AMERICAN EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED
“For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest
paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan beneath the
yoke imposed on them by men who in very large part are strangers to the real
interests of the country. We recognize that many others were deceived by
fallacious hopes. We blame only the system with its authors and abettors who
considered Russia the best prepared field for experimenting with a plan
elaborated years ago, and who from there continue to spread it from one end of
the world to the other.” (Encyclical Letter of Pius XI, Divini
Re-demptoris, on Atheistic Communism)
REV. DENIS FAHEY, C.S.Sp.
Reprint by Roger LeBlanc
– April, 2010
THE RULERS OF RUSSIA
AMERICAN
EDITION
THIRD
EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED
By
REV. DENIS FAHEY, C.S.SP., D.D., D.PH., B.A.,
Professor
of Philosophy and Church History
Holy Ghost Missionary College, Kimmage, Dublin.
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FOREWORD
TO THE THIRD EDITION.
In his well-known book, Genive contre la Paix, pp. 83-92, Count de St-Aulaire, former
Ambassador of France at Madrid and London, gives an interesting account of a “lecture”
on the Mission of Israel amongst the nations, by a Jewish banker of New York.
The “lecture” was “delivered” at an international dinner at Buda-Pesth in 1919,
only a few days after the collapse of the Judaeo- Bolshevist domination of
Bela-Kuhn over Catholic Hungary. The Count explains, by way of introduction,
that a number of Jewish revolutionaries, who had been expelled from Hungary,
had returned there in American uniforms after the armistice, and that their
reports guided President Wilson in his attitude towards all that concerned the
interests of Israel. This explains in particular, adds the Count, the President’s
scandalous partiality towards the Bolsheviks. In reply to the question how it
was possible for high finance to favor Bolshevism, which is hostile to
property, movable and immovable, the Jewish banker began by explaining that those
who are astonished at the alliance between Israel and the Soviets forget that
the Jewish nation is the most intensely national of all peoples and that
Marxism is simply one of the weapons of Jewish nationalism. Capitalism is
equally sacred to Israel, which makes use of both Bolshevism and Capitalism to
remold the world for its ends. The process of renovation of the world is thus
carried on from above by Jewish control of the riches of the world and from
below by Jewish guidance of revolution. Israel has a divine mission, Israel has
become its own Messiah, and Israel is God to them. Israel is purifying the idea
of God and at the same time preparing the way for the definitive triumph of the
chosen race. Thus, the banker concluded, Jewish power of organization is
manifested at one and the same time by Bolshevism with its delirium of
destruction and by the League of Nations in the sphere of reconstruction.
The
“lecture” given by this Jewish banker came back to my mind when I learned that
the information given in the document quoted by me, briefly on page 27 of this
pamphlet and at length on pages 88-91 of The
Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, had
been called in question in New York. It occurred to me that he might be asked
to repeat the “lecture” in public and thus enlighten my critics far more
effectively than I could hope to do. Accordingly, I asked the well-known
authority on Judaeo-Masonic subversive activities, M. L. de Poncins, to find
out from the Count de St-Aulaire if he had taken note of the name of the
banker. The Count courteously replied that he had not done so, but he added
that the “lecture” being the expression of the mentality not of an individual
but of a group, every Jewish banker of New York would have said exactly the same
in a moment of sincerity.” (Letter of 19th March, 1939)
Proximate
Preparations of the Russian Revolution
I
intend to examine the whole question at length in a book upon which I am
engaged, The Mystical Body of
Christ and the Organization of Society. For the moment,
I will content myself with quoting a few documents that are not as well known
as they ought to be. One is the secret report received by the Imperial Russian
General Headquarters from one of its agents in New York. This report, dated
February 15th, 1916, was made known to the world by the Russian writer, Boris
Brasol in his book, The World at the Cross
Roads.
It runs in part as follows:
“The
Russian Revolutionary Party of America has evidently resumed its activities. As
a consequence of it, momentous developments are expected to follow. The first
confidential meeting which marked the beginning of a new era of violence took
place on Monday evening, February 14th, 1916, in the East Side of New York
City. It was attended by sixty-two delegates, fifty of whom were ‘veterans’ of
the revolution of 1905 — the rest being newly admitted members. Among the delegates were a large percentage of
Jews, most of them belonging to the intellectual class, as doctors, publicists,
etc., but also some professional revolutionists . .
. The proceedings of this first meeting were almost entirely devoted to the
discussion of finding ways and means to start a great revolution in Russia as
the ‘most favorable moment for it is close at hand.’ It was revealed that
secret reports had just reached the party from Russia, describing the situation
as very favorable, when all arrangements for an immediate outbreak were completed. The
only serious problem was the financial question, but whenever this was raised,
the assembly was immediately assured by some of the members that this question
did not need to cause any embarrassment as ample funds, if necessary, would be
furnished by persons in sympathy with the movement of liberating the people of
Russia. In this connection the name of Jacob Schiff was repeatedly mentioned.”
Mr. Boris Brasol adds, on
pages 70 and 71 of the same work:
“The full history of the
interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international
finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet written … It is not
a mere coincidence that at the notorious meeting held at Stockholm in 1916,
between the former Russian Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, and the
German Agents, the German Foreign Office was represented by Mr. Warburg, whose
two brothers were members of the international banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb and
Company, of which the late Mr. Jacob Schiff was a senior member.”
Robert Wilton’s List of
the Rulers of Soviet Russia
An eye-witness of
exceptional value of all the events of the Russian Revolution is Robert Wilton,
the Russian correspondent of The
Times for seventeen years. Born in England but educated in
Russia, he knew Russia like a Russian. During the war, this correspondent of The Times, on one
occasion in 1916, took command of a section of the Russian army, of which the
officers had been wounded, and behaved with such gallantry that he was
decorated with the Cross of St. George. It was the first time that this
exclusively military distinction had been conferred upon a civilian. In the
Foreword to his French book, Les
Derniers Jours des Romanof, from which I am about to quote,
Robert Wilton says, that in order to ensure the accuracy of the work, he
himself translated from Russian into French the official reports and original
documents confirming his narrative. “I have done all in my power,” he adds, “to act as an
impartial chronicler.”
The list of names of the Rulers of Russia in 1918, which I am about to quote,
is taken from pages 136-137 of this painstaking French study of the Russian
Bolshevik Revolution. It is a noteworthy fact that this list is not to be found
in the English edition of the same work, The
Last Days of the Romanovs, published in September, 1920, by
Thornton Butterworth.
According
to the English review, The Patriot, of
20th February, 1930, after Robert Wilton had written in 1920:
“The
Jewish domination in Russia is supported by certain Russians . . . they are all
mere screens or dummies behind which the Sverdlovs and the thousand and one
Jews of Sovdepia continue their work of destruction. His chances in English journalism were gone.
It is a well-known fact that he died in straitened circumstances in January,
1925.”
On
page 29 of Les Derniers lours des
Romanof,
we read:
“In
order not to leave myself open to any accusation of prejudice, I am giving (on
pages 136-137) the list of the members of the Central Committee, of the
Extraordinary Commission and the Council of Commissars functioning at the time
of the assassination of the Imperial Family, The 62 members of the Committee
were composed of 5 Russians, 1 Ukrainian, 6 Letts, 2 Germans, 1 Czech, 2
Armenians, 3 Georgians, 1 Karaim (Jewish sect), 41 Jews. (There are some slight
differences between this list and the one to which he refers and which is quoted
further on).
“The
extraordinary Commission of Moscow was composed of 36 members, including 1
German, 1 Pole, 1 Armenian, 2 Russians, 8 Letts, 23 Jews. The Council of the
People’s Commissars numbered 2 Armenians, 3 Russians, 17 Jews. According to the
data furnished by the Soviet Press, out of 556 important functionaries of the
Bolshevik State, including the above-mentioned, there were in 1918-1919, 17
Russians, 2 Ukrainians, 11 Armenians, 35 Letts, 15 Germans, 1 Hungarian, 10
Georgians, 3 Poles, 3 Finns, 1 Czech, 1 Karaim, 457 Jews.
“If
the reader is astonished to find the Jewish hand everywhere in the affair of
the assassination of the Russian Imperial Family, he must bear in mind the
formidable numerical preponderance of Jews in the Soviet administration.”
On
pages 136-138, then, of the same work, the author writes:
“It
is in the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party that the governmental power
resides. It was composed as follows in 1918: Bronstein (Trotski), Apfelbaum
(Zinovieff), Lourie (Larine), Ouritski, Volodarski, Rosenfeldt (Kamenef),
Smidovitch, Sver-dlof (Yankel), Nakhamkes (Steklof).”
9 Jews, and 3 more, in total which are:
Oulianof
(Lenine), Krylenko, Lounatcharski, Russians-3
Which
totals 12 Jews.
“The other Russian Socialist Parties are similar in
composition. Their Central Committees are made up as follows: S.D, Mensheviks,
11 members, all Jews; Communists of the People, 6 members, of whom 5 are Jews
and one is a Russian; S.R. (Right Wing), 15 members, of whom 13 are Jews and 2
are Russians (Kerenski, who may be of Jewish origin, and Tchaikov-ski); S.R.
(Left Wing), 12 members, of whom 10 are Jews and 2 are Russians; Committee of
the Anarchists of Moscow, 5 members, of whom 4 are Jews and one is a Russian;
Polish Communist Party, 12 members, all Jews, including Sobelson (Radek),
Krokhenal (Zagonski) and Schwartz (Goltz).
“These
parties, in appearance opposed to the Bolsheviks, play the Bolsheviks’ game on
the sly, more or less, by preventing the Russians from pulling themselves
together. Out of 61 individuals at the head of these parties, there are 6
Russians and 55 Jews. No matter what may be the name adopted, a revolutionary
government will be Jewish.”
The Council of the People’s
Commissars comprises the following:
Ministry or Commissariat – Name –
Nationality
President
– Oulianof (Lenine) – Russian
Foreign
Affairs – Tchitcherine – Russian
Nationalities
– Djougachvili – Georgian
Agriculture
– Protian – Armenian
Economic
Council – Lourie (Larine) – Jew
Food-Controller
– Schlichter – Jew
Army
and Navy – Bronstein – (Trotski) –
Jew
State-Control
– Lander – Jew
State Lands – Kauffmann – Jew
Works – V. Schmidt – Jew
Social
Relief – E. Lilina (Knigissen) – Jewess
Public
Instruction – Lounatcharsky – Russian
Religions
– Spitzberg – Jew
Interior – Apf elbaum (Zinovief) – Jew
Hygiene – Anvelt – Jew
Finance
– Isidore Goukovski – Jew
Press
– Volodarski – Jew
Elections
– Ouritski – Jew
Justice
– I. Steinberg – Jew
Refugees
– Fenigstein – Jew
Refugees
– (Assistant) Savitch – Jew
Refugees
– Zaslovski – Jew
Out
of 22 members, 3 Russians, 1 Georgian, 1 Armenian, 17 Jews.
The following is the list
of members of the Central Executive Committee:
Sverdlof
(President) – Jew
Avanessof
(Secretary) – Armenian
Bruno
– Lett
Breslau
– Lett
Babtchinski
– Jew
Boukharine
– Russian
Weinberg – Jew
Gailiss – Jew
Ganzburg – Jew
Danichevski – Jew
Starck – German
Sachs – Jew
Scheinmann – Jew
Erdling – Jew
Landauer – Jew
Linder – Jew
Wolach – Czech.
Dimanstein – Jew
Enaikidze – Georgian
Ermann – Jew
Joffe – Jew
Karkhline – Jew
Knigissen – Jew
Rosenfeldt (Kamenef) – Jew
Apfelbaum (Zinovief) – Jew
Krylenko – Russian
Krassikof – Jew
Kaprik – Jew
Kaoul – Lett
Oulianof (Lenine) – Russian
Latsis – Jew
Lander – Jew
Lounatcharski – Russian
Peterson – Lett
Peters – Lett
Roudzoutas – Jew
Rosine – Jew
Smidovitch – Jew
Stoutchka – Lett
Nakhamkes (Steklof) – Jew
Sosnovski – Jew
Skrytnik – Jew
Bronstein (Trotski) – Jew
Teodorovitch – Jew
Terian – Armenian
Ouritski – Jew
Telechkine – Russian
Feldmann – Jew
Froumkine
– Jew
Sottriupa
– Ukrainian
Tchavtchevadze
– Georgian
Scheikmann
– Jew
Rosental
– Jew
Achkinazi – Imeretian
Karakhane – Karaim
Rose – Jew
Sobelson (Radek) – Jew
ScHichter – Jew
Schikolini – Jew
Chklianski
– Jew
Levine
(Pravdine) – Jew
Name – Nationality
Accordingly
out of 61 members, 5 are Russians, 6 are Letts, 1 is a German, 2 are Armenians,
1 is a Czech, 1 is an Imeretian, 2 are Georgians, 1 is a Karaim, 1 is a Ukrainian,
and 41 are Jews.
The following is the list of the members of the Extraordinary
Commission of Moscow:
Dzerjinski
(President) – Pole
Peters
(Vice-President) – Lett
ChWovski – Jew
Kheifiss – Jew
Zeistine – Jew
Razmirovitch – Jew
Kronberg – Jew
Khaikina – Jewess
Karlson – Lett
Schaumann – Lett
Leontovitch – Jew
Jacob Goldine – Jew
Galperstein – Jew
Kniggisen – Jew
Latzis – Lett
Schillenkuss – Jew
Janson – Lett
Rivkine – Jew
Antonof – Russian
Delafabre – Jew
Tsitkine – Jew
Roskirovitch – Jew
G. Sverdlof – Jew (Brother of President of Central Executive
Committee)
Biesenskt – Jew
Blioumkine – Jew (Count Mirbach’s assassin)
Alexandrovitch – Russian ( Blioumkine’s
accomplice)
I. Model – Jew
Routenberg – Jew
Pines – Jew
Sachs – Jew
Daybol – Lett
Saissoune – Armenian
Deylkenen – Lett
Liebert – Jew
Vogel – German
Zakiss – Lett
In all, 36 members of
whom 1 is a Pole, 1 a German, 1 an Armenian, 2 are
Russians, 8 are Letts, and 23 are Jews.
“Accordingly there is no
reason for being surprised at the preponderating role of the Jews in the
assassination of the Imperial Family. It is rather the opposite which would
have been surprising.”
According
to the erudite Russian writer, Petrovski, in La
Russie sous les Juifs, p. 79, “Nicholas II,
the Imperial Family and the faithful members of his suite, were shot by the
Jew, Yourowsky, assisted by the Jews, Golostchokine and Voikoff, in obedience
to the order sent from Moscow by the Jew, Sverdloff, and with the approval of
the Council of the People’s Commissars.” We have seen the composition of the
Council.
Pope
Pius XI and the Preparation
of
the Russian Revolution
Pope
Pius XI wrote as follows in the Encyclical Letter, Divini
Redemptoris:
“For
them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal
affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan beneath the yoke
imposed on them by men who in very large part are strangers to the real
interests of the country. We recognize that many others were deceived by fallacious
hopes. We blame only the system with its authors and abettors who considered
Russia the best field for experimenting with a plan elaborated years ago, and
who from there continue to spread it from one end of the world to the other.”
In
this pamphlet, I have outlined some of the historical evidence which goes to
prove that those “strangers to the real interests of Russia,” who are experimenting with this Marxian plan
elaborated years ago, are members of the Jewish nation, and that Communism is
the latest and, up to the present, the most decadent materialistic phase of the
opposition of that nation to the Supernatural Messiah.
Some
Points of Detail
Since
the first publication of this pamphlet, doubts have been expressed about the
accuracy of some details contained therein, especially about the language in
Lenin’s home and about the Jewish nationality of Madame Kollontai, Piatakoff
and Karakhain. I have dealt with the question of Lenin’s nationality at some
length in this edition, on pages 25 to 27, without, however, pretending to be
able to settle the question definitely. Madame Kollontai is spoken of as a
Jewess and Piatakoff and Karakhain are given as Jews in the document quoted
from the “Defender” of Kansas for the period 1935-1936. I have since discovered
that this list is probably taken from a pamphlet in French, Les Juifs en U.RSS., published
by Les Nouvelles Editions Nationales of
Paris. The lists of names in the French pamphlet are quoted from another pamphlet in
Russian with the same title and they are preceded by an introduction from the
pen of a former secretary of a Communist “cell.” In spite of these guarantees
of special knowledge, it is almost certain that Madame Kollontai is not a
Jewess but a Russian. There was a Russian revolutionary named Piatakoff, but I
have not been able to discover if he is identical with the Piatakoff mentioned
as a Jew in the “Defender” and in the French pamphlet. I have been also assured
that Karakhain is an Armenian, not a Jew. In Robert Wilton’s list, quoted in
the Foreword, there is a Karakhane who is a Karaim, which means that he is a
member of the Jewish sect of the Karaites. That may account for the conflicting
statements about him. (From the Encyclopedia Britanica, vol. 18 and
from the National Encyclopedia, we
learn that the Karaites were a Jewish sect which came into existence at Baghdad
about the middle of the eighth century. The founder of the sect was the Rabbi
Anon ben David. The Karaites appear to have been influential in the earlier
period of their history, but at the present day, the sect is small and
insignificant. Its members are chiefly to be found in Southern Russia, Poland,
Turkey, Egypt and Palestine).
The doubts raised about
these points of detail only serve to confirm the overwhelming truth of what
Robert Wilton wrote in The Last Days
of the Romanovs:
“The Jewish domination in
Russia is supported by certain Russians … they (the Jews), having wrecked and
plundered Russia by appealing to the ignorance of the working folk, are now
using their dupes to set up a new tyranny worse than any the world has known.”
That tyranny is kept in
existence by the same means by which it was set up. In “Red Dusk and the Morrow” (page 303), by Sir Paul Dukes,
formerly Chief of the British Secret Service in Russia, we read that a
Lithuanian asked a prominent Bolshevik how the regime was maintained. The
answer was:
“Our power is based on
three things: first, on Jewish brains; secondly, on Lettish and Chinese
bayonets; and thirdly, on the crass stupidity of the Russian people.”
One must deprecate the
horrible insult to the unfortunate Russians whose natural leaders have been
murdered, but the statement may otherwise be taken as a fairly accurate summary
of the situation.
The
War, September, 1939?
This little book and the
previous portion of this Foreword had
been written before war began between England, France, Poland on the one side,
and Germany on the other. For years, anyone accustomed to Judaeo-Masonic
methods could easily see that the “democracies” of England, France and the
United States were being urged on to war against “Fascism.” That was and is
quite clear and certain. On the other hand, the world-program of the Rulers of
Russia involves the unceasing effort to get the capitalist countries into armed
conflict. A statement made by Stalin, at a session of the Third International
or Comintern in Moscow, in May, 1938, makes this manifest:
“The
revived of revolutionary action on any scale sufficiently vast,” said
the Muscovite figure-head, “will not be possible unless we
succeed in utilizing the existing disagreements between the capitalistic
countries, so as to precipitate them against each other into armed conflict The
doctrine of Marx-Engels-Lenin teaches us that all war truly generalized should
terminate automatically by revolution. The essential work of our party comrades
in foreign countries consists, then, in facilitating the provocation of suck a
conflict. Those who do not comprehend
this know nothing of revolutionary Marxism. I hope that you will remind the
comrades, those of you who direct the work. The decisive hour will arrive.” (Quoted in The
Patriot, May 25th, 1939. The Pravda
of 7th November, 1938, contains a statement issued by Dimitrov, General
Secretary of the Komintern, in which he says amongst other things: “We must prevent a criminal understanding
between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique).
When
the “democracies” had been sufficiently keyed up by all the means at the
disposal of financial forces, a non-aggression pact signed by Stalin gave
Germany hope of sufficient supplies to be able to withstand the blockade.
Stalin had thus done his part to promote conflict, and can now watch the growth
of exhaustion in the different countries, while awaiting the decisive hour for
world-revolution. The attack on the Mass may even be begun by a repetition of
the dismemberment of Poland. Long ago, Frederick the Great of Prussia invited
Russia and Austria to a “mystic communion in the body of Poland” saying that it
might not be for the good of their souls but that it would be for the good of
their States. History repeats itself.
There
are rumors of an anti-Jewish drive in Moscow. Some even go so far as to say
that the death or deportation or imprisonment by Stalin of many of the Jews who, since the
Bolshevik Revolution of October, 1917, have controlled the world activity of
Moscow, is indicative of a Russian national anti-Semitic reaction. This
reasoning is very superficial. In spite of the “purges,” Jewish enthusiasm for
Communism as seen, for example, in regard to Spain, has not diminished in the
least, nor has there been that slacking off in the activity of Communist agents
which inevitably follows quarrels in the central authority. In passing, it is
worth recalling that many of those “liquidated” Jews were originally introduced
into Russia by Jewish financiers acting in collaboration with the German
Government. (Cf. The
Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, pp. 89-93.)
So far as one can see at
present, there may be some superficial reactions in Russia as a result of the
German-Soviet Pact, but the fundamental orientation of Russia has not varied.
The program of World-Revolution as outlined by Stalin in 1938 still holds. If
Jewish propaganda for Communism lessens in volume and intensity, not merely in
passing but in permanent fashion, and if the activity of Communist agents grows
less, then we may look for the existence of some kind of national reaction in
Russia. If not, then all that will have happened is that some of the
figureheads will have changed, while the secret controlling authority remains
the same. (It is
curious to find Die Zeit, a
Yiddish daily of London, in substantial agreement with this, in its issue of 17
Sept., 1939. Cf. The Patriot, 19
Oct., 1939).
In the early days of the
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, there was resistance to the new orientation, on
the part of some Jews in Russia, but it quickly died away. In this connection,
it is interesting to note the announcement that the Jew, Karl Radek
(Sobelsohn), though under guard since the Zinovieff trial, has been named head
of the Soviet Russian Atheist party. He is one of the ablest of the older
revolutionaries.
