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"Ten days later, when speaking to an audience of ex-servicemen, Pius XI
expressed the wish that the legitime claims of a great and noble nation from
which, he reminded them he himself descended, would be satisfied".(39)
The Fascist aggression against Albania, on Good Friday in 1939,
enjoyed the same "understanding", as we are told by M. Camille Cianfarra:
"The Italian occupation of Albania was very advantagous for the Church...
Out of a population of one million Albanian people, which became Italian
subjects, 68% were Moslems, 20% Greek Orthodox and only 12% Roman
Catholics... From the political point of view, the annexation of the country
by a Catholic power was bound to improve the position of the Church and
please the Vatican".(40)
In Spain, the establishment of the republic had not ceased to be resented by
the Roman Curia as a personal offence. "I never dared mention the Spanish
question to Pius XI", wrote M. Francois Charles-Roux. "He probably
would have reminded me that the Church's interests, in that great and
historical land of Spain, were a matter for the papacy only".(41)
So, this "protected hunting-ground" was soon provided with a dictator
similar to those who had been already successful in Italy and Germany. The
adventure of General Franco only started in mid-July 1936 but, on the 21st of
March 1934, the "Pact of Rome" had been sealed, between Mussolini and
the chiefs of Spain's reactionary parties, one of whom was M.
Goicoechea, chief of the "Renovacion Espanola". By this pact, the Italian
fascist party undertook to supply the rebels with money, war material, arms
and ammunition. We know that they even did more than what they had
promised, and that Mussolini and Hitler kept on "refuelling" the Spanish
rebellion with material, aviation and "volunteers".
As for the Vatican, oblivious of its own principle that the faithful must
respect the established government, it oppressed Spain with its threats.
"The Pope excommunicated the heads of the Spanish Republic and
declared spiritual war between the Holy See and Madrid. Then he
produced the encyclical letter 'Dilectissimi Nobis'... Archbishop Goma, new
primate of Spain, proclaimed the civil war".(42)
The prelates of His Holiness joyfully accepted the horrors of this
fratricidal conflict, and Monsignor Gomara, bishop of Carthagene,
(39) and (40) Camille Cianfarra: "La Guerre et le Vatican" (Le Portulan, Paris 1946,
pp.46,47,48).
Note from the author: Cardinal Schuster was also rector of this strange institution: "L'Ecole
de mystique fasciste" (school of fascist mysticism) (41)
Francois Charles-Roux, op.cit., p.181.
(42) Andre Ribard: "1960 et le secret du Vatican" (Libr. Robin, Paris 1954, p.45.)
132 THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE JESUITS
interpreted admirably their apostolic sentiments when he said: "Blessed are the
cannons if, in the breaches they open, the Gospel springs up!"
The Vatican even recognised Franco's government, on the 3rd of August
1937, twenty months before the end of the civil war.
Belgium was also looked after by Catholic Action, needless to say, an
organisation eminently ultramontane and Jesuitical. The ground had to be
prepared for the approaching invasion of the Fuhrer's armies! So, under the
pretence of "spiritual renewal", the Hitlerite Fascist gospel was diligently
preached there by Monseigneur Picard, Jesuit, Father Arendt. Jesuit, Father
Foucart, Jesuit, etc. A young Belgium, who was their victim like many others,
testifies to this: "At that time, all of us were already obsessed with a kind of
fascism... The Catholic Action to which I belonged was very sympathetic to
Italian fascism... Monseigneur Picard proclaimed from the rooftops that
Mussolini was a genius and wished fervently for a dictator... Pilgrimages were
organised to favour contacts with Italy and Fascism. "When, with three
hundred students, I went to Italy, everybody, on our return home, saluted
in the Roman fashion and sang Giovinezza.(43)
Another witness says: "After 1928, the group of Leon Degrelle regularly
collaborated with Monseigneur Picard... Monseigneur Picard enlisted the help
of Leon Degrelle for a particularly important mission: to manage a new
publishing house at the Catholic Action centre. This publishing house was
given a name which soon became famous: it was 'Rex'...
"The calls for a new regime multiplied... The results of this propaganda in
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