Consolation, September 26, 1945

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Contents

Has Nazism Been Destroyed?

Ealange Directed by Nazi

Spain Was the Funnel

Deadly Danger to Freedom ■

, Most Bloody and Unscrupulous-

Bishop's Door Opened to Hitler

4 Effect of papal Alliance

Two Locomotives in One

The Mayans and the Basques

Carrots and Potatoes Thrown Away ’

Some Locust Visitations

"Thy Word Is Truth”

Hebrew Prophets and the State

Graduation Day at Gilead

A Headache, Then h Heartache

“Come Over into Macedonia”

“Defense Through Knowledge”

The Diplomas Distributed

Religion in Texas

Samples of Religious Bungling

Something Pretty Good

William Tyndale, Bible Translator and Martyr 26

A Splendid Translation

Tyndale’s Martyrdom

How Henry VIII Became a Protestant Prince 30

Eggs Galore

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God Is the Great Judge

♦ A touching story came in from Oklahoma. A poor woman, living with- a man who was not her husband, came in contact with the truth. She opened her home to a study of God's Word. She made good progress. After about two months she came to the point where she saw her duty of shutting out her man friend, and did so. He shot and killed her on the spot, and is now in prison awaiting trial. The account says:

I really believe she tried to clear up. Jesus said of those that try to walk in IIis steps that some of them would be killed. I could see that this poor woman, Ida, was craving a conscience right with God, and that that is the reason she now lies dead. She had read five of the most recent booklets. She leaves two little boys, a daughter and a grandchild to mourn her loss.—Kingdom publisher.

The Worst Offender Overlooked

♦ Ignoring religion, which all history shows is the very heart and soul of the Devil’s empire, the London Cavalcade said:

Behind the Nazi gangsters was an evil power which there have beeji as yet no proposals to touch—the banks, the industrialists, and land-owners. These exist in all countries; they are the foundations of a social system which, cannot function without war and which stands condemned before all men of good will by the two world wars it has made within a quarter of a century, by the millions of shattered lives and broken hearts.

Bill of Rights for Spain

♦ In Democratic countries, civil rights have always been won by years of struggle. Franco has once more demonstrated the greater efficiency of dictatorship by handing down to his people a readymade Bill of Bights. It grants them freedom of speech, provided they don’t disparage Fascism, and freedom of religion, provided they are Catholics. All they need now is a Bill of Rights.—The Nation.

CONSOLATION

“And in His name shall the nations hope.”—Matthew 12:21, A.5.V. ;

Volur'ne XXVI Brooklyn, N. ¥., Wednesday, September 26, 1945 Number 679

Has Nazism Been Destroyed?

SO FAR as Jehovah’s witnesses are concerned, Nazism never existed as a power capable of crushing them or the Godly work they are privileged to do. Years before Nazism ascended to power in Germany God’s people had learned that not national or even international governments were the “higher powers” to which Christians must be subject, but that this high title belongs only to Jehovah God and His King Christ Jesus. The leading article in the. previous issue-of Consolation showed the complete failure of Nazism to budge Jehovah’s witnesses from this Scriptural view of matters. All the horrors of the concentration camp could not shake them from alle-j gianee to the true Higher Powers in heaven. Neither was Nazism able to snuff out Hie righteous preaching work in which God’s witnesses were engaged, but the previous report showed it forging ahead. Nazism with its unrighteous decrees was always as a dead thing to Jehovah’s witnesses, so far as its influence upon their integrity and devotion to God was concerned.

The introductory paragraphs of the article in the previous issue showed an evil alliance between Nazism and the Vatican, and stated that the overwhelming weight of facts “convicts them [the Hierarchy] as the real Nazi collaborationists and totalitarianists”. But that line of argument was set aside in that article to allow consideration of the faithful endurance of Jehovah’s witnesses during concentration-camp tortures. In this present article, however, a portion of the great array of evidence con-3EPTEMBER 23, 1945 1 victing the Vatican as Nazi backers and collaborators is presented. As these proofs accumulate the question that is forced into one’s mind is, Since Nazism’s chief backer is still a going, prospering concern, how completely has Nazism been destroyed as a political force? What most Americans want to know is whether the destruction of Germany’s military power means the end of Nazism. Some fear that the underground, the ravages of hunger and disease, the devastation of homes, the chagrin of defeat, the bitterness of mourning, the general unrest, will keep the germ alive, perhaps making it active again. Others are distrustful of the parts played by certain rulers still participating in the politics of Europe: Leopold of Belgium, Victor Emanuel of Italy, Franco of Spain, De Valera of Southern Ireland, and Peron of Argentina. Even the head of a great religious organization still operates in Italy under the agreement he had with the Mussolini government.

A Forbidden Subject

As an interesting light upon the existence of strong Nazi-Fascist forces still dominant in Europe comes the Papal broadcast of June 2. The pope, speaking authoritatively for Catholics, opened up a subject that has been pretty much taboo in the press. Very little information has been permitted to the public concerning the closely guarded contract between the pope and Adolf Hitler. The Catholic population have been largely ignorant of its existence. But now that the pope himself has come forward with

a partial explanation of this agreement (concordat) with the one-time head of Nazi Germany, the subject can be considered even by Catholics themselves with full papal approval. The time is due, even overdue, for careful analysis of the part religion has played in the ■global fire of war; especially since religion remains a dominant factor in continental affairs.

However little the public has been informed, the operations of the pope and hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church have been forceful and widespread. A new generation of Americans will soon be mature, who have never heard that many high Catholic church officials of the United States, among them Cardinal Mundelein and Cardinal Dougherty, about fifteen years ago publicly acclaimed Mussolini; that Franco, Petain and Laval received high papal honors; that Japan received the pope’s recognition, the first pagan recipient in- history, after Pearl Harbor; that Catholic priests in such distant places as Argen-* tina, the Philippine Islands, Ireland and Mexico preached Nazism until they could no longer do so openly; that the present pope, then nuncio, spent twelve years in Germany prior to 1933, which years roughly coincided with the incubation period of Nazi-Fascism, and himself signed the concordat in 1933, making Catholicism, by Hitler’s agreement, the state church of Germany.

