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THE CAUSE OFWORLDUNREST
With an Introduction by
the Editor of"THE MORNING POST"LONDONGRANT RICHARDS LTD .
ST . MARTIN'S STREETMDCCCCXXCONTENTSPREFACE

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CHAPTER I

THE MOST FORMIDABLE SECT IN THE WORLD.

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THE ILLUMINATI IN GERMANY.

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CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

THE RITUAL OF REVENGE.

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CHAPTER IV

THE PART OF THE JEWS71

CONSPIRATORS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY80

THE BOLSHEVIST BIBLE

94~~ ELDERS OF ZION "103

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

WORLD REVOLUTION

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII.
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THE HUB OF THE CONSPIRACY129

A MENACE TO ALL NATIONS .

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CHAPTER X

LENIN'S ACTIVITIESCHAPTER XICHAPTER XII

THE PEACE CONFERENCE

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THE EVIDENCES OF CONSPIRACY186

IRELAND AND THE COLONIES201

CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XVTHE UPHEAVAL IN GREAT BRITAIN

CHAPTER XVI

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THE WARNING OF CENTURIESAPPENDICESa

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PREFACE
THOSE who have studied their history must attimes have been astonished at the ease withwhich popular movements, honest and sincere in themselves, have been manipulated
by clever and unscrupulous men to their own
personal advantage or to further their own
political aspirations .
The people havethroughout the ages presented a pathetic
spectacle . Time and again they have beenused with most barefaced effrontery as ameans of producing results which they themselves never desired . Indeed, in many cases,
they have suffered terribly from their own
achievements . Nothing is more pitiful thanthe persistent betrayal of the people by theirleaders and nothing more splendid than thepeople's refusal to believe it . In earlier
history popular movements were difficult tocreate and direct unless they were purely
local.
Kings, princes, governors stood
between the masses and their exploiters .
Distances, too, were great in the days before
railways, and communication was difficult .
But, roughly speaking, the people wereprevented by established authority frombeing victimised . To-day all that is changed,
and we now live in an age which will beknown, perhaps, in history as the age ofthe exploitation of the people .
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PREFACEThis exploitation of the people has in later
years become something of a fine art . The
party machine, which was at first merely the
instrument by which a party tried to impress
its views on the electors, has in many cases
taken charge of the party, so that themachine and not its leaders decides what shallor what shall not form part of the programme. Battle cries, " slogans," phrases
and catchwords, deliberately framed so thatthey should conceal the truth or create a
false impression, have now become part ofevery political campaign . Do our politicians
ever ponder over this surprising fact, that thegreatest response to, a semi-political appeal
that this country has ever seen took place in
1914-15, when the call was to go out todeath ? And they have so little knowledge ofthe people they govern that they are surprised when the most tempting of battle cries,
telling the people how much they can havefor the mere asking, remain without result .
The explanation of this is simple enough andyet it is far too high for the understanding of
the mere politician. It consists in this truth,that the people of this country can only bereally roused by an appeal to their better
nature. That is the strength of England .
We are seeing to-day how the exploitationof the people can be achieved with comparative ease because the people throughout thecivilised world is enfranchised and there isno one to stand between the exploiters and9PREFACEthe exploited . If we look back in history weshall find that the disappearance of thisintermediate influence has not been altogether fortuitous. There have been kings
who exploited their people just as Lenin is
to-day exploiting the Russian people, butthey have mostly paid forfeit with theirthrones, as Lenin one day will pay forfeit withhis life. But the temptation to get 'at thepeople and to use them for ends to which
they are indifferent and of which they are
ignorant has been great . The pages of thisbook will trace the threads of a conspiracy
engineered by people whose main object has
been to destroy utterly anything-kings,
governments or institutions-which might
stand between them and the people theywould exploit-.
Anybody who reads the story of this subterranean scheming as it is unfolded in thisbook may perhaps be disinclined to admit
the correctness of the authors' statements
because of the startling conclusions to which
they lead up . But I would urge the reader
to cast aside all prejudices and judge thefacts brought out on their merits as facts
and provide, if he can, other conclusions .
The main outline of the contents of this bookis, in brief, that there has been for centuries
a , hidden conspiracy, chiefly Jewish, whose
objects have been and are to produce
revolution, communism and anarchy, bymeans of which they hope to arrive at

10
PREFACEthe hegemony of the world by establishingsome sort of despotic rule . The " Protocolsof the Elders of Zion," which have been published in England, have aroused tremendousinterest and a storm of protest . It will be
noticed by the reader that the authors of
the book have taken particular care not toassume their authenticity . They may or may
not be genuine. - Their chief interest lies in
the fact that, while the book which contains
them was published in 1905, the Jewish
Bolsheviks are to-day carrying, out almost to
the letter the programme outlined in the
Protocols .
I have said that this secret revolutionary
movement seems to have been engineered
chiefly by Jews . It is about time that somebody spoke out frankly on this subject . I
myself have several Jew friends .
One ofthem I shall always remember with gratitude,
for he would give me no peace in the years
before the war until he had convinced me of
the German danger . At his own expense he.
despatched a man to visit the various dockyards of Germany and the information thus
obtained was found extremely useful . Now
this man is as good a patriot as I am, butwhen I say that there are many bad Jews
who have conspired and are conspiring
against stable government ; when I say
that over 95 per cent. of the present Bolshevik Government are Jews, that the Bolshevik movement outside Russia is chiefly

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directed by Jews ; when I cast doubt upon
the political integrity of any Jew, or evenwhen I disagree with his policy-when I dothese things I am dubbed an anti-Semite .
In this way is anti-Semitism created andfostered by the Jews themselves, as I willproceed to show .
The Jews are justly proud of their race,
which, in spite of every sort of difficulty, has
not only persisted throughout the ages, but
has achieved a position of great power andinfluence in nearly every civilised country .
Persecution and outside pressure have taught
them to stand together, and the tradition ofunity is as strong, if not stronger, to-day .
They may quarrel among themselves, butthey unite instantly and almost unconsciously against any criticism from outside .
The result is that a critic of a prominent
individual Jew or of a particular Jewish
policy, who begins with no sort of prejudiceagainst Jewry, finds arrayed against him theserried and united ranks of Jewry. It is nouse his declaring that his objections are not
to Jewry, but to a particular Jew or aparticular Jewish policy . He is dubbed ananti-Semite, with a consequence that he has
to accept the epithet and, in some cases, on
the principle of the dog with the bad name,promptly proceeds to justify it.
I will give a concrete instance of this .
A few months ago, as a result of the Peace
Conference, Great Britain accepted a man-

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proceeded to carry out her promise to provide
a home for Jews in that country . At thepresent moment the population of Palestineconsists of 80 per cent . Arabs and 20 per
cent . Christians, Jews and other religions .
The Arabs are in a highly excited state ofmind, because they know of the intentionof the British Government to afford Jews
a home in Palestine . Naturally they areasking each other what is to become of them
if the Jews come into their country in great
numbers. They are not ignorant of thefact that there has been started a great
Jewish fund of £25,000,000 to aid the immigration of Jews into their country. The
situation is a highly delicate one . On the
one hand is the declared British policy, on
the other the Arab inhabitants, fearful about
their fate . To deal with such a criticalstate of things tact and, above all, impartiality was required. The British Government for some extraordinary reason appointed Sir Herbert Samuel, a Jew, to beHigh Commissioner for Palestine . In theopinion of the Morning Post it was a dangerous and an improper appointment . Were
Sir Herbert Samuel the greatest of men anda very Solomon for wisdom, the appointment would still be a gross mistake, foreven the loftiest motives and the mostimpartial application of justice were boundto be misunderstood . I have never yet met

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in private conversation a Jew or a Christian
who defended the appointment . Yet when
the Morning Post protested against it, theJewish papers came out with bitter attacks,
and with the usual accusations of antiSemitism . Cannot the good Jews see that
this is a mistaken policy ? It creates, as I
said before, anti-Semitism . The objection
to Sir Herbert Samuel's appointment was
justified on every count . If the British`Government had proposed Sir Edward Carson
as Viceroy of Ireland, that step would be
exactly on all fours with the choice of a
Jew as High Commissioner of Palestine .
Surely criticism of such an obviously unwise
decision might have passed without arousing
the stupid cry of anti-Semitism .
The question which every reader of thisbook will want to have answered is whether
there is a Jewish Peril and, if so, what are its
ramifications. That there is a Jewish PerilI have no sort of doubt, -but we must guard
ourselves against generalisations . It is easy
to prove that a certain section of the Jews
in the world are engaged in a mighty attempt
to destroy the established rule in many
countries and to bring this world into
communistic brotherhood . The thing istaking place before our eyes . But it would
be downright wicked to ascribe to Jewry as
a whole , this mad and dangerous policy .
In that direction lies the danger, the hideous
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Semitism. It must be averted by the Jews
themselves. The honest, patriotic Jews mustcome forward and denounce and no longer
defend the revolutionaries of their race .
They should refuse to approve of any policy
which tends to undermine the pillars ofcivilised society, for the time has come when
there can be no sitting on the fence ; those
who are not with us are against us .
The pages of this book will tell the taleof this conspiracy against civilisation-forthat is really what it amounts to . Perhaps
I may be excused if I give a brief summaryof the circumstances and the deductions
irresistibly proceeding from them whichbrought me to the conclusion that the causesof the present world's unrest were notfortuitous but the result of a definite plan.
When the war broke out, it seemed, and I
believe it was, a simple, plain, straightforward struggle between a people whose
pride in their warlike achievements had
forced them along the direction of a world
hegemony and the countries who refusedto accept it . During the war it was impossible to shut one's eyes to the fact that acertain section of the Jews did not desire
to see Germany vanquished . The " peace
without victory" suggestion had many
supporters in international circles where
Jews had influence . Again, I must warn
the reader that he must not accept thisstatement as a suggestion that JewryPREFACE
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throughout the war was pro-German . But
it is true that there was observable in certain
Jewish circles a tenderness for Germany
which we could not understand . Then camethe Peace Conference in Paris, where thistenderness for Germany became more andmore marked. The theory which prevailed
at the Armistice that Germany had offended
against humanity and therefore had to bepunished, just as a man is hanged for
murder, was displaced gradually by suggestions that leniency was the best policy .
All that the ordinary man could make of it
all was that Germany was to get off remarkably lightly.
Later on at the Conference we come to aphase in the proceeding where it is possible
to say that Jewish influence did materiallyaffect the policy of the Allies . I refer to
Poland, and I do not make this assertion
at random, but I base it on the speeches
and statements of Jews themselves or Jewish
newspapers .
The policy of the Allied and AssociatedPowers was avowedly the creation of astrong Poland . No country can be strong
in these days of commerce and industry
unless it has an outlet on the sea . Therefore,
it was obvious from the first that Dantzig
must be part of the newly constituted
Poland. Again, no country can hope toremain strong unless it has full powersof government over all its inhabitants within

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its boundaries. From the very outset it
was obvious that there was going to be adesperate struggle in Paris to defeat all
attempts to create a strong Poland . The
Jews openly threw their influence on theanti-Polish side . The Jewish Delegation sat
throughout the Conference and strained
every nerve to deny Dantzig to the Polesand to create special privileges for the Jews
in Poland. In this matter Jewish policy
was in opposition to British policy. Our
Foreign Office, which has been subjected
to a most deliberate and subtle campaign ofcalumny, declared in Paris that Dantzig
was the test of our policy, and that a freeand strong Polish Government was essential
in British interests . Here our interests andJewish interests were at variance . We areentitled to ask what was the attitude ofBritish Jews at this crisis . Were they
British first and Jews afterwards, or Jews
first and British afterwards ? Is it a mere
accident that at the moment I write thewhole force of Bolshevism in this country is
being organised to force our Government
to allow Russia to occupy Warsaw ?
All this time the Jewish Junta in Russia
was working with feverish activity to extend
its loathsome propaganda in other countries.
With the Armistice came two Bolshevist
attempts in our country. Glasgow and Belfast tried to put into practice here thetheories of Bolshevism. These attempts

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were dead failures, and it was obvious that
Sovietism would not be carried by a coup de
main in this country . So our enemies andthe enemies of civilisation, the Jew-Bolsheviks, determined upon another plan.
There was nothing secret in this . The
substitution of a slower system of undermining civilisation in this country was announced from the housetops, so to speak .
Here are the Jew.-Bolsheviks' orders to their
sympathisers in this country~ " If such elements (Bolsheviks and Spartacists) increase in numbers and strength,
everything may get changed . At first it isnecessary : (1) The centre of gravity of the
struggle must be outside of Parliaments(strikes, revolts, insurrections, etc .) ; (2)the struggle inside the Parliaments must be
closely connected with the struggle outside ;(3) the representatives must take part ingeneral organisation work ; (4) the representatives must act by directions of theCentral Committee and be responsible to it ;(5) they must not conform to the Parliamentary manners and customs .
We have to state again that the mostvital part of the struggle must be outsideof Parliament-on the street . It is clearthat the most effective weapons of theworkers against Capitalism are : The strike,the revolt, armed insurrection . Comrades
H

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PREFACEhave to keep in mind the following : Organisation of the Party, instalment of the Partygroups in the Trade Unions, leadership ofthe masses, etc . Parliamentary activities
and participation in elections must be used
only as a secondary measure-no more ."(Call, April 22nd, 1920 .)It required no very intelligent reading of
events to guess at such a plot even without
this clear and precise declaration of policy .
The disastrous results were quite plain andobvious, and a definite plan was revealed tothe most careless of observers. From theday of the Armistice until to-day not asingle week has passed without a strike .
Industry is thoroughly unsettled and thefuture is dark indeed. The aim of these
wreckers is to produce by the next wintersuch general unemployment as to ensure a
discontented population on which to work .
It is a diabolical plan, but, from their pointof view, it is by no means a difficult one toachieve. The exploitation of the people has
been brought to a fine art . Every one ofthese men is an advocate of despotic government, but they work under the flags of extreme democracy, anarchy or communism .
Posing as the friends of the working classes,
they impose upon them with an ease which
is disturbing. The British working man is
one of the most loyal creatures alive, andperhaps the most credulous . He will givePREFACE
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generous support to those who can persuade
him that they are concerned only for his
welfare. He gets daily and weekly evidenceof the success of their endeavours. Wages
are increased, and with each increase theworking man rubs his hands with satisfaction, and blesses the people who have wrung
it out of the hated capitalist . He does not
see that, without increased production, increased wages will kill the industry fromwhich he draws his wages . The Jew-Bolshevik policy is to kill that industry, so thatunemployment, want and discontent willensue. Read the old revolutionary maxim,
on which they act to-day" Want and opinion are the two agents
which make all men act . Cause the want,govern opinions, and you will overturn all
the existing systems, however well constituted they may appear ."Let us see to it that here in this country
they shall not have success . Yet we shalldo well to bear in mind Karl Marx's declaration of policy in regard to this country, as
quoted by Mrs. Webster . In 1870 he sent
the following message to the Internationale
at Geneva
1 . England is the only country in whicha real Socialistic revolution can be made .
2 . The English people cannot make thisrevolution.
8. Foreigners must make it for them .

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4. The foreign members, therefore, mustretain their seats at the London board .
5 . The point to strike at first is Ireland,
and in Ireland they are ready to begin theirwork.

Ten years ago this would have been regarded as midsummer madness . To-day the.case of Ireland gives to this message theaspect of a prophecy almost fulfilled . We
should do well, however, to keep our eyes on
conditions in England, Scotland and Wales .
The destruction of our industries is going on
apace . Our industrial existence is dependent upon having a large field of exportation .
We least of all nations can continue toexist by " taking in each other's washing ."At the present moment we are filling up thehuge void in our home market caused by thewar. These needs will soon be met, and weshall then have to seek markets for our goodsin South America, some parts of Europe, theFar East and in our own Dominions . In
these markets, which are neutral, we shallfind rivals and shall have to expect severe
competition . Mr . Smillie and his miners'
executive have increased the price of everything into which coal enters as a part of its
manufacture, so that our prices are enhanced
and foreign merchants will be driven tocheaper markets at our expense. As it is,
our manufacturers cannot give firm quotations . They find themselves forced by thePREFACE
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disturbed industrial position in this country
to insert saving clauses in their contracts .
Just at the present moment, with suchleeway to make good, foreign and neutral
buyers are willing to put up with the inconveniences of varying prices, but thiscannot last long. Those of our -manufacturers who have a long view are most pessimistic, and there are signs of increasing
unemployment in the near future.
This unemployment-the constant dreadof the working man-is, in my opinion,
deliberately created by the hotheads ofLabour. When the war ended, even with thehigh prices of labour, a prolonged period of industrial progress and prosperity was in sight .
Labour could have, and no doubt would have,secured its fair share, but Labour is losing
the opportunity, and distress, poverty andunemployment threaten us. The moderate
Labour leader knows the danger, and has
fought stoutly for their men . But a wave
of mad communism the work of the JewBolsheviks-has caught up a powerful sectionof Labour, and there is not even any pretence
now of safeguarding the interests of theworking man . It is all a political gamenationalisation, direct action and open revolution. What do they want, these people ?
A new heaven and a new earth, fashioned
after their ideals ? They seek the " proletarian dictatorship "-whatever that may
mean. Governments and theories of govern-

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If the Jew-Bolsheviks had produced asystem by which the governed were happier,freer and more prosperous than the peoples
under other systems, there would be every
excuse for any attempt to imitate them .
But in Russia trades unionism has been
stamped out, religion mocked, liberty denied,and the will of the autocracy of the Soviets
impressed on everybody . It is a system ofrule by terror . Whoever holds a contrary
opinion to ' the Soviet Government is executed or imprisoned . Disease is rampant,and, from all accounts which we get from
Russia, never was any country in such adesperately unhappy state. And this iswhat our extremists want for us ?
But is it ? Communism, anarchy and the" dictatorship of the people " are words andconvey nothing to the student of history
and politics . They are mere terms used todescribe phrases of political or popular movements. When they are achieved, there still
remains a permanent system of government
to devise . We must credit the leaders of
Bolshevism with the power of seeing farther
than their noses, as the common phrase goes .
Indeed, some of them are gifted with a very
high intelligence, though they seem to possessa low moral standard . They have worked itout to the nth degree . Communism cannot
in the nature of things be the final end of
their hopes and dreams . They know betterPREFACE
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perhaps than the highest of high old Tories
that it is not, and can never be, a permanentsystem of government . Indeed, in Russia,
they have by their acts acknowledged that
this is so. As for anarchy, it used to be afavourite subject among the old Russian
Nihilists, but it has disappeared from allpolitical programmes of the Reds, and does
not exist now, even as a political dream
There remains the " dictatorship of thepeople ." Luckily for us, it is not necessary
to ponder deeply over the meaning of this .
Being in actual and active existence in Moscow, we can see exactly what it means, how
it works, and the main results . This systemof government, so alluring to the working
man, and so utterly inimical to his interests,
is run by a few men who have usurped
authority, relegated the working classes to a
position of serfdom, and are now working withall seriousness for the hegemony of the world .
And 95 per cent. of them are Jews
It would be unfair and un-English to argue
from this that all Jews are Bolsheviks . But
we may fairly say that the time has comewhen every country in the world is entitledto ask its Jews what policy they intend to
pursue towards this new and alarming danger. Here is a huge country, of enormous
resources and illimitable wealth, being run
by a company of Jews on a system which,whatever else it may be, is the denial of
democracy. It aims at spreading this24
PREFACEabominable theory throughout the world .
This is the boast of their own men, not ourmere statement . In every country are to
be found to-day representatives of Sovietism,
Jew and Gentile, working feverishly and withexcellent organisation . In England we areseeing daily the results of the propaganda .
Bolshevists here openly declare their intentions to have Soviet government, and they
possess a paper, the Daily Herald, which is
frankly and utterly Bolshevist . The politicalJew, who is working for his nation and notfor his religion, is active. He is everywhere
working with extraordinary activity towards
the furtherance of Bolshevist plans . Is it
not time to ask those of our Jewish fellow
citizens who do not share the views of theirfellows to speak out openly and fearlessly ?
The attitude of many English Jews on thesequestions of international is one of surprisethat their religion should subject them to suspicion or differential treatment of any kind .
They say in effect, " Why are we treated differently from Roman Catholics, Wesleyans,
Methodists, Church of England, or any otherreligious community ? " Recently in the
Jewish Guardian (March 26th, 1920) theattitude of English Jewry was thus described" Judaism is a religion, not a nation .
It was to Jews as members of a religious
body that national rights have been vindicated at the Peace Conference ; and itPREFACE
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is by Jews as members of a religious bodythat Judaism will be guarded ."These are admirable sentiments, most ofwhich every tolerant and generous Englishman will endorse . But perhaps he might
ask the meanning of the phrase : " It was
to Jews as members of a religious body thatnational rights have been vindicated at thePeace Conference." We presume that thewriter intended to convey the idea that thePeace Conference insisted on the Jews of
Roumania and Poland having special rights,
because they were a religious communityand not because they were a separate national,
entity. But later on in the same article wehave a remarkable passage which tends toprove that there are a large number of Jews
who desire a distinct nationality for themselves, apart altogether from their religion" Now, is this the policy of the Zionists,
not to deprive Western Jews of nationality,
but to acquire for such Eastern Jews as
want it the opportunity of developing a
civic sentiment, repressed and held incheck where they dwell ? If so, we would
ask them four questions : (1) How far isthis policy modified by the Minority
Treaties enacted and to be enacted, and by
the just desire to give them a fair trial ?
(2) How do the Zionist leaders propose to
inform their followers and others that
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is a mistaken term, without foothold in
the present, or justification in the past, or
security in the future ? (3) Are they willing that Palestinians of other races andother creeds should share with Jews the
civic sense of Palestine ? And (4) how
do they propose to conciliate the help andco-operation of the many Jews, in whose
behalf we are writing, who, untouched,as they are, by political Zionism, are willing, even anxious, to assist in the restoration of Palestine ? "It is obvious, then, that there is a large andpowerful section of Jews who cling to theirnationality as much as they do to theirreligion . Indeed, the whole controversy in thismatter boils down to the answer to the question, Are Jews working as a distinct race or
merely as members of a distinct religion ?
Let us try to seek the answer to thisquestion from the Jews themselves . The
Jewish Guardian is out and away the ablest
Jewish paper published in England . We
must bear testimony to its fairness, broadmindedness and general excellence . It must
be remembered that it was founded only
last year as a protest against the curious
attitude of the other Jewish papers . In
effect it is anti-Zionist and anti-revolutionary. It stands in rare contrast to thenarrowness and bitterness of its Jewish
rivals. Also the Guardian commands thePREFACE.27
services of some of the best pens in British
Jewry.
In a leading article published
August 6th of this year it refers to thequestion of nationality .
" We have never disguised our conviction, unpopular in places though it has
been, that Zionism (or, more precisely,
Zionist `hotheads,' as Lord Curion
recently described them) brought grist to
the mill of those anti-Semites who pretendthat Jews are duo-national . The confusion
between the philosophic `nationalism,'
which Mr. Leon Simon has expounded in a
recent book, and the common nationalityof the subjects of one ruler such as King
George, has been as unfortunate as it isillogical. We still hold that wiser counsels
might have avoided it, and that Jewish
leaders, jealous for the good name of otheradherents to Judaism than the Zionists,should always have been careful to distinguish between the two uses of one
word ."
Here we see the recognition of the accusation that the Jews are a nation and theattempt to meet it by Mr . Leon Simon. The
Jewish Guardian is certainly " up against "the same accusation, and very gallantly, andwe believe sincerely, tries to prove that
Judaism is a religion pure and simple . But
facts are against it, and alas 1 facts from its
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Some time in June the Maccabeanshonoured Mr . Lucien Wolf at the Holborn
Restaurant by inviting him to a banquet .
The event is described in the Jewish
Guardian of June 11th. Here is the first
sentence :" Honour to whom honour is due, andall honour to Mr. Lucien Wolf, the man
who fought for Jewish rights at Versailles
last year."
Now what precisely do the words " Jewish
rights " mean ? If Judaism is a religion was
there any need to fight for its rights, since nocountry in the world offers any obstacle tothe exercise of his religion by any one of its
nationals ? So we conclude that the " rights "were political and we see the Jewish nation
at work . If Mr. Lucien Wolf receives thethanks of Jewry for fighting for Jewish
rights at Versailles, then Sir Herbert Samuelwill, no doubt, do his best to deserve thesame thanks for his fight for Jewish rights in
Palestine.
Later on in the same account - we comeacross another significant passage. Hereit is
" The second (message) was a letterfrom Mr . Israel Zangwill, pungent andself-reminiscent, but with truth at thebottom of it as usual . `The Minority
Treaties were the touchstone of the Leagueof Nations, that essentially Jewish aspira-PREFACE
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lion. And the man behind the Minority
Treaties was Lucien Wolf.':"
I have italicised the description of the
League of Nations as being " that essentially
Jewish aspiration ." Was the establishmentof the League of Nations a religious or apolitical question ? Surely, by no stretch ofimagination or sophistry, can the League of
Nations be regarded as a religious matter .
It was political, and again we see the Jewish
nation at work .
In returning thanks for the many kindthings said of him at the banquet, Mr . Lucien
Wolf's reply is thus described" Then came the sharing of the praise,first to the Alliance Israelite, then to -theAmericans, then to the statesmanship andgoodwill of the Conference itself . The
Anglo-Jewish members of the Delegation
might claim that the first detailed plan of
the Minority Treaties was their own . They
discussed it with members of the Commission on New States, but the governing
principle had first been accepted from them(my italics) by the Allied and AssociatedPowers and by the League of Nations .
Though in the excitement of hearing -theMain Treaties all else might be well lostfor the moment, he would remind themthat the principle laid down in the preamble to the Labour , Convention, which
secured the rights of the working classes

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PREFACEand guaranteed them the protection of the
League of Nations, recognised that therights of minority populations were on
exactly the same plane ."Here is the political Jew at work for the
Jewish nation. There is nothing deserving of
blame in this . If political and intensely
national Jews care to combine to secure
privileges and rights for their co-nationals
throughout Europe they deserve well of
Jewry, but the Jewish Guardian must nottalk nonsense about Judaism being only areligion. It may be that, but in addition it
is a strong, active political `force, pulling
strings in every country for the good of
Jewry.
It is here we join issue with those Jews
who do not concern themselves- with thepolitical and national aims and aspirationsof their co-religionists . We want to know
how we are to distinguish between the good
citizen Jew and the politically minded Jew
who works for Jewry, right or wrong. In
this country there are many Jews holding
important political offices . We want toknow for certain that if at any time British
interests and Jewish interests clash he will
be British first and Jewish afterwards . How
are we to know this ? I have shown and thisbook will show much more amply the great
political activity of the Jews . Cannot thegood Jews see that it is difficult -for us toPREFACE

81

tolerate this uncertainty, especially with theworld in its present state of unrest ? We
are gradually being forced to deny to Jews
political office, unless we can be quite surethat it will be exercised on behalf of ourcountry and Empire and not on behalf of
the Jewish race throughout the world . We
have seen at the Peace Conference the extraordinary and most successful workings of
the Jews among the delegates, and this bookwill prove that their efforts were almost
entirely directed towards safeguarding purely
Jewish interests . It is impossible not to beamused at the assertion of Mr . Lucien Wolf
that the principle laid down in the preamble
to the - Labour Convention, which secured
the rights of the working classes and guaranteed them the protection of the Leagueof Nations, recognised that the rights -of
minority populations were on exactly thesame plane . Taken to pieces this meansthat in order to secure privilege for theminorities (i.e., the Jews) it was found best
to camouflage this step under the guise of" securing the rights of the working classes "and guaranteeing them " the protectionof the League of Nations "-" that essentially
Jewish aspiration ." Fancy our working men
needing the protection of the League of
Nations, or the working classes in any othercountry !
This is the Jewish Peril, that a great
number of Jews, owning various nation-

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PREFACEalities and in some cases rising to great
political power, are working for the rightsof the Jewish nation. If there should comeoccasions to such a Jew when the safety,
honour and welfare of the country of which
he is a national are opposed to the safety,
honour and welfare of the Jewish nation,
on which side will he throw the weight of
his influence and power ? That uncertainty
is not lessened by the spectacle of a Jew
Bolshevik Government or by the remembrance of Jewish national activity in Parisand elsewhere. If for giving expression
to this policy of alarm and suspicion that is
felt by many of my fellow citizens I am to be
dubbed " anti-Semite " by the Jewish Press,
then I suppose I must put up with theepithet . But as long as I see a possibilityof the interests of this country and Empire
being risked by uncertain allegiance, so long
will I continue to denounce it .
Morning Post Office,August, 1920.

