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A publication of Traditional Catholics of America ¢ Editor: Fr. Francis E. Fenton, STL + Volume X, No. 8 + December 1, 1989
John Kenneth Weiskittel
@ ‘an September 1, 1939, German armedforces invaded major Catholic authorities on secret societies in our century,
“# Poland, setting in motion World War IL. In terms of revealed in his book, Societe des Nations, Super-Etat
the sheer number of those who fought and died, of civilian Maconnique (League ofNations, Masonic Superstate), that a
casualties, of the scope of military, naval and aerial opera- Masonic Congress held in Paris in June, 1917, mapped out
tions, and of the devastation of cities and countrysides,it re- the destruction of the Austrian Empire as well as the
mains a conflict without equal in the annals of history. It has establishmentof the League of Nations. (Cited, Father Denis
inspired more books, perhaps, than all other wars Fahey, C.S.SP., The Mystical Body of Christ and the
combined. Reorganization ofSociety, Regina, 1984 ed., p. 110)
Now,fifty years after the war began, there have been any The Versailles Treaty is firmly linked to the League of
number of reports analyzing its causes and consequences. Nations. In discussing American President Woodrow Wil-
For the week of August 28/September4, 1989, U.S. News & son’s Fourteen Points and their influence over the proceed-
World Report devoted a double issue to the topic. The ings, historian Nesta Websterrelates:
_ magazine’s coverhas a painting of a maniacal-looking Adoif
Hitler and theheadline, “Hitler's War Against The World,” The League of Nations Covenant was accepted at a
while the contents page bears a photograph of the German plenary session of the Peace Conference on April 18,
dictator with the caption, “Adolf Hitler: The one manre- 1919. The counsels of President Wilson were again
sponsible for World War II.” allowed to prevail in the matter of the Treaty of Ver-
sailles, signed on June 28 of the sameyear, and in-
This example is representative of much of the coverage cluded the Covenant of the League of Nations as its
we’re seeing. The underlying method seems to be one of first twenty-six articles. With the ratification of the
invoking Hitler's ghost and pinning all the blame there. In Treaty on January 10, 1920, the League began its offi-
truth, however, this approachis far too simplistic andfails to cial existence and heldits first Council six days later.
take a great deal into account. It may be convenientto finger (Surrender ofan Empire, London, 1931, p. 34)
Hitler as the lone culprit, butis it accurate?
There is some evidence that Wilson was a Mason (thoughhis
What sucharticles do is to perpetuate myths that some—in- name rarely appears in lists of presidents with Lodge ties).
cluding America’s enemies—are happy to see flourishing. According to Webster, a French Catholic publication of
The following study will examine a few of these and look at 1919 charged that Masonry in France and its colonies
the secret side of that great conflict. toasted his efforts. In the fall of 1918, she writes, the Comité
de Vigilance et d’Action Maconnique of Algiers cabled to
The Phony Peace their “‘illustrious Brother Wilson their most fraternal
World War II may, in certain respects, be said to have been homage and congratulations on his Masonic work in the
an inevitable consequence of the peace negotiations that War for the rights and liberties of the people’—to which the
followed the First World War. When the termsof the treaty, secretary of President Wilson replied with thanks.” (p. 59.
signed at Versailles in 1919, were announced, France’s war Webster also gives a number of examples of quotes from
hero, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, made an astute observation. official Masonic sources showingtheir role in and support of
“This is not peace,” he stated, “Tt is an armistice for twenty the League of Nations, including a call by the Grand Lodge
years.” of France for “the formation of a United States of Europe, or
rather a Federation of the World.”)
