Some lucid thoughts written right after the end of World War II by Fr. Julio Meinvielle (1905-1973)

Two young women standing on Saint Catherine Street in Montreal, read the front page of The Montreal Daily Star. The title “Germany Quits” announces the German surrender and the impending end of the World War II in Europe. Wikimedia Commons with the gracious permission and cooperation of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec and Wikimedia Canada under the Poirier Project.

The text below was published in the aftermath of World War II by Fr Julio Meinvielle. Some eighty decades later it still makes very good reading. It seems fresh written today. In our days, Fr Meinvielle has been falsely accused of being a promoter of Nazism. His penetrating analysis of European reality flew over the head of his critics. A gross oversimplification of his ideas was the tool used by his enemies to mislead the public against him. Father was killed by a passing car as he crossed a busy avenue in Buenos Aires. Many believed he was assassinated. He lived in an age when political murder was becoming common currency. He pursued truth and spoke truth. That may explain his untimely death.

Our Time Magazine, 1945

The war in Europe has ended with the overwhelming triumph of the so-called democracies. Napoleon’s famous assertion that gold wins wars was not disproven this time either.

From a certain perspective, and in an excessively providentialist view of history, one might think it is not regrettable that what was so fanatically called Nazism-fascism was defeated. Because even though it is true that it was driven by a powerful dynamic to dismantle the mendacious humanitarian myths, under whose protection the forces of Money could exercise their oppressive imperialism with impunity, it is not also contrary to the truth to think that it harbored a tremendously pagan, expansive force, difficult to purify.

But whatever the value of this hypothetical consideration, the fact is that, at this moment, the fate of the world rests at the mercy of the totalitarian domination of those same forces—those of Money and Resentment—that have been destroying Europe for three hundred years. Because these two forces have been tearing apart the very being of Europe with divisions. Religious, economic, and political. And it is the anti-European powers, essentially divisive, such as England, the United States, and Russia, who, since the Peace of Westphalia, after the Congress of Vienna and the Treaty of Versailles, have used money to finance intrigues and stir up resentment.

Those nations that sow war can hardly impose peace.

Here, at this point, lies the terrible crisis stemming from the recent military victory. The nations that have triumphed are precisely those behind which the international forces hide. The same forces that are disintegrating the unity of Europe and the world. And this triumph has placed in their hands the fantastic technical and psychological resources that allow a strategically placed minority to direct and regulate the lives of all human beings in every nation on the five continents.

But without letting ourselves be guided by such a realistic criterion, even assuming charitably that nations like England, the United States, and Russia, which brandish myths of peace and international security, were willing to lay down their well-proven instincts of totalitarian imperialism—Asian in one case, hypocritical and evangelical in the other—lead us to ask: what real solutions for human coexistence can they offer to the weary, disillusioned, and torn-apart peoples of Europe? Perhaps a police state of “perfect security”? And what is this plan for “perfect security” if not a system of international slavery in the hands of a few omnipotent masters? So, after having dismantled the vital organs of European unity, the aim now, in this final stage, is to reduce it to servitude.

The analysis of Europe’s historical process over the last three hundred years cannot help but fill us with anguish when we think of the dark days that, under the deceitful guise of Freedom and Democracy, loom over the once free and great peoples.

The March Towards Slavery

The world cannot be subjected to two masters. Sooner or later, either because one plays its diplomatic and financial cards better, or because one of them is playing them better. Whether he managed to impose his will or they simply came to blows, with one winning and the other losing, the fact remains that the world seems to be marching inexorably toward domination by a universal master.

Until 1929, the world had lived under the domination of the international merchant who, in exchange for controlling all the world’s business, granted peoples a certain degree of mental, political, and even economic freedom. But the tremendous crises that bankrupted that world have demonstrated that, without regulation, security is jeopardized. And now we are entering the era of security; of secure business. That international merchant who, in a random world of business, was able to make enormous profits, only to later succumb, himself a victim of fate, now wants to regulate everything so that security is perfect.

The war was won by security, that is, by the minute-by-minute mechanization of vast masses of people. Therefore, peace will also be won by security. And that is where we stand. When one considers the marvelous precision with which States The United States conceived and implemented the monstrous program of producing war materiel for land, sea, and air, transporting that same materiel to all combat zones scattered across the five continents, and its synchronized use on the battlefronts—a powerful, colossal war machine, conceived in the offices of engineers and then unleashed, overwhelmingly, across every route of the planet—one can imagine what results of infallible security could also be achieved by planning all the mental, economic, and political activity of all the peoples of the earth.

Who will be capable of disrupting such mechanically assured security?

Then, from the strictly enforced application of these plans, drawn up by the managers, will emerge the universal city of security, the paradisiacal city, where we will enjoy every good thing without any trace of evil. And that evil will be eliminated down to its last and most hidden remnants. No more traditional thinking, which is regression and barbarism; no more family, local, or national customs, which are anachronistic atavism; no more national economics or politics of sovereignty because that is exaggerated nationalism, racism, fascism, and Nazism. No. All nations open, in universal fraternity, so that abundance, prosperity, and progress may enter. That said, within the framework of security. Security in the production and distribution of raw materials, manufactured goods, transportation, commerce, immigration, and labor; security in the dissemination of ideas and sentiments in the press, radio, and film; security in the political leadership of nations. Security for the good of all, in the hands of one, who, for the good of all, will have at his disposal the force that ensures that security.

Slavery will be perfect. But it will be freely consented to and accepted. And the masses will move through this viscous, regulated environment, without violence, because they will have everything they need to avoid thinking; because there, no one will feel the need to know the Truth and to love it. Each person will have everything necessary to remain eternally in the condition of an inferior being.

This is where humanity is entering, under the guise of Freedom and Democracy: Universal slavery, under a single master.

In reality, this engineer’s mentality, with which they intend to solve human problems, leads to the crime of reducing peoples to slaves and to the lie of narcotizing them with systematic propaganda so that they believe they are free.

The nations will have security, but they will not have peace.

Fr Julio Meinvielle