PROPHECY ASTRAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 140, 16 June 1932, Page 11

PROPHECY ASTRAY

WAR WHICH NEVER CAME. VON LUDENDORFF’S BELIEFS Field-Marshal von Ludendorff has failed to sustain as a prophet the reputation he enjoved 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 super-national Powers and aerial warfare devastating entire nations. “Germany, rendered impotent by the Versailles Treaty, will be the principal cockpit of war: the horrors of the campaign transcending those of the Thirty Years' War. when cannibalism was practised,” 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 the war, at the Tope’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 rder to avoid this holocaust, the British Empire should allv itself, in defiance of France, with the Roman Fascist group, which would welcome it with open arms.