As has been asserted in these pages before, World War I was
precipitated by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, For Germany, the reparations demanded by the Versailles
heir to the Catholic Hapsburg throne that ruled the Austro- Treaty amounted to the equivalent of billions of dollars. In
Hungarian Empire, an act planned, ordered and carried out addition, it had lands seized and given to France and
by Freemasonry. The war succeeded in destroying that em- Poland. British Prime Minister Lloyd George wentso far as
pire and with it the strongest Catholic monarchy in to label the Kaiser a “war criminal” and suggested he te
Europe—and in the world. Leon de Poncins, one of the executed. (Whatever the extent of his culpability, the Kaiser
was hardly alone in such acts. He was, for example, joined in On the face of it, Stalin and Hitler were most unlikely
abetting the conspirators who toppled Russian Czar Nich- allies. What could they possibly have in common? In
olas If by American and British financiers such as Paul fact, there were a numberofsimilarities. One admired
Warburg and Lord Alfred Milner. For some reason, Lloyd Peter the Great while the other saw himself as the heir
George didn’t denounce their activities. Neither did he con- of Frederick the Great. Both were advocates of ruth-
demn the deceitful way American and British passengers less force and operated underideologies that were not
were allowed to board the Lusitania, a British liner used to essentially different. Communists and Nazis alike were
transport munitions. Its sinking by the German navy was an self-righteous and dogmatic; both weretotalitarian and
incident used to lead a neutral United States into war.) So both believed that the endjustified the means, sanctify-
harsh and unchristian were the terms placed on Germany ing injustice, as it were, in the name of the state and
that Pope Benedict XV, whose counsels for peace during the progress. (AdolfHitler, Doubleday, 1976, p. 542)
war were ignored, expressed distress to those around him,
but “knew that if he had said one word in protest, that same Others have observed that Hitler sought the U.S.S.R.’s
world would have called down upon him the fire and brim- natural resources and Stalin, whose Communists werestill
stone of its disorderly thinking.” (Walter H. Peters, The Life struggling to win the hearts of the Russian people, sought an
of Benedict XV, Bruce, 1959, p. 174) This did not prevent opportunity to consolidate military force before the Nazis
His Holiness from speaking indirectly. Peters writes: turned on them. .
Although Benedict himself kept a discreet silence, Of course, Hitler’s overall war strategy was also a considera-
Civilta Cattolica, whose editor was in close touch with tion. “Without the Soviet Union on their side, neither
the Pope, spoke out, sharply indicting the treaty as a England nor France would do more than mouth threats,”
travesty of a conciliatory act. The four hundred and writes Toland. “In addition he was assured of getting from
forty so-called “Articles of Peace” the. periodical the East all those raw materials he might be deprived of by a
denounced as “Articles of War.”“In those articles of a possible British blockade.” (p. 548) But the Nazi Fuehrer,it
treaty promised us for so long a time and given to the turns out, was outsmarted in this diplomatic chess match.
world as the very epitomeofpolitical sagacity, there is After Germany stunned Poland with its blitzkrieg, Russia—
evident a consecration to hatred, a tone inspired by the according to the terms of the pact—was to strike with its
– spirit of revenge, a perpetuation of war.” With theseall army into eastern Poland. On September 3 Britain and
too prophetic words the famedItalian Jesuit publica- France declared war on Germany, but the Soviets had yet to
“tion characterized the Treaty ofVersailles. bid.) enter Poland—in fact, it was not until the 17th, after the
Poles were already subjugated, that their troops movedin.It
And it was a perpetuation of war. Not only was Germany a is worth recalling the duplicitous manner they employed at
defeated nation but it soon became an impoverished one as that time:
well. The economic depression there was as bad an any
experienced anywhere, possibly worse. The mark became so …At 4 A.M. local time the Red Army crossed the long
devalued as to be practically worthless. In addition, the eastern frontier of Poland. At one point men of the
restrictions placed on the German military were such as to Polish Frontier Corps saw a horde of horse-drawn
virtually invite violations. Not surprisingly, a great bitterness carts filled with soldiers coming through the morning
began welling up among Germans, a bitterness that would mist. “Don’t shoot,” shouted the Red Army men,
be exploitedto thehilt by Adolf Hitler. “we've come to help you against the Germans.” The
defenders were so confused—whiteflags were attached
The Hitler-Stalin Pact to the leading Russian vehicles—that the Soviets
It could never happen. Orso political pundits in the West passed through many places without receiving a shot.
believed. A friendship pact between Soviet dictator Josef It was the end of eastern Poland.(Toland, p. 583)
Stalin and his German “archenemy,” Hitler? Yet, on August
23, 1939,little more than a week before Germany invaded Despite the undeniable Soviet complicity in the rape of
Poland, just such a documentwas signed by representatives Poland there was no declaration of war issued by any Allied
of the two powers. The nonaggression agreementincluded nation. And there wouldn’t be one two months later when
sections that carved up a fair portion of Eastern Europe be- the U.S.S.R. attacked Finland. Why? Was there fear that
tween Nazi Germany and the Communist Soviet Union. Hit- such an act might cement Nazi-Soviet relations and thus
ler would take most of Poland, while Stalin’s spoils were to turn loose a two-headed monster to ravage Europe? Or, per-
be eastern Poland and Finland and the Baltic states (Latvia, haps, there was the hope that the Reds might come in handy
Estonia and Lithuania). later in fighting the more immediate threat posed by Hitler.