The reasoning outlined in
the last paragraph is confirmed by the perusal of a remarkable book,
excellently documented, entitled “The
Russian Face of Germany” which appeared in 1932 from the pen of
Mr. Cecil F. Melville. Mr. Melville
gives in detail the history of the collaboration between the German Army
authorities and Soviet Russia. I will quote some extracts and allow them to
speak for themselves:
“The story I shall unfold
in these pages is the story of Germany’s two faces, the one turned towards Western Europe, the other turned towards Soviet
Russia … It can be said, without any exaggeration, that from 1921 till the
present day Russia has been able, thanks to Germany, to equip herself with all
kinds of arms, munitions, and the most up-to-date war material for an army of
several millions; and that, thanks to her factories manufacturing war material
in Russia, Germany has been able to assure herself not only of secret supplies
of war material and the training of officers and other ranks in the use of this
material, but also, in the event of war, the possession of the best stocked arsenals
in Russia … The firm of Krupp’s of Essen—Krupp the German Canon-King
(Kanonenkoenig) deserves a chapter
to itself in this review of German war-industries in Russia. It deserves a
separate chapter … because its activity upon Soviet territory has grown to
tremendous proportions … The final consolidation of the dominating position
Krupp’s occupy in Russia, was the formation of a separate company ‘Manych’ to
which the Soviet Government granted a liberal concession … Negotiations
concerning these concessions for the company were conducted in Moscow, for
several months … Gradually there was formed in Russia a chain of experimental
training camps, and artillery parks (ostensibly eliminated by the Treaty of
Versailles). These are under the
management of German officers, and they are invariably teeming with Germans
either arriving to undergo a course of training, or leaving after the
completion of the course. At the time of writing (1932) interest is growing in
the rising star of Herr Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Leader, Herr Hitler is regarded
as the protagonist par
excellence of the Right
against the Left in Germany, and, as a Hitlerist regime is anticipated before
long, it may perhaps be argued that the Dritte Reich of
the Nazis, the sworn enemies of Communism, would not tolerate the
Reichswehr-Red Army connection. Such a conclusion would be inaccurate to the
last degree … Stalin, the realist, would have no qualms in collaborating with a
Hitlerist Germany.
“But
more important than this are the following facts:
“The
Reichswehr Chiefs and their political allies amongst the civilian politicians
and officials have succeeded in nursing their Eastern orientation, their
underground military collaboration with the Soviets, in spite of all the
changes of political regime in Germany since the end of the war. It has made
little or no difference to them whether the Reich Government has been composed
of men of the Right, the Centre, or the Left. They have just continued their policy
uninfluenced by political change. There is no reason to suppose that they would
change their course under a Hitlerist regime, especially when it is remembered
that most of the aims, in external policy, of the Nazi leaders, are identical
with those of the Nationalists and the military leaders themselves.
Furthermore, there are the great German industrialists, of Nationalist color,
who are amongst the principal collaborators, on the war material side, with the
Reichswehr Chiefs, and who are, therefore, hand in glove with the directors of
the “Abfnachungen” (Agreements) plot. Many of
these great industrialists are contributors on a big scale to the Nazi party
funds. A Hitlerist Germany would, therefore, have no qualms in continuing the
collaboration with Soviet Russia … The Reichswehr chiefs who are conducting the
Abmachungen delude
themselves that they can use Bolshevist Russia to help them in their hoped-for
war of revenge against Europe, and then, in the hour of victory, hold the
Bolshevists at bay, and keep them in their place. The more subtle psychologists
at the Kremlin, of course, know better, but are wise enough to keep their
knowledge to themselves. The fact, however, that this German-Russian plot will
in the end, bring about the destruction of Germany, will not in any way
reconcile Europe to its own destruction at the hands of Germany and Russia
together.” (i op. cit, pp. 4, 102, 114, 117, 120,
173, 174, 6.)
In spite, then, of Russia’s
design to bring about world revolution, Prussia wants to make use of Russia to
secure “the place in the sun” to which she thinks she is entitled. As far back
as 1931, General von Seckt, the creator of the new German Army, the Reichswehr,
set out the Prussian program in a speech delivered on January 24th, 1931,
before the Economic Society of Minister, in Westphalia. He said:
“The goal of Russia is in
the first instance a world-revolution. The nucleus of opposition to such plans
is to be found in the capitalist powers, England and France in the first
instance, with America close behind them. There follows a certain community of
interests (of Russia) with Germany, which is being threatened by the demands of
these powers. The most profound animosity of Russia is directed against Poland,
the ally of the world Powers and Russia’s immediate neighbor. Herein lies the
point of Russia’s closest rapprochement with Germany. The fact that the Western
Powers, by helping Russia, expose
themselves to a great danger is too obvious to require further proofs … As far
as we are concerned, this danger exists considerably nearer, but nevertheless
our position between France and Poland compels us to try to remain in constant
touch and in close understanding with Russia in order not to fall into complete
dependence upon the Western countries. This position will remain compulsory for
us no matter whether the present regime in Russia continues or not.” (Melville: The
Russian Face of Germany, pp. 158, 159)
With
regard to Poland, General von Seckt added that any understanding between
Germany and Poland was out of the question. He held that German hopes for the
future were intimately bound up with her relations with Russia, but that
Germany should ruthlessly repulse any attempt at penetration on the part of
Bolshevism. It is quite clear now that the Prussians in 1939, as in 1932 and
before it, are to be reckoned amongst those who think, as Mr. Melville puts it,
that they can play with the devil and win.
Russia’s aims, or rather the aims of those who control Russia, have
not changed. Trotsky, on the one hand, wanted world-revolution as the only secure
bulwark for a strong Communist State in Russia. Stalin, on the other hand,
wanted a strong Soviet Russian State as the only secure foundation for
world-revolution. Stalin’s point of view has been accepted by the controlling
powers, and we have been allowed by the Russian Board of Censors, whose
non-Russian nationality was certified to us by Mr. Douglas Reed in 1935, to
peruse what they thought fit about the very elaborate elimination of the
elements imbued with the Trotskyist ideals. Both Stalin and Trotsky, however,
were and are instruments of those for whom Communism is a means. We must
therefore bear well in mind that “the new Bolshevist orthodoxy of Stalin is
probably more dangerous to Europe in the long run than the more spectacular
methods of Trotsky and the more vocal methods of Zinoviev in the heyday of the
Third International. I say more dangerous … and more formidable, because it is a
more practical conception than the old Trotskyist idea. It is just the growth of this Stalinist
conception which has made possible the continuance on an ever-increasing scale,
of the secret relationship between ‘Red’ Russia and ‘White’ Germany.” (The
Russian Face of Germany, by C F. Melville, pp. 169, 170)
Molotov’s
speech on the Russo-German Pact, at the beginning of September, 1939, has
served as a partial foundation for the rumors of a “Russian” national reaction.
Molotov, the Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, is reported to have said,
when speaking of the Russo-German Pact before the Soviet Supreme Council:
“People
ask how the Soviet Union could consent to improve political relations with a
state of the Fascist type (such as Germany); … but they forget that we hold the
position of not interfering in the internal affairs of other countries . . .”
Some
have concluded from this that Hitler has induced the Russian Government to
renounce Jewish International Communism and restrict its Socialistic ideology
to Russia. They forget, however, that Molotov is surely a loyal follower of
Marx and Lenin. He doubtlessly follows Lenin’s instructions. “We deny all
morality in the bourgeois sense,” wrote Lenin, “for according to the bourgeois,
morality has its origin in the Commandments of God … our morality, on the
contrary, is entirely subordinate to the interests of the proletariat.”
Accordingly, a lie is not a lie when it serves the interests of the
proletariat. Lenin admitted that he had accepted German money to make the
Bolshevik Revolution, but he added:
“I
will make the same revolution in Germany with Russian money.” Has Lenin’s
program been scrapped? Again, if the Soviet has given up interfering in the
internal affairs of other countries, why has Lozovsky, a Jew whose real name is
Solomon Abramovitch Dridzo, been named permanent head of the Soviet Foreign
Office and principal adviser to Molotov? According to The Tablet of
July 15th, 1939, Lozovsky, is, par excellence, the
Apostle of Revolution through war. “The truth then is,” concludes the
leader-writer in The Tablet just
quoted, “that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring
to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that one of its chief
organisers, Lozovsky, has been installed as principal adviser to Molotov … A
few months ago he wrote in the French publication, La Vie
OuvrHre,
… that his chief aim in life is the overthrow of the
existing order in the great Democracies.”
Anyone
who had read Mr. Melville’s able study was not astonished at the ease with
which the German Nazis did business with the Jewish officials of the Soviet. The
tradition had long been forming. No wonder the German Bishops felt compelled to
say in a Joint Pastoral Letter of 1935, that even the most anti-Bolshevist
circles, in spite of their protestations, were being infected with a spiritual
Communism.
In
his Letter of 2nd February, 1930, On the Soviet Campaign
against God,
Pope Pius XI wrote as follows:
“We
were also at pains to ask the Governments represented at the Conference of
Genoa, to make, by common agreement, a declaration which might have saved Russia
and all the world from many woes, demanding as a condition preliminary to any
recognition of the Soviet Government, respect for conscience, freedom of
worship and of church property. Alas, these three points, so essential above
all to those ecclesiastical hierarchies unhappily separated from Catholic
unity, were abandoned in favor of temporal interests, which in fact would have
been better safeguarded, if the different Governments had first of all
considered the rights of God, His Kingdom and His Justice. The Governments of Europe refused concerted
action for the rights of God. Now that war has broken out in Europe, Russia
will make every effort to pursue her campaign against God.”
In
the splendid Encyclical Letter On the Condition of the
Church in Germany (March 14th, 1937), Pope Pius XI said that “the
first and obvious duty the priest owes to the world about him is service to the
truth, the whole truth, the unmasking and refutation of error in whatever form
or disguise it conceals itself.” During the terrible conflict that is now
raging in Europe, one of the greatest services that can be rendered to the
cause of truth is to warn the world of the ulterior revolutionary designs of
the Rulers of Russia. They aim everywhere, as in Spain, at the elimination of
the love of Our Lord. Their efforts in Spain have terminated in a glorious
victory for Christ, and to-day, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross,
the Crucifix is being solemnly reinstated in the schools of Madrid and of the
provinces, from which it had been banished. “Spain’s victory has mainly been a
victory of the Cross, and our war was fought as a crusade against the enemies
of truth.” So runs the decree of the Spanish Minister of Education ordaining
this act of reparation. May the example of Spanish Catholicism nerve Catholics
for the coming struggle everywhere! There are ominous signs of preparations, on
the part of International Financiers, under cover of the war, for a
naturalistic organization of the United States of Europe and of the World. It
will be a new and revised edition of that Judaeo-Masonic creation, the League of Nations.
The Bank for International Settlements will develop its powers still further.
DENIS FAHEY, C.S.Sp.
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross,
14th September, 1939.
Postscript.
Just when correcting the
final proofs of this book, The
Patriot (London) of 9th November, 1939, came to hand. It
contains the following:
“There is, however, no
real evidence that the Soviet Government has changed its policy of communism
under control of the Bolsheviks, or has loosened its control of communism in
other countries, or has ceased to be under Jew control. Unwanted tools
certainly have been ‘liquidated* in Russia by Stalin in his determination to be
the supreme head, and it is not unnatural that some Jews, when all the leading
positions were held by them, have suffered in the process of rival elimination.
Outside Russia, events in Poland show how the Comintern still works. The Polish
Ukraine has been communized under Jewish commissars, with property owners
either shot or marched into Russia as slaves, with all estates confiscated and
all business and property taken over by the State. It has been said in the
American Jewish Press that the Bolshevik advance into the Ukraine was to save
the Jews there from meeting the fate of their co-religionists in Germany, but
this same Press is silent as to the fate meted out to the Christian Poles. In
less than a month, in any case, the lie has been given to MolotofFs
non-interference statement. Should international communism ever complete its
plan of bringing civilization to naught, it is conceivable that some form of
world government in the hands of a few men could emerge, which would not be
communism. It would be the domination of barbarous tyrants over a world of
slaves, and communism would have been used as the means to an end.”
THE
RULERS OF RUSSIA
In this pamphlet I present to my readers a
number of serious documents which go to show that the real forces behind
Bolshevism in Russia are Jewish forces, and that Bolshevism is really an
instrument in the hands of the Jews for the establishment of their future
Messianic kingdom. Since Bolshevism, on its own confession, does not intend to remain
within the narrow limits of any one country, but ambitions a world-wide
influence or empire, the importance of this documentation is manifest. It is
certain that many Catholics are ignorant of these facts and of their
implications. When one realizes that Communism is an instrument intended to
prepare for the coming of the natural Messiah, one can understand the intensity
of the hatred of Communists against the Mass and against priests, as well as
the malignity of the propaganda in every country against the religious orders
of the Catholic Church. It is more than probable that many professing
Communists, even some amongst the paid orators and agents of Communism, are
unaware of the final goal of their employers and trainers. The attention of
these dupes should be drawn to the facts and they should be asked for full
explanations.
While
stressing the inescapable nature of the conclusions to be drawn from the
documents quoted below, I desire at the outset to emphasize the fact that the
methods to be adopted by Catholics to frustrate the preparations for the
kingdom of the natural Messiah should always and everywhere be in accordance
with the teachings and spirit of the supernatural Messiah, Our Lord Jesus
Christ.
Mr,
Hilaire Belloc writes (G. K’s Weekly, February
4th, 1937):
“As
for anyone who does not know that die present revolutionary Bolshevist movement
is Jewish in Russia, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by
the suppressions of our deplorable Press.”
This
is a strong statement. What is the evidence to support it?
(1)
The Rulers of Russia in 1917-1918
In the book, The Mystical Body of Christ in the
Modern World, two documents are quoted in proof of the fact that
the Jews were the real rulers of Russia after the Bolshevik revolution. The
first document, quoted on p. 88, is the report forwarded to London by Mr.
Oudendyke, the representative of the Netherlands Government at St. Petersburg,
when the Bolshevists began their reign of terror. Mr. Balfour received the
report via Christiania on the 18th September, 1918. It was published as a
British White Paper in April, 1919, and was entitled: “Russia, No. 1 (1919), A
Collection of Reports on Bolshevism in Russia.” The kernel of the Paper is
contained in the following extract from Mr. Oudendyke’s Report:
“The danger is now so
great that I feel it my duty to call the attention of the British and all other
Governments to the fact that, if an end is not put to Bolshevism at once, the
civilization of the whole world will be threatened. This is not an
exaggeration, but a sober matter of fact … I consider that the immediate
suppression of Bolshevism is the greatest issue now before the world, not even
excluding the war which is still raging, and unless, as above stated,
Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately, it is bound to spread in one form
or another over Europe and the whole world, as it is organized and worked by
Jews who have no nationality and whose one object is to destroy for their own
ends the existing order of things. The only manner in which this danger can be
averted would be collective action on the part of all the Powers.”
The Foreword to the White
Paper stated that it was issued in accordance with a decision of the English
War Cabinet in January (1919). The subsequent history of this White Paper is
extraordinary. It speedily disappeared from circulation and became
unobtainable. Then an abridged edition was issued, with the same title, at 6d
instead of 9d. From the abridged edition the passage we have quoted and some
more had been eliminated. It has never been possible to ascertain how the
original document was suppressed.
The second document,
treating of the financing of the Russian Revolution by the Jewish Bank of Kuhn,
Loeb and Company, is the one drawn up by the American Intelligence Service and
transmitted by the French High
Commissioner to his government. This document is quoted at length on pp. 88-91
of The Mystical Body of Christ
in the Modern World. It
was published by the Documentation
Catholique of Paris on
6th March, 1920, and was preceded by the following remarks:
“The
authenticity of this document is guaranteed to us. With regard to the exactness
of the information it contains, the American State Department must assume
responsibility.”
This
document was quoted in 1920 in a supplement to the paper La Vieille France which
added:
“All
the governments of the Entente were aware of this memorandum, drawn from the
data of the American Intelligence Service and sent at the time to the French
High Commissioner and his colleagues.”
In
addition to the information about the Jewish Banking Houses which financed the
Russian Revolution, the document also gives the long list of Jews who took over
the direction of the Russian people in 1917. Lenin is given as a Russian, but all
the other twenty-four given on the list – Trotsky, ZinoviefF, Kameneff, Parvus,
etc. – are stated to be Jews.
Assumed Name – Real Name – Nationality
Lenin
– Oulianow (Ulianoff) – Russian
Trotsky – Bronstein – Jewish
Steckloff – Nakhames – Jewish
Martoff – Zedermaum – Jewish
Zinovieff – Appelbaum – Jewish
Kameneff
– Rosenfield – Jewish
Dan
– Gourevitch (Yurewitsch) – Jewish
Ganetzky – Furstenberg – Jewish
Parvus – Helpfand – Jewish
Uritzky
– Padomilsky – Jewish
Larin
– Lurge – Jewish
Bohrin – Nathansohn – Jewish
Martinoff – Zibar – Jewish
Garin – Garfield – Jewish
Suchanoff – Gimel – Jewish
Kamnelff – Goldmann – Jewish
Sagersky – Krockmann – Jewish
Riazanoff – Goldenbach – Jewish
Solutezeff – Bleichmann – Jewish
Piatnitzky – Ziwin – Jewish
Axelrod – Orthdox – Jewish
Glasnuoff – Schultze – Jewish
Zuriesain – Weinstein – Jewish
Lapinsky
– Loewensohn – Jewish
Since The Mystical Body of Christ in the
Modern World was published I have had the opportunity of reading
that very interesting work, entitled All
These Things, by A. N. Field. In Appendix B he quotes from
Volume III of United States Senate Document No. 62, 66th Congress, First
Session, some extracts from the evidence of Rev. George A. Simons,
Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Petrograd from 1907 to
October 6th, 1918, before a Committee of the United States Senate on February
12th, 1919. The Rev. Mr. Simons stated with regard to the Bolshevik Government
in Petrograd:
“In December, 1918 … under
the presidency of a man known as Apfelbaum (Zino-vieff) … out of 388 members,
only 16 happened to be real Russians, and all the rest Jews, with the exception
of one man who is a negro from Norm America … and 265 of these Jews belonging
to this Northern Commune government that is sitting in the old Smolny Institute
come from the Lower East Side of New York—265 of them.”
Mr. Field remarked in
Appendix B of his book, All These
Things:
“Lenin was married to a
Jewess, spoke Yiddish in his family circle, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Jewish
Zionist leader, was quoted in the London Jewish
Chronicle of December 16th, 1932, as saying that Lenin had taken
part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before. He is
generally regarded as a Russian, but there is doubt.”
In her book, From Liberty to Brest-Litovsk
(Macmillan, 1919), the Russian lady, Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, widow of the
late Dr. Harold Williams, for long Manchester
Guardian correspondent in Russia, describes the events of the
first year of the Russian Revolution. Mrs. Williams was a member of the last
Duma and speaks with the authority of an eye-witness and close observer. On
pages 297-299 of her work we read:
“There are few Russians
among the Bolshevist wire-pullers, i.e., few men imbued with the all-Russian
culture and interests of the Russian people. None of them have in any way been
prominent in any stage of former Russian life … Besides obvious foreigners,
Bolshevism recruited many adherents from among émigrés, who had spent many years abroad. Some of
them had never been to Russia before. They especially numbered a great many
Jews. They spoke Russian badly. The nation over which they had seized power was
a stranger to them, and besides, they behaved as invaders in a conquered
country. Throughout the Revolution generally and Bolshevism in particular, the
Jews occupied a very influential position. This phenomenon is both curious and
complex. But the fact remains that such was the case in the primarily elected
Soviet (the famous trio – Lieber, Dahn, Gotz), and all the more so in the
second one.
“In the Soviet Republic
all the committees and commissaries were filled with Jews. They often changed
their Jewish names for a Russian one — Trotsky-Bronstein, Kameneff-Rozenfeld,
Zinovieff-Apfelbaum, Stekloff-Nakhamkes, and so on. But such a masquerade
deceived no one, while the very pseudonyms of the commissaries only emphasized
the international or rather the alien character of Bolshevist rule … But, of
course, there were also Russians among the Bolsheviks—workmen, soldiers, peasants.
Oulianoff-Lenin is a Russian. Lunacharsky, Bonch-Bruevich, Mme. Collontai,
Chicherin—all these influential Bolshevist leaders are Russian by origin. But
that predominant class which very rapidly crystallized around the Bolsheviks
was mainly composed of individuals alien to the Russian people. This fact is
probably useful to them to keep control over the masses, for Bolshevist
autocracy is founded upon their absolute contempt of the people whom they rule.
The most terrible trait of Bolshevism is its utter unscrupulousness as to ways
and means, and the blunt cruelty of its leaders.”
Shortly
after the second edition of this pamphlet appeared, a close student of the
Russian Revolution wrote to me to say that he could find no confirmation of the
statement that Lenin spoke Yiddish in his family circle. A Russian lady also
wrote to a friend of mine that “Lenin’s wife, M. K. Krupskaya, is a Russian
and, even if she were a Jewess, which she is not, at home she would speak
Russian.” I here beg to set out what I have since been able to discover about
this question. For some of the writers I have quoted about the predominance of
the Jews, namely, the Russian lady, Mrs. Williams, and the English journalist,
Robert Wilton, Lenin or Ulianoff is undoubtedly a Russian. For Mrs. Williams,
he was purely and simply the son of a schoolmaster belonging to the nobility of
the Simbirsk province. On the other hand, though the Russian historian, D.
