The Long Range Plan for the ultimate subjugation of Spain
started, as in other countries, soon after the death of Christ. In an
attempt to crush the power of the Christian Church in Spain, the
money-lenders their agents to infiltrate into the congregations and pose as
Christians.[1] This placed them in positions
to destroy the church organizations from within. This conspiracy became
obvious, and in the 13th ceutury Pope Innocence III instituted the
Inquisition. The purpose of the Inquisition was to ferret out and question
infidels suspected of masquerading as Christians. Spain had been
exceptionally kind to the Jews. They were allowed to hold office and acted
as tax-collectors. But, as happened in every other country in Europe, the
crimes of the athiestic money-lenders, and their agents, were charged
against the whole Jewish population. Between 1475 and 1504 during the reign
of Isabella and Ferdinand, the Inquisition was used extensively to locate
and destroy all traitors who plotted to overthrow the power of the Church
and State. The Inquisitors under Torquemada discovered the subversive
underground to be so widespread and well-organized that in 1492 Spain
followed the example of other European countries and expelled all the Jews.
This task provided the opportunity for some extremists to organize mob
violence against the Jews and several extensive and regrettable massacres
took place. These illegal killings were condemned publicly by the Church
authorities in Rome.
After the international bankers re-organized during the
1600s, their agents infiltrated into the Spanish Treasury Department. They
were exceptionally active during both the English and the French
revolutions, trying to destroy the Spanish economy in order to prepare the
way for revolutionary efforts in that country also.
It is worth while to study the political intrigue that
went on in Spain from 1839 to 1939 because it gives a clear picture of the
pattern of the ultimate subjugation of all countries. There are three steps
in all revolutionary efforts.
First: Infiltration by the
agents of the revolutionary party into the government, civil services, armed
forces, and labour organizations in order to be in position to destroy the
government from within when the order to revolt is given.
Second: The affiliation of
the revolutionary party with the socialist or liberal party left of centre
in order to overthrow the established government regardless of whether it is
a monarchy or a republic.
Third: Subversive activities
to bring about anarchy in order to discredit the Popular Front Government
and provide the excuse for forming a proletarian dictatorship. Once this is
established purges turn it into a totalitarian dictatorship as it happened
in Russia in 1917.
Karl Marx’s agents organized Spain’s first General
Political Strike in 1865. In 1868 the Directors of the World Revolutionary
Movement (W.R.M.) sent Senor Fanelli to Spain to affiliate the Anarchists
with the Marxist revolutionaries. Fanelli was a close friend of Bakhunin
who was a close associate of Marx and Engels. In 1870 Bakhunin fell out
with Marx over Policy. He was expelled from the First International of the
W.R.M.[2]
In 1872 Bakhunin influenced the Spanish revolutionary
leaders into forming the Socialist-Democratic Alliance.[3]
The Spanish government decreed Bakhunin’s extremist organizations illegal,
but they continued to exist underground. The Grand Orient Lodges formed
convenient headquarters. At a congress held in Zargoza the Spanish section
of the Marxist International agreed to ally themselves with the Anarchist
International. After its affiliation, both groups concentrated in
organizing the various Labour Groups into a vast ‘Carnorra.’ They
crowned their combined efforts with a revolution which produced the first
Spanish Republic in 1873.
The effort on the part of the revolutionary leaders was
accompanied with the usual Reign of Terror. Anarchy ran wild. All kinds of
excesses took place. Finally, General Pavia brought off a ‘Coup d’Etat’ and
the revolutionaries went underground again.
In order to emerge into the open once more, the members of
the revolutionary underground supported the leaders of a mild ‘liberal’
movement to obtain political power. The revolutionary leaders used the
quarrel going on between those who claimed the descendants of Don Carlos
should occupy the throne, and those who claimed the descendants of Isabella
should reign, to start a Civil War. This war ended with the defeat of the
Carlist Group in 1876.[4]
The Spanish workers really desired to organize for their
own protection, but the majority did not agree with the extreme policy
advocated by the Anarchists. The anti-revolutionaries therefore organized
the “Workers Association.” These moderates were immediately set upon by
both revolutionaries and employers of labour alike.[5]
This persecution continued until 1888 when, at the suggestion of Pablo
Iglesias, the moderate group adopted the name “The Workers General Union”
which became known in Spain as the U.G.T. The members of this organization
did not get much support until after the government outlawed the Iberian
Anarchist Federation.
