Parvus, Jabotinsky, and London's Young Turks

Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 36, Number 3, January 23, 2009 Select Bibliography 1980); The Empire At Bay, The Leo Amery Diaries: Books: 1929-1945 (London: Hutchinson, 1988). Charles Leopold, Maurice Stennet Amery, My Political Paul Goodman, ed. Chaim Weizmann, A Tribute on his Sev- Life, Vols. 1-3, England Before the Storm: 1896-1914 entieth Birthday (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1945). (London: Hutchinson, 1953); War and Peace: 1914- Vladimir Jabotinsky, The Story of the Jewish Legion (Ber- 1929 (London: Hutchinson, 1953); Vol. 3, The Unfor- nard Ackerman, Inc., 1945). giving Years: 1929-1940 (London: Hutchinson, Barnet Litvinoff, Weizmann, Last of the Patriarchs (New 1955). York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976). ——, Maurice Stennet Amery, The Washington Loan William Roger Louis, In the Name of God, GO! Leo Amery Agreements, A Critical Study of American Economic and the British Empire in the Age of Churchill (New Foreign Policy (London: Macdonald and Co., 1945). York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1992). John Barnes and David Nicholson, eds., The Leo Amery Shmuel Katz, Lone Wolf, A Biography of Vladimir (Ze’ev) Diaries, Vol. 1: 1896-1929 (London: Hutchinson, Jabotinsky (New York: Barricade Books Inc., 1966). destabilizations in St. Petersburg, Parvus appeared on the scene, as a leading collaborator of Leon Trotsky Parvus, Jabotinsky, and and other leaders of the Petersburg Soviet. Parvus and Trotsky bought a liberal newspaper, Russkaya Gazeta, London’s Young Turks to rival the Bolshevik publication. It soon had a circu- lation of 500,000. Parvus and Trotsky turned the news- Excerpted from “Cheney Revives Parvus ‘Permanent paper into a radical provocateur organ, much to the War’ Madness,” EIR, Sept. 23, 2005. delight of the Okhrana, which would soon launch a police crackdown on the entire social democracy. British agent Vladimir Jabotinsky’s career would cross When the entire leadership of the Petersburg that of another of the most important operatives of the Soviet—including Trotsky—was rounded up and Bolshevik revolutionary epoch, Alexander Israel jailed in December 1905, Parvus escaped the police Helphand (a.k.a. “Parvus”). Both Jabotinsky and clutches, and next turned up, via Germany, in Constan- Parvus edited publications of the British/Venetian- tinople, as a “journalist” covering the Young Turk re- spawned Young Turk movement, which helped insti- bellion against the Ottomans, a crucial prelude to the gate London’s Balkan Wars and the overthrow of the British-manipulated second Balkan War. It would be at Ottoman Empire—without which, the entire Anglo- this moment that Parvus’s ties to the leading European French Sykes-Picot colonial scheme would not have “Venetian Party” factions—especially to British intel- been possible. ligence—would be publicly shown. Like Jabotinsky, Parvus (1867-1924) came from an The Young Turks Odessa family steeped in the In 1908, the Committee for Union and Progress, grain trade. By 1886, otherwise known as the Young Turks, carried out a Helphand/Parvus had al- military coup, overthrowing the Sultan and seizing ready become involved in power over the Ottoman Empire. Launching ethnic the Okhrana-spawned Rus- cleansing campaigns against all non-Turkic peoples, sian socialist scene, travel- including Armenians, Greeks, and Bulgarians, the ling to Switzerland to partic- Young Turk regime played a pivotal role in provoking ipate in the Emancipation of the 1912-13 Balkan Wars, through its brutality to- Labor group. wards the minorities. By their own accounts, the Once “Bloody Sunday” Young Turks based their revolution on a version of unleashed the revolutionary Alexander Parvus Pan-Turkism that had been devised by an advisor to 52 Feature EIR January 23, 2009 © 2009 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Lieut. Col. John Henry Patterson, With the Zionists in Articles: Gallipoli (George H. Doran Co., 1916). William Roger Louis, “American Anti-Colonialism and the Carroll Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment: A Dissolution of the British Empire” International Affairs History of the World In Our Time (GSG and Associates, (Royal Institute of International Affairs: Vol. 61, No. 3, 1966). Summer 1985). Norman Rose, ed., Baffy: The Diaries of Blanche Dugdale, Norman Rose, “The Seventh Dominion,” The Historical 1936-47 (Vallentine Mitchell and Co., 1973). Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2, June 1971. Joseph B. Schechtman, Fighter and Prophet, The Vladimir Regina Sharif, “Christians for Zion, 1600-1919,” Journal Jabotinsky Story, The Last Years (New York: Thomas of Palestine Studies, Vol. 5, Nos. 3-4, Spring-Summer Yoseloff, 1961). 1976. Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs “Lord Milner Wants Anglo-American Union,” New York Under the British Mandate (New York: Henry Holt and Times, June 11, 1916. Co., 2001). the Sultan in the 1860s who was, in fact, an agent of Mazzini’s controllers, who himself died while lead- Britain’s Lord Palmerston. The Young Turks also ing revolutionary mobs in Italy in 1848. Aubrey Her- preached a rabid anti-Russian ideology, which was in- bert headed all British Intelligence operations in the spired by Wilfred Blunt, a top British Intelligence of- Middle East during the period of World War I, and no ficial, whose own ideas about playing an “Islamic less a figure than Lawrence of Arabia identified Her- card” to destroy Russia predated those of Britain’s bert as the actual head of the Young Turk insurrec- Bernard Lewis by a full century. tion. The actual founder of the Young Turk movement Emmanuel Carasso’s pivotal role in the Young was an Italian Freemason and grain trader named Em- Turk movement and the resulting Balkan Wars of manuel Carasso. Jewish by birth, Carasso had been a 1912-13, is of significance from one additional stand- leading member of the Italian Masonic lodge in Sa- point. Carasso was a protégé and business partner of lonika, called the Macedonia Risorta Lodge. Virtually Volpi di Misurata, the leading Venetian banker of the all of the members of the Young Turk leadership were early 20th Century, who not only sponsored the Young lodge members. The forerunner of the Macedonia Ri- Turk insurrection, but also promoted the Black Shirt sorta Lodge was founded by a follower of another takeover of Rome and went on to run the Mussolini Palmerston agent and revolutionary provocateur, Gi- Fascist regime from his various posts as Minister of useppi Mazzini. Finance (1925-28), member of the Grand Council of Carasso was a leading financier of the entire Young Fascism, president of the Fascist Confederation of In- Turk insurrection, and during the Balkan Wars, he was dustrialists, and, most important, as the chief public not only the head of Balkan intelligence operations for representative of a group of aristocrats around Count the Young Turks; he was in charge of all food supplies Piero Foscari, of the ancient Venetian dogal family. for the Ottomans during World War I, a lucrative busi- The Venetian banker Volpi was closely allied with ness which he shared with Parvus. City of London financiers throughout. And the Young Carasso also financed a number of newspapers and Turks, once they took power, made no secret of their other propaganda outlets for the Young Turks, among London ties. In 1909 the Ottoman Navy was put under them, the newspaper The Young Turk, which was edited the command of a British admiral; the British Royal by none other than Vladimir Jabotinsky. Another of Family’s own banker, Ernst Cassel, established and Carasso’s “business” associates, Parvus, became eco- managed the National Bank of Turkey; and British of- nomics editor of another Young Turk journal, The ficials advised the Ministry of Finance, the Interior Turkish Homeland. Ministry, and the Ministry of Justice. The Young Turks The Young Turk operation was headed, from also denounced and blocked further construction of London, by Aubrey Herbert, a grandson of one of the Berlin-Baghdad Railroad. January 23, 2009 EIR Feature 53.

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