CATHOLIC IMPERIALISM AND WORLD FREEDOM By the sameAuthor SPAIN AND THE VATICAN LATIN AMERICA AND THE VATICAN THE VATICAN AND THE U.S.A. THE VATICAN IN ASIA RELIGION IN RUSSIA CATHOLIC TERROR OVER EUROPE THE RELIGIOUS MASSACRE OF YUGOSLAVIA THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AGAINST THE TWENTIETH CENTURY The Catholic Church Against the Twentieth Century has beenpublished inthefollowingcountries: First publishedin Great BritainbyC. A. Watts &Co. Ltd.,London. First Czeched.pub. byNakladatelstvi ZivotaPrace, Prague, 1950. SecondCzeched. pub. by Nakladatelstvi Zivot aPrace, Prague, 1951. Bulgarian ed. pub.by NarodenPetchat, Sofia, 1949. Polish ed. pub. by Czytelnik, Warsaw, 1950. First Hungarian ed.pub. bySzikra Konyvkiado, Budapest, 1950. SecondHungarian ed.pub. bySzikraKonyvkiado, Budapest, 1950. Romanianed.pub. by RomanianStatePublishers, Bucharest, 1951. Slovaked. pub. byTatran, Bratislava, 1951. FirstRussian ed. pub. byStatePublishing House, Moscow, 1949. 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Selected Bookofthe Month (P.B.C.), NewYork, Sept,, 1950. Cheap ed. (470 pages), at 51., pub. by C. A. Watts & Co. Ltd., London. Cheaj) ed. incloth, at IQS.,pub. byC. A. Watts &Co. Ltd., London. AmerPircesasn,eNdeitwioYnoprukb.lished as The Vatican in World Politics, $3.75, Horizon AVRO MANHATTAN CATHOLIC IMPERIALISM WORLD FREEDOM WATTS & CO. JOHNSON'S COURT, FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.C.4 FirstPublished October, 1952 This book iscopyrightunder theBerne Conven- tion. Apart from any use specifically permitted under the Copyright Act, 1911, no portion may be reproduced without written permission. Inquiry should be made of the Publishers. Printedand bound in GreatBritain by Richard Clay and&Co. Ltd., Bungay, SuffolJ(, after composition by Hazell, Watson Viney, Ltd.,Aylesbury,Bucf(s,and-publishedby C. A. Wattsand Co.Ltd., 5and6Johnson's Court,FleetStreet, London, E.G.4 DEDICATED TO Contemporary Man, terrorized, enslaved, deceived; theexploited butalso the predestined annihilator ofall tyrannies, ancientand new; the architect of the genuinelypeaceful mankind oftheunitedWorld oftheFuture CITY (MO.) PUBLIC LIBRARY 6732303 FOREWORD CONTENTS OF THIS WORK MAY PROVE CONTROVERSIAL. THEControversy implies disagreement. This is often nurtured by doubts about the veracity of the source of information. No documentation has been in intentionally incorporated thesepageswithoutits source being given. Most ofitis drawn, on matters specifically connected with Catholicism, from Catholic Canon Laws, Papal encyclicals, and Vatican decrees; onspecifically American problems, from documents of theU.S. Administration, which can be found among official American papers (e.g. in the Libraries of Congress, Washington). The principal sources for current affairs have been documents issued by various governments, or by international organiza- tions such as U.N.O., as well as what are generally admitted to be most soberly authoritative organs for example, the Qsservatore Romano, the London Times, the New Yor^ Times, and a few others, religious or political mouthpieces of either national hierarchies, political parties, or various other official or semi-official bodies. The vastness of the survey has inevitably focused a great deal of this work upon the global activities of the Vatican and of the U.S.A. on the one side, and of Soviet Russia and World Communism on the other. As it is meant to examine the world activities of the Catholic Church and of the U.S.A., and not those of their opponents, to have enlarged also upon those of the latter would have required another volume. Whenever the U.S.A. or Soviet Russia are mentioned, they arementioned only in so far as their or Vatican policies have affected the whose contemporary global scene, implications consequently cannot be ignored. Abundant notes and references are made throughout each and can be found at the end of the book. chapter, PREFACE AMID A BILLION-STARRED UNIVERSE, WANDERING in cosmic insignificance, there glides the Earth the cradle SPAaRnKdLtIheNGtomb of Man. Species blossomed upon her and vanished; generations came and went; religions preached and conquered; empires rose and fell. But Freedom, sought for millennia, is still a dream