H. A. GWYNNE.

CHAPTER I

THE MOST FORMIDABLE SECT IN THE WORLD

Lenin and Germany-Barruel and the French RevolutionSpartacists of 1801 and 1918-Mrs . Webster and theOrleanist Conspiracy-Revolutionary Freemasonry .
IN the House of Commons, on November 5th,

1919, Mr . Winston Churchill gave a very
remarkable account of the Russian Revolution. He began by quoting a passage from
Ludendorff's book on the war . It occurs inVolume II., page 509"By sending Lenin to Russia " (says Ludendorff) "our Government did moreover assume
a great responsibility, but from the military
point of view his journey was justified .
Russia had to be laid low . But our Government should have seen to it that we were notalso involved in her fall ."So far Ludendorff . Let us now see what
Mr. Churchill has to say upon the implications of this passage"Lenin was sent into Russia by theGermans in the same way that you might
send a phial containing a culture of typhoidor of cholera to be poured into the watersupply of a great city, and it worked withamazing accuracy. No sooner did Lenin
arrive than he began beckoning a finger here
and a finger there to obscure persons insheltered retreats in New York, in Glasgow,
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in Berne, and other countries, and hegathered together the leading spirits of aformidable sect, the most formidable sect in theworld, of which he was the high priest andchief. With these spirits around him he set
to work with demoniacal ability to tear topieces every institution on which the RussianState depended . Russia was laid low . Russia
had to be laid low . She was laid low in thedust.
" Colonel Ward But she is not dead yet .
" Mr. J. Jones Why did you not declare
war on him?
" Mr . Churchill Her national life wascompletely ruined, the fruits of her sacrifices
were thrown away. She wascondemned tolong internal terrors; and menaced by famine .
. . . Her sufferings are more fearful thanmodern records hold, and she has been
robbed of her place among the great nationsof the world ."Now let us carefully consider this gloomy,
impressive, and almost terrifying passage .
What does it mean ? It means, first of all,that the German Imperial Government used
an organisation-" the most formidable sectin the world "-for the destruction of Russia .
Secondly-as we also gather from Ludendorff the German Government ran a greatrisk-" assumed a great responsibility "-inletting loose this mysterious power . Thirdly,
Ludendorff seems to suggest that the German
Government handled this power clumsily, soTHE MOST FORMIDABLE SECT 85
that they were also brought down by it .
Fourthly-and here we come to Mr . Churchill-the sect was not German only or Russian
its leading spirits were drawn from New York,
Glasgow, Berne, and other countries .
It was a power outside Germany, a poweroutside Russia : it was a world-wide power .
And it was a power strong enough to bringRussia down, and also, if we are right in ourinterpretation of Ludendorff's words, tobring down the Imperial German Government and the House of Hohenzollern.
What was it ?
Before attempting to answer this question, let us make another quotation, thistime from an author long dead . The Abbe
Barruel wrote his Memoirs of Jacobinism
towards the end of the eighteenth century .
The English translation was published in
1797-1798 . The Abbe traced the origin of
the French Revolution through a bewildering
maze of secret societies, French and German,
chiefly Masonic or pseudo-Masonic in form,
and all inspired by a common plan . Hesuggested that the parent sect of the Revolution was the Illuminati founded by the
famous " Spartacus " Weishaupt in Bavariain 1776, and after describing the sinister
activities of this and other organisations of asimilar kind, he warned his readers in these
remarkable words" You thought the Revolution ended in
France, and the Revolution in France was36 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
only the first attempt of the Jacobins . In
the desires of a terrible and formidable sect,
you have only reached the first stage of theplans it has formed for that general Revolution which is to overthrow all thrones, allaltars, annihilate all property, efface all law,and end by dissolving all society ."Now, the Abbe Barruel's book caused agreat sensation at the time, and became
the centre of a great controversy both inEurope and America now almost, if notquite forgotten . Among those who attempted
to answer Barruel was Jean Joseph Mounier,famous in the early stages of the Revolution
as President of the National Assembly .
Mounier was one of those Liberal-Constitutionalists who seem doomed to be the dupesof the Revolutions over whose early stages
they preside .
Mounier, then, wrote a reply* to Barruel .
In this reply Mounier pointed out that the
Illuminati had been dissolved in 1787 .
" How, therefore" (he asked), " could it
have produced the Revolution of France
which began in 1789 ? True, we have beenassured that it was continued in more secretforms ; but this assertion is out of all probability .
. They who say the order still
exists ought to give up the attempt to persuade the Germans of it, who are witnessesof the conduct of those who established it .
* Influence of the Philosophers, Free-Masons, and Illuminants an the Revolution in France (1801) .

THE MOST FORMIDABLE SECT 87. . . If we are to believe the writings ofDr. Robison and M. Barruel, the systems of
M. Weishaupt were diffused with the rapidityof the electric fluid ."Here surely is a passage upon which
Time sheds a strong and dramatic light .
In 1801 no German believes that thefollowers of " Spartacus " still exist as asecret society . In 1918 they come out of
their shadows and attempt a Revolution in
Berlin 1
In 1801 it is absurd to suppose that asecret society, a "formidable sect," could
spread from Germany to France " with therapidity of the electric fluid." In 1919
Mr. Churchill asserts that Revolution was
carried from Germany to Russia " in thesame way that you might send a phialcontaining a culture of typhoid ."Barruel then is justified by time . As
we shall presently show, he finds support
in the researches of modern history . The
French Revolution-like the Russian Revolution-was actuated by a formidable sect" the most formidable sect in the world ."The proofs of this statement we mustreserve for the moment . In the meantime
let us merely state the question which thisbook will attempt to answer .
What is this " formidable sect " of which
Barruel speaks in the eighteenth century,of which Mr. Churchill speaks in the twentieth ? Is it the same then as now ? That

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is a disturbing question . Upon the answer
may rest the safety of England-of Christianity-and of the civilisation based on
Christianity.
" The appalling thing," says Lord Actonin his Essays on the French Revolution, "isnot the tumult but the design . Through all
the fire and smoke we perceive the evidenceof calculating organisation . The managers
remain studiously concealed and masked,
but there is no doubt about their presencefrom the first ."What was this calculating organisation ?
Lord Acton does not answer . He was too
absorbed in his pre-occupation of Constitutionalism-that will-o'-the-wisp which all
our Whig historians are eternally chasing
through the quaking bogs and the lurid
shadows of those terrible times . Was it by
any chance the same " formidable sect "which the German Emperor let loose upon
Russia ?
Mrs . Webster, in her admirable book on
the French Revolution,* suggests several
answers to this question . She recalls the"formidable sect " of the Illuminati ofBavaria, founded by " Spartacus " Weishaupt
in 1776, and asks if it can be "merecoincidence " that the Spartacists of modern
Germany adopted the pseudonym of theirfellow-countryman and predecessor of theeighteenth century .
* The French Revolution .

By Nesta H . Webster (1919).

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We shall examine that theory later on.
Then Mrs. Webster goes on to point out
that the Internationale, by the admissionof Prince Kropotkin, had " a direct filiation " with the " Enrages " of 1793 and thesecret societies of 1795.
That also is a question we shall have toconsider.
They are mentioned by Mrs . Webster as
an afterthought, suggested no doubt by the
terrible events which were taking place when
she was completing her book . The main
body of her work is occupied with tracing
the Orleanist conspiracy, which beyond doubt
had its share in those events .
Now the Duke of Orleans was a voluptuary and a coward. Sober historians, after
examining his character, laugh at the ideathat he could have organised such a conspiracy. Why then was his name the namePhilip Egalite-a rallying cry of those formidable sects which organised the Revolution ? That is a question which we mustalso hold in suspense for a moment .
Then Mrs . Webster allots its due shareto the Prussian conspiracy organised byFrederick the Great, and continued by his
successor, for the destruction of France .
That Prussia had its share in the French
Revolution is no longer in doubt . " Anaeha.rsis " Clootz, that horrible Prussian ;Ephraim,--that horrible German Jew, were probably agents of the House of Hohenzollern .

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Had they also a " filiation " with the" formidable sect " ? We shall see .
Again, there was the obscure conspiracy
to place the Duke of Brunswick on theThrone of France .
There were also English influences atwork in the" formidable sect ." English gold
helped to finance the French Revolution .
That is certain . But it is also certain, as
Mrs. Webster shows, that it was not thegold of Pitt. The Government of George III.
had no hand in the foul conspiracy . The aid
was given by certain " revolutionary clubs "in England .
What interest had they in the destruction of the House of Bourbon ? Were theyalso members of the "formidable sect " ? If
they were-if Bavarians, Prussians, Frenchmen, and Englishmen were all working inthe same conspiracy, in the same organisation-then the " formidable sect " could nothave been French merely . It must havebeen International .
Are we to believe that even in the eighteenth century there was an " International "devoted to the destruction of Church andState ? The French Clerical, the French
Royalist, will reply at once : Certainly,
there was Freemasonry.
That is an answer at which Englishmen
will be inclined to laugh, for no one who
knew anything of them could suspect ourEnglish Freemasons of any revolutionary

THE MOST FORMIDABLE SECT 41
design. But there is Freemasonry and Freemasonry. The danger of the Masonic organisation is this-that every secret society
which aims at revolution finds in Freemasonry a disguise which it is almost impossible to penetrate. Freemasons themselves admit, as we shall see later on, thatthe trowel has been used as a dagger, andthat the square has covered a bomb . Let
us quote from a witness who upon this point
is not likely to lie. Louis Blanc was himself
a revolutionary, and his History of the French
Revolution is written to glorify that event.
Let us see, then, what he says on this subject .
After reminding his readers that Liberty,
Equality, and Fraternity are words dedicated to Freemasonry he continues" As the three grades of ordinary Masonry
included a great number of men opposed,by position and by principle, to every
project of social subversion, the innovators
multiplied the degrees of the mystic ladder
to be climbed. They created occult lodges
reserved for ardent souls . . . shadowy sanctuaries whose doors were only open to theadept after a long series of proofs calculated
to test the progress of his revolutionary
education . . . It was to these subterranean
schools that Condorcet alluded when, in his
Histoire des Progres de l'esprit Humain,interrupted by his death, he promised to tellwhat blows monarchical idolatry and superstition had received from the secret societies,

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daughters of the Order of the Templars ."This testimony, as we shall see, does notstand alone . And it has the merit also of
explaining a good deal that is otherwise inexplicable . For it is certain that in France
the Duke of Orleans was Grand Masterboth of the Central Masonic Lodge, theGrand Orient, and also of the Templars ;that Frederick the Great was Grand Masterof a world-wide system of Freemasonry,
and that the Duke of Brunswick was Grand
Master of the German Freemasons .
Whether these principals were the directors or were the tools of the "formidable
sect " is a question that must also be answered .
But in the meantime we must examine alittle more closely the words of Louis Blane's
testimony .
We gather from this closer view that theordinary lodges and the general run ofFreemasons-even in France-were notentrusted with the designs of the conspirators . These conspirators created special
lodges-" arriere-loges," as they are called-behind (and above) the ordinary lodges .
The " innovators " were thus protected by ascreen or several screens, one behind theother, of unsuspected and unsuspecting
Masons. These were the " shadowy sanctuaries," open only to the adept, where
blow upon blow of the revolution could bedirected in safety-as from a bomb-proof
dug-out or the armoured top of a battleship .

CHAPTER II
THE ILLUMINATI IN GERMANY

Adam Weishaupt-His Revolutionary Philosophy-Secret
Organisation-Capture of Freemasonry-Weishaupt's
Downfall-The Grand Orient-The Making of theFrench Revolution-Economic Causes-The ArriLreloges and Jacobin Clubs .

WE have seen that the Illuminati are

mentioned both by the Abbe Barruel andby Mrs. Webster as one of the Prime Moversof the French Revolution. Indeed, Mrs.
Webster goes further, and calls " Spartacus "Weishaupt the " inventor of world-revolution ." A careful study of Barruel, however,suggests that the Illuminati were only oneof many sects which worked with thesame means for the same object . They areimportant chiefly because we know a good
Their archives weredeal about them .
captured and published by the Elector ofThat makes them interesting,Bavaria.
for we can study them, as we study theworking of bees in a glass hive . But it isalso a danger, for we may be led by ourknowledge of them to give them too hi gha place in the revolutionary hierarchy . We
know that this "formidable sect" had a
hand in the French Revolution ; but it
was not the only sect, "and it is doubtful if
it was the chief sect . Indeed, we shall see48

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when we examine it more closely that it
leads us into a blind alley . It entices us
along in the most promising and alluring
way ; but it ends in a dead wall .
We know a good deal about Adam Weishaupt. He was born in 1748, and at theage of twenty-eight was Professor of Law
at the University of Ingolstadt, in Bavaria .
We know that even before this early age
he had worked out the general lines of his
system and of his philosophy . But there is
one thing we do not know-Did he workout the system for himself or was he inspired
thereto by some unknown and unsuspectedteacher?
We do know, by the way, that he was athorough-paced scoundrel, for among his
intercepted correspondence was a series ofletters, written by him to various initiates,
imploring them to help him to find themeans to destroy the unborn child of his
sister-in-law, before its birth should overwhelm him with disgrace . After such a
confession we are entitled to doubt if thephilosophy he professed was the real motiveof his activities .
His philosophy need not detain us very
long . It is the old familiar set of fallacies
and unproved assumptions formulated somelittle time before by Jean Jacques Rousseau,
and long since exploded by historians on
the one side and by men of science on theother .

THE ILLUMINATI IN GERMANY 45
Liberty and equality are the essential
rights that man in his original and primitive
perfection received from Nature . Property
destroyed Equality ; Governments and Religions destroyed Liberty ; therefore to reinstate man in his original rights it wasnecessary to destroy all Religions, all Civil
Societies, and all Property .
This . was to be done by secret organisation" Yes," he prophesied, " princes and nations shall disappear from off the face of
the Earth. Yes, a time shall come when
man shall acknowledge no other Law than
the great book of Nature . This Revolution
shall be the work of our Secret Societies, andthat is one of our Grand Mysteries ."It may be noted in passing that he uses
the plural-as if he were aware that there
were others working along tunnels similar
to those which he and his confederates weredigging so busily .
He began with his pupils of Ingolstadt,
the general idea being that " each class of
my order must be the preparatory schoolfor the next ." He educated a class of" Insinuators," whose business was to secure
initiates, and these initiates were only let
into the secrets of the organisations when
they were proved to be faithful and hadgone too far to draw back .
The scope of these designs is revealed in
the following passage, which might almost46 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST

persuade us that we are in the presence ofthe " formidable sect
When the object is a universal Revolution, all the members of these, Societies,
aiming at the same point, and aiding one
another, must find means of governinginvisibly, and without any appearance ofviolent measures, not only the higher andmore distinguished class of any particularState, but even of all stations, of all nations,of every religion, insinuate the same spirit
everywhere ; in silence, but with the greatest
possible activity, direct the scattered inhabitants of the Earth towards the same point ."With marvellous patience and cunning
Weishaupt elaborated a secret organisation
closely resembling Masonry, of four classes,
subdivided into six degrees . Young men
were tempted into it upon various false
pretences, and before very long the organisation had great power in Bavaria and otherparts of Germany .
Then came a great chance . Weishaupt
was fortunate in two disciples, " Cato "Zwack and the Hanoverian Baron, " Philo "Knigge, who had dabbled in Freemasonry,
and with these two he conceived the projectof capturing or illuminising the MasonicLodges.
Weishaupt's instructions on the gentle
art of capturing Freemasonry are interesting" In every town of any note situatedTHE ILLUMINATI Il4, GERMANY 47

within their district the secret chaptersshall establish lodges for the three ordinary
degrees, and shall cause men of soundmorals, of good repute, and of easy circumstances, to be received in these lodges.
Such men are much to be sought after, andare to be made Masons, even though theyshould not be of any service to Illuminism
in its ulterior projects ."These methods succeeded beyond expectation. Weishaupt and his initiates were soonin secret control of a multitude of lodges
throughout Germany.
But the great chance came with theuniversal Masonic Congress at Wilhelmsbaden in 1782 . At that Congress " Philo "Knigge was busy, and he gleefully reports
his progress to his Master : " All of them,"
writes Knigge, " were enchanted with ourdegrees of Epopt and of Regent ." Intothese degrees the Freemasons were enlisted
in shoals.
The centre of the conspiracy was now
in Frankfort, and was spreading in all
directions . The South German States, Prussia,
Austria, Holland, were all infected .
Atrusted agent was sent to London " slily
to illuminise the English ." Several of theGerman Courts were almost completely inthe hands of the Illuminati . Their prestige
was becoming enormous .
But in the height of his success Weishaupt
received a staggering blow . The Elector

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of Bavaria swooped down upon him, obtained evidence, both written and oral,
which filled Germany with horror andcovered the sect with confusion . Weishaupt
fled to another part of Germany ; but hisorganisation continued, and, as we shallpresently see, its agents or fugitives helped
to precipitate that Revolution in France
which they had failed to effect in Germany .
We have said that our study of theIlluminati only leads us into a cul-de-sac,a blind alley . We come to Adam Weishaupt,
and we get no farther back. But at its
other end this blind alley joins the main
roads, or rather tunnels, of " occult " Freemasonry and Revolution .
We find this " filiation " quite clearlyin Mirabeau's visits to Berlin . Mirabeau
returned from Berlin with two enthusiasms,
the one for the Jews, the other for the
Illuminati . Of the former enthusiasm weshall have something to say later : thelatter enthusiasm bore immediate fruit . Mirabeau induced " Amelius " Bode, the disciple
and successor of " Spartacus " Weishaupt,
to "'illuminise " the French Masonic Lodges .
There is no doubt that at that time
French Freemasonry was assuming certain
very dangerous and subversive forms . France
was, in fact, covered with a web of secretorganisations of the Masonic type, and ofthese Lodges practically all the Jacobins
were members .

THE ILLUMINATI IN GERMANY 49
The Grand Orient itself had become avast revolutionary organisation . Under thenominal rule of the Grand Master, Philip
Egalite, Duke of Orleans, were the Lodges
of no less than 282 French towns ; there
were besides 81 Lodges in Paris and 16 at
Lyons . Every Lodge sent its Deputy to theGrand Orient, and every Lodge had its
President, whose duty consisted in forwarding the orders of the Grand Orient, or in
preparing the Brethren for the orders which
they were to receive.
As early as 1776 the Central Committeeof the Grand Orient instructed its subordinates to prepare the Brethren for insurrection . They were to visit the Lodges
throughout France, to conjure them by
the Masonic Oath, and to announce thatthe time had at last come to accomplish
their ends in the death of tyrants .
Barruel (English edition, Vol . II., p. 438)
gives an account of how these orders were
executed at Lille in that year. The officersof the Regiment of La Sarre, stationed atthat town, were, many of them, Freemasons,and these were invited to meet the Agentof the Grand Orient, an officer of the Artillery
called Sinetty. In a grandiloquent speech
he told them that the Universe was about tobe freed from its fetters, that the tyrants
called Kings were to be vanquished, andthat Religion and Kings were to give way
to Light, Liberty, and Equality. The
A

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officers were good Masons, and they werealso loyal subjects of their King . They
treated the message half as a disagreeablejoke, half as an incomprehensible incident
to be dismissed from their minds. But,
being bound by their Masonic . oath, they
did not report the incident to headquarters .
While the Grand Orient thus organised
Revolution throughout France, various occult
Lodges had their : parts in the movement .
Thus the Paris Lodge of the Coq Heronwas the seat of the propaganda . Its chiefs
were the Due de la Rochefoucauld, Condorcet,
and Sieyes, and in 1790 they controlled
funds of twenty million livres, or £900,000,
at that time an enormous sum .
Barruel quotes the main principle on which
they founded their hopes of a Revolution" Want and opinion are the two agents
which make all men act . Cause the want,govern opinions, and you will overturn all
the existing systems, however well consolidated they may appear ."Now Barruel quotes this revolutionary
maxim on the authority of one Dr . Girtanner,
who, he says, had been able to penetrate
the secrets of revolutionary Masonry inParis . Was it acted upon ? Everybody
knows that one main cause of the Revolution in Paris was the scarcity of bread .
That scarcity is usually said to be due toa bad harvest . . Mrs. Webster, however,quotes many authorities to show that theTHE ILLUMINATI IN GERMANY 51
scarcity was aggravated by the deliberateaction of certain people who bought andheld up the grain . These people, in herview, were agents of the Duke of Orleansand of what is called the Orleanist conspiracy.
" Montj oie " (says Mrs . Webster) "assertsthat agents employed by the Due d'Orleansdeliberately bought up the grain, and either
sent it out of the country or concealed itin order to drive the people to revolt, andin this accusation he is supported by innumerable contemporaries, including the
democrat, Fantin des Odoards, Mounier,whose integrity is not to be doubted, theLiberal Malouet, Ferricres, and Madame dela Tour du Pin . Beaulieu, however, one of
the most reliable of contemporaries, considers that the Orleanists would have been
unable to create a famine by these means,
but that they accomplished their purposeby stirring up public feeling on the subjectof monopolisers, thereby inducing the people
to pillage the grain . The farmers and cornmerchants, therefore, fearing that their
supplies would be destroyed in transit, wereafraid to release them. By this means a
fictitious famine was created ."Here at least is evidence which makes
Girtanner's statement credible . He statesthat the secret societies planned to create
scarcity ; contemporaries believed that scarcity was created, but put it down not toTHE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
the secret organisations of which they knew
nothing, but to the Duke of Orleans .
As to the other economic cause of theFrench Revolution, the spell of bad tradeand unemployment, it was produced by the
Eden Treaty, a commercial treaty so disadvantageous to France that it was ascribedby contemporaries either to corruption ortreachery . Here also Girtanner's statement
furnishes a clue which it might be worth
while for the student to follow up . Whatremains certain is that the economic crisis
which preceded the Revolution was intensified, if not created, by artificial causes .
That these causes were part of a conspiracy
to bring about Revolution is not certain,
but possible-and probable .
But to return. Among the " arriere-loges"-in whose " shadowy sanctuaries " theRevolution was plotted-we must mention
the Lodges of the Amis Reunis and thePhilalethes . The latter was the haunt of
those philosophers and dabblers in literature
who in all ages are the easy prey of theirvanity . The former sheltered such political
fanatics as Condorcet, Brissot, Danton,
Saint-Martin, and Savalette de Lange . It
was to this retreat that Mirabeau brought" Amelius " Bode, the Baron de Busche,and the other Illuminati who were toilluminise " French Freemasonry . But
French Freemasonry hardly required "illuminisation " from Germany . The work had
52ITHE ILLUMINATI IN GERMANY 58
already been carried through by kindred
spirits, if not by fellow-conspirators .
Among these shadowy and sinister figures
were the notorious " Count Cagliostro,"
whose real name .was Joseph Balsamo-a
practitioner of all forms of magic, alchemy,and fraud-and the " Count of Saint-Germain," a Theosophist, as we should now
call him, who boasted that he had lived
through several incarnations . It was this
impostor who founded the sect of Adamites,some little distance outside Paris, in which,according to Barruel, the two sexes lived inpromiscuous concubinage, one lady only
being reserved as the peculiar property of
the founder, then, according to his own
reckoning, in his 180th year .
Nor should we forget Martinez Pasqualis,
generally reputed to be a Portuguese Jew,
who founded his Order of Cohens, with aprogramme which owed something to theancient mysteries of the Cabala . Pasqualis
and his successor, Saint-Martin, worked in
France on very much the same lines as
Weishaupt worked in Germany . Indeed,
the more we look at this eighteenth century
network of secret conspiracy, the moreprobable does it seem that they all owed
something to a common inspiration at thattime and up till now suspected but unknown .
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open. The Jacobins were not only initiates
themselves, but ruled their affairs in ghastly
imitation of the Masonic order .
" It is not by chance (says Barruel) that
the Jacobin Clubs both in Paris and theProvinces become the general receptacle for
Rosicrucians, Knights Templars, Knights of
the Sun, and Knights Kadosch ; or of thosein particular who, under the name of Philalethes, were enthusiastically wedded to themysteries of Swedenborg, whether at Paris,
Lyons, Avignon, Bordeaux, or Grenoble . . . .
The list is public, and it contains the namesof all the profound adepts who had hitherto
been dispersed among the Lodges ." (Barruel,Vol. IV., p. 382.)
Were they the real plotters of the Revolution, or were they, too, puppets, who danced
obediently to the guidance of an unseen
hand ? Their fate suggests their role, forall or nearly all of them died under theguillotine, carrying with them their dark
secrets to be buried for ever in the quicklimeof the general fosse .

CHAPTER III

THE RITUAL OF REVENGE

Continental Freemasonry-The Lost Word and the Revengeof the Death of HiramHebrew Associations-The
Knights Templar-The Knights Kadosch-The Powerbehind the Secret Societies-The Templars and Red
Freemasonry-The Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite-Jewish and Masonic Secret Organisations .