To be certain, Stalin had his share of Western admirers. Not
But how could Hitler, who gained power in part by his unlike Gorbachevtoday,leftists of the 1930’s tried to portray
appeal to anti-Communists, have cut a deal with Stalin? John Stalin as a great leader, lavishing him with loving monikers
Toland, a Hitler biographer, provides part of the answer like “Uncle Joe.”
when hewrites:
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for decades since the war there has been an effort, even in Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin accurately
the West, to minimizeStalin’s role in starting World War IIL. warned:
He was, after all, the leader of an “ally.” The special U.S.
News issue does devote a few paragraphsto the Hitler-Stalin The American people will be told to forget the purges
pact but these are little more than a footnote when com- in Russia by the OGPU, the confiscation of property,
pared to the lengthy article it carries on Hitler and his the persecution of religion, the invasion of Finland,
dreams of world conquest. (Isn’t this also the goal of the and the vulture role Stalin played in seizing half of
Communists?) Even in this era of g/asnost, when Stalin’s prostrate Poland,all of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
crimes are more or less admitted, there is the tendency to These will be made to seem the acts of a “democracy”
whitewash his role and suggest that his motivation was of a preparing to fight Nazism.(Cited, ibid., p. 34)
defensive nature. The facts, however, show otherwise.
In short, the American people were being asked no less than
The (Not So) Grand Alliance | to join one devil in fighting another!
Is it proper, in time of war, for a governmentto lie to its
people for the purpose of aiding the war effort? This was the But a worse shock was to come when, on December7, 1941,
question that faced the Allied nations in World War II. Re- Japan, an ally of Hitler, attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl
gretfully, the conclusion reached was yes. The falsehoods Harbor, Hawaii. Roosevelt aptly described it as “a date
proved to be no smailer than Hitler's “big lie” since they whichwilllive in infamy,” but the description is applicable in
revolved around convincing the Western nations that the more than merely his sense of it being a sneak attack. The
Soviet Union was a worthy and honorable partner. elementof surprise was only experienced by those fated U.S.
sailors, as it has since been disclosed by several reputable
Part of-the problem in getting the United States to enter the sources that Roosevelt and his cabinet Anew beforehand of
war was to show that there was an appreciable difference be- Japan’s intentions. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, com-
tween Nazi and Communist formsoftotalitarianism. Many menting on openly provocative acts by FDR prior to our
Americans felt that there wasn’t, and that we would do formal entry into the war, stated:
better to remain neutral and let the twofight it out between
themselves. But patriots like Father Charles Coughlin and President Roosevelt has maneuvered us into the war
Charles Lindbergh soon found they were hit with the “pro- by his patently un-neutral actions against Germany and
Nazi” tar brush. the final ultimatum to Japan…On December4, 1941,
we received definite information from two independent
Thefirst aid to Stalin was in the form of Lend-Lease in 1941. sources that Japan would attack the United States and
The Churches, which at that time were not so thoroughly Britain but would maintain peace with Russia…On-
corrupted as at present, greatly objected to this scheme. December6, our intercepts told us that the Japanese
Journalist Benjamin Colbystates: were going to strike somewhere the very next day.
