King Alexander I of Yugoslavia – European Martyr
Translated by umscuseme
The following article is translation of work written by Lazar Prokić, Serbian National-Socialist and member of NSDAP, a man who would later become head of the Operational Service of the State Propaganda in the Government of Milan Nedić’s government of National Salvation.
The text was published in book “Secret societies in Serbia” in 2004 by Isidora Bjelica.
“Already in 1933, King Alexander began to expand the basis of Yugoslavia’s foreign policy, seeing that the Little Entente and the friendship pact with France did not provide sufficient security. After the meeting with Kemal Atatürk and the formation of the Balkan Pact, Alexander’s rendezvous with the Bulgarian king Boris came, which in itself meant seeking contacts with fascist Italy. In the summer of 1933, King Alexander undertook an “incognito” car trip to southern Germany and came into contact with the handlers of the National Socialist regime (with Hermann Göring, etc.), which caused real astonishment and revolt in Paris and in the ranks of Freemasonry. Even the oppositional “Le Temps” accompanied the news of Alexander’s trip with a comment, full of bitterness and anger, French Freemasonry decided definitively that the “perjurer” should be removed; Pribićević’s, Pavelić’s and communist action against the “murderer king” is gaining even more momentum. (“Killer King” – Aleksandar was named the main organizer of the murder in the Assembly, 1928; prim. Đ.M.S.)
Along with the activities that already hinted at the gradual reorientation of Yugoslavia’s foreign policy, King Alexander also begins to manifest his distaste for the Yugoslav National Party and its work in the field of internal politics: he does not come, to his heart, to major changes and sudden reversals, because the king wants to implemented his ideas in stages and gradually, but his mood is reflected in helping the Yugoslav Action, which was supposed to replace the YNP.
During 1934, the king’s action to emancipate Yugoslavia from the Franco-Masonic influence continued very intensively, but not publicly but in camera caritatis. Alexander tries to capacitate and win the Vatican for himself, and agrees to major concessions in his favor, with the projected Concordat; contact with the Third Reich and fascist Italy is discreetly worked out, and through Academician Barthou, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexander wants to arrange relations with national, right-wing France as well, because he believes that the future of France lies on the right.
In short, in 1933-34, King Alexander worked thoughtfully and patiently to reconcile and coordinate European nationalism, to create a nationalist block on the European continent, to suppress the masonic-leftist tide that posed a danger to him and his country, to the future of Europe in general. While we say this, we are not making some arbitrary claim and construction, because there are living witnesses that King Alexander, in the last two years of his life, really thought like this, worked on this work. And that he was serious about bringing his domestic policy into harmony with his foreign policy concept is confirmed by the words he addressed to the author of these lines at the end of August 1934: “It is not good that I stayed halfway between democracy and authoritarianism!” I realize that I have to go all the way, because otherwise the country will fail me. But in order to go to the end, I must first of all drive away the Freemasons, because they are the cause of all evil. There is no dirty affair without them! Here, in the Našić affair, they are the protagonists! I will do what I set out to do as soon as I return from my trip to Bulgaria and France!”
Between King Alexander and Barthou there was an affinity of thought and feeling, because Barthou was a rightist with a clear vision of where leftism was leading France and Europe. Barthou noticed that King Alexander was beginning to distance himself spiritually from France, so as a good French patriot he tried everything and anything to stop this process of Alexander’s alienation and to restore his faith in his homeland. That’s why he insisted on persuading the king to visit France, in order to determine the guidelines for a new common policy of reconciliation between European nations, primarily Franco-Yugoslav reconciliation with Italy, joint cooperation with Germany, etc. In connection with this, Barthou advocated that the French left-wing freemasonry be inclined to change its attitude towards Alexander. She seemingly agreed to it, and that’s how Alexander’s fateful trip to France happened.
Satan’s skillful arrangers suggested to Alexander that he should not travel directly, by rail, to Paris, but that it would be much more expedient if he went by sea, and disembarked and stayed in Marseilles, in order to attend the unveiling of the monument erected by the people of Marseilles to the fallen French warriors on the Thessaloniki front. . Alexander agreed to it, because neither he himself, unfortunately, nor anyone around him took into account that this largest port city on the shores of the Mediterranean is at the same time the largest, precisely endemic nest of French and international scum, criminal types, communists and anarchists. ; that the municipality of Marseilles was then in the hands of leftists (socialists and communists), who called Aleksander a perjurer and a murderer in an ungenerous way.
