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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 11
…ends. Therefore, although conscience evidently demanded the maximum amount of persecution compatible with the existence of villains, the Jews and the Arabs were at least allowed to live. Besides, the Arabs saw to that themselves. But no one was better aware than the Pope that knowledge was power. For all he know, and he probably knew that he did not know much, the Jews and the Arabs might get together and overturn the whole construction of society. Had he not in his own records the very best example of such a catastrophe ? There is a large numb…
1930 · PDF PAGE 13
…icular sport of suppressing earnest enquirers, it was not much good trying to play on peoples greed. For everyone knew that even if the Jews had wealth, they managed to hide it very successfully, and that they had a nasty way of arranging for protection with people who were too powerful to be bullied, and too good business men to be fooled into killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. So the only motive available was fear, and in those ages where ignorance was fostered with infinite devotion, it was even easier to create a scare about bogi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…had always an immense hoard of ill-gotten wealth, and of course every penny that was exacted by Reginald Front-de- Boeuf was laid to the Jews account. But there was another treasure that the peasant was afraid to lose, the dearest treasure of all, his children. As little boys, thank God, have a habit of straying in search of adventure and getting lost in the process, which is good for their souls, the peasant naturally has moments of serious disquietude as to whether some- thing terrible can have happened to little Tommy. Very Good. All we hav…
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
…t I can think of to disarm your suspicions is to bring forward another case of the same kind, little more then a century old, with which Jews had nothing to do. There was a poet laureateI am not quite sure what this species of animal isbut his name was Robert Southey, and he lived, if you can call it
1930 · PDF PAGE 12
…otsky never did as well ! So, as Roman Catholics are always telling us, the Church has a monopoly of logic, and the Pope argued that all Jews were communists. Anyone who had or wanted knowledge must be a Jew, and therefore a communist, and thereforewell, the Pope too believed in preparedness, though he probably called it a programme of disarmament. When people scrap battleships in the name of peace on earth and goodwill to men, it means that they have found battleships useless and too expensive, and that they have found something cheaper and m…