IT is evident how the Revolutionaries worked
under the cloak of Freemasonry for the
downfall of France . We are now driven
to consider more closely the nature notindeed of Freemasonry in the English sense,
but of those orders of Freemasonry which invarious parts of the world are generally
associated with political propaganda .
It is commonly supposed-and in ourown country there is sufficient ground forthe suppositionthat Masonic ritual consists of certain innocent and friendly, thoughsymbolic, ceremonies, which aim at strengthening the 'noble duties of charity, 'fraternity loyalty, and fair-dealing among men
who 'are true citizens of their Empire andwhole-hearted believers in Christian morality .
" To so high an eminence " has the creditof Freemasonry been advanced, says theold English Charge to initiates, " that inevery age Monarchs themselves have beenpromoters of the art, have not thought it
derogatory from their dignity to exchange
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the sceptre for the trowel, have patronised
our mysteries and joined in our Assemblies ."In 1799 and 1817 the British House ofCommons, in specific Acts, recognised thelaudable character of the craft and provided
for its continuance.
So far, well . The history of Freemasonry,
however, though it may start in Englandwith the three orders, or degrees, of " Entered Apprentice," " Fellow Craft," and" Master, by no means ends there, and in
the veiled accounts of certain Continental
and American Lodges we come upon formsof ritual and upon dark sayings that are
not only foreign to the atmosphere of the" Mother Grand Lodge," but that point tounderlying motives which, if they bear any
real significance, are significant of evil .
Whether or not the successive degrees inrevolutionary Masonry constitute a hierarchy, each receiving its orders from thedegree immediately above, or are mainly
independent societies, it is difficult to say ;but it is noteworthy that the higher the
degree the more mysterious and disquieting
appear its ceremonies . There are at least
thirty-three separate degrees, each with apeculiar ritual of its own, based on the
alleged history of the Order, and eachconducting its observances and deliberations
with the utmost secrecy .
In the lower orders the initiate into thesecrets of revolutionary Masonry is allowedTHE RITUAL OF REVENGE
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to hear the words Liberty and Equality
only occasionally, but when his ears havegrown familiar with them, and after - hehas learned how to be silent, he is raised
to the grade of Master . It is then that hehears for the first time of a Founder, whose
murder has to be revenged . The succeeding
grades, especially those from the ninth
upwards, so accustom him to the idea ofvengeance that it finally becomes habitual .
Every Master Mason, is entrusted with atwofold commission-first, to seek for thelost word, which he finds in a higher grade
to be Jehovah, or natural religion ; and,secondly, to revenge the death of Hiram, of
which the Master's sign is a constant memorial--a feigned stab with the thumb .
In the ninth degree (the Elected Knights of
the Nine) a still more emphatic ceremony
is observed . According to Albert Pike's
Ritual of the Southern Jurisdiction of the U .S.
(Scottish Rite), each new entrant andeight already Elected Knights lay aside
their Masonic clothing and jewels, and eachis armed with a sword and dagger . They
enter a room which is lighted only by asingle lamp set on the floor, by the side ofa couch of leaves, on which is placed arepresentation of Abairam sleeping .
" ` Here is the assassin ! ' says the Masterof Ceremonies . Strike boldly at his headand heart, and revenge the death of the
Master 1 ' The candidate does so with his

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dagger, a voice exclaiming' Nekum ! ' [Hebrew for revenge]-and the Master of Ceremonies, having with his sword separated
the bleeding head from the trunk, gives itto the candidate, who, holding it in his
right hand, returns to the chapter-room."
It is in the ninth order, too, that thephilosophy of goodwill and benevolence tomankind, inculcated in the lower degrees,is supplemented by an eloquent appeal todestroy Ignorance, Tyranny, and Fanaticism, and it is interesting to_notice that inthis and the succeeding degrees numerous
Hebrew names and associations creep into
the rituals . The following striking passage
is taken from the ritual of the eleventh
degree (the Sublime Knights Elu of the
Twelve)• The Venerable Master : My Brethren,
are you willing to take upon yourselves theduties of Governors in Israel, and chiefs
over the tribute, with the resolution todischarge those duties faithfully and impartially ?
"All : We are. . . .
• The V.M. : Let then our Chancellor
write the degree . . making these twelve
our Viceregents, each in his Province, tobe obeyed accordingly ."The next three orders are engaged insymbolic rituals dealing with the rebuildingof the Temple of Solomon which are difficult
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thrown upon their meaning in the concluding
catechism of the 15th degree (the Knightsof the East, Sword or F,,4gle)• Q. : Of what are the ruins of the wallsof the city and the Holy House an emblem ?
" A. : Of a country that has lost its
liberties, and an Order ruined and proscribed .
• Q. : To what do the seventy lights of
the Lodge allude ?
" A. : To the seventy years of Hebrew
captivity.
" Q. : Of what are the chains of thecaptives, with their triangular links, anemblem ?
• A. : Of the three powers that have in
all ages fettered the human intellect andchained the limbs of the people : the Kings,
Priests, and Nobles-of TYRANNY, SUPERSTITION, and PRIVILEGE .
• Q. : What art do you profess ?
" A. : Freemasonry.
" Q. : What do you build?
• A . : Temples and Tabernacles .
• Q. : Where ?
• A . : In the souls of men, and among
the nations.
" Q. : Which way do you travel ?
" A. : From Babylon to Jerusalem . . . . "It is not difficult to see whither all thissymbolism and catechism points . As thecandidate becomes more and more initiatedinto the secrets and inner history of hiscraft he becomes more and more familiar

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with the idea of liberty as a basic principle
in Masonic life and thought, and to thepossibility of himself having, if need be,
to offer up his life " in the cause of downtrodden races" and "in defence of freegovernment ." Such an ideal sounds noble
enough, but let us try to find out what
motive lies behind it . We have mentionedthat one of the duties of a Master Mason
in revolutionary Masonry is to seek forthe " lost word ." By the time he is fully
initiated as a Rosicrucian (18th degree) he
has learned that the day on which theword JEHOVAH was lost is precisely that on
which the Son of God died on the Cross .
"As soon as the candidate (says the
Abbc Barruel) has proved that he understands the Masonic meaning of the inscription INRI (Jesus of Nazareth, King of theJews), the Master [of Ceremonies] exclaims,
My dear Brethren, the word is found again,

and all present applaud the luminous discovery, that He whose death was the consummation and the grand mystery of theChristian Religion was no more than acommon Jew crucified for his crimes . . .
It is on the Gospel and on the Son of Man
that the adept is to avenge the brethren,
the Pontiffs of Jehovah ."The Knights Templars (27th degree) haveagain and again been accused of like hereticalpractices, and it seems clear from theevidence that the charge of denying Christ

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and defiling the Cross at their Ceremonyof Initiation has been firmly established .
Step by step are the initiates into the deeper
secrets led to abandon belief, not only inChristianity, but in all revealed religion, andby making them out and out materialists
the ground is prepared for the seeds of theJacobinical code of Revolution . When at
length the candidate is admitted into the30th grade, and, after going through terrifying ordeals to test his obedience and secrecy,
becomes a Knight Kadosch, he learns that
it is no longer Adoniram or Hiram whose
death cries for vengeance . The grade of
Kadosch commemorates, he is informed,
the suppression of the Order of Templars
by Pope Clement V . and Philip le Bel,
together with the murder of the Grand
Commander, Jacques de Molai, who wasburned alive by Philip's orders on March 11th,
1314.
Thus is the mask completely thrownaside, and the hidden designs of the Red
Masonic orders made clear . The objects
to be pursued and annihilated are the two
great institutions of the Christian world,
represented by Clement V . and Philip IV .,the Church and the State . " The religion
which is to be destroyed to recover theword, or the true doctrine," remarks Barruelwith true insight (Vol. II., p. 825), " is thereligion of Christ, founded on revelation .
This word in its full extent is Liberty and1

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Equality, to be established by the total
overthrow of the altar and the throne ."We conclude with a few significant sentences taken from the catechism of theKnights Kadosch degree . (We have been
unable to obtain any authentic informationon the ritual of the higher degrees .)My Brother [the Candidate], you desire
to unite yourself to an Order which haslaboured in silence and secrecy for more than
500 years with a single end in view, andhitherto with only partial success . . . . The
Order of Knights Kadosch has for its mission
the avenging of a great crime . . . . Do you
fully understand that this degree is not,like- much of so-called Masonry, a sham thatmeans nothing and amounts to nothing ; . . .
that what you are now engaged in is real,
will require the performance of duty, will
exact sacrifice, will expose you to danger ;and that this Order means to deal with theaffairs of nations and be once more a Powerin the world ? "We have seen, so far, (1) that Revolution
is not a spontaneous combustion of thesocial order ; but that (2) the match is set
by some secret agency or "formidable sect" ;(3) that this agency conceals itself in the
shadowy sanctuaries of certain forms ofFreemasonry ; and (4) that these subversive
forms of Freemasonry have a ritual of
hatred for the Cross and veneration for theTemple which suggest a Hebraic origin .

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But having got so far, we are faced byanother question-if these secret societies
instigate revolutions, who or what instigatesthe secret societies ?
And here, as in the case of the Freemasons, we must be careful not to suggest
any, unfair suspicion of innocent people .
If we find a distinctly Jewish ritual in thesesubversive orders of Freemasons, that is
not to suggest that all Jews are Freemasonsor are subversive . Onr the contrary, it isevident that many Jews are good citizens
and patriotic British subjects. What isalleged, however-and this allegation wemust examine-is that a secret sect ofJews cherish political designs of a subversive
nature, and that this sect works for revolution behind a mask of Freemasonry.
Now we have remarked that the ritual,particularly of the Templars, is both Hebraic
and suggestive of a design of revenge .
It might help us a little, then, to inquire
into the origin of this particular Order,
with which the " Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite " as practised by the Red
Lodges is historically connected.
And, indeed, no less an authority thanAugustus Schlegel points the way" The Order of the Templars (says Schlegelin his Philosophy of History) has been
the bridge over which all that body of
mysteries (i.e., of esoteric Freemasonry) has
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come the traditions of Solomon and his
Temple . . . . A society from the breast ofwhich, as from a laboratory where the spiritof destruction forged its arms, came the
Albigenses, the Jacobins, and the Carbonari,could not have a tendency truly Christian
nor a constitution politically just, nor could
it exercise a beneficent influence on humanity
in general ."The most eminent specialist on this subjectof the history
history of the Templars is the Comtele Couteulx
Canteleu, whose book* on
secret societies and sects is founded notupon legend and tradition merely but upon
the archives of the Templars themselves in
his own possession and elsewhere .
The Count explains how this ' crusading
Order during its long stay of half a century
in Palestine formed a close and sinisterconnection with the Order of Assassins or
Hachichiens-a branch of the Ishmaelites of
the East, whose members must have been
Jewish, since their object was the rebuildingof Solomon's Temple . This secret society
infested the mountains round Jerusalem,and carried on a war of brigandage andassassination both against the Saracens andthe Crusaders .
"The Templars (says our author), seeingthat the Realm of Jerusalem was going* Les Sectes et Societes Secretes, Politiques et Religeuses ;essai sur leur histoire depuis les temps les plus reouUs jusqu'dla Revolution francaise. (1883 .)THE RITUAL OF REVENGE
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swiftly towards its ruin, made alliance andtreaty with the assassins . It appears to becertain that it was Guillaume de Montbard
who received from the Old Man of theMountain the Masonic initiation in a cavernin the Liban, and transmitted it to his
companions, who were . all initiated in the
Masonic cult ."It is certain that when the Templars re- .
turned to Europe they were accused of following an un-Christian and blasphemous ritual .
Two Masonic-or rather, as they callthemselves," co-Masonic "-writers, A.
Bothwell-Gosse and L . J. Dickinson, findin the accounts of this ritual preserved in
the famous trial proofs that the Order had
been initiated into the secrets of Masonry .
" It seems probable," say these two writersin . their book on the Templars, " that there
was a basis of truth even in the accusationsof a horrible or grotesque kind : but it wasa truth perverted or misunderstood, distortedby the ignorance of uninitiated observers,
who misinterpreted fragments of ritual thatthey could not comprehend ." In the beginning of the fourteenth century Philip le Bel,of France, with the more or less reluctant
consent of the Pope, Clement V., dispersed
the Order and burned many of its leadersincluding the famous Jacques de Molaiat the stake .
At the same time Philip drove the Jews
out of France .
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Now, it is possible-although here again
anything in the nature of proof is wantingthat the ' Templars and the Jews madecommon cause . What is certain is that
the Templars survived as a secret Masonicorganisation with a ritual inspired byhatred of and vengeance on Church andState.
The execution of Jacques de Molai in the
fourteenth century is one of those unhappy
far-off things for which no sane man would
nourish an active resentment ; but revenge
for the execution of Jacques de Molai
turned into a ritual against Church andKing is another matter . That ritual waspractised on the eve of the French Revolution. When the head of Louis XVI . fell
into the sack not only was the death ofJacques de Molai revenged upon a descendantof Philip le Bel, but a proscribed Orderand a proscribed race-were revenged both,and at once, upon Church and State .
And now as to the connection between
the Order of the Templars and what iscalled the Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite practised in the Grand Orient and theLodges of Red Masonry the world over.
When Philip le Bel dispersed the Order inFrance he advised his brother monarch,
Edward II., to follow his example in England .
Edward took his advice, although his persecution was more mild and more dilatory
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these two persecutions many of the Knights
are said to have been driven into Scotland .
Tradition says that an eminent band of
French Templars, disguised as operative
Masons, landed on the island of Mull, andwere received by the Scottish Grand Master .
These Knights, it is said, helped Robert
the Bruce to win the Battle of Bannockburn,and with his connivance founded the famous
Lodge of Kilwinning, which claims an apostolic succession both in ritual and governWhen the Jacobite cause foundment.
refuge in France the Scottish Rite wasbrought back to the home of its founders,
and was accepted by the Grand Orient, asa convenient symbolism for its work ofsubversion .
The ritual also reached Germany, and in1762 Frederick the Great, who had taken
under his wing the patronage of all German
Masonry, promulgated his Grand Constitution, the Constitution being confirmed alsoat Bordeaux in the same year . In 1786
Frederick's new Constitution of the Ancientand Accepted Scottish Rite delegated his
powers to a Council for each nation . And
from France, in 1761, one Stephen Morinprobably but not certainly a Jew-was
deputed by the Grand Consistory of theSublime Princes of the Royal Secret, ofwhom the Duke de Chartres, afterwards
the Duke of Orleans, was one to carry thetorch to the New World .

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Thus a ritual originating among the Ish maelites and Assassins of Mount Lebanon
gradually penetrated Europe and the New
World. It is a singular story, but suggests
rather than proves the connection between
the Hebraic and Masonic secret organisations.
There is, indeed, at least one document
which supports this theory. It is quoted
in Deschamps' Les Societes Secretes et laSociete (Vol . III., Annexe B), and purports
to be a letter from a certain Jean Baptiste
Simonini written from Florence on the 1st
August, 1806, to the Abbe Barruel congratulating him on his book, which Simonini
had just read . The Abbe, it will be remembered, had shown in his Memoirs of Jacobinism that the French Revolution had beenin great part engineered by certain Masonicorganisations . Simonini informs the Abbethat his conclusions are correct but do not
go far enough, and that behind the Masons
were the Jews. He goes on to tell how
during the Revolution he was at Piemont,
and for his own safety contrived to persuadecertain Jews who were active in the Revolution there that he was himself a Jew bydescent. They induced him to become a
Mason, and told him, when he had thoroughly
won their confidence, that Maues and the
Old Man of the Mountains were Jews ;that the Freemasons and Illumines were
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sects emanated from them, that they had
many partisans within the Church both inItaly and Spain ; that the Bourbons were
their hereditary enemies ; that they had .
made themselves masters of Christian wealth,which they were using to promote revolution ; and that they promised themselves inless than a century to be masters of theworld ; to abolish all other sects ; to reign
themselves ; to make synagogues of theChristian churches ; and to reduce theChristian peoples to a state of slavery .
Barruel, who had written his book without
any such suspicion, was puzzled what to dowith the letter . He did not desire to give
publicity to a statement which he could notprove, and determined to inform the authorities of its contents and give the letter into
the keeping of his ecclesiastical superiors (inwhose archives it still remains) . In thecourse of his short annotations on the document, however, he suggests that, owing to
the double persecution of Philip le Bel, theJews may have made common cause with
the Templars, and that this may be theorigin of the Masonic degree of Kadosch .
A remarkable attempt to supplement evidence by argument is made by M . CopinAlbancelli in his book, La Conjuration
Juive Contre le Monde Chretien (1909).
M . Copin-Albancelli's thesis is that except
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and State which he finds in French Freemasonry. Further, that the Jews at one
time had a Government ; that there isevidence of the existence of this Government
after the Dispersion ; that it was driven
underground by the various persecutions towhich the Jews have been subjected ; butthat it still exists as a secret organisation .
And he comes to the conclusion, from anelaborate process of argument, that theoccult power which works behind Freemasonry is no other than the secret government of the Jewish nation (p . 435) .
We do not propose to examine the logicalsteps-some of them giant strides-by which
M. Copin-Albancelli advances to this conclusion . We may point out, however, that
there are certain obvious difficulties . One
is that Freemasonry in general-both inEngland and in Germany-was closed to theJews, at least through the greater part of theeighteenth century, although there is reason
to suppose that this exclusion did not apply
in certain of the governing or occult ordersof Continental Freemasonry .

CHAPTER IV
THE PART OF THE JEWSThe Relations of Jewry and the Secret Societies-Albert
Pike-Dissident and Orthodox Masons-A Prophetic
Letter.

WE have seen how M. Copin-Albancelli
attempted to prove that subversive Freemasonry was the secret government of theJews . This argument has the horrible implication that the Jewish race has a secret
government which works for the destructionof the Christian nations .
A moderate and probably truthful viewof this question is contained in a very remarkable book by the Abbe Joseph Lemann(L'Entree des Israelites dans la Societe franfaise) . Lemann, it is important to note,
was himself a Jew who embraced Christianityand became a Christian priest .
Lemann, then, describes the assertions
which we have discussed as an exaggeration-" une these exageree." He admits,
however, that very close relations exist
between Jewry and the secret societies .
And he sets these relations down to theHebraic antagonism against Christianity
which led the Jews " to utilise secret societies, more or less, for their own interests ."Lemann points to the origin of theseoccult Masonic societies in the Cabal-a
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Hebrew word meaning " received tradition ."From the time of Moses to the time of Christ
the Cabal had existed as the oral but secretcustodian of the most sublime truths of the
Hebraic religion . It was the philosophy ofthe Hebrews . But at the Dispersion it
turned from wine to vinegar, and passed
either into a shadowy realm of vain speculations, or occupied itself with magic, terrible
vows and sinister symbols, and the operations of a hateful conspiracy against theChristian religion . It was the father ofSorcery, Astrology, Alchemy, and all thefalse sciences of the Middle Ages .
But here Lemann makes an importantreservation" This science cabalistic, abstruse on its
speculative side, bad and wicked on its
practical side, was known only to a small
number of Israel . Most honest Jews, occupied with their daily affairs, and theirpatriarchal customs, although not loving the
Saviour of the World and His Church, had
no penchant for, nor pleasure in, this commerce with the Cabal and with magic ."Owing to the strict watch kept by the
Church and by the Christian monarchs, it
was difficult, if not impossible, to establish
relations between the Hebrew Cabal andthe secret societies . Moreover, an Albigeois or a Templar would have been too
proud to call a Jew his companion in arms
-and in mysteries .

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78

But with the eighteenth century thingschanged for the worst . The various secretsocieties concentrated in Freemasonry andbecame democratic and universal . The Convention of Wilhelmsbaden was their GrandHall of Reunion .
How far did Judaism participate ?
Lemann answers this question . In 1754, hesays, a Portuguese Jew, named Martinez
Paschalis, had founded in France a sect
based on the Cabal under the name of theOrder of Cohens (a Hebrew word) or Priests .
After his death the famous Saint-Martin had
developed the sect, which spread from Parisand Lyons as far as Russia. Its sectaries
were then called Martinists, or French Illuimnes .
Such was the preface of the liaison positive
between Judaism and the secret societies .
It was a disturbing apparition-says Lemann this union between this perverted
Judaism and these degraded societies . For
the one seemed to say to the other : " Tomorrow you will be with me, my plans will
be your plans ."Lemann proceeds to describe " this little
battalion of advanced Jews "-Moses Mendelssohn, who took the delicate role ofconciliator between Jews and Christians ;Wilhelm Dohm, a Prussian official, who
utilised the arguments of Rousseau for the
emancipation of the Jews ; the banker,
Cerfbeer, who undertook singlehanded to74 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
break down the Jewish pale of Strasbourgto these men came Mirabeau, the Gentile
Revolutionary and Freemason .
In the work on Masonic ritual in America,
prepared by Albert Pike, an interesting
passage in a supplementary note to the
Fourteenth Degree deplores the springing
up of " a dissident Masonry, opposed to theorthodox," to which schism are ascribed" the greatest calamities of the French
Revolution," and, in an attempt to vindicate
the ideals of " orthodox " Masonry, thepassage" We continues
shall perhaps be asked how ifiMasonry is so sublime and so holy, it could
have been proscribed and so often condemnedby the Church ? We have replied to thisquestion in speaking of the schisms andprofanations of Masonry . . . . Masonry has
not only been profaned, but it has evenserved as a veil and pretext for the plottingsof anarchy, by the secret influence of theavengers of Jacques de Molai .
. . TheAnarchists have retaken the Rule, the Squareand the Mallet, and written on them
` Liberty, Equality, Fraternity .' That is tosay, Liberty for the covetous to plunder,
Equality for the basest, and Fraternity todestroy."
Such protestations of sorrow from " orthodox " Freemasons of the Red Orders may or
may not be genuine . We do not take it uponourselves to judge . The hope of a moreTHE PART OF THE JEWS
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profitable inquiry lies, we fancy, in anotherdirection : to what precisely does the above
passage refer ? Like all Masonic writing,it is enigmatical, and it would be a mistaketo give it a too narrow and literal interpretation . Two points are clear, however . The" dissident " Masons are charged with using
Masonry "as a veil and pretext for theplottings of anarchy," and these plottings
are held in real, or assumed, abhorrence bythe " orthodox " Masons . Let us see if we
can discover the historical origin of thisschism .
In the year 1761 a certain Stephen
Morin was invested by the Grand Consistoryof Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret in
Paris with power to carry the Rite of Perfection to America . Among those who signed
the paper was the Duke of Chartres, afterwards the Duke of Orleans, " Philip Egalite,"
Grand Master both of the Grand Orient andthe Templars, and Morin himself is described
as a Grand Perfect Elect and Past Sublime
Master, etc., etc ., of all orders of Masonry .
Now it has been stated that Morin was a
Jew, but the Jewish Encyclopaedia, in its
article on Freemasonry, says that this point
is in doubt . What is certain is that whenMorin arrived in America he gave powers toa number of deputies who certainly were
Jews. Thus, for example, his deputy inspector, Henry Francken, appointed Moses
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made Brother Da Costa deputy inspectorgeneral for South Carolina, Solomon Bushdeputy for Pennsylvania, and B. M. Spitzer
deputy for Georgia . In 1783 - Da Costa
established in Charleston a Sublime Grand
Lodge of Perfection, a Council of Princes ofJerusalem was also constituted, and also a
Council of Knights Kadosch . In 1786 Charleston received the Grand Constitution from
Germany, and in 1801 a Convention washeld to form a Supreme Council of theThirty-third Degree of the Ancient andAccepted Scottish Rite . In those various
institutions, such Jews as Meyers, Spitzer,
John Mitchell, and Frederick Dalcho wereprominent, and although the Jewish Encyclopedia, alleges that the Jews were not incontrol of the movement, and were not in
the highest degrees, it is quite evident fromthe names in the original proceedings that in
the creation of these Charleston institutions
Jewish influence was- either supreme or verystrong.
In the year 1896 there appeared in Parisa curious publication called Le Diable au
XIXe Siecle. It was an attack upon Freemasonry, and came out in parts, illustrated
with grotesque and repulsive engravings.
The name on the title-page is Dr . Bataille,
but it is stated in the British Museum
Catalogue that the real authors were Gabriel
Jogand-Pages and Charles Hacks . The book,with evident knowledge and a show ofTHE PART OF
E JEWS77
authority, set out to trace the connection
between Freemasonry, and revolutions, but
its sensationalism and the extremely doubtful
character of some of the documents produced brought it into disrepute . It is now
forgotten, and yet it contains a good deal
that can be verified from other sources, andsome things also which seem to be verified
by recent events . In particular there is aletter--or an alleged letter-said to havebeen written by Albert Pike, the " Sovereign
Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry," assistedby the Ten Ancients of the Grand Lodge of
the Supreme Orient at Charleston, to " thevery illustrious brother " Giuseppe Mazzini .
This letter is dated (in Masonic style)
August 15th, 1871, and sets forth an anticlerical policy which Mazzini is to follow in
Italy. The measures proposed, including
secular education, the expulsion of thereligious orders, and so forth, need notdetain us . What is to our purpose occurs
towards the end of the letter, on page 605(Vol. II.). The writer explains that owing to
the working out of this policy the Pope may
be driven at some future time out of Italy,
and that established religion will then findits last refuge in Russia . And the letter
proceeds :" That is why, when the autocratic Empireof Russia will have become the citadel of
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shall unchain the revolutionary Nihilists andAtheists, and we shall provoke a formidablesocial cataclysm, which will demonstrate
clearly to the nations, in all its horror, theeffect of absolute unbelief, mother of savagery
and of the most bloody disorder .
Then,everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend
themselves against the mad minority of
revolutionaries, will exterminate these destroyers of civilisation, and the multitude,
disillusioned of Christianity, whose deist
soul will up to that moment be without
compass, thirsting for an ideal, but notknowing where to bestow their worship,
will receive the True Light, by the universal
manifestation of the pure Luciferian doctrine,at last made public, a manifestation which
will arise from the general movement ofreaction following the destruction of Atheism
and Christianity, both at the same time
vanquished and exterminated ."Now this letter is at least as old as 1896
(if it is a forgery) ; if it is genuine, it is as old
as 1871 . It must therefore be consideredremarkable, whether as a forgery or as a
genuine document . For it predicts what
has happened in Russia, and it claims for
its authors that they were preparing tobring about what has happened .
If we compare more closely the words ofthe Masonic letter with what has actually
happened in Russia, we cannot but see howTHE PART OF THE JEWS
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close is the correspondence between thethreats and the reality
THE MAsoNIC LETTER .
. . . we shall unchain therevolutionary Nihilists andatheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social
cataclysm . . . horror . . .
savagery .
. the mostbloody disorder .

MR. CHURCHILL's
DESCRIPTION .

. . . in the same way thatyou might send a phial . . .
to tear to pieces every institution . . . long internalterrors . . . menaced byfamine . . . sufferings more
fearful than modern records
hold.

Whatever explanation we may incline togive, we must at least allow that it is adocument which is very difficult to explain .
And there is this much to be said in supportof it that Mazzini certainly was connected(as we shall see) with the birth of thatmovement of " Revolutionary Nihilism "called the International .
One thing is certain : the motive suggested by Albert Pike for the destructionof Russia is not adequate . The cult of
Adonaism, whatever that may be, and the
hypothesis that the Pope might take refuge
in Russia, would never have driven a bodyof conspirators to plot the destruction of
Russia . But if the Charleston Lodge was,as it is generally supposed to be, verylargely Jewish in origin and control, themotive becomes intelligible ; it would lie
in the hatred of the political Jew both for
Russia and for Christianity .

