synarchy movement of empire book ii - Pierre Beaudry's Galactic ...

and other anti-Marxists (such as the {normalienne} mystic and social thinker
Simone Weil, who herself worked in factories in this effort) to understand
laboring people so as to reconcile the French proletariat with religion, or
break down the communication barriers between working-class army
conscripts and their officers.” (HELLMAN, P.28.)
One of the key “Catholic-Personalist” teachers at URIAGE was
EMMANUEL MOUNIER, the editor of revue {ESPRIT}. MOUNIER and
his associate JEAN LACROIX were students of the mystical Catholic
Bergsonian, JACQUES CHEVALIER, who had been the Dean of the
University of Grenoble who became Minister of Education of the Vichy
government. Both MOUNIER and LACROIX were recruits of ABBE DE
NAUROIS. Even MOUNIER was surprised to see how many “young cures
and seminarians” were attending school at URIAGE, and was “taken aback
to discover that Dunoyer de Segonzac wanted even more clerics in his
courses.”
This “CATHOLIC-PERSONALIST” take over of URIAGE was
realized with the full support and encouragement of the French Church
leadership. The key Bishop overseeing the URIAGE recruitment was the
general secretary of the permanent commission of the ASSEMBLY OF
CARDINALS AND ARCHBISHOPS OF FRANCE, MSGR. EMILE
GUERRY, who was, as MOUNIER put it, the “secretary of the Church of
France.” GUERRY was also the head of the French JEUNESSE
OUVRIERE CATHOLIQUE (JOC). HELLMAN noted that GUERRY had
“become the most prominent apologist for the French Catholic’s actions and
attitudes during the occupation, particularly in his book {L’Eglise
Catholique en France sous l’Occupation} (Paris, Flammarion, 1947).” (more
later on this) Documents show that, under the leadership of SEGONZAC,
URIAGE was entirely at the service of the PETAIN regime, especially
through GEORGES LAMIRAND, and the head of PETAIN’S Civil
Cabinet, the synarchist, DUMOULIN DE LABARTHETE.
By early 1941, ABBE DE NAUROIS recruited HUBERT BEUVE-
MERY to become the master of novices at URIAGE. Located at the French
Institute of Prague, BEUVE-MERY had been a journalist-propagandist of
the rise to power of HITLER and the Nazi movement in Eastern Europe for
the newspaper {Le Temps}, which was then France’s leading newspaper.
During his youth, BEUVE-MERY had been a protégé of Dominican father
ALBERT-MARIE JANVIER, a supporter of ACTION FRANCAISE, who
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