Note 1 — CRIMES OF THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA AGAINST MANKIND.

For the theory of the Catholic Church, whatever may be its practice, is that all men are born into it. It asserts a right over every child who sees the light where it is acknowledged: consequently he who bound himself to serve the Church at that time bound himself to serve humanity, at least within the precincts over which the Church extended its authority. For three hundred years after this time the people of Europe was considered to be The Church.