CHAPTER VCONSPIRATORS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Founding of the International-Karl Marx-Giuseppe
Mazzini-Michail Bakunin-The End of the FirstInternational-The Jewish Conspiracy-The Protocolsof the Elders of Zion-The Symbolism of the SnakeThe Russian Revolution-The Evidence of Disraeli's
Coningsby .

reader may have surmised
from our last chapter that Albert Pike's
enigmatical passage may have had someconnection with the founding of the International.
The history of that remarkable movement takes us back to the agitation which
preceded the stormy years of 1848 and
1849 . Benjamin Disraeli, in his Coningsby,
written in 1844, testified beforehand that," that mighty Revolution which is at thismoment preparing in Germany, and which
will be, in fact, a second and greater Reformation, and of which so little is yet known
in England, is entirely developing under the
auspices of Jews ."And Disraeli was at least so far rightthat the two ablest heads in that movement
were Jewish-Ferdinand Lassalle and KarlMarx.
Now as to these two men, there is onevery remarkable coincidence which has neverTHE intelligent

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before been noticed . They were not only
Jews ; but they both, in their youth, dedicated their lives to revenge .
Ferdinand Lassalle (or Lassal) was bornof Jewish parents at Breslau on April 11th,
1825 . In Breslau, it should be explained,
the Jews were not emancipated until 1843 .
In his youth he kept a diary, and thatdiary (for the years 1840-1) was afterwards
published by Herr Paul Lindau .
In that diary (on February 1st, 1840)
Lassalle writes : " I think I am one of thebest Jews in existence, although I disregard
the ceremonial law . I could, like the Jew
in Bulwer's Leila, risk my life to deliver
the Jews from their present crushing condition ." He speaks of his childish dream"to make the Jews armed-I at 'theirhead-free."And on July 30th, 1840,
commenting on certain accusations of ritualmurder then being made against the Jews,
he says" . . . the time will soon be at hand when
we, in very deed, will help ourselves with
Christian blood . Aide-toi et le ciel t'aidera .
The dice are ready : it only depends upon
the player ."So far Lassalle . Let us now turn toMarx.
In his Karl Marx, His Life and Work,John Spargo says that the true patronymicof the family seems to have been Mordechai .
Mordechai, a grandfather of Karl Marx,V82 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNRESTi

was a rabbi : " one of a long line of rabbis,
unbroken from the sixteenth century until
his son Heinrich, father of Karl Marx,
adopted law instead of religion for a career .
On his mother's side, also, Karl Marx
had a long line of rabbinical ancestors ."But in 1824, when Karl was six years old,
Heinrich and his wife suddenly embraced
Christianity, and they with their children
were baptised . Mr. Spargo tries to makeout that Heinrich forsook Judaism as amatter of conviction, but we can hardly
credit such an explanation, and for thefollowing reasons : At the time Heinrichadopted Christianity the Jews in the Rhine
Province (the Marxes lived in Trier) were
subject to extortion and mild persecution
at the hands of the Prussian officials ;the Code Napoleon of March 17th, 1808, hadbeen issued provisionally for a period of
only ten years fixing the status of the Jews
in the Rhine Province ; and Heinrich Marx
was a convinced disciple of that enemyof Christianity, Voltaire . Moreover, Liebknecht, long the intimate associate of KarlMarx, and himself a Jew and a revolutionary, says in his Memoirs that theacceptance of Christianity by the parents
was compulsory, that it was due to an
official edict by the Prussian Government
compelling all Jews holding official positions
or engaged in the learned professions toforgo these or formally renounce Judaism .

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The same writer says that the boy Karlfelt keenly this insult to his race, of which
he was so proud, and that " his whole life
was a reply and a revenge ."Spargo and other biographers of KarlMarx naturally do not accept this explanation of their hero's activities, and do theirbest to discredit Liebknecht .
But thestory, despite their efforts, is, as we haveseen, historically credible.
Here then we have a motive hitherto
unsuspected by those Gentiles who follow
the Red Banner-the motive of destroying
the Christian nations in revenge for thewrongs of Judaism .
But to proceed . Karl Marx succeeded,by September 28th, 1864, in founding theInternational Working Men's Associationinaugurated at St . Martin's Hall in London .
In organising this movement Marx had
considerable trouble with Giuseppe Mazzini,
who had himself organised the Italian Working Men's Association, and desired to control
the movement . Mazzini prepared a draft
address, and presented it to the General
Council of the International ; but it was
turned down in favour of another writtenby Marx, in much the same terms as thefamous Manifesto. Mazzini thereupon withdrew from the International, and for the
rest of his life was a bitter opponent ofMarx.
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more formidable opponent than Mazzini .
Michail Bakunin has been called the Russian
Revolutionary Lion . He was, in fact, aSlav, and his gospel was a curious mixtureof pan-Slavism and Anarchy . Part of hisplan was to organise a great Slav Powerto include all the Slav elements of Europe,and with this engine he designed to destroy
not only the Russian Empire, but theGerman and Austrian Empires as well .
Now, we have no means of discovering
the real motive behind these ideas . Butthat the inspiration was at least as muchthat of race as of class is evident . Bakunin
bitterly denounced Karl Marx and his "cliqueof Jews " ; Karl Marx as bitterly denounced
Bakunin's pan-Slavism .
;Can it be that the fight between Socialist
and Anarchist veiled and covered anotherfight more fierce and instinctive-between
Slav and Jew? Certain it is that KarlMarx's immediate plans did not include
the destruction of the German Empire .
Marx, despite his exile, had certain connections with the Prussian Government, andhe used all his influence in the International
Movement to weaken France and strengthen
Germany in the Franco-Prussian War. But
to return to the conflict .
Bakunin became a member of the International by joining the Branche Romande
He immediately began his
at Geneva .
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movement. He formed within the International the Alliance de la Democratie
Socialiste, with a programme of its own andbranches throughout Europe . When Marx
got wind of this plot he got the General
Council of the International to denounce
the Alliance as a scheme for disrupting the
Bakunin capitulated, disInternational.
solved the Alliance, but immediately reorganised its branches as branches of theInternational ! Marx said nothing, but at
the Basle Congress of 1869 he got his
friend Eccarius to propose that the Congressshould give the General Council the power
to expel any section contravening the principles of the association . To everybody's
astonishment, Bakunin supported the motion .
He thought that his supporters at theCongress outnumbered those of Marx, but
he was wrong . He had still a long way to
go before he finally overthrew his rival .
" Taking advantage," says Mr . John
Spargo, in his Life of Karl Marx, "ofthe situation in Europe which resulted fromthe Franco-Prussian War and the Paris
Commune, Bakunin went on building up
his separate organisation, the Alliance, especially in Italy and Spain . .
Many ofthose who joined the Alliance had no ideathat they were being used by Bakunin asa means of injuring the International."
The struggle came to a head in September,
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at The Hague . Marx had not intended to
be present at first, but Bakunin had let it
be known that he would attend for the
purpose of " exposing Marx and his clique."Marx and Engels accepted the challenge .
After a five days' word battle they routed
Bakunin and prevented him from capturing
the International, but to save their society
from further molestation, they decided toremove their headquarters to New York .
In 1876 the International was formallydissolved at a meeting held in Philadelphia .
These conflicts remain obscure ; but theyat least suggest an explanation of Albert
Pike's enigmatical passage : " Masonry has
not only been profaned ; but it has served
as a veil and a pretext for the plottingsof Anarchy, by the secret influence of theavengers of Jacques de Molai ."Hitherto we have explored a dim subterranean twilight region by the candlelightof hints and surmises. We have not attempted to prove anything in the strict
or even in the historical sense of thatmuch abused word . No, we have merely
attempted to indicate the probability ofan organisation of a secret order-a " terrible sect "-working for revolution in theworld, and the other probability that thissect is controlled by Hebraic conspirators-not indeed orthodox Jews-who aspireto the dominion of the world .
That idea is not too vaguely indicated in.

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a very remarkable passage of a book fromwhich we have already quoted, the Abbe
Joseph Lemann's L'Entree des Israelites dansla Societe franfaise, which was publishedin 1886 . There is a plan, says Lemanna plan " d'enfer "" to disorganise at one blow Christian society
and the beliefs and customs of the Jews,
then with this double organisation to bringabout a state of things where, religiously
speaking, there will be neither Christiannor Jew, but only men stripped of divinity,
and where, politically speaking, the Christian
will become, if not the slave, at least theinferior of the Jew, the master . . . . At thehour in which we hold the pen we see thisplan unrolling itself in sombre horizons andgreat funereal lines .
Now what does this passage suggest ?
It suggests that there is some formidable
secret organisation, some terrible sect, controlled and directed by Jews for the destruction of our present social order . It suggests
also that these Jews are not orthodox
Jews, but Jews who have freed themselvesfrom the faith of their ancestors . And it
suggests further that the design of thesepeople is not merely anarchy but to createa world domination in which these infidel
Jews are masters, and in which the Christianpeoples are, if not their slaves, at least
their inferiors .
Here, again, - however, we are moving in

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a world of shadows, hints and surmises, of" sombre horizons and funereal lines ." Theman of the world, who believes in nothing
except what he finds proved, and who
refuses to consider anything but a clear andprecise statement, may be inclined to dismiss
this -passage as mere moonshine .
But now we are to emerge suddenly fromshadows and moonshine into a fierce blazeof light . For we have now to consider adocument which professes to set forth fully
and plainly the plan of campaign of this" formidable sect " for the destruction of
the social order . But let us first consider
what this document is .
In the year 1903 a Russian, Serge Nilus,
published a book entitled The Great in Little.
The second edition, which was publishedat Tsarskoe Selo in 1905, had an additional
chapter, the twelfth, under the heading" Anti-Christ as a Near Political Possibility ."This chapter consisted of some twenty pagesof introduction followed by the text oftwenty-four " Protocols of Meetings of the
Learned Elders of Zion," and the book ends
with some twenty pages of commentaries
on these protocols by Nilus .
Directly after the protocols comes a statement by Nilus that they are " signed byrepresentatives of Zion of the thirty-third
degree . These protocols were secretly extracted (or were stolen) from a whole volume
of protocols . All this was got by my corre-

CONSPIRATORS OF 19TH CENT . 89
spondent out of the secret depositories of the
Head Chancellery of Zion .
This Chancellery is at present on French territory ."An English translation of these protocols
has now been published (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 2s. 6d. net) . This translation, which
we have compared with the Russian 1905
edition in the British Museum, is substantiallycorrect, but in a work of such importance wehave preferred to use our own translation .
Now the contention of Nilus is that these
protocols are the plans of a secret organisation or government of Jewry for the returnof this organisation or government to Zion,
and for the government of the whole world
by Jewish dispensation . This plan, Nilusa
asserts, is not of yesterday but has beendeveloped through many ages . What is
usually understood by the Zionist movement, initiated at Basle in 1897, was not, it
is said, a modern development of Jewry,
but an indiscreet revelation of part of aplan long entertained . For that reasoni.e., that the Zionist movement was arevelation to the world of secret designsit was not regarded with favour by thereal leaders nor by certain great Jewish
capitalists . That indiscretion was committed
by the impetuous Dr. Theodor Hertzl, aVienna journalist and dramatic critic, whoenergetically brought, forward to a worldwide public certain age-old, plans of these
secret leaders of Jewry .

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The symbolism of the snake, says Nilus,
typifies a coiling and encircling movement
by which " all Europe, and through Europe
all the rest of the world, by the use of all
forms of force, by wars of conquest, andby economic pressure, will be subjected tothe influence of Jewry ." " All the States,"says Nilus, " passed over by the symbolic
snake, not excluding Germany, with her
apparent might, are in reality underminedby constitutional Liberalism and economic
derangement . On the economic side Englandand Germany are still spared, but only
until such time as the irrevocable conquestof Russia, towards which all energies are
now concentrated, has been accomplished.
. . . Constantinople is the eighth and laststage towards Jerusalem ."We have said that this document flashes
a blaze of light, and so it does, but whether
this document is genuine or not, whether
the blaze of light is true or false, can only
be judged by internal evidence and probabilities. We may say at once that Nilus
advances nothing in the nature of real
evidence to prove the document, and that
his account of how it came into his hands
consists of assertion only, without evidence
to support it . We can only say that if the
document is not genuine it is a very extraordinary forgery, since it predicts withcertainty not only the fact but the mannerand mechanism of a great revolution before

CONSPIRATORS OF 19TH CENT. 91
the event . Moreover, it says before theevent that this destruction will be carriedout by a Jewish organisation-a formidable
sect-and such evidence as we have of theRussian Revolution confirms this prediction .
Thus, for example, Lieutenant-Colonel
Malone, the Member of Parliament who
went on a friendly visit to the Bolsheviks
and returned in the latter part of 1919
to England, stated in the House of Commons on November 5th : " It is said
openly that the Soviet Government is a
Government of the Jews . Why, there are
not in Lenin's Cabinet as many Jews or
crypto-Jews as there are in any otherCabinet in Europe . There is only oneTrotsky . Of course, there are Jews in control
in Russia. There are Jews behind the commissars, and there is no doubt in Russia
now the Jews are not subject to those horrible
persecutions which they have endured forcountless ages ." And this is supported bynumerous Christian refugees from Russia,
who all assert that the chief actors in the
Revolution are Jewish, and that the Jewish
bourgeoisie have been spared by the revolutionaries.
Here, then, are two very remarkablepieces of corroborative evidence, first, thatthe, document was published before theevent which it predicted, and, second, thatthose whom it states to be the conspirators
are afterwards found to be the principal

92 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNRESTiagents of the Revolution . We shall not
begin the examination of the document
itself at this stage of our inquiry, but
we shall content ourselves merely witha quotation from Disraeli's novel Coningsby,
which is well -worth reading over again
in the light of recent happenings . Those
who know the novel will remember the
mysterious character Sidonia, who describes
himself as a Spanish Jew and an international power . He tells Coningsby how hisancestors had settled in Aragon before theMoorish invasion, how they had been persecuted and had adopted the veil of Christianity, remaining Jews in secret, how they
had betrayed Spain to the Moors, and how
they had again been persecuted when Ferdinand and Isabella re-established Christian
domination, how they had again disguisedthemselves as Christians, but how as soon
as their descendant had reached England
he had set up the Mosaic altar . He refers
to his tutor, Rebello-" a Jesuit before the
Revolution, since then an exiled Liberalleader, now a member of the Spanish Cortes,
Rebello was always a Jew ." He refers also
to " the subterranean agency of which theworld in general knows so little, but which
exercises so great an influence on public
events."And he proceeds, "You neverobserve a great intellectual movement inEurope in which the Jews do not greatly
participate. The first Jesuits were Jews ;CONSPIRATORS OF 19TH CENT . 93
that mysterious Russian diplomacy which
so alarms Western Europe is organised andpractically carried on by Jews ; that mighty
Revolution which is at this moment preparingin Germany, and which will be in fact asecond and greater Reformation, and ofwhich so little is yet known in England,is entirely developing under the auspicesof Jews."

CHAPTER VI
THE BOLSHEVIST BIBLE

The Invisible Force-A Final Revolution and the Consummation of Masonry-The Power of Gold-Financial
and Industrial Crises-A Feigned Solicitude for theWorking Classes-Politics and Morality-A Cynical
Philosophy.

WE have given some account of the extraordinary document printed by the Russian
Nilus in the year 1905 as an appendix to his
book. That document consists of twentyfour protocols, running to about 30,000
words. In form, as we have said, it takes
the shape of a series of lectures " at themeetings of the learned elders of Zion ."The lecturer speaks sometimes as if theinitiates whom he was addressing were thesecret government of the Jews and sometimes as if they were the heads of a Jewish
Masonic Organisation . The general object of
the conspiracy which the protocols discussed
is the government of the world by a king of
the blood of David . How that end is tobe secured we shall see as we proceed, and wegather that Masonry is used by the organisation as a cloak and a veil . Thus, forexample, in Protocol 4 we find the passage"Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force ? And this is precisely what our force is . Exterior Masonry
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blindly serves as a screen for us and our
objects, but the plan of action of our force,even its very abiding-place, remain for thewhole people an unknown mystery ."But here we come to a very clear distinction . The speaker constantly refers with
infinite contempt to what he calls the goyim
or Gentiles, the Christian and non-Jewish
peoples of the world ; and he mentions an
inner or Jewish Masonry, the true governing
power, and an outer or Gentile Masonry,
which blindly follows the lead of a direction
it does not suspect . Thus, for example, inProtocol 11" For what purpose, then, have we invented this whole policy and insinuated it
into the minds of the goyim (Gentiles)
without giving them any chance to examine
its underlying meaning ? For what, indeed,
if not to obtain in a roundabout way what
is for our scattered tribes unattainable by adirect road ? It is this which has served
as the basis for our organisation of secret
Masonry, which is unknown to, and has
aims which are not even so much as suspectedby, these goyim cattle, attracted by us intothe `show' army of Masonic Lodges in orderto throw dust into the eyes of their fellows ."When at last the final Revolution comes
Masonry is to be brought to an end as
having served its purpose . "Those Gentile
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exile . In the meantime Masonry is to beorganised and directed as a weapon against
Church and State in accordance with theirplan .
This plan is not new. It is followed fromgeneration to generation . Thus, for example,
in Protocol No . 1 . we find
" Before us is a plan in which is laid down
strategically the line from which we cannot
deviate without running the risk of seeing
the labour of many centuries brought tonought ."In pursuance of this plan they brought
about the French Revolution . " Far backin ancient times," says the first protocol," we were the first to cry among themasses of the people the words ` Liberty,
Equality, Fraternity .' "" In all corners of the earth the words`Liberty, Equality, Fraternity' brought toour ranks, thanks to our blind agents, wholelegions who bore our banners with enthusiasm . And all the time these words werecanker-worms at work boring into the wellbeing of the goyim, putting an end everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity, and destroying all the foundations of the goyim
States . As you will see later, this helped
us to our triumph : it gave uss the possibility,
among other things, of getting into ourhands the master card-the destruction of
the privileges, or, in other words, of thevery existence of the aristocracy of theTHE BOLSHEVIST BIBLE
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goyim, that class which was the only defence
peoples and countries had against us . On
the ruins of the natural and genealogicalaristocracy of the goyim, we have set up thearistocracy of our educated class, headed by
the aristocracy of money . The qualifications
for this aristocracy we have established in
wealth, which is dependent upon us, and inknowledge, for which our learned elders
provide the motive force."
And, again, we find in Protocol 3 a definite
claim
Remember the French Revolution, towhich it was we who gave the name of` Great.' The secrets of its preparation are
well known to us, for it was wholly the workof our hands ."But not only does the speaker claim forhis organisation the authorship of the French
Revolution . He states also that the liberaland constitutional movements which haveagitated Europe and have weakened theauthority of government have been set goingin the same way and for the same purpose.
" The word ` Liberty ' brings out thecommunities of men to fight against every
kind of force, against every kind of authority,even against God and the laws of nature .
For this reason we, when we come into our
kingdom, shall have to erase this word fromthe lexicon of life as implying a principle ofbrute force which turned mobs into bloodthirsty beasts ."a

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He boasts that by means of Liberalism andConstitutionalism they had destroyed thepower of Kings, and especially of the aristocracy, to protect the people . "The people,"he says, "under our guidance, have annihilated the aristocracy, who were their one
and only defence and foster-mother, for theadvantage of the aristocracy is inseparablybound up with the well-being of the people ."The result of the destruction of the aristocracy is that the people have fallen into thegrip of merciless money-gett'ng scoundrels
who have laic*i a pitiless yoke upon the neckof the workers .
Having effected so much by Liberalism
they then come forward as "saviours of
the worker," and propose to the workers
that they should " enter the ranks of ourfighting forces-Socialists, Anarchists, Communists, to whom we always give support ."Besides these secret powers, the organisation has another power, the power ofgold. " In our hands is the greatest powerof our day-gold . In two days we canprocure from our storehouses any quantity
we please."
With command of capital the organisation has the power to create financial andindustrial crises, and as a means of bringing
off the last and greatest revolution there is tobe a great financial crisis which will reduce
the workers to the verge of starvation andmake them ripe for the most desperate acts .

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99• We shall raise the rate of wages, which,however, will not bring any advantage tothe workers, for at the same time we shallproduce a rise in prices of the first necessaries
of life."• In order that the true meaning of things
may not strike the Gentiles before theproper time, we shall mask it under analleged ardent desire to serve the working
classes, and the great principles of political
economy about which our economic theorists
are carrying on an energetic propaganda ."We have now given a general account ofthese protocols published by Nilus in 1905 .
Let us now examine them more in detail .
The first protocol begins, as it were, in the
middle of a sentence• . . Putting aside fine phrases, we shallspeak of the significance of each thoughtby comparisons and deductions we shallthrow light upon surrounding facts . . . It
must be noted that men with bad instincts
are more in number than the good, andtherefore the best results in governing them
are attained by violence and terror, and notby academic discussions ."After the assertion that every man aims
at power and most would sacrifice thegeneral good for their own welfare, there
follows the statement• Political freedom is an idea but not afact. This idea one must know how to use
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so as to crush those in authority . Thistask is the easier if the opponent himself
has been infected with the idea of Liberty or
Liberalism, and for the sake of an idea iswilling to yield some of his power . It isprecisely here that the triumph of our theory
appears : the slackened reins of government
are immediately, by the law of life, caught
up and gathered together by a new hand,because the blind might of the nation
cannot for a single day exist without guidance and the new authority merely fits into
the place of the old already weakened by
Liberalism ."The lecturer points out that this doctrine
is no more immoral than the doctrine offoreign war, that " the political has nothingin common with the moral," that frankness
and honesty are vices in politics, for theybring down rulers from their thrones morecertainly than the most powerful enemy,"and that right lies in force.
"In any state in which there is a badorganisation of authority, an impersonalityof laws and of rulers who have lost theirpersonality amid the flood of rights that are
multiplying out of Liberalism I find a newright-to attack by the right of the strong
and to scatter to the winds all existing forcesof order and regulation, to reconstruct all
institutions, and to become the sovereign
lord of those who have left to us the rights of
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in their Liberalism . Our power in the present
tottering of all forms of power will be moreinvincible than any other, because it willremain invisible until the moment when it
has gained such strength that no cunning
can any longer undermine it."
There follows a justification of " the programme of violence and make-believe," andof the use of " bribery, deceit and treachery "to attain good ends . We read of the absurdity of the cry of Equality, since " Nature
herself has established inequality of minds,of characters, and of capacities, just as
immutably as she has established subordination to her laws ."The true strength of the dynastic rule, it
is argued, was " that the father passed on
to the son a knowledge of the course ofpolitical affairs in such wise that none
should know it but members of the dynasty,
and none could betray it to the governed ."This secret " of the political " was lost, andthis loss " aided the success of our cause ."" The abstraction of liberty has enabled
us to persuade the mob in all countries that
their government is nothing but a stewardof the people, who are the owners of thecountry, and that the steward may bereplaced like a worn-out glove ."" It is this possibility of replacing therepresentatives of the people which has placed
them at our disposal, and, as it were, given
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Such is the cynical philosophy propoundedin the first protocol . The second protocol
begins with a reference to the value of
economic wars, which place the Gentiles in
the conspirators' hands . It speaks also of
their international agents with their "millionsof eyes ever on the watch " ; it boasts that
" we shall choose from among the public
administrators with strict regard to theircapacities for servile obedience " ; that these
persons will not be trained in the arts ofgovernment, and that therefore they will
easily become " pawns in our game-in thehands of our men of learning and genius,bred and reared from early childhood torule the affairs of the whole world ."The second protocol ends with the boast
that " the Press has fallen into our hands " ;and again, "through the Press we havegained a power to influence while remaining
ourselves in the shade ."Thus these two opening protocols expressa philosophy of government more cynicalthan Machiavelli's, and they make also the
disturbing claim that Liberalism and Modernism, if not created by the Jews, have beenused by them as the means of misleading
Christian nations and destroying their powerof self-defence .

CHAPTER VII" ELDERS OF ZION-"

A League of Nations in Embryo-Anarchy as a Means toan End-A Universal Jewish Faith-Date of theProtocols-Their Connection with the Russian Revolution.

THE third protocol opens with these very
remarkable words : " To-day I may tell youthat our goal is now only a few steps off .
There remains a small space to cross, andthe long path we have trodden is ready toclose in the circle of the Snake by which wesymbolise our people. When this ring closes
all the States of Europe will be locked in its
coils as in a vice .
" The constitutional scales of these days
will shortly break down, for we have given
them a certain lack of accurate balance inorder that they may oscillate incessantly
until they wear through the pivot on which
they turn. The goyim believe that they
have made them sufficiently strong, andkeep on expecting that the scales will comeinto equilibrium . But the pivot, the kings
on their thrones, are hemmed in by theirrepresentatives, who play the fool, distraught
with their own uncontrolled and irresponsible power . This power they owe to theterror which has breathed into the palaces .
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seeing Sovereign Power and the blind forceof the people, so that both have lost all
meaning, for, like the blind man and the
stick, both are powerless apart ."After boasting of the means by which theelders of Zion " have instilled class hatredinto the people, the protocol continues" This hatred will be still further magnified by the effect of an economic crisis, which
will stop dealings on the exchanges andbring industry to a standstill . We shallcreate by all the secret subterranean methods
open to us, and with the aid of gold, whichis all in our hands, a universal economiccrisis, whereby ; we shall throw upon thestreets whole mobs of workers simultaneously
in all the countries of Europe . These mobs
will rush with delight and shed the blood of
those whom, in the simplicity of theirignorance, they have envied from theircradles, and whose property they will thenbe able to loot.
" Ours they will not touch, because themoment of attack will be known to us, andwe shall take measures to protect our own ."Such, then, is the plan of the "elders ofZion," and in the succeeding protocols theyelaborate the means by which it is to bebrought about. Thus, for example, by attack upon religion" It is indispensable for us to undermine
all faith, tear out of the minds of the goyim
the very principle of Godhead and the Spirit,
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105" ELDERS OF ZION "and to put in its place arithmetical calculations and material needs ."There are several passages which seemto suggest the League of Nations, as, forexample" By all these means we shall so wear
down the goyim that they will be compelled
to offer us international power of such anature as will enable us without any violence
gradually to absorb all the great forces of
the world and to form a super-government .
In place of the rulers of to-day we shall set
up a bogey which will be called the SuperGovernment Administration . Its tentacles
will reach out in all directions and its organisation will be so colossal as to subdue all thenations of the world ."Education, politics, law, the theatre, are
all discussed as means of creating revolutions, and throughout there breathes a spiritof almost indescribable hate for the Christiannations, as, for example, in such a sentence
as this, from Protocol 11 :-" The goyim area flock of sheep and we are their wolves ."But it is only fair to say of this extraordinary document that while half of it isdevoted to the destruction of the present
order, the latter half of the document gives
an outline of a new order, an order of world
government in the hands of the sect .
These " elders of Zion " are by no means
anarchists. On the contrary, they make it
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means to an end, and that they thoroughly
believe in the natural divisions of society
into classes and in the benefits of a strong
Government. The Government is not to bea free Government-they propose, indeed, toerase the very word of liberty from the languages of the world-nor will it permit
equality of races . The Gentile " cattle "are to work for their Jewish masters without
any hope of liberation . But it is to be ajust and orderly Government. Great attention is given to the reform of the law and of
the judiciary . The King is to be very carefully chosen from among the descendants of
the Royal House of David . If he shows
weakness or vice he is to be replaced byanother, and everything is to be done to
make him popular with the people . Of thevalue of prestige the lecturer makes a
special study, and there are detailed instructions as to the use of the Press and theorganisation of the police .
The system of education is calculated towipe out of the minds of the goyim any
recollections of their former state . In religion
atheism is only to be tolerated during thetime of revolution ; when it has done its
work the Jewish religion is to be establishedas the universal faith . By such means the
speaker believes that they will be able toproduce a tranquil world" The errors of the Gentile Governments
will be depicted by us in the most vivid hues .