Propagandists think the people have short memories. It is their intention to erase past history, presenting themselves in the modern disguise of benefactors, their incriminating record being covered up. A recent example of this confidence in public forgetfulness is the following statement: “The Spanish foreign ministry issued an official denial today that the government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco had come to power with the aid of the Axis.” (San Diego Union, June 23, 1945) The account continues: “Answering charges to this effect made by a Mexican delegate to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, the ministry declared in a communique that the statement was both inexact and slanderous.” On the contrary, “the statement” is both exact and truthful, while its denial approaches the high-water mark. of modern propaganda lies. Franco’s record does no1 credit to the pope who knighted him.

Falange Directed by Nazi

As a matter of fact, the Falange, or Spanish Fascist party, was directed by Nazi General Wilhelm von Faupel, both in its organization and in its well-timed rebellion against the duly elected Spanish government in 1936. As late as February, 1944, Jose del Castano was still consul general for the Franco government in the Philippine Islands ; who had declared in repeated speeches: “Our Fascist brothers in Japan are-united with us'in the4common struggle. When they strike we must help them.” (Allan Chase’s Falange, page 14) Very tardily in the spring of 1945 the State Department expelled Del Castano on his arrival in San Francisco in May, because he ““repeatedly handed Jap military authorities a complete list of Americans in Manila whenythe enemy conquered the Philippines”. According to the Converted Catholic magazine, the Informaciones, Madrid organ of the Franco regime, commented upon the Pearl Harbor attack in this wise: “Japan has reached the limit of her patience. She could no longer tolerate the interference and the opposition of the United States ... We hope Manila will be saved for Christianity (Catholicism).” (Issue of February, 1944, page 35)

But long before this, Hitler had dispatched his Condor legion to fight with Franco, while Italian planes struck the Loyalist army at the outset of the Franco rebellion. It was only by much religious pressure that America and Britain were-prevented from sending aid to Free Spain’s Loyalists, and thus became spectators at the butchery of the

republic. Piven after this, New York’s Archbishop Spellman, in 1943, attempted to depict Franco as a saint with halo, in a.series of articles published in Colliers. Nevertheless, Americans in general are more apt to remember his title of Franco the Butcher, acquired chiefly by the murder of so many of his Catholic brethren and countrymen.

Spain Was the Funnel

Not only was the Franco government devised in Vatican City and Berlin, and actively" assisted into power, but Franco returned the compliment. Spain became the funnel for American shipments of oil and materiel to Germany; while her shores and isles furnished safe harbor and bases for the Nazi submarine scourge. These, together with hideouts protected by the De Valera Fascist of Eire, who was denounced by Churchill as playing with Nazis and Japs, caused Great Britain to lose two-thirds of her total shipping tonnage during the war. Also, as above noted, her embassies and consulates provided spy" headquarters for the Nazi Internationale. Indeed Franco Spain as the “Neutral” furnished greater strategic asset to the Nazi-Vatican City axis than her military power, debilitated as it was by more than three years of internecine strife.

Franco’s marriage to the Catholic Hierarchy, whose military7 and political arm is disguised under such names as Nazi, Fascist, Falange, and Catholic Action, blooms and honeymoons as of yore. "Recalling that 98 percent of the American Catholic clergy7 backed Franco, while the vast majority of Americans, Catholic laity7 and others, opposed the rebel, according to George Seldes’ Catholic Crisis, no one can read anything but enmity to the democracies in his latest move to replace pro-Allied Lequerica, enemy7 of the Falange party7. Cabinet member Lequerica’s place is to be filled by Arajo, president of the Catholic Action Organization, and accompanies a howl for the return of the.monarchy in the person of

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the late Alfonso XII’s Catholic son, Don Juan. Commenting upon this latest gesture of the Bloody Butcher, an editorial in the Atlanta Constitution (issue of July 21, 1945) fairly expresses the majority7 opinion in the United States:

It is hoped that no one will be taken in by this latest subterfuge of the Nazi stooge who now maintains a despotic rule over Spain. Ue came to power with Axis might. He furnished the notorious “Blue Division” which actively participated in Germany’s attempt at world domination. He allowed the Gestapo to make of Spain a hotbed of espionage. In short, he aided his mentor’s efforts in every possible way. .

. Inevitably, with such a record, Franco will sooner or later be liquidated. ITis utterly inconsistent play for monarchist support can hardly minimize the contempt in which he is held at home and abroad.

Catholics and the Hierarchy

The editor unquestionably voices the majority7 opinion of freedom-loving people everywhere. Unfortunately the majority opinion, either Catholic or Protestant, does not direct the course of Catholic Action. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy, which is the head of Catholic Action, does not confer with the Catholic population, nor does it concern itself with their opinion, as long as they can be dominated by7 deception and fear. In order to give them free rein to dispose of the lives of subject Catholics just as they wish, clerical responsibilities to the flock are said to concern only the flock’s “spiritual” welfare. Since the Bible proves that no one needs any spiritual ministrations after death, but that every man’s concern is his course of conduct while yet alive, the IIierarohy7’s contempt for Catholic life is sufficient condemnation in itself to cause investigation of other claims. The Catholic clergy7 themselves have thus created a vast gulf between their interests and those of the laity, who are constantly sacrificed without mercy to achieve those ends. Spain, and more recently Italy, furnished prov-

ing grounds of papal indifference to Catholic slaughter. By the Hierarchy they are simply counted as sheep for the slaughter, and therefore Jehovah counts the Hierarchy as bloodguilty, stained ' with the blood of the poor innocents.

—Jeremiah 2:34; 25:34.

Unfortunately again, too many accept 4he pope’s claim that he and his organization are exclusively concerned with the spiritual welfare of Catholics, and that the supreme pontiff, Pius XII, is strictly neutral toward belligerents. Proof of neutrality is said to be manifest by the appointment of Catholic chaplains in both Axis and United Nations armies, to encourage valiant fighting on both sides. But, in truth, is this not further proof of official contempt for Catholic life 1 If Catholic must fight Catholic, is the commander-in-chief of all Catholics compelled to spur on the slaughter by providing “spiritual cheer-leaders” for both sides ?

