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Lucian Wolf on Innocence of “Morning Post”(Continued from Page One.)a ul unti-Jewish.This, then, i* tin* discredited raw material of the theory hashed up us a serious contribution to the gruvepolitical preoccupations of Itritisbstatesmanship at this moment. It will be noted, however, that in tin* forms so far referred to it is confessedly a theory, rcstiug at the best on evidence of a highly circumstantial char-acter. The novelty in its latest presentation Is that an effort is made to bolster it up with what is claimed to be direct evidence. This takes the form of n document entitled “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” which was published in an anonymous pamphlet a few mouths agoby Messrs. Eyre ninl Spottiswoode.These protocols are alleged to Ik* the minutes of certain meetings of tIn-Secret Directory of the Jewish people held in Paris towards tin* end of the last century, and they record avowals by the Elders of the very conspiracy set forth hypothetically by MM. CJoti-gcnot des Mousseaux and Copin-Al-baocelli. “In this book.” says the“Morning Post” triumphantly, “for tlnfirst time wo find an open declarationof the terrible conspiracy of the•Formidable Sect.’”Unhappily for those who rely on it this document is a clumsy forgery which lias already boon used for the most d'r*reputable purposes. It hasbeen known to the Jewish community for some yours. The first draft of it was fabricated in 1SUN bv an of ficial in tlie-Prussia-1 Post Office named Hermann Goedsche. wlio was dismissed from service on account of more vulgar forgeries. It was long a stock broadsheet of the German anti-Semites. In 1905 it was used in Russia by the secret police for pogrom propaganda, and it was afterwards embodied in a politico-apocalyptic book on Antichrist 13' a disciple of Father John of Cronstadt. one Serge jNilus, who sought to show that the old “Formidable Sect” of Gougenot des Mousseaux, consisting of Jews and Freemasons under the direction of England, was the real antriehrist. This book was used to persuade the credulous Tsar to conclude a secret treaty with the German Emperor aimed at England and the Entente. In 101S and 1919 doctored typewritten copies of the protocols, with the anti-English passages carefully deleted, were•secretly circulated by emissaries ofKoltohak’s and Denikin’s Intelligence service among Cabinet Ministers and other officials of the Allied and Associated Powers, with the object of showing that Bolshevism was an exclusively Jewish creation and that the whole Russian people were innocent of it. It was then that, thanks t‘ the American Department of Justice the Jewish community wore madeaware of their existence. They had already done considerable mischief. a limy be seen by the propaganda leaf lets distributed lv the aeroplane sorv ice of the British armies at Archangel and Murmansk and certain oracular utterances of Mr. Winston Cliurcliill in a Sunday newspaper.Last year tlie* idea occurred to certain enterprising people who had been concerned in these manoeuvres, andwho were justly affrighted by flu* ini pending collapse of Denikin, that moil ey might he made out of the protocol* Accordingly certain of tin* Jewish Delegations in Paris were approached with .in intimation that these precious documents wore about to be published, and the kindly offer was made to spare Israel tlds damning disclosure lor the trifling sum of 19.non poundsThe upshot of the matter is that the “Formidable Sect” is a German anti-Semitic and Anglopliobe myth con-stria ted out of garbled history and ►\vnthot ised by impudent forgery. How i and for what purpose it has been foist o«i on tla* innocence of the “Morning I’ost- has vet to be explained.Look not at the flask, but nr what itcontains.
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Denver Jewish News
Denver, Colorado, US
Wed, Sep 08, 1920
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