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conscience of the youth; for the youth and the child must
belong to the Revolution.3
This declaration was based on the belief that the child
belongs to the state, and only the state has the right to
educate the child, and that all religion must be excluded
from his teaching. This was the same philosophy adopted
by the leaders of the French Revolution, and unfor-
tunately, it is the same philosophy held by leading
educators in the United States.
Another prominent leader in the war against religion
was Garrido Canabal, governor of Tabasco and a
favorite of Calles. Canabal declared that education must
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be socialist and scientific, and that social relations which
are based upon sex must be exemplified scientifically. To
demonstrate the social relations, boys and girls were
stripped naked in the government schools to see with
their own eyes the facts of sex.
When government schools were boycotted, police and
soldiers were sent out to seek the children and force
them into the classrooms. At Naco, Sonora, children
were beaten when they refused to repeat, "No hay Dios"
(There is no God.) but cried out, "Hay Dios, hay Dios."
At one point, the Secretary of State put out an order that
children everywhere be gathered into Sunday services to
decry God and religion and glorify atheism and
socialism.
Free tickets were distributed to the lewdest movies
and school children were taken to maternity hospitals to
witness births. Classrooms were adorned with such
pictures as a monk and nun in lustful approach eagerly
disrobing. Music was also used to "defanaticize" the
minds of the masses.
Anti-Christian fanaticism even extended to the
graveyards where monuments with Christian names and
symbols were removed and numbers only were allowed
to be used to identify the dead. Public mockery resulted
in the naming of a prize bull "God" and a donkey "Pope."
In Guadalajara, fifteen year old boys and girls were
stripped naked and forced to participate in mock
baptisms.
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Garrido Canabal, who under Calles planned and
carried out such conscience killing devices, had been
sent to Russia to study the Soviet education system.
Under Calles 90 percent of the churches, and all
Catholic schools and convents were confiscated and
closed. Only twenty-five priests were allowed to minister
to the 1,700,000 people in the Federal District. Priests
were banned from fourteen states, many being tortured
and slain. All bishops were listed for expulsion and
amendments were posted in Congress demanding their
death.
Typical of Socialist regimes, every excuse was used
to confiscate private property, even homes where church
services were held, or priests were hidden. Rewards
were offered to those who would report such "criminal
offenses."
Through all of this, the blood of a gentle and devout
people was being shed. The savagery against those who
protested was such that on one occasion hundreds of
women and children lay wounded or dying in the streets.
When 10,000 students and 60,000 parents marched in
protest to Calles' educational program, the United States
Ambassador, Josephus Daniels, came to his aid with
American support and eulogies to "Mexico's strong
man."
When the Mexican people rose up in arms against
sacrilege, rape and rapine (the Cristero period 1926-
1929) and Calles forces were in danger of being
overthrown, American combat planes were sent to drop
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tons of gas bombs and incendiary grenades on the
freedom fighters. The only things the United States
government showed any interest in protecting were the
antireligious dictators and American oil, mineral, and
banking interests.
Efforts to take the story of the plight of Mexico to the
American press were effectively blocked by a censorship
of silence. When a famous international reporter went to
Mexico and wrote an authentic account of the events
taking place, no large North American newspaper would
print it. The New York Daily wanted the story, but the
millionaire owner forbid the editor to touch it. By this
time (1928), the Money Barons in New York had
purchased control of the major newspapers in the United
States and Mr. McCullagh had to go to England to find
a publisher.
Although the Socialist rulers of Mexico spent millions
of dollars on propaganda in U. S. newspapers, the truth
did eventually begin to filter through. Much of the credit
for the circumventing of the censorship was due to the
efforts of the Knights of Columbus. As a result, protests
from across America began to flow into Congress, the
Senate, and the State Department. This resulted in a
resolution of Congress (the Borah Resolution) calling for
a Congressional investigation into the matter.
Resolutions were also passed by six state legislatures
supporting the Borah Resolution. Protestant, Catholic,
and Jewish leaders also supported it.
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