The Chronicle Star

The 'world-shaking' expose of President Roosevelt as a Mason recently carried a major portion of Nazi headlines. The Nazi's shocking revelation - a story and picture of the President of the United States and his sons wearing Masonic aprons - tore the lid off practically nothing but a well-known fact, and surprised no one at all but the Nazis. President Roosevelt has been listed as a Mason for years in practically every newspaper in the United States, as well as all the Masonic publications in this country and elsewhere. But what a crime that is in Germany! The German 'discovery' was made in far-away Oslo, Norway.

The President is also an Odd Fellow and belongs to several other orders. The Nazis might have gone further in their exposures. George Washington, whom the Nazis like to think of as a counter-part of present-day German leadership, was a Mason, as was Germany's own great Frederick II, a keen Freemason who is credited with being responsible for the Revised Constitutions of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite under which all of the regular Supreme Councils of the world function. The leaders in Germany for generations have been Masons until Hitler's time. Until then, there were nine Grand Lodges in Germany, three of which comprised four-fifths of the Masonic membership in that whole country, and were called Christian Grand Lodges - that is, no one could become a member unless he believed in the Trinity. The other six Grand Lodges were called 'Humanitarian,' because they accepted members who held other religious beliefs but who, however, professed a faith in God.

The Nazi party newspaper, Voelkischer Beobachter, branded Roosevelt as the 'chief tool of Jewish world Freemasonry.' And yet, there were no Jews in Germany's three Christian Grand Lodges mentioned. In truth, not 5 percent of the Masons in the world profess the Jewish religion, and there is no such thing as a world Freemasonry governed by Jews. There is no world Freemasonry governed by any race or individual.