguing over money matters. Under the new setup, or kingdom, The Theocracy, the minds of all will be relieved of their selfish pursuits and in good fashion they will spread out equally and be perfectly at home and quiet; and even the 20,000,000,000 good-will folk that are dead aren’t nearly enough to people this big planet. Read those two lovely books, Riches and Salvation. You will then really wish to become a Jonadab and live, and never die, and be among those to carry on, right here in the flesh, world without end.

Stranger: You don’t mean in this (draping his hands down over his body)?

J.w.: Yes, think of it; no more aging flesh, bald heads, toothless mouths, backaches, weak stomachs, heart failures, feet with corns and bunions (think of a perfect brain and nerve center), not a defective joint, bone or sinew to disease, the working of a perfect body, a pure blood stream, and 100-percent wholesome vitamin in all our food, supplying energy in full to the eater, keeping him always fitter than the finest youngster you have ever seen. A paradise on this planet for all good people. All the members of the Lord’s body, the church, however, saw beforehand this new setup to be on this planet, and its attending blessings, and they have given that all up for ever; so they, the 144,000 in all, will not live here on this planet in that new world, earth, or new setup; their resurrection will be a change from flesh or natural to spirit or celestial bodies to dwell or live forever in the heavens, in that place which Jesus said He went to prepare for them, His bride, wife, body, church, or city, the new Jerusalem.

Stranger: My! Well, now, that is making it plain.

J.w.: Allow me to invite you to come on in—the water is just fine and enough to swim in. It is over our heads. I invite you because there is only the one barn (Matthew 13:30) into which we must gather for safety through the great and final war or battle which is very near. Yes, just one barn now, as there was only one boat in Noah's day at that end of that, or first, world. So, today, it is just the same at this end of this world number 2. As God first gave warning back there before the flood came wiping out that earth or system, drowning everything that breathed outside of the boat that Noah built (if there were any other boats they never landed their cargo nor ship—only Noah's), even so in this day of world-wide warning, people say, "Oh, I am safe over here in my church or in my religion," not knowing that this church, wage-slave religious system is now done for for ever and that into the Lord's barn is the only place for us to gather for safety, protection, for a safe landing over, high and dry, on the other side through Armageddon.

Theocracy publishers at Rangoon, Burma

Stranger (reaching for my hand):—

J.w.: What is your name, sir?

Stranger: Where do you live? I must be on my way.

J.w.: Goodbye, sir, think this over, and I trust you will read those wonderful books the Lord has had so carefully arranged and written for this time to be read. They are to “him that readeth”, helping us to really run and get somewhere. Goodbye.—Ben Holaday, Calif.

A Prisoner in a California Road Camp

(Framed because he preached the gospel)

◆ My report is quite small, considering that it is for an entire month, but there are only a little over 200 men here to witness to. I play a set of records in the dining hall and invite all the boys up to hear them. There is a dinner gong here which I ring just before starting the lecture, and it is quite a common thing now to hear several in the camp shout, “There is that Jehovah boy again,” or similar remarks.

In the two months in which I have been here I have placed with my fellow prisoners 22 bound books, 215 booklets, and 135 magazines; made 7 back-calls; had a sound attendance of 88 (averaging 12 each night), and have put in 27 hours. I held one Model Study halfway through Government and Peace. Much literature has been loaned and much placed free, as there is very little money in the camp, but it is thrilling to see the way it is passed on and shows up in various places at various times, even in the office. Some of the officials are reading with interest, while some manifest the goat spirit and are blind to everything pertaining to The Theocracy. Few there be here now that have not had an opportunity to read and hear about the only hope for the world, Jehovah’s righteous Kingdom now being set up in the place and stead of Satan’s mimic kingdom.—Clyde O. Leydig.