Petrovsky, on page 37
of his detailed history of the
revolution, La Russie sous les
juifs (Russia under the
Jews) says that Lenin (Oulianoff) is one of a number of Russian traitors, yet,
on page 86 of the same work, he adds in a note:
“Lenin
is commonly held to be a Russian, but the natives of Simbirsk are of a
different opinion. They relate that a convoy of prisoners traversed Simbirsk a
good many years ago. After the departure of the prisoners, a little boy
remained behind and was picked up and reared by a gentleman named Ouilanoff.
Years after, a letter came, in ill-formed characters, from the convict
settlement, from a certain Ilko Sroul Goldman saying that he had learned, as a
result of lengthy inquiries, where his son was. He asked for news of him. This
Goldman was said to be Lenin’s father. He never again wrote.”
Again,
Victor E. Marsden, who was for many years the Morning
Post’s
correspondent in Russia and who was present at the
time of the Revolution of 1917, writes:
“
… Lenin is a half-blooded Jew, that is to say, the original Ulianov who bore
the name of Lenin was so, but there is ground to believe that the present Lenin
is personating that man who is dead and that the actual Lenin of the Bolshevik
business is what he looks, a full-blooded Jew.” (Jews in Russia, page 5).
In
the same pamphlet there is a note added to the lists of the names of the 447
Jews out of the 545 officials of the Soviet Bureaucracy. The note says that it
is doubtful if Lenin is Russian; that he is Oulinoff by adoption but really a
Jew, married to a Jewess and that his children speak Yiddish. Thus, though the
consensus of opinion is in favor of Lenin’s Russian nationality, there is a
certain element of doubt.
The
lists, in the pamphlet, Jews in Russia, are
drawn up from the Soviet Press at the time of the first Soviet Government. The
lists of names and the numbers of the different nationalities are in practical
agreement with those given by Robert Wilton, except in the case of the Central
Executive Committee. On this Committee Wilton reckons 41 Jews, whereas the
Marsden pamphlet gives the number of Jews as 43.
(2)
The Rulers of Russia in 1919-1920
A.
Homer, M.A., D.Sc, etc., wrote an article which appeared in the issues of The Catholic Herald of
the 21st and 28th October and the 4th November, 1933, in reply to a challenge
issued by Mr. L. J. Hydleman. The article was reprinted in pamphlet form in
response to a widespread demand for this information, which had been collated
from authoritative sources (both Jew and Gentile) to demonstrate the relation
between Judaism and Bolshevism, and the alliance between International Finance
and its protégés, Bolshevism and Zionism.
Thus
far we are quoting from the Foreword to the pamphlet, which adds that the
Editor of The Catholic Herald repeatedly
reserved space for Mr. Hydleman to reply, but that, so far as has been
ascertained, neither Mr. Hydleman nor any other responsible member of the
Jewish nation has ever attempted a reply. From the pamphlet itself we learn:
“The
Soviet movement was a Jewish, and not a Russian conception. It was forced on
Russia from without, when, in 1917, German and German-American-Jew interests
sent Lenin and his associates into Russia, furnished with the wherewithal to
bring about the defection of the Russian armies.
“The
Movement has never been controlled by Russians.
(a) Of
the 224 revolutionaries who, in 1917, were despatched to Russia with Lenin to
foment the Bolshevik Revolution, 170 were Jews.
(b) According
to the Times of
29th March; 1919, ‘of the 20 or 30 commissaries or leaders who provide the
central machinery of the Bolshevist movement, not less than 75 per cent, are
Jews . . . among minor officials the number is legion.’”
“According
to official information from Russia, in 1920, out of 545 members of the
Bolshevist Administration, 447 were Jews.
“The
number of official appointments bestowed upon Jews is entirely out of
proportion to their percentage in the State:
“The
population of Soviet Russia is officially given as 158,400,000, the Jewish
section, according to the Jewish Encyclopaedia, being about 7,800,000. Yet, according
to the Jewish Chronicle of
6th January, 1933: Over one-third of the Jews in Russia have become officials.”
(3)
The Rulers of Russia in 1923-1924
On
pages 93 and 94 of The Mystical Body of
Christ in the Modern World, a passage is quoted
from Impressions of Soviet Russia, by
Charles Sarolea, Belgian Consul in Edinburgh and Professor of French Literature
in the University of Edinburgh, in which he says:
“I
am quite ready to admit that the Jewish leaders are only a proportionately
infinitesimal fraction, even as the British rulers of India are an
infinitesimal fraction. But it is none the less true that those few Jewish
leaders are the-masters of Russia, even as the fifteen hundred Anglo-Indian
Civil Servants are the masters of India. For any traveler in Russia to deny
such a truth would be to deny the evidence of his own senses. When you find
that out of a large number of important Foreign Office officials whom you have
met, all but two are Jews, you are entitled to say that the Jews are running
the Russian Foreign Office.”
Professor
Sarolea says that he has been a constant student of the Russian language, of
Russian literature and of Russian conditions for thirty-five years, and that he
submitted his Manuscript before publication to some of the highest European
authorities on things Russian and Slavonic.
(4)
The Rulers of Russia in 1928-1929
The
erudite work of D. Petrovsky, La Russie sous les Juifs (Russia
under the Jews), published by Baudiniere, Paris, in 1931, treats at length of
the origin of the two revolutions of 1917, and carries on the story of the
Jewish domination of Russia to the years of 1928-1929. It also gives a detailed
account of the growth of anti-Jewish feeling.
Proofs,
including a speech by Sir G. Buchanan, British Ambassador, are given on pages
25 and 26 of Petrovsky’s work, of the complicity of the English Government in
the first Russian revolution of 1917 – the one which placed Lwoff, Kerensky and
Milioukoff in power. Then, on pages 34 and 35, the story of the revolution is completed
by the account of the sending of Lenin and companions to Russia from
Switzerland by the German General Stan. It is there also asserted that it was
Milioukoff, the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the revolutionary government,
who procured from the English Government the release of Trotsky and companions,
who had been put under arrest at Halifax (Nova Scotia) by the British naval
authorities. Petrovsky thinks that without the connivance of Kerensky, the
second or Bolshevist revolution of 1917 would not have been possible. Germany
and England were at war, but both were induced to help to install Jewish power
in Russia. The German general, Ludendorff, in his Memoirs, admits the
responsibility of his government for Lenin’s return to Russia. (Cf. Letter of J. M. Dell to Mr. Lloyd George cited
by the Russian Commissar in the pamphlet Trotsky
(Defender Publishers, Wichita, Kansas). Milioukoff also got Litvinoff
liberated by England. He had been arrested as a German spy)
In
All These Things, pp.
62-63, A. N. Field points out the responsibility of the English in regard to
the death of the Russian Imperial family. He quotes statements by Kerensky and
by Miss Muriel Buchanan, daughter of the British Ambassador to Russia, Sir
George Buchanan. The Tsar and the Imperial family were murdered by the order of
the Jew, Sverdloff.
The
Figaro of Paris in April,
1932, gave an outline of the career of Mr. Otto Kahn, partner in the Jewish
International Bankinghouse of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, which, as we have seen,
according to the American Official Intelligence Service, financed the Bolshevik
Revolution of 1917. Otto Kahn’s fellow partners were Jacob Setoff, Paul and
Felix Warburg. According to the Figaro, Mr.
Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company,
and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb
& Company. The Parisian paper added that in June, 1931, Mrs. Otto Kahn paid
a visit to Russia, where:
“She
was officially received by the Soviet Government, which gave in her honour a
grand diplomatic dinner and several brilliant receptions. The ceremonial
displayed exceeded in pomp and solemnity the journey of Amannullah when King of
Afghanistan. The Red army lined the roads at the present arms … It was the
least that the heads of the ‘Proletarian Dictatorship’ could do in order to
honor the wife of one of their sovereigns.”
On
the same pages, 56 and 57, of All These Things, by
A. N. Field, from which the above information is taken, we also read that Mr.
Hannen Swaffer wrote in the Daily Herald of
April 2nd, 1934, as follows:
“I
knew Otto Kahn, the multimillionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a
patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when
he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the ‘patriotic party.’”
We
read, too, that an attempt was made to secure the nomination of Mr. Otto Kahn
as president of the English-speaking Union, and the manoeuvre was defeated by
the timely exposure of Kahn’s Bolshevist activities. It was proved that Kahn’s
house was a meeting place for Soviet agents, such as Nina Smorodin, Claire
Sheridan, Louise Bryant and Margaret Harrison.
(5)
The Riders of Russia in 1935-36
In
the able work of A. N. Field, from which I have already quoted, we find, on
pages 276 and 277, the following remarkable statements:
“Stalin,
present ruler of Russia, is not a Jew, but took as his second wife the
twenty-one year old sister of the Jew, L. M. Kagonowitz, his right-hand man,
who has been spoken of as his probable or possible successor. Stalin’s every
movement is made under Jewish eyes.”
Central
Committee of the Communist Party, 1935
“According
to the ‘Defender’ (Wichita, Kansas) for February, 1936, the Central committee
of the Communist party in Moscow, the very centre of International Communism,
consisted of 59 members, of whom 56 were Jews, and the other three were married
to Jewesses. These figures are given in other journals also.
The
list is as follows:
Non-Jews
married to Jewesses (3) : L. V. Stalin, S. S. Lobow, V. V. Ossinsky. Jews (56):
V. V. Balitsky, K. J. Baumann, I ,M. Vareikis, J. B. Gamarnik, I. I. Egoff, I.
A. Zelensky, I. D. Kabakoff, L. M. Kaganowitz, V. G. Knorin, M. M. Litvinoff.
I. E. Liobimow, D. Z. Manouilsky, I, P. Nossow, J. L. Piatakow, (Cf. Foreword)
I. O. Piatnitzky, M. O. Aazoumow, M. L. Ruchimovitch, K. V. Rindin, M. M.
Houtaevitch, M. S. Tchoudow, A. M. Schvernik, R. I. Eiche, G. G. Iagoda, I. E.
Iakir, I. A. Iakovlew, F. P. Griadinsky, G. N. Kaminsky, I. S. Unschlicht, A.
S. Boulin, M. I. Kalmanowitz, D. S. Beika, Zifrinovitch, Tratchter, Bitner, G.
Kaner, Leo Krichman, A. K. Lepa, S. A. Lozovsky, B. P. Pozern, T. D. Deribass,
K. K. Strievsky, N. N. Popow, S. Schwartz, E. I. Veger, I. Z. Mechlis, A. I.
Ougarow, G. I. Blagonravow, A. P. Rosengolz, A. P. Serebrovsky, A. M.
Steingart, L P. Pavlounov-sky, G. I. Sokolnikow, C. I. Broido, V. I. Polonsky,
G. D. Vein-berg, M. M. Kaganowitz.
The
Bolshevik Commissar for Foreign Affairs is the Jew Litvinoff of the many
aliases, former passer of stolen banknotes, and lately President of the Council
of the League of Nations. A detailed list of the Staff under him, as printed in
Das Berner Fehlurteil by
Stephen Dasz, doctor of law, Budapest (U. Bodung Verlag, Erfurt, 1935), shows
it as almost entirely Jewish, both in respect of the principal and minor
offices. The same applies to the Bolshevik Diplomatic Corps abroad. The
following list of Bolshevik Ambassadors and Ministers Plenipotentiary in
different countries is compiled from various publications issued in 1935 and
1936. It may not be quite up-to-date, but is nearly so:
Country – Ambassador or Minister – Race
Great
Britain – Maisky (alias Steinman – Jew
Germany
– Suritz – Jew
Franc
– Potemkine (staff Jewish) – Russian
Italy
– Stein – Jew
U.S.
– Troyanski (married to a Jewess) – Russian
Japan
– Yureneff (alias Goffman) – Jew
Turkey
– Karakhain – Jew (Cf. Foreword)
Belgium
– Roubinine – Jew
Norway
– Yakoubowitz – Jew
Sweden
– Madame Kallontai – Jewess (Cf. Foreword)
Roumania
– Ostrovsky – Jew
Greece
– Kobetzki (Staff Jewish) – Russian
Latvia
– Brodovski – Jew
Lithuania
– Karski (alias Bejmann) – Jew
Finland
– Asmous – Jew
Swizterland
(unofficial) – Dr. Bagozki – Jew
Uruguay
(expelled) – Minkine – Jew
“League
of Nations Delegation: Litvinoff (Jew), Rosenberg (Jew), Stein (Jew), Markus
(Jew), Brenners (Jew), Hirschfeld (Jew), Halphand (Jew), Swanidze (Georgian).
“The
reader may wonder why newspapers never mention that Bolshevism is simply a
Jewish conquest of Russia. The explanation is that the international news
agencies on which papers rely for foreign news are controlled by Jews.
“The
Jew, Jagoda, is head of the G.P.U. (the former Cheka), now called ‘The People’s
Commissariat for Internal Affairs.’ The life, death or imprisonment of Russian
citizens is in the hands of this Jew, and his spies are everywhere. According
to the anti-Comintern bulletin (15/4/35) Jagoda’s organization between 1929 and
1934 drove between five and six million Russian peasants from their homes.
“(The
Government of France now (July, 1936) has as Prime Minister, the Jewish
Socialist, Leon Blum. According to the French journal Candide, M.
Blum has substantial interests in Weiler’s Jupiter aero-engine works in France,
and his son, Robert Blum, is manager of a branch Weiler works in Russia, making
Jupiter aero-engines for the Russian Government.)” (A. N. Field’s book. All These Things, from which I have quoted, can be obtained from
The Director, M.C.P., 93 Chancery Lane, London, W.G2)
The
Soviet Board of Censors in 1935
From
the evidence of Mr. Gerard Shelley, to be found in The
Cause of World Unrest (1920), pp. 136, 137,
we learn that when Russian revolutionaries began to complain that the
Bolsheviks were working for Judaism, they were wiped out with machine-guns. The
Russian Anarchists took a number of buildings for teaching and lectures. The
well-known Anarchist, Lev Cherny, gave a series of lectures at which Mr.
Shelley assisted, in Moscow in April, 1918. The lecturer pointed out that “Marxism,
on which Bolshevism is founded, really did not express the political side of
the Russian character and that the Bolsheviks were not sincere Socialists or
Communists, but Jews, working for the ulterior motives of Judaism. Lev Cherny
divided these Jews into three main classes – firstly, financial Jews, who
dabbled in muddy international waters; secondly, Zionists, whose aims are, of
course, well known; and, thirdly, the Bolsheviks, including the Jewish Bund.
The creed of these Bolsheviks, according to the lecturer, is briefly, that the
proletariat of all countries are nothing but gelatinous masses, which, if the Intelligent were
destroyed in each country, would leave these masses at the mercy of the Jews.”
Now comes the extraordinary sequel. On the very night on which this last
lecture was delivered the Bolsheviks attacked, with cannon, cavalry and machine
guns, all the Anarchist headquarters, both in Moscow and Petrograd, and
murdered all the men they could find, Lev Cherny,
however, escaping.
The
Jewish Rulers of Russia, then, did not allow Russian revolutionaries to exist
in 1918. They took care, at least up to 1935, not to allow any ideas to be
disseminated either in the country or outside the country, except the ones they
wanted. In 1935, eighteen years after “the liberation of the Russian people,”
the Censorship Department in Moscow was entirely staffed by Jews. There was in
that year not a single non-Jew to be found in it. Yet, surely a few Russians
could learn to speak and write Russian and other languages at least as well as
Jews. The fact is the real Rulers of Russia are not Russians but Jews. Where
can the proof of my statement be found? It is to be found in the book entitled Insanity Fair, in
which Mr. Douglas Reed, who visited Russia at the same time as Mr. Anthony
Eden, as the representative of an English paper, describes his experiences
there. In view of the official statements issued from Moscow, his account of
the composition of the Soviet Censorship Department is of special interest. Mr.
Reed’s book only came into my hands some months after the publication of the
first edition of this pamphlet. I understand that the visit to Russia took
place in March-April, 1935. The following extracts are taken from pages 194,
195, 199, 200:
“The
two great British institutions represented by Eden and myself had never sent a
representative to Soviet Russia until now … British statesmen had never gone to
Moscow. My paper had never sent a correspondent to Moscow because of the Soviet
censorship.
“Thus
our two visits were both great events, each in its own sphere. The Soviet
Government had repeatedly complained about Russian news being published from
Riga and asked why a correspondent was not sent to Moscow to see for himself,
and the answer was always Censorship. So my arrival was in the nature of a
prospecting tour. Before I had been there five minutes the Soviet Government
started quarrelling with me about the most trivial thing. For I wrote that Eden
had passed through streets lined with ‘drab and silent crowds.’ I think that
was the expression, and a little Jewish censor came along, and said these words
must come out.
“I
asked him if he wanted me to write that the streets were filled with top-hatted
bourgeoisie, but
he was adamant. Such is the intellectual level of the censors. The censorship
department, and that means the whole machine for controlling the home and
muzzling the foreign Press, was entirely staffed by Jews, and this was a thing
that puzzled me more than anything else in Moscow. There seemed not to be a single
non-Jewish official in the whole outfit, and they were just the same Jews as
you met in New York, Berlin, Vienna and Prague – well-manicured, well-fed,
dressed with a touch of the dandy. I was told that the proportion of Jews in
the Government was small, but in this one department that I got to know
intimately they seemed to have a monopoly, and I asked myself, where were the
Russians? The answer seemed to be that they were in the drab, silent crowds
which I had seen but which must not be heard of … I broke away for an hour or
two from Central Moscow and the beaten tourist tracks and went looking for the
real Moscow. I found it. Streets long out of repair, tumbledown houses,
ill-clad people with expressionless faces. The price of this stupendous revolution;
in material things they were even poorer than before. A market where things
were bought and sold, that in prosperous bourgeois countries you would have
hardly bothered to throw away; dirty chunks of some fatty, grey-white substance
that I could not identify, but which was apparently held to be edible, half a
pair of old boots, a few cheap ties and braces.
“And
then, looking further afield, I saw the universal sign of the terrorist State,
whether its name be Germany, Russia, or what-not Barbed wired palisades, corner
towers with machine guns and sentries. Within, nameless men, lost to the world,
imprisoned without trial by the secret police. There are concentration camps
and political prisoners. In Germany, the concentration camps held tens of
thousands, in this country, hundreds of thousands.
“The
next thing … I was sitting in the Moscow State Opera. Eden, very Balliol and
very well groomed, was in the ex-Imperial box. The band played ‘God Save the
King,’ and the house was packed full with men and women, boys and girls, who
judged by western standards, I put down as members of the proletariat, but no,
I was told, the proletariat isn’t so lucky, these were the members of the
privileged class which the Proletarian State is throwing up, higher officials,
engineers and experts.”
What
are the forces that were capable of securing that, up to 1935, only Jews would
be officially charged with telling the unfortunate Russians what they were to
think? How many in Europe, or in the United States, knew that in 1935 there was
not a single non-Jew in the Censorship Department of “Moscow”? How many know
whether there has been any change since? If the whole Department for “controlling
the home and muzzling the foreign Press” is manned by Jews, can we rely on the
statements coming to us from U.S.S.R. about the people in key-positions, for
example, or about Stalin? No wonder that we read in the French newspaper, Le Matin, of 25th May, 1939, a
statement to the effect that M. Pierre Laval, the French Minister, is supposed to
have said to his colleagues in the French Cabinet, after his return from Moscow
in 1935:
“Have
I really seen Stalin? I am not sure about it. Perhaps they showed me someone
else.”
(6)
The Rulers of Russia in 1937
In
the July issue of the splendid Review, Ccntre-RSvolution, edited
at Geneva by Leon de Poncins, there is an excellent article on the subject by
A. Stolypine. Mr. Stolypine is a son of the former Russian Minister who was
assassinated in September, 1911, by the Jew, Mardko BagrofF. From this article
the following extracts are taken:
“Many
Jewish leaders of the early days of the revolution have been done to death
during the Trotsky trials, others are in prison. Trotsky-Bronstein is in exile.
Jankel Gamarnik, the Jewish head of the political section of the army
administration, is dead. Another ferocious Jew, Jagoda (Guerchol Yakouda), who
was for a long time head of the G.P.U., is now in prison. The Jewish general,
Jakir, is dead, and along with him a number of others sacrificed by those of his
race. And if we are to judge by the fragmentary and sometimes even
contradictory lists which reach us from the Soviet Union, Russians have taken
the places of certain Jews on the highest rungs of the Soviet official ladder.
Can we draw from this the conclusion that Stalin’s government has shaken itself
free of Jewish control and has become a National Government? Certainly no
opinion could be more erroneous or more dangerous than that.
“The
Jews are yielding ground at some points and are sacrificing certain lives, in
the hope that by clever arrangements they may succeed in saving their threatened power.
They still have in their hands the principal levers of control. The day they
will be obliged to give them up the Marxist edifice will collapse like a house of cards.
“To prove that, though
Jewish domination is gravely compromised, the Jews are still in control, we
have only to take the list of the highly placed officials of the Red State. The
two brothers-in-law of Stalin, Lazarus and Moses Kaganovitch, are ministers of
Transport and of Industry, respectively; Litvinoff (Wallach- Meyer-Finkelstein)
still directs the foreign policy of the Soviet Union. . . . The post of
ambassador at Paris is entrusted to the Jew, Louritz, in place of the Russian,
Potemkine, who has been recalled to Moscow. If the ambassador of the U.S.S.R.
in London, the Jew Maiski, seems to have fallen into disgrace, it is his
fellow-Jew, Samuel Kagan, who represents U.S.S.R. on the London
Non-intervention Committee. A Jew named Yureneff (Gofmann) is the ambassador of
the U.S.S.R. at Berlin … Since the beginning of the discontent in the Red Army
the guard of the Kremlin and the responsibility for Stalin’s personal safety is
confided to the Jewish colonel, Jacob Rapaport.
