Consolation, November 10, 1943

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Contents

Chile, the Su per-California of the Antipodes 3

More Interesting Comparisons

Mostly of European Origin

"Religious Impasse”

Great Mineral Riches

Foreign Influence

t Relations with the United States

Totalitarian Blueprint

“His Holiness” and “His Excellency”

What the N.C.W.C. Doesn’t Offer ’

The -“Bishops’ Program”

“The Liberal Illusion”

Ultimatum to the World

“Thy Word Is Truth”

How Was He Raised!

‘Pestilences, Famines and Earthquakes’

Another Fatal Enemy

Famine and Malnutrition

Scores of Earthquakes Yearly

In the Last Days

Helping Boys unto the Kingdom

Religion the Curse of India

Learning About Africa

Presenting “This Gospel of the Kingdom”

Spelling

Priest Gets Excited in Vain

‘God Asks Us to Answer the Groans*

President Secretary Editor

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CONSOLATION

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

Volume XXV Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, November 10, 1943 Number 630

Chile, the Super-California of the Antipodes

IN THE eyes of Californians there is but one place in the United States in which to live, which place, of course, is the Golden State, or the Eldorado State, which stretches from Oregon to Mexico and occupies more than one-half of the Pacific coastline, involving a railway journey of 900 miles. But this is no place to boost California. Go west for that; and when you get to the end of the line you find everybody is a real estate agent, fully convinced that if the Garden of Eden was planted elsewhere it was just an oversight. Well, to b^ honest, it is a paradise. But wait:

California is narrow: it is only 215 miles by rail from San Francisco to the border of the state at the Nevada line. But it isn’t as narrow as Chile. The latter country is only 120 miles wide at the widest place, and in many places it is so narrow that a big Bertha gun such as was fired on Paris in 1918 could stand out in the Pacific ocean ten miles from shore and send a shell clear over into Argentina without touching Chile at all.

California is long; but it is only one-third as long as its southern rival, which goes from north to south 2,620 miles, as far as from the city of Quebec to the isthmus of Panama. California has 11 peaks with an altitude of more than 14,000 feet (pretty good, that); but in Chile Aconcagua goes up toward the clouds 23,080 feet, and is the highest peak in all the Americas. And it has a string of. other tall peaks, Coreoputi (22,162 feet), El Muerto (21,227), the Baya (19,993), and the Guallatiri (19,882). The highest peak in the Alps is only 15,217 feet above sea level.

California has some deserts, but you had better not mention them when you are out in that part of the world. Chile has deserts that are drier than the Sahara. California has big trees that beat the world, including Chile. And California .has fruit that may be mentioned only in praise by everybody except Floridians. But in Qliile there is yearround skiing only a few miles from fields where the best fruit in the world grows.

Mere Interesting Comparisons

California has only 158,693 square miles; but Chile has 296,717 square miles, and so is larger than Texas and West Virginia put together. But California has 6,907,387 population and, though Chile is coming along, having already 5,000,782 people, it must be admitted that it is as yet a little behind in that regard. ' "

California once had a gigantic mining boom, placer mining. That is why the state is still called the Golden State, though, for the most part, the gold has gone. Chile also had a great mining boom, a world monopoly in nitrates, essential in the making of explosives and enrich-" ing the soil; but Germany found a way of taking the nitrogen out of the air for less money, and so Chile’s nitrate boom faded away and widespread poverty resulted.

But now for an authoritative comparison, produced by the National Geographic Society, of Washington, D. C.:

If one would get a quick conception of the importance, the lovely surroundings, and the climate of Santiago, Chile’s capital, he should set Sari Francisco or Los Angeles down in the most beautiful inland portion of the Valley of California, give the Sierra Nevadas 4,000 feet more height and pile on them more generous caps of snow.

Santiago, with its nearly three-quarters of * a million population, is fairly comparable in size to Pittsburgh and Boston. Among the Spanish cities of the world only Madrid and Barcelona in the Old World, and Buenos Aires and Mexico City in the New, exceed it.

But it is not on size that admirers of Santiago base their eulogies. The city, like our own capital, has a subtle charm all its own. Much of this is due to its location. Many travelers agree that it has the most beautiful and inspiring setting of all the great inland cities of the world. It is situated near the upper end of a mountain-rimmed valley, 40 miles long by 20 wide. Ten miles to the east the Andes rise to heights greater than 18,000 feet, presenting a towering wall always snowcapped. On the west is a lower coast range; and to the south stretches a level expanse of fertile farming land divided into large estates.

Santiago is built on the plain, but within it rises a 400-foot hill, covering several hundred acres, which has been made into one of the world’s unique parks. Once nearly bare, the hill of Santa Lucia has been transformed into an enchanting modem hanging garden of groves and flower beds, winding roads and trails, cascades, terraces, sylvan theatres and observation kiosks. From its slopes one may obtain numerous charming vistas, and from its top Santiago lies spread out in all its lovely details.

• The axis of life in Santiago is the beautiful Alameda de las Delicias, “the tree-lined avenue of the delights,” which cleaves the city in two. Its great breadth of 350 feet is divided by four rows of stately trees. Down the center is the Pasco, a broad promenade, lined by many flower beds and statue-studded little parks, along which innumerable nursemaids herd their romping charges. On either side of the Pasco are the tracks of the electric street railway, and farther outside are broad driveways. [And underground, for thirty blocks, is the new subway, a double track with each track in its own tunnel.—Ed. J The Alameda is lined with many of the finest residences and public buildings of the capital.

The lover of fresh air comes into his own in Santiago’s delightful climate. Great crowds promenade on the Paseo and in the plazas each evening. Most of the dwellings are of the Spanish type with open courts in the center, in which much of the family’s time is spent. The street-cars are double-deckers, with the upper seats open. Those who wish to climb the steps and enjoy the air and view pay a smaller fee than the passengers who ride on the lower level.