Deadly Danger to Freedom

Contrary to her claims of neutrality, Rome’s religious alliance with Fascism, and her undiminished power, since Hitler’s overthrow, threaten the deadliest danger to America’s war for freedom. It is the more dangerous because the United Nations continue to fraternize with it, even cordially embrace it. The reception of members of General Mark Clarke’s ’army by the pope should be compared with the cynical statement of a Vatican official that American conquest was merely a “changing of the guard”. (Life magazine) Optimists might also remember a former papal declaration of policy that the pope would deal with the Devil hiihself, if expedient.

Religion continues to push itself to the fore as an ally of Fascism. Few, perhaps, remember, so skillful are the methods of the propagandists, that Leopold was approved in his unpopular surrender to Germany by the Belgian cardinal, who represented the pope. This will explain why Catholic Leopold, while repudiated by the Belgians generally, is supported by the Catholic party. “Premier Van Acker charged he had trafficked with Adolf Hitler over the future of his country.” Nevertheless, a bill for referendum on Leopold’s return “introduced by Carton de Wiart, leader of the Catholic party, which is backing Leopold, was passed by a show of hands.” (Atlanta Constitution, July 21, 1945)

Looking back on the years of Nazi conquest, it is noteworthy that the pope has supported every outstanding Fascist, without exception. This statement does not except Hitler himself. Examination of the concordat consummated between ' Pacelli (now Pius XII), von Papen, and Hitler, the conclusion is inescapable that the Papacy had placed its hopes of world domination on the German juggernaut. This document, besides requiring of its clerics that allegiance be sworn to the German government, and that Catholicism become the state church with state support, expressly provided that edch appointed bishop could be inducted into office only after approval by the Hitler government.

Thereafter Catholics continued to fill the key positions in the Nazi Hierarchy; Hitler, the chancellorship, Goebbels, minister of propaganda, Himmler, chief of the Gestapo, later dubbed “Hangman”, and von Papen, "Satan in Top Hat” (title of Tibor Koeves biography), vice-chancellor, and diplomatic betrayer of other countries, honored as Papal chamberlain,—all went to mass and confessional.

The bitter Nazism of pro-Catholic countries burst its bounds when Portugal and Eire sent condolences to Nazi Germany when Hitler was reported dead. It cannot be conceived that Salazar and De Valera would have dared so brazen a move in the face of certain Nazi defeat had not Hitler been Catholic, and representative of the pope’s side of the issue. All unbiased historians agree that Hitler was baptized a Catholic, described himself in the German Who's Who as

“Catholic”, and on July 1,1933, he let it be officially proclaimed: “Reich Chancellor Hitler still belongs to the Catholic Church and has no intention of leaving it.” (Konrad Heiden’s Der Fuehrer, page 632) The same publication states; “One of the most dangerous agents of the Roman priesthood was Hitler himself.”

Moreover Hitler’s aims coincided with those of Catholic intriguers of the past century. This was true, because Hitler’s advisers even besides his cabinet were Catholic: General von Epp and von Schleicher among the military; Fritz Thyssen among the industrialists; Bishop Berning, of Osnabrueck, appointed Prussian state senator, “Father” Bernard Stempfle, “who rewrote and edited-. Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and Abbot Schach-leitner (from whom he was said to receive the sacrament) among the politicoreligious. Such men formulated the double papal aim: first to destroy German Protestantism, which came to political birth with the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648; and to re-establish the Holy Roman Empire. (How the Catholic Church Helped Hitler to Power, by J. J. Murphy, page 7)

As the Nazi legions swept over Europe each victim nation received a Catholic puppet ruler; Petain (the Papal “good marshal”, who sold out France), in France; “Father” Tiso, libertine priest, in Czechoslovakia; Seyss-Inquart, who served both in Holland and Austria; Antonescu in Rumania, which latter received high Papal honors.

It Is Folly to Ignore Danger

Despite these facts, well known in official circles, Americans prefer to think of Hitler as the indiscriminate foe of all religions. Of all large newspapers, only Izvestia, Russian government newspaper, boldly publicizes Vatican support of Nazism, and, characteristically, this brings forth a rebuke from the New York Times, the same Times that editorially denounced the Papacy in 1887. Still

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Americans wish to look on the bright side of things. Hitler, the nightmare, is gone. The Japanese have been bombed into unconditional surrender; then soon comes a long and shady avenue of peace, so they hope. Let not the picture be marred by the appearance of any unexterminated branches of Fascism. But however much one wishes to enjoy peaceful dreams, it is folly not to recognize danger, especially that disguised by the propagandists to resemble the champion of the people’s welfare. And, of all countries, it is America that most needs these facts repeated; because here the propagandist has so largely succeeded in smearing over the truth.

Since the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has key men on most large newspapers, on the radio, in the moving-picture industry, the present generation of Americans have heard nothing of the past atrocities committed in the name of religion. They know nothing of the Roman Catholic Inquisition, which kept the horror chambers and torture fires in operation for hundreds of years, and terrorized the world. They have heard nothing of the Rome that fed Christians to the lions in the religious arena, and as an eager-nostriled wolf, hunted down all men of all lands who dared defend the “heresy” of freedom! These pages have been torn from the history books. Today the press is given over to pictures of smiling priests, the heroic exploits of chaplains, the many suave words of the pope; while behind this public front, a facade of ‘irreproachable virtue’, lurks the wolf of Nazism. Look at the gleaming, yellow eyes, the jaws dripping with.blood! See the lips drawn back from the fangs, the dark splotches on the shaggy hide. Catch the stench of fiery breath! It is a killer, crouched in foul-smelling lair. It is horrible but not bad enough to illustrate religion’s crimes. For no wTolves have killed so many, nor so cruelly.