Sound-car, Bristol, England, announcing The Theocracy

One of the 117 immersed at London convention

Proper Use of the Courts

◆ Jehovah’s people have a right to proper use of the courts. There are times when they would not be using the spirit of a sound mind to do otherwise. At Beth Sarim, San Diego, Judge Rutherford does much work at night. For some time he was annoyed by a young man flashing a spotlight into his study and blowing his automobile horn. He had him arrested, which was right and proper. The young man got a 30-day suspended sentence, and will have sense enough to stay away now or get locked up.

The Bluff That Failed

◆ On Saturday, February 24, while working in the downtown section of Santa Barbara, two women (publishers) were standing on a busy corner—one carrying the overhead placard, the other offering the Consolation magazine. Up walked a plain-clothes man, demanded to know what the magazine was, and how much it sold for. He was Jansen, the city license inspector. Immediately the publisher was told she had no right to do this work, that she should leave the corner at once. The “Liberty to Preach” and the Testimony card were offered, but he ignored them completely (he was well informed concerning the work), said she should leave quietly and not make a scene. She held her ground while he went after the wagon. People were gathering about and manifesting interest. One man of goodwill approached, obtained the latest Consolation, and left his name for a back-call. Presently Jansen returned with the chief of police, who, upon examining the magazine, and finding it to be a periodical, said she had as much right as the newsboys. Jansen snarled, looked in the magazine bag for books, and went away disgusted. Surely the Lord’s blessing is upon those who do not fear man, but trust in Him implicitly.—J. H. Chism, California.

Pittsburgh, Pa., Theocracy magazine distributor

In Fullerton, California

◆ In Fullerton, California, out in the magazine work, a large man refused to take any literature, and in profane and abusive language condemned Judge Rutherford and all his works. The man walked half a block, turned around, came back, apologized, and insisted that the 72-year-old magazine distributor accept a gift of 50c in token of his regret. He would not take any literature, but may the next time, and may yet be out in the work himself. It sometimes works out like that. If his heart is good and honest the Lord will sometime have the truth put up to him in such a way that he cannot withstand it.

Big and Little Witnesses

◆ The other day, returning home from our shopping center twelve miles away, we (the wife, five kiddies and I) picked up a man walking on the road and gave him a Consolation. He said he had previously had one of Judge Rutherford’s booklets and liked it. We stopped the car and played the “Snare and Racket” record for him, and placed with him four booklets and a Watchtower. He promised to bring his wife and come to the Watchtower study class at the hall.

Three of our kiddies go to school. The other children at the school take turns saying the American creed and have one point out one that is to say it. They pointed to my son and he told the teacher he could not say it as it is against his belief; that it gives honor to something else than Jehovah God. The teacher thereupon said to the entire school that our kiddies are excused from that situation.—W. J. Brown, California.

Unspeakably Mean

◆ The Los Angeles Examiner, in the effort to cause mob violence against true Americans, had a two-column headline “Anti-Flag Rite Sect Meets in Long Beach”. There could be no possible excuse for such viciousness against an innocent minority. The purpose of the headline was unspeakably mean, and beneath contempt.

Medford, Oregon, conventioneers made their own seats—good ones, too, and comfortable

--Thrilling Scene in Salinas

◆ Two of Jehovah's witnesses were arrested as a result of the usual conspiracy of the Devil's agents against the Lord's work. The judge on the bench said to one, "Would you salute the flag?" and he said "I certainly would". There was a click of his heels, a quick, tense movement of his right arm, a mechanical, automaton-like gesture, and he had cut himself off from the Lord's organization for ever. It was a big price to pay. The other witness maintained his ground, quietly refused to violate his conscience, was fined $200, and will appeal the case and fight the real criminals to the highest courts, and will win, because he is in the right. Even if he loses his case in the courts he wins anyway. No one can be firmly on the Lord's side and lose out in the end. All he has to do is to wait on the Lord.

Fresno News

◆ Witness reports that while at Tulare, near cattle ranch, sound-car began playing. Some 36 cows feeding in the distance. When lecture began cows ran toward the sound-car, stood, and then went back when through. And what do you think was the record which they enjoyed? "Snare and Racket."

