Sensational Exposure

The 3,300,000 Freemasons of the U.S. had a right to be puzzled last week over the Nazis' latest "sensational exposure" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Plastered over the Berlin papers, heralded in scare-heads, was a "secret illustrated document" a six-year-old group photograph showing the President wearing the apron of a Freemason.

Like George Washington, Henry Ford, Britain's Kings, Thomas E. Dewey, Premier Bogdan Filoff of Bulgaria and a few million more men the world over, Franklin Roosevelt is a Mason. The most sinister implications of his membership to Americans is his support of orphanages and charities, his eligibility to caper about in the red fez of a Shriner.

But whip-smart Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels was not releasing his story for U.S consumption. The Craft in Europe has very different implications from its meaning in Britain and the U.S. In many countries the Masons have been considered for centuries a highly subversive, clandestine group, or at least a tight, potent, political unit, which in some nations (like France) has for years dominated the Government from behind the scenes.

Banned in all the Axis-dominated countries, Masonry has also been forced underground in Turkey and Brazil. And, because Masonry uses many Jewish symbols, its mere mention is extra-damaging to Nazi minds.

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