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Registered at G.P.O., Perth. for transmission by post as a newspaper NO. 2,886.
SIXTY-FIFTH YEAR.
Freemasonry Was Responsible For Spanish War General Franco Does Not Mince Matters i Freemasonry, with all its international in"In my qpini'n the <Jr nisation principally responsible for the polifluence, tical ruin of Spa , as well as for the murder of Calvo Sotelo. who was execute in accordance with orders received from the General Secreta . of Freemasonry in Geneva." This is not e anonymous expression of opinion of any calm, deliberate statement, founded on i_ ournalist, but proof, of General simo Franco. the Chief of State of Nationali t Spain. E Aatem it occurs in reasoh was the army containan intervi w published ed a number of suspect elements. FRANCISCO FIRANCa and youc d ;or by the w c 7-e definite supporters of gnat j uit paper, the Popular Front, since their caFrench Anti-Clericalism. "America The ac- r,...ers had been furthered by- the For a time a distinction was - usati( s against Sreeniasonry 1 4eltist Governments. Others drawn between Clericalism and errnea 1 the 1,Yli e interview. were bound by secret under- Catholicism. The great evil erai recalls the famous standings with the Grand Orient. which should be ended was "the .revolt Asturias in It is a fact to-day that intrusion of religion into politics" 934, which esident Za- Most of the officers with Marxist —the political domination of the ino7a eh" ref ed. to allow forces are Freemasons." priests. Religion was good; only puni shin the I d z.rs of the A mong- other proofs two differ- Clericalism was bad. Let the revcit. nco giv s the reason ent documents are quoted in priests mind their sacristies. And O f this atti de of t President: proof of this fact. The first is then the hatred which had been "There na long iss;:ed secret contained in an article. entitled fanned to a white heat against pacts, of w ich the ii.nd Orient "Masonry Affirms Its Activity," Clericalism was turned against wa- well aware, be e n himself published in a Madrid newspaper, the Church. The religious Or.ind several .aders that revolu- in which the fact was openly and ders came first, then the secular tionary inoy tient." This is fur- explicitly stated. The second is clergy. The mask was off at last. ther e7:pl ed w en General from a pile of documents captur- "The distinction between CathoFranco a -se s that for the most ed at the "Grand Regional Lodge licism and Clericalism is a purely part the lea ers o the Spanish o f the Spanish Centre" at Toledo. official, subtle distinction for pubRepublic 1.v e Free a.sons. Be- In these documents the "brother lic discourses," said "La Conjurafore the;r duty to eir country Masons who are - commanding tion Juire." "Here in the seccame Itheir oblig-,a us to the troops of militias" are described recy of the lodge let us proclaim Gran Orient." as "liberators." the truth openly. Catholicism We are not therefore surprised and Clericalism are one and the Freemasons and .mmunists that in summing up Have Same cal. the foes same thing." p. 157. Her. the Geller touches the against whom the It is well to recall these facts Nationalist real q(planation of the sinister Spaniards have had to fight, the about French Masonry in order even.4 from 1931 to uly 18, 1936. General makes the following de- to appreciate the significance of The ki:y to the situ on lies in the clarations: "\Nre have had to face the "definitely proved agreement fact that either th Communist not only our own brothers, poi- between French and Spanish Kornnitern were us the Free- soned by the Communist ideal, Freemasonry." We can well unmasons to make S i in a western but foreign forces as well. The derstand the spirit of hate behind outpost of Soviet ru or the Free- non-invention pact proposal by the Red atrocities against priests inaltnis were using he Cominun- the French Government was and nuns. is .f' In any case , ce Freemas- nothing but a lie: no one was igGeneral Franco understands onry is a world-w, se secret or- norant of the attitude of Blum's clearly the motives of the Freeganisation, haying s its object Government toward the Barce- mason Government of France the litter denioral ation of the lona and Valencia Marxists. against him. But the attitude of masses. the destruc on of all civil And no one was ignorant, Britain and the United States and religious auth rity, and the either, of the definitely proved puzzles him. "To me," he says, e statlishing of a iyersal God- agreement between French and "it seems a little strange." But less State with Ma ns in control. Spanish Freemasonry." when we remember that it was it is easy to see t t the goal of Of the anti-Catholic bias of the American Masons who put t he Communists a Freemasons French Masonry we are all well Calles and his Marxist gang in is the same. aware, It is no secret. It was power in Mexico we may not be G.?neral Fraineo I still more ex- openly declared in 1885: "We far wrong in suspecting the same plicit in givi* piofs of this Masons must aim at the complete Masonic influence in the Englishamalgamation TrIellas to answer destruction of Catholicism." ("Le speaking democracies against the question "why ithe army did Pouvir occulte contre la France." him, who is fighting "for -. Spam I not strike at once, ince it saw so by M. Copin-Albancelli.) Nyorthy of its history, for lenfly the disastet that the triIn 1911 the notorious Mason c A Spain truly Christian, umrh of the Popular Frort meant Viviani. informed the world that a Spain which will once again for Fpain. Hii answer is: "There the lights of heaven were to he hold the respect and honour of was no arniv r•qii organised." extinguished. foreign nations."
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