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Protocols of Zion THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION WITH PREFACE AND EXPLANATORY NOTES United We Stand, Divided We FalL The Protocols OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION WITH PREFACE AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Translated from the Russian Text by VICTOR E, MARSDEN Formerly Russian Correspondent of "The Morning Post" 1934 INDEX: PART I Page The Jewish Question—Pact or Fancy 7 Does a Definite Jewish World Program Exist? . _ 19 An Introduction to the Jewish Protocols 32 How the "Jewish Question"' Touches the Farm ......... 41 Dr. Levy, a Jew, Admits His People's Error 49 Jewish Idea of Central Bank for America 61 Jewish "Kol Nidre'* and "Eli, Eli" Explained 74 Judaism 86 PART n How the Protocols Came to Russia 9S How an American Edition was Suppressed 103 More Attempts at Refutation 118 Text and Commentary , . 136 PART III Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion . 142 Concluding Passage From the Epilogue of Nilus 227 A Few Illustrative Facts 229 Indepeiiden!: Order of B'Nai B'Rith—L O. B. B. 239 L'Alliance Israelite Universelle _ . _ 241 PART IV Fabianism 245 A 10- Year-Plan for .Socialists .257 Excerpts from Gongressman L. T. McFadden's Speech . .26^ The Organization on British Slavery 266 Conclusion 287 Appendix . , . 291 Victor E. Marsden. The author of this translation of the famous PROTOCOLS was himself a victim of the Revolution. He had lived for many years in Russia and was marri-ed to a Russian lady. Among his other activities in Russia he had been* for a number of years Russian Correspondent of the Morning Post, a position which he occupied when the Revolution broke out, and his vivid descriptions of events in Russia will still be in the recollection of many of the readers of that journal. Naturally he was singled out for the anger of the Soviet. On the day that Captain Cromie was murdered by Jpv, s, Victor Marsden was arrested and thrown i^to ^eter-Paul Prison, expecting every day to have called out for execution. This, how- ever, he escapta, and eventually he was allowed to return to England very much of a wreck in bodily health. How- ever, he recovered under treatment and the devoted care of hifi wife and friends. One of the first things he under- took as soon as he was able was this translation of the Protocols. Mr. Marsden was eminently well qualified for the work. His intimate acquaintance with Russia, Rus- sian life and the Russian language on the one hand, and his mastery of a terse literary English style on the other, placed him in a position of advantage which few others could claim. The consequence is that we have in his version an eminently readable work, and the subject- matter is somewhat formless, Mr. Marsden's literary touch reveals the thread running through the twenty-four Protocols. The Summary placed at the head of each is Mr. Marsden's own, and will be found very useful in acquiring a comprehensive view of its scope. THE PROTOCOLS PART I It may be said with truth that this work was carried A SELECTION OF THE ARTICLES out at the cost of Mr. Marsden's own life's blood. He told (1920-22) the writer of this Preface that he could not stand more published by than an hour at a time of his work on it in the British Museum, as the diabolical spirit of the matter which he Mr. Henry Ford's paper was obliged to turn into English made him positively ill. The Dearborn Independent Mr. Marsden's connection with the Morning Post was not severed by his return to England, and he was well THE JEWISH QUESTION — FACT enough to accept the post of special correspondent of that OR FANCY journal in the suite of H. R. H. The Prince of Wales on his Empire tour. From thiis he returned with the Prince, (IV) apparently in much better health, but within a few days of his landing he was taken suddenly ill, and died after The chief diMculty in writing about the Jewish II a very brief illness. His sudden death is still a mystery. Question is the supersensitiveness of Jews and non-Jews concerning the whole matter. There is a vague feeling that May this work be his crowning monument! In it b^ even to openly use the word "Jew," or to expose it naked- has performed an immense service to the English-speaking ly to print, is somehow improper. Polite evasions like world, and there can be little doubt that it will take its "Hebrew" and "Semite," both of which are subject to place in the first rank of the English versions of "THE the criticism of inaccuracy, are timidly essayed, and Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of people pick their way gingerly as if