107" ELDERS OF ZION "We shall implant such an abhorrence ofthem that the peoples will prefer tranquillity
in a state of serfdom to those rights ofvaunted freedom which have tortured humanity and exhausted the very sources ofhuman existence . . . useless changes offorms of government to which we instigated
the goyim when we were undermining their
State structures will have so wearied thepeoples by that time that they will prefer tosuffer anything under us rather than run therisk of enduring again all the agitations andmiseries they have gone through ." (Protocol No. 14.)
The final protocols become ecstatic in
their enthusiasm for the new order . Before
it comes they are to sweep away all thoseforces of anarchy and revolutionary Masonryby which they have prepared its entrance,
so that in its path be left " no knot, no
splinter." And again" Then will it be possible for us to say tothe peoples of the world : Give thanks to
God and bow the knee before him whobears on his front the seal of the predestination of man, to whom God himself has led
His star that none other except him might
free us from all the before-mentioned forcesand evils ."The following internal evidence is available as to the authenticity of the protocols .
We know about Serge N ilus, who gave themto the world, little more than that he was108 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
a Russian of good family and repute . He
may be alive or he may be dead . As to hiscomments on the protocols and his accountof how he came to print them, we have noevidence beyond his own word that he istelling the truth .
There is, however, one undoubted fact
upon which to build, and that is the date
at which these protocols were given to theworld. Fortunately that is set beyond doubt
by the existence of a copy of the 1905
edition in the British Museum .
From what we c=tn gather from Russians
who have sought refuge in this country, thebook made little or no impression when it
appeared . Some of them allege that thewhole edition except a few copies wasbought up by the Russian Jews, but it is,of course, impossible to prove such anallegation . It is certain that the warning
contained in these protocols was disregarded-their significance was not suspected . It
was only when the Revolution fulfilled themin spirit and in letter that their importance
was realised . And now they are in themouth of every Russian . They all believe
them genuine, by evidence which they atleast regard as unassailable . " The proof ofthe pudding lies in the eating."
As to the date on which the protocols
were delivered we have the assertion of
Nilus that they were known to the Zionist
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us to the date 1897 . But there is no evidence
in the document that its authors have any
concern with the Zionist movement ; indeed,
their project of a universal domination might
appear to render Zionism unnecessary.
From one bombastic reference to thepossibility of blowing up the capitals ofEurope by laying mines in the undergroundrailways we see that the document is, at all
events, modern . There is besides one reference to a living European statesman, astatesman prominently concerned with Freemasonry, secular education, and the Leagueof Nations, who is described as " one of ourbest agents ." There is also this curious
reference" In order that our scheme may produce
this result we shall arrange elections infavour of such presidents as have in theirpast some dark undiscovered stain, some'Panama' or other . . . then they will be
trustworthy agents for the accomplishmentof our plans out of fear of revelations ."The first Panama Company, it may beremembered, became bankrupt in 1889, andthe scandal occupied the French public in
the decade which followed .
There is no reference to England in the
protocols, the nearest approach being astatement by Nilus himself that the protocols were shown, among others, to a very
wealthy and influential British Jew, now
dead. But for this statement there is, of110 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
course, no evidence in the protocols themselves.
So much then for the date . The protocols
must have been delivered or written at sometime between 1889 and 1905 .
Now it must be considered evidence-notconclusive, certainly, but very strong thatat that date there was foreknowledge or
prediction of the great revolutionary movement which is now taking place . The
means by which it was to be brought about,wars, the rise in prices, the corruption of
governments, and the use of Jewish agents,
all apply to the revolution in Russia, andto the attempted revolutions in Germanyand Hungary . It is known, for example,
that the two Spartacist leaders in Germany
were Jews, that Bela Kun, Szamuelly, andin fact nearly every one of the Hungarian
revolutionaries, were Jews, and there isuniversal testimony by all Christian refugees
from Russia that the Soviet Commissares,
almost to a man, are Jews . Lenin is one of
the few prominent figures not Jewish, buteven Lenin is said to be married to a Jewess .
In any event it is plain from the protocols
that the leader of anarchy is not the Kingof Zion to whom they refer . He only leads
the way and must himself be swept aside
so that there may be not a splinter in thepath of the King of the House of David .
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the early days mad raging by the blind
mob . . . the second demagogy, from which
is born anarchy, and that leads inevitably
to despotism ."Apparently not only Russia but the wholeworld must pass through these stages before
the King of Zion is proclaimed .
In the meantime it is at least clear, as
Colonel Malone admitted, that Jews arebehind the Revolution in Russia, and thatis what, after all, the protocols claim .
As to the several references to "ourinternational super-government," these may
or may not refer to the League of Nations,but it is already clear that such a government will play into the hands of the international Jews, and will weaken the sovereignty
of nations .
The boastful and bombastic character ofthe protocols remind us rather strikingly of
those passages in Disraeli's Coningsby
which claim for the Jews the control ofEuropean affairs, both on the revolutionary
and conservative side . If these documents
are genuine this boastfulness is a crumb of
comfort to the Christian peoples, since pride
proverbially goeth before a fall .
There is no doubt, however, that the Jews
have a right to claim a very considerable
influence in the movement of thought
called " Modernism," or in politics
g`enerally
Liberalism." We have seen how Lemannasserted that the Jews who worked for this112 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
movement in Germany before the Revolution
were themselves faithful to the national or
tribal principle of Judaism . We must,
therefore, suppose that these Jews embraced
Modernism, not for itself, but as a means of
weakening Christian nations .
In this connection it is noteworthy thatat the universal conference of the Jews heldat Leipzig in 1869, when the Alliance Israelite Universelle was founded, the following
resolution was proposed by Dr. Philippson,of Bonn, seconded by Astrup, Chief Rabbiof Belgium, and adopted with acclamation" The Synod recognises that the development and realisation of modern principles
are the most certain guarantees of thepresent and the future of Judaism and its
members . They are the most energeticallyvital conditions for the expansive existence
and the most high development of Judaism."
It seemed to some democrats then a little
humiliating that their universal movement
should be claimed as serving the cause of aparticular nationalism, but if the apparently
innocent resolution of 1869 has been translated into these terrible protocols of world
revolution, the modern world must feel not
merely humiliation, but horror .
So much then for the internal evidence on
its broad lines, the correspondence, that is
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up the case for their genuineness in theshrewd words of Abraham Lincoln : " When
we see a lot of frame timber different portions of which we know have been gotten
out at different times and places, by different
workmen-Stephen, Franklin, Roger, andJames, for instance-and when we see thesetimbers framed together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill-or if a single piece be lacking, we see thepiece in the frame exactly fitted and prepared, yet to bring such piece in-in such acase we find it impossible not to believe that
Stephen and Franklin and Roger and Jamesall understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common planor draft drawn up before the first blow was
struck ."At the same time, we must in fairness state
our belief that if the document be genuine,
it ought not to be regarded as an indictmentof all Jews, but of that section which, undera veil of Masonry and through the revolutionary parties among the Gentiles, works
for ends no doubt kept secret from the
majority of Jews themselves .

aCHAPTER VIII
WORLD REVOLUTION

Freemasonry in the Protocols-Co-Masonry and its AimsPredisposing Causes of Revolution-The Example ofFrance and Russia-Great Britain's Highly Specialised
Industrial Machine .

WE have now passed these protocols ingeneral review . We have summarised theircontents. We have pointed out that the
document, as far as we know, cannot be" proved " in the legal sense . For themanner in which it was obtained and for
its authorship alike there is only the testimony of one man the Russian Nilus .
And if we consider the internal evidence
fairly it amounts to this : that the document
predicts a world revolution, and a world
revolution carried out by a Jewish organisation, and that the revolution now inprogress-the Bolshevist Revolution-is infact carried on mainly by Jews, and is anattempt at a world revolution .
There we must leave it . If our readersbelieve that such a prophecy could have been
made without foreknowledge by some antiSemitic fanatic, then, of course, they will
not accept the document as genuine . If,
on the other hand, they believe that such ahypothesis is untenable, then there is only
the alternative that the document is genuine .
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If they believe the former they may sleep
comfortably in their beds ; if they believe
the latter then they must regard the document as a very serious warning of a very
terrible menace . They will, however, havethis comfort-to be forewarned is to beforearmed.
But before we leave this subject there is
one side of the question which we must
consider more fully, and that is the passages
in these protocols which refer to Freemasonry. The main passage occurs in Protocol 15" We shall create and multiply Freemasoniclodges in all the countries of the world,
absorb in them all who are or who may
become prominent in public activity, for inthese lodges we shall find our principal
intelligence office and means of influence .
All these lodges we shall bring under one
central administration known to us alone andto all others absolutely unknown, which will
be composed of our Learned Elders. The
lodges will have their representatives, whowill serve to screen this central administration, and from whom will issue the watchword and programme . In these lodges weshall tie the knot which binds together all
revolutionary and liberal elements ."Now, the attentive reader will connect
this passage with certain other passages
curiously similar which we have quoted in
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example, the passage from Louis Blane's
History of the French Revolution"They created occult lodges reserved forardent souls . . . shadowy sanctuaries whose
doors were only open to the adept after along series of proofs calculated to test the
progress of their revolutionary education ."They will remember, also, that remarkable passage from Albert Pike's MasonicRitual" Masonry has not only been profaned,
but it has even served as a veil and pretext
for the plottings of anarchy, by the secretinfluence of the avengers of Jacques de Molai ."They will remember, also, the passage
quoted from the same author's Ritual of theSouthern Jurisdiction of the United States" My brother, you desire to unite yourself
to an Order which has laboured in silenceand secrecy for more than five hundredyears with a single end in view, and hitherto
with only partial success-that what you
are now engaged in . . . will expose you todanger, and that this Order means to deal
with the affairs of nations and be once more
a power in the world ."These words, let it be remembered, arepart of the ritual of an Order of Freemasonry
known to have been chiefly founded byJews, and suspected of being still largely
under Jewish influence .
We might carry our quotations farther .
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believed to be under Hebraic influence .
On April 2nd, 1889, the Grand Orient issued
a circular which contained these words" Masonry, which prepared the Revolutionof 1789, has the duty to continue its work ."Again, these protocols speak of the destruction of religion as a means of undermining society. Let us see what the Grand
Orient says of religion" The triumph of the Galilean," says the
President of the Grand Orient, Senator
Delpech, on September 20th, 1902, " haslasted twenty centuries . But now He dies in
His turn . The mysterious voice announcing(Julian the Apostate) the death of Pan
to-day announces the death of the impostor
God, Who promised an era of justice andpeace to those who believed in Him . Masons,
we rejoice to state that we are not without
our share in this overthrow of the false
prophets ."Of these passages at least there is no
doubt at all, for they are taken from theofficial literature of the Grand Orient . Let
the reader decide for himself whether they
are the mere vapourings of fanatical atheists
or a part of the design of world revolution
outlined in the protocols .
But the protocols asserted that they
intended to multiply Freemasonic lodges asa preliminary to revolution . What is actually
being done ? We know that English Masonry
generally is non-political and loyal to British

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institutions . If therefore these conspirators
are carrying out their plan in this country
it must be by the introduction into Englandof the Oriental or Scottish Orders of Masonry,that is to say, Masonry of the revolutionary
type .
Now in the year 1893 a French lodge
called Les Libres Penseurs constituted itself
into La Grande Loge Symbolique Ecossaisede France, Le Droit Humain . One of thepeculiarities of this Order was that it admitted
women as well as men, and the movement
has come to be known as Co-Masonry . And
with this Co-Masonry was curiously mingled
the cult of Theosophy . Those who havestudied the movement find that the leading
lights of Theosophy are usually members of
the Co-Masonic lodges .
But to proceed. In 1900 this new Grand
Lodge transformed itself into a Supreme
Council of the Ancient Accepted Scottish
Rite.
There are now a hundred lodges working
under the Supreme Council, and they are
to be found in France, Belgium, England,
Scotland, India, Holland, Java, Switzerland,
Norway, South Africa, and South America .
Those lodges of this Order which use theEnglish language have a subsidiary Councilof their own, but are nevertheless an integral
part of the Continental Order . On theCouncil of the 33rd Degree there are there
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so that the British representatives are out-

numbered by two to one .
It is hardly necessary to say that thismovement is not recognised by the Grand
Lodge of England, which has cut off all
relations with the Grand Orient of France
on the ground of its atheism and also of
its subversive political tendencies . But theoriginal French members of the Co-Masonicmovement were too advanced even for the
revolutionary Grand Orient of Paris .
As we have said, the British Co-Masoniclodges have a special Grand Council, and in
England they have restored the Bible andthe name of God to their ritual. But six
members of the Grand Council are carefully selected from above, and the representatives of the lower degrees are in ahopeless minority on the Council, while theCouncil itself is subject to the control of the
83rd Degree sitting in Paris . Tli.us no newlodges can be founded without the sanctionof the Supreme Council of Paris, and thepetition must first be endorsed by theCouncil of England . It will thus be seenthat this Co-Masonic organisation has beenvery carefully thought out, and that its
activities are subject to the control of an
unseen hand in Paris.
Now we do not allege that all the membersof the Co-14asonic movement are conspirators. On the contrary, we believe thatmany of them are either honest enthusiasts

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or " those light-minded people " to whom
the protocols so contemptuously refer. What
we do suggest is that the movement wasprobably inaugurated and may probably bedirected to revolutionary ends .*We do not propose for the moment to
say anything more of this Co-Masonic movement except this, that while some of its
members seem to be respectable and innocent
people, some others who are connected with
it and who help to promote it are known
also to be connected with the revolutionary
and seditious movements which have recently
disturbed and, indeed, endangered the British
Empire . Of that we possess proofs . In themeantime we would confine ourselves towarning the public of both sexes to bewareof such movements . They are put before
them in an alluring form, but those whojoin them may discover too late that theyare " the shadowy sanctuaries of revolution ."It may now be useful to summarise what
has gone before and also to make some
general remarks upon the nature and effects
of revolution . Our summary, then, is, first,
that in all the revolutionary movements wehave examined there are plain traces of* Mrs . St. John, " Grand Secretary for Great Britain
and Its Dependencies" for Universal Co-Masonry, wrote to
the Morning Post on July 24th, 1920, " emphatically repudiating any political bias whatsoever " for the Order . " Asa body," she ended her letter, " we are not interested inpolities, as not being in any one way our field of work, which
is purely speculative and philosophic ." The curious canfind her letter in full in the Morning Post of July 26th .

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design, and there is evidence also that thisdesign is common to all revolutionary movements. In the second place, we have seenthat certain Orders of Freemasonry havebeen active in this design, and that they havealways been inspired by the same ferocious
hatred' of Christian church and National
State . And in the third place we haveobserved that a certain type of " advanced "or political Jews have been active, both in
the Masonic organisations and in the revolutions themselves . They have not, it istrue, led the forlorn hopes ; they are seldom
to be seen either on the barricades or on thescaffold, but they lurk behind, active andenergetic in intrigue, and giving the impression of a purposeful activity .
We have seen how the Abbe Lemann,himself by race a Jew, was careful to distinguish between the advanced, or political,
Jew, who nourished great ambitions forhimself and for his race, but who had
liberated himself from his religion, and themass of Jews who are content to remain
good citizens of the country of their adoption
and satisfy the ideal side of their nature
with the religion of their ancestors .
We may take it, then, that these ardent
political spirits dream a political dream
which is a modern development of the
Messianic prophecies, and that they havealso in their blood a traditional and racial
hatred for the Christian nations which in122 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
ages past have not treated their people
too well . We see this hatred in the realmof Jewish thought, in the revolutionary
system of Alexander Hercen, the intellectual founder of Russian anarchy, in the
explosive economics of Lassalle and KarlMarx, and in the passionate dreams ofHeine. Heine gloats over the prospect ofthe " German thunder that is coming slowly
but will come-when you hear an uproarsuch as there never was in history, know
then that the German thunderbolt has struck
its mark . . . the Germans will then stage
a play in comparison with which the French
Revolution was but an idyll ." And, again,
in his prediction of the :role of Russia-" We
do not mind a little slavery more or less, forthrough Russia we shall be liberated fromthe remains of feudalism and clericalism ."*And, lastly, we have found that all theseelements come together in a revolutionary
propaganda both Semitic and Masonic, which
has been, as a fact, behind revolutionary
movements both in the nineteenth and thetwentieth 'centuries, and probably also in
the eighteenth century.
We arrive at these conclusions altogether
independently of the Nilus book, a book thecredibility of which rests, as we have said,
entirely upon internal evidence.
* These quotations from Heine are taken from an
extremely interesting article by the Count de Soissons on
the Jews as a revolutionary leaven in the Quarterly Review
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If these conclusions are well founded a
revolution is not the result of what wemight call spontaneous social combustion
but the result of design . Yet there is thiscaution to be made : a house does not
spontaneously ignite, but it will burn fiercely
if its materials are dry, combustible, androtten. It will probably not catch fire at
all if it is built of fireproof material and isinhabited by people who take proper precautions against fire. So with a nation, thesocial organisation cannot be fanned into
the flames of revolution, no matter whatsecret societies are at work, unless the conditions are favourable to revolution . The
conditions favourable to revolution havebeen diagnosed by statesmen and by historians. They are not, properly speaking,the business of this book, which was simply to look for the incendiary design,
not to devise a fireproof house . Yet nevertheless we may suggest briefly the causes
which predispose to revolution in all ages
and in all nations . Wars certainly, in particular unsuccessful wars, which leave soldiersunemployed, and produce in men a fitness
for desperate deeds, are one cause . Bad
trade, which throws men upon the streetsand leaves them idle and ripe for mischief,
which makes thousands of men think thatany change is better than present conditions-that is another cause . We shall find
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revolution is preceded by a period of bad
trade and unemployment . Bad harvests
and scarcity of food, producing hunger andenvy in the masses of the people, are anothercause . Party rivalries and factions in theState, producing bands of men at enmity
with the presiding Government, and willingto bring it down for their own purposesthat certainly is another cause . The character of the Government itself, whether it
suppresses too much the common libertiesof the nation, or, on the other side, is too
indulgent with treason and crime, or, again,
is inspired by impracticable ideals whichbring the State to disaster-here we havestill another cause of revolution . And extravagant ideas in the minds of the people,
whether of liberty so great that it injures
others, or of wealth so easy that it resembles
plunder, these, too, may induce to revolution .
Moreover, it has happened in history thatan astute and unscrupulous ruler, as, forexample, Frederick the Great, may promotea revolution in a neighbouring country for
his own purposes, by propaganda and by
what we now call peaceful penetration .
Certainly a country well governed byrespected rulers, whose industries are prosperous, and whose subjects are reasonably
happy, is the sort of national house that
does not readily take fire . It is for ourstatesmen to consider if England is in thiscase at present .

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When all or any such disturbing conditions exist, then the wreckers work, thenthe shadowy sanctuaries of revolution becomebusy, and the people ripe for trouble are
persuaded on every hand that their ills canbe redressed by the destruction of society .
It is a terrible fallacy . A nation, andespecially a modern nation, is a highly
complex system of life . It has grown, it
has developed, and it exists by the intricate
interaction of millions of parts one withanother. Russia was a country which of
all countries in Europe could best stand arevolution, for its industrial organisation
was comparatively low . Ninety per cent .
of the people lived on the land in a manneralmost self-contained . They could live, although the machinery of modern industrialism was brought to a stand . Yet even in
Russia the inhabitants of the great towns
and the middle and upper classes, all essential
to the national life, have been almost altogether destroyed, except those aliens who
were able to come to terms with the " terrible
sect." The population of great cities has inmany cases almost disappeared . Wholeclasses have been either destroyed or havefled the country . But consider the situationof such a country as England in a revolution,
where less than half the people live upon theland, and more than half depend upon great
intricate industries in which they are all
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them all their necessities . Let us consider,too, that in this country most of our fooddoes not come from the farm in the country
cart, but by ship and railway from great
distances and from foreign countries . If
the industrial machinery is brought to astop, if the carrying machinery is paralysedeven for a fortnight, more than half thenation is deprived of the means of existence .
As individuals they are helpless ; they muststarve. If they rush the shops and plunder
the warehouses, if they rob their richer
neighbours and forage through the country
in plundering hordes, they may exist a little
while longer, but the end is no less inevitable .
In any revolution which was really successful
from the point of view of the revolutionaries,that is to say, in any revolution which
paralysed what is called the capitalisticorganisation by which we live, at least halfand probably, three-quarters of the population would die of starvation . Let us not
say that it cannot happen because it has
not happened so far. If a revolution occurs
it must happen.
France was comparatively fortunate in
the Reign of Terror, because her population
at that time was chiefly agricultural, yet
it is certain that a large part of the population died, whether by massacre or by starvation . Prudhomme estimates that the deathroll in France during the Terror, including
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Nancy alone, by the guillotine, shooting, andwholesale drownings and by pestilence,
32,000 people lost their lives . Taine saysthat there were nearly half a million victimsof the Terror in the eleven provinces of thewest alone. We now know that the revolutionaries saw clearly that the population
could not continue to exist, and were determined to reduce it . Courtois, in his reporton the papers seized at Robespierre's house,speaks of a plan to annihilate twelve or
fifteen millions of the French people . Oneof the Illuminati, Gracchus Babeuf, said
that depopulation was indispensable. Prudhomme asserts that the Terror was part of aplan of depopulation conceived by Maratand Robespierre . Carrier, one of the instruments of the Terror, said : " Let us make acemetery of France rather than not regenerate her after our -manner ." Jean Bon
Saint-Andre is reported (by LarevelliereLepeaux) to have asserted that in order toestablish the Republic securely in France,
the population must be reduced by morethan one-half.
And these massacres were indiscriminate .
Modern analyses of the names of the victims
show that they were not chiefly aristocrats,
but were drawn in the main from among poorand obscure people, small shopkeepers . Of
the 1,366 victims of the Great Terror in
Paris, the largest proportion was either fromthe middle or the working classes . Hundreds

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of working men and working women wereguillotined for reasons that cannot now be
ascertained . It is probable that many ofthem were denounced out of panic, and manyothers for reasons of blackmail . People
killed in order ' not to be killed, and thetribunal demanded victims at the rate ofso many a day in order to overawe those
who remained .
Such things take place when the social
order is in dissolution, when criminals andfanatics usurp the place of Government .
And there is another terror added. For
the enemies of a nation in revolution takethe opportunity of attacking it, and invasion
and internal war complete the destruction .
No nation can without a terrible catastrophe
destroy its social and industrial order andits national discipline.

_CHAPTER IX

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The March of Present-Day Events-Personalities in Moscow-Jewry's Overwhelming Strength-The Aims of
Bolshevism .

and opinion are the two agents
which make all men act . Cause the want,govern opinions, and you will overturnall the existing systems, however well consolidated they may appear ." That maximof revolutionary Freemasonry quoted by
the Abbe Barruel in his Memoirs of Jacobinism towards the end of the eighteenth
century epitomises the strange creed whose
evolution has been traced . The inferences
to be drawn from those mysterious pronouncements, beginning with the foundationof the Illuminati in Bavaria in 1776, down
to the publication of the now famous Protocols of Meetings of the "Learned Eldersof Zion " in 1905 by the Russian, Serge Nilus,
are that for a long period of time a conspiracy has been gradually developing forthe overthrowing of the existing Christian
form of civilisation, that the prime agentsof that conspiracy were Jews and revolutionary Freemasons, and that its object,which it is claimed is now near fruition, is
to pave the way for the world supremacy ofa chosen people . We do not profess to be" WANT129

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able to substantiate these inferences ; all
we can do is to draw attention to some of
the great forces which in recent years
have been moulding government and opinion
and to see if they bear any resemblancein themselves and in their effects to the
dreams and schemes fashioned by theseeager and determined fanatics .
Now, the first point which must strike
any student of world movements at thepresent moment is that men are certainly
acting. Indeed, compared with the ceaselessactivities both in thought and action of
the men of to-day, our forefathers weremen who merely slept . Daring revolutionary ideals, daring revolutionary movements, are sweeping the world either towards
a new heaven or towards the abyss-it
depends upon one's point of view . Men,indeed, are acting, and the forces which
are moving them are want and opinion I
Strikes follow one another all over theworld with the rapidity and concerted actionof waves beating upon a shore, and thestrikers proclaim that driven by want they
are out for large increases in wages . In
that connection it is worth quoting again
a sentence from the Protocols : " We shallraise the rate of wages, which, however,will not bring any advantage to the workers,
for at the same time we shall produce arise in prices of the first necessaries of life ."So much for want . And as for opinion,

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great masses of men of different nationality,
race, religion, class, and profession are inthese days swayed and driven and almost
consumed by a new gospel which boldly
bids for the place held throughout theChristian era by the old . This gospel is
Bolshevism . It is derived primarily fromthe beatitudes pronounced by the Jew,
Karl Marx, and its present fountain headis Moscow .
Bolshevism is openly antiChristian and revolutionary. It seeks toabolish property, to found the dictatorshipof the proletariat, to place the world under
an international control . Now nearly all
the Bolsheviks are Jews . That is a factof tremendous significance . Here is a list,
the result of much labour, and the workof several hands, which gives the pseudonyms,
the real names, and the racial origin of
fifty persons who either are the actual
governing powers in Soviet Russia, now orwere responsible for the establishment of
the present regime there
Pseudonym .
1 . Lenin..
2 . Trotsky..
8. Steklov..
4. Martov
6. Zinoviev
6. Goussiev
7 . Kamenev
8 . Souhanov
9 . Sagersky
10 . Bogdanov
11 . Gorev

..
..

Real
Name .
Oulianov. .
Bronstein . .
Nachamkess . .
Tsederbaum . .
Apfelbaum . .
Drapkin. .
Rosenfeld . .
Ghimmer. .
Krachmann . .
Silberstein . .
Goldman..

Race .
Russian
Jew
Jew
..
Jew
Jew
Jew
. .
Jew
GermanJew
Jew
Jew

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12. Ouritzky
18. Volodarsky . .
14. Sverdlov..
15. Kamkov . .
16. Ganetzky
17. Dann
18 . Meshkovsky
19. Parvus
20. Riazanov
21 . Martinov
22 . Tchernomorsky
23 . Piatnitzky . .
24 . Abramovitch,
25 . Solntzev..
26 . Zverzdltch . .
27 . Radek
28 . Litvinov, alias Finkenstein .
29 . Lounatcharsky
80. Kolontai . .
81 . Peters
32. Maklakovsky
83 . Lapinsky
34 . Vobrov
85 . Ortodoks
36 . Garin
37 . Glazounov . .
88 . Lebedieva . .
89 . Joffe . .
40 . Kamensky . .
41 . Naout
42. Zagorsky
43. Izgoev
44. Vladimirov . .
45 . Bounskov . .
..
46 . Manouilsky . .
47 . Larin..
48 . Krassin..
..
49 . Tchicherin . .
50. Goukovsky . .

Radomislsky
Kohen..
Sverdlov..
Katz
Furstenberg . .
Gourevitch . .
Goldberg
Helphandt . .
Goldenbach . .
Zimbar
Tch.ernomordik
Levin . .
..
Rein
Bleichman
Fonstein
Sobelson..