An electric railroad connects Santiago with the chief port of Chile, Valparaiso, 117 miles distant. Chile has about 6,000 miles of railroads, over half being state-owned. Harbors are lacking. Steamers stop in the open sea and boats come alongside. The water is filled with sea lions, and the*rowers often have to push them away with their oars.

One of the noteworthy ci ties.of Chile is Antofagasta, a busy town, built upon rock and sand. In order to make a public garden the people had to import earth; but they did so, and their handsome park is a tribute to their tenacity. Here and elsewhere in Chile ancient oxcarts compete with modern railroads; some wages are as low as ten cents a day, but every worker has medical, disability and retirement insurance. Magallanes, a center of the sheep industry, located in the straits of Magellan, is the southernmost city in the world. It was once called Punta Arenas. It is an up-to-date city, with airplane service to Santiago and thence to everywhere.

Mostly of European Origin

Although, in the Andes, Chile does have some 30,000 natives, called Aran-cans, and although there are an indeterminate number of nomadic Fuegans in Tierra del Fuego, yet the population of Chile is almost entirely of European

origin. The language is Spanish. Statistics collected a few years ago showed that Chile then had a rate of only 24 suicides annually for each 1,000,000-people, giving it the best place on the list in that regard. *

In a three-column review of Chile published in the New York Times, Jackson Reed claimed that “graft, as we know it in the United States and as it is prevalent in Latin America as a whole, has been rare in Chile”. Mr. Reed was trying to rebuild the nitrate industry by his story, but had to sadly admit that whereas in 1913 Chile produced 433,000 tons of nitrate and Europe made but 33,000 tons of the synthetic variety, yet sixteen years later Chile’s production had risen to only 510,000 tons while Europe’s synthetic product had become 1,106,000 tons.

The slowing up of the nitrate industry caused much poverty, with its attendant sufferings. One manifestation of this is that Chile has recently had the unenviable record of having one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world: 228 out of each thousand children born never reach their first birthday: A prominent Buenos Aires physician who visited Chile in 1937 stated that living conditions at that time were the worst he had seen in forty countries and during thirty years of medical practice. Charles Wedger, in New Masses, commenting on this, said: .

Thus the living conditions of the great mass of Chileans remain at an incredibly low level. The worker in the copper mines, for example, who is paid in a fantastically debased currency and burdened with high retail prices and exorbitant sales and transaction taxes, actually earns from ten to fifteen times less than the corresponding worker in the United States.

The high standard of honesty of the rank and file of the Chileans was emphasized some years ago when a shipment of $3,570,000 in $20 gold pieces came up to New York from the farthest southern republic. The captain of' the vessel, when it docked at Brooklyn, surveyed the great crowd of armed guards facing him and said:

This money lay in a freight car near our ship, with only one guard with it. The size of the shipment didn’t even cause a mild sensation down in South America. Just look at that gang of guards waiting for it here!

The Chilean prefers wine to chewing-gum. When a North American concern tried to wriggle its way into prominence by advertising its wares, the Chilean government and newspapers took up the subject and made the going hard for the gummers.

Education is free and (since 1920) compulsory. There is a government university and . a Catholic university in Santiago. The Roman Catholic religion is dominant though not maintained by the state (since 1925), and all religions are protected.

What they had been up to is not known by this scribe, but the New York American of June 7, 1932, had this to say of an event that occurred seven years after church and state had been separated:

Groups paraded shouting “Down with the nuns I” Sister Gertrudis, the former Sara Villegas, of Los Angeles, Calif., reported that she and other nuns at Santa Rosa Academy .had been ejected by order of the new government. It was rumored the junta would order all convents evacuated and would use church properties for government purposes.

“Religious Impasse”

Under the above head C. A. Hutchinson, in the New York Times Book Review, comments on the book Our Good Neighbor Hurdle, by John W. White, and says some interesting things on the claim that any religious activity inspired by North Americans in South American lands is an obstacle to the “good neighbor” policy’s success. Aside from the well-known fact that the Roman Catholics of North America continually send missionaries to South America, the general attitude of intelligent South Americans themselves gives the lie to the Hierarchy-inspired furor on the subject. Says Hutchinson:

While a good deal of publicity has recently . been given to North American Protestants, such as Mr. White, who have taken up the cudgels against Protestant missionary work j in Latin America for patriotic reasons, very t little has been heard from the people affected themselves—the Latin-American Catholics. In view of this the following opinion of Mr. Benjamin Subercaseaux, the Chilean writer, may be of interest:

“I believe,” he says, “that the importance of the protests against the activities of the -Protestants in our countries has been exaggerated, We in Latin America have duly appreciated and recognized the value of their work, particularly in social affairs, and in no instance have they endangered the stability of our Catholic faith. On the contrary, they have alleviated both the physical and spiritual need of the masses and have helped to give impetus and strength to the somewhat feeble activities of some Catholic groups. Besides this, the Constitutions of our countries, being openly democratic, have never exerted official pres: sure to stop Protestants from acting freely in South America. Any inclination of our governments to limit the freedom of any religious sect would be very unfavorably viewed and would raise a storm of protest. Thus, then, the act of offering us now’ a limitation of freedom of belief as a proof of Good Neighborliness is like serving us a totalitarian dish to reward our good anti-Nazi feelings.”

Earthquakes and Volcanoes

It is no disgrace to California or to Chile that they both have earthquakes and volcanoes. California is quite proud of its one lone volcano with its feeble eruptions, but it never has anything to say about its earthquakes. It just isn’t done. The great San Francisco earthquake is always euphemistically called “the San Francisco fire”. Thou seest, 0 real estate investor, that nobody wants real estate that may close up like an accordion or be disemboweled from beneath. ✓ ,

But in Chile they cannot dodge the fact that they have earthquakes, because in the seventeen years from 1907 to 1924 they had 12,694 quakes; and if you figure it up you learn that that is just a little bit more than two per day. In the great, earthquake of January, 1939, about 700,000 persons were made homeless. It was not believed that permanent structures to replace those ruined could be completed in less than ten years, so great barracks were built for the needy in many places along the sixteen hundred; miles that the quake extended.

