Consolation, February 16, 1944

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Contents

The Fruit of Hitler’s Concordat

Consequences of Ten Years’ Operation

Pacelli and Hitler

Existence of Concordat Proved

Terms of the Papal Concordat with Hitler

Papal Organization

Vatican City (Illustration)

The Harvest of Destruction. .

“Thy Word Is Truth"

Sanctifying a New Creation

Which Birds Do You Dike Best?

The Migratory Birds Return

How About Pelicans and Siskins'?

The Magnificent Ostrich

How About the Turkey?

Jesse James Film Meaner than Jesse Himself 22

‘But Jesse Had His Good Point

Mexico Shares in tKe “Free Nation’s”

Assembly

El Salto, Durango, Vennstiano Carranza, Chiapas

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon

A Newark Woman’s Dreams s

Editing Facts of History

Witnesses in Winter (With picture page)

Presenting “This Gospel of the Kingdom”

Position of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy

Toward the Bible (Part 3)

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Mass Hypnosis Is Demonism

♦ At New Brunswick eight thousand school children went into violent hysterics over the presence of an actress. They rushed toward the platform in a screaming tumult that lasted 35 minutes. Police and the parade marshal were unable to restore order and it was necessary to abandon the program. There have been such exhibitions in France and elsewhere of mass hypnosis of children,' and there seems no reasonable explanation except that it is an outburst of demonism. The demons are now loose in the earth and it behooves all to be as calm and composed as possible, especially when in the presence of large crowds.

Black Magic in Montreal

♦ Black magic, i. e., fortune telling, i. e., spiritism, i.e., demonism, i.e., guidance by the devils, i.e., astrology (and some 25 or 30 more names which mean the same thing), is almost as bad in Montreal as it is in Washington, D.C. In the latter city this business'is legalized which in ancient Israel was punished with death. In Montreal they recently arrested twenty of these in three days. Eight of them pleaded guilty and were fined $50 to $500 or a month to six months in jail. This form of religion is one of the oldest and one of the’worst known to man.

■ Japan’s Aims at the Vatican

♦ The United Press writer Miles Vaughn declares that Japan’s aims at the Vatican are to exert pressure for a compromise peace in which Japan would be left dominant in East Asia and Germany and Italy would be left in control of continental Europe. Such a negotiated peace, of course, would, from the standpoint of Japan and Germany, be merely a lull in which they might get ready for one more final attempt at world domination.

CONSOLATION

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

Volume XXV Brooklyn, N-Y., Wednesday, February 16, 1944 Number 637

The Fruit of Hitler’s Concordat

Consequences of Ten Years’ Operation, 1933-1943

A TTENTION today is divided between -CY several distant battle fronts, with all American hopes staked upon the success of those far-flung lines. History is streamlined to airplane velocity! Major calamities vie with overwhelming victories in another quarter, for the spotlight of momentary interest. The importance of events is blurred by their multiplicity, their simultaneous quantity, and their headlong speed!

Since the vital interests of Americans are engaged throughout the entire globe, with happenings everywhere at once tending to raise or lower the national blood-pressure, and all families heavily committed in the outcome, the present brings numbness to the faculties, and confusion to the mind. Lost in the whirling circle of global action, shocked by the so-frequent news of disaster, scarcely relieved by occasional good tidings, the acceptance of despair has come to paralyze one’s thoughts. This stupor is exactly what the enemies have counted on, and must be resisted to survive!

The adversary has thus directed his attack more against the minds even than against the armies! Particularly, Axis enemies have sought to destroy the national reasoning faculties. Masking the significance of events already crowded by the headlines of regimentation and bad report, comes a daily flood of propaganda. The mind that is staggered by shock becomes the easy victim of misinformation. In order to render some relief to the victim, as well as strike a blow for truth, it is considered timely, appropriate, and useful to give a calm survey of the past decade, which is the corridor just traversed loo rapidly. Long enough have the people hurried before the lash of fear! It is time, and past time, that they look dispassionately at the events that brought them to the present; at the clues that might long ago have identified the criminals, had the people then paused for deliberation; so, view the past ten years, slowly, in retrospect. The review will seek motives, explained and revealed by deeds, which speak more loudly than the words so often employed for subterfuge.

“News,” says an ancient Chinese proverb, “is nothing more than the same old thing happening to different people.” History is made up of such news. Applying this rule to the past decade discloses not only a sameness, of events, but also an identical purpose binding together certain identical actors. Amid the litter of torn-up promises, and the wreckage of desolated nations, clearly appears a significant alliance, bound by a published agreement, and performed with equally visible results. That agreement, with its results, is treated under the title.

Its importance can be properly measured only after consideration of the facts submitted herein, with fully documented evidence and bibliography supporting. The magnitude of this pact can be estimated, however, by a catalogue of the points contended: That it combined by valid contract, serving their mutual interests, the most active powers for war-incitement upon the earth; that its principals have performed its terms with fanatical zeal; that the present is in reality, however con.-: fusing in appearance, but the sequel or other planned chapter in the long-range strategy of destruction, publicly 'embarked upon by the concordat of 1933; that it was the chief clue to the world of the formation of a central brain, council or directorate, which plotted with great brilliance and concentrated purpose for world domination; that the parties combined by the concordat tenaciously and cunningly allied themselves with every malcontent and selfish interest, in a world peculiarly opportune for such alliances; that the outspoken facts, and overt acts of partnership between religionist and dictator, refute a thousand denials of such contract; and that the fruits of a world of bitterness largely stem from that tree.

