"It is not an accident that Communism should produce wholesale massacre, arson, torture, and the destruction of all lovely things. A perverse theory produces perverse acts. The story has been told over and over again but it can never be told too often. Communism is wicked in its action because IT IS EVIL IN ITS MOTIVE AND DRIVING POWER. Behind the whole thing is hatred of human traditions, chief of which is the tradition of worship of God, and of revealed morals and natural religion, which are the best inheritance of mankind. Communism, I say, began with massacre! That must be carefully remembered. IT BEGAN WITH MASSACRE. Massacre was not an unfortunate outburst, the result of its establishment; it was the preliminary and most heartfelt spontaneous expression of its spirit. Communism BEGAN with massacre in Russia, in Hungary, and quite recently in Spain. The second point is this: the massacre was not primarily nor mainly a massacre of those who exploited the proletariat. It was mainly, as a beginning, a massacre of men and women devoted to religion."