In the city of Valdivia, on occasion of another earthquake, when the buildings began to shake the city band was brought out and played in the streets, and with excellent effect upon the people. It is believed that no experience of man is as terrifying as that of the earthquake.

When the Chilean volcanoes erupt they mean business. They have been known to darken the sun for six hundred miles around and to drop their ashes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in Montevideo, Uruguay, A severe eruption destroys the grass for miles around the volcano, owing to the volcanic dust. But afterwards the region is richer in vegetation than it was before. ,

Like other countries, Chile has occasional disastrous storms. In the year 1934, in a few seconds, about five o’clock in the morning, a gigantic waterspout ' came up the'Bio-Bio river into the center of the city of Concepcion, and before you could say Jack Robinson it cut a swath 200 yards wide across thirty blocks. Light dwellings were reduced to matchwood and $1,000,000 damage was done. The same storm cut the longitudinal railroad joining the northern provinces with the capital, not in one place, but in fifty places. That is going some, even for Chile.

Great Mineral Riches

Until the process of obtaining nitrogen from the air was made commercially profitable, the two desert provinces of Chile, namely, Tarapaea and Antofagasta, produced 95 percent of the world’s nitrate supply. At present, only about 25 of the 152 nitrate works are in operation. About 75 percent of the world’s iodine supply comes as a by-product from the nitrate operations. Chile is the world’s-second-largest producer of copper. The provinces of Atacama and Coquimbo have enormous iron deposits, estimated at a billion tons. There are beds of coal estimated to contain two billion tons. And there are generous deposits of gold, silver, cobalt, zinc, manganese, borate, salt, sulphur, marble and onyx.

Chile has 38 percent of the world’s copper reserve, to compare with 34 percent for the United States. The Chu-quicamata copper mines, owned by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, are rated as worth $220,000,000 and are alone estimated to contain one-fourth of the world’s available copper reserves. In 1941 the miners in this mine won a substantial wage increase after a long, hard-fought strike. The development of copper mining has been conducted chiefly by American interests. The Guggenheims could have paid the copper miners decent wages and still made vast additions to the millions or billions of dollars which they control.

It might not occur to everybody that arable land constitutes mineral riches, but such is the case. Soils must have minerals to be productive. Chile has 95 million acres of arable land. In a recent year the chief crops, wheat, grapes, barley, oats, porn, potatoes and fruit, occupied only 2,036,000 acres, or only a little over 2 percent of the lands that could have been used to advantage.

Chile has many large dairy farms. Wheat, barley, oats, beans, lentils, apples, - melons, peaches, plums, nectarines, peas and potatoes are grown in abundance. Chile ranks seventh among wine-producing countries. Commerce seems to have double-crossed the agricultural worker in Chile. At a time when cattle there sold for one or two pesos a head (the peso is worth 21c), the price charged there for a bale of European paper was at least a hundred pesos, and an imported cape or coat cost five hundred pesos. As a consequence, clothes were handed down from generation to generation, like landed estate.

Foreign Influence

Thomas J. Hamilton, correspondent of the New York Times, writing from Santiago in March, 1942, makes some observations that will interest many' at this time:

As far as anybody can tell, German-Chileans of the second and third generation here are not keen Nazis, although many apparently are forced to contribute to the party. The first generation German-Chileans, however, perhaps 50,000 or 60,000, and the 11,000 native-born Germans are likely sources of trouble. There are also some Italians and Japanese, but not enough to affect opinion. Large numbers of Chilean Army officers trained by Germans are pro-Axis and they exert considerable influence. But the persons who are opposing the United States most effectively are not so much pro-German or pro-Italian or pro-Japanese, as pro-totalitarians. These are found among the wealthy, conservative ultra-Catholic aristocrats, although, of course, not all of these are prototalitarian. 1

In other words, every 'time you turn over this totalitarian stone you find the same kind of bugs under it, and you know who is at the bottom of the world deviltry designated as “The New Order”. A year before the Jesuits shoved Hitler into his wild plan for grabbing the world, The Nation, in its issue of September 24, 1938, had this report regarding work already done in Chile:

The coast of southern Chile and the Straits of Magellan at the southernmost point of the continent figure largely in German strategic plans. Naval experts are all agreed that here are the best possible positions for operations both, east and west of South America. Countless hidden bays offer concealment to cruisers and submarines, and a rich hinterland is an inexhaustible source of supplies, Moreover, living in southern Chile are tens of thousands of Germans who distinguished themselves in the last war by their fanatical support of German interests.

Years ago the German Admiralty assured \ itself of the islands of Juan Fernandez, Mas a Tierra and Mas a Fuera, off the coast of central Chile, by a very simple expedient. German naval officers and sailors with a love for the beauties of these Pacific islands were sent to Mas a Tierra, popularly believed to be the island of Robinson Crusoe, to make it their permanent home. About a year ago Goebbels sent another shipload of Germans to this island to produce the story of Robinson Crusoe for the films. Nominally these islands, which lie in the Pacific about a thousand kilometers from. Valparaiso, belong to Chile; actually the Germans are in complete control.

In September,.1941, the Chilean police arrested 28 leaders of Nazi activities in various cities. The men were all influential members of the Landesgruppen, Blockgruppen and Or tsgr upper;,., which organizations, it would seem at this time, have, as it were, bitten off more than they can chew. This business of grabbing the world regardless of the will of Almighty God, Jesus Christ or anybody else except the Devil, has its drawbacks. Two months later, the German section of Chile (in and about the cities of Valdivia, La Union, Puerto Montt and Puerto Varas) was considered to be under good governmental control, despite the fact that in those cities are some families that still do not speak Spanish, and that in them the German language may be heard everywhere (as in Milwaukee and Cincinnati). Nevertheless, the following summer a special cable to the New York Times, of May 23, 1942, had this item:

Police authorities were active throughout today investigating the discovery of bombs, hand grenades and packages of dynamite hidden in the homes of leaders of the Chilean Nazi party which has been rechristened the Popular Socialist Vanguard. The results of the investigation have not been made public but the newspaper Segundo, reported tonight that eighty-four packages of dynamite had been discovered in one of the houses and that arrests were being made.