Tt is not necessarily contended that the plan was fully matured ten years ago, nor that the determination to conquer the world was openly announced. But that the purpose was fully agreed upon, and that the concordat formed an alliance of those who had already held the same purpose for many years prior thereto, and had planned accordingly, is contended. It also seems likely that although the original project may have called for the destruction of England, now clearly impossible, it could, by alternate expedient, be accomplished by negotiation with England, and was more favorable to a super-national confederacy of the religious and commercial, political clique, even if Axis domination failed. In any case its rally cry and its preferred arrangement was Fascism. According to the conspirators, plans for each country were formulated with the cold precision of a surgeon’s knife. Every nation would by compulsion, persuasion or betrayal be placed in the niche assigned in the new world-wide arrangement of their designing. Since this was a scheme for world domination, it was of necessity global, involving every country. It is important to remember this, because the conspiracy which bred Fascism, Nazism, and the other pestilent “isms” bears the earmarks and imprint of central planning. Though, embraced first by the pope in Italy (1929), its spearhead was Germany. To illustrate -that all these “isms” come from one factory, and should be labeled “Made in Nazi Germany”, Allan Chase demonstrates that the Falange, supposedly the Spanish imitation of Nazism, is in reality nothing more than a branch of the dread Gestapo. Hugo F. Artucio and Betty Kirk reveal the Nazi blueprint for Mexico, Latin America, and South America, with five zones carving up and replacing the republics to the south. Investigators everywhere warn of subversion and treachery, envisaging the Nazi tentacles clutching the whole earth. Strangely, however, they fail to .see Fascism’s necessary alliance with religion, nor do they detect the incalculable advantage and great power derived by this alliance.

Fascism is hereafter used as a generic term to include all the “isms” which have the same purpose, enslavement. Its unpopular synonym is therefore “slavery”. It being wmrld-wide in growth, but springing from a single “green bay tree” of wickedness, it is deemed fitting to consider the conditions in the major countries of the world, when it received its life-giving impetus to power by amalgamation with the greatest religious power, in 1933. ’

Historical Background . ■

Conditions somewhat prior to 1933 were unusually favorable to men of unscrupulous purpose. The United States was stunned by depression and unemployment, England vacillating and playing like a child with her customary balance-of-power politics; while France, the third of the great democratic powers, was dying from within. Russia was. largely offended by deliberately bad statesmanship, and isolated from her natural allies. Japan, on the other hand, began to see the achievement of her hundred-year-old dream of empire, for which she had long reserved her resources, and enlarged a highly efficient war machine. The natural obstacles to a Japanese empire in the Pacific were England, America and Russia. From the outset Japan must have looked to her former enemy, Germany, to assist in the hacking-up of the Anglo-American combine. Looking back, it is also easy to see how skillfully she played her hand.

Germany had been largely healed of her “deadly wound” received in World War I, and this through Allied loans, chiefly American and English. In his recent speech, Christmas eve, 1943, President Roosevelt admitted this aid rendered to Germany. He said:

After the armistice in 1918, we thought and hoped that the militaristic philosophy of Germany had been crushed; and being full of the milk of human kindness we spent the next twenty years disarming, while the Germans whined so pathetically that the other nations permitted them, and even helped them, to rearm.

For too many years we lived on pious hopes that aggressor and warlike nations would learn and understand and carry out the doctrine of purely voluntary peace.

The well-intentioned but ill-fated experiments of former years did not work. It is my hope that we will not try them again. No, that is putting it too weak. It is my intention to do all that I humanly can as president and commander-in-chief to see to it that these tragic mistakes shall not be made again. [Quoted from the New York Times, December 25, 1943]

Italy was already tied fast to the Papal chariot by the Lateran Treaty of 1929, while Spain’s efforts to throw off the yoke of clerical bondage were viewed with cynical amusement by the plotters of the “New’ World Order”.

A few more details may serve to bring back to mind the scene of ten or twelve years ago. On January 29, 1932, Japan had instituted her shocking assault on Shanghai, which awakened the world more than her invasion of Manchuria and capture of Mukden the previous fall, and regarded by some as the beginning of World War II. Remember the Geneva Conference, which dealt with the Japanese hostilities, .dallying with the matter for most of the year? The Nipponese were defended' before many impotent sessions of the League of Nations by none other than Yosuke Matsuoka, so prominent in pre-Pearl Harbor news for his visits to Hitler and the pope. Came the spring of 1933, when the Japanese lost patience with those who stupidly could not be taught the “glorious” necessity for the killer-campaign, and bolted from the League.

Sardonically the recorder of history notes that 1932, while the Axis was arming to the teeth, was the year selected by the League of Nations to urge disarmament. During the deliberations designed to bury everybody’s hatchet, Archtraitor Pierre Laval w’as French premier, perhaps already consorting for the death of his country. Certainly disarmament was a democratic error, an expensive economy, considering the war debt, which presently will have to be measured in “light years”.

American eyes were focused inward, sadly introspective, upon her financial difficulties. The stock panic of 1929 had left its marks of havoc upon business and nearly every individual. Little recovery had been made; most blamed the Hoover administration, which had gained no popularity by the international debt moratorium of 1931. In the 1932 fall elections Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for the first of a now unknown number of terms. The situation was so critical that during the spring of 1933 all American banks were closed by executive order, many never to reopen, and the WPA and killing of pigs began. Those who recall those days will confirm the fact that the United States was too painfully preoccupied with her own problems to voice and back up strong sentiments in world affairs.

Britain also was largely involved in fiscal and monetary problems. In 1931 sfee had been forced to abandon the gold standard following a run on the Bank of England. Ramsay MacDonald was in the middle of his career as prime minister, addicted to British “limited-liability” policy, a man of “materialism in the heart and sentimentalism in the head”. Charged with much blundering, his planned - World Economic Conference, which met in London the summer of 1933, and was chiefly devoted to American and British troubles along that line, proved no more successful than the Naval Conference of 1930, nor the multitude of .other conferences and councils held during the past decade. Although German war reparations had been virtually ended at Lausanne a year earlier, the London World Economic Conference was ill-omened by announcement, a few days before its opening, of the new Hitler government decree suspending all German debt payments, the chief creditors being the conferees.

