prophecy astray

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 152, 13 June 1932, Page 5

prophecy astray

WAR WHICH NEVER CAME. VON LUDENDORFF’S BELIEFS. Field-Marshal von Ludendorff has failed to sustain as a prophet the reputatiqn he enjoyed as a soldier. According to a prophecy which he published last June the world should now be plunged in a war which was to develop this month, unheralded by any formal declaration. The rivals for supremacy, as portrayed, were the Pope, the Soviet and the Fascists against Freemasonry, directed by France, Europe being split into battlefields by these supernational Powers and aerial warfare devastating entire nations. “Germany, rendered impotent by the Versailles Treaty, will be the principal cockpit of war; the horros of the campaign transcending those of the Thirty Years War, when cannibalism was piactised.” Ludendorff said. “The Dominions will not help Britain, but will desert the Empire, Canada joining the United States, although Ireland will remain united with Britain for the duration of tho war, at the Pope’s express wish.”

Eventually, according to the prophecy, Western civilisation would crash into economic ruin, Asia and Africa profiting by the destruction of Europe. Von Ludendorff's contention was that, in order to avoid this holocaust, tho British Empire should ally itself, in defiance of Frame, with the Roman Fascist group, which would welcome it with open arms.