Relations with the United States

The relations of Chile with the United States are probably better than surface indications suggest. Immediately after Pearl Harbor the Chilean government declared the United States a non-belligerent in the world conflict, thus granting full use Of the Chilean waters.

The man selected as minister of foreign affairs, Ernesto Barros Jarpa, is considered one of the best friends the United States has in Chile. He is professor of international law at the University of Chile and is a distinguished lawyer.

The war has brought a boom in Chile, and the United States is by agreement and in fact her best customer. She is expecting to ship 500,000 tons of copper annually to Uncle Sam, and about 800,000 tons of nitrates, not to mention 1,600,000 tons of high-grade iron ore and 60,000 tons of manganese. Moreover, though Uncle does not want and does not need any more gold at the fancy prices he is now paying, yet for thejiext three years he will buy all of it that Chile has to sell. It is a good thing to have a rich and well-disposed uncle.

In October, 1942, Sumner Welles, at that time the United States undersecretary of state, in an address in Boston, mightily stirred the politicians of two hemispheres when he asserted that Chile was allowing Nazi agents to transmit from their country information causing the sinking of ships and was not complying with its international obligations. Six months of feverish discussion followed and diplomatic relations with the Axis powers were broken off, and a lend-lease agreement that the defense of Chile is vital to the defense of the United

States was signed by the two nations in March, 1943.

A little later, the Chilean government agreed to speed Up the smelting of copper, opening at least one new smelter for that purpose, while Washington agreed to send down 64,000 'tons of coal to be used on the Arica-La Paz Railroad, over which, through Chile, most of Bolivia’s tin is exported.

A Good Government

The Chilean government at present is a good government, as governments go. Under the constitution (1925) the president is elected for six years, the 45 senators for eight, and 143 deputies for four, all by direct popular vote. All male persons 21 years of age, and able to read and write, may vote, and if such person does not vote he is fined the equivalent of $1.50 unless he presents a doctor’s certificate. In the last election, out of a registration of 580,000 voters, 460,015 votes were cast. Forcing a man to vote is like forcing him to kiss his wife. The liberal and highly esteemed Popular Front candidate, Juan Antonio Rios, received a plurality of about 55,000 votes over General Ibanez, who had the totalitarian crowd back of him.

Since November, 1928, gambling has been illegal in Chile. Don’t you think that is a pretty high standard?

At that time, fifteen years ago, there were some pretty savage methods of maintaining political and governmental supremacy. The Nation of September 5 of that year ran a sketch of the cara-bineros which contained these not too happifying sentences:

Has anyone ever seen a Chilean labor leader who has been deported? According to the tales that are current in barrooms and barbershops, the men are taken a few miles out to sea on a warship and then lined up at the gunwales. The rail is taken down behind them and a squad of marines makes a charge with fixed bayonets. Thrown overboard? What am I talking about? They jumped overboard in an effort to escape. The official naval report says so. .

The carabineros have a similar trick. If they have to take a man a long way after arresting him, if the desert sun is hot and they are anxious to get home, if the prisoner walks too slowly to keep up with their horses, they stop and tell him to run away. If he doesn’t want to run, they pummel the desire into him with the stocks of their guns, or prod it- into him with their lances. After he has run some fifty yards, they level their carbines and shoot him. They are trained to get their man, dead or alive. They can always turn in the report that their prisoner tried to escape and they had to shoot him. [Sounds like Little Steel.—Ad. ]

Such is the operation of the infamous Ley de Fuga.

Some Good Detective Work

They have as good detectives in Chile as anywhere on earth. In 1930 fifteen persons, including two major generals, made a plot to kill the thep president. They placed twenty-five pounds of dynamite under a railroad bridge a short time before the presidential train was to pass. Then the detectives seized them and disco’nneeted the wires. A clue to the plot was found in the purchase by the plotters of 4,500 feet of electric wire, a dead giveaway.

Not all Chileans are honest. Some are like some of the citizens in, Jersey City, or Kansas City, or some other cities. At Santiago, in 1931, 500 men showed up at the home of the defeated candidate for president and asked for the ten pesos apiece which they had been promised for voting for him. They didn’t get it. They seldom do.

Some Chileans are sensitive, like some of those who live in Mississippi who don’t want anything said that mighficast a reflection on their religion. A. L. ^Randall, American foreman at nitrate plant in Chile, wrote an article for a California magazine in which he said, “Chilean workers are the laziest on earth”; and the gentleman was immediately deported. So, look out what you write.

Chileans are progressive. Another railway, including a four-mile tunnel, pierces the Andes and provides rail or highway service between the Chilean cities of Talcahuano, Lebu and Valdivia and the Atlantic port of Bahia Blanca, in i Argentina. They already had several transandine railway routes through the great mountain barrier.

Since 1934 it is illegal for Socialists to enter Chile.

Chileans can talk back. When accused of aiding Bolivia in the Gran Chaco war they came back by naming all the principal International Murderers Inc. in Britain, United States, France, Sweden, Holland, Norway, Belgium, Spain, and Czechoslovakia (curiously omitting Germany), and telling of their respective sales to both belligerents in the war.

The Chilean cedula. system of compulsory identification passes, containing photograph, signature, and thumbprint tor all citizens, and repeated every seven years for growing children, is of inestimable value to all the law-abiding and is certain to catch all criminals.

The advantages of the cedula system are numerous. Lost persons are readily traced, criminals usually identified, voters limited to one vote each (for the cedula has to be left behind until the close of the voting day, making it impossible for anyone to vote two or three times). It is almost compulsory to be honest in Chile. War pensions are paid only to those who are entitled to them; another cannot claim them in the name of the pensioner, whether before or after his death. The cedula is the answer to many a difficulty, and is one of the many things that make Chile a progressive nation.