President Roosevelt had ample time to broadcast a
There was strong opposition to war aid to the U.S.S.R. warning which might have caused the Japanesetocall
in the ranks of both Protestants and Catholics, the off their surprise attack. At any event, we would not
latter especially affected by a 1937 papal encyclical have permitted 3,500 Americans to die at Hawaii
enjoining them against collaborating with communism without an opportunity to fight back. (Cited, Clarence
“in any undertaking whatsoever.” (Twas a Famous Manion, The Conservative American, Devin-Adair,
Victory: Deception and Propaganda in the War with 1964, p. 41) :
Germany, Arlington House, 1974, p. 39)
Even more damning was the following statement of Admiral
Stalin’s U.S. supporters had been given the necessary ex- Husband E. Kimmel, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific
cuse to push for aid when Hitler broke his pact by invading Fleet at Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack. During an
Russia in June of 1941. But the going was still rough for interview in 1958 with The Manion Forum, a nationally-
them. President Franklin Roosevelt’s intimate, Harry broadcast radio program, the retired admiral said:
Hopkins, wrote to the British minister of information,
lamenting: “We are having somedifficulty with our public I believe those who had seen the intercepted and de-
opinion in regard to Russia. The American people don’t coded Japanese messages,including the fourteen-part
take aid to Russia easily.” (Cited, Colby, p. 38) message received on December 6 and December7,
1941, knew war with Japan was inevitable and the al-
The dilemma faced by the governmentisn’t hard to fathom most certain objective would be the fleet at Pearl
for, although much of the press even then found much to Harbor… My beliefis that General Short andI were not
praise in the Soviet Union, enoughof the truth aboutit had given the information available in Washington and
leaked out to the West. To secure the support of Americans were not informed of the impending attack because it
it would be necessary to dupe them into thinking the Soviets was feared that action in Hawaii might deter the Jap-
had changed and were thus less a threat than Germany. anese from makingtheattack. (Cited, ibid., pp. 41-42)
THE ATHANASIAN DECEMBER 1, 1989
FDR, then, sacrificed 3,500 Americans to an Alamo-like German Army that was guilty of the atrocity. Incredibly, they
slaughter to traumatize a nation into action. went on to accuse the Poles (who had requested Red Cross
assistance) of being in league with the Nazis. As farfetched
(A quick comparison of Wilson and Roosevelt uncovers as this may be, it did not stop the loyal pro-Soviets in the
telling similarities. Both were Democrats and, if Nesta Web- West from collaborating in a massive cover-up. Even when
ster is correct, Freemasons—FDR was 33°. Both admin- Germany organized a commission of leading medical ex-
istrations advanced socialist policies at home and aided perts and scientists from neutral and occupied countries to
Russian Communism. Both supported worid government. examine the physical evidence firsthand, which confirmed
And both presidents ran as “peace” candidates, only to draw the Soviet guilt, the cry went up that this was merely Nazi
America into war by similarly despicable acts.) propaganda. There may have been a propagandistic angle to
the German revelation but it remained, nonetheless, an
Hollywood contributed considerably to the propaganda ef- undeniable fact. —
fort, churning out a numberoffilms glorifying the Soviets.
This was done in collaboration with the Office of War How does one deny the undeniable? Well, one can take up
Information. Mission fo Moscow, a big budget and highly the Red line. On April 19, 1943, the Washington Daily
promoted production, was based on a book that “presented Newsliterally carried that line when it printed a Pravda
the 1937-38 purges as destroying a German ‘fifth column…’” piece on the subject. (Colby, p. 70) The Christian Science
(Colby, p. 79) So overt were its falsehoods that even Monitor of April 27 said the German story was “concocted
sympathetic reviewers and the Writers War Board expressed with diabolical cunning,” while the Washington Post
misgivings. “Fifty-two American educators, historians, indulged in One-World editorializing: “The assumption of
writers and trade union leaders issued a statement termingit all loyal members of the United Nations must be that they
‘the first full-dress example of the kind of propaganda were killed by the Germans.” (did, p. 72) Many other
hitherto confined to totalitarian countries…It falsifies history examples could be introduced, including articles in Time
and glorifies dictatorship.’” Ubid., p. 80) Another pro-Red and Newsweek. Only a few brave papers of that period, such
movie, The North Star, featured portrayals of German as the Chicago Tribune, were willing to entertain the view
cruelty at an idyllic Russian commune and of happy Soviet that the Russians were easily capable of such horrors.