Wallack
Lounatcharsky
Kolontai..
Peters..
Rosenbloom . .
Levenson . .
Natansson
Akselrode
Gerfeldt
Schulze
SimsonJoffe . .
..
Hoffman..
Ginzburg
Krachmalink
Goldman..
FeldmanFoundamentzky
Manouilsky . .
Lourie..
Krassin. .
Tchicherin . .
Goukovsky . .

JewRussianRussian
Lett
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jewess
Jew
Jew
..
Jew
..
Jew
Jew
Jew
..
Jew
..
Jew
Jew
RussianRussianRussian

..
..
..
..

Jew
Jew
(2) Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew
Jew

According to certain authorities Lenin's
mother (as likewise the mother of Kerenski )THE HUB OF THE CONSPIRACY 183
was a Jewess. Mr. Krassin's wife is alsoa Jewess.
Some of these names are so familiar
now to English readers that it is unnecessary
to give their biographies, but the following
brief notes concerning the less known, but
still prominent, Bolsheviks may be useful" MARTOV (4) was the leader of theMenshevik faction at the famous London
Conference of 1893 when the words 'Bolshevik' and `Menshevik ' first came into
use. Lenin, representing the Bolsheviks,
was his opponent at that time. He is the
only prominent Menshevik who has taken
an active part in the Bolshevist regime. He
has done so despite the fact that he has
never ceased to predict ultimate disasterfor the present Government .
" KAMENEV (7) is Trotsky's brother-in-law
and the chief oratorical support of the
Bolshevist cause .
He is anything but
democratic in manner and in some respects
is cultivated. He is or was President of the
Moscow Soviet.
" VOLODARSKY (13) is now dead . He wasa Jewish tailor from London, who joined
the movement soon after it took form andbecame one of the most hated of the original
Commissars . A mob of workmen killed him,
but he did much towards launching Bolshevism.
" GANETZKY (16) for a long time acted
as liaison officer between the German General134 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
Staff and the Bolshevist leaders, making
innumerable secret trips between Berlin andMoscow. It was through his efforts that
German military aid was brought to the
Red Army. Also he arranged the recent
payment to Esthonia of 15,000,000 gold
roubles, bringing the money to Reval froma bank in Stockholm.
" LOUNATCHARSKY (29) is one of the few
idealists in the movement and the man
through whose influence the Red Terror
was moderated .
" KOLONTAI (30) is the 'heroine' of the
Bolshevist movement and her marriage to
Dybenko, leader of the sailors in the uprising,which put the Bolsheviks in power, hasbeen termed the `romance of the Revolution .' It took place shortly after the establishment of the present Government, and . she
and Dybenko went off on a kind of honeymoon to preach, not Communism, nor Bolshevism, but Anarchy in the Ukraine . Thisbrought her into the bad graces of theSoviet, but later she modified her views,
and is now . the Soviet Commissar for Public
Welfare. She is said to be a most violent
personality . Her family was noble .
" AKSELRODE (35) is the man who, after
the Revolution, closed down all the newspapers and seized their presses . Since thattime only Bolshevist newspapers have been
published in Russia . He is now Commissarof the Press.
iTHE HUB OF THE CONSPIRACY 135" GouKovsKY (50) was the head of the
Bolshevist mission to Esthonia, which was
almost exclusively Jewish ."Everybody, friendly or unfriendly, who
has come in contact with the Bolsheviks
agrees that they are almost entirely Jews .
One of the first to meet them in an official
capacity was Count Czernin, the Foreign
Minister of the Dual Monarchy . " Theirleaders," says the Count in a letter written
in November, 1917, " are almost all ofthem Jews with altogether fantastic ideas,
and I do not envy the country that isgoverned by them ." Of the Bolsheviks
who took part, in the Brest Litovsk negotiations Trotsky was the one who mostimpressed the Count . " Trotsky," he says," is undoubtedly an interesting, clever fellow
and a very dangerous adversary . He is
quite exceptionally gifted as a speaker, witha swiftness and adroitness in retort which
I have rarely seen, and has, moreover, all
the insolent boldness of his race ." Thiswas in the humiliating days of Brest Litovsk .
What must now be the arrogance of Trotsky,
the conqueror of Koltchak, Judenitch,
Denikin, and the Poles, the organiser ofvictory, and the prime instrument in bringing
England and her allies nearer and nearer
to the peace table I
Here is another piece of evidence one
takes at random out of many . In theinquiry into Bolshevist propaganda by the186 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
Committee of the Judiciary of the UnitedStates evidence was given by Mr . R. B .
Dennis, a teacher in North-Western University, who had worked in Russia from
November, 1917, to September, 1918, firstfor the American Y.M.C.A., and since Aprilin the Consular Service. He had been allover Russia, in Rostov, Kharkoff, Moscow,
Nijni Novgorod, and Petrograd . He says
" A thing that interested me very much
was to discover a number of men in positionsof power, Commissaries in the cities here
and there in Russia, who had lived in
America. in the industrial centres . I
met a number of them, and I sat aroundand listened to attacks upon America that
I would not take from any man in thiscountry .
" Senator Wolcott-In the main, of what
nationality were they ?
" Mr. Dennis-Russian Hebrews ."But perhaps the most impressive pieceof evidence concerning the supremacy of
the Jew in the Russian Revolution is thatfurnished in a report drawn up by Mr .
Gerard Shelley, an Englishman who waspresent in Russia in 1918. The Russian
Anarchists, he points out, are entirely
distinct from the Bolsheviks, and intheir individualism, which runs to extraordinary extremes, have much more incommon with the Slav temperament thanthe highly concentrated system of govern-

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ment associated with Trotsky and his brethren. These Anarchists took a number ofbuildings, both in Moscow and Petrograd,
which they used for teaching and otherpurposes. Their principal lecturer was thewell-known Anarchist, Lev Cherny,-and Mr .
Shelley attended a series of lectures deliveredby him in the Officers' Economic Society
in Moscow in April, 1918. These lecturescaused tremendous excitement, particularly
the last of them, in which the lecturer
dealt with the Bolsheviks . He pointed outthat Marxism, on which Bolshevism isfounded, really did not express the politicalside of the Russian character, and that the
Bolsheviks were not sincere Socialists or
Communists, but Jews, working for theulterior motives of Judaism . Lev Cherny
divided these Jews into three main classes-firstly, financial Jews, who dabbled in
muddy international waters ; secondly, Zionists, whose aims are, of course, well known ;and, thirdly, the Bolsheviks, including the
Jewish Bund . The creed of these Bolsheviks,
according to the lecturer, is briefly, thatthe proletariat of all countries are nothing
but gelatinous masses, which, if the Intelligentsia were destroyed in each country,
would leave these masses at the - mercy of
the Jews.
Now comes the extraordinary sequel. On
the very night on which this last lecture
was delivered the Bolsheviks attacked with

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cannon, cavalry, and machine-guns all the
Anarchist headquarters both in Moscow
and Petrograd, and murdered all the men
they could find, Lev Cherny, however,escaping .
As regards the programme of these Bolshevist Jews, a very interesting document
was published by the Gazette de Hollandeat the end of March, 1919. It contained
detailed instructions to Bolshevist agentsabroad drawn up at a Council held at the
Kremlin in November, 1918, at which Leninpresided, and Trotsky, Radek, and Tchicherin
were present. A copy of this document fell
into the hands of the Ukrainian General
Staff, and the translation we take from
M. Miliukov's illuminating book on Bolshevism . In parallel columns we give theBolshevist proposals for direct action, drawn
up in 1918, and the rules of conduct laid
down by the "Elders of Zion " in 1897
REVOLUTIONARY WORE
OF THE BOLSHEVIST(COMMUNIST) PARTY.

PROTOCOLS OF THE°~ LEARNED ELDERS OFZION ."

The work of the Bolshevist organisations in foreigncountries is defined asfollows .

Our international millioneyed agents, who arepossessed of absolutely unlimited means (Protocol 2) .
We must not stop short
before bribery, deceit, andtreachery (Protocol 1) .

1 . In the domain of inter-

The intensification ofarmaments, the increase ofpolice forces are all essential .
. . . Throughout all Europe,and by means of relations

national polities(a) To support Chauvinist

movements and national
conflicts .

THE HUB OF THE CONSPIRACY 139(b) To provoke agitationin order to bring about
national conflicts .
(c) To make attempts on
the representatives of foreign
Powers.
By these means internal
disturbances and coups d'etat
will be brought about, andthere will be increased Social
Democratic agitation.

with Europe in other continents also, we must create
ferments, discords, and hostility. . . . We must be in, aposition to respond to evry
act of opposition by war
with the neighbours of thatcountry which dares to oppose us ; but if these neighbours also should venture to
stand collectively against us,
then we must offer resistanceby a universal war (Protocol
7). We have broken theprestige of the goyim kings
by frequent attempts upon
their lives through ouragents (Protocol 18) .
In order that our scheme
2. In the domain of intermay produce this result, we
nal politics(a) To compromise by all shall arrange elections inpossible means the influen- favour of such presidents astial men in the country, to have in their past some dark
make attempts on the men undiscovered stain, some.
in power, and to provoke "Panama" or otheragitation against the Gov- then they will be trustworthy
agents for the accomplishernment.
(b) To provoke general ment of our plans out of fearand partial strikes, to dam- of revelations (Protocol 10) .
We appear on the scene
age machinery and boilers,
and to spread propagandist as alleged saviours of theworker from this oppression
literature .
By these means coups when we propose to him tod'etat will be facilitated, and enter the ranks of our fightit will be possible to seize ing forces-Socialists, Anar .
chists, Communists . .
the supreme power.
By want and the envy andhatred which it engenders
we shall move the mobs, andwith their hands we shallwipe out all those whohinder us . When the hourstrikes for our sovereign lord140 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST

of all the world to becrowned, it is these samehands which will sweep
away everything that might
be a hindrance thereto (Protocol 3) .

3. In the economic doWe shall soon begin to
main :
establish huge monopolies,(a) To provoke and sup- reservoirs of colossal riches,
port railway strikes, to blow upon which even large forup bridges and railway lines, tunes of the goyim willand do everything to dis- depend to such an extent
organise transport .
that they will go to the(b) To impede and pre- bottom together with thevent the provisioning of the credit of the States on thetowns with corn, to create day after the political smash
financial difficulties and in- (Protocol 6). We shall reundate the market with place the money markets byforged banknotes . Special grandiose government credit
committees should be institutions . . . . These instiformed .
tutions will be in a position
In this way an economic to fling upon the market five
upheaval will bring about hundred millions of industhe inevitable collapse, and trial paper in one day
the coup d'etat will receive (Protocol 22).
the sympathy of the masses .
We shall create by all thesecret subterranean methods
open to us, and with the aidof gold, which is all in ourhands, a universal economiccrisis whereby we shall throw
upon the streets whole mobsof workers simultaneously
in all the countries of Europe(Protocol 8) .
The complete annihilationof the army will be effected,
and the soldiers will adopt
the Social Democratic Labour programme .

The supreme lord who will
replace all now existing rules
dragging on their existence
among societies demoralisedby us. . . . will be obliged tokill off these existing socie-

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141

ties, though he should
drench them with his own
blood, that he may resurrect
them again in the form. of
regularly organised troops
fighting consciously withevery kind of infection that
may cover the body of theState with sores.

So much for Russia and the part which
Jews have played in the development ofBolshevist doctrine and organisation .

CHAPTER X
A MENACE TO ALL NATIONSRevolutionary Movements in Europe-A Masonic-Jewish
Conspiracy in Turkey-The Committee of Union and
Progress-Mustafa Kemal's Aims-The Revolution of1910 in Portugal .

THE Russian Revolution overshadows, ofcourse, all others of modern times, andevidence has already been submitted inthese pages to show that the Bolsheviks who
engineered it are in an overwhelming majority
Jews, and that their plan of campaign is to aconsiderable extent based upon the directions
laid down in the Protocols of the " Learned
Elders of Zion ." It now remains to discuss
some other revolutionary movements in our
day and to see what features and agents
they had in common, and how far they canbe traced to the same organisation or organisations which brought Lenin and Trotsky
to the Kremlin and made Moscow the revolutionary storm centre of the world . Prior
to and following the war there have been
revolutions or serious revolutionary outbreaks in Turkey, Portugal, Prussia, Bavaria,
and Hungary, and there have been serious
conspiracies in many other countries, notably
in Holland, Switzerland, and only this year
in France and Denmark . In all of themforeign influences played a notable part, and142

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the question arises whether if these foreign
influences had been absent the revolutions
would have been successful or necessary .
Because a revolution occurs it does notfollow that it was either desirable or inevitable. The metaphor of a bacillus attacking a " run-down " body seems to fit . A
State becomes weak, corrupt, insecure, andimmediately the revolutionary bacilli flockto the enfeebled organism and begin theprocess of disintegration . In some of theseStates, notably in Bavaria and Hungary, therevolutions had a short life, and the bacilli
were soon expelled. But in others, Turkey
and Portugal, they came to stay . As to
Portugal, it may be a moot point to somewhether their invasion has been to thebenefit of the State . But in Turkey there
can be no doubt . The revolutionaries who
seized Constantinople and deposed Abdul
Hamid sold their country in bondage to theGerman . Enver and Talaat and the others
were the willing instruments of Biebersteinand Wangenheim . The Turkish Revolution
was the knell of the Turkish Empire. The
example of Turkey, in a word, seems toremind us that a revolution may not be a
drastic though healthful process but ascourge .
The Turkish Revolution, it can be statedemphatically, was almost entirely the workof a Masonic-Jewish conspiracy . The Young
Turks, who consisted chiefly of Jews, Greeks,

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and Armenians, did not meet in the beginningwith much success in their schemes, and it
was not until they came in contact with
Continental Freemasonry that things began
to move . The following quotation from thewell-known French Masonic review Acacia(October, 1908, No . 70) explains succinctly
what was going on" A secret Young Turk Committee wasfounded, and the whole movement was
directed from Salonika, as the town which
has the greatest percentage of Jewish population in Europe-70,000 Jews out of a
total population of 110,000-was speciallyqualified for this purpose . Besides, there
were many Freemason lodges in Salonika
in which the revolutionaries could work
undisturbed .
These lodges were under
the protection of European diplomacy, theSultan was defenceless against them, and hecould not any more prevent his own downfall."Indeed, one can go so far as to say that
the Committee of Union and Progress waspractically born in the Masonic lodge called" Macedonia Risorta " established by theSalonika Jew, Emmanuele Carasso . The same
review to which we have referred above
mentioned in 1907 that though Freemasonry
was forbidden in Turkey there were twolodges in Salonika under the Grand Orientof Italy, the one we have mentioned above,and the other the Lodge " Labor et Lux."

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It is interesting to note that Carasso afterwards formed part of the Commission that
deposed Abdul Hamid .
Further information concerning the partthat these Masonic lodges played in the
Revolution is given in an interview which
the Paris Temps of August 20th, 1908, published with Refik Bey, one of the leading
members of the Committee of Union and
Progress. The correspondent of the Temps
asked him about the part played by Freemasonry in the Revolution, and he replied" It is true that we found moral support
in Freemasonry, especially in Italian Freemasonry. The two Italian lodges, 'Macedonia Risorta ' and `Labor et Lux,' rendered us real service and offered us a refuge .
We met there as Masons, for many of us
are Freemasons, but in reality we met toorganise ourselves . Besides, we chose agreat part of our comrades from these lodges,
which served our Committee as a siftingmachine by reason of the -care with which
they made their inquiries about individuals .
At Constantinople the secret work that wenton at Salonika was vaguely suspected, andpolice agents .tried in vain to obtain an
entrance . Besides, these lodges applied to
the Grand Orient of Italy, which promisedin case of need to procure the intervention of
the Italian Embassy ."The Committee of Union and Progress
retained its Masonic and largely Jewish
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character after the Revolution . As a striking
instance of its influence we may mention
that Ahmed Riza Bey, the President of the
Chamber, refused to use the word " Allah "in taking the oath prescribed by the Constitution, on the ground that, like Senhor
Machado in Portugal, he was a Positivist.
Here, then, is a curious link between
revolutionary Portugal and revolutionary
Turkey.
Then came the counter-revolution of 1909,
and it is interesting to note that the mutinous
outbreak of April 13th of that year, which
was attributed by the Committee to Abdul
Hamid, was really led by troops of theSalonika Committee commanded by a Salonika Jew and Freemason, Colonel Renzi Bey .
At any rate, immediately after the crushingof the counter-revolution the Jewish elements of the Committee of Union and
Progress acquired more and more importance .
Djavid Bey, the Finance Minister ; Talaat
Bey, the President of the Committee Party,
who was perhaps more responsible thananyone else for handing over Turkey toGermany and thus encompassing her ruin ;Djahid Bey, Editor of the Tanin, were all
Masons, and the first named was a Jew .
Political Masonic lodges sprang up likemushrooms all over Constantinople, and on
April 1st of that year (1909) representativesof 45 Turkish lodges met in Constantinople
and founded the " Grand Orient Ottoman ."A MENACE TO ALL NATIONS
147
Mahomed Orphi Pasha was elected Grand
Master, and the following " Turks " were
elected among the highest officials : David
Cohen, Raphaelo Ricci, Nicholas Forte,
Marchione, Jacob Souhami, George Sursock .
The Jew Djavid Bey, who, later became
Turkish Minister of Finance, was elected
Master of one of the Constantinople lodges .
Terrorism and intimidation of every kindfollowed, and here Constantinople links itself
up with Moscow and Budapest . The Ministry of Police was abolished and replaced bya " Public Security Department " on French
Republican lines, and put under the directionof Ghalid Bey, a Freemason . It may be
noted that the imitation of the French
Revolution in many ways by the Young
Turk is another interesting link in therevolutionary chain . For example, a Committee Senator proposed to abolish the word
• subject" and replace it by the French• citoyen," while the first " Young Turkey "issue of coins had the motto " Liberte,
Egalite, Fraternite " inscribed on them .
And here we may again quote from thefirst Protocol" Far back in ancient times we were thefirst to cry among the masses of the people
the words `Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.'• . In all corners of the earth the words• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity' brought toour ranks, thanks to our blind agents,
whole legions who bore our banners with

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enthusiasm . And all the time these words
were canker-worms at work boring into thewell-being of the goyim, putting an end
everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity, anddestroying all the foundations of the goyim
States . As you will see later, this helped us
to our triumph ; it gave us the possibility,
among other things, of getting into our hands
the master card the destruction of theprivileges, or, in other words, of the very
existence of the aristocracy of the goyim,
that class which was the only defence
peoples and countries bad against us . On
the ruins of the natural and genealogicalaristocracy of the goyim we have set up thearistocracy of our educated class, headed by
the aristocracy of money . The qualifications for this aristocracy we have establishedin wealth, which is dependent upon us, andin knowledge, for which our learned elders
provide the motive force ."Furthermore, the Press was put under
the control of the " Directeur de la Presse
Interieure," called Nejib Fazili Bui, while theforeign Press was handed over to anotherJew. Djavid Bey, the Minister of Finance,
had a Jewish Mason, Messim Russo, as chefde Cabinet, and the Committee Party in the
Chamber contained ninety Freemasons who
voted as directed by Talaat . Within the
Cabinet there gradually was formed an
inside Masonic Cabinet composed of Talaat,
Djavid, the Sheik-ul-Islam, Moussa, Kiasim,

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and Mahmud Mukhtar Bey, Minister ofMarine . The Protocols speak of an inner ora Jewish Masonry, the true governing power,
and an outer or Gentile Masonry, whichblindly follows the lead of a direction it does
not suspect . The Grand Vizier, Hilmi Pasha,
who showed some signs of rebellion, disappeared and was replaced by Hakki Pasha
with a Jewish private secretary, whose
brother-in-law, Jacques Menashe, was the
go-between of Djavid Bey, the Minister ofFinance, in negotiations for the loan with
the Bernhard Dreyfus group in Paris, and inother matters of finance and concession . Ina word, the Turkish State was held in a
Judaeo-Masonic group which extended its
power to the provinces by the creation of a
network of lodges and clubs .
One or two other points in connection
with the Turkish Revolution are worth noting.
Immediately after the deposition of Abdul
Hamid two papers were started in . Constantinople, the German-Jewish organ, the Osmanischer Lloyd, edited by a German Jew,
Dr. Moritz Grunwald, and the Jeune Turc,
whose proprietor was Sami Hochberg, anAshkenazin Freemasonic Jew . Both papers
were upholders of Turkish Masonry andZionism, and the Jeune Turc certainly aimed
at the creation of a Judaeo-Turkish State
which would subjugate the other populations in the Turkish Empire .
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Semo, who was at one time on Sir W.
Wilicocks's Irrigation staff, gave conferencesin Constantinople, Salonika, and other places,and strove to poison the Turkish mind
against everything British-in Mesopotamia .
The " Agence Ottomane," the " Turkish "official agency which was managed by a
Baghdad Jew named Salih Guirgi, was at
the same game .
It is unnecessary to emphasise again how
this combination joined itself up with theGermans, but one quotation may be given
from the Salonika correspondent of theMorning Post in a message from him which
was published on May 19th, 1911 . He said
" The Army officers and the Turks havelong been displeased at the prominenceacquired by individuals who are not regarded
as true Turks, and whose connections with
the Jews of Europe have been considered as
facilitating Zionism . The Turks believe Zionism to aim at the establishment of a Jewish
State in Asia Minor, and suspect that the
Jewish colonies which the Zionists are planting in Syria are destined to be centres offoreign and especially German influence, for
the Turks have long noticed the curious factthat the Jews, particularly the Ashkenazim
or Russo-Polish-German Jews, are all partisans of the German Empire ."These, indeed, were prophetic words, andreaders of the German Press will find any
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a German point of view the creation of sucha Zionist State .
There just remains one more development to add . " Constantinople," says oneof the protocols, "is the eighth and laststage towards Jerusalem ." Now one of
the latest issues of the Moscow Pravda
received in London contains the report of ameeting held recently in the Great Hall of
the Moscow Polytechnic Museum, during
which Bukharin, speaking on behalf of theSoviet of People's Commissars, declaredthat the Bolsheviks are aiming at the reconstruction of a great and powerful Socialist
Russia, which cannot exist if she does not holdthe Straits of Constantinople . A member of
the audience interrupted the speaker bycrying : " That is Miliukov's policy." Bukharin called the interrupter a blackguard
who did not wish to realise the interests ofproletarian Russia . " If Miliukov would
consent to work with us we would gladly
give him a place of honour in our ranks,"
declared Bukharin .
Accordin g to the Daily Express, Mustafa
Kemal Pasha issued from Angora on July
8th, 1920, a long proclamation addressedto the " Brothers of Islam and Communist
Comrades ." He said
" Communist Comrades, an abominablecrime is about to be p erpetrated . The
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the capitalists of Europe . Our peasants aredying, weapon in hand. They can be surethat the days are near at hand when
Islam, the ally of Communism, will avenge
them."
Later, Mustafa Kemal issued this further
proclamation (Morning Post, July 20th)"We have armies ready to march from
Persia to Anatolia . After the Bolshevist
victory in Poland the Bolsheviks will enter
Roumania . The Roumanians will answer
the call to arms by a general strike . The
Bulgars, too, are ready to unite with theBolsheviks. The aim of our armies is toguard our independence and deliver thecapital from the British ."In 1910 came the turn of Portugal . Here,again, there is overwhelming evidence thatthe force at the back of the Revolution wasContinental Freemasonry . Dr. Friedrich
Wichtl, in his book Weltfreimauerei, Welt
Revolution, Welt-republik, says
" Some readers may ask us who were thenthose circles which contributed the most to
the downfall of the Portuguese Royal family ?
They are the leading families of the Castros,
the Costas, Cohens, Peireras, Ferreiras,
Teixeras, Fousesas, etc . They have manywidespread branches besides Portugal, alsoin Spain, Holland, England, etc ., and in
America, where they occupy prominent
positions . They are all related to each other,
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Freemasonry and . . . the Alliance Israelite
Universelle ."This close connection between Portuguese
Republicanism and Continental Freemasonry
was indeed apparent from the outbreak of
the Revolution . Senhor Magalhaes Lima, a
Masonic Grand Master, was one of the chiefsof the Portuguese Republican Party and itsdelegate in France . He was in Paris during
the outbreak on October 3rd, 1910, and ina pamphlet which he published at that time,entitled Republican Portugal, he said
" This Revolution will bear fruits, for the
proclamation of the Republic in Portugal
will not be an isolated case . It will have aworld-wide effect, and first of all in Spain ."Another prominent revolutionary was Senhor Luciano de Castro, a reputed Monarchist,
who, however, did much to bring discredit
to the Monarchy . We have already referred
to Senhor Bernardino Machado, the Presidentof the Republic and a prominent Freemason . .
The violent anti-Christian character ofthe Republic, particularly in its early days,
is too well known to need recapitulation .
What, perhaps, is not so familiar is the close
connection of the Germans with the whole
movement and the use which was made of
it in the German Press immediately on its
outbreak for the purpose of discrediting
England, the untrustworthy ally of Portugal,
which was unable to save its King . Germany
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colonies, just as she began to seize theTurkish administration immediately after
the triumph of the Young Turks . Readersof the Lichnowsky Apologia will recall how
the former German Ambassador in London,
in a deal which does not reflect much credit
on British diplomacy and on loyalty to anally, was able, early in 1914, to effect with
Great Britain a division of the Portuguesecolonies conditional on Portugal's acceptance .
It was a daring move, too, for a member ofthe Entente Cordiale to propose, for the
proposed division would have seriously
jeopardised in favour of Germany the French
African possessions, and it is now almost amatter of history that strong representations
were made by Paris to Sir Edward Grey (ashe then was) on the subject . Fortunately,
the proposed deal never came off, because
the Wilhelmstrasse, or, rather, the German
General Staff, fearing that such a diplomatic
agreement might postpone indefinitely theGreat Day, vetoed the negotiations . But
though Germany refused to accept the agreement, she still kept an eye on the colonies,
and through her friends at Lisbon had
begun a campaign for their seizure by thefavourite device of sending missions, whichwere actually in Africa when the war brokeout.
Thus in both these revolutions we see an
alien movement seizing authority and overthrowing the established forms of Govern-

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ment and religion and the predatory German
coming in to seize the spoils .
In the revolutions in Prussia, Bavaria,
and Hungary, the influence of the alienauthority, which in this case is openly thatof the Bolsheviks, will be traced .

CHAPTER XILENIN'S ACTIVITIESPrussia, Bavaria and HungaryLiebknecht and Rosa
Luxembourg-Diverse Methods-An Appeal to Nationalism in HungaryThe Art of Waiting.