to this day. Tyrannies, rooted in the past, are lording over a present shaken by the thunderous march of giants racing for the mastery of the world, where ideologies, championed by nations burning with hatred, have palisaded the continents for global atomic massacres; and Churches, hailing falling culture, are spurringthe combatants to mutual annihilation. One of these, the Catholic Church, consumed by Cimmerian dreams of formidable expansion, is biding her time to enforce her dominion upon the human race. Not only as a spiritual, but also as a political power, buttressed by the unshakable conviction that it is her destiny to conquer the planet. In a century rocked by the ruthless administration of dictatorships of immense magnitude, riding delirious military monsters, such acredence maybe laughedto scorn. Yet a credence, if firmly believed, can become as real as reality. When magnified by multitudes, it is rendered irre- sistible. Beliefs have conquered conquerors, routed legions, made armies invincible, sired civilizations, dethroned nations. They have been, and are still, the curse or the blessing, the brake or the spur, to progress. In the past Buddhism con- quered Asia; Islam the East; Christianity the West. Today, astounding new credos have already obscured the sun. 150,000,000 Americans, 200,000,000 Russians, have become their paladins; colossal armaments their swords. The Catholic is supported by 400,000,000 beings; a monolithic unit, exceed- ing the U.S.A. and the SovietUnion in numbers, unity* leader- and faith. ship, PREFACE Americans, Russians, and Catholics are all mobilized for war. Freedom is their clarion call. And yet, just because of it, freedom has never been so threatened as it is today. In its name they are enslaving the world. Whoever hesitates to submit to their kind of freedom is branded a foe of freedom. And hence to be destroyed; freedom having become the alternative to either global slavery or atomic incineration. To the Catholic Church freedom has always meant Catholic freedom: namely, total Catholic dominion over the world. Catholic dominion, spelling total implementation of the most fundamental tenet of Catholicism, means only one thing: total extinction ofwhateveris non-Catholic. The attempt of the Catholic Church to erase freedom wherever she is paramount is almost two thousand years old. machinations have characterized her conduct Unprecedented in the last few decades. Yesterday Fascism, one of her pet creatures, hurled mankind into World War II. Today its successors are hurling mankind into World War III. Like them, the Catholic Church has set up her standard, to enforce upon the twentieth century her own brand of freedom. To that end, she has promoted immense hate crusades, inspired great ideological movements, supporting and oppos- ing sundry contestants for world dominion so as ultimately to further her own, in thewake ofmilitary devastations. The physical symbol of one of the most malevolent forces of modern times, however, will no longer enjoy unmeritedimmunity. In World War III the Vatican will be incinerated, on a par with the cities of Europe, Russia, and America. Its ruins, then, more than famed ruins, will symbolizemankind's deter- minationto make shortwork ofall totalitarianisms. Prominent among these: certain most iniquitous ecclesiastical tyrannies which, in the name of religion, contributed so much to the destruction of contemporary Man. And, verily, the punish- ment meted to the Catholic Church will be singularly heavy, not only in Rome, butthroughout the charred wasteland of an atomized world. Ignorance of the true nature of such a treacherous enemy of man, consequently, is no longer permissible. The scope of this work is to throw light upon the leading role she is playing PREFACE XI in the global conspiracy now in progress, directed at strangling world liberty. The sands of time have already run perilously low; for truly the portents in the skies speak of calamities beyond counting. The lesson to be learnt, therefore, had better be learnt in dead earnest, lest the light of freedom be totally extinguished, and mankind be made to plunge once more into die darkness and the terror of the past instead of into the peace and the glory of the future. London, A. M.