Hitler had been appointed chancellor four months earlier, January 30, 1933. Bitterness of defeat in the first World War, coupled with the harsh terms of the Versailles Treaty (June 28, 1919), particularly the economic clauses placing the full responsibility for the war on the Central Powers, and requiring heavy indemnities and consequent economic suffering, prevailed in Germany? Of all tilings, humiliation and reproach are the most difficult for the human creature to endure, and here was the spectacle of a whole nation developing the bitterness of the underdog. In such soil Nazism flourished, which was one of the results relied on by the dictator and his religious partner. Briefly recalled, the staggering debt demanded by the Allies still amounted to thirty-three billions in 1921; and even the modified Young Plan of 1930 arranged for annual payments to extend fifty-eight and one half years longer, the first 37 years requiring payments of $473,000,000 annually! This meant that those unborn during the first World War must shoulder its unbearable expense for their whole lives! Nor. does this furnish an apology for Nazism, but rather reveals the German misery which fed its rise to power.

Aggravating her wounds was the Allied army of occupation, which did not leave German soil until May, 1930. Although Germany had largely rehabilitated herself with plentiful loans from Erance, England, and America, yet this source of income was reduced to a minimum from 1929 to 1931, critical financial years for England and America, as noted before. “When the Nazi regime came to power, the depression had reached the depth of the trough. The unemployed counted more than 6,000,000, industry and trade were stagnant, finances were imperiled.” (The Origins and Background of the Second World War, Haines and Hoffman, page 347) This was the weakened state of Germany, which bred the Nazi disease.

Von Hindenburg, Prussian aristocrat (Junker), war lord, and last president of the Weimar Republic (so called because its constitution was adopted at Weimar, July 31, 1919), appointed Hitler chancellor (prime minister). According to several Catholic sources, including Fritz Thyssen’s I Paid Hitler, this was maneuvered by the Papal-decorated Franz von Papen, in close conference with Papal Nuncio Pacelli .(both Thyssen and von Papen are admittedly Roman Catholics), through the stratagem of telling the aged president (who died August, 1934) that von Schleicher was about to take him prisoner, (As late as November, 1943, von Papen still acted as “Hitler’s ace diplomat” and go-between for the dictator and the pope.)

Thereafter events moved rapidly. The Reichstag fire, on February 28, furnished the pretext for an emergency decree abrogating freedom of all kinds, while a new election was called for in March. With freedom gone, the Nazis readily controlled this election, but, employing all kinds of juggling and violence, could poll only 44 percent of the vote by their own count! Opposition was, however, annihilated by destruction of small minorities in the Reichstag (Legislature), and the dissolution of the Catholic Center Party (Zentrum) by direction of Papal Nuncio Pacelli. The Arbeiter Zeitung, of Basle, Switzerland, published Catholic Thyssen’s letter under the title, “Pius XII—as Nuncip—Brought Hitler to Power.” (Germany entered the League in 1926.)

France was naturally the nation most alarmed by the rise of Nazism. The French heyday had come in the fall of 1931. While financial panic gripped the rest of the world, in which seventeen nations, with the inclusion of England, went off the gold standard, this nation was unscathed. Due largely to German reparation payments and native French thrift, her financial strength matched her political and military power in Europe. By the terms of the same Versailles Treaty, which provided the gift of reparations, her military strength was maintained in superiority to Germany’s. Together with Czechoslovakia and Poland, France and Belgium formed a restrictive semicircle, all members of which were interested in checking German expansion. (The Sudeten part of Czechoslovakia may be excepted.) British and American sympathy had long since begun to wane. France had been an obstacle to German recovery, in which both nations had had a stake; while the repetition about French sacrifices had become wearisome, and French strength was unwelcome to Britain’s balance-of-power susceptibilities. This may partly account for British non-interference with Fascist Franco, and the Munich appeasement of Hitler, the folly of which

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policies became apparent too late. French national illness gathered nomen-1 turn after 1933. !

. Russian relations, or rather the aims of the Franco-Russian Mutual Assistance Pact, intended to forge a link against Germany, were frustrated by Pierre Laval, whose tracks are found near every act of treachery against France; Russia made several alliances but was virtually isolated from France and England. European distrust of the Soviet gave the Nazis much assistance in their pose as the foe of Communism.

Italy and Spain stretching down like fingers to the continent of Africa, which must also be conquered, held key geographic places in Axis plans. Italy was already Fascist and belligerent, being well tied to Rome’s religious ambitions by the Lateran Treaty (1929). Together with Sicily and Pan teller ia (captured first by the Americans in their advance upon Italy) the country formed an easy bridge to Africa, and threat to English commerce and colonies. Pierre van Faassen believes the Nazis’ objective aimed to control the coast of Europe and Africa, and, together with Japan, to nullify English sea power by destruction of all her bases. Spain, containing the English Gibraltar, where the strait is so narrow that the African coast is clearly visible, was likewise marked for seizure. Besides its nearness to Africa and forming a bulwark inimical to France, Fascist Spain was to play another role, even more important. Spain was closest to America, not only in distance but in blood and language ties. To her was assigned the role of enlisting sympathy in both North America and ’South America through affiliations of the mother tongue, especially among the Spanish aristocracy which controlled so many of the South American and Central American countries. Many of these (as in Argentina, where “fifty families own more than 75,000 acres each” and are “overwhelmingly Catholic”, with large numbers of Germans and

Italians) yearned for the return of Spanish, which meant Fascist, control. Such were to be furnished substance for their dreams.

These were briefly the conditions in the world. Not alone important as a background and setting for the merger between dictator and pope, above all, . they furnish a key to understanding the 1 opportune ripeness, the timeliness of such contract between aggressors. Next to be considered are the parties to the contract.

pacelli and Hitler

In the summer of 1933, Eugenio Pacelli, now Pope Pius XII, was an experienced diplomat, thoroughly familiar with the politics, intrigues and underground of Europe. He had been entrusted with a Vatican commission to the kaiser near the end of the first World War (1917), and thereafter spent twelve years in Germany serving in various Papal offices. Now, with knowledge born of keen observation, mastery of eight languages, and the unlimited facilities for obtaining inside information found ready for his use at the collecting agency of Vatican City, he envisaged that the time was ripe for alliance with the Hitler Germany. He decided, and advised Pope Pius XI, to tie Catholic hopes of world domination to the Nazi star.