children singing the joys of being the “future generation”—
lyrics courtesy of tra Gershwin. (/bid.) All those in the film Government stonewalling was equally abhorrent. In
business were expected to join in this “patriotic” enterprise. England, Harold Nicolson, a leading member of Parliament,
Rebert Taylor, one of the leading actors of the day, found mentioned, in a diary entry for April 20, a conversation he
that influence in Washington was exerted to prevent him nad with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. “I ask him
from entering the Navy until he starred in Song of Russia, about the German wireless reports on the Katyn massacres,”
despite his attempts to get out of the cast. (bid, pp. 80-81) writes Nicolson. “He grins grimly. ‘Theless said about it the
So pervasive was Communist influence in Hollywood that better.” (The War Years 1939-1945, Volume If of the
even anti-Communist screen writers had to tone down their Diaries and Letters of Harold Nicolson, edited by Nigel
films or even include pro-Soviet segments in them. Nicolson, Atheneum, 1967, p. 291) This was in no way
evidence of a reluctance to believe by the prime minister but
The Katyn Forest Massacre simply another instance of the protection of an unworthy
No instance of cover-up by the Western Allies was more ally. Colby writes:
reprehensible than that surrounding the cold-blooded
murder of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war by the Soviets. …Churchill wrote long afterwards that he had believed
Again, government and news media worked as one to keep from the first that the Russians were guilty. Indeed, the
the shocking truth from the people. British ambassador to Poland, Owen O’Malley, re-
ported when the discovery was made that he was con-
Duringits ill-fated Russian campaign the Germans made a vinced the Russians had committed the murders. “We
grim discovery. In the Katyn Forest, near Smolensk, they have, in fact, perforceused the good name of England
found the bodies of Polish officers (also clergy, educators, to cover up the massacre,” he wrote in anotherreport.
political leaders, etc.) thrown into mass graves. The corpses But such views could not be admitted to the people in
had their hands tied behind them and hadbeenkilled bypis- wartime, and O’Malley’s messages were kept secret
tol shots to the back of the head. Some appear to have been until the official records were openedthirty years later.
buried alive. On April 13, 1943, the Germans announced (p. 65)
their grisly find over the wireless and offered to produce
proof. The International Red Cross—urged by the Polish On April 24, Churchill promised Stalin that “we shall cer-
government-in-exile—requested permission to make an in- tainly oppose vigorously’ the Red Cross investigation.
quiry but were rebuffed by the Russians. This refusal seemed (Cited, ibid., p. 68)
to substantiate the German claims.
The lengths to which the Americans would go to defend
The Soviets made the countercharge that it was actually the Stalin’s reputationis well illustrated by the case of George H.
THE ATHANASIAN DECEMBER 1, 1989
Marle. In May, 1944, Earle, former governor of Pennsylvania D. x.)
and FDR’s special emissary in Turkey and the Balkans,
brought incontrovertibie evidence of the U.S.S.R.’s guilt di- As the war ended, countless East Europeans fell into the
rectly to the president. He got nowhere. Roosevelt re- hands of Allied forces. The situation was in itself somewhat
sponded that it was “entirely German propaganda and a odd. What, after all, were they doing in the West to begin
German piot.” Earle doggedly continued to send evidence to with—and fighting with the Germans? True, some had been
the White House until March, 1945, when he gave an ultima- forcibly conscripted into military duty by their captors (they
tum. In it he “told the President that he would publicize the accepted it as preferabie to life in labor camps), but many
facts unless ordered not to do so. Roosevelt forbade him, voluntarily fought for the opportunity to return to a
and Earle, who held a naval commission, was sent to homeland where Communism would be defeated. It was to-
Samoa.” (Ubid., p. 75) Similariy, the report of Colonel John tally out of lire with Allied propaganda to allow that the
H. VanVliet (one of two American officers who, as a German U.S.S5.R. might not be the workers’ paradise it was adver-
POW,had seen the atrocity and believed the Soviet’s guilty) tised to be. Hence, the shroud of secrecy.
was suppressed. Curiously, the report had, after being duly
received by Army Intelligence, vanished into thin air. A Such a betrayal was not easy to sell. Western soldiers who
House of Representatives investigating committee later con- heard and believed the bloodcurdling tales told them by the
cluded that the VanVliet report “was either removed or pur- refugees were often convincedof their truth. Many were
posely destroyed in ArmyIntelligence.”(Cited, idid., p. 76) sickened at the prospect of shipping these “displaced
persons” (as they were euphemistically called) back to
At the Nurembergtrials foilowing the war, which were pro- certain imprisonment or death. A few were courageous
ceedings against Germans accused of war crimes and crimes enough to turn their backs to allow escape but most of them
against humanity, the Russians again tried to pin the blame nalfheartedly obeyed orders. If they asked why these people
on Germany. Although these charges were not pursued, the were being returned, they were told it was simply a matter of
evidence given by Poles to Supreme Commander Dwight D. sending them home.If they continued their questioning, the
Eisenhower was aiso suppressed. [t just wouldn’t be reply they heard was that these were traitors to our Soviet
“proper”to try our “illustrious”allies for precisely the same friends and that the agreement at Yalta guaranteed their
sort of crimes perpetrated by the vanquished. It wasn’t until return. The justification used was that there were Western
the 1950’s that this foul deed was finally acknowledged. And POWswho had been “liberated” by the Russians and that
only this year did it make headlines when a memorial to the we were obliged to live up to our part of the bargain if we
victims was dedicated in Poland. We can only speculate as to hoped to see them released unharmed. (As it turned out,
how many other Soviet warcrimes remain secret. there are some Western soldiers who, to this day, were never
returned.) The entire scenariois onethat crystalizes the very
Operation Keelhaul dubious nature of the war— friends who were enemies and
Another chapter of the war that has been shamefully hidden enemies who were friends!
