John Rao addresses the subject of Competition in the Call for Purification, 1919-1939. Unfortunately, the Catholic Church was not the only voice offering a purification message competing with that of the warmongers. Three others came onto the scene. One of these was that of Soviet Communism, which argued that the victory of the proletariat would cleanse the world of the evils represented in the last era of struggle by bourgeois capitalism. Another was enunciated by Woodrow Wilson, who saw a new, purified age of eternal peace emerging from the global spread of Americanism: what would, in the future, be called Pluralism. The third, building upon the experience of self-sacrifice and suffering of the frontline soldiers during the War, and resting upon obedience to the will of a leader/comrade in arms, was Fascism.