Consciously or unknowingly, Alexander went straight into the lion’s den, even if he knew the true attitude of freemasons and leftists towards him. He went believing in his good luck, and almost no precautions were taken by our competent authorities for his personal safety. When the king, a little before that, was coming to Sofia to return his visit to King Boris, not only was the entire Bulgarian police apparatus alerted, but about 80 of the most prepared and capable of our policemen and agents were sent to Sofia. For the king’s visit to France, all that fell away. After the assassination, the then minister of the interior, Žika Lazić, justified himself by saying that he did not have available loans to send a significant team of our public security authorities to France! And before the assassination, our diplomats in Belgrade and Paris pointed out that it would be an insult to France’s great ally to send a “whole pack” of police agents to its territory, because France is able to guarantee the King’s personal safety. However, in the great friendly republic, Freemasonry made sure that the assassination of the king would succeed as safely as possible!
When the poor king from “Dubrovnik” (ship) landed on the shore of the port of Marseille, he was already greeted on the quay by stormy demonstrations of the Marseille communists and metropolitan scum who, a few steps away, threatened him with their fists, screaming: “Down with the perjurer king!” Down with the murderer!” The surprised king addressed the Marshal of the Court, General Dimitrijević, who was waiting for him on the quay, the following words: “What is this, Aca? (nickname) If we get the heads out of here alive, we will live for a hundred years!” Heroic pride did not allow him to retreat to his “Dubrovnik” again, to set sail from the port of Marseilles, and to demand that order be restored in Marseilles, as befits the welcome of a king, and more friends and allies. Instead, he went to certain death!
According to the earlier schedule, the car in which the king and Barthou sat was supposed to be surrounded and followed by a dozen policemen on motorcycles. Such an escort would certainly interfere with the execution of the assassination. That is why the motorcyclists, before the car was moving, were ordered not to follow it, but to take a detour to the monument that was to be unveiled, and to wait there for further orders. And so the king’s car was followed by only two horsemen who did not – that is extremely significant! – they rode parallel to the car, next to it, to protect it, but slipped a few steps in front of it. With such an arrangement, we set off for the town. The rightists cheered the king, and the leftists demonstrated even louder against him. The streets were filled with a crowd that descended from the sidewalk and onto the road itself. The passage for cars is narrow. It’s even narrower in one place where the cobblestones have become loose. There the car with the king and Barthou had to slow down. The security cordon was represented only by policemen, and at a distance of 5-6 steps from each other, and still with their backs to the crowd. It was quite easy for the assassin to stand out from the crowd, to reach the king’s car with two or three jumps, to stand on the boot of the car – skilled arrangers made sure that the car had a boot! – to hold the revolver straight in the king’s face, so that the bullets would not miss. When he had already killed the king and mortally wounded General Georges, the assassin did not fail to shoot Barthou as well. Only then did Colonel Piole, who was riding in front of the car on the left, knock the assassin to the ground with a saber blow to the head. Falling to the ground, the assassin continued to shoot, and the policemen also opened fire, so that three women were also killed, and five people were seriously wounded. The king died on the spot, and Barthou died three hours later, due to loss of blood, because there was no one (!) to help him and bandage the wound in time!
Who really was the assassin? It is not known exactly even today. They say he was a Macedonian, a member of an illegal Macedonian revolutionary organization. This is likely, just as it is likely that he could have been a member of the Croatian “Ustasha” organization. But it is most likely that the assassin could have been caught alive, even if wounded! Wasn’t it the merit of a skilled arranger that he was killed on the spot, and that his physiognomy was so ruined by trampling that it ceased to be a physiognomy?!
It happened on October 9, 1934 in the evening. The very next morning, the French right-wing press unabashedly pointed out that Freemasonry had sponsored a plot against the lives of the Allied ruler and the French foreign minister. The right-wing press, so to speak, pointed the finger at the Minister of the Interior of the French Republic, Albert Sarraut, claiming that he is a Freemason and the most responsible culprit for the success of the assassins. The outcry of public opinion against Saro was so great that he had to leave his ministerial position.
But neither then nor later did Albert Sarraut provide the public with irrefutable evidence that the accusation against him was unjustified. Such evidence was not presented by the left-masonic press either, even though not only articles but also books were written after the assassination in which it was proved that the real inspirer and virtuoso arranger of the Marseille assassination was French Freemasonry. Is it just her? After the assassination, it was publicly stated that the London police headquarters, the famous Scotland Yard, offered its services to the French police, on the occasion of the arrival of King Alexander in France, because Scotland Yard had allegedly learned that the assassination of the Yugoslav king was being planned. What was the nature of these proposed services? Did Scotland Yard really want to protect King Alexander from assassination? However, the fact remains that the French police removed the services of Scotland Yard, and did not take the necessary precautionary measures themselves!