is the forced repatriation of millions of Russian, Hungarian
and other East European men, women and children. This Space does not allow detailed descriptions of the heartrend-
crime has the added dimension of active and direct ing scenes: the pleas for freedom; the desperate attempts to
assistance by the U.S. and Great Britain. remain; the profanation of a Russian Orthodox service by
British troops; the suicides committed to avoid being sent
The eminent British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, in his back. The program of the Americans was under the direc-
introduction to Lord Nicholas Bethell’s study, The Last tion of General Eisenhower and, writes Robert Welch, was
Secret: The Delivery to Stalin of Over Two Million Russians officially designated by the Pentagon as “‘Operation
by Britain and the United States (Basic Books, 1974), sug- Keelhaul—keelhaul being the most cruel form of punish-
gests that the American government and media had no ment known to the older navies.” (The Politician, Belmont,
monopoly in deceiving its people: 1963, p. 41)
..By 1944 British propaganda had for three years The vision of our soldiers herding people into cattle cars at
recorded the sufferings and extolled the heroism of the bayonet point is not one we like to consider. The moral
Russian people. It had concealed the true characterof voice of the world did not hesitate to speak. Lord Bethell
the Russian government. It had suggested that its true writes:
aims were similar to our own. Thereby it had created a
public attitude towards that government which made On February 20 (1946—JKW), Pope Pius XII pub-
possible, and even acceptable, certain great betrayals. lished an allocution protesting against “the repatria-
(p. ix.) tion of men against their will and the refusal of the
right of asylum’. Senior Vatican officials told
Of these betrayals, however, the return of these refugees was American reporters that the Yalta policy was “a
“less a public betrayal because it was keptsecret. Indeed,its betrayal of the morality and ideals for which the Allies
true history was kept secret for twenty-seven years.” (bid., fought” and “against humanity and justice.” The
THE ATHANASIAN DECEMBER I, 1989
Vatican claimed to have information that when Russians We ought not be fooled by the cries of reform behind the
arrived nome “oniy too otten they ended up in Siberia.” iron Curtain. We have heard those cries before. Only when
Many of these Russians fought for the Germans, the Vatican we see the Baltic States freed from the yoke imposed upon
admitted, but “whether they did or not, they are treated them fifty years ago by the treacherous Hitler-Stalin pact—
alike.” This information was correct. (p. 192) only then may we acknowledge progress. Only when those
countries captured by Stalinist aggression at the war’s end
Alexander Solhenitzyn in The Gulag Archipelago, states are allowed to pursue their own course can we even think of
Trevor-Roper, “saw Churchill and Roosevelt as criminais possibie victory. And only. when Russiaitself is liberated will
who sent millions of Russian political refugees back into we have reason to cheer. Alas, what we see nowis but a con-
mussia to be persecuted and kiiled.”(Cited, ibid., p. xi.) tinuation of the plan of the Insiders to bring about their
godless world government. +
The Legacy of World War 0
The outcome of the war was a victory for One-Worlders. The “Consistency has never been a mark ofstupidity. If the
League of Nations failed because it could not win U.S. sup- diplomats who have mishandled our relations with
port but the United Nations (founded in large part by the Russia were merely stupid, they would occasionally
efforts of Council on Foreign Relations member, Soviet spy make a mistake in our favor.”lames Forrestal, First
and FDR aide Alger Hiss) has succeeded primarily through Secretary of Defense)
American support. The United Nations is a product of the
war and is the groundwork for the intended future world
government.