Besides dreamers and madmen, there were probably only a few men on earth in 1933 whose mental scope was great enough to contemplate world domination. It was, however, envisaged by the chiefs of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Indeed this had been the expressed goal of their organization since its origin some 1500 years ago. The bloody crusades staining by-gone centuries had this aim, an aim never relinquished, as manifest in the “holy wars” of Hitler. One thoroughly saturated with this bold ambition, which accepts bloody war as a justified means to a “proper” end, rulership by religious Rome, was Eugenio Pacelli. Not a dreamer was Pacelli.

Astute, “hardheaded statesman,” he saw alliance with Nazi Germany as the logical and opportune step for achievement of Catholic age-old purpose. Remember that he knew the stage of Europe, its languages and diplomats, not only through twenty years of envoy activity, but also by the complete and revealing intelligence system supplied by an army of espionage and confessional priests. “The Vatican’s intelligence service is incomparably the best in the world, and Pius XII was an expert international observer before he was Pope.” (Pittsburgh [Pa.] Press, September 24, 1942)

The present pope’s upbringing and experience caused him to be the finished product of that sinuous doctrine known as Jesuitism. The Jesuit is the most unscrupulous and the most deceptive of all schools of religious practitioners. It is the most hated secret order in the world and has at one time or another been expelled from most countries of Europe. (See Consolation issues of November 26 and December 10, 1941, article “Jesuit Destroyers".) But, judging by the Jesuit betrayal of countries overrun by Hitler, and the Jesuit pattern adopted by the Nazis, it seems clear that the Jesuit reactionary craft prevailed in the training, predilections and policies of Pacelli.

Time magazine, issue of August 16, 1943, contains an incomplete biography of his life. According to this article, he was born in 1876, “five years after Italy achieved unification by Vittorio Emanuel H’s seizing Rome from the Papacy, and Pope Pius IX immured himself in his last possession as ‘Prisoner of the Vatican’. . . . Both Eugenio pacelli’s grandfathers were Vatican functionaries. His father was dean of the Vatican law corps." From about 1900 until 1939 he continued in the Vatican’s foreign relations office, about the last ten years as secretary of state. In the latter year he was elected Pope Pius XII. McCabe shows that Pacelli wms of an aristocratic family, while he was connected with

Italian high finance through his uncle, the founder of the Banco di Roma; and with politics through his brother Francesco Pacelli, who had more than one hundred secret conferences with Mussolini.

It is hardly conceivable that the pope’s “imprisonment” stirred the liberator spirit in the young Pacelli. The “imprisonment” was self-imposed, a gesture to elicit international Catholic sympathy, just as the reported “dangers” from the Nazi forces in St. Peter’s square have lately been used for the same purpose. But perhaps the dimness of the Papal sun at that time, while the Papacy was shorn of temporal power, which was an eclipse of the brightness of its power under Innocent 111 “(who exercised effective political control over all Italy and much of Europe)”, caused a yearning in the young priest for the old position of dominance. At all events there seems little doubt that, guided by a shrewd intelligence, a fierce ambition has long burned in the heart of archdiplomat Pacelli.

Other sources than Time magazine must be drawn upon for facts in the pope’s life during 1933, the year under consideration. It is remarked in passing, that Time’s tactful omission of 1933 in the papal biography is a fair example of the reticence and deference shown by the press generally, and considered herein in detail later, where the Roman Catholic Church is concerned. It is, to say the least, faintly amusing to see the editors performing this obeisance, kneeling to a religious institution, while their custom has been to ridicule the foibles and weaknesses and even the faith of others. Grotesquely now, the cynical “wolf of the news” bestows an awkward pat upon the head of the Roman leopard. Time excuses this diplomatic pact in a later summary of charges . made against the Vatican as “The 1933 Concordat with Hitler 'in spite of many misgivings’”. (Page 58)

Far from listing “many misgivings” his official Catholic biographer, Kees van Hoek, wrote in 1939: “Cardinal Pacelli has always been known for his strong German leanings.” (Published in London in 1939 by Burns, Oates & Washburn, Ltd., publishers to the Holy See, and quoted from article by Pierre L’Ourson, "Pro-German ism of Pope Pius XII,” April, 1943, issue of The Converted Catholic) The same biographer discloses also that from 1917 to 1933 the present pope spent more than twelve years in Germany.

Monsignor Pacelli, as nuncio in Munich in 1923, actively opposed the French occupation of the Ruhr Valley when the Germans refused reparations payments, and caused Pope Pius XT to condemn the French occupation as the “Ruhr adventure”. lie obtained a concordat with Bavaria in 1925, and one with Prussia in 1929 after his appointment as nuncio in Berlin.

Pacelli was long an intimate of Matthias Erzburger, zealops Catholic and leader of the Reichstag’s Catholic Center Party, which was later dissolved at the instance of Pacelli to make way for unopposed Nazism. He was, during the years of his German residence, an intimate of Friedrich Ebert, first president of the German (Weimar) Republic, and also of its last one, the monumental Paul von Hindenburg. Thyssen, the Catholic industrialist, who, together with munitions manufacturer Krupp, admits financing Hitler, reveals that Hitler and Pacelli had many conferences together outlining the later concordat of 1933.