Investigating Radio Repairmen

THE two investigators used a very simple system. Traveling *from one end of the country to the other, they had with them brand-new portable radio sets of two nationally-known makes, the sets being in flawless condition. Wherever they stopped they first unsnapped one of the wires inside of the set which are generally connected by means of snapfasteners, or they pulled up a tube so it did not make contact. The set was then closed and presented to the radio repairman. The results make interesting reading, not only for the layman, but particu-, larly for the radio industry.

The investigators visited 304 radio repair shops and found that 64 out of 100 cheated. It is significant to note that in localities under 10,000 population only 51 percent were dishonest, but in the larger centers 66 percent were found to be dishonest. In New York and its metropolitan area the tremendous dishonesty proportion of 17 out of 19 shop owners that lied and cheated was recorded. The first 36 shops visited in eastern towns sold the investigators 32 new tubes when, as a matter of fact, not a single tube was needed—all the tubes in the investigators’ sets being brand-new and perfect!

The investigators had a grand time in catching the dishonest repairman redhanded. They used a simple system in doing this. Practically all standard tubes are marked, “Made in U.S.A.” By scratching off the periods of the “U.S.A,”, this then appeared as "U S A”. Thus it was possible to spot the dishonest repairman who charged for new tubes when they had not even changed any. Frequently they took out the set’s new tubes and installed inferior kinds; at other times they deliberately burned out the tubes in fictitious “tests”.

—Radio-Craft, September, 1941.

Totalitarian Blueprint

THE blueprint for world domination by a totalitarian confederacy of dictator states with the Boman Catholic Church riding on top is no secret document; simply drop a postcard to the National Catholic Welfare Conference, 1312 Massachusetts Avenue NW., Washington, D. C., and you will receive “a complete publications folder listing some 350 N.Q.W.C. pamphlets”. You don’t have to read all these 350 pamphlets to find out what the “Church" is driving at; ' a few selections will suffice. You might begin, for example, with a little 17-page essay by the “Rt. Rev." Msgr. John A. Ryan, D.D., entitled Relation of Catholicism to Fascism, Communism and Democracy.

The first paragraph is a sugar-coating quotation from Pope Leo XIII which assures you that “the right to rule is not necessarily, however, bound up with any special mode of government. It may take this or that form, provided only that it be of a nature to insure the general welfare”. Msgr. Ryan adds his assurance that what Leo means is that “more than one form of government may be satisfactory to Catholicism. The only important limitation is that the polity must be conducive to the general welfare”. Surely nothing here to frighten any politician, democratic or fascist. But then you read on and find that for any government to be “conducive to the general welfare” it must first be subjected to that very “important limitation”, which limitation means that its power and authority over you must come with blessings from “the Eternal City, episcopal See of the Sovereign Pontiff, center of the Catholic world". Msgr. Ryan offers you, as a shining example of a modern state which “insures the general welfare”, the present Fascist nation of Portugal. On pages 10-11 you are told that “Portugal is, indeed, a corporative state”; but because in government, economics and education Portugal "acknowledges the limitations placed upon governmental power by the laws of morality", it is not “genuinely nor completely totalitarian” : “Apparently, there. is nothing in either the political or economic constitution of Portugal which is out of harmony with Catholicism.” If Msgr. Ryan leaves you hazy about what kind of state Portugal really is, then consult another monsignor at this point, "Rt. Rev.” Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen. In his N.C.W.C. brochure entitled Freedom and Democracy, Msgr. Sheen tells you, on page 14, that “the State which acknowledges God [that is, the pope] and the spiritual element in man [meaning the 'Church’s’ jurisdiction over a man], is a Free State”. Portugal recognizes both pope and Catholic jurisdiction, and, in the language of Catholic logic, Portugal is a free state.

"His Holiness” and "His Excellency, Signor Cavaliere” Benito

Now back to Relation of Catholicism to Fascism, etc.: On pages 6-7 Msgr, Ryan calls Mussolini’s Italy a “dictatorship". At first glance the monsignor finds it’s a pretty ugly picture: “This dictatorship is to be preserved by propaganda if possible, by violence if necessary, . . . Fascism rejects liberty of speech, of the press, of assembly and of political opposition. All these attitudes and principles are contrary to Catholic doctrine.” But now don’t be frightened, this cruel and bloody dictator is not mistreating papa, but is in fact accepting the "Holy Father” as 'god and treating the Hierarchy like “Princes of the blood”. “The Fascist government has been content to let its totalitarian principles remain for the most part in the realm of inoperative theory,” says Msgr. Ryan. (Page 7) Not meaning, of course, that propaganda and violence, and repression of liberty of speech, of the press, of assembly and of political opposition,

have been left “in the realm of inoperative theory”; what .Monsignor means is this:

“For example, it [Italian Fascism] has made a concordat with the Church, thus recognizing the juridical existence of the latter.” (Page 7)

. Should one care for a look at this coni cordat between Pius and Benito, the N.C.W.C. will supply the Official Text and Translation of the Treaty 'between the Holy See and Italy. This pamphlet contains three documents: first, the Treaty, then the Financial Agreement, and then the Concordat proper. All three are signed by Benito Mussolini. Page 1-informs you that Pius XT and King Victor Emmanuel III left the whole arrangement up to the pope’s secretary of state, Cardinal Gasparri, and this avowed atheist, thug and murderer, “His Excellency, Signor Cavaliere Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister and Head of the Government.” Article 1 of the Treaty recognizes and reaffirms that “the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Religion is the sole religion of the State”; Article 2 recognizes “the sovereignty of the Holy See” as an independent world power, while Article 12 guarantees that Vatican City’s international diplomatists, such as President Roosevelt’s ambassador, Myron C. Taylor, shall be accorded protection and immunity by Italian authorities anywhere in Italy, whether the United States government or any other government will recognize diplomatic relations with Italy or not. Articles 8 and 21 declare that the person of the pope is “as sacred and inviolable” as the king’s own person, and that the Fascist state is to guarantee him equal protection with the king, from all his enemies, while “All Cardinals are entitled in Italy to such honors as are due Princes of the blood”.