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Fr. Francis E. Fenton
, “onviction, as the term is here employed, meansa firm persist in supposing that “it can’t happen here.” But it is
belief, a state of mind which is beyond doubt on a par- happening here. Why, such people even think that Milhail
ticular subject. A person is convinced of this or that matter Gorbachevis “a good guy.” Imagine! Heis a villain, albeit a
who has certainty aboutit. And soit is with a numberofstate- very clever one, who will, in due time, show himself in his
ments contained in this article. | strongly believe in, I am true colors.
thoroughly convinced of their truth. Most of them are fam-
iliar to the relatively longtime readers of the The Athanasian 5. The root cause of the myriad evils of our day is the rejec-
but may not be to more recent subscribers. In any case, since tion by multitudes of God and His revealed truth and His
this eightieth issue marks the completionof ten yearsofits moral law. (Secular humanism—essentially a philosophy of
publication, it seems a rather appropriate issue for the per- atheism in which man, not God,is the measure of things—is
sonal convictions and comments whichfollow. Just aboutall the current paramount “religion” on the American scene.
of the subjects mentioned have been treated in detail over The devil is in the driver’s seat as Satanism in one formor
the years in the pages of this newsietter. another becomes an increasingly common occurrence.)
1. Despite any and all appearances to the contrary, the con- 6. The Conciliar Church is not the Roman Catholic Church
spiracy of Communism has never posed a more serious and its head, John Paul I, because he is a formal heretic, is
threat to America than it does at the present time. (“The not a valid Pope. (Nothing has been stated more frequently
most powerful single force promoting the worldwide advance nor emphasized more strongly than this in The Athanasian
of the Communist conspiracy is the government of the during the past several years. Nor is it possible for even a
United States.” (Robert Welch) Nointelligent, informed and significant start to be made towards the rectification of the
honorable person can deny this. The principal enemyofthis utterly tragic Churchsituation unless and until the above two
country and what’sleft of the free world is not in Moscow but facts are openly and widely acknowledged and appropriate
in Washington, D.C. Next to the American government, action taken.)
forémost among Communism’s most powerful allies are the
American press and the Conciliar Church.) 7. The one true Churchis found and exists today only in
authentic traditional Catholicism wherein alone is preserved
2. A One World Order, by way of the United Nations, anda the totality of the Faith. Solidly traditional Roman Catholics
One World Church have long been in the making and are will have nothing whatsoever to do with the Conciliar
today well along towardsrealization. (Such organizations as Church. (By solidly traditional Roman Catholics is here
the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Com- meant those—sedevacantists—who hold that the Chair of
mission are major forces in the formation of the former; Peter is currently vacant. It logically follows, among other
John Paul 0 and his Conciliar Church are prime movers things, that those who take this position may not, for
towards thelatter.) example, attend the Masses of priests—howeversincere and —
devout and traditional they may otherwise be—who have not
3, Of equal, if not surpassing, danger to this nation is the im- disavowed the Conciliar Church and who recognize John
morality destroying it from within. (Words seem inadequate Paul II as a valid Pope. Whether priest or layman, either a
to describe the extent and the depth of the current moral cor- person belongs to the non-Catholic Conciliar Church or he
ruption which is poisoning America to the core. Surely the does not. You can’t have it both ways.)
USA is the Sodom and Gomorrahof the twentieth century—
and we know what happened to those cities. Moral deca- 8. To a large extent the Conciliar Church is what it is because
dence of every kind and description abounds across the land. of the presence andinfluence within it of its archenemies—
Noris there any sign of abatement. Indeed, quite the con- Freemasons, Communists, Modernists, many of them in cler-
trary is the case. What need would there be, then, for the ical garb. (Could it be that some of the bishops and other
Reds to attempt any military destruction of America? Con- clergy of the Conciliar Church in the USA are Communists
taminated through moral rottenness and, consequenily, and/or Freemasons? It could very well be. There are scores of
devoid of the will to resist, it will “fall like overripe fruit” into Masons in high-ranking positions in the Vatican and else-
their hands.) where, perhaps the most notorious of them being the papal
Secretary of State, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli. Never once,
4. How many good people there are who, even though aware incidentally, has John Paul I, to my knowledge, publicly
of the nature of Communism and of the fact that millions of condemned Communism or Freemasonry during his 11
their fellowmen are enslaved under that utterly brutal tyr- years as “Pope” to date. And,if the consecration of Russia
anny in country after country throughout the world, naively to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the Pope in union with
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the bishops ofthe worid is so imperative an obligation, how
explain why John Paul II has never performed that conse-
cration?) Because of his travels for a number of years on the
9. Conservative journals of the Conciliar Church, such as traditional Latin Mass circuit, the above name is one
The Wanderer and The Remnant, do incalculable harm to familiar to many of the readers of The Athanasian.