Religion is no stranger to atrocity. The most terrible deeds have had their inspiration in religious intolerance: the

massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day, in which the Catholic French queen snared and murdered thousands of her subjects because they were Protestants (Huguenots) ; the Spanish Inquisition, through the infamous Alba and Torquemada, general and priests, in which Europe was -^ravaged in seeking victims for sword and Tack; the Thirty Years’ War, ended by the Treaty of Westphalia, which Hitler vowed to destroy, which was waged between Catholics and Protestants; while the bitterest fanaticism and cruelty on the battle fronts is manifest by the most religious. Why- then, do Americans persist in thinking Hitler the foe of all religion because of his horror camps, Buchenwald, Belsen, Dachau? The beatings, starvation, lethal gas chambers, and human roasting ovens, had their inspiration in the “hell of torment” concocted by Catholic theologians; and their example, in the tortures practiced by the Inquisition. Religion, to its end, will never be divorced from bloodshed and cruelty.

What “Worse Evils"?

Why, then, reiterate the stupid cry, echoed from Jesuit priests, that Hitler’s crimes proved his enmity to religion? Since Hitler’s name is infamous, and since he also failed to establish the “Holy Roman Empire”, naturally the Catholic clergy would like to disown him, disavow any connection with him. Hence the pope’s “explanation” that the concordat with Hitler was made only to avoid “worse evils”. If the pope refers to Communism as a “worse evil”, then it is proof that he has not relinquished approval of Nazism. This assumes also that, according to the pope, there are “worse evils” than the horror camps, which were so bad that when pictures were recently shown to hardened Nazi generals, several turned pale, one became ill. (“Nazi Leaders Shaken by Horror Films,” Atlanta Constitution, July 23, 1945) A Papal “worse evil” must be more awful than millions impoverished, homeless, starving, and mourning for more millions in the burial trenches. A “worse evil’’ is undoubtedly the Nazi failure, and that the pope will never stop the effort to remedy.

Evidence of the unremitting Catholic backing of Nazism is disclosed by the very form of Catholic Church government. Consideration of the internal structure or organization of the greatest religious empire discloses the familiar form of Nazism. How so? Nazi-Fascism is a dictatorial rule which might be defined as a government of the Tew, by the few, and for the few. In it the common man has no voice. Similarly the Papal or Catholic Church government has a few high officials who formulate all policies, and issue all Instructions. The exalted nature of this executive body is magnified by their designation “hierarchy”, which literally means “sacred rulership”, the term “hierarchs” being applied by the poet Milton to a rank of angels. Modern writers indicate the corresponding likeness to the Hitler regime by using frequently the term “Nazi hierarchy”. Thus the child organization appears to closely resemble its Papal mother organization.

In the latter organization, the best-in-formed writers have remarked a change particular|y since the Lateran Treaty and Concordat of 1929 between the pope and Mussolini. It is generally agreed that this contract, which recognized Vatican City as an independent worldpower, established Catholicism as the, state church of Italy, as well as brought a handsome fortune of lire to the pontiff, marked the beginning of the great modern expansion of Catholic Church power. It was hailed throughout the earth by the forces of Catholic Action as divine favor and recognition of the “mother church”. Michael Williams, a strictly Catholic editor, in his Catholic Church in Action, confirms this (page 13), and the great non-Catholic authorities, Salvemini and La Piana^ in their What to Do with Italy, agree.

Most Bloody and Unscrupulous

That was an important day to the forces that should wreck the world! The . road was open for pushing a long-cherished ambition that had burned in the hearts of Jesuit zealots since their founding by Loyola in 1534. Then and now, says Lehmann: “The unchanging goal of the Catholic Church is the restoration of its status as the only legally, recognized church in Christendom.” (Vatican Policy in the Second World War, page 6) Among Catholic leaders who had few scruples, the Jesuit order surpassed in unscrupulousness; and among nations that trafficked in bloodshed the Jesuits outdid the bloodiest. And in keeping with an unparalleled record of deception and hypocrisy this group had assumed (in 1540) the name “Society of Jesus”. With control of the Catholic Church in the hands of the Jesuits, destruction was on the march!

Let this brief description of Jesuitism suffice to show the character of the organization that had regained the saddle of authority in the vast autocracy claiming 350,000,000 souls. The wheel within the dynamo of Catholic power was whipping up velocity, wilder, no doubt, by reason of former years of setback. Impelled by Jesuit crimes of treachery and murder, France, Spain, Portugal, and other countries, had driven them out even before they were suppressed by the pope himself, in 1773. This was probably the last great triumph of the liberal elements within the Catholic Church. Thereafter the order was restored by Pope Pius VII, in 1821. (It had been established in the United States in 1807, repaying the courtesy later, according to several historians, by plotting Lincoln’s assassination.) Under modern popes the Jesuits have been unhampered in bringing the European pot to a boil. Jesuit-directed Pope Pius XI raised a standard or rallying cry for Nazi-Fascism within the advancing church militant, calling it Catholic Action. Lehmann, above quoted, describes the phenomenon which was erupting within the councils of Catholicism :

Few American observers of the European scene were conscious of the fact that, side by side with the rise of Fascism in the political and social sphere, a like Fascist setup arose within the Catholic Church. This latter setup, the creation of the same Pope Pius XI, was called Catholic Action, which must not be confused with ordinary Catholic activity, but which was a specially created corporate entity integrating all Catholic activity in the hierarchy centered in turn, in the Vatican. People in America did not see it in this light, because their vision was obscured by mere surface events, which were the necessary corollary of all Fascist action, both in politics and religion, namely, a brutal purge of antiFascist members within the Church itself. [Vatican Policy in the Second World War, page 13]

Of course, this was not accomplished without a struggle. Not a few Catholics lost their lives in the fomentation and uproar before all dissenting voices were silenced. The same writer continues:

These facts were erroneously confused in America with what was called “Hitler’s fight against the Churches”. The American public did not see that Hitler, in persecuting and eliminating the anti-Fascist elements of the Roman Catholic Church, was acting parallel with, and aiding and abetting the Jesuitical element within the Church that wished to bring about the same result. [Page 13]

Just how painstakingly the Jesuit model was followed by Hitler is further emphasized by .Lehmann:

There is no doubt that the idea of totali-tarianizing the entire body of a nation by the ruthless intolerance of a controlling organism within the greater organization was taken from the Jesuit setup in the Catholic Church. Hitler specially lauds this intolerant Jesuit setup in the Catholic Church in his Mein Kampf, and instructed his National-Socialist [Nazi] party to make it their model. [Page 15]

Uncompromising Destroyers

The whole Roman Catholic Church was thus moved, actuated and controlled by a small group of uncompromising (intransigent) destroyers, breathing fire and doom to all opponents in the way of world conquest. These facts are set forth with care because it is felt that the in* quiring mind will want to know how it happens that an organization with many .worthy members in its population could $et forth on a course so depraved. It is again repeated, that Fascism, the rule by a few, may carry a whole nation, as in Germany, or a whole empire, as in the Boman Catholic Church, in what gives the appearance of national or imperial madness. Good Germans did npt stop Hitler, nor will good Catholics stop the aggressions of the Boman Catholic Church under Jesuit control.