“All the internment camps,
with their population of seven million Russians, are in charge of the Jew,
Mendel Kermann, aided by the Jews, Lazarus Kagan and Semen-Firkin. All the
prisons of the country, filled with working-men and peasants, are governed by
the Jew, Kairn Apeter. The News-Agency and the whole Press of the country are
controlled by the Jews. . . . The clever system of double control, organized by
the late Jankel Gamarnik, head of the political staff of the army, is still
functioning, so far as we can discover. I have before me the list of these
highly placed Jews, more powerful than the Bluchers and the EgonofTs, to whom
the European Press so often alludes. Thus the Jew, Aronchtam, whose name is
never mentioned, is the Political Commissar of the Army in the Far East: the
Jew, Rabinovitch, is the Political Commissar of the Baltic Fleet, etc.
“All this goes to prove
that Stalin’s government, in spite of all its attempts at camouflage, has never
been, and will never be, a national
government. Israel will always be the controlling power and driving force
behind it. Those who do not see that the Soviet Union is not Russian must be
blind.”
Mr.
Stolypine also affirms that “Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union is entering on
the initial stage of an organized struggle, and is beginning the battle for
power, I can confirm this, if needs be, by many testimonies from the Muscovite
Press.” Still, notwithstanding Mr. Stolypine’s testimony that a new generation
is arising in Russia which is beginning to see that they and their country are
only pawns in the hands of the Jews, we must not leave out of account the
indications to the contrary.
First
of all, Communist propaganda in every country shows few signs of division or
weakening, in spite of the trials and massacres of revolutionaries by their
fellow-revolutionaries. That would seem to indicate that there must be the same
tenacious driving force behind the figureheads all the time. A rising tide of
Anti- Semitism should normally have the effect of weakening external action, by
obliging the leaders to defend themselves at home. Secondly, according to the
pamphlet on Trotsky by a former Russian Commissar, Trotsky and Stalin, though
hating each other, are both being employed in their appointed roles. Trotsky “has
been excluded from the executive board which is to put over the New Deal
concocted for Soviet Russia and the Communist Third International. He has been
given another, but not less important, duty of directing the Fourth
International, and gradually taking over such functions of Communistic
Bolshevism as are becoming incompatible with Soviet and ‘Popular Front’
policies . . . Whatever bloodshed may take place in the future will not be
provoked by the Soviet Union, or directly by the Third International, but by
Trotsky’s Fourth International, and by Trotskyism. Thus, in his new role,
Trotsky is again leading the vanguard of world revolution, supervising and
organizing the bloody stages of it. He is past-master in this profession, in
which he is not easily replaced … Mexico has become the headquarters for
Bolshevik activities in South American countries – all of which have broken off
relations with the Soviet Union. Stalin must re-establish these relations and a
Fourth International co-operating with groups of Trotsky-Communists will give
Stalin an excellent chance to vindicate Soviet Russia and official Communism.
Any violent disorders and bloodshed which Jewish internationalists decide to
provoke will not be traced back to Moscow, but to Trotsky-Bronstein, who is now
resident in Mexico, in the mansion of his millionaire friend, Muralist Diego
Rivera.” (Trotsky, by a former Russian
Commissar, Defender Publishers, Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A.).
These
remarks are certainly worthy of serious consideration. They give a possible
explanation of the elaborately staged trials of the Trotskyists.
Thirdly,
though the Jew Feuchtwanger’s book, Moscow, 1937, published by
Gollancz, is obviously an attempt to undo the effect of Andre Gide’s
home-truths about life in the Soviet Union, yet his testimony about the Jews is
worth quoting. According to Feucht-wanger, the Jews are fanatically devoted to
the regime, and feel completely in harmony with the new State. Evidently they
still feel confident of being able to maintain their ruling position, and want
to remove the impression that there is any reason for anxiety. Mr, Stolypine
might, however, reply that the insistence upon the absence of anti-Semitism is
just propaganda, like the rest of the book.
An
article in Contre-RSvolution of
December, 1937, by J. Fon-tenoy, on Anti-Semitism in Russia, contains
the following:
“On
my arrival in U.S.S.R. in 1934, I remember that I was struck by the enormous
proportion of Jewish functionaries everywhere. In the Press, and diplomatic
circles, it was difficult to find non-Jews … In France many believe, even
amongst the Communists, that, thanks to the present anti-Jewish purge … Russia
is no longer Israel’s chosen land … Those who think that are making a mistake.”
This
writer, when speaking of an incident at the Polish frontier, alludes, in
passing, to one of the ways in which Jewish domination has so far been
maintained. This is the system of Political Commissars controlling the military
commanders. Every military unit has its Political Commissar to whom the
military commander must submit all plans in advance. In practically every one
the Political Commissar is (or was) a Jew. In the pamphlet on Trotsky (Defender Publishers,
Wichita, Kansas), by a former Russian Commissar, there is a good outline of the
working of the system.
Former
Russian Diplomat on “Moscow” in 1938
M.
Butenko, the Soviet Charge d*Affaires at Bucharest, who fled to Italy when his
recall to Russia was announced, has written an article on Russia for the Giornale d’Italia of
February 17th. As I received the March, 1938, issue of the Free Press (London)
containing a translation of the article, just as I was correcting the proof of this pamphlet, I thought it well to quote
some of the article as a
testimony to the accuracy of the
statements contained in the pamphlet. M.
Butenko, amongst other things says:
“The Bolsheviks had
promised to give the workers the
industries, mines, etc., and to make
them ‘masters of the country.’ In reality, never has the working class suffered
such privations as those brought about by the so-called epoch of ‘socialization.’
In place of the former capitalists a new ‘bourgeoisie’ has been formed,
composed of 100 per cent, Jews.
Only an insignificant number of former Jewish capitalists left Russia after the
storm of the Revolution. All the other Jews residing in Russia enjoy the
special protection of Stalin’s
most intimate adviser – the Jew, Lazare Kaganovitch. All the big industries and
factories, war products, railways, big and small trading, are virtually and
effectively in the hands of Jews, while the working class figures only in the
abstract as the ‘patroness of economy’.
“The wives and families
of Jews possess luxurious cars and country houses, spend the summer in the best
climatic or bathing resorts in the Crimea and Caucasus, are dressed in costly
Astrakhan coats; they wear jewels, gold bracelets and rings, send to Paris for
their clothes and articles of luxury. Meanwhile the laborer, deluded by the
revolution, drags on a famished existence … The Bolsheviks had promised the
peoples of old Russia full liberty and autonomy … I confine myself to the
example of the Ukraine. The entire administration, the important posts
controlling works in the region, are in the hands of Jews or of men faithfully
devoted to Stalin, commissioned expressly from Moscow. The inhabitants of this
land once fertile and flourishing suffer from almost permanent famine.”
M. Butenko has since
written in Italian an account of life in the Soviet Union entitled Rivelazioni su Mosca. He
mentions the fulsome epithets such as “Light and Delight of the Workers” and ‘‘Mighty
Leader of Peoples,” applied to Stalin, by Jews masquerading as journalists.
APPENDIX
I
An
Outline of Litvinoff’s Career
In December, 1917, after the Bolshevist Government
had come into power, Lenin and Trotsky chose Rothstein for the post of Bolshevist Ambassador to Great
Britain, but finally decided on Litvinov, because, as Radek observed:
“Rothstein is occupying a confidential post in one of the
British Government Departments, where he can be of greater use to us than in
the capacity of semiofficial representative of the Soviet Government.” (Evidence of a Russian to whom this statement was
made, Patriot, November 15th, 1923)
“Meyer Genoch Moisevitch
Wallach, alias Litvinov, sometimes known as Maxim Litvinov or
Maximovitch, who had at various times adopted the other revolutionary aliases of Gustave Graf,
Finkelstein, Buchmann and Harrison, was a Jew of the artisan class, born in
1876. His revolutionary career dated from 1901, after which date he was
continuously under the supervision of the police and arrested on several
occasions. It was in 1906, when he was engaged in smuggling arms into Russia
that he lived in St. Petersburg under the name of Gustave Graf. In 1908 he was
arrested in Paris in connection with the robbery of 250,000 roubles of
Government money in Tiflis in the preceding year. He was, however, merely
deported from France.
“During the early days of
the War, Litvinov, for some unexplained reason, was admitted to England ‘as a sort
of irregular Russian representative,” (Lord Curzon, in House of Lords, March 26th, 1924) and was later reported to
be in touch with various German agents, and also to be actively employed in
checking recruiting amongst the Jews of the East End, and to be concerned in
the circulation of seditious literature brought to him by a Jewish emissary
from Moscow named Holtzmann. Litvinov had as a secretary another Jew named
Joseph Fineberg, a member of the I.L.P., B.S.P. and I.W.W. (Industrial Workers
of the World), who saw to the distribution of his propaganda leaflets and
articles. At the Leeds conference of June 3rd, 1917, referred to in the
foregoing chapter, Litvinov was represented by Fineberg. In December of the
same year, just after the Bolshevist Government came into power, Litvinov
applied for a permit to Russia, and was granted a special ‘No Return Permit.’
He was back again, however, a month later, and this time as ‘Bolshevist
Ambassador’ to Great Britain. But his intrigues were so desperate that he was
finally turned out of the country.” (The Surrender of an
Empire, by
Mrs. Webster, pp. 89-90)
APPENDIX
II
The
Rulers of Russia are Jewish Politicians in a Messianic Era
We
know what the immediate post-war period was. Russia in the hands of the Jews was
the centre of direction of the revolutionary movements which shook Europe to
its foundations. Hungary came under the power of Bela Kun, Germany nearly
succumbed. Poland, Switzerland and Italy were just saved. The Socialists, under
the Jew, Bauer, triumphed at Vienna. Yet in a work entitled “The Jews,”
published by the Jews of Paris in 1933, to protest against the “anti-Semitism”
of Hitler, we read:
“In
spite of the frightful pograms which took place, first in Poland and then in
unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of
Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic
era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern
Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America.”
The
same work, on page 71, under the heading, “Jewish Politicians of the Post-War
Period,” shows side by side the photos of Trotsky, Litvinov, Lord Reading
(Rufus Isaacs) and Bernard Baruch, the International Banker, who is said to be
the Financial Adviser of President Roosevelt.
The
Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the
world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mardochai). Marx, according to the Jewish
writer, Bernard Lazare, was “a clear and lucid Talmudist … full of that old
Hebrew materialism which ever dreams of a paradise on earth and always rejects
the hope held out of the chance of a Garden of Eden after Death.
APPENDIX
III
Reply
to Some Criticisms
Mr.
Frank Newby, in the course of a lengthy review in The Catholic
Worker
of July, 1938, applied the epithet “mischievous” to
the first edition of this pamphlet and added that he did not think that it
could serve any useful purpose but would simply be provocative of
anti-Semitism. (L’Antisemitisme,
p. 346)
Such
language is certainly strong, and I am afraid that its vigor is in part due to
Mr. Newby’s superficial knowledge of the question under discussion.
What
the Pamphlet sets out to Prove
First
of all, the pamphlet treats of only one point out of the many discussed in the
book, The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern
World,
to which it refers. The pamphlet proves that
Bolshevism is an instrument in the hands of the Jews. The book shows Bolshevism
in its proper perspective, namely, as the most recent development in the
age-long struggle waged by the Jewish Nation against the Supernatural Messiah,
our Lord Jesus Christ, and His Mystical Body, the Catholic Church. Our Lord
Jesus Christ is at one and the same time the Second Person of the Blessed
Trinity and a Jew of the house of David. He spoke to the Jews of a higher life
to be obtained by incorporation into His Mystical Body. The Jews set up racial
descent from Abraham, in opposition to spiritual descent from Abraham by faith
in the Supernatural Messiah, and refused to subject their national life to the
Mystical Body of Christ. They thus put their race and nation in the place of
God, deified them in fact. They then rejected the Supernatural Messiah and
elaborated a program of preparation for the Natural Messiah to come. The
Natural Messiah can have but one object, the imposition of Jewish national
supremacy. There is no alternative.
On
the one hand, Catholics hold that the highest life of the world is the
participation by grace in the life of the Blessed Trinity to be attained
through membership of Christ’s Mystical Body. All nations are called to enter
into that Body and are required to subordinate their national life to the
development of the supernatural life of the members of the Mystical Body.
Catholics are bound to work for the Kingship of Christ, that is, for an organization
of society that will favor the living of life as members of Christ by all. All
are bound to live as members of Christ always, as the hand is always subject to
the head in the physical body.
On
the other hand, the Jewish Nation, by its rejection of Christ’s message,
asserted that its national life was the highest life in the world and
proclaimed that the supreme test of the value of a course of action was its
relation to that national life. “But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high
priest that year, said to them: You know nothing. Neither do you consider that
it is expedient for you that one should die for the people, and that the whole
nation perish not.” (St. John xi, 49-50). Their rejection of the Supernatural
Messiah is just as vigorous to-day as at any time since Calvary. The world, in
their opinion, must, therefore, be recast in the mould of Jewish national life.
This will be the work of the future Natural Messiah, and it cannot but mean the
complete undoing of the Catholic organization of society.
The
Forces of Naturalism
The
Jewish Nation thus gradually became the most strongly organized VISIBLE force working for the elimination of the
supernatural outlook in society and the installation of Naturalism. Let me
explain. The supernatural outlook holds that we are a race whose highest life,
the Divine Life of Grace, by which the Blessed Trinity dwells in our souls, was
lost by the fall of Adam but restored through our Lord Jesus Christ, True God
and True Man. Naturalism denies the existence of any life higher than natural
life, and maintains that social relations should be organized on that basis.
Catholic Europe, however imperfectly, once had the supernatural outlook, and we
are urged by the Holy Father in the Encyclical, Quas Primas, to
work for the return of society to our loving Saviour. To do that, we have to
combat the Naturalism of the Jewish Nation which is opposed to all that is
enshrined for us in the Kingship of Christ. Besides the Jewish Nation, there
are other forces, both INVISIBLE and
VISIBLE, working for the reign
of Naturalism, the invisible ones, Satan and his fellow-demons, using the
visible. Next to the Jewish Nation, the strongest VISIBLE force working for Naturalism is Freemasonry.
The ultimate aim is always the suppression of the Mass, the expression of
humble submission of the Mystical Body. The way is prepared therefore by an
organization of society such that from the moment they leave the church after
Mass Christians find themselves a prey to incentives to renounce their
allegiance to Christ the King, Head of the Mystical Body. Social organization
is meant to aid Christians to bring unity into their lives, instead of opposing
obstacles to them in the struggle. Let us take one point. “By the fact,” writes
Pope Pius VII in the letter, Post
tarn diuturnas (1814), “that
the freedom of all forms of worship is proclaimed, truth is confused with
error, and the holy and immaculate Spouse of Christ, outside of which there can be no salvation, is
placed on the same level as heretical sects and even as Jewish perfidy.” Pope
Pius XI insists Upon the same
point in the letter, Quas Pirmas,
on the Kingship of Christ.
There the Sovereign Pontiff shows that the naturalistic spirit has gradually
come to infect society, because “by degrees the religion of Christ
was put on the same level as false religions and placed ignominiously in the same category with them.” The
insult to God involved in that attitude should make every Catholic’s blood boil with indignation. That
it does not is a proof of how low
we have fallen and how sadly we have been influenced by our environment. All these are plain, simple, elementary
truths, upon which the book, The Mystical Body of Christ in the
Modern World, insists,
but which were taken for granted in this pamphlet.
Furthermore, the
opposition of the Jewish nation to God become Man – God does know what is best for the world and He loves us as no other can – has had and
is having disastrous effects on the world
and on the Jews themselves. These disastrous effects are morally inevitable, given the persistent rejection of order. (“Writing of the ceremonies and rites of the
Old Law, such as circumcision and the worship of the Synagogue, St. Thomas
says: ‘In like manner, the ceremonies of the Old Law prefigured Christ as
having yet to be born and to suffer; whereas our Sacraments signify Him as
already born and having suffered. Consequently, just as it would be a mortal
sin now for anyone, in making a profession of faith, to say that Christ is yet
to be born, which the fathers of old said devoutly and truthfully; so too, it
would be a mortal sin now to observe those ceremonies which the fathers of old
accomplished with devotion and fidelity. Such is the teaching of St. Augustine/
(jla. Hae, Q. 103, a. 4. ) Objectively, therefore, the Jews as a nation put
themselves against the ordered return of humanity to God which can only be
through Our Lord Jesus Christ.” (The
Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, p. 263)
“Opposition to the order
God has established in the world leads inevitably to decay in belief in God among the Jews, and to corruption both in regard to the correct attitude
towards their fellow human beings and in regard to the means to be employed to get other nations to accept
the messianic message. It is morally inevitable that nations which resist God
and oppose the supernatural order of the
world should suffer decay in the process. The excesses of the Bolshevik revolution thus find their explanation.
We are, however, dealing with a
moral law in the wide sense. God is merciful
and the Sacred Heart of Jesus loves the members of His own race with a special
love. We cannot draw conclusions from such a law to all the individual members
of the nation … There are Jews in whom may be seen excellent qualities, and the
supernatural life is poured out upon all by Our Lord, even upon those who
reject Him. All Jews, however, in proportion as they are one with the leaders
and rulers of their race, will oppose the influence of the supernatural Life of
Grace in society and will be an active ferment of Naturalism.”(The
Mystical Body of Christ in the Modem World (Second Edition), pp. 267, 261)
Jews
like J. Weill in La Foi d’Israel, who
speak of Christianity as “a form of messianism originally very Jewish but very
strongly colored and modified by mystical and mythical elements derived from
paganism,” say that the mission of Israel amongst the nations has for “its
final ideal and the consummation of its destiny the setting up of a society of
peoples reconciled together and morally united in a spirit of definitive peace,
of social justice and of fraternal solidarity.” Since there is only one world
and one Divine Plan for order this can only mean that the Jewish Nation by its NATURAL vigor and power will mould the nations into
unity, in opposition to the Divine Plan. The result is an inevitable increase
of disorder in the Jewish Nation and in the world. Do we not see this in
practice?
In
his book, Integrates ludentum (Integral
Judaism), the Jewish writer, Alfred Nossig, who in 1926 was secretary of a
league for international concord, says:
“The
modern socialist movement is chiefly the work of Jews … It is true that the
Jewish socialist leaders were, for the most part, far removed from Judaism.
Nevertheless the r61e they played in the movement does not come from themselves
alone. The Mosaic principles have acted upon them unconsciously. The blood of
the ancient missionary people has shown itself in their intellectual outlook
and in their social attitude. The present world-wide Socialist Movement forms
the first stage in the fulfillment of the Mosaic plan; it is the beginning of
the realization of the future state of the world announced by our prophets … Hence
all Jewish groups, whether they be Zionists or partisans of the Dispersion,
have a vital interest in the triumph of Socialism. They ought to long for it,
not only as a matter of principle because of its identity with the Mosaic plan,
but as a tactical weapon … Already the dawn of our day lights up the horizon.” (1 Quoted by Leon de Poncins in La Mysterieuse Internationale juh/e, p.
74)
The
inauguration of the Hungarian section of the naturalistic Messianic Kingdom is
treated of in Dr. Hans Eisele’s book, Bilder aus
dem Kommunistischen Ungarn, published in 1920. From
it we learn that handbills were distributed amongst the Jews in Buda-Pesth,
during the Judaeo-Masonico-Communist revolution of 1919 in Hungary, containing
the following appeal:
“People
of Israel, with the help of our mighty ally we have fought for the revolution
and we have won through. If now we all hold together and if we do not consider
ourselves as Hungarian Jews, but with the tenacity of our race defend the
conquered positions which will be attacked in vain, we can set up Judaea. Make
every effort to have the public positions occupied by our co-religionists. Do
not translate your names into Magyar. Woe to those who will get themselves
baptized! Jehovah is with us. Our centuries of exile are at an end! We shall
have a new homeland between the Danube and the Theiss. Support the secret
societies, for these assure to every faithful follower of Jehovah a suitable
place in the new state. Szamuely will protect us.”
Mr.
Newby says that “he has never seen any evidence of a policy of world domination
for the attainment of the Messianic kingdom.” The above texts may enlighten
him. If they do not, there are others. In addition, he can consult The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World for
evidence about the Messianism of Karl Marx. (A point that is not there touched upon is the resemblance between the
Marxian system and the Jewish Kabbala. If we except one point which, in the
case of Marx, may well be ascribed to the influence of Hegel, the rest is
strikingly similar. Be it remarked in passing that Freudian psychoanalysis is
also in great part the Jewish Kabbala.)
He
will also find on page 93 of the same work a reference to a sketch of Lenin’s
career showing that he was at the same time a paid agent of the Russian secret
police and of Jewish financiers engaged in furthering the Marxist conspiracy.
Does Mr. Newby think that it was by accident that Bela Kun (Cohen) appeared in
Hungary and seventeen years later in Barcelona?
Are
the Jews persecuted in Russia?
Mr.
Newby says that “there is a formidable list of murdered rabbis and closed
synagogues in the Soviet Union.” On this point I beg to submit the following
observations.
In
The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, pp.
294 and 295, there is a long quotation from an article by a distinguished Jew,
Mr. Norman Bentwich, O.B.E., M.C., in the B’nai B’rith
Magazine.
In that article, he answers “No” to the question:
“Is
Judaism doomed in Soviet Russia?”
He
says that “the Communist Party, which controls the Soviet Government, is
opposed to Judaism as to any other established religion:
“For
its dominant creed is a militant atheism. Yet it has to be recognized that the
attack on the old Jewish worship and learning, the demand for the closing of
synagogues and schools and yeshivas comes principally from the younger
generation of Jews. The Jewish Communist youth in large part have revolted
against the old order … The question arises whether Judaism will survive in
this hostile atmosphere, without the religious hold and without the national
ideal, reduced to a matter of national or racial pride and feeling … The
spiritual motive of the revolution goes back to the principles of Socialism in
the teaching of the Hebrew prophets, even though the Communist denies the rock
from which he is hewn and knows not the hole from which he is dug. The
revolution of this generation against the old creeds and its devotion to a
materialistic theory of work will not be a permanent belief. It is contrary
alike to the Russian and the Jewish nature and to the outlook of science in our
day.”