As for the financial rake-offs which the Hierarchy, under false pretenses of representing God, takes in from its different outfits in Britain, America and all other nations, besides other sources 12 of income, Article 17 provides that all such “are exempt from taxation anywhere in Italian territory”. And then there is that little matter of the Papal States. During the Dark Ages the Papacy by use of forged documents supposed to have been signed by the apostle Peter, and by other means equally fraudulent and wicked, gained possession of a number of Italian states. Subsequently these had been restored to the realm of Italy, which “loss” the Papacy was bitterly bemoaning when Cavaliere Benito arrived upon the scene. And now, out of touching gratitude to this inhuman dictator, the “Holy Father” agrees to leave these Papal States in the hands, of Mussolini and accept in their stead a paltry 750,000,000 Italian lire to he collected from the Italian people, plus one billion lire worth of 5 percent negotiable Italian State bonds. (Financial Agreement, pp. 13-14)

The Concordat which follows confirms the 27 Articles of the Treaty, and as an added gesture of the “Church’s” love for Italian Fascism, Article 12 provides that “on Sundays and holy days of obligation, in churches having a canonical chapter, the celebrant of the Conventual Mass will sing, according to the regulations of the sacred liturgy, a prayer for the prosperity of the King of Italy and the Italian State”. '

Furthermore, by Article 20, Italian bishops before taking possession of their dioceses must take an oath of “loyalty” at the hands of the head of state, according to the following formula:

Before God on the Holy Gospels, I swear and promise, as becomes a Bishop, loyalty to the Italian State. I swear and promise to respect, and to make my clergy respect, the King and Government established according to the constitutional laws of the State. I swear and promise, moreover, that I shall not participate in any agreement or take part in any discussion that might 'be injurious, to the Italian State or detrimental to public order and that I shall not permit my clergy to take part in such. Being mindful of the welfare

CONSOLATION and of the interests of the Italian State, I shall endeavor to ward off any danger that may threaten it.

And in return for these “singing prayers” and oaths of fidelity to Fascism, Mussolini agreed (Article 29, Sect, h) to rescind all past taxes wherever they concern the “Church”, and to impose no future taxes “whatsoever on Church property”; in Article 34 he turned the institution of marriage over to the administration of the “Church”, and in Articles 36, 37 and 38 education is likewise placed in her hands. Obviously Mussolini’s Italy, like Salazar’s Portugal, met all the requirements of what the Hierarchy calls a “free state”.

What the N.C.W.C. Doesn’t Offer

Two important documents are missing from the 350 pamphlets published by the National Catholic Welfare Conference; probably they’ll be along any day now. One is the concordat between the Vatican and Hitler, negotiated by Papal Secretary Pacelli (now Pius XII), within six months after Hitler shattered the German Republic under the Nazi fist The other is the understanding between the Vatican and Japan’s Hirohito, made after Pearl Harbor. Nevertheless, in other publications, such as Insurrection in Spain, which tells the “Catholic truth” about the slaughter of the Spanish Republic, the N.C.W.C. offers you a hindsight view of Hitler and Mussolini coming to the aid of Franco, who restored “the rights of God and of conscience” in that nation. (P. 5) This unholy killer, Franco, is pictured (pp. 15-16) as “a man who had given evidence of loyally to the Republic”, and a footnote on page 16 informs you that Franco’s Proclamation, by which he started the insurrection, is such an “important document” that a translation of it is given in Appendix A, pp. 39-40.

The “Dishops’ Program”

Take a look at the following legislative program: (1) Minimum wage legislation; (2) insurance against unemployment, sickness, invalidity, and old age; (3) a sixteen-year minimum age limit for working children; (4) the legal enforcement of the right of labor to organize; (5) continuation of the National War Labor Board; (6) a national employment service; (7) public housing for the working classes; (8) no general reduction of wartime (1918) wages and a longdistance program of increasing them; (9) prevention of excessive profits and incomes through a regulation of rates . . . and through progressive taxes; (10) participation of labor in management and a wider distribution of ownership through co-operative enterprises and worker ownership; (11) effective control of monopolies.

Maybe you thought these principles originated during the past ten years of the New Deal administration. Well, they didn’t; read the Bishop’s Program, and you’ll find that away back in 1919 the Administrative Committee of the National Catholic War Council published these recommendations and proposals. In a fore-word to the 20th anniversary edition of the Bishops' Program (1939), the “Most Rev.” Edward Mooney, archbishop of Detroit, tells you that while these eleven principles have become to a great degree the foundation stones of the Roosevelt administration, yet they are only “a moderate application of Catholic moral principles to social and industrial life”, and do not offer even “a fundamental scheme” for the overhauling of America along the lines of an out-and-out “new social order” such as now enjoyed by such “free states” as Portugal and Spain.

Because of the fact that most Americans are not' yet Catholics and are not aware that the nation’s political and economic movement is following the blueprint laid down in the Bishops’ Program, we are not correctly aware of the real nature of the “New Order” the “Church” has in store for us. Hence,

there is a black and dangerous pit directly before us; as the archbishop puts it: “In fact, it is not too much to say that outside the sphere of Catholic , thought most intellectuals are advocating some kind of collectivism, either a moderate form of socialism or out and - out communism.” (P. 7) This is the ever* recurring motif running through all

Catholic propaganda—the “red” scare. Just as cavaliers Mussolini and Hitler are now engaged in a “Holy Crusade” to wipe communism out of Russia and return that country to the folds of religion, just as Franco the Killer felt it his patriotic duty to “save” Spain from communism, even so now the “Church” feels it her “obligation” to apply “fundamental remedies” to “save” America from her pitiful plight I Either she turns “red” or allows the "Church” to save her. There is no alternative. Declares the archbishop, America, like other nations now “saved” by the “New Order”, must straightway direct her steps along that “sound and comprehensive plan of social reconstruction in our late Holy Father’s epoch-making encyclical ‘Quadragesimo Anno’ and, by any and all means, "our long-range efforts should be directed to the realization of the papal plan for a new social order" (P. 7)

“The Liberal illusion”

If these five N.C.W.C. publications fail to show you what the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is driving at, then there is one more book which will clear your vision. The Liberal Illusion, sub titled “A Refutation of the Fallacious Slogans of Recently Resurgent Liberalism”, was written by Louis Veuillot in 1866, and sets forth in sulphurous language the aims of the “church” to gain unquestionable world domination so clearly that the N.C.W.C. still publishes it as a favorite.