The Jesuit pattern of clearing out the less rabid among the clergy was followed in Germany in dissolving the liberal Catholic Center Party, just as the Catholic Popular Party in Italy had been dissolved by the pope to make way for Fascism. Some mistook this purge as a persecution of the Boman Catholic Church. Others point out that monks were tried under the Hitler regime for seducing young boys and committing other sex crimes; that Austrian and German priests were tried for smuggling money out of the country; that sopie were tried for harboring “communists”; and that Dr. Klausener, head of the Catholic Center Party, was assassinated in Hitler’s blood purge of June 30,1934. But no one has ever pointed out a single instance where a Catholic has been attacked or persecuted by Hitler simply because he was a Catholic. The Catholic churches which had not been accidentally bombed were still operating when the Allied armies penetrated Germany, and the Nazis called on them to the last moment to bolster morale. Where is any instance of harm done to a Catholic because of his religion ?

By way of comparison consider the outrages done to Jehovah's witnesses in Germany because they served Jehovah. “Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name’s sake.” (Matthew 24: 9, Am. Stan. Ver.} Treatment of them likewise discloses Hitler’s adoption of Catholic Action.

Signing of the Concordat

In Germany the signing of the Concordat of 1933, establishing Catholicism as the .state church, marked the end of religious toleration of any active opposition. For example, Masonry was driven to the underground; Jewish pogroms or riots encouraged, and liberality of any sort purged, as far as possible, from the Third Beich. This process followed generally what had begun in Italy somewhat previously and resembled the Jesuit pattern of all time. In line with this program Papal procedure demanded specifically the extermination of Jehovah’s witnesses. The Boman Catholic source of this order, long after most of Jehovah’s witnesses were either dead or in prison, is exposed by a declaration by Hitler quoted in The German Way: “I consider them quacks; I do not tolerate that the German Catholics be besmirched in such a manner by this American 'Judge’ Butherford; I dissolve the ‘Earnest Bible Students’ in Germany; their property I dedicate to the people’s welfare; I will have all their literature confiscated.”

■ Manifestly this terrible assault upon law-abiding Christians, who willingly endured all things to hold unblemished their worship of the sinless Nazarene, was, even as the death of their Leader, directly chargeable to Borne’s decree. The words of the Gestapo reiterate the ancient taunt, to wit: “Who is Jehovah?”

This early persecution caused quite a stir among Christians throughout the world. The Golden Age magazine (the name of the publication later changed to Consolation),in its issue of April 25,1934, details the seizing of the Watchtower properties in Magdeburg, valued at more than half a million dollars, in April 1933, and vicious persecution of Jehovah’s witnesses in the fall of 1933, after Hitler’s concordat with the Vatican in July. More than 500 gospel preachers were arrested in the province of Saxony and placed in concentration camps, charged generally with the crime of refusing to “Heil Hitler”. Bible literature was destroyed by the thousands in a manner typical of the Roman Catholic Inquisition. To the beatings and torture of the witnesses was added much reviling and insult to the name of Jehovah. The faithful were called “evildoers”, “parasites of the state,” “traitors,” and mockingly “disciples of Jehovah,” “idiots of Jehovah.” Page 681 recounts a cruel case of persecution in which the Gestapo taunted: “Jehovah has written us a letter that you miserable creatures shall be shooted.”

Bishop’s Door Opened to Hitler

In the same town of Magdeburg, where the Society’s headquarters had been seized, the Catholic bishop was so pleased over events that the bishop’s door of the Cathedral of Saint Maurice and Saint Catherine was opened to Hitler, the first time it had been opened in 410 years—since the days of Luther. (The Golden Age, Vol. 15, page 749) Meanwhile the pope was gleefully celebrating “Holy Year” (1933).

The furnace of Catholic persecution of Christians because they-served Jehovah belched forth. The 1938 Yearbook of Jehovah's witnesses (page 135) revealed that 'almost all of Jehovah’s witnesses are held in prison or concentration • camps. It is impossible to conceive of such wickedness and cruelty as now exists there’.

A little more information began to leak out of the lands of the Inquisition, as shown by the entries in the 1939 Yearbook. In Germany some of Jehovah’s witnesses “were murdered and more than 6,000 are kept in prisons and concentration camps”. (Page 133) Denunciations termed them “Communists” and the Watchtower Society was greatly slandered, “Brother George Franzen was sentenced to two years and a half and a thousand marks’ fine. Later the Gestapo stated: 'The fellow .still believes in his Jehovah.’ ” “Brother Karl Kirsch was murdered by being beaten to death.” . . . “Gestapo agent Theiss at Dortmund . . . publicly boasted that he had beaten up 150 witnesses.” “Other newspapers stated that Jehovah’s witnesses, regardless of the most severe punishments, cannot be kept from serving their God and that they continue to refuse to “Heil Hitler’.” (Pages 149-151) No word came that year from Italy.

Still worse is the news from Germany published in the 1940 Yearbook: “Jeho-' vah’s witnesses to the name of the Most High have suffered in that land probably more than in any other place on earth in modern times ...” Among a long list of atrocities described, this one is typical: “One night the Nazis beat [one witness] thrice into unconsciousness.” (Pages 146-148) This treatment recalled one of the favorite Nazi practices of torture. A victim was beaten or tormented ■ until he mercifully lost consciousness, then revived with cold water and the process repeated. Coronet, June, 1945, relates the similar horrors of the Oswiecim murder camp. Here prisoners were forced to run barefooted on sharp gravel until they fainted; then doused under the pump so that suffering returned. The “Camp of Disappearing Men” (title), where wounds never healed, was complete with its lethal gas chamber, so' popular with the “master race”.