Pioneer working in Catholic section. Woman at the door: "My husband said that if people with phonograph should come to the door we should break them up." Pioneer: "If you do you will have to pay well for it. They tried that in other places and broke phonographs and then were sued and paid for it." The woman began listening, took Kingdom News and booklet, and said, "I am going to read this but will not show it to my husband."

Blesser of His Fellows

◆ Thank you very much for the book Enemies just received. It was certainly most thoughtful of you to remember me. I think Judge Rutherford is doing a great work.—George Starr White, M.D. [Diagnostician of over a quarter of a million cases].

Lawful Arrangements Not Conspiracies

◆ The California Court of Appeals decided unanimously that it is not a conspiracy for 150 or more of Jehovah's witnesses to enter a community at one time and to preach from door to door, and even though this large number was "arranged through a spirit of retaliation against the local authorities, this would not constitute a criminal conspiracy if no overt acts were performed which were unlawful". And this would be true even though their presence "might arouse the anger of the citizens and result in violence". In other words, the performance of lawful acts is not and can not be conspiracy.

Right to Carry Banners

◆ On April 22, 1940, the Supreme Court of the United States by an eight-to-one majority decided that the carrying of signs and banners is a natural and appropriate means of conveying information on matters of public concern. This decision in the case of John Carlson against an ordinance of Shasta County, California, shows that any interference with Jehovah's witnesses for carrying signs and banners setting forth the truths of the Bible is entirely illegal.

The Arguments of 1940

◆ Today, does one say that the present administration has been extravagant, wasteful and productive of huge national debt? A chorus of boos and catcalls refutes the charge. Does some one say that the course of the administration is leading us into war? A half dozen rotten eggs, skillfully projected, is the sufficient answer. Does one say that the third term is fraught with grave dangers to the Republic? A basket of tomatoes, over-ripe, handily disproves such an assertion. Does one suggest that the president is seeking dictatorial powers? An aged canteloupe, accurately thrown, demonstrates the falsity of such an accusation. —Charles E. Russell in The New Leader.

(To be continued) COUNSEL

by J.F. Rutherford

"Mother's Day"

PUBLISHING His law to the Israelites according to the flesh, the great Lawgiver said to them: "Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." (Exodus chapter 20, verse 12). The law of God does not change. The law there spoken to the natural Israelites now applies more particularly to spiritual Israelites. The children of natural parents should respect and honor them, when the parents deport themselves in a proper way. But that could not be the limit of the application of Exodus 20:12, for the reason that parents often become wicked, joining man's enemy the Devil and opposing and openly defaming the name of Jehovah God. Surely God does not mean that children should honor any taking that wicked course merely because such persons are the parents of children.

At Exodus 20:12 the word "father" means Jehovah God, who gives life to all who receive life. His prophecy at Isaiah 54:1-13 shows that Jehovah has an organization to which He is united or married, and which is pictured as His "woman". The word "mother", at Exodus 20:12, means God's "woman", picturing His organization, that gives birth to God's children. Said Jehovah to the natural Israelites long ago: "A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name." (Malachi 1:6) The people of the nation of Israel after the flesh were God's people, whom He had selected for himself, and He was a Father to them.

The major application of the text, however, is to spiritual Israel, that is, those who have exercised faith in Jehovah God and His Messiah, The Christ, and who have entered into a covenant to do the will of God, and whom God has acknowledged as His sons. One who remains true and faithful to God will honor his Father's name. Addressing such spiritual Israelites at the city of Ephesus, the apostle Paul wrote: "Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth." (Ephesians 6:1-3) Thus the proper application of the commandment at Exodus 20:12 is shown. Those who are sons of God and begotten of His spirit are duty-bound to honor God by gladly obeying His commandments. Anyone who takes a contrary course dishonors Jehovah's name. The mother of such sons is Jehovah's organization, symbolized as His "woman". The sons of God must keep His commandments and be guided by the law of their "mother", which is God's organization. Thus they honor their Father and "mother".—See Proverbs 6:20-23.