Liberalism is the world’s greatest enemy, cries Veuillot; not mere economic liberalism, as expressed in Adam Smith’s “equal opportunity” and “rugged individualism” slogans. Of course, the “chronic social sickness” which such economic liberalism has brought upon all modern nations can never be cured “until the last cankerous vestige of liberalism has been eliminated from human society”. (P. 19) Ricardo’s law of wages, “an outrage on humanity" that “led straight to the Class War” and communism, along with such Masonic slogans as “liberty, fraternity, equality", must go. (Pp. 19, 16) But the worst kind of liberalism is Religious Liberalism, And the worst kind of religious liberalism is Catholic Liberalism! (P. 20)

“The liberal Catholic is neither Catholic nor liberal. . . . Everything about him betokens the Sectary: that is his

' real name.” (P. 32) “Catholic liberalism and the spirit of the world are blood brothers; they shade into each other by imperceptible degrees.” “I believe them to be introducing among us a heresy, and one of the most out and out heresies the world has ever-seen.” (P. 35)

And what is to be done about liberal Catholics! Next time you read or hear that Hitler and other dictators are persecuting Catholics, remember Veuillot’s words. Hitler is indeed persecuting Catholics—but liberal Catholics; not the ironclad Hierarchy backing him up. It is all part of the “Church’s” plan to burn out the last vestige of liberalism on earth and Catholic liberalism first of all. On the subject of liberal Catholicism, which allows for such “heresies” as separation of religion and state, secularized education and other institutions of republican government, Veuillot declares that “the Church will pronounce judgment at the proper time, if there be occasion to do so”. The “proper time” is in these days, and the “Church” has raised up her totalitarian dictators to meet the “occasion”. It was liberalism among her own “children” that led to the “Church’s” downfall, declares Veuil- * lot: “Had Catholic unity been maintained until the 16th century, there would no

longer be any infidels', nor idolaters, nor slaves; the human race would be Christian today.” (P. 38)

Ultimatum to the World

“Jesus Christ is the King of the world. He speaks to the world through His Priest [the pope], and the decrees of this Priest, being an expression of the royal rights of Jesus Christ, are eternal. They apply not to one time alone, but to all times; not to one society alone, but to all societies; not to some men, but to all men.” (P. 37)

“The children of the Christ, the children of the King, are kings. They form an absolutely superior society, whose duty it is to take possession of the earth and reign over it. ..." (Same page) Such is the ghastly, blasphemy against Jehovah’s Son, the Prince of Peace, and the decree of the “Church” to all nations on earth. And under this unholy setup rising out of Europe and overrunning all the earth, the “Church" is the head and the state is the arm of the monster: “The one is the head, the other the arm; the one is the supreme and sovereign word of the Pontiff, the other the social power.” (Pp. 37-38)

On pages 38 and 39 the “Old Lady” is pictured riding her beast:

These two powers, united, distinct and one above the other, whereby [Catholic] society is ruled, have been called the two swords. For the word would be of no avail, if it could not be at certain moments a sword. . . .

It is the Pontiff who bids it [the sword of the State] come forth from the scabbard and who bids it return thereto. Its duty is to repress aggressive error, once it has been defined and condemned [as a free conscience, liberalism, and the preaching of Jehovah’s purposes are now condemned], to shackle it, to strike it down; to give protection to the truth [Catholic “truth”], whether the latter is under the necessity of defending itself, or has need, in its turn, to go on the offensive. The secular arm ought to clear the way for the truth, to assure it liberty of teaching, to guard afar the way of its ambassadors and of its followers. . . . Such are the duties of the power obedient to the commandment of the Pontiff.

Same Holds for America

Wherever they remain today, institutions of free government are being totally undermined and destroyed by the Vatican’s agents, all of which is in full accord with the demoniacal scheme laid down by Veuillot, to wit:

In short, with reference to modern constitutions we conduct ourselves in much the same way that a person does with reference to taxes; we pay the taxes while demanding that they be reduced; we obey the constitutions while demanding that they undergo amendment. ...

To expect more of us is to expect too much. Modern constitutions, founded by popular, or democratic, consent must go, declares Veuillot, because they threaten the “drastic elimination of the whole [Catholic] idea”. You will find these words on pages 68 and 69. But if there is any doubt in your mind as to to whom they are addressed, turn back to page 23. There the introduction tells you plainly:

One concluding remark: it may be objected that what Veuillot has written holds true of European liberalism but not of liberalism as the term is understood in America. By the time the reader has finished The Liberal illusion, he will know that this is not so.

The Nervous Conquerors

♦ The Aryan conquerors of Europe continue to be nervous. The Netherlanders have a bad habit of stealing airplanes and seaplanes and skipping to England with them. This has made it necessary to remove the- propellers from isolated planes at night. At Tromsoe, Norway, orders have been issued that no fisherman may go out more than five miles without being fired on. This rule is made because so many Norwegian fishermen have braved the 500 miles of stormy waters in the North sea to get to a land of liberty.

NOVEMBER 10, 1043

ISlkUTH”

-John 17:17

* How Was He Raised?