Again,
the January, 1934, issue of the American Jewish journal, Opinion, styled “A Journal of
Jewish Life and Letters” had an article stating: “There is no doubt that the
old, traditional Jewish synagogue is rapidly dying out in Russia. It is dying
not because of Communist persecution, as many
would like to believe, or any other outside
influence, but simply because of a natural law of life. The youth has deserted
it. Go over to the Jewish Communist Club on Tverskaya Street and you will find
plenty of them.” (Quoted from Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing, by George
E. Sullivan)
Again,
in The Jewish Chronicle Supplement, February
26th, 1937, page 3, we read:
“It
is a known fact that in Russia, in so far as there was persecution of the
Jewish religion, it never came from the higher staff authorities but always
from the Jewish Communists, who were, in most cases, sons of strictly religious
fathers …”
This
text and others of a like nature are quoted in the Free
Press
(London) of October, 1938. Of course, some Russian
Jews did not understand the plans of the leaders of world-Jewry and resisted at
the outset. They did not see why their interests were being sacrificed. They
quickly accepted the new orientation, however, and the sympathy of Jews
everywhere for Communism in Russia and Spain is remarkable.
Finally,
I beg to draw special attention to Mr. Reed’s statement about the composition
of the Censorship Department of the Soviet Government. Since “the whole machine
for controlling the home and muzzling the foreign press is entirely staffed by
Jews,” Mr. Newby ought to know that he must control his information. Has he
done so?
“Democracy”
versus “Fascism”
As
we have seen, the final end of a State or Nation is the development of national
life in such wise as not only not to hinder but to favor the Supernatural Life
of the members of the Mystical Body of Christ. The movement known as the
Protestant Reformation may be described as an attempt on the part of some
countries to hold on to Christ, while rejecting the order established
by Christ for the communication of the Divine Life of Grace to men. It broke
the unity of European subjection to the supranational, supernatural Church of
Christ. It did not, however, install a naturalistic international organization
in the place of the Catholic Church. That was reserved for the French
Revolution of 1789. The French Revolution was the inauguration of the
domination of the world by Masonic Naturalism. As time went on State after
State denied that it had any duty to acknowledge the Divine Plan revealed by
Our Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, States
refused to organize its social life so as to enable a member of Christ to live
in harmony with the submission expressed to the Blessed Trinity at Mass.
Instead it aimed at organizing its social life under the influence of Masonic
Naturalism. Behind Masonry, however, the other naturalistic force of the once
chosen people loomed
up and, little by little, sought to prepare the way for its future
anti-supernatural Messiah. The Jews everywhere made use of Freemasonry to
secure the right of becoming citizens of the once Christian States. We see the
Masons, Mirabeau, Gregoire, etc., working for this project in the Constituent
Assembly of France (1789-1791). (The deputies who got the project of Jewish
Emancipation voted by the Assembly were all masons.” L* Entree des Juifs dans la Societe Francaise, by l’Abbe Lemann,
p. 356. L’Abbe Lemann was a Jewish convert)
Thus the States which had
renounced the Supernatural Messiah admitted into their bosoms a strongly organized
body working for their subjection to the Natural Messiah and utilizing the
Naturalism of Freemasonry for that purpose.
The rejection of the rule
of Christ the King, without which social organization cannot be free from
essential deviations, and the gradual imposition of the Jewish National mould
or “form” have proved disastrous for the nations once Christian and Catholic.
They are beginning to react. The form and method of the reaction, however, here
and there show serious traces of the process of deformation to which the
nations have been subjected. Naturalism and the defective philosophies
resulting from its deleterious influence on the human mind are at work even in the
efforts displayed to undo its effects. (These erroneous philosophical theories are in
part the result of the revolt against the Mystical Body of Christ (opposition
to God has a disastrous effect on the human mind) and in part the result of
decay consequent on Judaeo-Masonic influence)
We shall see this in
particular further on in the case of the German National Socialist Reaction.
This series of reactions or revolts is given, in the language of propaganda,
the name of “Fascism.” The countries ruled by the Judaeo-Masonic combinations
are spoken of as “Democracies.”
From another point of
view, the struggle between “Democracy” and “Fascism” may be characterized as a
struggle between money-lending, or the system by which currency originates in
debt to groups of private individuals, whose aim has been the manipulation of
the price-level of the different countries, and money as a stable measure of
value facilitating the exchange of real wealth. Catholics must learn to take
account of the fact that, since the coming of William of Orange to England and
the foundation of the Bank of England, those who control credit and manipulate
currency have gradually usurped the function of the Sovereign Power in modern
States and are now linked together in a Big Combine. “Democracy” is simply
another name for “a moneylenders’ Paradise,” a country in which currency comes
into existence in the form of a debt to members of a big syndicate. Just as the
chain-shop aims at the extinction of the individual trader, so the International
Syndicate known as the Bank of International Settlements aims at the extinction
of those entities known as nations or rather at their subjection to its
dictates. The “Fascist” nations are refusing to sell out and be absorbed by the
great monopolies, in a word, they refuse to borrow money.
“These ‘sovereign states’
we call Germany, Spain, Poland, Italy, Japan, are relatively small independent
businesses … Incidentally, they are businesses which have defied the big credit
Institutions or International Banks – upon whose accommodation such businesses
are supposed to depend for their continued existence. And it is not us, the
people of England, but the International Banking Interests (of whom all
democratic governments are the agents) who loudly and threateningly demand
their return into the economic fold. And
‘Soviets Limited* shouts it too … What is this notion of National Sovereignty
as seen from the standpoint of the monopolist (Mr. Litvinov representing the
great Russian Empire, stretching from the Baltic to Korea or Mr. Eden
representing the British Empire which sprawls all over the world)? It is a
challenge to the all-powerful world-corporation he has in view, and which is
actually in process of formation. It makes him see red literally … Among the monopolist
States, Great Britain, France, and Russia are the great protagonists … In the
background is the United States of America, the most powerful single State in
the world. And Mr. Roosevelt is an arch-monopolist … The last four years have
made it clear to any intelligent man … that ‘Soviet Communism’ is just a
monopolist variation of ‘Dollar Diplomacy’ or the ‘British Hegemony’ … It is Soviets Limited with a
propaganda Department as big as all the other departments of State put together
… It is the most stupendous racket that the world has ever seen … We, that is,
Great Britain, are in with the monopolists …over against us are a lot of States
which represent relatively small-scale Capital … We stand for the Big Combine.
They represent the little individualist
business, as it were, now in armed revolt against the insolent tyranny of the
Empire Trusts, which are merging into one Empire … These three great Empires
(Great Britain, France, Russia) are now made into a mighty Trust of
interlocking Syndicates. That is what the French-Russian (Soviet) Pact and the
French-English alliance means … That is merely an old-fashioned, political way
of putting it, to call these ‘Pacts’ and ‘Alliances.’ It is nationalist
language. It has to be used . . . because, of course, the majority of people
are still ‘nationalist’ minded … Another great war is blowing up . . . to
understand its meaning . . . fix your mind upon this tendency to coalesce into
corporations, to fuse into one vast monopolistic mass. That is what the nations
are doing, just as much as shops and factories. And those who decline to coalesce, are now being threatened by those who are the
leading members of this great political Trust. (Count Your
Dead: They are Alive” by Wyndham Lewis. This book is strongly recommended
for its excellent outline of the preparations for another great war.)
In
regard to the ro1e of Soviet Russia, Mr. Wyndham Lewis does not seem to be
quite satisfactory. The aim of the Rulers of Russia has always been to promote
war between the once Christian powers, in order to profit by the resultant
misery. They are ready to play off one against the other and turn to account
the weaknesses of both. They will thus be able to propagate Communism in all
the countries engaged in conflict. The end of the War may well see a Communist
revolution and, as a result, the Mass practically abolished, in Western Europe.
So Satan muses – and others. (In a
more recent book entitled “The Jews – are
they human”? Mr. Wyndham Lewis shows a regrettable lack of knowledge of
the Divine Plan for order in the world through the acceptance of the
Supernatural Messiah. The result is a very superficial work compared with “Count Your Dead: They are Alive!”)
For
those who may not be aware of how far monopoly and semi-Communism have
progressed in England, the pamphlet The Real Crisis, published
by The Liberty Restoration League is
recommended. They will there learn about P.E.P. (Political and Economic
Planning) and see that “the various Boards that have been set up in a number of
industries are autocratic bodies on the true Soviet model, with powers to
inflict fines and entirely regulate the affairs of those subject to each Board’s
authority.” (Britain’s Jewish Problem, by M. G. Murchin, p. 177)
The
present writer has dealt briefly with P.E.P. in The
Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, in
order to show its place in the anti-supernatural campaign of the Judaeo-Masonic
forces. Similar Boards are already functioning in Ireland. Under threat of war, this semi-Communist organization will be
advanced in all “democratic” countries. A recent leaflet of the Liberty Restoration League on A.R.P. draws attention to this as follows:
“Another
organization which has helped to spread the Air Terror is the Air Raid Defense
League. It is directed by Sir Arthur Salter, M.P., who is also a member of the
Council of the group which describes itself as P.E.P. (Political and Economic
Planning). P.E.P. is composed chiefly of Socialist civil servants and
representatives of the big businesses which obtain State assistance and require
constant State interference to hamper, or prevent, the free competition of
their independent rivals. Its aim is revolution by stealth, and for some years
it has been working for the gradual elimination of private property and
enterprise and the compulsory amalgamations of businesses, which is the first
step towards Communism. It calls these activities ‘planning’ and, in a recent
issue of its journal, stated that ‘only in war, or under threat of war, will a British Government embark on a large
scale planning, twenty five years ago, this was also the view of those who
planned the Russian revolution.”
As
many of my Catholic readers will never have heard of P.E.P. before and may be
unaware of the menace of naturalistic State “planning” to family life, the
private ownership of a strong middle class, and everything which savors of
guild-organization or vocational groups, the following quotation from the Parish Magazine of
the Holy Rood (Catholic) Church, Watford, Herts., England, will be helpful to
them:
“The
Political and Economic Planning Group under the chairmanship of Mr, Israel
Moses Sieff … is out to reduce every public and private activity in England to
a compact mechanism of State-aided monopolies, combines and chain-stores under
the control of a few financiers. The blessings to follow are these: artificial
limitation of private enterprise, restricted production, rise of the cost of
living, mass production of low quality goods, reduction in exports, swelling of the bureaucracy,
increase of taxation, growth of large cities, depopulation of smaller towns and
countryside, suppression of private property and compulsion for all to invest
their savings in monopolistic combines … This wonderful and genial movement for
the enslavement of Great Britain is making fair headway, and has succeeded in
laying hands on pigs, bacon, milk, potatoes, turnips, bees … The latest to join
the movement is the National Birth Control Association, which has accordingly
altered its name to Family Planning Association. It will arrange when and whom
to marry, how many children to bring into the world, when to divorce, when and
how to die, all according to the lofty standard of a group of ‘financiers’
financial needs and benefits.”
To conclude this section
I beg to quote a paragraph from another English writer as a short summary of
the situation. H. T, Mills, in a
pamphlet entitled Money, Politics and
the Future, says:
“We can roughly sum up
the characteristics of the nations which already divide the world into two
hostile camps, in order of importance, as follows: THE SO-CALLED DEMOCRACIES;
gold standard countries; Freemasonry strong; Communistic element strong;
members of League of Nations (except U.S., on account of special circumstances)
versus (RELATIVELY)
JEW-FREE ‘DICTATORSHIPS’; goods standard countries; Freemasonry suppressed;
nationalist element strong; not members of the League (except Italy, which
country is as good as out of it). Russia may also be included without much
difficulty in the first group. She is entirely dominated by the money power,
which in the first instance gave to Bolshevism the possibility of life.” (According to LeGrand Occident of August, 1935, quoting from a Russian journal
published in Paris, Masonic Lodges exist in Russia. The question of Freemasonry
in Germany is dealt with further on. The pamphlet by H. T. Mills was published
some months before the outbreak of the war.)
“Moscow”
(or Russia) and Ireland
“Moscow” or Russia, then,
is simply a gigantic investment by which control over vast resources has been
acquired by those who are preparing for the New Messiah. They have “the
enormous material advantage of vast funds such as a despotism can levy at will
from the labor of more than fifty million adult men and women working on its
soil, allowing as productive for revenue one-third of the gross population. All
the surplus value of that labor is available, and a very large part of it is
actually used, for propaganda and supply in countries outside Russia.” (H. Belloc in G. K.’s Weekly, August
13th, 1936)
The numbers of the New
I.R.A., who are members of the Communist Party of Ireland and who took part in
the formation of the Dublin Branch of the Left Book Club in 1936, seem to prove
that Russia is ready to utilize the Partition grievance in Ireland, in order to
prepare the way for the Popular Front and the attack on the Mass. (The Left Book Club is the creation of the
Jew, V. Gollancz) We must not forget that the General Convention of the New
I.R.A. on January 8th, 1933, issued a manifesto to the Irish people, which
stated unequivocally that:
“The reorganization of
Irish life demands the public ownership of the means of production,
distribution and exchange in a State based on the needs of the mass of the
people.” The I.R.A. thus accepted the central point of “Moscow’s” program. The
New I.R.A. ought to remember how a small section of the Basques were used as
the instruments of Russia in Spain. (The
Soviet program of action in Spain in 1932 included “the intensification of the
national revolutionary movement in Catalonia and Biscay.” (Theses of XII Plenum of the E.C.C.I.) The letters
E.C.C.I: stand for Executive Committee
of the Communist International)
They ought to bear in
mind, too, the fate that awaits them if “Moscow” triumphs. It will be given to
others to read that “they have disappeared,” like so many marshals, generals,
ambassadors, professors, technicians, and other dupes of all kinds, not to
speak of ordinary citizens in their thousands and hundreds of thousands. The
Natural Messiah is not meek and humble of heart like the Supernatural Messiah.
Labor unions ought to
watch their leaders closely, for every socialistic program which sacrifices
personal to common ownership operates in the long run towards the concentration
of all control in the hands of a small minority and the reduction of the rest
of the population to property-less serfdom. (Cf. Socialism Unmasked, by A. N. Field.)
It is one of the
tragedies of James Connolly’s life that he who believed firmly in the Supernatural Messiah never saw that Marxism
was simply a means for the installation of the reign of the new Messiah.
Too
great vigilance cannot be exercised by Irish Catholics with regard to the form
of union which may be brought about between Northern and Southern Ireland. The
union may be made to appear on the surface as a concession to Irish national
sentiment while, in reality, preparing the way for the direct attack on the
supernatural life of our country. We know how sadly our Catholic fellow-countrymen
in the Six Counties of North-East have been made to suffer, deprived as they
are of their fundamental rights as citizens in their own land, to use a recent
expression of His Eminence, Cardinal MacRory, and the Bishops of the North. (In their public pronouncement on the question of
conscription)
But
we in the South have already compromised lamentably with the French Revolution
in the section on Religion in the new Irish Constitution and we may be dragged
still further along the path to decay. (Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for the Dominions, in his broadcast
to America, 11th September, 1939, said: “Can we finally rid Europe of barriers
of caste and creed and prejudice? . . . Our new civilization must be built
through a world at war. But our new civilization will be built just the same.”
Weigh those words well; there is a very Masonic ring about them. The Times of 15th October, 1938,
quoted Mr. Eden as saying that changes in our social and economic structure as
far-reaching as those which have taken place in some other countries may be
necessary as a by-product of a war to liberate Europe from the systems of
Germany and Italy. Is this P.E.P)
Masonry
and that sub-Masonry, the Orange Society, will have no difficulty in forming a
common front with Communism against the Catholic Church.
The
German Nationalist Socialist Reaction against Internationalism
We
have seen that the Nazi movement in Germany is one of a number of national
reactions against the naturalistic Internationalism of the Jewish Nation and of
Freemasonry. This particular reaction is deeply infected with defective
philosophy as a consequence of the various deviations from the Divine Plan for
order, which have been playing upon the German mind. The history of the German-speaking
peoples, since the disastrous rupture of the unity of Europe in the 16th
century, is, in its broad outlines, an account of the gradually successful
efforts on the part of Protestant Prussia with its capital, Berlin, to oust
Catholic Austria, with its brilliant capital, Vienna, from the leadership of
the German-speaking peoples. Cardinal Richelieu’s policy of hiring Gustavus
Adolphus of Sweden against the Catholic Emperor during the Thirty Years’ War
(1618-1648) prepared the way. Frederick
the Great, that cynical, conscienceless ruler, carried on the work.
International Finance and Freemasonry, of which Bismarck was an agent, then
brought about the birth of the German Empire of the Hohenzollern, which grouped
a large number of German-speaking Catholics under the hegemony of Prussia. The
Nazi movement is now bringing the rest of the German-speaking Catholics under
the same rule, in the name of the naturalistic principle of race. The French
Freemason, Clemenceau, during the peace negotiations at the end of the Great
War, 1914-1918, refused to allow a South German State, predominantly Catholic,
to arise. The work of the Freemason, Bismarck, was not to be undone, though the
Austrian Empire was dismembered, and its social organization, impregnated with
Catholic tradition, broken to pieces. Now Catholic Austria and Slovakia, etc.,
have been incorporated under Berlin, so that Richelieu and Clemenceau, by
betraying the interests of the Mystical Body of Christ, have worked for the
aggrandizement of Prussia and against their own country.
The
animating principle of the Nazi movement is that the pure German race is God.
Pope Pius XI in the Encyclical of March 14th, 1937, On the
Condition of the Church in Germany, has stated it
unequivocally. In that Letter, every word of which – so the Sovereign Pontiff
assured his readers – was weighed in the scales of truth and charity, we read:
“While
it is true that the race or
the people, the
State or a particular form of
government, the representatives of the civil power, or other fundamental
elements of human society have an essential and honorable place in the natural
order, nevertheless, if anyone detaches them from this scale of earthly values
and exalts them as the supreme norm and standard of all things, even of religious
values, deifying them with idolatrous worship, he perverts and falsifies the
order of things created and constituted by God, and is far from true faith in
God and from a conception of life in conformity therewith … our God is the
personal God, transcendent, almighty, infinitely perfect, One in the Trinity of
Persons and Three in the Unity of the Divine Essence, Creator of the Universe,
Lord, King and ultimate purpose of the history of the world, Who does not
suffer and can never suffer any other divinity beside Him . . . only
superficial minds can fall into the error of speaking of a national God, of
a national religion, of
foolishly attempting to restrict within the narrow confines of a single race,
that God, Who is the Creator of the world, the King and Lawgiver of all
peoples, before Whose greatness the nations are as small as drops of water in a
bucket.” (Isaias xl, IS.)
One
or two phrases from Rosenberg’s book, The Myth
of the Twentieth Century. (Rosenberg may be styled
the theorician of the Nazi reaction. By a decree of the Hitlerite Government of
January 31st, 1934, he was given the charge of controlling the intellectual and
philosophical formation of the Nazi party) will show how
accurately Pope Pius XI diagnosed the error which is the root principle of the
deviations from order in present-day Germany. “The race-bound national soul” he
writes, “is the measure of all our thoughts, aspirations of will and deeds, the
final criterion of our values.” Again, “Right is the expression of the
exigencies of blood and race . . . a right holds good in the measure in which
it puts itself at the service of the race.” Accordingly, the moment Catholics
in Germany and Austria leave the church after Mass, they find society in the
process of organization on the principle that the highest form of life is
German national life, not the Divine life of Sanctifying Grace. German blood is
higher and nobler than Sanctifying Grace, participation in the Inner Life of
the Blessed Trinity, won for us by Our Lord’s obedience unto death. Hence it
will claim to organize life and morality. The German member of Christ is,
therefore, faced with a terrible conflict, for this deification of the German
Race and Blood will inevitably and logically lead to persecution, not only of
Jewish naturalism, with its practical deification of the Jewish Race, but also
of Catholic Supernaturalism.
Pope
Pius XI in his Letter of 14th March, 1937, On the
Condition of the Church in Germany, and the German Bishops
in their Joint Pastoral Letter of 19th August, 1938, bear witness to the
intensity of this persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany. It is well to
quote at some length from these authoritative pronouncements, in view of such
statements as the following from Herr Hitler, in the Reichstag on January 30th,
1939:
“No
one in Germany has so far been persecuted for his religious views, nor will any
one be persecuted on that account … But the National Socialist State will
ruthlessly make clear to those of the clergy who, instead of being God’s
ministers, regard it as their mission to
speak insultingly of our present Reich, its organizations or its
leaders, that no one will tolerate a destruction of this State … There can only
be political reasons for other countries, and for certain democratic statesmen
in particular, to take up the cudgels on behalf of individual German clergymen,
for these same statesmen were silent when hundreds of thousands of priests were
butchered or burnt in Russia; they were silent, when in Spain tens of thousands of priests and nuns were
massacred with bestial cruelty and burnt alive … It was just because of such
butchery that numerous National-Socialist and Fascist volunteers placed
themselves at the disposal of General Franco in order to help him in his
efforts to prevent the Bolshevik lust for blood from spreading over Europe and
over the greater part of the civilized world. It was anxiety for European
culture and for real civilization which compelled Germany to take sides in the
fight carried on in National Spain against the Bolshevik destroyer. It does not
say much for the mentality predominant in various countries which cannot
conceive of such a step being taken for purely unselfish reasons. However,
National-Socialist Germany sympathized with General Franco’s uprising out of a
sincere desire to see him succeed in delivering his country from the danger
which at one time had threatened to engulf Germany herself. Thus it cannot be
sympathy or pity for God’s
persecuted ministers, which mobilizes the interest of democratic citizens for individual clergymen in conflict with
the law, but rather an interest in the enemy of the German State. Let one
thing, however, be borne in mind in this connection: we shall protect the
German clergy in their capacity as God’s ministers; but we shall destroy
members of the clergy who are the enemies of the German Reich.” (This extract is taken from News from Germany, April, 1939. This
is a pro-Nazi Bulletin, circulated from Germany. The special number quoted from
dealt with The Church in Germany.)
