The Assassination of European Monarchs And The Masonic War On Christendom And Civilization

Related: Freemasonry And Judaism By Vicomte Leon De Poncins.

An excerpt from, “Freemasonry And Judaism” By Vicomte Leon De Poncins, 1928, Chapter – Freemasonry and the War:

Certain authors have asserted that the war of 1914 was in reality a Jewish and Masonic war, perhaps provoked, and in any case utilized by them for the accomplishment of their aims and that they were in fact the great gainers by the peace of Versailles, by the fall of European monarchies, the demoralization of Europe, the destruction of Catholic Austria, the transfer to Jewish hands of financial supremacy.

To discuss this opinion is beyond the scope of this study but, although perhaps exaggerated, it has certainly a great part of truth. We will put into the hands of the reader a few masonic documents which ought to enable him to form an opinion.

On the 15th September 1912 the Revue International des Societes secretes, edited by Monseigneur Jouin, published the following lines:

Perhaps light will be shed one day on these words of a high Swiss Freemason on the subject of the Heir to the throne of Austria: “He is a remarkable man; it is a pity that he is condemned, he will die on the steps of the throne.”

On the 28th June 1914 the Archduke, heir to the crown of the Austrian monarchy, and his wife succumbed to the bullets of Serbian Freemasons.

On the 12th October one of the assassins, Cabrinovic unconcernedly said to the judges of the military court: “In Freemasonry it is allowed to kill.”

Such are in short the disquieting elements underneath the political crime which let loose the war.

. . .At the international congress of Freemasonry at Paris, in April 1917, one of the subjects of the deliberation was: How can a strong movement be provoked in Germany against the monarchy, since the basis of peace must be the deposition of William II and Charles I. All the papers at once expressed this idea in every shape and form: Peace cannot he concluded before William II and Charles I are deposed.

In his declaration of war the Freemason Wilson solemnly announced to the American congress that the war was against the German government only and not against the German people. All this agrees with the line of conduct formulated at the masonic conference at Lisbon the 13th May 1917 by the grand master Magalhaes Lima:

“The victory of the allies must be the triumph of masonic principles”.

Masonic newspapers said several times that the war was a masonic war having for its aim the triumph of the masonic ideas. According to Wichtl, the Freemason contained the following passage:

“Already during the first weeks of the war a great masonic meeting held in the United States passed a resolution to give to great Britain and her allies all possible, support in the present war (May 1917, p. 601).

The same newspaper said further:

“Freemasonry comprises more than two millions members. Every American mason knows very well what that means for the safety and duration of the Republic. The world war is the struggle of democracy against autocracy, and the future, of the world will be democratic, whether the German Kaiser knows it or not.”

These two quotations coming from a German writer may be accepted cautiously but they are fully corroborated by the following one. A. Lebey, a French masonic authority, said in Paris:

“The question is to know which is right, good faith or falsehood, good or evil, liberty or autocracy. The present struggle is the continuation of that which began in 1789; one of the two principles must triumph or perish. The very life of the world is at stake. Is humanity able and worthy to live free, or, on the contrary does its destiny condemn it to servitude?

“That is the dilemma which the catastrophe has brought us to solve, and all democrats have given their reply. There is only one way, neither to retreat, nor to come to terms. During a war so clearly defined and so plain, no one can hesitate as to his duty.

“Not to defend the motherland would be to surrender the Republic. Motherland, Republic, the revolutionary spirit and socialism are indissolubly joined.

“It is time then that the rights of peoples should consummate the rights of man, and in the heart of the battle it is indeed the living idea of the free union of human beings which is striving against the dead idea of a feudal, murderous and sterile despotism.”

Towards the end of the war, the revolution in the interior of Germany was being actively prepared. The social democrat Vater, speaking at Magdeburg during a meeting of a workman’s and soldier’s council made clear the manner in which that preparation was effected:

“Since 25th January 1918 we have methodically prepared the revolution. It was a difficult task and full of danger; we paid for it by many years of prison. The social democratic party had seen that great strikes do not lead to revolution and that it is necessary to use other means to that end. The labor has brought its fruit. We organized desertions at the front; we provided the deserters with false papers, money and propaganda leaflets inciting to desertion. We sent our agents in all directions, principally to the front, in order that they might work upon the soldiers and disintegrate the army. They advised soldiers to desert to the enemy and it is thus that the downfall was brought about, little by little, but with certainty.

To sum up then, under the fiery proclamations about the war “of Right of Liberty and of Civilization”, the true aim was the overthrow of monarchies, the degradation of the Catholic powers and the triumph of the revolution. Now that this triumph seems at hand it is useless to conceal it and Mr. Coolidge, late president of the United States of America, publicly recognized it in a speech at Hammond in the 14th June 1927 when he said:

“The chief question at stake in this formidable conflict was to decide which form of government was to predominate among the great nations of the world: the autocratic form or the republican form. Victory remained finally on the side of the people.” (Reuter-London, 14th June 1927).