the cause of sound traditional Catholicism. (Undoubtedly, Father White, a Benedictine, died on September 21 of
the vast majority of their readership are traditionally-minded this year at the venerable age of 90. On September 26
individuals who honestly think that such publications are he was buried with a Solemn High Requiem Mass at
truly traditional and are effectively fighting the enemies of Our Lady of Victory Chapel in Aurora, Colorado,
the Faith. But this is not the reality. The Wanderer and The where he had formerly served as pastor for some eight
Remnant and similar publications recognize the Conciliar years.
Church as the true Church and acknowledge John Paul II as Father White was born in England as a non-Catholic
a valid Pope. Although a strong and, to some, a convincing and became a convert to the Faith at the age of 18. His
case can be made to prove the opposite, no indication ofthis studies for the priesthood were made primarily at the
is presented in these periodicals, with the likely result that Benedictine College of Saint Anselmo in Rome. On
countless readers are uninformed onthis vital matter, many July 7, 1925, he was ordained to the priesthood in
of whom might well become real traditional Roman Romeat the Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian. In
Catholics if they were given the full story. In a word, the addition to assignments in the earlier years of his
conservative publications of the Conciliar Church to which I priesthood in England, Spain and the Philippine
refer are neutralizers and compromisers and, as such, they Islands, he served as a chaplain during World War Il
are a major obstacle in the way of any concrete progress with the British Armyin Africa.
being madein resolving the deplorable Churchsituation.) In 1951, Father White came to the United States,
becominga citizen of this country in 1956. After some
10. With the passage of time the battle lines are ever more four years service as a hospital chaplain, he became
and more clearly drawn. The fundamental conflict is not pastor of a parish in Springfield, Colorado,in 1955.
Communism against anti-Communism nor freedom against Twenty years later, at the age of 77, he assumed
slavery but rather it is God against militant atheism, Christ pastoral duties at the traditional Chapel of Our Ladyof
yersus anti-Christ, morality versus immorality and amorality. Fatima in Stratton, Colorado. His final pastorate was
Neither is there any solution to this conflict nor hope of at Our Lady of Victory Chapel in Aurora, Colorado,
victory except through a massive return to God and to the where he remained until his retirement in March,
acceptance of His eternal truth and His moral law on the 1984, at the age of 85.
part of the individual and society. Unless and until the It was in the early 1970’s that Father White
sovereignty of the Almighty be humbly recognized and the determined that the Church of which he was still a
Kingship of Christ over the nations be universally member was no longer the Church to which he had
acknowledged by man, the prospects for the future (or for converted in his youth and which he had served for so
any future) are exceedingly dim. Whetheror notit is already long as a priest. Convincedof this, he broke with the
too late, God alone knows. But if sound reason for realistic Conciliar Church, becoming oneofthe fewtruly tradi-
hope remains, the fulfillment of that hope is to be found in tional Roman Catholic priests in America, whichis to
oneplace only: the Roman Catholic Church. t say that he firmly believed that the Conciliar Church
was not Catholic and that John Paul II was not a valid
“The signs of the times suggest that somewhere a man Pope. He was, in a word, one of those rare priesis, a
is building an ark. Or is that the faint odor of sedevacantist—and he did not hesitate to identify
brimstone wafting in theair?” (Paul A. Fisher—The himself as such whenever he had occasion to do so!
Remnant, September 30, 1989) Father Placid White was a true man of God, a
priestly priest, devout, humble, of deep faith,
thoroughly dedicated to the cause of Christ and His
Church. Although the Benedictine Order to which he
belonged has long since gone the wayof the Conciliar
Church, he remainedalways a loyal spiritual son of the
great Saint Benedict. How sorely does our beloved
Church need today more priests of the caliber of
Father White. May the good Lord whom heserved so
long and so well on earth deign to receive him with
those glorious words of welcome: “Well done, good
and faithful servant; come, possess you the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundationof the world”! 7
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