Herr Hitler affirms that
Catholics are not being persecuted in Germany for their religion. Let us now
hear what the Pope and the German Bishops have to say on the subject.
In his Letter of 14th March, 1937, On the Condition of the Church in
Germany, Pope Pius XI wrote to the German Bishops as follows:
“In your districts,
Venerable Brethren, voices are raised
in ever louder chorus urging men to leave the Church. Among the spokesmen there
are many, who by reason of their official position seek to create the
impression that leaving the Church, and the disloyalty to Christ the King which
it entails, is a particularly convincing and meritorious form of profession of
loyalty to the present State. With cloaked and with manifest methods of
coercion, by intimidation, by holding out the prospect of economic,
professional, civic and other advantages, the loyalty of Catholics and
especially of certain “classes of Catholic officials to their faith is put
under a pressure that is as unlawful as it is unworthy of human beings. All our
fatherly sympathy and deepest condolence We offer to those who
pay so high a price for their fidelity to Christ and the Church … We address a
particularly heartfelt greeting to Catholic parents. Their God-given rights and
duties in education are this present moment at the very centre of a struggle
which could not conceivably be fraught with graver consequences for the future.
The Church of Christ cannot wait until her altars have been overthrown, until
sacrilegious hands have set the houses of God on fire, before she begins to
mourn and lament. When the attempt is made to desecrate the tabernacle of a
child’s soul sanctified in baptism, by an education that is hostile to Christ;
when from this living temple of God the eternal lamp of belief in Christ is
cast out and in its place is brought the false light of a substitute faith that
has nothing in common with the faith of the Cross … then it is the duty of
every professing Christian to keep his conscience clear of any culpable
co-operation in such dreadful work and corruption. The more the opponents are
at pains to deny and gloss over their dark intentions, all the more is a
vigilant distrust called for, and distrustful vigilance that has been aroused
by bitter experience. The formal maintaining of religious instruction,
especially when controlled and shackled by those who are not competent, in the
framework of a school that in other departments systematically and invidiously
works against the same religion, can never be a justification for a believing
Christian to give his free approval to such a school that aims at destroying
religion. We know, beloved Catholic parents, that there can be no question of
such willingness on your part.”
In
their Pastoral Letter of August 19th, 1938, the Bishops of Germany are quite
explicit on the subject of the deadly persecution aimed at the destruction of
the Catholic Church in Germany. Their affirmations are in open contradiction
with the Fuhrer’s assertions:
“In
our previous pastoral letters,” their Lordships write, “we have often spoken of
the struggle that is forced upon us. We have to point out today that
hostilities have not ceased but, that, on the contrary, acts of aggression are
on the increase and the end aimed at is clearly manifest. What is aimed at is
not merely the checking of the growth of Catholicism but the destruction of the
Catholic Church, the wiping out of Christianity and the setting up in its place
of a religion which is utterly alien to the Christian belief in the One True
God.
“It
is true that the practice of the Catholic religion is still free, but every
effort is made to keep Catholic youth away from Church services, by stigmatizing
the profession of the faith as a cause of division among the German people … The
Church is accused of having secret personal and political relations with
Bolshevik Russia. This accusation is maintained in spite of the Encyclicals and
the broadcasts of the Holy Father on Communism and even in spite of the
statements of leading Bolsheviks … To those who assert that the persecutions of
which we have been and are still the object are only logical reactions and
indispensable defensive measures on the part of the government of new Germany,
in face of the refusal of Catholics and their Pastors to be incorporated into
the new State, we reply as follows:
“We,
the Bishops of Germany, have often made public profession of our loyal
attachment to our people and to die nation’s new constitution, and we have
conscientiously accomplished our duties as citizens. But we want to proclaim
openly that several of the leaders of the new movement do not want to come to
any agreement with the Catholic Church and its representatives, either because
the fundamental principles of the new faith are opposed thereto or because the
turn of events has brought into control anti-Catholic elements who are eager
for the destruction of the Catholic Church. . . . The recent attacks on the
Bishop of Rottenburg, Dr. Sproll, clearly prove that the persecution is
directed not only against the Catholic Church but against the whole Christian
idea as such. Christianity is considered as one of the last relics of a
long-distant past, and as so much useless lumber in our day. According to the
principles set forth in the Racial Laws, the person and the life of Jesus
Christ are in contradiction with the German ideal of humanity. The principles
of His teaching and, in particular, the dogmas of Original Sin and Redemption,
of reward and punishment after death, are said to be drawn from the
superstitious legends of barbarous peoples who imposed their beliefs on the
Germans by force. Imbued with these principles, young people in different parts
of the country took it upon themselves to clear the public places of the
crucifix, the symbol of Christianity. They went so far as to destroy very
ancient Calvaries, taking no account of the artistic value of several among
them … While the Catholic Church is struggling against its sworn enemy, the
Bolshevik Anti-Christ … certain members of the government want to brand the
Church as the enemy of the nation and prepare its destruction systematically … Can
it not already be seen that the unity of the nation is undermined by the
Government’s persecution of religion? The
pretext put forward for the attack on religious beliefs is the anxiety to
prevent the divisions and weakness inevitably resulting from religious
differences. It seems to be forgotten that the struggle of anti-Christians
against Christianity is a source of still greater weakness … An attempt is
being made to get rid of the Christian God in order to replace Him by a “German
God.” What does a “German God” mean? Is he different from the god of other
peoples? If so, then there must be a special god for each nation and for each
people. This is the same as saying that there is no God … An official statement
has been made to the effect that a creative God is unacceptable … Thus the
concept of the One True God is denied and replaced by that of a god derived
from racial theory … The fate of these systems is well known. They disappear as
quickly as they arise and simply lead to an increase in the numbers of
unbelievers.”
Herr
Hitler’s Pronouncement of January 30th, 1939, is in flagrant contradiction with
the statements of Pope Pius XI and the German Hierarchy.
The
German reaction against Judaeo-Masonic Internationalism, then, represents the
deification of the German Race in opposition to the Jewish deification of the
Jewish Race. What are the currents that have come together to give birth to
this disordered reaction? They are many and varied. Two of them are especially
noteworthy. There is the current coming from the philosophy of Kant, Fichte and
Hegel, according to which the German mind is the one destined to mould Europe
and the world. Kant carried out the “Copernican revolution” of making things
conform to the human mind instead of the human mind seeking to grasp the
objective order of the world. Fichte insisted that the elaboration of the
social and, of course, of the moral order of the world was to be chiefly the
work of the German mind. According to Fichte, die living God is Humanity and
the German mind is the self-consciousness of God. In the evolution of the
Humanity-God, one state or people always leads the van, according to Hegel.
Greece and Rome led the ancient world. In Europe to-day there is a Chosen
People to carry on the development of the world – the German Race. To that
current another joins itself, namely, the one that comes from the French
writer, Gobineau, and from the Englishman, H. St. Chamberlain. According to
them, purity of blood and race is the great principle of progress for humanity,
not only of physical but of mental and moral progress. Accordingly, to mould
the world, the indispensable element is the purity of the German blood and
race. Thus we have the broad outlines of the preparation of Rosenberg’s
theories. For Rosenberg all Jewish blood is poisoned. That the blood of Our
Lord Jesus Christ, communicated to Him by His Immaculate Jewish Mother, should
be the source to men of their most real Life, the Supernatural Life of Grace,
infinitely more noble than mere racial or national life, even German and Aryan,
would seem to Rosenberg utter folly. (Cf. Propositions condemned in the Letter of the Sacred Congregation for
Seminaries and Universities, 13th April, 1938)
Rosenberg’s
dictum “once and for all, the so-called Old Testament must be abolished as a
book of religion” is condemned, in the Letter On the
Condition of the Church in Germany, in terms which bring
out at the same time the terrible opposition of Jewish Naturalism to the
Mystical Body of Christ Anyone, therefore,” writes Pope Pius XI, “who wishes to
have banished from the Church and from the school the Bible history and the
wise teachings of the Old Testament blasphemes against the word of God and
against Almighty God’s plan of salvation, and sets up as judge of the divine
plans a narrow and limited human mode of thought. He forsakes faith in Christ
who appeared in the reality of His Flesh, who took humanity of a people that
was later to nail Him to the cross. He understands nothing of the world drama
of the Son of God, who to the crime of His crucifiers opposed the divine action
of His redemptive death which, as High Priest, He offered for us, and so caused
the Old Testament to find its fulfillment, its purpose and its sublime
exaltation in the New.”
Behind
this deification of the German Race, there are also various secret forces.
Freemasonry means the acceptance of pantheism and the deification of man. (For the proofs of this, see The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern
World, passim, especially Appendix VI, pp. 346-351)
It is pantheistic in its
symbolism and in its inner or esoteric signification, so German Freemasonry,
both Grand Orient and Prussian, has contributed to the preparation of the
present mental aberration. In the previous edition of this pamphlet I insisted
upon this, and I added that Hitler suppressed the Grand Orient Lodges but that
the Prussian Grand Lodges, which never admitted Jews to membership and remained
strictly nationalist, simply transformed themselves into Orders of Chivalry
with a purely German symbolism. I have since been assured that they also were
suppressed. Is that suppression merely on the surface and akin to the closing
of the Masonic Lodges during the French Revolution when their members were
proceeding to action? It is difficult to know exactly. It is certain that the “German
Christian” attempt to introduce the neo-paganism of “the German Faith” into the
Protestant Church follows exactly the lines indicated in the declarations of
the three Prussian Grand Lodges, quoted in The
Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, pp. 311, 312. (An extract from the minutes of the assembly
of the Prussian Grand- Masters held on l0th February, 1924, is there
reproduced. At that reunion, a common statement was drawn up to the effect that
the three Prussian Grand Lodges stood for “a German and Christian view of life (auf dem Boden deutscher und christlicher
Anschauung). . . . We insist on these convictions as well as upon the respect
of the rights of others, because we are persuaded that there is no universal
Humanitarian Ideal and that, just as every personality has its root in race,
only boundless love of and fidelity to one’s race can develop personality)
It is also certain that
behind all the attempts of the German Government is the intention of molding
Christianity according to the ideas formulated by the German Christians. (The book, The
New Racial Paganism, translated from the Italian of Mario Bendiscioli,
by George D. Smith (Burns, Oates and Washbourne) contains a striking
confirmation of these views, though there is no allusion to Freemasonry,
Prussian or other, in the book. The little book quoted in the previous edition
of this pamphlet, namely Les Forces
Occultes en Allemagne, by H. du Mesnil-Thoret, contains an extraordinary
amount of useful information in a few pages)
It seems to me that the
hatred of the Supernatural Life of Grace displayed by the Hitlerite government
indicates the presence of a satanically inspired group such as Masonry. The influence of the Germanic Secret Society known
as Die Hetiige Vehme (The Holy
Tribunal) may suffice to
explain some things though not all, but again it is difficult to get authentic
information about this also. Besides those forces, the Freundeskreis of Hugen-berg, one of the apostles of
Pan-Germanism, and the famous Abteilung
drei, which corresponds
to the English Intelligence Service, have been important factors in the
preparation of the present regime.
We
must, however, carefully distinguish between the anti-supernatural character of
the Hitlerite government and the efforts of the same government to set the
German people free from the domination of international money-lenders. The
deification of the German Blood and Race is in flagrant opposition to the
Divine Plan for order through the Mystical Body of Christ and inevitably leads
to systematic persecution of splendid Catholic families. The Prussian tradition
of ruthless military aggrandizement is a perpetual menace to peace. But we must
be just, nevertheless, in spite of the Nazi Party’s hatred of Christ the King,
and remember that it took the Nazi revolution to abrogate the clause in the
constitution of the Reich by which “the president of the Reichsbank, Dr. Hans
Luther, was secured in his position, so that he could not be removed without
his own consent and a majority vote of the Board of the Bank of International
Settlements.” (An Analysis of Usury, by Jeffrey Mark,
p. 211)
Since
the Great War twenty-six Central Banks have been founded, after the model of
the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, Mr. Paul Warburg’s creation, (Mr. Paul Warburg was a German Jew and became an
American subject only a few years before he created the Federal Reserve Bank in
1913. Cf. All These Things, by
A. N. Field, pp. 4, 5. At a conference
of international bankers at Genoa, in 1922, it was resolved that: “in countries
where there is no central bank of issue, one should be established.”) and
have been gradually “attempting to set up a central body which will acknowledge
no authority above it on this planet … If this is ever effected, there can be
no doubt that the Bank for International Settlements will then be in as
autocratic a position with regard to world finance as the Bank of England is
now in with regard to British finance. This bankers’ dream would certainly make
a stable
banking system for the world. With the whole of the world’s gold stocks
centralized, and with each country’s internal banking system coordinated under
an all-powerful central bank, bank crashes and bank ‘runs’ (whether on a localized
or national scale) would be impossible: an illusory gold backing to a world
currency could be successfully maintained, and international gold tokens issued
and ‘redeemed’ in any quantities which suited the policy of the board of the
World Bank. At the same time, all hope of freedom and plenty – for the individual, for industry, and for nations
– would automatically disappear, and the
world would be relentlessly driven into complete idolatry under an
international gold-idol.” (An Analysis of Usury, by Jeffrey Mark, pp. 214, 215)
Against this process of
reduction to financial slavery, the Hitlerite government is struggling. As
Wyndham Lewis puts it:
“What Herr Hitler is
required to do is to merge Germany in the league of monopolist States.” (Count Your
Dead; They Are Alive! p. 318. When the Federal Reserve Bank had been a
few years in existence, in 1916, to be precise, President Woodrow Wilson thus
summed up the situation in U.S.A.: “A great industrial nation is controlled by
its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the
nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. . . .
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely
controlled and dominated Governments in the civilised world—no longer a
Government by conviction and the free vote of the majority, but a Government by
the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.” That is what “democracy”
means, and it is a good description of the system which the Board of
International Settlements has been quietly setting up all over the world. Cf. Wealth, Virtual Wealth, and Debt, by
Professor Soddy, pp. 290 et seq.)
When Hitler is exhorted
to make a contribution to peace, Wyndham Lewis goes so far as to say that it
really means:
“The peace-loving nations
are more heavily-armed than you are, Herr Hitler, and have at their back
unlimited resources, and they will unquestionably make war on you, if you do
not submit to their will, and if you persist in going on with this Sovereign
State stuff.”
And we must always bear
in mind that Marxism, as we have seen in the Foreword, is an instrument of
International Finance as well as Capitalism. The end of the war between the “Democracies”
and “Fascism” may see the process of reducing the world to slavery definitively
achieved, or at least considerably advanced, and the reign of the natural
messiah inaugurated, by the installation of a Communist or semi-Communist regime controlled by the Rulers of
Russia. This conflict, like all others, is simply a subsidiary phase of the
conflict waged by Satan against the Supernatural Messiah and the Mass.
In
the meantime, “the problem facing the totalitarian (or ‘Fascist’) States is different
from the bristling difficulties of the ‘democracies.’ The latter have enormous
potential wealth, which their money system, based on the Gold Standard, does
not permit them to distribute, and so this wealth is either sabotaged or not
produced. Whereas the former are faced with a real shortage of wealth, owing to
possessing limited overseas investments and controlling very limited access to
raw materials. This, particularly, applies to Germany. However, under a system
of money based upon production, wonders are being accomplished with what can be
produced from the soil, together with the results accruing from a reduced
foreign trade, carried on frequently by barter because of a world-organized
Jewish boycott of exports. It is for this reason that we see so many currency
restrictions in Germany. Her credits built up abroad must be carefully parceled
out between the varying needs of her ordinary import trade, those of
re-armament, etc.” (H.
T. Mills, Money,
Politics and the Future, p. 6)
In
The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World (Third
Edition, pp. 310 et
seq.) I gave a long quotation from the Viennese Catholic
Weekly, Schbnere Zukunft, to
show the enormous extent of Jewish influence in Germany. “Today,” wrote Dr.
Eberle, the distinguished Editor of that paper, in 1932, “Catholics are almost
completely silent about the question of Judaism, though Jewish influence, not
only in Russia, Hungary, Poland, France, England, America and Austria, but also
in Germany, has attained a degree of power and might, altogether out of
proportion to the number of Jews in the total populations of these countries.
Three-fourths of the large Banking concerns, at the head of which we must place
the four big D. Banks – Deutsche Bank, Darmstadter Bank, Disk-onto-Gesellschaft
and Dresdener Bank—three-fourths of the big exchanges, including those of
Berlin, Frankfort and Hamburg; three-fourths of the principal commercial
enterprises, including those of Karstadt, Tietz and Werheim; three-fourths of
the leading newspapers, of the publishing firms, of the telegraphic and advertising agencies, of
the groups controlling theatres and cinemas, are Jewish. In Austria, matters
are still worse. Of course, there are still many non-Jewish industrial
magnates, but they are becoming more and more subservient to banks directed by
Jews … And yet Catholics, in great measure, keep silence about the matter. This
silence is, in part, due to ignorance, especially in the provinces. But it is
also due to an already existing dependence on Jews. Three-fourths of the
Christian newspapers would be reduced to two-thirds or even one-half of their
present size, if they were compelled to give up the advertisements of Jewish
shops and banks, and Jewish advertisements would not be forthcoming if the
Jewish question were treated of.” (The domination of the Jewish Nation in
Germany was favored by the humanitarian Grand Orient Lodges. The Prussian
Lodges never admitted Jews to membership)
The reaction against this
intellectual and economic domination of the Jewish nation, instead of turning
in the direction of the Mystical Body of Christ, in which Germany was once
united with the rest of Europe, has turned in the direction of a materialist
Naturalism. The triumph of this Naturalism over the Supernatural Life of the Mystical
Body, by the annexation of Austria, was allowed to take place, without much
opposition from the countries under the influence of Masonic Naturalism. On the
annexation of Czecho-Slovakia, a Masonic creation due to the intrigues of
Masaryk and Benes, and the link between the Rulers of Russia and Western
Europe, Russia, which had signed a treaty of mutual help with Czecho-Slovakia
in 1935, did all she could to promote war. War was, however, averted in
September, 1938. It has broken out in September, 1939. What are the factors
that have contributed thereto? Hitler’s threats of force against Poland coming
after a number of others in the traditional Prussian style, the determination
of the financiers of the Bank of International Settlements to crush revolt
against their monetary system, the desire of the Judaeo-Masonic forces for
revenge on the Hitlerite regime, the determination of the Catholic Poles not to
yield except to force, Russia’s readiness to promote conflict in Europe and at
the same time to repeat history with regard to Poland, all these factors have
played their part.
(Mr. Arnold Leese in elaborating the influence
of the financial factor h\ The Fascist
(May, 1939), points out that the Prudential Assurance Company, which has
£535,000 in Jew-controlled Imperial Chemical Industries, and £179,000 in the
Jewish chain-stores of Marks and Spencer, is deeply interested in Poland. It
owns the Prudential Assurance Company of Warsaw, which in turn is interlocked
with the Utilities Corporation (Poland) Ltd., the Power and Traction Finance
Co. (Poland) Ltd., the British and German Trust, the British Overseas Bank, and
the Mid-European Corporation. These companies, he says, are largely Jewish, and
particularly the British and German Trust, which is managed by Helbert Wagg and
Co. He adds that The Times, 4th
April, 1939, p. 15, stated that “Jews are the chief owners of urban real estate
in Poland.”)
The action of the
Hitlerite government is not only favoring Satan’s schemes by being naturalistic
and anti-supernatural in Germany, but looks like playing into his hands by
enabling the Rulers of Russia to look forward to grand-scale preparations for
the reign of the New Messiah. In Stalin’s words already quoted:
“according to the
doctrine of Marx-Engels-Lenin all war truly generalized should terminate
automatically by revolution.”
The
Return to Order
In Das Konigtum Christi in Europa (The Kingship of Christ in Europe),
by Dr. Kurt Ziesche, Professor in the University of Breslau, we read:
“In the French Revolution
of 1789, a European attack on Christianity was for the first time directed
openly and definitely at the very point which Judaism had been assailing for
1800 years. The attack struck at the very essence of Catholicism. We Christians
call it the supernatural, that is, the order of the Inner Life of the Blessed
Trinity. For Jewry it is pagan mythology draped in Oriental Mysticism. The Jew
maintains that the pure natural religion of the prophets has been corrupted by
it . . . In 1789, the (then) most cultured nation in Europe quite openly and
frankly took the Jewish side. Thus, as the influence of the French Revolution
extended, there disappeared from Christian Europe what had hitherto been the
deciding factor in its opposition to Judaism, and Jewish forces henceforward
openly took their part in the development of European culture. In a short time
they became the leaders therein and to-day they practically have the field to
themselves. Judaism conceived as a natural religion is undoubtedly at the
present moment the strongest force in
molding the mind of Europe and the world . . . When we come to examine the
dominant philosophies of life in the world today we find that it is not the
Christian outlook which fashions the minds and determines the conduct of men: it
is rather the Jewish mentality. The strong clear-cut standpoint of supernatural
Christianity is by now restricted to a small portion of humanity. The Life of
Grace still communicates to many millions of men the peace of heart required to
suffer and endure, but the dominant attitude towards life, as manifested in the
thoughts, actions and general behavior of the white nations, is frankly Jewish
and is the product of whatever remnant of idealism is to be found in Judaism.
That is the saddest point in the whole business.”
Dr.
Ziesche, in 1926, when his book appeared, looked for a supernatural reaction
from the German Catholic Right Wing. Instead, there has come a naturalistic
national reaction.