The nuncio likewise knew Hitler well, his ability as rabble-rouser, his imprisonment for attempt to overthrow the government, his tics with and appeal to the most bestial element of the German population, and, most important of all, and least believed in America, his devout Catholicism. Many Catholics would like to believe that Hitler is not a Catholic; but that is because they do not understand the purpose of their pope, who had selected to advance Hitler in part

for that very reason, and, as subsequent events prove, would never have chosen for the role any but a Catholic. Doubters of Hitler’s membership in the Catholic church will be enlightened by perusing Mein Kampf, and Wer Ist's, the German H'Ao’.s Who. In the past, Consolation has reproduced pictures of Hitler worship. „ ing in Catholic cathedrals. See Febru-*ary 3, 1943, issue, reproducing such a picture from the London Catholic Herald. This same recognized Catholic authority admits that Hitler and Mussolini are both Catholics. (Issues of July 5 and 12, 1940) Of Hitler’s Catholicism no doubt remains. Appointment of Catholic overseers in every country conquered by the Nazis is a “clincher” which may not be overlooked even by the skeptical. Hitler therefore represented to Pacelli the preferred form of German government.

The question arises at this point as to why the Papacy and Pacelli found Germany worthy of so much attention. The answer may be found in some design for self-interest, because the Papacy is concerned in other nations only as such may be used to advance her own ends. It is furnished by a diplomat long connected with the League of Nations:

“All his life Eugenio Pacelli has taken an active part in one of the most secret and complex intrigues of our time: the patient struggle of the Papacy to regain and extend its temporal power. In this struggle, for the last seventy years, whenever a major issue of international politics was at stake, the Vatican has hitched its star to the Germanic juggernaut,”—Pierre L’Ourson, in The Gospel Witness and Protestant Advocate.

This agrees with the official title “The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation”, the dickerings of the nominally Protestant Kaiser Wilhelm with the Papacy (through Pacelli), and the request long before the first World War that the kaiser act as the “sword of the Roman Catholic Church*’, later offered to and accepted by Hitler.

Germany then was the spearhead of “the king of the north”, foretold in Bible prophecy. Pacelli, called by Britain’s ambassador Viscount d’Abernon “The best informed man in the Beich”, well knew that Germany was the most powerful of any country on the continent, that England and America were presently impotent through preoccupation, that Catholic power was waning through the loss of millions of adherents (the Catholic lay population) seeking freedom from the Papal yoke in socialist-democratic governments; that the hated influence of the French and American republics fast sweeping Europe signaled for urgent Catholic Action. The time was ripe and the stage was set for the com summation of the pact that rocked the world, and plunged the nations into an ocean of blood!

Demonic forces maneuvered the Hitlerian concordat. It was far too complete an instrument of race extermination, the Devil’s own purpose, to be the inven-, tion of mere man, however “brilliant”. The terms nevertheless (later summarized) will not impress the reader as extremely sinister. Papal approval of the flow of blood may not be discerned by all in its army clauses. But moral consolation for a well-known German blackguard, convicted seditionist, and moral degenerate, can be denied by no one. When one seeks the underworld for services, when the gangster is hired, it is because the purpose requires' the criminal.

Remember also that any number of secret clauses may have been agreed upon when the document was formed. Again note that it was a flexible contract, capable of. extensive expansion, and, more important still, unlimited fulfillment. Some will say that the fulfillment or carrying out of the compact is the important thing, not the words. They are right! It is the bloody fulfillment, however, that proves the understanding,. just as the crime reveals its planning. But the very existence of the concordat is an admission that Papal hopes still rested upon the German juggernaut. Later, as we shall see, the campaign unfolds, revealing the previous marriage between religion and the slaver. Paeelli and Hitler well represented the organizations behind them.

Existence of Concordat Proved

As tribute to the power of the propaganda unleashed by the mutual friends of Hitler and the Vatican, it is necessary to prove to many that such an agreement exists. Many Catholics believe that it is an invention by Protestants intended to embarrass the pope. The mere mention of such a “deal” is considered a fantastic libel, as far from the realm of truth as Hitler’s doing a good deed. Also because of a newspaper halocampaign ascribing to the pope the highest of virtue, and an equally industrious campaign to repress any details that might cut the glamour off the most highly advertised ‘proponent for peace’ (“whose name is rooted in peace”), namely, Pius XII, his alliance with Hitler, now of ten years’ standing, is denied altogether. Such denial is echoed in many non-Catholic circles, who are not acquainted with the facts.

The document is, of course, a matter of record. The term “concordat” is derived from the Latin past participle of the verb concordare (concordatum), literally meaning “agreed”. It is a term now used specifically to designate a contract between the Vatican or pope and a dictator government.

Of first importance to all Catholic readers is the fact that a booklet published by the National Catholic Welfare Conference, The Nazi War Against the Catholic Church, devoted a whole chapter to its discussion, from page 17 of which the following is quoted: “On July 20, 1933, the concordat was signed' at Vatican City by Franz von Papen, vice-chancellor [Hitler was then chancellor] and plenipotentiary of the Reich, and Cardinal Paeelli, papal secretary of state and plenipotentiary of the Holy See.” This should be sufficient evidence for all Catholics, because it is hardly an admission that would be made except that many have demanded an explanation.

However, the terms are not found in this Catholic booklet. Indeed attempts to get a copy in either English or German were rendered extremely difficult. Replying to inquiry the New York Times Information Bureau stated: “We regret that we cannot give you the information about the concordat, but suggest you consult your local library.” (September 16, 1943) It was learned that a part of the German copy appears in the April, 1943, issue of The Converted Catholic Magazine, but this was not made available to Consolation. An extensive search in the New York Public Library at first proved fruitless, but finally both a German and an English copy were produced by the librarian.