In the year 1913 "Mother's Day", so called, began to be observed in England. That same year the United States Congress, by resolution, made the second Sunday in May of each year a national holiday, "dedicated to the memory of the best mother in the world, your mother." That sounds nice, and on the face of it looks nice; but is it sincere? and what is the real purpose thereof? Do the men of England and of America love their mothers better since that than they did before? Certainly not! Is it true that every man's mother is the "best mother in the world"? Everyone knows that such is not true.

"Mother's Day" was first observed in 1914, the very year that the "times of the Gentiles" expired and Satan's uninter rupted rule of the world ended, at which event he knew his time was short to get ready for the great battle of Armageddon, the universal war between Satan’s organization and Jehovah’s Theocratic Government by Christ.

To induce the people to bestow special honor and worship upon women, human mothers, would be one step toward turning the people away from the worship of the great Theocrat, Jehovah God; just another one of Satan’s means of preparing for Armageddon.

In all the religious organizations today much is made over “Mother’s Day”, but in not a single one of them are the people told that in respect of the commandment to honor father and mother God is the Father of those that live and His “woman”, to wit, His organization, is the mother of those that receive life from God, and that all honor and worship are due to Jehovah. On the contrary, the men of “Christendom” are taught to pay their honor to creatures, and not to the Creator; and this is taught by religious clergymen, whose duty and obligation is to teach the people the truth of God’s Word. An example of this is the following:

The New York Times last year published the following under the date line “Rome, April 17”: “Today, as he did a year ago, the Pope issued a world-wide appeal for a month of prayer to the Virgin Mary ‘for the restoration of peace among the nations.’ . . . ‘Through you [pastors], we bade the whole Catholic world to offer in the month of May, then close at hand, prayers and fervent aspirations to the Great Mother of God that she might conciliate her Son, offended by our many sins, and that the just settlement of opposing interests and the restoration of confidence to men’s minds might effect the return of peace among nations. Now that the situation is worse, and that this terrible war has broken we cannot but call again on our children scattered through the world to gather around the altar of the Virgin Mother of God daily during the next month [May], consecrated to her, to offer her suppliant prayer.’”

May, the month of Mother’s Day, is understood to be named after Maia, a demon worshiped by the pagans. Says The Encyclopædia Britannica: “Her name marks her as the ‘fruitful mother’ . . . Maia became by Zeus the MOTHER OF THE GOD HERMES.”

On the face of it the arrangement of Mother’s Day seems harmless and calculated to do good. But the people are ignorant of Satan’s subtle hand in the matter and that he is back of the movement, to turn the people away from Jehovah. The slogan is: “The best mother who ever lived”; the purpose being to establish creature worship, or at least to divert the attention of man from the proper worship of God. There have been many good mothers of men, and many bad ones. Not every man has the best mother that ever lived; and therefore the slogan is false. The woman that dishonors Jehovah and blasphemes His name is not a good woman, regardless of how many children she may bear; whereas some of her children may be faithful servants of God. The good mother is the one who serves and honors Jehovah and teaches her children to do likewise, and who renders her proper motherly duties in the home. Real men have great respect and great love for such mothers, but their worship is given to Jehovah God.

Neither the man nor the woman should be worshiped for doing right, because such doing of right is their duty. Creature worship of any kind is wrong and is an abomination in God’s sight.—Luke 16: 15.

In “Christendom” men have formed the habit of quoting their mothers as authority for their course of action and utterly ignore God’s Word. Also women teach, preach and prophesy in religious houses, and predict and prophesy in affairs of state concerning peace and war. Women are seducing and misleading men, causing them to mix in politics and religion and to compromise their duty toward God in order to comply with the rules of Satan’s unrighteous world. Such conduct is “fornication” in the Bible meaning of that term, as set forth in Revelation 2:20: “Thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.” Such is contrary to God’s rule, as stated at 1 Timothy 2:12: “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”

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