Wherever,
since 1789, the influence of the French Revolution has penetrated, States have
declared that they have no duty to acknowledge the one true supernatural
religion which God Himself came down to teach men. Thus, States have openly
renounced the side of our Divine Lord in the struggle between Him and Satan. “He
that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me,
scattereth.” (St. Matth. xii, 30). This is social apostasy. “Never to have
known Jesus Christ in any way,” writes Pope Leo XIII, “is the greatest of
misfortunes, but it involves no perversity or ingratitude. But after having
known Him, to reject or forget Him, is such a horrible and mad crime as to be
scarcely credible.” (Encyclical Letter, Tametsi, Christ our Redeemer)
Having
renounced social acknowledgment of truth and order, States have placed all
forms of error on the same level as the Mystical Body of Christ, and as a
necessary corollary, Jews, who are preparing for the advent of the natural Messiah,
have been admitted as full citizens of the once Christian States. (A typical example of the influence of the French
Revolution is to be found in Article 44 of the new Irish Constitution.
According to Section 1 of that article, the State recognizes the special position of the Catholic Church as the
Church of the great majority of the citizens, and the State also recognizes the Church of Ireland, the
Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Methodist Church in Ireland, the Religious
Society of Friends in Ireland, as well as the Jewish Congregations, etc In
Section 2 of that article, the free profession of religion is guaranteed to
every citizen, subject to public order
and morality. But who is to decide what is truly moral? Suppose one of
the above-mentioned religious bodies wants divorce, will it be rejected simply
because the majority are against it or because the unity and indissolubility of
marriage are a symbol of the unity and indissolubility of Christ’s union with
His Mystical Body? Divorce is immoral and an insult to our Redeemer, even if a
majority can be found to vote for it.)
They
have profited by their citizenship to eliminate the influence of the
Supernatural Messiah, as is inevitable, for the process of imposition of their
natural national form means at the same time the elimination of that
supernatural life they reject so obstinately.
Here
it will be well, for the sake of clearness, to contrast the Jewish idea of
citizenship with the Catholic ideal. Owing to their messianic aspirations, that
is, to their looking forward to a messianic era to be achieved through the
dominating influence of their nation over the others, the members of the Jewish
nation retain their primary allegiance to their own nation, when becoming
citizens of other states and nations. As members of their own “messianic”
nation, they must strive for the domination of their nation over others, as
thus alone, they hold, justice and peace can be achieved on earth. The Jew
would fail in his duty to the Messiah to come if he did not subordinate the
interests of other nations to his own. The Catholic Church, the Mystical Body
of Christ, seeks to draw all nations into the unity of that Body so that Christ
may relive His Life to the full in the citizens of every nation. But the
Catholic Church, being supra-national and supernatural, does not aim at the
obliteration of national characteristics and qualities by the imposition of a
national form, but at their harmonious development by the elimination of the
defects due to original sin. Our Lord Jesus Christ, in and through the Catholic
Church, aims at showing forth to the world the resplendent qualities of the
English, French, Irish, German, American, etc., members of Christ. Catholic
saints are all convinced that the highest life in the world is not their
national life – in fact their lives are a striking proof of the contrary – but they
all know and teach that any act of subordination of the legitimate interests of
the nation of which they are members to those of any other nation would be a
sin and a failure in their duty to the Supernatural Messiah.
But,
then, will the Catholic Church allow the practice of other forms of worship? Of
course the Church will do so. The Catholic Church claims that the State shall
officially acknowledge only truth and order, but She insists on the respect of
the personal rights of all those who profess erroneous forms of belief. She has
shown this admirably in her traditional attitude to the members of the Jewish
Nation. What is this traditional attitude? It is to be found in the two
currents running through the official declarations of the Holy See concerning
the Jews. On the one hand, the Sovereign Pontiffs strive to protect the Jews
from physical violence and to secure respect for their family life and their
worship, as the life and worship of human persons. On the other hand, they aim
unceasingly at protecting Christians from the contamination of Jewish
Naturalism and try to prevent Jews from obtaining control over Christians. This
second current has been lost sight of, to some extent, since the French
Revolution. Yet Judaeo-Masonic influence in the Press and the Cinema and, above
all, in the manipulation of Finance and Credit, is being steadily exercised
against the doctrine of the Fall and the rule of Christ the King in society.
Catholics need to be made familiar, not only with the repeated Papal
condemnations of the Talmud but with the measures taken by the Sovereign
Pontiffs to preserve society from the inroads of Jewish Naturalism. The
Encyclical Letter, A Quo Primum (1751)
addressed by Pope Benedict XIV to the Polish Hierarchy, of which a translation
will be given in Appendix IV, is typical of the attitude of the Holy See in
this respect. It seemed monstrous to Pope Benedict XIV that individual
Catholics should be in danger of perversion by being servants in Jewish
families. Is it not much worse to have the whole social organization of a
country impelled in the direction of Naturalism by the financial forces of
Central Banks and the Bank of International Settlements? The directing control
of the Bank of England is a secret body. The efforts of the Macmillan Committee
of 1929 to throw light upon it “failed most completely . . . indeed, the
evidence of Mr. Montague Norman is a study of non-committal and evasive
answers.” (Cf. Facts about the Bank of England, by A.
N. Field, p.4)
The
same secrecy does not enshroud the Jewish control of gold. The representatives
of three Gentile firms meet the representatives of three Jewish firms at the
Rothschild office in St. Swithin’s Lane every day at ten minutes to eleven and
fix the day’s price for gold. The Rothschilds dominate the gold market. (Britain’s
Jewish Problem, by M. G. Murchm, pp. 136-138. On p. 137, he points out
that South Africa and Soviet Russia, die world’s two greatest gold-producing
countries, are controlled by Jews, and mentions the fact that America, the
country holding a large proportion of the world’s gold, is also-partially
controlled by them.)
To
those who remark that there are many Christians engaged in maintaining a
monetary system that will not permit the distribution of real wealth, I reply
that many of them are Freemasons and, therefore, infected with the virus of
anti-supernaturalism and that many others are simply instruments, wholly or
partly blind, of the Rulers of Russia. For example, Prof. Corliss Lamont, son
of the Senior Partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., is head of the “Friends of
Soviet Russia” and of the “American Council on Soviet Relations.” (Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit,
which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and
was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements,
will not be got rid of in a day. . . .” (Extract from the Victory Speech of
General Franco, Madrid, May 19th, 1939)
To
undo the effects of the French Revolution we must, therefore, teach the
integral truth about the Mystical Body of Christ. In face of Rosenberg’s
deification of the German race and his rejection of Jewish blood as poisoned,
we must proclaim that we, who affirm that our Lord Jesus Christ, Head of the
Mystical Body, redeemed us with Jewish blood, are spiritually descendants of
Abraham. “We are spiritually Semites,” to use Pope Pius XI’s oft-quoted phrase.
And in face of Jewish Naturalism, we must proclaim also the supremacy of the
Supernatural Life of the Mystical Body over the natural fife of Abraham’s
descendants as over every form of national life. With Pope Pius XI, in the
Encyclical Quas Primas, we
must battle against the mentality, thanks to which “by degrees the religion of
Christ was put on the same level as false religions and placed ignominiously in
the same category with them.” The financial factor must, however, not be left
out of account. If Hitler meets his Waterloo in his attempt to emulate Napoleon’s
efforts to get free from the money-power, we Catholics in the “democracies”
shall be exposed to another form of attack. Under a monetary system in which
real wealth is either destroyed or not produced, in order to keep up prices and
thus enable private money-creators to collect interest for the creation of the
medium of exchange, the property-less masses will sooner or later be hurled
against the Church and the religious orders. Accordingly, strongly as we must
condemn the horrible persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany, we ought
not to allow our expressions of condemnation of the Hitlerite anti-supernatural
program to be construed into approval of the monetary system against which he
is in revolt, and which is, as things stand, an instrument for the propagation
of Naturalism. (Has not Pope Pius XI in Quadragesitno Anno denounced
International Imperialism which derides^ the idea of patria or native land and holds that, where a man’s “cash-box”
is, there is his country? For Napoleon’s struggle against the money lenders,
cf. The Mind of Napoleon, by R.
McNair Wilson.)
The
Naturalistic adventure upon which Europe embarked at the French Revolution has
been disastrous for the nations of the West. The reaction against its
Internationalism is now threatening to prove disastrous for the Jewish Nation.
A step to be taken to undo the naturalism of the French Revolution and, at the
same time, prevent onslaughts on the Jews, is to withdraw citizenship of other
States from all of them and limit them to citizenship of one State, their own.
That State must not be Palestine, for the Jewish claim to Palestine is
implicitly a denial that they have disobeyed God and missed their vocation by
the rejection of the True Supernatural Messiah. It is the assertion in action
that the promised Messiah has not yet come
and that the day of their domination over the world will yet dawn. That way
lies disaster, because all their naturalistic attempts to impose their will on
God instead of accepting His, will involve the Jewish nation in further dire
catastrophes. (It is not necessary to
stress the fact that the Arabs have a natural right to the country they have
occupied for the last thirteen hundred years. Have the Danes a claim to England
now, because they were masters of the country a thousand years ago?)
The
cause of Christ the King is terribly hampered in the modern world because many
Catholics do not understand the meaning or see the harm of Naturalism. To take
one example, they are so accustomed to having all religions placed on the same
level that they are incapable of realizing how Satan gloats over the insult to
God involved therein. The world’s apology to the Blessed Trinity for that
insult, namely, the return to the unity of the Mystical Body, is delayed by the
fact that naturalistic compromises are accepted, as if they were full settlements
of the Divine claims, and the integral truth is not proclaimed. “When an
organism decays and becomes corrupt,” wrote Pope Leo XIII, “it is because it
has ceased to be under the action of the causes which had given it its form and
constitution. To make it healthy and flourishing again it is necessary to
restore it to the vivifying action of those same causes. So modern society, in
its foolhardy effort to escape from God, has rejected the supernatural order
and revelation; and it has thus withdrawn itself from the salutary efficacy of
Christianity … This sacrilegious divorce has resulted in bringing about the
trouble which now disturbs the world. Hence it is the pale of the Church which
this lost society must re-enter, if it wishes to recover its well-being, its
repose, and its salvation … But the return of Christianity will not be
efficacious and complete if it does not restore the world to a sincere love of
the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. In the Catholic Church Christianity
is incarnate. It is identified with that perfect, spiritual and, in its own
order, sovereign society, which is the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ and which
has for its visible head the Roman Pontiff, successor to the Prince of the
apostles … Legitimate dispenser of the teachings of the Gospel it does not
reveal itself only as the consoler and redeemer of souls, but it is still more
the unfailing (eternal) source of justice and charity, and the propagator as
well as the guardian of true liberty, and of that equality which alone is
possible here below … The equality which it proclaims does not destroy the
distinction between the different social classes … The liberty which it bestows
in no wise
conflicts with the rights of truth, because the rights of truth are superior to
the demands of liberty. Nor does it infringe upon the rights of Justice,
because the rights of Justice are superior to the claims of mere numbers or
force. Neither does it impugn the rights of God, because they are superior to
the rights of man.” (Apostolic Letter of
March 19th, 1902)
It is contrary to the
order and finality of the world to abandon the struggle for the return of
States to Christ the King. To aid in that return, by showing the ultimate
practical consequences of the fatal step taken at the French Revolution and
which has since been more or less accepted, to the exclusion of any higher
ideal, is the object of this book. “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
end, saith the Lord God” (Apoc. i, 8).
APPENDIX
IV
POPE
BENEDICT XIV AND THE JEWISH QUESTION
Encyclical
Letter of Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758)
to
the Primate Archbishops and Bishops of Poland, concerning what is Forbidden to
Jews Dwelling in the same towns and districts as Christians.
(Bullarium
Romanum, Vol. 26, pp. 297-300. The
Letter is officially designated as A
quo primum. It was sent in the year 1751.This Letter has been translated
with the kind collaboration of Rev. S. Rigby.)
Venerable Brethren
Health and Apostolic Benediction.
Through God’s great
goodness the foundations of our Holy Catholic Religion were first laid in the
Kingdom of Poland towards the end of
the tenth century, under Our Predecessor Leo VIII, thanks to the zealous
activity of Duke Mieceslas and his Christian spouse, Dambrowska. So we learn
from Dlugoss, the author of your Annals
(Book II, page 94). Ever since
mat time, the Polish nation, always pious and devout, has remained unshaken in
her fidelity to the holy religion adopted by her, and has shunned with loathing
every kind of sect. Thus, although the sects have spared no effort to get a
foothold in the Kingdom, in order to spread therein the seeds of their errors,
heresies and perverse opinions, the Poles have only the more staunchly and
vigorously resisted such efforts and given still more abundant proofs of their
fidelity.
Let
us take some examples of this fidelity. Mention must be made, in the first
place, of the one to be considered as peculiarly appropriate to our purpose,
and by far the most important. This is the spectacle, not only of the glorious
memory, enshrined in the sacred calendar of the Church, of martyrs, confessors,
virgins, men remarkable for their eminent sanctity, who were born, nurtured,
and died in the Kingdom of Poland, but also of the celebration in the same
Kingdom of many councils and synods, which were brought to a happy issue.
Thanks to the labours of these assemblies, a resplendent and glorious victory
was won over the Lutherans who had tried all ways and means to obtain an
entrance into and secure a footing in his Kingdom. For example, there is the
great Council of Petrikau (Piotrkov) which was held during the Pontificate of
our illustrious predecessor and fellow-townsman, Gregpry XIII, (M572-1585.) under the presidency
of Lipomanus, Bishop of Verona, and Apostolic Nuncio. At this Council, to the
great glory of God, the principle of “Liberty of Conscience” was proscribed and
definitively excluded from among the principles governing the public life of
the Realm. (See Translators’ Note at
end of Letter) Then, there is the substantial volume of the
Constitutions of the Synods of the Province of Gnesen. In these Constitutions
have been committed to writing all the wise and useful enactments and
provisions of the Polish Bishops for the complete preservation of the Catholic
life of their flocks from contamination by Jewish perfidy. These were drawn up
in view of the fact that the conditions of the time demanded that Christians and Jews should
dwell together in the same cities and towns. All this undoubtedly shows clearly
and fully what glory (as We have already said) the Polish Nation has won for
itself by preserving inviolate and intact the holy religion which its ancestors
embraced so many centuries ago.
Out of the many subjects
of which We have just made mention there is none about which We feel We ought
to complain except the last. But concerning this point We are forced to cry out
tearfully, “The finest color is changed.” (Lament,
Jer. IV. L) To
put it briefly, from responsible persons whose testimony is worthy of credence
and who are well acquainted with the state of affairs in Poland, and from
people living in the Kingdom, who out of zeal for religion, have forwarded
their complaints to Us and to the Holy See, We have learned the following
facts. The number of Jews has greatly increased there. Thus certain localities,
towns and cities, which were formerly surrounded by splendid walls (the ruins
thereof bear witness to the fact), and which were inhabited by a great number
of Christians, as We learn from the old lists and registers still extant, are
now in an ill-kept and filthy condition, peopled by a great number of Jews, and
almost bereft of Christians. Besides, there is in the same Kingdom a certain
number of parishes of which the Catholic population has diminished considerably.
The consequence is that the revenue forthcoming from such parishes has dwindled
so greatly that they are in imminent peril of being left without priests.
Moreover, all the trade in articles in general use, such as liquors, and even
wine, is also in the hands of Jews; they are allowed to have charge of the
administration of the public funds; they have become the leaseholders of inns
and farms and have acquired landed estates. In all these ways, they have
acquired landlord rights over unfortunate Christian tillers of the soil, and
not only do they use their power in a heartless and inhuman manner, imposing
severe and painful labours upon Christians, compelling them to carry excessive
burdens, but in addition, they inflict corporal punishment, such as blows and
wounds. Hence, these unhappy people are in the same state of subjection to a
Jew, as slaves to the capricious authority of their master. It is true that, in
inflicting punishment, the Jews are obliged to have recourse to a Christian
official to whom this function is entrusted. But, since that official is forced
to obey the commands of the Jewish master, lest he himself be deprived of his office, the tyrannical orders
of the Jew must be carried out.
We
have said that the administration of public funds and the leasing of inns,
estates and farms, have fallen into the hands of Jews, to the great and
manifold disadvantage of Christians. But We must also allude to other monstrous
anomalies and We shall see, if We examine them carefully, that they are capable
of being the source of still greater evils and of more widespread ruin than
those We have already mentioned. It is a matter fraught with very great and
grave consequences that Jews are admitted into the houses of the nobility in a
domestic and economic capacity to fill the office of major-domo or steward.
Thus they live on terms of familiar intimacy under the same roof with
Christians and continually treat them in a high-handed manner, showing their
contempt openly. In cities and other places, Jews may be seen everywhere in the
midst of Christians; and what is still more regrettable, Jews are not in the
least afraid to have Christians of both sexes in their houses attached to their
service. Again, since the Jews are much engaged in commercial pursuits, they
amass huge sums of money from these activities, and they proceed systematically
to despoil the Christians of their goods and possessions, by their excessive
usurious exactions. Though at the same time they borrow sums of money from
Christians at an immoderately high rate of interest, for the payment of which
their synagogues serve as surety, yet their reasons for so doing are easily
seen. First of all, they obtain money from Christians which they use in trade,
thus making enough profit to pay the interest agreed upon, and at the same time
increase their own wealth. Secondly, they gain besides as many protectors of
their synagogues and their persons as they have creditors.
The
famous monk Radulphus was in former times carried away by excessive zeal and
was so hostile to the Jews that, in the 12th century, he traversed France and
Germany preaching against them as enemies of our holy religion, and ended by
inciting the Christians to wipe them out completely. In consequence of his
intemperate zeal a great number of Jews were slaughtered. One wonders what that
monk would do or say, if he were alive today and saw what is happening in
Poland. The great S. Bernard opposed the wild excesses of Radulphus’s frenzy
and in his 363rd letter,
wrote to the clergy and people of Eastern France as follows:
“The
Jews must not be persecuted; they must not be slaughtered or hunted like wild
animals. See what the Scriptures say about them. I know what is prophesied about the Jews in the Psalm; ‘The Lord,’
says the Church, ‘has revealed to me His will about my enemies: Do not kill
them, lest my people become forgetful.’ They are assuredly the living signs
that recall to our minds the Passion of the Saviour. Moreover they have been
dispersed all over the world, so that while paying the penalty of so great a
crime, they may be witnesses to our Redemption”
Again in his 365th
letter, addressed to Henry, Archbishop of Mayence, he writes:
“Does
not the Church triumph every day over the Jews in nobler fashion by bringing
home to them their errors or converting them, than by slaughtering them? It is
not in vain that the Universal Church has established all over the world the
recitation of the prayer for the obstinately unbelieving Jews, that God may
lift the veil from over their hearts, and lead them out of their darkness into
the light of truth. For if she did not hope that they who do not believe may
believe, it would seem to be foolish and purposeless to pray for them.”
Peter, Abbot of Cluny,
wrote against Radulphus, in a similar strain, to Louis, King of the French. He
exhorted the king not to allow the Jews to be slaughtered. Nevertheless, as is
recorded in the Annals of the Venerable Cardinal Baronius under the year of
Christ, 1146, he at the same time urged the king to take severe measures
against them, on account of their excesses, in particular, to despoil them of
the goods which they had taken from the Christians or amassed by usury, and to
use the proceeds for the benefit and advantage of religion.
As for Us, in this
matter, as in all others, We follow the line of conduct adopted by Our
Venerable Predecessors, the Roman Pontiffs.
Alexander III (1159-1181) forbade Christians,
under severe penalties, to enter the service of Jews for any lengthy period or
to become domestic servants in their households. “They ought not,” he wrote, “to
serve Jews for pay in permanent fashion.” The same Pontiff explains the reason
for this prohibition as follows: - “Our ways of life and those of Jews are
utterly different, and Jews will easily pervert the souls of simple folk to
their superstition and unbelief, if such folk are living in continual and
intimate converse with them.” This quotation concerning the Jews will be found
in the Decretal “Ad haec” Innocent
III (1198 – 1216) after
having mentioned that Jews were being admitted by Christians into their cities,
warned Christians that the mode and the conditions of admission should be such
as to prevent the Jews from returning thus admitted out of pity into familiar
intercourse with Christians, they repay their hosts, as the proverb says, after
the fashion of the rat hidden in the sack, or the snake in the bosom, or the
burning brand in one’s lap.” The same Pontiff says it is fitting for Jews to
serve Christians, but not for Christians to serve Jews, and adds:
“The
sons of the free-woman should not serve the sons of the bond-woman. On the
contrary, the Jews, as servants rejected by that Saviour whose death they
wickedly contrived, should recognize themselves, in fact and in deed, the
servants of those whom the death of Christ has set free, even as it has
rendered them bondmen.”
These
words may be read in the Decretal, “Etsi Judaeos” In
like manner, in another Decretal, “Cum sit nimis” under
the same heading, “De Judaeis et Saracenis”
(On Jews and Saracens) he forbids public
positions to be bestowed on Jews:
“We
forbid the giving of public appointments to Jews because they profit by the
opportunities thus afforded them to show themselves bitterly hostile to
Christians.”
In
his turn, Innocent I V (1243 – 1254) wrote
to Saint Louis, King of the French, who was thinking of expelling the Jews from
his domains, approving of the king’s design, since the Jews did not observe the
conditions laid down for them by the Apostolic See:
“We,
who long with all Our heart for the salvation of souls, grant you full
authority by these present letters to banish the above-mentioned Jews, either
in your own person or through the agency of others, especially since, as We
have been informed, they do not observe the regulations drawn up for them by
this Holy See.”
This
text can be found in Raynaldus, under the year of Christ 1253, No. 34.