Review of the document itself gains importance because of the great prominence given Pope Pius today as world peace mentor. (See Peace—Can It Last?) Since the present pope is slated to be “dean of the conferees” at the peace table, which will decide the fate of all nations, an agreement made by this prospective peace candidate with the foremost aggressor nation, and never canceled by either pope or Nazi, should not be overlooked. It behooves Catholics particularly to study this instrument of the pope’s decision, approved, of course, by the “Supreme Pontiff”. '

Terms of the Papal Concordat with Hitler

“The Concordat of the Holy See with Germany” contained thirty-four articles, with a supplementary protocol, or additional memdrandum, delineating, supple. menting, or explaining certain of the articles. Besides confirmation of the Bavarian and Prussian concordats (also achievements of Paeelli) and the several clauses concerned with internal church organization which are not of public interest, it provides:

That the Catholic church shall have

full liberty to practice religion (Art. 1); Catholic priests and clergy are to be protected by the German government in performance of religious duties (Art. 5); shall be exempt from civil duty, income tax levies, and obligation to reveal confessional secrets (Arts. 6, 8, 9); punishment for misuse of clerical vestment and insignia must be identical to punishment t for similar misuse of the German military uniform (Art. 10).; recognition of Hitler’s right to veto any candidate for the'office of bishop because of doubts “with respect to general political considerations” (Art. 14, which virtually assured the appointment of Nazis to the chairs of bishops and archbishops; the operation of which clause is observable in the pastoral letters from the Catholic bishops’ conclave annually at Fulda, reiterating praise for the Fuhrer); Catholic bishops are required to swear allegiance to the Hitler government (Art. 16); for state maintenance of Catholic faculties in the state universities and for continuance of existing government subsidies or aids to Catholic institutions (Arts. 19, 20); Catholic religion is required to be taught to ail Catholic pupils and students in public schools and colleges, by teachers selected by the Hierarchy (Arts. 21-24); priests are permitted to perform valid marriage ceremonies before the civil marriage also required (Art. 26, which also allows for “later and more extensive regulation of legal matrimonial questions”); for appointment of army chaplains approved by Hitler (Art. 27, “The chaplains in regard to the troops assigned to them have the same rights as curates in regard to their parishioners”; which really means that the Catholic chaplains in the swelled armies of Hitler could stop this war tomorrow if they wanted to do so); all Catholic churches are pledged to pray for the welfare of Germany (Art. 30). Students are privileged to compare this summary with that found on pages 344-345 of The Origins and Background of the Second World War.

. The real significance of this document is that it binds the Vatican to Nazism. The comment of Pope Pius XI is pertinent proof. Speaking of the great service which Italy and Germany had rendered the Catholic Church in its fight against Communism (then called Bolshevism) he stated: “For that reason I shall conclude this concordat with the young Germany of Chancellor Hitler.” Shortly thereafter was added the Nazi acclaim: “By signing the Reich’s Concordat German National Socialism [Nazism] is acknowledged by the Catholic Church in the most solemn manner.” (Nazi, organ, Volkischer Beobachter, 1933) On August 15,1933, Archbishop Dr. Groeber held a solemn pontifical mass celebrating the conclusion of the concordat. “The Episcopate of all German Dioceses . . . was glad to express ... readiness to co-operate to its best ability with the new government.” (Letter from Cardinal Bertram to Hitler after signing of concordat) This was then the year of all years chosen by the pope to declare a “Holy Year”.

Before considering the appalling results shortly devastating the world, an understanding of the Papal part in the ' debacle is made clearer by consideration of the Catholic ruling system, its form of government and functions.

Papal Organization

It cannot be overemphasized that the Papal organization is the most autocratic and, at once, the strongest the world knows. Its description may well begin at its capital and official residence of its chief executive, the pope, namely Vatican City. Viewed in. the excellent aerial sketches from the December 26, 1938, and the August 9, 1943, issues of Life magazine, the Catholic capital appears as a walled fortress, in the northwest section of Rome, not a suburb, but completely surrounded as an island by the city of Rome. Only the size of a golf course (109 acres according to

Life, 108.7 according to The Christian Century, September 15, 1943, p. 1032), it is nonetheless a formidable structure, complete with a garrison (ff Swiss guards, barracks, sentry towers, and continuous surrounding walls for gun emplacements. Past the colonnaded porticoes clasping St. Peter’s Square (where the Nazis are now said to be on guard) and at one end of this circular court, lies the entrance to Vatican .City through St. Peter’s Basilica or Church. This is, of course, only one of an unknown number of entrances and exits, which probably come out conveniently in many parts of Home, St. Peter’s Church, which is the largest in the world, broods above the square where the Nazis are said to stand guard. Just what paratroops in this open court, as defenseless from snipers or machine gun on the church embattlements as the pigeons which feed in the square, could -do to endanger the city does not appear to

the writer. Is there any military strategy calling for the “protection” of a barricade by means of a contingent deployed in a plaza commanded by and at the mercy of the guns of the barricade? This point seems worthy of conjecture, as likely more “sympathy propaganda” for the “prisoner” of the redoubtable fortress. '

The probable reason for Marshal Albert Kesselring’s paratroops in St. Peter’s Square is to guard the Vatican, even as claimed. Later dispatches tell of Kesselring’s posters threatening death to a,ny persons harming Germans who, the press report declared, had been assaulted by Italians in Rome; while in October the pope was offered a haven in Liechtenstein (a Catholic duchy on the Swiss border) or in Germany itself. These Nazi precautions in behalf of their ally are made understandable by remembering that the Vatican was stormed by irate Italians in 1849. Life’s historical sketch of August 9, 1.943, contains two significant paragraphs: “Italian disaster was at the battle of Novara, 1849, when Charles Albert, left in the lurch by the pope, Mazzini and Naples, was routed by Austrian army/’ “Attack on the Vatican by people of Rome was a by-product of the war, because Pope Pius IX was .supported by Austrians, lie fled, leaving 'a republican triumvirate under Mazzini.” Comparison of later difficulties encountered by the Italian liberal government with the Vatican1 (1870-71) shows that the “Pope’s shop” has been unpopular with many Italians, and fear of Italian retaliation, when American liberation appeared in sight, upon the greatest enemy of freedom was not unjustified fear on the part of the Germans. Supporting the facts above set forth are two items from the Tribune,-Sun of San Diego, Calif., one dated October 28,1943, wherein Dr. J ose Manuel Llobet, Argentine minister to the Vatican, said at Barcelona, Spain, that conditions at the Vatican are “perfectly normal”, and the other item, dated November 2, 1943, wherein the United Press says that the Vatican radio has reported German occupation troops have respected Vatican City, and the German ambassador there has guaranteed a continuance of their good conduct.

