A READER has written to us suggesting that the Lord’s praying people should concentrate on pleading that President Roosevelt and the State Department at Washington would be forthwith delivered from the subtle paralysing influence of Popery. He points out that it may not be generally known that the State Department at Washington, the equivalent of our Foreign Office, with which it is in intimate association, is to-day one of the most potent instruments, for framing Anglo-American international policy, in the hands of the Vatican. Just as the emissaries of the Vatican have succeeded in getting a young American Romanist lady, who is a personal favourite of Romanist Archbishops to become President Roosevelt’s most intimate personal private secretary, so they have captured the most influential posts in the State Department.
There is also a Romanist Anglo-Catholic bloc in our Foreign Office, working hand in glove with the State Department at Washington. This accounts for many frustrations in the prosecution of the war including the long-drawn-out controversy over General Giraud and General De Gaulle in North Africa. General Giraud wrote appreciative articles on Nazism, and was consequently the favourite of the Vatican and the State Department at Washington, whereas General De Gaulle, though what is called “a devout Catholic,” was also an ardent advocate of the resuscitation of democratic Republicanism. The Pope had ardently hoped for the success and world domination of the Axis Powers, and the overwhelming crushing forever of Anglo-American Protestantism, but in the event of his ardent dream not materialising he had other alternatives. One of these was the putting in key positions in the Governmental Departments of British and the U.S.A. influential Romanists and Anglo-Catholics, who would carry out the Vatican’s alternative policy. This policy is the setting up in Italy, France, and Belgium (and ultimately by gradually penetration, throughout the world) of totalitarianism on the lines of Franco Spain. With this policy the State Department at Washington, with the connivance of the Romanist bloc in our Foreign Office, is in wholehearted agreement. This is consequently American policy in the Mediterranean at present, using Amgot as a convenient preliminary preparation, and British statesmen, conscious of deep indebtedness to the U.S.A., are perforce constrained to acquiesce, however reluctantly. Thus, under the disguise of destroying the names Fascism and Nazism the thing itself—political totalitarianism, leading to religious totalitarianism—is actually being gradually fostered and established by the Vatican and its tool, the State Department at Washington. Believing, therefore, that prayer is the most potent weapon God ever placed in human hands, let the Lord’s people pray as requested.—J. P. MacQueen.