Now,
if any one should ask what is forbidden by the Apostolic See to Jews dwelling
in the same towns as Christians, We answer that they are forbidden to do the
very things they are allowed to do in the Kingdom of Poland, namely, all the
things We have enumerated above. To be convinced of the truth of this
statement, there is no need to consult a number of books. One has only to peruse
the Section of the Decretals “De Judaeis et Sara-tenii’
(On Tews and Saracens) and read the
Constitutions of the Roman Pontiffs, Our Predecessors, Nicholas I V (1288 – 1294);
Paul IV (1555 – 1559);
Saint Pius V (1566 – 1572);
Gregory XIII (1572 – 1585);
and Clement VIII (1592 – 1605),
which are readily available as they are to be found in the Bullarium Roman-um. You,
however, Venerable Brethren, do not need to take upon yourselves even that much
reading in order to see clearly how matters stand. You have only to go through
the Statutes and Regulations drawn up in the Synods of your predecessors, as
they have been most careful to include in their Constitutions everything that
the Roman Pontiffs have ordained and decreed concerning this matter.
The
kernel of the difficulty, however, lies in the fact that the Synodal Decrees
have either been forgotten or have not been carried out. It is incumbent upon
you, therefore, Venerable Brethren, to restore them to their pristine vigor.
The character of Your sacred office demands that you should zealously strive to
have them enforced. It is meet and fitting, in this matter, to begin with the
clergy, seeing that it is their duty to point out to others how to act rightly
and to enlighten all men by their example. We are happy in the confidence that,
by the mercy of God, the good example of the clergy will bring back the
straying laity to the right road. All this you can enjoin and command with the
more ease and assurance because, as We have learned, from the reports of trustworthy
and honorable men, you have not leased either your goods or your rights to Jews
and have avoided any dealings with them in lending or borrowing. You are thus,
so We are given to understand, completely free from, and unembarrassed by, any
business relations with them.
The
systematic mode of procedure prescribed by the sacred canons for exacting
obedience from the refractory, in matters of great importance like the present,
has always included the use of censures and the recommendation to add to the
number of the reserved cases those which one foresees would be a proximate
cause of danger or peril for religion. You are well aware that the Holy Council
of Trent took every care to strengthen your authority, especially by
recognizing your right to reserve cases. The Council did not merely refrain
from limiting your right exclusively to the reservation of public crimes, but
went much further, and extended it to the reservation of acts described as more
serious and detestable, so long as the said acts were not purely internal. On
divers occasions, in various decrees and circular letters, the Congregations of
Our August Capital have laid down and decided that under the heading of “more
serious and detestable offences” should be ranked those to which mankind is
most prone, and which are detrimental to ecclesiastical discipline, or to the
salvation of the souls entrusted to the pastoral care of the bishops. We have
elaborated this point at some length in Our Treatise
on the Diocesan Synod, Book V, Chapter V.
We
beg to assure you that every help that We can give shall be at your disposal to
ensure success in this matter. In addition, to meet the difficulties that will
inevitably present themselves, if you have to proceed against ecclesiastics
exempt from your jurisdiction, We shall give to Our Venerable Brother, the
Archbishop of Nicea, Our Nuncio in your country, suitable instructions on this
point, so that you may be able to obtain from him the faculties required to
deal with the cases that may arise. At the same time, We solemnly assure you
that, when a favorable opportunity offers, We shall treat of this matter, with
all the zeal and energy We can muster, with those by whose power and authority
the noble Kingdom of Poland can be cleansed of this foul stain.
Do you, Venerable
Brethren, first of all, beg with all the fervor of your soul, the help of God
who is the Author of all good. Implore His aid also, by earnest prayer, for Us
and for this Apostolic See. Embracing you in all the fullness of charity, We
very lovingly impart, both to you and to the flocks committed to your care, the
Apostolic Benediction.
Given at Castel Gandolpho, 14th June, 1751, in the 11th year of Our Pontificate.
TRANSLATORS’
NOTE
POPE LEO X I I I ON FALSE
“LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE.”
“And, first let us
examine that liberty in individuals which is so opposed to the virtue of
religion, namely, liberty of worship,
as it is called. This is based on the principle that every man is free to
profess as he may choose any religion or none.
“But, assuredly, of all
the duties which man has to fulfill, that, without doubt, is the highest and
holiest which commands him to worship God with devotion and piety. This follows
of necessity from the truth that we are ever in the power of God, are ever guided
by His will and providence, and, having come forth from Him, must return to
Him. Add to which no true virtue can exist without religion, for moral virtue
is concerned with those things which lead to God as man’s supreme and ultimate
good; and, therefore, religion which (as St. Thomas says) “performs those
actions which are directly and immediately ordained for the divine honour,” (IIa, IIae
Q. 81, a. 6.) rules
and tempers all virtues. And if it be asked which of the many conflicting
religions it is necessary to adopt, reason and the natural law unhesitatingly
tell us to practice that one which God enjoins, and which men can easily
recognize by certain exterior notes, whereby divine Providence has willed that
it should be distinguished, because in a matter of such moment, the most
terrible loss would be the consequence of error. Wherefore, when a liberty such
as We have described is offered to man, the power is given him to pervert or
abandon with impunity the most sacred
of duties, and to exchange the unchangeable good for evil; which, as We have
said, is no liberty, but its degradation, and the abject submission of the soul
to sin.
“This
kind of liberty, if considered in relation to the State, clearly implies that
there is no reason why the State should offer any homage to God, or should
desire any public recognition of Him; that no one form of worship is to be
preferred to another, but that all stand on an equal footing, no account being
taken of the religion of the people, even if they profess the Catholic faith.
But, to justify this, it must needs be held as true that the State has no
duties towards God, or that such duties, if they exist, can be abandoned with
impunity, both of which assertions are manifestly false. For it cannot be
doubted but that, by the will of God, men are united in civil society; whether
its component parts be considered; or its form, which implies authority; or the
object of its existence; or the abundance of the vast services which it renders
to man. God it is who has made man for society, and has placed him in the
company of others like himself, so that what was wanting to his nature, and
beyond his attainment, if left to his own resources, he might obtain by
association with others. Wherefore civil society must acknowledge God as its
Founder and Parent, and must obey and reverence His power and authority.
Justice, therefore, forbids, and reason itself forbids, the State to be
godless; or to adopt a line of action which would end in godlessness – namely,
to treat the various religions (as they call them) alike, and to bestow upon
them promiscuously equal rights and privileges. Since, then, the profession of
one religion is necessary in the State, that religion must be professed which
alone is true, and which can be recognized without difficulty, especially in
Catholic States, because the marks of truth are, as it were, engraven upon it.
This religion, therefore, the rulers of the State must preserve and protect, if
they would provide – as they should do – with prudence and usefulness for the
good of the community. For public authority exists for the welfare of those
whom it governs; and although its proximate end is to lead men to the
prosperity found in this life, yet, in so doing, it ought not to diminish, but
rather to increase, man’s capability of attaining to the supreme good in which
his everlasting happiness consists: which never can be attained if religion be
disregarded.
“All
this, however, We have explained more fully elsewhere. We new only wish to add
the remark that liberty of so false a nature is greatly hurtful to the true
liberty of both rulers and their subjects. Religion, of its essence, is
wonderfully helpful to the State.”
Encyclical Letter of Pope
Leo XIII, Libertas
Praestantissitnum, June 20th, 1888.
APPENDIX
V
THE
FUNCTIONING OF THE GOLD-STANDARD MONETARY SYSTEM
Lest
some of my readers may think that I have insisted too much upon the disastrous
effects of the monetary system associated with the gold-standard, a few words
may be helpful. Money or token-wealth has been invented, to use St. Thomas’s
expression, for the convenience of exchange and as a measure of things
saleable. Thanks to it, families can procure, by the process of exchange, far
more easily than by barter, that sufficiency of nature’s goods or real wealth
needed by their members for a virtuous life. The fact is, however, that the
gold-standard system does not aim at the distribution of socially-produced
wealth but at making money a source of revenue to the issuers and a means of
arriving at the greatest possible control for them by the creation and
perpetuation of debt. As a measure of things saleable, money is meant to be
stable. The yard measure and the pound avoirdupois may not be altered
arbitrarily. Yet “we are in an age of monetary policy,” writes Professor Soddy,
“when the value of it is continually altered by the means well-known to the
banking profession, to make it worth less or more, thus to raise the price
level or to lower it . . . In all this there is not given a moment’s
consideration to the most elementary principles of justice to the owners of the
money, who have a right to receive again value equivalent to that which they
have given up.” (The R6le of Money, p. 85 “A sane money system is one that aims at
keeping in circulation the largest volume of money that can be absorbed without
inflation of the price level . . . the principle of control of the currency of
New Zealand should be changed from stability of the exchange rate with sterling
to stability of the internal price level.”(A N. Field, in Examiner, May, 1939
Arbitrary
changes in
the volume of currency cause prices to rise or decline; and these arbitrary
changes affect the welfare of every citizen. How are they effected? By the
contraction and expansion of credit due to movements of gold. Thus we have
fixed foreign exchanges with fluctuating internal price-levels. Those who
control gold can manipulate the volume of credit, thus controlling the
price-level in different countries. And this power can be used to acquire
mortgages not only over entire industries but over whole countries. We read in The Builders’ Merchants’ Journal
(January, 1939):
“For instance, by the
judicious transference of (say) ten millions of gold from France to England, a
systematic depreciation of probably ten
times that amount could be brought about in the market value of French
securities without undue difficulty, and a corresponding rise effected on the
English Exchange. By then transferring the same amount of gold from London to
New York, a similar double effect could again be achieved. Next, by
transferring the gold from the U.S.A. to (say) Belgium and the Netherlands, the
process could be once more repeated. Then by switching the bullion across to
England, a similar rise and fall would result. Finally, by shipping the gold
from London back to its original resting-place in Paris, French securities
would be restored to normal, and British stock values again depressed. The
alteration in market values in the case of every gold transfer as above
outlined would probably be at least ten times the amount of the bullion
actually shipped, and the astute individuals engaged in the execution of this
interesting financial roundabout might within the space of two or three years
amass (via nominees) anything from (say) £100,000,000 to £500,000,000 by
judiciously exploiting the possibilities of the markets – and without arousing outcry
or general suspicion amongst the investing public. No wonder it becomes
possible for banks and other big financial interests to hold ‘blanket’
mortgages not only (in effect) over entire industries, but also (to all
practical intents and purposes) over whole countries.”
A concrete example of the
swindling depicted by The Builders’
Journal is given by the late Arthur Kitson in his book, The Bankers’ Conspiracy, published
in 1933. On pages 79 and 80 of that work, we read:
“Some years ago the Bankers’ Magazine gave a
startling example of the depreciation in the prices of 325 of our
representative investments caused by the withdrawal of £11,000,000 in gold from
the Bank of England by a group of American financiers. The transfer of this
amount from London to New York during a period of a few weeks caused a fall of
prices equivalent to £115,500,000! The absorption of the same gold caused a
corresponding advance in the prices of certain American securities. By first
selling English securities and buying American, they had merely to transfer so
much gold and afterwards reverse the transactions by buying and selling
respectively and the game was won! As a well-known financial writer stated at
the time: ‘These speculators were playing upon two tables at the same time – one
in London and the other in New York – with the certainty of winning on both.’”
When a country has been
impoverished and disorganized by a stock-exchange coup such as has just been
mentioned, an attack on the property of the Catholic Church and the religious
orders can be successfully launched by the Masons and other anti-supernatural
elements. A typical example is to be found in Spain between 1834 and 1840. The
Rothschilds were anti-Carlist in the war of succession, which was going on,
because they feared that the success of Don Carlos would mean that they would
lose the famous Almaden quicksilver mines. By a “bear” operation on the stock-exchange
the Rothschilds sent Spanish securities tumbling down. The Prime Minister,
Count Toreno, was forced to resign, and the Rothschilds realised a profit far
beyond the amount of the bribe they had given him previously. Count Toreno was
succeeded by Mendizabal, a Jew by race and religion. He had been speculating in
Spanish securities but had “got the tip” from Nathan Rothschild when the
Rothschilds decided to bring about the slump. Mendizabal increased the Spanish
deficit. All that and more can be learned from Count Corti’s Reign of the House of Rothschild.
It will serve as a commentary on the laconic information we get in the Catholic Encyclopedia (article
on Spain) wherein we read:
“. . . the Liberals
ruled, except in the provinces occupied by the Carlists, and the moderate
ministry of Martinez de la Rosa . . . was succeeded by those of Toreno and of
Mendizabal, who put up the possessions of the Church for sale (1836).”
The Catholic Encyclopedia omits to say that all the
convents, with some exceptions, had been confiscated in 1835. (“More than one hundred years ago, the Church
in Spain was disestablished and despoiled of all real property, while the Religious Orders were suppressed and
dispersed under the laws framed by Don Jose de Mendizabal, a Finance Minister
of that day.” (The Conflict in Spain, by
the Marquis de Merry del Val.)
It
makes no reference to the collusion between Rothschild and Mendizabal.
Stabilization
of the internal price level of countries is one of the most needed social
reforms in the natural order. Without it the demand for social justice becomes
a mockery. “Stabilizing money takes the money factor out of price fluctuation
and leaves just the non-monetary factors of demand and supply of commodities.
As one well-known writer on these subjects has pointed out, the money factor is
like the tides of the ocean, and the commodity demand-and-supply factor is like
the waves of the sea. . . . The tides are the big factor determining the level
of the water, and the waves a comparatively small factor even in the greatest
storm. The money factor is like the tides, and is the principal thing in
determining the price-level.” (A. N. Field in Examiner, May,
1939. He says elsewhere in the same issue: “Money must be made a just measure
of value. If it is not, every money transaction perpetrates injustice, with
debts on one level and prices of commodities on another level. And injustice
sooner or later means the disintegration of the existing social order.”)
HIGH
TAXATION AND THE PREPARATION OF THE SERVILE STATE OR COMMUNIST STATE
There
is, moreover, another aspect of the question. The crushing burden of taxation
due to the payment of interest on debt is utilized as means for the preparation
of Communism or of the Semi-Communist State advocated by P.E.P. Let us first
hear Arthur Kitson on the burden of debt and then, some Socialist authorities
on the end to which taxation is being directed.
The Builders’ Journal (April,
1939) quotes the following passage from Arthur Kitson’s writings:
“Our
National Debt on March 31st, 1919, was £7,434,949,429. From 1920 to 1933
inclusive there has been paid towards the redemption of the National Debt
£4,104,843,063. During the same period there has been paid in interest charges on the
debt £4,288,925,186. . . . In spite of this, our National Debt on December
31st, 1933 (including our debt to the U.S.A.), was £7,947,000,000, being
£512,000,000 more than
the original debt of March 31st, 1919! In other words, the nation has paid on
account of the debt and interest charges the sum of £868,000,000 more than the
original debt of March 31st, 1919, without reducing the original debt by one
shilling!” Money-lending to nations seems to be even more lucrative than
lending to individuals! Mr. Kitson, however, in The Bankers’
Conspiracy,
shows that matters were still worse than these
figures indicate. The Cunliffe Currency Committee’s Report, issued in August,
1918, recommended the restoration of the gold-standard at the pre-War parity “without
delay.” In The Bankers’ Conspiracy, p.
92, we read:
“In
advising the restoration of the gold-standard they are advising the Government
to increase the National Debt and so add to the burden of taxation which the
British public will have to bear. At present our National Debt approximates to
£8,000,000,000! But what are these pounds and with what were they subscribed?
The Committee must know that the War Loans were subscribed in ‘cheap’ pounds,
approximating in value to only one-half of the pre-War pounds. Hence our War
debt, expressed in pre-War pounds, would be less than £4,000,000,000! By
restoring the gold-standard, the public debt would therefore be doubled and
become £8,000,000,000 at pre-war value! Hence
every taxpayer would be compelled to pay twice the amount of taxes in his
products and services by reason of the Committee’s recommendations. Very nice
for the money-lenders and war-loan subscribers, but rather hard on the wealth
producers and taxpayers! . . . The money-lenders’ code of morals – which the Committee apparently endorses – is that, whilst it is very wicked for debtors to
defraud their creditors, creditors are quite justified in robbing their
debtors. This seems to be the moral basis of the gold-standard.”
It
may be well to add that Mr. Winston Churchill restored the gold-standard in
1925.
On
the other hand, “this high-taxing, high-spending policy is laid down in
innumerable Socialist handbooks as an essential preliminary to the imposition
of full Socialism. Private enterprise is to be so crushed with burdens of every
sort that it is glad to throw in the sponge and quit. . . . Taxation is the
chief means,” says Britain’s Socialist Fabian Society in its Tract No. 127,
adding that ‘to the Socialist, the best of governments is that which spends the
most.’ Similarly emphatic was a leading American exponent of Socialism, the
late Morris Hillquit (a Jew whose real name was Misca Hilkowicz), who pointed
out in his Socialism Summed Up (1913)
that by high taxes, shorter hours, and shorter week, freedom to strike, etc.,
the owners of businesses could be reduced to the point of being glad to be
taken over by the State. Another eminent Jewish Socialist, Professor Laski, of
the London School of Economics, is equally strong on ‘the weapon of taxation’ .
. . Mr. George Bernard Shaw, eminent British Socialist, puts the bedrock idea
of the whole business very bluntly in the British Labor
Monthly
of October, 1921. He said: ‘Compulsory labor, with
death as the final penalty, is the keystone of Socialism.’ . . . In a fully
Socialized state, opposition to the ruling clique must from the force of
circumstances take the form of underground conspiracy, working secretly until
it is strong enough for an open test of strength. Against this danger the
ruling clique in turn must protect itself with a gigantic spy service. . . .
Russia’s gigantic spy service and perpetual ‘liquidations’ of suspected
oppositionists are no accidental features. They are inherent in full Socialism.
As to how they work out in practice a former Bolshevik Commissar of Justice
named Steinberg gave the following description in the New York Times of
February 23rd, 1930:
“On
the one side, we have intoxication with power and a realization that anything
done by him who wields power will go unpunished; and, on the other, fear,
depression, silent hatred and sycophancy; the rise of two classes, masters and
slaves. In turn the relations among the suspects become themselves perverted.
In the struggle to win the favor of the authorities, treachery assumes
appalling dimensions. All become slaves with respect to the government, and
wolves with respect to one another.’ The fatal defect of Socialism is its utter
incompatibility with respect for personality. Human freedom is drowned in an
ocean of materialism. The Marxian class-war is intended solely to set the
Christians at one another’s throats … The whole trend of Socialism is to
deprive Christians of their property and to reduce them to a sub-human, animal
status. It puts them in the position the Talmud says
it is their destiny to occupy. Finance-Capitalism began the work. Socialism
completes it.” (A. N. Field in Examiner, May. 1939)
APPENDIX
VI
NOTE
ON DEMOCRACY
The
word “Democracy” is used in a variety of senses but it properly signifies a
particular form of government. It is government by the people as contrasted
with Monarchy and Aristocracy, which are governments by one man and by a few
men respectively. The difference between these three morally lawful kinds of
government is a difference in the form, not in the purpose or end, of
government. The end of government is the same for all forms: it is the
promotion of the common good of the people as a whole and the safeguarding of
their rights as persons.
We
must distinguish between Direct Democracy
and Indirect Democracy.
Direct Democracy is found where the ordinary citizen actually governs in
person. This form existed in ancient Greece and still exists in the
Landesgemeinde of some of the Swiss Cantons. But it is possible only in small
communities. Indirect Democracy is that in which the people govern by their
representatives. This is the only form of democracy possible in large states or
nations. (Thus far I have
summarized an excellent article in the Irish
Independent of January 11th, 1937, by Most Rev. Dr. Browne, Bishop of
Galway)
But
here again we must subdivide, for there are two kinds of Indirect Democracy,
the legitimate form and what we may call the Rousseauist-Masonic form. The
legitimate form of Indirect Democracy is that in which those who govern are,
firstly, chosen from among the whole people; and secondly, designated by the
votes of the whole people. Authority has its source in God. This is democracy
as understood by St. Thomas. It is one of the forms of government possible de jure, to be adopted or not by
a people according to history and circumstances. In certain circumstances it
will give excellent results, but it will not do so infallibly. The
Rousseauist-Masonic form of Indirect Democracy should rather be called
Democratism. It is a philosophico-religious myth based upon two dogmas:
firstly, the dogma of the Sovereign People, that is to say, of the People
always in possession of Sovereign Power, of which they, not God, are the
source, and considering those who govern as their delegates. These delegates
owe obedience to the People instead of being looked upon as Rulers who must be
obeyed; secondly, the dogma that the vote of the people makes or creates what
is right and just, thus again exalting man to the place of God.
In
spite of the fact that this Rousseauist-Masonic democratism has been frequently
condemned by the Catholic Church, (Notably by Pope Pius X in his condemnation of the Sillon, August, 1910. Pius X there quotes Leo XIII. Cf. The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, pp. 42, 4) the functioning of
legitimate democracy is deeply influenced by these errors. Many Catholics
proclaim that “the people can do no wrong” and that “all men are equal” without
being aware of the Rousseauist tinge of their thoughts. Many politicians seem
to think that a majority at an election puts them above the moral law. These
evils are intensified by the fact that behind the facade of democracy, states
and nations have come to be dominated by private financial interests. “This
domination is permanent, irrespective of the party in office. All parties
require money, and it often becomes profitable to the Money Power to finance
all alike … Party government has completely failed during recent years to give
the nation any real protection against the most dishonest and unprincipled
manipulations of the money system by private interests which have turned
legislatures into a marionette show with puppets moved on wires from behind the
scenes.” (A N. Field in Examiner, May. 1939)
What
masquerades as Democracy throughout the world is, therefore, in great part,
government by certain financial groups more or less inspired by
Rousseauist-Masonic naturalistic theories.
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