Time, magazine informs us that within the military estate is completely modernized, equipped now with elevators, 800 telephones (even during the war connections have been promptly made between the pope and Archbishop Spellman), power plant, short-wave sending equipment, and a railway station. Turn now to the structure and personnel of this vast religious system.

Here again the strength of Catholic organization must be emphasized. According to Time, again, the rulers of this realm are first the pope, “Supreme Pontiff of the Holy See” (and bearing a great many other titles), who is “absolute rule?’ and “infallible formula-tor” for the following, having authority in the order named: 47 cardinals, 13 patriarchs, some 2,000 archbishops and bishops, about 300,000 priests and some 365,000,000 Roman Catholics throughout the world. (According to McCabe this figure is more probably about 300,000,000, reflecting a loss of about 65,000,000 Catholics in the past decade.) Nonetheless this is by far the greatest and most powerful organization in the world.

It is also extremely autocratic. While in America Roman Catholic Church law is not held binding upon its citizens, in Catholic countries such as are now under the dictators Papal law is supreme and critics of the Roman Church are frequently sentenced to death. To avoid the outcry for such inquisition the “offender” may likely be charged with Communism. McCabe makes interesting comment upon this convenient device:

Even in Spain or Portugal or Vichy the Church would not dare to execute apostates, if only in view of the terrible outcry there would be in England and America. That is true, but what is to prevent the Church from dressing its rebel in the red shirt of a Bolshevik instead of the spotted garb of a heretic ? English jmd American papers would burst the bonds of Catholic censorship if the bishops of Spain and Portugal, whether acting through Franco and Salazar or not, were to start (i-utos-da-fe of the old style in Madrid and Lisbon. But they make no inquiry or comment -when men or women are labelled Communist, though the real offence is that they are obnoxious to the clergy. The Spanish Church has dune this from the beginning of the present century. I have personally known Spaniards who were sentenced to death as “anarchists” whoso only serious offence was that they were aggressive critics of the Church. [The, Papacy in Politics Today, p. 18]

Catholies have- been generally taught that obedience is absolutely necessary. Marianns de Luca, Roman priest and authority on Canon Law at the Papal University at Rome, states that । “the Church has a coercive power even to the extent of the death sentence”. (Insti-lutiones Juris Ecclesiastici Publici,< I, 132) As for dealing with dissenters even the Catholic Encyclopedia (Vol. XI), under the article “Persecution”, declares that “while the Roman Church now generally uses spiritual weapons against heretics and apostates, it has ‘never relinquished its right to use other means’ in dealing with its own subjects”. An American priest by the name of Harney caused a little newspaper publicity by reiterating this Papal power of death. Many secret Catholic societies are said to have oaths binding the members to destroy “heresy”; and a Jesuit priest, Antonio Oldra, in Turin (1927), says, “When the Church has exhausted all springs of Christian patience, then the death penalty may be resorted to.”

Harsher or more autocratic rule is hard to imagine. Similarity to army organization also appears. It follows that neither priest nor bishop may speak on matters of serious importance without express orders from his superior, which means, in the end, that the pope wields supreme command. The Papal army is like other armies, ruled from the top. Failure to understand this characteristic of Papal discipline causes many Americans to think that the greatest freedom of speech exists among prelates of the Catholic Church, and that their public declarations are mere individual opinions, even contrary to Papal policy. The Hierarchy encourages this view in order that it may have a loophole to disclaim responsibility for mistakes in utterance, and to confuse the public as to its real position. The truth is, on the other hand, that every move is studied, and every statement by any agent dictated, if not verbatim, at least in purpose, and according to a policy fixed in Rome.

It is therefore as foolish to conceive of a priest’s speaking without express orders (as was said to have been the case with “Father” Coughlin) as to imagine the American ambassador to France declaring war on Vichy without consulting Washington. Instead of the various prelates often getting out of control and expressing views distasteful to their superiors, it may be said with absolute certainty that they speak what they are ordered to say, and at a time when /they are ordered to say it. Undoubtedly sentiments hateful to the Roman Catholic Church are occasionally voiced by priests, monsignori (Italian “lords”), and bishops. Such include commendation of democracy and the “four freedoms”. This too is purposeful. It' misleads the public as to 'the efforts of the Papacy, so strenuously exerted in behalf of Nazi-Fascism that concealment is not completely possible. Consequently a sprinkling of democratic sentiments, always expressed in democratic countries, and for democratic consumption only, makes a good smoke-screen and does the hated democracies more harm than condemnation, because it puts them off guard. Such is customary practice.

A former priest, who is familiar with this device, writes: “No European would be so naive as to believe that Rome’s real work is done with fanfare and solemn papal pronouncements. They know it is done rather by the steady world-wide pressure directed by the Vatican grapevine.” (James J. Murphy, in The Converted Catholic Magazine, September 1941) '

With these facts in mind, attention is now drawn to the operation of Hitler’s concordat. It soon developed just what concrete support he expected to receive from an ally with such vast resources and organization. By observing the results it is possible to conjecture as to what were some of the secret clauses. Irish-Catholic- William Teeling declares that there was a secret clause. Even without such clause, it is certain they were partners to the same determination, to rule the world for Nazi-Rome, and hence willing to go the limit with the

lives and property of others. The chronicle returns to the events after 1933.

The Harvest of Destruction

It is again repeated that looking back upon the execution of Hitler’s purpose, and the invaluable support rendered by the. Vatican organization, a reconstruction of any items not covered in the - concordat is possible. Concerted action presupposes a plan. Along the way to conquest there were some mighty wide ditches for Germany to jump, impossible •without the help of internal assistance from the countries invaded. Impossible, too, without the paralysis and division . of her enemies, which her Papal ally was looked to for accomplishment.

