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tant Prussia with its capital, Berlin, to oust Catholic Austria, with
its brilliant capital, Vienna, from the leadership of the Germanspeaking
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 organisation, 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 aggrandisement 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 honourable 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
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