Later investigations into the case of the Marseille assassination established that almost all “Ustashe” who had direct or indirect participation in the assassination came to France from Hungary, but not with Hungarian, but with Czechoslovak passports. And in Czechoslovakia at that time, just like before and later, the freemason Edvard Beneš was cheering and dressing!
Later investigations also established that the execution of the assassination was carried out by the “Ustasha”: Šuk, Silni, Pospišil and Rajić. But, based on the results of the investigation, these four were met in Lausanne by a mysterious Frenchman, who transferred them to France via Lake Geneva and Evian, and after crossing the French border, he ordered Šuk and Silni to go to Marseille, while Pospišil and Rajić conducted in Fontainebleau, from where they – in case of failure of the Marseille assassination – had to repeat the assassination. The identity of the mysterious Frenchman has never been established!
After the assassination, the fiercest fire was directed at the Marseille police, who were supposedly to blame for the success of the assassination. Defending itself, the Marseille police administration published a communique on October 11, 1934 (two days after the assassination), in which it stated that it had been informed of the possibility of an assassination and that it had requested the help of the army, but the Minister of the Interior, Sarraut, refused he resisted most energetically, prevented the assistance of the army, and sent two of his most intimate associates to Marseilles, the head of “national security” (Surefe Nationale) Bertoin and the inspector general of the police Sistron, so that they would take over the leadership of the entire security service on the spot. Arriving in Marseilles, Bertoin and Sistron overturned and halted all security measures that the Marseilles police had already taken; the two prevented the car with the king from being escorted by motorcycle policemen, and even objected to being escorted by two honorary officers.
Therefore, Bertoin and Sistron were going to completely strip the king’s car! And Bertoin and Sistron, the heads of French public security, the best associates of Minister Sarraut, were indisputably Freemasons, just like Sarraut himself! Because of his “omissions” in connection with the Marseille assassination, Bertoin was dismissed, but within less than six months he was appointed inspector general in Algeria (Journal Officiel, dated April 21, 1935), with an annual salary of 100,000 francs, which did not include allowances, travel and commission allowances, etc.
After the assassination, the leading public security authorities and the French Freemasonry made sure that the public would never find out how the assassination was actually carried out and what the attitude of the police was at that moment. That is why the Minister of the Interior of the Third Republic not only forbade the showing of the film, which was filmed on the occasion of the assassination, but also ordered that the film itself be confiscated and destroyed. (Several negatives of this film still reached England, so the English audience, watching the film, concluded that the Marseille assassination was the work of the French police!). And the cameraman who shot the film about the Marseille tragedy, accidentally (?!) died exactly 24 hours after the assassination! When, during the trial against the assassin, lawyer Debon requested that this film be demonstrated before the court and the jury, at the last minute before the screening, the film caught fire and burned to the end! (Initiates say that this fate befell that film because it clearly shows the silhouette of the mysterious Frenchman who met the conspirators in Lausanne, escorted them across the border unhindered, assigned them roles, and headed to Marseilles to supervise the execution on the spot the task he set for them!)
Finally, we learned about this important detail: A few minutes before the assassination itself, a police official came to one of the Marseille post offices, identified himself and handed over a telegram addressed to the Yugoslav government, in which it is said that the assassin – the killer of the king – was an Italian citizen. The postal clerk, to whom the content of the telegram seemed suspicious, did not send it but kept the telegram, so it was later established that the author of the telegram, in which the assassination was anticipated, was a Mason! This should be connected with the subsequent tendency of the masonic-leftist Parisian press to throw the responsibility on Germany, Italy and Hungary. However, the right-wing press in Paris repeated the claim that, in addition to the French international Freemasonry, the Czechoslovak embassy in Paris played an important role in the preparation of the Marseilles crime!
The French judiciary, as well as the French police, did not conscientiously and fully investigate all the circumstances that followed the Marseille assassination. At the trial against the assassins, Freemasonry made sure that the assassins were only formally convicted, and that the real convict was the assassination victim, King Aleksandar Karađorđević! The king’s widow, Queen Maria, was forced to withdraw her civil lawsuit against the assassin’s accomplices, because the process was threatened by the danger that her husband, the king, would not be, and again, morally condemned by her lawsuit. The Marseille tragedy also came to the attention of the Masonic League of Nations. The Hungarian government was forced to express its regret before the plenum of the League for giving shelter to the participants of the Marseille assassination at Janko Puszta. With that, a veil of forgetfulness was cast over this tragedy. Through the death of Martyr, it was moved to the agenda. A short time after that, Albert Sarraut became president of the French government; as such, the Yugoslav Prince-Viceroy Prince Paul visited him and awarded him a royal decoration – the Order of the White Eagle, 1st degree!