Hitler well recognized the need for co-operation with his religious ally in the forthcoming struggle. His vice-chancellor, Franz von Papen, and Catholic co-signer with Pacelli of the concordat, was therefore led to affirm: "The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but which puts into practice the high principles of the Papacy.” After the signing, in July, 1933, Hitler felt emboldened to desert the League of Nations in October. Thereafter followed certain clean-up operations at home, such as the blood purge, June, 1934, pogroms or riots against the Jews, confiscations, age-old “amusements” of the Jesuits, and a step-up in War preparations.

Came 1935! The Nazis observed the Ethiopian campaign and the futile and contemptible League of Nation’s protest, with a view to selecting the opportune moment for the remilitarization of the Rhingland. When this had reached its most critical stage, in March, 1936, the German army advanced, broke more terms of the Versailles Treaty, reoccupied the Rhine with armed forces, and successfully defied the world.

Wonderful Co-ordination

Wonderful co-ordination between dictator and pope may now be observed. From February, 1936, when popular free government won at the Spanish elections, the Roman Catholic Church had determined to regain the vast estates of which she. was being dispossessed by the republican government, and at once create a third front to divert attention from Hitler. On July 17 the Papists under Franco, calling themselves “Nationalists”, took over Morocco, and a day later open rebellion broke out in Spain. This is not the place to detail that heart-rending bloody outrage, maneuvered by the Vatican through Jesuit-trained Gil Robles and Papal Knight Franco. Sufficient here to show its Vatican origin is the aid given by the Axis and the Catholic press. Of the Spanish “civil” war and its cause the words of Edith Moore are tersely descriptive: “The outcome was a terroristic regime which reinstated [Catholic] Church privilege.” (No Friend of Democracy, p. 15)

As noted under the subhead "Historical Background”, Spain was a necessary theft for geographic and propaganda purposes. Spain had a definite assignment, an integral part in the global plan for world domination. And the time ■was excellently ripe for her picking, which had been agreed upon from the beginning.

While this Spanish “rebellion” was being bloodily fought by Catholics who loved liberty, against Catholics who received Roman money for fratricide, the press of the world, also receiving Roman money or subsidy, told the dirtiest lies about the beleaguered republican (Loyalist) government. Further consideration' is given this protecting press barrage, covering' Nazi advance, under the subhead “Press Smoke-Screen of Collaboration”, in Part 2. Note merely at this point that the Hitlerian concordat was bearing fruit. Hitler and the pope were on the march!

(To be continued)

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“John l7:17

Sanctifying a New Creation

THE “new creation” has nothing whatsoever to do with the so-called “world of tomorrow” or the “new world order” proposed by the world’s leading politicians and backed up by all the religious clergymen. It is not man-made, but is what God makes out of one who cuts off all ties with this world organization and devotes himself in full consecration to Jehovah God and is begotten of the spirit of God. Christ Jesus, the only begotten Son of God, was the first to become a “new creature”, when begotten of the spirit of God, at His baptism in the Jordan river. Concerning His devoted followers, who are baptized not merely in water but also into the “body of Christ” as members of the church of which Jesus is Head, it is written: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.”—2 Corinthians 5:17,18.

The matter of who or what The Christ is was a mystery for thousands of years before the birth of the babe of Bethlehem. In due time it was revealed to the disciples of the one thus born that it is a company, made up of Jesus as Head and of the members of His church as the body. “For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.” (Romans 12:4,5) Those who are immersed into this body of Christ are thereafter anointed with the spirit of Jehovah God. —1 John 2: 20, 27.

Those who are thus anointed have the spirit of the Lord God and by virtue of His spirit are able to understand the mystery of The Christ and to appreciate the fact that they have the promise of being joint-heirs with Christ Jesus in His heavenly kingdom.. To be anointed means to be assigned to a place in the “body of Christ”. To the anointed it is written: “The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.” —Romans 8:16,17.

These new creatures in Christ, otherwise called the members of “his body”, must thenceforth be transformed and made into the image and likeness of their Head. On this point it is written: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” (Romans 8: 28, 29) Hence they must be sanctified. Sanctification means being set apart for the use of Jehovah God, which is a holy use. It means the process of making them suitable to be partakers of the “inheritance of the saints in light”, and is the process of perfecting the saints or holy ones toward God. (Ephesians 4:12) Such process begins w’hen Jehovah God accepts and begets the man or woman consecrating to Him through 'Christ Jesus; and it must continue until the resurrection unto life in the heavens.

Sanctification, then, means being made holy, in the likeness of the Lord Christ Jesus. Concerning such He said: “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” (John 17:17) The Christian now must feed upon or. study the Word of God, learn its principles, learn

of Jehovah God and of the Lord Jesus, and strive to conform his own life and work thereto. He now has set before him the hope of being made like the Lord Jesus in glory; and “every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he [the Lord] is pure”. (1 John 3:3) Note the sanctification is done by the word and power of the Lord. “Both i he who sanctifies and those whom he is sanctifying have all one Father; and for this reason he [the Lord Jesus] is not ashamed to speak of them as his brothers.” (Hebrews 2:11, Weymouth translation) Here we see the sanctifier is the Lord Jesus Christ, and those whom He is sanctifying are the members of His body; and all of these have one Father, Jehovah God; therefore all are of the one body, constituting the mystery of Christ.

Jehovah God and Christ Jesus are the Teachers unto divine wisdom and life eternal. It is only those who are under such instruction that can be sanctified and ultimately be a part of that glorious “body of Christ”, the heavenly kingdom class under Jesus, This mystery was hid from ages and generations and has been made known only to the saints, the holy spiritual children of God. So the apostle says, at Colossians 1: 24-27. “According to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, but now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.” (Romans 16: 25, 26) The mystery is “Christ in you, the hope of glory”. Those who are in Christ and who have the spirit of Christ in them have the glorious hope of being raised in the resurrection as members of the glorified body of Christ.

These are called to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ; and to them are given all the exceeding great and precious promises contained in the Word of God. They have the promise: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” (Colossians 3:4) “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”-—1 John 3:2.

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