WITH the advent of the Bolsheviks topower in Russia a new situation was createdin the international conspiracy . In the
Turkish and Portuguese outbreaks, whichhave already been discussed, the Continental
Freemasons, working through their secretorganisations, were the chosen instruments ;with Lenin installed in Moscow, and using
Russia as a platform, Bolshevist emissaries
pure and simple were the means for disseminating unrest and provoking discord .
We will now deal with their activities inPrussia, Bavaria, and Hungary . It is notorious, of course, that the Germans used
Bolshevism as a means towards their own
victory (witness Brest-Litovsk), though at
the same time they were exceedingly uneasy
at the consequences which its progress might
have in their own country . But the whole
attitude of Germany towards Bolshevism isvery enigmatic, and in keeping with theirmentality. Just as they were prepared touse the submarine warfare as a means ofdefeating the Entente (without considering
seriously the consequences which might
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follow from America's entry into the war),so they are willing to toy with Bolshevism
for the purpose of rendering nugatory theTreaty of Versailles (without weighing therevolution which Soviet government mightbring about in the Fatherland) . At any
rate the possibility of a Bolshevise Germany
must always be considered by the Allies .
When all allowance is made for German
duplicity, the present situation is sufficiently
serious, for already the Jews of Moscow,
working through their emissaries in Germany, have succeeded to some extent insetting Prussia against Bavaria and town
against country .
Hungary is interesting because more thanany other country it throws a vivid light on
the international character of Bolshevism .
All the Bolshevist forces (including those in
England) are being called on to break down
the Magyar rampart, which stands resolute,with something of the spirit of the intolerant
but impressive Count Tisza, against thefloods that are pouring forth from the East .
Revolution when it came in Germany
was not a new and isolated event . War
circumstances brought about revolution
first in Russia, and Lenin's achievement
was to recognise the psychological moment
at which to strike for it there . He succeeded . But this success in Russia was, in
his eyes, only a first step to a wider successthroughout the world. With this end in158 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST

view, and revolution in Germany especially,
he was ready to countenance any inconsistency in Russia, and to impose on her any
fresh sacrifices . He was willing, for example,
to postpone peace and continue war, anddid do so, when thereby he could promote
his larger policy. Only by remembering
this can we understand the Bolshevist manoeuvres at Brest-Litovsk, or their later
designs on East Prussia .
Only by remembering this, too, can werealise the full significance of the revolutionary attempts in Germany . The factthat in Russia circumstances permitted the
Revolution to approximate at once to thewholesale scheme of Lenin-a scheme almost
identical, as we have shown, with that of
the Protocols-and the fact that in Germany
revolution sought to move by partial stagesin accord with the struggle between Socialist
and Spartacist, these facts must not hide
the conclusion that, in both, revolution was
related with one and the same conspiracy .
In both, as everywhere else, Lenin is an
opportunist on behalf of his projected international upheaval .
Already in May of 1918 the Soviet had
an accredited agent in Berlin . This was
the Bolshevist Jew, Joffe, who was Red
Ambassador there until the beginning ofNovember, when he was returned acrossthe frontier. The reason for his expulsion
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the Spartacists, as well as with the extremists among the Independent Socialists
whose help the Majority Socialists now felt
able to do without .
These Independents have not disavowed
their traffic with Joffe, and through himwith Moscow, in preparing for the Revolution in Germany. Barth, who seems tohave been the chief medium for it, denied
only that Moscow financed it . Barth has
admitted every kind of support and assistance from the Bolsheviks in furthering the
Revolution except money . This denial of
financial help is not corroborated by Joffe .
The expelled Ambassador, on the contrary,boasted of having given Barth " hundredsof thousands of marks ." In any case, thatlarge sums were passed from him to the
Spartacists is as much beyond doubt as that
Joffe had deep resources of money for thisparticular revolution-fostering campaign .
In Lenin's own words it was " a chain of
revolutions " that was being forged, and inthat chain " the chief link was the Germanone." His artisan Joffe, at work in Berlinon the German link during the summer of1918, is believed to have had four million
marks placed at his disposal by the Soviet
for the job .
Joffe had scarcely disappeared from Berlinwhen Radek (Sobelson) arrived there . Jew
succeeded Jew . Joffe had been sent as
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Kaiser, and his secret traffic with the Spartacists revealed itself gradually . Radek,
on the other hand, entered Germany bystealth, and was Lenin's representative sent
explicitly to negotiate with the Spartacists,
and with the Jewish Liebknecht in particular. For Liebknecht had by now beenliberated from prison, and as between him
and the revolutionary Government, of which
Noske was proving the strong man, the gameof " pull Devil, pull baker," had begun .
Radek immediately took a hand on Liebknecht's end of the rope . On the last daysof 1918 these two were openly advocating a" Revolutionary Communistic Labour Partyof the German Spartacus-band." On an
early day of 1919, according to good authority, a document signed by both clinched theconnection between the Moscow and the
Berlin " comrades," Liebknecht putting his
name to it as prospective President of theGerman Soviet Republic, and Radek asaccredited Plenipotentiary of the Russian
Soviet Republic .
The terms of this alleged pact, which isbelieved to have been concluded in theattic of the Jewess, Rosa Luxembourg, inBerlin, are given by M . Paul Miliukov.
Lenin on his part undertook to" 1 . Recognise Liebknecht as President of
the German Soviet Republic ;"2. Furnish important funds for Spartacist
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3 . Place specially trained agents at thedisposal of the Spartacists ; and" 4 . Order Soviet armies to take the offensive and cross the German frontier in support
of a simultaneous Spartacist rising in Berlin ;"while Liebknecht undertook to" 1. Establish a Soviet Government inGermany immediately upon his advent topower ;
"2. Observe faithfully and put into practice
all the teachings of Lenin's doctrines ;an d"3 . Raise a Red Army of 500,000 men to beplaced under the supreme command of theCommissary for War at Moscow ."Eichhorn-who, it is worth remembering,
had been in Joffe's service earlier-was inthis league, and a few days later the risingunder his direction was scotched by Noske's
troops, and Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg were murdered . The hand of Moscow
in this attempt was proclaimed abroad by
the Majority Socialist Government itself,
which threatened reprisals against such
Russians as should have been found to haveshared in it . Radek was arrested ; but
Radek by this time had contrived to establish some thirty Bolshevist organisations
throughout Germany, and so, with him aswell as fifty or a hundred Spartacist leaders
off the scene, the attempted new revolutionof March 6th to 13th was still possible . It,
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help, but it brought into the light once
more the strength of the union between
the German and the Russian Bolsheviks .
All Lenin's eggs were never in one basket,
or even in half a dozen baskets . The
smashing or cracking of them in one place
or in six was regarded by him as merely alocal reverse . His objective was world-wide
revolution, and he was pursuing it everywhere. Radek's activities had spread far
beyond Berlin and Russia, as the Marchrisings on the Rhine and in Hamburg andelsewhere proved, and in Bavaria they had
important results .
Immediately following the murder of thePrime Minister, Kurt Eisner (himself a Jew,
Saloman Kusnowsky by name), and the
proclamation of a Soviet Republic in Bavaria
by the Munich Women's, Peasants', andSoldiers' Council, a Russian Bolshevik
appears prominently . Max Livien, a Jew
of Moscow, was on the spot, awaiting
events and preparing for them . There wasalways some emissary of Lenin on the alert
at points of outbreak . Livien was at once
elected a member of the Executive Committee, and he at once declared a policyin accord with that of the Russian Bolsheviks .
There was to be no Diet, but only a proletarian dictatorship . Bavaria was to beallowed to work out its own scheme ofgovernment without interference from Prussia. All over Germany independent Soviet

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Republics were to be set up . Here, in fact,
were all the signs of Lenin's world-revolution
policy-the disintegration of the State, aCommunist subversion of authority, andthe rule of Moscow supreme . The Bavarianplan was only partially successful from the
beginning, and in the end it failed, but it
dovetailed into the general conspiracy andhelped it forward .
1It is, in fact, the great strength of Lenin's
manoeuvres that even when immediately
unsuccessful they dovetail into the generalcause, working for its ultimate good . Germany did not prove ready to jump to theSoviet idea, but the attempts to force her
to it, even while they failed, increased that
"attenuation by suffering" through which,in Lenin's own declarations, the peoples
throughout the world could be brought toBolshevist heel.
Thus, although Liebknecht had disappeared, Moscow still dallied with the project,signed with him, of ordering Soviet armies
to take the offensive against Germany .
That was only one of several offensives
contemplated, and in attempting these together the Bolsheviks bit off more than they
could chew . But if nothing came of thisparticular military enterprise, it has to beremembered that the others in the planagainst the Allies in North Russia andDenikin and Koltchak in the South-have
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through Allied mistakes . Lenin has always
known how to wait.
And circumstances have always enabled
him when pitted against other opportunists
to wait longest . Here let us recall thatwhile it was Germany who gave Lenin safe
conduct to Russia, i t was ourselves who
introduced Trotsky _to his side in that
unhappy country . Against the single purpose
which those errors aided, hand-to-mouth
policies had no chance ; and the aid lent toworld-revolution by the errors was so timelythat the speculation is unavoidable whether
they were not deliberately directed to thisend. The question may well be asked how
it came about that Lenin and Trotsky wereallowed to foregather in Russia just in thenick of time for their grandiose design .
The German Governments-both the Imperial before the Revolution and those thatcame after it-played an opportunist gamewith Lenin as he with them, but he played
it better. We have Trotsky's account ofBrest-Litovsk, and how Moscow bided its
time while that apparent victory for theex-Kaiser's policy worked out to its undoing.
His Socialist successors have similarly played
fast and loose with the Bolsheviks, according
as the Spartacist fortunes seemed to allow
them to flout Moscow or to favour it. The
game is not finished . Lenin's chief pawn in
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has been his constant aim throughout the
war and since ; and it is significant thatrevolution in Germany is specifically set
by the Third International in the forefrontof the Revolutions which it is pledged tofoster. The Bolshevist hand was detected,
by the most competent observers, in the
Kapp rising, and this Monarchist failure
strengthened the Spartacist cause in Germany . We can trace the same design instill more recent events, such as the Bolshevist order which has gone forth for the
expulsion of so influential a rival as Kautsky
from the ranks of the German Independent
Socialists. This is to be interpreted as arenewal of confidence in Moscow, following on
successes against Poland, to take a directing
hand in German revolutionary politics .
The Revolution in Hungary is particularly
instructive. Here the Bolsheviks made cleveruse of the exasperation aroused in a proud
country by peace conditions which placed it
in a position of inferiority to its ancient anddespised enemies . Bolsheviks make use of
any weapon, even the nationalism which istheir main obstacle . If a principle or a
prejudice has possibilities they use it ; when
it has served its purpose they throw it aside .
This dexterous inconsistency is one of thesecrets of their power. The appeal tonationalism was for the time being successful in Hungary, just as no doubt Lenin hopes
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he is at present making to the reviving
national spirit in Russia, as shown in the talkabout recovering Russian territories in Poland and the revival of the claims to Constantinople .
The " National Council " which, it will
be remembered, overthrew the Hungarian
Government was composed, according to
Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, the special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, of the leadersof the Radical wing of the Old Independent
Party, the Jewish Maffia and the Social
Democrats . The ground had been carefully
prepared by Jewish-Bolshevist propaganda,
and according to an account of it written
by an Hungarian lady, Mlle . Charlotte Geocze,
who at the time of writing was obviously
unaware of the existence of the Protocols,
it bears a striking resemblance to the planof campaign outlined by the "Learned Eldersof Zion." In a series of articles edited by
the former Hungarian Prime Minister, M.
Huszar, the writer of one of them, the editorof the Nenzeti Ujsag, emphatically declaresin that connection that Bolshevism cannot
be explained alone by the revolutionary
spirit in the air and by the economic crisis
occasioned by the war unless at the sametime one accepts the fact that its moving
force is the tenacious and secret solidarityof the Jews . A further point made is thecontinuous immigration of Russian Jews
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in a regular rotation ; Jews settling down
among the Ruthenians as money-lenders,ruining the peasants and then returning
home. A particular race of Jews, the Khozar, took a prominent part in this movement .
Bela Kun, the leader of _the Hungarian
Bolsheviks, was a Jew, and nearly all his
ministers, like Friedlander, Wertheim,
Dorscak, and Kohn, were also Jews . Kun
was in close touch with Lenin, and was
directly inspired by him in all his acts .
Wireless communication was maintained between Moscow and Budapest, and some of
the messages thus exchanged made exceedingly interesting reading . In a well-known
message of greeting Lenin was informed" The Hungarian Proletariat, which yesterday took the entire State power into its
hands, has introduced the Dictatorship of
the Proletariat into the country, and greets
you as the leader of the International Proletariat ."Many of these messages are to be foundin the book, Secret Documents of the Bolshevist
Propaganda, written by Professor Szabo, of
Hungary, and published in Budapest overa year ago. One message from Tchitcherin,
the Bolshevist Commissary of Foreign Affairs,
to Bela Kun, sent in cypher, with reference
to preparing the soil in London, says
" It would be useful to get into touch with
the Russian People's Information Bureau in
London . You could best do this by means

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of Sylvia Pankhurst, whom you can approachthrough the Daily Herald ."In the Daily Herald there recently appeared
the following" Mrs. Despard, Robert Dell, and Harold
Grenfell, as the `Donors' Committee' of thePeople's Russian Information Bureau, areasking for £500 to clear off outstanding
liabilities and the estimated deficit on thenext year's work of the Bureau . The Bureau,
as most of our readers know, exists to circulate, collect, and tabulate information on
the Russian situation ."Mrs . Despard is well known . Mr. Dell
was formerly Paris correspondent of theManchester Guardian, and was requested toleave Paris during the war by the French
Government . Mr. Grenfell was formerly in
the Navy and attached to the Embassy inPetrograd . He was the subject of a question
addressed to the Prime Minister by Mr . Raperin the House of Commons on July 1st, 1920 .
Mr . Raper supplemented his question byasking Mr . Bonar Law if he was aware that
documents had recently been sent to London
by the British Minister in Finland implicating
General Sir Hubert Gough, head of the lateInter-Allied Military Mission to Finland,also Commander Grenfell, and Professor
Cotter, " as being associated with a notorious
Bolshevist agent in Helsingfors ." Mr. Bonar
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further question by Mr . Raper, the Leaderof the House said that he had read theletters referred to, but did not think thatthey called for any action.
The overthrow of Bela Kun was one of
the severest blows dealt at Bolshevism, but
it is worth while noting that General Smuts
was entrusted with one of those amazing
Prinkipo missions for the purpose of coming
to some understanding with the Bolsheviks
before the French and the other Allies wereallowed to advance on and occupy Budapest .
The campaign led by the Bolsheviks
against Hungary ever since the return ofcivilised government has been extraordinarily malevolent and widespread . Bela
Kun's Jews imported from Russia carriedout appalling atrocities during their tenureof power, and on his expulsion there weresome sporadic massacres organised by infuriated Hungarian officers, whose womenfolk
had been shamefully maltreated . But theGovernment did, and is doing, all in its
power to check any such excesses . Notwithstanding that fact, the pro-Bolshevik papers
in Europe, including those in England, weredeluged with lurid accounts of atrocities
committed by the anti-Bolshevik Hungarians .
So persistent were these reports that official
inquiries were made by the Allied Missions
in Budapest, and their conclusions, whichwere published in a British White Paper,
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cally no atrocities at all, and that insteadof thousands being massacred not morethan fifty had been done to death . Yet inspite of this exposure international labour
has decided on a boycott of Hungary, though
in the same breath it objects to any antiBolshevik measures against Russia on the
ground that it would be interfering in theinternal affairs of another country .
In both Germany and Hungary the Jews
of Moscow have suffered checks, but thebattle has not yet been fought to a conclusion .
Revolutionary movements both prior andsubsequent to the war have now been
analysed, and evidence of a common design,of a universal conspiracy, operating secretly
through Freemasons and openly throughBolsheviks, has been put forward .

CHAPTER XII
THE PEACE CONFERENCE
Jewish Activities-The Teachings of Washington andMoscow-The League of Nations and the Third Internationale-Self-Determination-The poison in Ireland,
Egypt and India-Poland's Fate-Jewish and German
Interest in her Weakness .

To describe the unofficial activities of theJews in Paris would be to describe the workof the Conference. Mr. Wilson was surrounded by them ; even M. Clemenceau had
his watch-dogs ; and as for the British
delegation, one has only to mention thenames of Lord Reading and Mr . Montagu
and the close interest they took in the deliberations . Indeed, it will be rememberedthat there was a strong movement to include
the Lord Chief Justice in the original delegation, but, owing to the strong opposition
aroused in this country, nothing came of it .
Now the statesmen of Paris, like theBolsheviks, were guided by general principles. That is the dominant, the peculiarfeature of the Peace Conference at Paris .
And in that connection let us quote fromthe History of the Peace Conference, thefirst volume of which has just been issued
under the auspices of the Institute of International Affairs . The concluding paragraphof an interesting chapter on the Bolshevist
attitude at Brest-Litovsk is as follows
171172 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST" Thus by the close of the year it wasevident that the demand for evacuation andthe right of self-determination meant for the
Bolsheviks nothing but the right of ` bolshevising,' and the appeal of their peace formulaeat Brest had long since lost its original force .
Yet, in their arguments with the Germans,
they had applied self-determination in ' abold and far-reaching way, that remained
not without influence in many quarters ;Ireland and Bosnia, Egypt, India, and Persia
appeared along with Posen and AlsaceLorraine and Armenia . The Russian catchword of ` peace without annexations orindemnities,' which the Bolsheviks hadtaken over and amplified, had made a deep,
if indefinite, impression . The demand forno economic boycotts figured among the war
aims of many anti-Bolshevist bodies of
opinion, and the precedent of the attempt
to realise ` no secret diplomacy ' was notforgotten . The effect of these ideas was
conflicting, and to a large extent impalpable,
and they had become in the main divestedof any specifically Bolshevist setting, but, in
conjunction with President Wilson's enunciation of principles, they coloured the minds
and imaginations of such numbers that they
exercised an immediate and profound influence upon the Peace Conference ."It is not by any means the first time thatthe principles enunciated by President Wilson have been linked up with the new

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gospel which is being preached at Moscow .
Indeed, there is reason to believe that a
famous European statesman, smarting under
the indifference of the Paris Mount Sinai tothe grievances of his country, bluntly told
the President that he and Lenin were preaching the same doctrine, and that between the
Fourteen Points and the Kremlin manifestoes there was little to choose . And
really if judged by their disintegrating force
there is little to choose between the one setof pontifical explosives and the other . A
Sinn Feiner or an Egyptian Nationalist canjustify murder from either, and " making
the world safe for democracy " and " thedictatorship of the proletariat " sound equally
sweet in a rebel's ear . Common to both
Washington and Moscow is the necessity of
an international control of the world ; toone it is the League of Nations, to the otherit is the Third Internationale . The idea isthe same though the instruments are different .
And it is difficult to estimate who shouted
the louder the cry of self-determination .
Trotsky and his Jews were ready to barteraway the whole Russian Empire for thesake of this holy principle . Why 2 Because
like the "Learned Elders of Zion " they saw
beyond the ignorant present . At the timeof Brest-Litovsk the application of any
principle to the Russian Empire, shatteredby war and under the menace of Hoffman's
whip, really did not matter very much.

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But what about the British Empire, and its
diverse nationalities all in different stagesof political development ? Such a principle
skilfully applied might have all the mysterious effects of an arsenical dose . The
need for some such doctrinal poison was all
the more necessary because to the surpriseand disappointment of the Bolsheviks thewar did not end in a draw, but in an overwhelming victory for the Entente Powers .
Accordingly the parrot cry of self-determination was used for all it was worth, and to theintense gratification of Moscow was taken
up in Washington, and in many a sonorous
sentence was commended to French Senators
and British working men .
It worked and is working extraordinarily
well-in Ireland, Egypt, India, and, who
knows, perhaps soon in Central Africa.
The only place where apparently it is notallowed to work is Palestine, where less than
20 per cent . of Jews under Sir Herbert
Samuel are providing themselves with anational home at the expense of 80 per cent .
of Arabs . To sacrifice an Empire for a
principle is surely a new thing in political
idealism . Self-determination has indeed
proved the choicest weapon in the Bolshevist
armoury. Trotsky could afford to be generous to Finland if it meant in time thegradual break up of the United Kingdom ;he could scatter constitutions among theBaltic States and the Tartars of the Caucasus

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if the news of this largesse were to awaken
the appetites of the politically half-bakedcommunities of the British Empire . All
Trotsky's anticipations have been amazingly
realised as the British taxpayer ruefully
admits when he thinks of the military
budgets of Egypt, Ireland, Mesopotamia ;war can be fought with ideas as well as withminenwerfer .

The British Empire at this moment is in
the full throes of the revolutionary trouble
bequeathed to it by the Peace Conferencewith its crude views, its mandates andplebiscites, and all the paraphernalia of
democratic quackery . Self-determination is
producing its monstrous brood all over the
Empire, but it is curious to note how quiescent it is at present in the lands where
the Bolshevist writ runs . It is now on theebb, and the tide is running in favour ofnationalism ; witness the recent declarationof Bukharin on behalf of the Soviet of
People's Commissars for the reconstructionof a great and powerful Socialist Russia," which cannot exist if she does not hold theStraits of Constantinople." Here again is
another illustration of the way in which theBolsheviks will use a weapon and thendiscard it when it has served its purpose .
It is, then, a curious coincidence that,apart from their divergent views on thesubject of capital, Washington and Moscow
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trump card of both is the same-international control-and if Lenin abominates
the League of Nations, he does so because
it is capitalistic, not because it is international .
Whence, then, did Mr. Wilson derive hismaterial ? It was a subject which greatlyinterested Paris during the Peace Conference,and much was written about the eminent
Jews who surrounded the President . " Pertinax," writing in the Echo de Paris on
April 28th, 1920, says
" M. Max Warburg is the chief of thebanking firm Max Warburg and Co ., ofHamburg. He is the principal shareholder
in the Hamburg-America and German-Lloyd
steamship lines . His two brothers, Paul andFelix Warburg, married respectively to thesister-in-law and the daughter of Jacob
H. Schiff (born at Frankfort), are the associates of the latter at the head of the Kuhn
Loeb and Co. Bank, of New York . Here wehave a financial group which, up to thedeclaration of war by America, in April,
1917, was the most powerful link between
the politicians of Washington and those of
Berlin. From 1914 to 1917 this powerful
syndicate showed itself extraordinarily active
against the Entente ."According to the same authority, Jacob
Schiff was born at Frankfort-on-theMain, the home of the Allgemeiner Elektricitdts Gesellschaft . He was " the great
financial supporter of the ` Mutual Society

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of German Jews,' which was linked, and is
still probably linked, on many sides withhigh German circles." During the war,
before America intervened, adds "Pertinax,"
Mr. Schiff " founded the American Neutral
Conference Committee, which took uponitself the task of bringing about peace witha victorious Germany . Then appeared forthe first time all the formulae of the Leagueof Nations, the anathemas launched againstthe `old diplomacy,' which was said to be
responsible for bringing about the war . On
this point consult the work, How the
Diplomatists Caused the War, written by
Mr. Heubsch, the colleague of Mr . Schiff on
the Neutral Conference Committee ."The brilliant French writer, M . Charles
Maurras, in his book Les Trois Aspects du
President Wilson also deals with thissubject-" The decisive influence exercisedon Mr. Wilson by a very small company,
financiers by profession, domiciled between
Hamburg, Frankfort and New York."" They were," he says, " identified with the
Association for the League of Free Nations,with its seat in America, and including,among other people, Mr . Felix Frankfurter,
President of the War Labour Policies Board,a great banker, Jacob H . Schiff, the Cohens,
the Blumenthals, the Chapiros, not to speakof Mrs . Mary Sunkovnich." M. Maurras
goes on to declare that Mr . Wilson in time
fell completely under their influence, andM178 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
that there is written evidence to that effect,and he is inclined to the opinion that Freemasonry was used as the channel for the
dissemination of these ideas .
Here, then, there opens up a most fruitful
field of speculation . But let us carry theargument a little farther . The principle ofself-determination, as we have seen, notonly tends to act as a solvent of existing
Empires, but it also handicapped seriously
the creation of the new States which werebrought into existence by the magicians ofParis . To imagine that a nation could becreated by a plebiscite, and that a State
could be constituted on the principle ofnationality alone, without securing for it
adequate economic safeguards and strategic
frontiers, was a fallacy entertained at Paris
which has had most unfortunate consequences
for the peace of Europe . In Turkey thefallacy reached ludicrous lengths . An independent Armenia was created, and theguarantors of its independence at present
are Viscount Bryce and the humanitarians of
the world ; nobody else will touch it .
Moreover, even if it were safely constituted, other believers in self-determination-Assyro-Chaldeans, and so on-would raise
claims against it. The Hapsburg Monarchyhas been divided into States all beautifully
constituted on the same wonderful principle,
but apparently incapable of standing on
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Conference was unable to reach a politicalsettlement, and because there was no political settlement we now have economic unrest,high prices, demands for increased wages,
strikes to enforce them, and general Bolshevism. The protocols say
We will create a universal economicalcrisis by all possible underhand means, andwith the help of gold which is all in ourhands ."
Now, the supreme instance of this attempt
to create States on an unsure foundation,
and without proper economic and strategic
frontiers, is Poland . Let us briefly summarise the case for that country . The policyof France throughout her history had been
to seek some ally in the East who would act
as a check on any move by the German
States across the Rhine . Turkey, Sweden,
Russia, all acted as that counterpoise, andwith the fall of Russia French statesmen
looked to the creation of a strong Poland toserve that historic purpose . A strong Poland
was, therefore, a French interest, and, asGreat Britain is the ally of France, presumably a British interest also . Indeed, tojudge from a recent quotation by Mr . Lloyd
George of a speech of Disraeli, a strong Poland
would, in British eyes, act as a check notonly on Germany but on Russia .
Now, what happened at Paris Y Strategically and economically Poland was compelled to make a bad start.
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Commission three times reported in favourof giving Dantzig to Poland, and three times
their report was turned down-by Mr. Lloyd
George . On the question of Upper Silesia
the Commission was also favourable to
Poland, and therein it was backed byPresident Wilson . But one fine day the
President veered round, and insisted on aplebiscite . That change of mind was one of
the mysteries of the Conference which may
some day be revealed . The same story ofa vague, unsettled conclusion applies toEastern Galicia. Thus, in such vital mattersas sea communications, coal and oil supply,
Poland was severely handicapped from thevery beginning. Why ? A strong Poland is
not a Jewish interest . For one thing, howmany Englishmen are aware of the enormous
Jewish population which lives within the
ethnographical boundaries of Poland ? In
1910 the total number of Jews in the world
was, roughly, 12,506,238, and in 1900 almost
five million Jews lived in Polish territory .
It is interesting, too, to note that since theRussian Revolution of 1905 there was a
distinct movement in Poland to get rid of
the monopoly exercised by the Jews in allcommercial and financial activities in Poland
by the creation of Polish Co-operative Societies . It is perfectly clear that a strong
national Polish Government would further
develop that policy, and might lead in time
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welcome to the enormous Jewish population
concentrated within its territories .
Now, a strong Poland is also not a Germaninterest, and here the Jews and the Germans
work hand in hand . Thus, the semi-official
Deutsche 4llgemeine Zeitung of January 30th,
1919, recognises openly the solidarity ofGerman and Jewish interests. It goes in fora study of the postulates, which are almost
identical to those we have just enumerated,and draws the following conclusions"Considering that the majority of theJewish population knows the German language, and that German civilisation is familiar to them, the Jewish element may beof the greatest use to Germany for thereopening of those international relations
which have been interrupted by the war .
Germany will not cease to interest herself in
Oriental questions . The foundation of a
Jewish Palestine must be greeted with approval. This will, for the reasons quoted
above, help Germany in ascertaining economic and intellectual links with the East .
" The Jewish question will be of interest toGermany on account of her vicinity in the
Near East with countries inhabited by
Jewish masses . The autonomy of the Jews
in the East is one of the foundation-stonesof order and tranquillity in these countries .
" It may be seen (says this newspaper, inconclusion) that there is no contradiction
between the desiderata of the Jews and182 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST

German interests. For this reason Germany
will support Jewish demands at the Peace
Conference ."It was notorious during the proceedingsof the Peace Conference that whenever any
decision favourable to Poland was reached
Jewish gentry from London hurriedly crossed
the Channel for the purpose of trying to
revoke it .
Thus, as we have said, Poland as createdby the pundits of Paris started badly . Her
subsequent history has been equally unfortunate . The Bolsheviks were exceedingly
anxious to secure their grip on a State whichwith its Christian faith and Western traditions barred their march towards the West.
In the letter which Trotsky sent to FrenchSocialists as long ago as October, 1919, hemade it clear in his bragging way that
Poland's turn was to come next . That
Bolshevist offensive was launched in March,
1920, and failed for reasons which have been
explained by Major-General Maurice, themilitary critic of the Daily News. To say,then, that Marshal Pilsudski attacked Russia,
which all the Pacifists and Bolsheviks in
England are trumpeting forth every day, is
untrue . Marshal Pilsudski tried to do what
the Serbians were prevented from doing,that is to say, to anticipate the enemy's
offensive. From the very beginning of his
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and railwaymen were called upon to preventthe sending of munitions to Warsaw .
At the present moment Russia and Germany are joining -hands over the prostrate
body of Poland . If Russia and Germany
are able to overwhelm Poland, the Treatyof Versailles becomes a scrap of paper, andthe war has been fought in vain .
Dr. Dillon, in his book on the Paris Peace
Conference, says
" Of all the collectivities whose interests
were furthered at the Conference the Jews
had perhaps the most resourceful and certainly the most influential exponents . There
were Jews from Palestine, from Poland,
Russia, the Ukraine, Roumania, Greece,
Britain, Holland, and Belgium ; but thelargest and most brilliant contingent wassent by the United States ."And with reference to that great achievement of the Jews at Paris, the Minority
Treaties, he says
" It may seem amazing to some readers,
but it is none the less a fact that a considerable number of Delegates believed thatthe real influences behind the Anglo-Saxon
peoples were Semitic . They confronted thePresident's proposal on the subject of religious inequality, and, in particular, theodd motive alleged for it, with the measures
for the protection of minorities which hesubsequently imposed on the lesser States,
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the Jewish elements in Eastern Europe .
And they concluded that the sequence ofexpedients framed and enforced in thisdirection were inspired by the Jews assembled
in Paris for the purpose of realising theircarefully thought-out programme, which theysucceeded in having substantially executed .
However right or wrong these Delegates may
have been it would be a dangerous mistaketo ignore their views, seeing that they havesince become one of the permanent elementsof the situation . The formula into which
this policy was thrown by the members of
the Conference, whose countries it affected,
and who regarded it as fatal to the peace ofEastern Europe, was this : `Henceforth theworld will be governed by the Anglo-Saxon
peoples, who, in turn, are swayed by their
Jewish elements ."'It should be remembered that the original
claims of the Jews went much further thanthose which were eventually sanctioned by
the Conference. " The hero of the Minority
Treaties," to quote the phrase of the Jewish
Guardian, the able and moderate organ of
Anglo-Jewry, was Mr. Lucien Wolf-thesame gentleman who has recently been
attacking the Protocols . As Mr . Israel Zangwill said, " The Minority Treaties were thetouchstone of the League of Nations, thatessentially Jewish aspiration, and the man
behind the Minority Treaties was Lucien
Wolf."

