University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives. Ref: MS 181 Title: Cooper Collection Scope: Documents, both published and unpublished, of an anti-semitic nature apparently compiled by an individual, thought to be F. T Cooper, a cartoonist associated with the Imperial Fascist League, and mainly of the 1930s. Dates: 1917-1954 (mainly 1930s) Level: Fonds Extent: 6 boxes Name of creator: F.T. Cooper Administrative / biographical history: This is a miscellaneous collection of ephemeral materials expressing a strongly anti- semitic viewpoint which appears to have belonged to an individual. It was purchased in February 1993 from a bookseller who had received it in a wooden trunk bearing the name 'Cooper'. Some of the items are inscribed 'F.T. Cooper', and the title 'Cooper Collection' therefore seems appropriate. F.T. Cooper was a cartoonist associated with the Imperial Fascist League, who issued a number of the pamphlets in the collection. The collection consists of both manuscript and printed material, some of the latter being rare, such as the English language version of World Service issued by the Nazis in the 1930s. It is divided into the following categories: Printed pamphlets Leaflets and ephemera Manuscripts and typescripts Newspapers and newsletters Certain other material has been subsequently added to this collection where considered appropriate (e.g. microfilm versions of serials in the Newspapers and newsletters section). Related collections: Fascism in Great Britain Collection Source: Purchased 1993 System of arrangement: By genre Subjects: Fascism - Great Britain; Anti-Semitism - Great Britain Names: Cooper, F.T.; Imperial Fascist League 1 Conditions of access: Available to all researchers, by appointment Restrictions: None Copyright: According to document Finding aids: List based on the bookseller's catalogue COOPER COLLECTION MS 181/1 Printed Pamphlets 1. ANON. Who is it? Pamphlet, 4pp., single sheet folded. No date or place of publication, but American. * Anti-semitic, attack on Kuhn, Loeb and Co. and accusations that the Soviets are Jewish controlled. 2. ANON. Untitled pamphlet with drop-head title “For Thinking Men. What’s the Matter. (A Tentative Study of the Book which calls itself The Protocols of the Wise men of Zion. By a Coterie of Students) Pamphlet, 12 pp. No date or place of publication, but American and probably 1931-1932. * Right–wing Christianity. Prayer is the answer to the Jewish conspiracy and the financial crisis they have caused. 3. ANON. The Status of the Jew Pamphlet, 6 pp. Calcutta, Printed by the Edinburgh Press “For Private Circulation”, n.d. (mid 1920s ?) Sl. dusty, old creases from folding. * On the Jews in India, by a reader of the Protocols. 4. ANON. The Kaiser’s Dream. Pamphlet, 13 pp. Erfurt, n.d. (c. 1927-1930). Printed coloured wrappers, stapled as issued. Good * Parallel text in English, German, French and Spanish. [Not received] 5. ANON. Untitled pamphlet, with drop-head title commencing “Excerpts from the note-worthy series of articles, entitled “Financiers who Sport with the Worlds” written by Mr. Francois Coty, the well-known millionaire… Pamphlet, 12 pp. No place or date of publication, but would appear to be French (Paris?) printed and dated to 1932. Stapled as issued. Good. *Anti-semitic. 6. ANON. KITSON (ARTHUR) The Story of a Great Crime. The Bankers’ Conspiracy which started the World Crisis. Pamphlet, 15pp. Oxford. Printed at the Alden Press, n.d. (early 1930s). Stapled as issued. Good. *Crisis caused by a conspiracy of unscrupulous American bankers. Montague Norman and the Bank of England not to be trusted. 7. ARAB CENTRE Punitive Measures in Palestine Pamphlet, 8pp. Southend, Printed by H.F. Lucas and Co., for the Arab Centre, n.d. (1938) * Seems to be an IFL front. 2 8. BERGMEISTER (Dr. KARL) The Jewish World Conspiracy. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion before the Court in Berne Pamphlet, 22 pp. Erfurt, 1938. Printed wrappers, stapled as issued. * Almost certainly a World Service publication. 9. BRITONS PUBLISHING SOCIETY A Plot for the World’s Conquest Pamphlet, 16 pp. Oxford, Printed at the Alden Press for the Britons Publishing Society, 1936. Original printed blue wrappers, annotated in ink with label on front wrapper “For use with indexed copy of The Protocols”. 10. BRITONS PUBLISHING SOCIETY A Plot for the World’s Conquest Pamphlet, 16 pp. Oxford, Printed at the Alden Press for the Britons Publishing Society, 1936. Original printed blue wrappers, Mint. 11. BRITONS PUBLISHING SOCIETY The World Crash. A Summary of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in which the Scheme for Bringing the Gentile World Down with a Crash is Set Forth in Convincing Detail Pamphlet, 15 pp. London, Printed by Brown and Burrows for the Britons Publishing Society, n.d. (Early 1930s). Original green printed card covers as issued. Good. 12. BRITONS PUBLISHING SOCIETY Secret Societies Unveiled. The Evil Purpose behind Them Exposed Pamphlet, 21 pp. London, Printed by Brown and Burrows for the Britons Publishing Society, n.d. (1935-1936). Original printed green card wrappers, stapled as issued. Good. * Anti-semitic, “world conspiracy” of the Jews through secret societies. 13. CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY OF IRELAND – CLUNE (Rev. GEORGE) Freemasonry, Its Origin, Aims and Method Small Octavo, Pamphlet, 35 pp. Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, n.d. (1931). Printed pictorial wrappers, stapled as issued. * Strongly Anti-semitic. [Not received] 14. CHESTERTON (A.K.) Britain’s Alternative Pamphlet, 8 pp. Taunton, Printed by the Yeoman Press, n.d. Stapled as issued, signs of creases from folding into 3. Good. 15. COMMITTEE OF THE GUARDIANS OF THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE AND MOSLEM HOLY PLACES. The Shrine of the Prophet’s Companion Sayyedna “Ukasheh”. The Aggression of Jews on that shrine and on the Tombs of the great Martyrs of Islam Pamphlet, 2 (+2) pp. and 6 full-page photo plates. Jerusalem, 1929. Grey printed card covers, stapled as issued. Good * On Jewish destruction of Muslim holy places. 16. DEGEILH (MATTHIEU) Les Juifs en U.R.S.S. Pamphlet, small octavo, 63 pp. + 4 pp. photo plates. Paris, Les Nouvelles Edition Nationales, 1935. Original printed card covers. Good. 3 17. ENTENTE INTERNATIONALE ANTICOMMUNISTE – AUBERT (THEODORE) L’U.R.S.S. et le Comintern. Agents de la Crise Internationale Pamphlet, 15 pp. Geneva, 1939. Printed wrappers as issued, soiled from folding at rear. Good. * Apparently issue No. 4 of 1939 of this publication. 18. EVOLUTION PROTEST MOVEMENT Untitled pamphlet, commencing with drop-head quotation “In the beginning, God” with picture of an ape and shredded Bible. Pamphlet, 8 pp. Rochester, Kent, Printed for the Evolution Protest Movement, n.d. Printed on yellow paper, stapled as issued. * Attacks the evolution theory by quotes. Language shows that it is aimed at the working man. 19. HOMER (A.) Judaism and Bolshevism. A Challenge and a Reply. Some Facts concerning Bolshevism, Judaism, Christianity and International (Jew-controlled) Finance, Bolshevism and Zionism Pamphlet, 8 pp. Southend, Printed by H.F. Lucas and Co. for A. Homer, n.d.(1934) Stapled as issued. * Reprinted from the Catholic Herald. Strongly anti-semitic. 20. IMPERIAL FASCIST LEAGUE The Growing Menace of Freemasonry in Britain Pamphlet, 22 (+ 1) pp. Sixth revised edition. Printed by W. Whitehead for the Imperial Fascist League, 1936. Stapled as issued. Good 21. IMPERIAL FASCIST LEAGUE The Jew: past and present. Verdict of great men Pamphlet, 4 pp. Single sheet, folded as issued. Printed by W. Whitehead for the Imperial Fascist League, n.d. 22. IMPERIAL FASCIST LEAGUE Our Jewish aristocracy. A tale of contamination Pamphlet, 20 pp. Third revised edition. London, I.F.L. Printing and Publishing Co., 1937. Printed illustrated wrappers, stapled as issued. Good 23. INDUSTRIAL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP – LASKI (NEVILLE) The Jew in the world today. An address by Neville Laski, KC, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews at a luncheon given by the Industrial Christian Fellowship to members of the Church Assembly, on November 16, 1937 Pamphlet, 8 pp. London, n.d. (1937-38). Printed wrappers, stapled as issued. Good 24. LA LIBRE PAROLE ET LE PORC-EPIC Le Ministere Blum et la Judeo- Maconnerie. Liste des Juifs et Macons. La question juive a la Chambre et au Conseil Municipal de Paris. Texte des Discours de MM. Xavier Vallat et Daquier de Pellepoix Magazine issue, vol. 7, nos. 12 and 13, 32 pp. Paris, 1936. Printed card covers, stapled as issued. Creases from old folding. * Sustained attack on usual anti-semitic lines at the time of the Popular Front and the strikes 4 25. LEAGUE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT – MATTHEWS (J.B.) The “United Front” exposed Pamphlet, 30 pp. New York, 1938. Original printed cream card wrappers, stapled as issued. Good. * American anti-communist, attacking the American League. Matthews was a convert from the Left. 26. LEESE (ARNOLD S.)** My irrelevant defence being meditations inside gaol and out on Jewish ritual murder Pamphlet, (iv), 57 pp. London, The I.F.L. Printing and Publishing Co., 1938. Printed buff card covers as issued. Good **Other Leese pamphlets are available, mostly in photocopied form: 26 AGR Agriculture comes first: the Imperial Fascist League's agricultural policy. Metairie, La., Sons of Liberty, [n.d.] 26 BOL Bolshevism is Jewish! [New ed.] London, Imperial Fascist League, 1939 26 CHI Chinese Communism? Sons of Liberty, 1949, repr. [n.d.] 26 DES The destruction of India: its cause and prevention. Hollywood, Cal., Sons of Liberty, repr. 1974 26 DEV Devilry in the Holy Land. Hollywood, Cal., Sons of Liberty, [n.d] 26 DIS Disraeli the destroyer. Metairie, La., Sons of Liberty, repr. 1976 26 ERA The era of world ruin!: (the era of democracy). Hollywood, Cal., Sons of Liberty, [n.d.] 26 FRE Freemasonry. 4th ed. Metairie, La., [1970] 26 JEW.l The Jewish method of cattle-slaughter: the legalised cruelty of shechita.