PETER, the Jewish-Chrlstian apostle who had a pe'rsonalmeet-up with Him after His quickening from the dead, writes: “Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust; that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit, in which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison?’ (1 Peter 3:18,19, Douay Bible Version) Almighty God had promised to give Christ Jesus immortality, giving Him the power and authority to have inherent life when resurrected from the dead to life in the spirit. Then, as the “express image of his [Father’s] person”, He would have life within himself and need nothing to sustain life, Jesus said: “As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself?’—John 5:26.

Before His death on the tree at Calvary He lived as a man on earth. When He was raised from the dead He was “the image of the invisible God”. (Colossians 1:15) “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of [God’s] person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.” (Hebrews 1:3,4) At the time of His baptism in Jordan river, when God’s spirit descended upon Him, He was begotten of His Father to life in the spirit. At His resurrection He was the “firstborn from the dead" unto life immortal in the spirit. (Colossians 1:18; Revelation 1: 5) When He was raised from the dead He was both Lord and Christ, says Peter. (Acts 2: 36) Lord means one who owns, and who has power and authority, and whom His followers acknowledge as Master and Lord, Christ means “anointed”, and designates the One whom Jehovah has appointed to carry out His . great purpose. So now, Christ Jesus being raised from the dead, He is both owner of all things under God and endowed with power and authority to carry out Jehovah’s purpose. The name Jesus means Savior, that is, Savior of His people, and was His name given at His human birth. It is more particularly associated with Him as the Sin-Bearer, the One who made His soul an offering for sin, who suffered for us and bore our sins, and whom Isaiah 53 further describes as a “man of sorrows”.

When He raised Jesus from the dead Jehovah God highly exalted Him and gave Him a name above all other names. He was once a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Now, resurrected from the dead, He is the exalted One. Hence the apostle Paul declares: “Being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto' death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father?’—Philip-pians 2:8-11.

God has decreed that since the earth was the scene of Jesus’ suffering for the vindication of .Jehovah’s name, it shall be the scene of glory for Him also, and that all creatures thereon shall bow at the name or exalted office of Jesus, and that every creature shall confess that Jesus is Christ and is the Lord.

On the first day of the week when Jesus was raised from the dead, and on several oocasions thereafter, He ap-

peared to His disciples and others who specially loved Him. He did not appear to them in the same body that was hung on the tree; nor with the same clothing in which He was buried. The Scriptural account is that the burial clothing and a napkin were folded up and laid aside in the tomb. Had He appeared in the same body that was entombed, those who were with Him for three and a half years would have recognized Him readily. Surely Mary Magdalene would have known Him. He appeared to her as a gardener on one occasion, and only when He spoke her name in the tone so familiar to her did she recognize Him. That appearance to her on Sunday morning, early in the day of His resurrection, was near the sepulcher.—John 20:11-18.

On the same Sunday morning He appeared to the women returning from the sepulcher, and also to Simon Peter alone near Jerusalem. (Matthew 28:9,10; Luke 24: 34; 1 Corinthians 15: 5) On the same.day He later disclosed himself to two disciples with whom He completed the journey to Emmaus. (Luke 24:13-21) That Sunday evening He appeared to the apostles (except Thomas) at Jerusalem. One week later (Sunday evening) He appeared again to the apostles, Thomas being present this time, at Jerusalem. (John 20:19-29) Some days thereafter He appeared on the shores of Galilee to seven of His disciples that had gone back to fishing. (John 21:1-13) A little later He appeared to the eleven disciples on a mountain near Galilee. (Matthew 28:16-20) A short time thereafter He again appeared to a company of more than five hundred of His followers, gathered by appointment, in Galilee. (1 Corinthians 15:6) He again appeared to the apostle James only. (1 Corinthians-15:7) Then He appeared for the last time on the side of the Mount of Olives to His disciples at the time of His ascension to heaven.—Luke 24: 50, 51.

Did He, then, appear in a spirit body or a human body, and how did He get

NOVEMB ER 10* 1943 the body if it was not the one in which He was crucified? We may be sure that He was hot raised from the: dead with a human body, because on one of these occasions He appeared to the disciples when they Were in a room with the doors fastened. (John 20:19-26) The only Scriptural answer is that now, as a spirit with all power in heaven and in earth, He had the power to create a body and clothing and appear at any time and upon any occasion He desired. Hence Mary supposed Him to be a gardener; the two disciples on the road to Emmaus thought He was a stranger in the community. At the sea of Galilee none of the disciples recognized Him by His assumed body; likewise on other occasions when He appeared to them. On all these occasions He was recognized by His actions, His words, and the familiar tone of His voice. It was hard to convince Thomas, who declared He must have some more proof. Therefore the Lord created a body having in it the marks of the nails, in order that Thomas might be convinced.—John 20:27-29.

The purpose of Jesus’ appearing to the disciples was that the fact might be fully established that He was resurrected and alive. He had the power to create a fleshly body and appear in it and to dissolve it at any time. Without doubt, when He appeared to the disciples behind locked doors He created the body immediately in their presence, and dissolved it when He disappeared. To prove to them that He was manifesting himself in a real body of flesh and bones He said to them: “Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” (Luke 24:39) At the Mount of Olives when He ascended and then disappeared from their sight, the spirit body in which He proceeded on high, and which He has in heaven, was a glorious body which no man can look _ upon. “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.”—1 Corinthians 15:50,51.

^Pestilences, Famines and Earthquakes’

THOSE who doubt that this is the time of the end, even as Jesus foretold, should mark the great number of earthquakes, famines and pestilences accompanying the present wars. (Matthew 24:7; Revelation 6:4,5,8) These reapers add daily to the harvest of war-dead, bringing to the insatiable grave millions that have not fallen by the sword or bomb. “Hell and destruction are never full.” (Proverbs 27:20; 30:15,16) Remarkable on the credit side of the Ledger of Life and Death are man’s efforts to stay the Destroyer, revealing man’s ingenuity, man’s impotence, man’s overwhelming defeat. Such also are signs of the crumbling world whose end has come before our eyes. The New World soon to follow this passing era will achieve victories over all man’s enemies, which he.has fought without hope, pitifully in vain.—-1 Corinthians 15:26.

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