The syndicalist elements collaborated with the radical
republican party until 1908. They then formed the ‘Solidaridad Obrera’,
and, two years later, in 1910, they rounded the Regional Federation of
Labour known in Spain as the C.R.T. Immediately afterwards they formed the
National Federation of Labour (C.N.T.).
In 1913 both the C.R.T. and the C.N.T. were suspended as
the result of a series of strikes. The government did not object to the
principles of collective bargaining, but it did object to the extremist
policy, and revolutionary actions, of the leaders. So legitimate labour,
striving for social justice, found their organizations barred because the
radical element always seemed able to work its way into executive positions
within the Unions.
The reaction was what the plotters of world revolution
expected it would be. Their revolutionary syndicalist movement greatly
increased in power and acted against all political parties, and
against the State itself. The policy of these extremists was “direct
action,” advocated with the greatest heat and violence. In 1916 the
C.R.T. was reorganized by Angel Pestana and Salvador Segui. In 1918 these
two labour leaders were able to form in Barcelona the ‘Sole Syndicate’
generally known as ‘The One Big Syndicate.’
During World War I Spain, as a neutral country, made a
vast amount of money but, generally speaking, the labouring classes did not
receive anything like a fair share of the national prosperity. This fact
was perhaps the deciding factor which drove the majority of the working
classes out of moderate labour organizations into the arms of the
revolutionary leaders in the extremist labour groups. However, the more
moderate and level-headed labour leaders didn’t give up the fight against
the radical groups and as a result of their efforts, they brought into being
a new labour group known as “The Free Syndicate” in 1920. During the next
three years there was continuous strife going on between the Right
and Left labour organizations. Local strikes, general strikes,
destruction of property, private assassinations to remove labour leaders,
wholesale murders to reduce the strength of opposing organizations. All
these crimes were committed in the name of liberty. By 1923
conditions became chaotic. To prevent the Commumst Party bringing about
another revolution the king of Spain asked General Franco to become military
dictator.
One of the first results of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship
was the successful termination of the Moroccan War. It was during the final
stages of this war that General France greatly distinguished himself in the
field. He turned what looked like a complete military defeat into a
brilliant victory. By tempering justice with mercy he won the admiration,
and the loyalty, of many of the Moroccan natives. It was thus he came to
the notice of the general public in Spain, Rivera is accused by General his
enemies of doing everything a man shouldn’t do. It is only fair to record
that he did restore law and order; he brought about a number of social
reforms; he co-operated with Largo Caballero to improve working
conditions. He worked so hard that only his breakdown in health in 1929 can
explain the errors in judgment he made during 1930.
Tired and worn out, and as if in a hurry to unburden
himself of the responsibilities of office, he called in two socialist
leaders, Besteiro and Saborit. He charged them with the task of
re-organizing the electoral machinery of the nation so the people could
decide whether they wanted a monarchy or a republican government. Just why
De Rivera appointed Besteiro and Saborit to re-organize the electoral
machine of Spain will probably never be known.
The two socialists rigged the election machinery so well a
socialist-Republican Government was assured. In Madrid alone the number of
ficticious voters exceeded 40,000.[6]
Similar corruption existed in all the larger centres of population.
To ensured the end of the monarchy in Spain The Grand
Orient Lodges organized a special “Military Brotherly Union” by which they
obtained the promise of twenty-one of the twenty-three Spanish generals to
support the Republican Cause. General Mola, who was Chief of the Spanish
Internal Security, in his book, Tempestad Calma Intriga Y Crisis
informs us that the generals were initiated into the Grand Orient and had
one and a half million pesetas placed to their credit, to help them escape
abroard should the republican movement fail. Franco was one of the two
generals who refused to join the “Military Brotherly Union.” In support of
Mola’s statement, Cano Lopez sain on the floor of the Spanish Cortes
(parliament): “Since 1925 masonry has grouped under the heading ‘Military
Brotherly Union’ most of the high ranking officials of the army. The
members include Cabanellas, Sanjurjo, Goded, Mola, Lopez, Ochoa, Queipo de
Llana, and others... Of twenty-three divisional generals, twenty-one were
masons... All had taken the oath of the Grand Orient.” (I swear obedience
without limitation to the Head of the Council of Thirty-Three... I swear to
acknowledge no mortal as above him.) Lopez added: “Both in 1929, for the
abolition of the dictatorship of de Rivera, and in 1931 for the abolition of
the monarchy, the Grand Orient issued the orders most of the other generals
obeyed.”[7]
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