Effect of Papal Alliance

Italy calls forth this comment for the year: “Particularly since the open alliance between the Vatican and Mussolini the totalitarian state of Italy has made it practically impossible for any of Jehovah’s witnesses-to exist.” (Page 156)

Yearbook 1941. In Germany executions increased. Typical of the unrestrained Inquisition is the following: 'We learn that a witness of Jehovah was

ill-treated at various times by receiving 25 times 25 strokes. . . . This terrible treatment caused him to become a physical wreck. He is not'able to hold his body upright.’ (Page 179) In Italy, the sister states, about 150 brethren were arrested and given sentences of many years’ ‘jienal servitude. Nearly aH these were taken to Rome, where the persecutors “mocked at the name of Jehovah, saving, 'Who is God'?’” '

Yearbook 1942. 'In Germany there are more than 6,000 devoted ones who to this day linger behind prison walls and in concentration camps and who refuse to compromise under torture. . . . Nothing can be said at the moment as to the number of those shot or guillotined, but their number may be said to go into many hundreds. . . . Most of the brethren in Italv are still in banishment.’ (Pages 167/170, 171) .

The distressed brother who sent in the report on Germany takes heart from the Scriptural admonition: “Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Eord.”—1 Thessalonians 3 : 7, 8.

The 1943 Yearbook still found a faithful remnant in Germany and Italy who continued under stress to stand for worship of the Most High. Nor had they lost hope; for it is stated: “The brethren in Germany firmly expect a speedy bursting of the fetters.” (Pages 157-158)

The 1944 Yearbook contains the last news of Germany before the great American thrust of liberation; ani) if is touching indeed. Strangely, this information was not received directly from any of Jehovah’s witnesses there, but came through an article published in the Christian Science Monitor, published in Boston, Massachusetts. This journal appears to have been relayed some facts from inside Germany, and says this of Jehovah’s witnesses there: “These simple folk seem most simple in their faith. Recently, seven of them were executed. The executions were marked by the unusual sight of the condemned men’s wives begging them not to sign a renunciation of their faith which might have brought them a pardon.” ”

The account continues with the statement that despite the most vicious persecution the witnesses in Germany are “growing up like mushrooms”. Remarking that Rudolph Hess’ flight to England left the Nazis without their chief persecutor of Jehovah’s witnesses, a paragraph follows having prophetic significance : “A large number of Germans who are not sympathetic with the Bible Students [Bibelforscher, Jehovah’s witnesses] themselves, however, do not approve of Nazi tactics of suppression. They are inclined to defend the members of the group as martyrs for conscience, and to believe that the arrests and executio'ns are a sign of Germany's rapid progress toward the abyss!’ (Pages 130, 13.1. See also The Watchtower, November 15, 4.943, p. 349.)

Made No Bones About It

During these years of Nazi supremacy, the Hierarchy made no hones about supporting Hitler.-For many years Consolation published the facts proving the close alliance, two issues (Nos. 501, 502, 1938) containing the significant article “Jesuitized Germany”. The current newspapers contained pictures of Hitler in St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, doing homage to a papal representative, and one bold photograph shows the Swastika flying over the Cologne Cathedral. The Roman Catholic bishops at their yearly conclave at Fulda reiterated loyalty to Nazi’s fuehrer, the declaration in 1939 published in the New York Times being typical: “In this hour we [Catholic bishops] admonish out Catholic soldiers to do their duty in obedience to the Fuehrer and to be ready to sacrifice their whole individuality.” (Consolation, December 13, 1939) Nor was any change of policy indicated the next year, because, on June 5, 1940, shortly after Democracy’s darkest hour at Dunkerque, Hitler, ordered all

church hells rung in celebration, and the command was freely obeyed. (Consolation of January 22, 1941, quoted news dispatches of the time.)

This review of politico-religious history has been attempted especially for the young people of today, who cannot estimate the present developments without knowledge of what has gone before. Such knowledge the Hierarchy has made difficult to get. Moreover, the seeker for truth is constantly barraged with the epithet: “Hitler was the enemy of.all religions, and fought the Catholic Church as well as Jews and everybody else." Failing to understand a complicated decade, this simple explanation is welcome to most.

But the quality of an argument is never improved by repetition! Repetition of a falsehood, moreover, becomes most dangerous when the truth is withheld. The advertiser relies on repetition ; the propagandist as well. Hence, let the inquirer be on guard, comparing the facts recounted with the future conduct of the H ierarchy, observing particularly their support of Fascist monarchs. Editorial writers are generally loath to examine religious affiliations, even when they are non-Catholic. Consequently the public is left to stumble over all the lies of propaganda tirelessly manufactured by Jesuit-Fascists.

Lulled to Sleep

They are now lulled to sleep by the conviction that Nazism is almost destroyed. The press is full of the releases from Buchenwald, Belsen, and "Dachau, whose dungeons have poured forth emaciated prisoners gauntly inspiring revenge. Gardelen, where a warehouse full of victims were gunned and burned, has been opened to relieve the smell of rotting flesh. Nordhausen, the underground factory where 20,000 workmen died, now cracked by Allied might, holds les miserable# no more. The slaves are having their inning against the keepers, such as sadist Joseph Kramer, head torturer of

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Belsen, “'where 60,000 prisoners were mostly ‘worthless Jews’; but, nevertheless, he treated them very well; only about 9,000 died monthly/’ (Life, May 14, 1945)

The public also observes that the German personnel has suffered a smashup. Key figures in the diabolical structure have been dropped: Catholic Goebbels, rat-faced spreader of poison propaganda, said to have suicided; Hangman Himmler, Catholic chief of the Inquisition, now' called the Gestapo, suicided; Reichsniarshal Goering, facing trial; von Greim, his successor, suicided. The military have been taken: von Runstedt, bloody leader of the Ardennes breakthrough; von Friedeburg, now liquidated; Doenitz, director of the submarine scourge; Horthy, Bittmar, and Kyssel-ring, who once guarded Vatican City against Italian patriot assault. The round-up -caught the great Nazi industrialists so necessary to the war machine: Weiss, Krupp'of the famous Essen armaments factory, and Houdrement, who invites a repetition of American folly by his statement, “Krupp needs U. S. loan to rebuild.” (Life, May 14, 1945) The “lesser rats' from Nazi sew’ers”, such as ; gauleiters Forster of Danzig, and Hugo Jury, former “social welfare minister” of the notorious Catholic Seyss-lnquart government of Austria, have fallen into Allied hands; also English traitor William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), Norway’s Quisling, and Julius Streicher, Jew-baiter. And the mop-up continues.

