Britain’s Great War
The Great Fraud of 1914-18
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In Part Four, the final part of the series on Pope Benedict’s peace efforts I examine America and the Papal Peace Note of 1917.
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In Part Three of the series on Pope Benedict XV I examine John Redmond and The Pope’s Peace Efforts of 1915. Just before he was elected Pope, Benedict wrote to a colleague: “I would regret if any parish priest should take sides for one or other belligerent.” But Redmondite Ireland and its parish priests did…
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Part II of a series of articles remembering Benedict XV’s efforts to stop the catastrophe of 1914 begins with the new Pontiff’s background and the Italian experience of being lured into Britain’s Great War. Part Two – Italy and the Great War Giancoma Della Chiesa of Genoa became Pope Benedict XV only in September 1914.…
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Last month marked the centenary of the election of Pope Benedict XV, on September 3rd 1914. John Pollard, his English biographer, called Benedict “The Unknown Pope.” Benedict deserves to be better known. He was the Pope who tried to stop the catastrophic Great War that Britain launched only a month before his papacy began. He…
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Britain is perhaps not always seen as a main actor in the Balkan Wars. However, there are reasons for a reassessment of this view if one takes a geopolitical view of the wars, particularly the geopolitical view that was prevalent in British Imperial circles at the time. In Britain today the Balkan Wars are not…
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The Great War of 1914 was Britain’s Great War. But it should also be called Britain’s Great Fraud on Ireland and the world. When Britain encouraged and then entered the European war that was taking shape in August 1914 it made it into a Great War. It was Great Britain that put the Great in…