the whole subject ZiON/' were forbidden, until some courageous Jewish thinker comes straight out with the good old word "Jew." and then the constraint is relieved and the air cleared. The word "Jew*' is not an epithet: it is a name, ancient and honorable, with significance for every period of human history, past, present and to come. There ts extreme sensitiveness about the public discus- sion of the Jewish Question on the part of Gentiles. They would prefer to keep it in the hazy borderlands of their thought, shrouded in silence. Their heritage of tolerance has something to do with their attitude, but perhaps their instinctive sense of the difficulty involved has more to do with It. The principal public GentHe pronouncements upon the Jewish Question are in the manner of the truck- ling politician or the pleasant after-dinner speaker: the great Jewish names in philosophy, medicine, literature, 8 THE PROTOCOLS THE PROTOCOLS music and finance are named over, the energy, ability and meet with a representative of them wherever we went in thrift of the race are dwelt upon, and everyone goes home Ingh places — in the innermost secrecy of the councils feeling that a difficult place has been rather neatly of the Big Four at Versailles; in the supreme court; in negotiated. Bat nothing is changed thereby. The Jew is ibe councils of the White House; in the vast dispositions not changed. The Gentile is not changed. The Jew still of world finance— wherever there is power to get or remains the enigma of the world. use. Yet we meet the Jew everywhere in the upper circles, Gentile sensitiveness on this point is best expressed by literally everywhere there is power. He has the brains, the the desire for silence — "Why discuss it at all?" is the initiative, the penetrative vision which almost auto- attitude, Such an attitude is itself a proof that there is a matically projects him to the top. and as a consequence he problem which we would evade if we could. "Why dis- ('.s more marked than any other race. cuss it at all?" -— the keen thinker clearly sees in the And that is where the Jewish Question begins. It be- implications of such a question, the existence of a problem j^ins in very simple terms —-- How does the Jew so whose discussion or suppression will not always be within habitually and so resistlessly gravitate to the highest the choice of easy-going minds. places:" What puts him there? Why is he put there? Is there a Jewish Question in Russia^ Unquestionably, What does he do there? What does the fact of his being in its most virulent form. Is it necessary to meet that there mean to the world? Question in Russia? Undoubtedly, meet it from every angle along which light and healing may come. That is the Jewish Question in its origin. From these it to others, and whether the trend be- Well, the percentage of the Jewish population of points goes on comes pro-Jewish or anti-Semitic depends on the amount Russia IS just one per cent more than it is in the United of prejudice brought to the inquiry, and whether it be- Sates. The majority of the Jews themselves are not less pro-Humanity depends on the amount of insight well-behaved in Russia ban they are here; they lived under comes and intelligence. restrictions which do not exist here; yet in Russia their genius has enabled them to attain a degree of power which The use of the word Humanity in connection with the has completely baffled the Russian mind. Whether you word Jew usually throws a side-meaning which may not go to Rumania, Russia, Austria or Germany, or any- be intended. In this connecti'on it is usually understood where else that the Jewish Question fias come to the fore- that the humanity ought to be shown toward the Jew. front as a vital issue, you will discover that the principal There is just as great an obligation upon the Jew to show cause IS the outworking of the Jewish genius to achieve his humanity toward the whole race. The Jew has been the power of control. foo long accustomed to think of himself as exclusively the Here in the United States it is the fact of this remark- claimant on the humanitarianism of sooMy; society has able minority — a sparse Jewish ingredient of three per a large claim against him that he cease his exclusiveness, cent in a nation of 1 10,000,000— attaining in 50 years that he cease exploiting the World, that he cease making a degree of control that would be impossible to a ten Jewish groups the end and all of his gains, and that he times larger group of any other race, that creates the begin to fulfill, in a sense his exclusiveness has never yet Jewish Question here.
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