It is the worst defeat in German history. A recent publication stated that 850,000 of Berlin’s million and a half homes had been destroyed. It was estimated that it would take fifty years to rebuild. Only three large cities remain intact, Leipzig, Weisbaden, and Heidel-burg. Nuremburg and "Munich, smashed into masses of-wreckage, are ghost cities. Cologne, Coblenz, Frankfort, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and Essen, to mention only a few, fared little better. Germany is a defeated land, her cities crushed, her

people stunned, frightened, and servile. (San Diego Union, May 9, 1945; Tribune Sun, June 4, 1945, article by Janies Kil-gallen)

Bas Nazism Fallen?

It is easy to jump to the conclusion that Nazism has fallen with Germany. * Many Americans even go farther and claim that what happened to Hitler was punishment by the Lord because of his attack on religion. But the Scriptures show that Jehovah will make a complete end of wickedness at Armageddon, and no remnants will be left to kindle another fire of devastation: “And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. , . . when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by, it.” (Isaiah 28:17,18, Am. Stan. Ver.) The Lord’s “scourge” will take only the wicked, wherever they be, and leave untouched the humble ones who seek His protection.

Until Jehovah does fight Armageddon, Nazism will continue to raise its ugly , head. The puppets Mussolini and Hitler have gone,'but their creator, the Jesuit Hierarchy, have trained substitutes with many adherents even in the United States. If at any time Hitler had really fought the “mother church”, a cry from the pope of “Matricide”, such as saved Rome, would have brought swift vengeance. Moving behind a “refuge of lies”, the Hierarchy 'is as swift, direct and deadly ifi action as it is devious and long-winded in words. Excommunication of Hitler (cutting off from all contact from the Catholic church and all relation with Catholics) or interdict against the Nazi government (as was imposed on the Mexican Liberal government in 1929, which denied them all church rights, including burial), would probably have been passed up in favor of the “blood purge”. Assassination has often been the Jesuit weapon of vengeance. Any real insubordination would have brought the fuehrer's end before now.

The whole unreasonableness of any fight between Hitler and the Catholic Church is summed up in the admission of Catholic Kalgergi-Coudenove: “Catholicism is the Fascist form of Christianity. The Catholic Hierarchy rests fully and securely on the leadership principle with an infallible pope in supreme command for a lifetime.” (Quoted from Lehmann’s Vatican Policy in the Second World War, first page of introduction) Therefore be not deceived; the Hierarchy is Nazism’s greatest promoter and exponent. As long as she exists Nazism will be forcefully represented.

Two Locomotives in One

THE newPennsylvaniaRailroad steam locomotives, intended to haul 125 loaded cars at speeds in excess of 50 miles an hour, weigh, with their tenders loaded, a grand total of 1,028,000 pounds, and they are really two locomotives in one. Four cylinders are used, of which the front two drive two pairs of driving wheels, and the second two provide the power for three pairs of driving wheels. There is a four-wheel leading truck, and a four-wheel trailer truck incorporating a booster engine to provide extra starting power. The tender has 16 wheels. Roller bearings are used on all axles.

The locomotive and tender is 124 feet 7 inches long over-all and stands 16 feet 5 inches high. The tender will carry 40 tons of coal and 19,000 gallons of water, with provisions for scooping up additional water on the run. The driving wheels are 69 inches in diameter. Steam pressure is 300 pounds to the square inch.

The Mayans and the Basques

THE University of California has been broadcasting a series of informative talks over San Francisco radio station KGO, and in one of these it recently mentioned that when Yucatan was invaded by Spanish priests in the days of Cortez, they found natives that believed their ancestors had come from the east; others, from the far north.

It may well be that both traditions are correct. While it is quite well established that the Indians of both North America and South America are, in the main, descendants of Mongolians that followed the Japanese current around the coasts of Alaska, British Columbia and the western coasts of North America and South America, the Mayans of Yucatan are more recent arrivals. There are certain words of the Mayan tongue that are to be found in the language of the Basques, those highly intelligent citizens of the northern coast of Spain. Basque fishermen may have preceded both Leif Ericson and Christopher Columbus and left no records of their exploits. Intermarriage with the Indians would sufficiently account for the swarthy color of the skins of the presentday Mayans of Yucatan.

Carrots and Potatoes Thrown Away

A CALIFORNIA subscriber writes, "I was at one time an ardent supporter of the two political issues, ‘Ham and Eggs’ and ‘$60.00 at 60 years’, until one day I read the book Salvation and learned that only God through His great Theocratic Kingdom can ever bring the desired blessings to this earth. Now, by the Lord’s grace, I and my family of four are ambassadors for that Kingdom.”

The writer sends two issues of a publication put out by the Payroll Guarantee Association. The first contains a picture of 200 sacks of carrots dumped by the side of the road. The second contains a picture of 20,000 tons of potatoes that were bought by the government at $1.65 per hundred weight. After being spread out to dry they will be sold as stock feed at 30c per hundred. Maybe you cannot figure out how the governnient ean buy potatoes at $1.65 and work them over and sell them at a profit for 30c. But you don’t know the government. They, the politicians, toil not, neither do they spin, yet the farmers, in all their industry, are not arrayed like one of these.

Some Locust Visitations

IN RUSSIA a traveler between Moscow and the Crimea once found the ground so covered with locusts for 400 miles that driving over them was like crossing freshly plowed earth.

