Avro Manhattan

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Avro Manhattan (1914-1990) was an author whose works were very critical of the Roman Catholic Church (see anti-Catholicism) (though he also wrote on other things) in politics and was the author of several works relating to what he claimed was the Vatican's role in world politics and world affairs.

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[edit] His Life

Born in Milan, Italy on April 6, 1914 to American and Swiss/Dutch parents of Jewish extraction, Manhattan was educated at the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics.

During World War Two, Manhattan was jailed in Italy for refusing to serve in Mussolini's fascist army. Later during the war, he operated a radio station called "Radio Freedom" broadcasting to nations occupied by the Axis Powers. For this service he was made a Knight of Malta.[citation needed]

His friends included H.G. Wells, Pablo Picasso, George Bernard Shaw and scientist Marie Stopes.

Manhattan spent much of his later life after 1979 at the ornately decorated home of his wife's mother, 45 Henry Nelson Street, South Shields, County Durham.

[edit] His Works

Manhattan authored more than 20 books, including The Vatican in World Politics. It has been translated into most major languages, including Chinese, Russian and most recently, Korean. Some of his other popular works include The Vatican Billions, The Vatican's Holocaust, and Vatican Moscow Alliance. Some of his books which are especially critical of the Vatican and of Roman Catholicism.

The following is a list of Avro Manhattan's most notable works, ordered chronologically:

  • The Rumbling of the Apocalypse (1934)
  • Towards the new Italy (Preface by H.G. Wells) (1943)
  • Latin America and the Vatican (1946)
  • The Catholic Church Against the Twentieth Century (1947; 2nd edition 1950)
  • The Vatican in Asia (1948)
  • Religion in Russia (1949)
  • Vatican in World Politics (1949)
  • Catholic Imperialism and World Freedom (1952; 2nd edition 1959)
  • Terror Over Yugoslavia, the Threat to Europe (1953)
  • The Dollar and the Vatican (1956)
  • Vatican Imperialism in the Twentieth Century (1965)
  • Vatican Moscow Alliance (1982)
  • The Vatican Billions (1983)
  • Catholic Terror in Ireland (1988)
  • Vietnam ... why did we go? (1984)
  • Murder in the Vatican, American Russian and Papal Plots (1985)
  • The Vatican’s Holocaust (1986)

[edit] Other

In 2002, UK Radio Presenter Phil Holmes, a DJ on over a dozen UK radio stations, including North East's Metro Radio, Sun FM & Magic 1152, bought Manhattan's South Shields house. It was no longer ornate, Holmes restored the property, selling in 2004. He often states that he would now buy it back.

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