One mass of locusts crossing the Red sea covered an area of 2,000 square miles; and a single invasion of locusts in Kenya, East1 Africa, did $1,500,000 worth of damage. '

Palestine is often visited. Reports from there are that when the locusts get into a garden everything in. it is completely destroyed. When they enter a vineyard, they leave nothing but bare bark. When they attack a fig tree the trunk is so covered with male crawlers as to make it a bright yellow, but within a day the tree is completely stripped of foliage, the bark is eaten off the topmost branches and the smallest limbs are sawed off completely.

'ThyWORD is Truth"

“John 17:17

Hebrew Prophets and the State '

THE religious clergy of “Christendom” claim that their position in relation to the political state in which they live is the same as that of the Hebrew prophets in relation to the Jewish kingdom of Israel, or is so closely like thereto that it is practically the same. Upon this they base their claim for taking part in the political affairs of the day. Indeed, they do more than this; they insist upon political activity as part of their duty as ministers and representatives of God and Jesus Christ in the earth. They further insist that it is not only , the privilege but the duty of every man who would style himself a “Christian”, and over whose spiritual interests they in any way rule, to do likewise. Politics, say they, is to be considered as “part of the Christian’s religion”.

Rome’s Hierarchy determines the politics of its people; it tells them what they must do in all phases of life. The Greek church would do the same; the Anglican church gives liberty in theory, but does not do so in practice, for the parson would order his parishioners to put themselves under the political direction of the squire. It is in great measure because the Free Churches have had to fight for their life against the greater systems, that they have tried to inculcate the dogma of liberty of conscience among their people. They have, in theory at least, desired that “their peoples” should not be under the control of those great church powers against whose influence and doctrine they themselves have,pro-tested. They have rightly declared that the union of church and state as in England and in Russia in the days of the czars is contrary to God’s Word. But their attitude,- however right it was in its conception in such particular cases, is in practice proved to be unreal; for there have been no more ardent politicians than the preachers and the principal members of their flocks. They have not had the power to direct the affairs of the state; but they have tried to gain their ends by means of the ballot box.

We ask, Is the claim of the clergy a good one? Does the Bible give them any warrant for it? The right answer is that their claim has no sanction in the Scriptures, and that in this matter there is no likeness between the Hebrew prophets and the religious clergy of the present day. Let us say more, namely, that there is no true similarity between the clergy of “Christendom’s” religious organizations and the Hebrew prophets; but a similarity may be seen between them and the false prophets 'who professed to speak to Israel in the name of Jehovah, though they had no commission from Him. The clergy of the religious sects _and cults profess to be called of God and to be separated to Him as the Hebrew prophets were; but their claim is false. They are either self-appointed or are the appointees of a purely human system, and they take their position before men absolutely without divine ordination or authority or privilege.

In order to get the true viewpoint, the special relationship between the people of Israel and their kingdom and Jehovah must be taken into account. The Israelites were God’s chosen people; and the kingdom was God’s own kingdom. The nation of Israel was a chosen people to himself; and Palestine, the land of their inheritance, was God’s own land in this special sense. Although all the earth was His, yet all except this portion which He reserved for himself He had given to the children of men. He preserved Canaan that it might be a place of inheritance for His chosen people for the time being during this wicked world. —Deuteronomy 7:1,6.

The laws of the people given at Mount Sinai through Moses, to enable them to live a communal life in good fellowship with each other and before God, were Jehovah God’s own laws. That law made no provision for a constitution as commonly conceived in “Christendom”, The law and its commandments were sufficient for all needs. No other arrangement would have been necessary if the people had kept the law. Israel’s government was a typical Theocracy, and not an autocracy or a democracy. But when the time came that God, in response to a cry from Israel to be made like their neighbors round about, gave them a king, then the king ■fras His anointed king, His appointee. Hence in the ease of King David, he was specially said to sit upon the throne of the Lord Jehovah. (1 Chronicles 29:23) Thus the land was God’s, the people were His, and the king was His, also. Where do any of the nations today have such position?

Later Israel’s kings^ became as other rulers and many were no longer shepherds of God’s flock. The people lost sight of their special position as before God, and became as one of the Gentile nations. Although proud of their separateness in the facts of past history, Israel outwardly tried to conform to the Gentile ideas. Under such circumstances God raised up His servants the prophets to witness both to the people and to their kings as to their wrong course. As the kings, the chief priests, and the principal men of the people were those who directed the affairs of the nation, very frequently the prophets were sent to speak to them. Thus Isaiah was God’s messenger to the kings of Judah, Uzziah, Amon, and Hezekiah; and thus Elijah was God’s messenger to King Ahfib, and Jeremiah to the kings of Judah in his day. '

The prophets also were messengers to the people, speaking the things that God gave them, in order that they might be -brought to a sense of their responsibility. They were God’s messengers to tell of the wrong conditions which obtained, and to point the people to the requirements of the divine law. The prophets were not politicians in the accepted sense; they were messengers of Jehovah.

“And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel.”—Ezekiel 3:16,17.

Now it must be said that in no respect have the nations of “Christendom” ever had any such relationship to Jehovah God as Israel enjoyed in the days of old. The fact is patent to all that at no time has there been a kingdom outside of Israel that fias professed to be ruled and governed by the principles of the teaching of Christ. “Christendom” is Christian in name only. Nor has God regulated her affairs or in any way interfered with them or at any time sent any messenger to the courts of “Christendom”. The simple fact is that all the nations of the world have been under the control of Satan the Devil, whom the Scriptures call “the god of this world”. (2 Corinthians 4:4; John 14:-30) The claim of the religious clergy that it is their business to act toward the political powers of this world as'the prophets of old did to’ Israel, and that they should help to regulate the affairs of the kingdom, is false and is positively harmful and a reproach to God’s name in that it has led “Christendom” to believe that this muddle of national policies and prejudicesis in some way God’s kingdom.

Jehovah’s witnesses today know it is no part of their duty to meddle in politics or to start anything that would even appear to be in opposition to worldly governments. Their business is to witness to all mankind that God is inviting the people of good-will to allegiance to His heavenly King; and to the fact that the present worldly setup is not of God but is of man and has been erected chiefly through the misleading teachings of the Babylonish religious clergy who have been unfaithful to the professions.

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