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Let us in conclusion briefly summarise theargument which has been put forward above .
Bolshevism and Wilsonism have much incommon-including their insistence on international control and on the principle of selfdetermination . That principle tends to promote rebellion in the British Empire, and at
the same time to lead to the creation of
artificial States unprovided by adequate
economic and strategic safeguards . Poland
is an instance of such a State, and Poland
has had to face an opposition in which Jews,
Bolsheviks, Germans, and pro-Bolsheviks inthis country are playing a part . Poland at
this moment is menaced with annihilation,and if it succumbs the Entente Powers of
the West have lost the war .

CHAPTER XIIITHE EVIDENCES OF CONSPIRACY

Germany's Downfall-Playing with Fire-Revolutionary
Activities in the Orient-East against West-Religion
a Subsidiary Weapon-The Murder of Colonel Curzon
Wyllie .

PREVIOUS chapters have dealt with plotsthat have come to full accomplishment
either in success or failure . The present
is concerned with a conspiracy still in themaking, which bids fair to be more vast andfraught with more terrible consequences
than any that preceded it . Moreover, it
intimately concerns the British Empire,though it is not exclusively directed against
it. It is only necessary to talk with anyone
who is well acquainted with the East tolearn beyond all shadow of doubt that there
exists throughout the Orient an organised
intrigue against European and Christiansupremacy . If the person consulted has
made a long and careful study of the tortuous
politics and secret tendencies of Asia, theinformation given will become startling by
its definite menace and by the proof of theexistence of a revolutionary organisationthat spreads its tentacles from Europe andAmerica over the whole of North Africa andAsia.
Before discussing the danger that mustbe faced, it may be well to consider how far
Great Britain, the Power most seriously
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threatened, is in a position at home toovercome this serious threat .
After theRussian Revolution a section of the Jewish
Press displayed an alarming affection for
Bolshevist ideas, and openly encouraged
Bolshevist propaganda in Great Britain .
The Morning Post had occasion to draw
attention to this dangerous campaign, ,which
was disavowed by the leading patriotic
Jews, as is shown by the following letter
published in its columns ;"SIR,-We have read with the deepest
concern and with sincere regret certain
articles which have recently appeared in
two closely associated Jewish newspapers
in this country on the topic of Bolshevism
and its `ideals .' In our opinion, the publication of these articles can have no othereffect than to encourage the adoption of
the theoretic principles of Russian Bolsheviks among foreign Jews who have sought
and found a refuge in England . We welcome,accordingly, your suggestion that British
Jews should ` dissociate themselves from acause which is doing the Jewish people
harm in all parts of the world .' This is
profoundly true, and we, on our own behalf
and on behalf of numbers of British Jews
with whom we have conferred, desire todissociate ourselves absolutely and unreservedly from the mischievous and misleading
doctrine which these articles are calculated
to disseminate . We repudiate them as dan-

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gerous in themselves and as false to thetenets and teachings of Judaism .
" Partly in order to counteract the mistaken policy of the newspapers referred to,
the League of British Jews was founded in
November, 1917. The proceedings and viewsof the League are published in a monthly
bulletin, entitled Jewish Opinion, which canbe obtained at the offices of the League,708-709, Salisbury House, E.C.2, and which
may eventually be merged in a larger
journal appearing at more frequent intervals .
For we thoroughly concur with your criticism that ` the British Jewish community,
most of whom,' as you rightly say, `are by
no means in sympathy with this (Nationalist)
crusade, are being served very badly by
their newspapers .' Meanwhile we take thisopportunity of repudiating in public theparticular statements in those newspapers
to which you have felt it your duty to callattention.-Yours, etc .,LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD .
SWAYTHLING .
PHILIP MAGNUS .
MARCUS SAMUEL.
HARRY S . SAMUEL .
LEONARD L . COHEN.
I. GOLLANCZ .
JOHN MONASH.
CLAUDE G. MONTEFIORE .
ISIDORE SPIELMANN.
April 22nd, 1919 ."EVIDENCES OF CONSPIRACY 189
Unfortunately the attitude of these
patriots was not that of all British Jews,
and they were violently attacked for theiraction. Nor can it be said that the politicalbehaviour of those Jews who have taken aleading part in the Government of GreatBritain has been reassuring . It can scarcely
be said that Sir Alfred Mond's politicalachievements merit his inclusion in the
Ministry. The connection of Lord Reading,our Lord Chief Justice, with the Marconi
affair was, to say the least of it, by no meansin accordance with the traditions of ourpublic life . More serious still is the appointment of Sir Herbert Samuel as Governor ofPalestine, where a Jew will be called upon
to hold the balance between an Arab majority
and a Jewish minority in a hot-bed of
intrigues . Then Mr . Montagu, despite hisfamily relationships with a firm which has
established something resembling a monopoly
in the silver market, is, Secretary for India.
As for Mr . Montag -i's attitude, he disclosed it in a fit of irritation in his opening
speech in the Dyer debate in the House ofCommons. His speech was not the calm
advocacy of his Government's policy which
one has the right to expect from a Ministerof State whose conscience is untroubled.
It was an elaborate extenuation of Indian
sedition by one who has confessed himself
proud of the friendship of that leader ofrebellion, Mr. Gandhi, and Mr . Montagu's190 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
excited denunciation of British " terrorism "in India might take its place beside thestriking poster referred to by Mr . Rupert
Gwynne : " Conquer the English monkeys
with bravery. This is the command of
Mahatma Gandhi . Get ready soon for thewar, and God will grant victory to India ."The idea of a world conspiracy directedagainst law and order, and indeed against
Christian civilisation itself, would before
the war have seemed absurd and impossible
to the average Englishman . The idea that
there could be an intimate connection, say,
between a revolution in Portugal, a strike
at home, and a murder in India would
never have occurred to any ordinary man
before August, 1914 . The war has produced
a complete change of mentality, because
we have had concrete proof of close connection between rebellion in Ireland, trouble in
Egypt, disaffection in India, revolution in
Russia, to mention only a few of thedisorders brought about by Germany .
It might have been expected that when
the war was finished German propaganda
would have come to an end and everything returned to its previous state of
tranquillity. But it is becoming everyday
more evident that the conspiracy against
civilisation did not finish with the defeatof Germany . The Germans certainly usedvarious organisations against us, but, as
it has been our object to show, they neverEVIDENCES OF CONSPIRACY 191
really controlled or directed them . Behindthe scenes was a " formidable sect " using theGermans for their own ends instead of being
used by them, and when Germany fell andGerman money disappeared, the conspiracy
still went on unimpeded .
The Germans when they sent Lenin to
Russia availed themselves of those secretforces of which they had already made use
against Great Britain . The directors of
the secret conspiracy were quite ready touse the Germans for their own ends ofpoisoning European democracy . Yet thefirst result of Lenin's journey to Russia after
the collapse of Russia was, as Ludendorff
admits, the downfall of Germany.
Those who were with the Allied troops
after the Armistice in the sectors of thefront where the enemy had been demoralised
by Bolshevist propaganda had clear evidenceof the terrible power of the forces that theLords of Germany had so foolishly let loose .
When the French troops first reached theRhine at Neu-Brisach, a number of motor
lorries were surrendered . Each lorry was
driven across the river by two chauffeurs,
one of whom wore the red rosette thatmarked him as a member of the Soviet, andthe trembling officers watched them as theysung songs of triumph, and did not dare to
give an order . A number of officers had
been shot down the night before . Many ofthe lorries were decorated in celebration of

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defeat, and it was only in the French linesthat the officers could insist on these decorations being removed. It was no small
local conspiracy that had triumphed socompletely over the arrogant Imperialism
and iron discipline of the German Army,and the French showed their realisation ofthis fact by sternly upholding the German
officers against any sign of insubordination
among the troops, who were promptly
ordered to remove the red rosette from theircaps.
Germany in her lust for world rule coquetted with the hidden powers that wereconspiring to destroy not only the British
Empire and the Allied Nations but the wholeof civilisation and Christendom . There canbe no doubt that the enemy employed thesecret organisations which are the cause of
the world unrest, and spent money likewater to obtain their support . The `° formidable sect " was ready enough to takeGerman money and cause trouble among theAllies, but it jealously guarded the control
of its organisations, and when the time cameit left Germany to its fate .
Experts are agreed in saying that thecause of the existing unrest in India is
mainly an organised form of propaganda
which has been at work for years, disturbing,as Mr. Montagu would say, " the placid,
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which is steadily gaining strength, is ofamazing complexity. In 1912 attention was
officially drawn to the existence of a conspiracy, organised with extraordinary ingenuity by some centre which could not be
discovered, throughout India in the proceedings of the Commission on the IndianArmy, of which Field-Marshal Lord Nicholson was President . India is not the only
country affected ; on the contrary, the . newgospel is preached in every country of theEast, whether under European control, semiindependent or independent, throughout
North Africa from Morocco to Egypt, in,Turkey, Arabia, and the whole of Asia
including Japan . Thus it is possible to findagents preaching the same doctrines slightly
adapted for local needs in a " douar " inMorocco, in Teheran, Kabul, Constantinople,
or Calcutta. The whole of this vast area isdivided up into zones, each with its controlling centre, from which direction is given,
and which passes on the word received fromother centres.
The character of the propaganda is evenmore surprising than the perfection of theorganisation . It is, generally speaking,neither religious nor national, and this very
point brings it at once into line with ourgeneral inquiry . On the positive side it iswhat may be called democratic, and on the
more definite negative side anti-European
and anti-Christian . If the Protocols are toN194 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
be believed, the essential part of the universal
conspiracy is first the use of the word
" Liberty," which " brings society into conflict with all the Powers, even with that of
Nature and God," in order to set " allPowers one against the other by encouraging
their liberal tendencies towards independElsewhere the Protocols state thatence.
" the triumph of our theory is its adaptability
to the temperament of the nations withwhich we come in contact." In the East,
Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, the watchwords of the French Revolution, have been
replaced by American Republicanism . Republicanism is particularly suited for the
East; since " Republican rights are an irony
for the pauper." On the other hand, thefundamental notion of the formidable sect "is the destruction of Christianity and all
religion except the Jewish.
There is certainly a great similarity between the propaganda . now being carriedon in Asia and " the programme of violenceand hypocrisy " advocated by the Protocols .
Religion is regarded by the Asiatic intriguers
as a useful weapon, but they do not insist
upon it except when a religious question
gives them a chance of causing sedition andfurthering their ends . They are aiming
definitely at setting the Eastern world
against the Western, and therefore it istheir intention to unite the East and bridgeover all religious and national differences .

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The gospel they are secretly preaching is
Pan-Oriental, and their desire is to shakeauthority in the States under Christiantutelage and to arouse anti-Christian sentiment in independent Eastern States . Asia
against Europe is the object at which they
are aiming, and no doubt the plotters hopeto gain their ends in the world-wide confusionthat would accompany a war between Westand East .
One of the objects of the secret conspiracy
is " with the aid of Europe to promote onother continents sedition, dissension, andmutual hostility." With this object in view
the promoters of disorder, who have one of
their most important headquarters in Switzerland, have portioned out the areas onwhich they are to work . Seditious literature
and agents pass from Europe to Turkey, andtheir influence spreads by definite routes over
Asia Minor to Persia and Afghanistan . From
there they pass to the tribes of the North-West
Frontier, and the zones of influence radiateout so that not a village is missed .
Books that secretly hint at rebellion,
speeches made in Europe, and articles from
European papers cunningly distorted are
distributed among those who can read .
The agent seeks out every local grievanceto embitter it and turn a molehill into amountain, always inculcating the doctrineof hatred of the Christian . Above all, heuses everywhere he goes his personal influ-

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ence to persuade those he meets that they
are hardly treated, condoling with one manon his undeserved poverty, flattering anotherwith tales of the great power that his
abilities merit .
There is no scarcity of such, agents . They
are produced in thousands, these missionaries of discontent, and their education is
not the least of the cares of the secretconspiracy . There are men trained in India,
Europe, and America who have drunk inwith their study of European knowledge
and culture a hatred of Europe . The teachersof Eastern religions and their priests afford
a useful recruiting ground for such agents .
Naturally they are opposed to Christianity,
and are ready to pass on to their pupils the
poison of hatred which is all the more
formidable that it is secretly organised .
There are many European agents, some ofthem mere faddists, who pass on the dangerous doctrines unconsciously, while others
deliberately betray their own blood . From
this point of view Eastern Freemasonry was
extremely dangerous when the Eastern
lodges sought to emulate the secret societiesof the French Revolution, but the vigorous
action taken by our authorities during thewar, especially in Egypt, has considerably
restricted its activity . The " Invisible
Force " which is arraying its might against
Christendom has never doubted the importance of education . It is laying its hand

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in the East on the coming generation, forwherever there is a native school within thelimits of its propaganda its gospel is being
preached, and the most certain proof thatthe whole movement is being directed bya single secret agency is that this teaching
is identical from Morocco to the heart of
Asia.
Among the agents employed in the East
there are few Jews . It must be remembered that the people of the East have an
insuperable if tolerant contempt for the
Jew. This attitude is not the least of thereasons why it appears supremely impolitic
to have Mr. Montagu Secretary for India
and Sir Herbert Samuel Governor of Palestine. If the great conspiracy is to be overcome there must be the strictest impartiality
on the part of rulers and governors . If
revolution has not already broken out it--isthat there is still a mass of moderate andindifferent opinion which is refractory tothis propaganda .
Whether this gigantic plot of throwing
East against West is to be attributed tothe "formidable sect" is a question thatmust be left to the individual judgment .
All that can . be said is that the purpose
pursued and the methods employed arepractically identical with those which havebeen considered in this book. A concrete
instance of the working of this conspiracy
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circumstances that accompanied it may
throw some light on the, question.
It may be remembered that on July 1st,
1909, Colonel Sir W. Curzon Wyllie, anIndian official respected and admired byboth natives and Europeans, was murderedat the Imperial Institute by a native named
Dhingra, who paid for the crime with hislife . There were certain facts connectedwith this murder which were never madepublic . There is reason to believe thatshortly before the crime Dhingra had been
in Paris, and it was said that a Nationalist
manifesto dated from Paris was found among
his papers. It is certain that a week before
the Anarchist section of the Paris police
was informed that a group of Indian conspirators in Paris were displaying great
activity, and that they were preparing tobring off a coup either in France or England,
probably the latter . Unfortunately this information was not passed on to the English
police, as possibly further investigation might
have prevented this dastardly murder .
This Paris group had been working against
the Empire for a considerable period, andits existence was well known to the Frenchpolice, who took all necessary precautions
that no outrage should be committed in the
territory for which they were responsible .
Many meetings were held in a house in the
Rue Laffitte and elsewhere, and a vigorous
propaganda carried on . There were some

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genuine native fanatics among the conspirators, and several members of the Indiancolony were terrorised into supporting themwith funds and declaring a reluctant sympathy with a movement that filled themwith alarm and repulsion. In particular,
the plotters sought adherents among theyoung natives who came to the Paris University to study, and their threats andbloodthirsty language scared some of thesestudents, who were anything but warlike
by nature, almost out of their wits .
An important member of the group wasa woman of German extraction, who appeared to be the chief controller of its action .
There was, however, another woman, aJewess, who was in friendly relations with theconspirators, though there is no p4 oof that she
took any part in their plots . This Jewess wasa very remarkable person . Goodlooking andambitious, she flaunted as the confidante of adignitary of the Third Republic, and it was
public report that with the aid of her own
people and the invaluable support of theGrand Orient she exercised behind the scenes
a power equal to that of many a Minister .
In those days French Freemasonry was
still a great political power . It was nolonger practically supreme in politics, since
its position had been badly shaken by thediscovery of the part that it had 'beenplaying in the Army . The scandal that
led to the resignation of General Andre,200 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
the Minister of War, showed that secretreports drawn from Masonic sources werebeing officially used to the prejudice ofofficers who were opposed to the form ofFreemasonry existing in France . Attendance at church was reported to the authorities and actually served as a bar to promotion . The popular outcry that resulted
from these disclosures seriously weakened
the political power of the Grand Orient,though in secret, thanks to its organisationand hold on the Radical Deputies and
Senators, it still possessed immense influence .
It must be remembered that in France
the Masonic movement was permeated withJews . The Hebraic element was strongly
represented in the Gentile Lodges, andthere existed Jewish Lodges to which no
Gentile members were admitted and inwhich no language other than Yiddish or
German was spoken .
The "formidable sect" has never hesitatedin its recognition of the importance of" encouraging the ideas of others and using
them for its own purpose ." Further, theProtocols admit that their policy includes" a number of private assassinations accomplished by our agents, the blind sheep ofour flock, who can easily be induced tocommit a crime, so long as such a crime is ofa political character ." The stupid murderof Sir Curzon Wyllie was, according to themurderer, a political " removal ."CHAPTER XIV
IRELAND AND THE COLONIES
Karl Marx and Irish Independence-Dr . Hermann Gorter's
Exposition-Independence Not an End in ItselfThe Work of James Connolly-The Ribbon OathSinn Fein adopts the Bolshevist Programme-Bolshevism in South Africa, Australia and Canada .

HAVING already given an outline of thevast Asiatic plot which is aimed directly at
the whole of Europe as well as the British
Empire, we will now draw attention to
the conspiracy which, each day growing inviolence, is directed at " the Achilles' heelof England," Ireland . The immediate purposes of these intrigues are clear enough,and it is evident that they would fit perfectly into "the programme of violenceand hypocrisy " which has been put forwardin this book as the secret cause of world
unrest.
The crimes which are Ireland's daily
history cannot plead the excuse of hotheaded impulse or blind revenge. They arecarried out in a spirit of cold, calculating
brutality, and as a Roman Catholic priest
wrote in a letter to the Dublin Daily Express,
they are " the diabolical work of an organisation." Throughout the world the story is
the same-murder, outrage, and disorders
contrived and controlled by some invisible201202 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
power of evil. In his Red Peril and Green,a book which is a mine of information on
the Irish question, Mr. Dawson remarksthat during the war " nothing was moreastonishing or nerve-racking than the cobweb of intrigue, spun by a hidden hand, inwhich the nation was enmeshed, and inwhich it felt itself entangled at every crisis ."Even more astonishing and nerve-racking
is the survival of this cobweb after the
defeat of Germany . During the war atleast we knew the identity of the spider
which spun the web, but now the cause of
all the trouble is obscure and mysterious,and the forces of civilisation seem to be
fighting in the dark .
The stability of the British Empire isthe chief obstacle which those who aim at
the overthrow of European civilisation haveto overcome, and Ireland is, according to
Karl Marx and the modern Bolsheviks,
the Empire's weakest point . Mrs . Webster,in her letter to the Morning Post publishedon July 18th, 1920, quoted Karl Marx
on Ireland, and his proposal to the International that they should, in order toprepare the way for revolution in England,
support the Irish demand for independence .
This Marxian view is still accepted by
the Internationalists, and the whole question
has recently been discussed by Dr. Hermann
Gorter, author of The World's Revolution,and described in the Bolshevist Press as a

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Professor at the Moscow University . He
is connected with the Dutch Communists,and he writes frequently for the Bolshevist
papers of this country . Writing in the
Workers' Dreadnought, Miss Sylvia Pankhurst's paper, on " Ireland : the Achilles'
Heel of England," Dr. Gorter states thatthe demand of small nations for independence
can now be supported by Bolsheviks, because
Imperialistic Capitalism is shaken, and " thisindependence now becomes a means to
weaken the position of all the big capitalistic .
nations, and even to cause their downfall ."Developing the application of this idea,
which is one of Lenin's, the Bolshevist
professor writes" For no country is this more true thanfor Ireland.
If Ireland should become
independent, Great Britain would be struck
to the very foundations. Now, therefore, itis the duty of all British Communists todemand the complete independence of Ireland, and to take all the measures required
to bring it about, and for the entire Third
International this is of the utmost importance. Again, England is the rock on which
Capitalism is firmly rooted, the bulwarkof world Capitalism, the hope of all counterrevolution and all reaction. But Ireland is the
Achilles' Heel of England . For the revolution on the European continent, therefore forthe world revolution, it is a vital questionthat British Capital should be hit there ."204 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST

Dr. Gorter states that " the gigantic
genius of Marx saw all this long ago,"and he quotes the following from Marx,
which supplements Mrs . Webster's quotations" That country which makes entire nations
into its proletarians, which encompasses thewhole world in its gigantic arms, that once
already has defrayed out of its own funds
the cost of a European restoration, in thevery heart of which the class-antitheses
have developed into the most pronounced
and shameless extreme : that England seems
to be the rock against which all revolutionary
waves are broken, and which starves the
new society already in the maternal womb .
England dominates the world's market . A
subversion o f the national economic relationsin any country of the European continent, orin the whole of the European continent, would
be without England no more than a storm
in a glass of water . The relations of industry
and commerce within every nation are dominated by their intercourse with other nations,and depend on their relation to the world
market. England, however, dominates theworld market, and the bourgeoisie dominates
England ."Dr. Gorter points out that the above" applies in almost a magic way to ourown times ." England's " gigantic transport
fleet " is a menace to the Socialist order,and now that Germany is defeated EnglandIRELAND AND THE COLONIES 205
practically dominates the world markets .
" Now also Great Britain is the rock of
Capitalism in Europe ." He then quotes
Marx on Ireland . Marx wrote" Ireland is the stronghold of English
landed aristocracy . The exploitation of thiscountry is not only the main source of thenational wealth, it forms likewise England's
greatest moral strength. It represents, infact, the domination of England over Ireland .
Ireland, therefore, is the great expedient,by means of which the English aristocracy
maintains its domination in England itself .
On the other hand, withdraw the English
Army and police from Ireland to-morrowand you will straightway have an agrarian
revolution in Ireland . The fall of the English
aristocracy in Ireland, however, needs must
imply and inevitably leads to their overthrow in England . Through this the primal
condition for the proletarian revolution in
England would be fulfilled ."The remainder of the quotation given by
Hermann Gorter from Marx is the one
given by Mrs. Webster. Commenting onthese statements of Marx, Gorter says thatwhile the conditions in Ireland to-day havechanged since Marx wrote, what he said
to the First International " applies still,
and a hundred times more, to the Third.
The Third International must strive by
every possible means to promote the independence of Ireland."206 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST" But in the hands of the British workers
lies the fate of Ireland (concludes Dr . Gorter).
They must follow the example given by
Lenin and the Russian Bolsheviks, who, inorder to make the revolution in the wholeof Russia, demanded the independences ofFinland and Poland and the Baltic States .
The attitude of the British workers withregard to Ireland is the barometer for the
British revolution ." (From the Workers'
Dreadnought, May 8th, 1920 .)Since Trotsky, Lenin and Hermann Gorter
have paid so much attention to the needfor breaking up the British Empire, theorgans of Bolshevism and Revolution havefollowed this lead . The Socialist (Glasgow),
the organ of the Socialist Labour Party,
in its leading article on June 17th, 1920,
discussing the trouble in Ireland, remarks" L'affaire Irlandaise will yet prove therock on which the British Empire, thegreatest partnership of world-robbery andslaughter in history, will perish. The dissolution of the British Empire, the centre andstronghold of world-capitalism, is the necessary prelude to the success of the world
revolution of the working class . We of theSocialist Labour Party of Great Britain are
everywhere attempting to the best of ourability and resources to awaken British Labourto action in recognition of its duties andresponsibilities to Ireland . . . . The successof the Irish working class is our success ."IRELAND AND THE COLONIES 207
During the last decade a great and striking
change has come over Irish aims and methods .
The struggle against the British Empire is
being controlled by far more dangerous
and subtle brains, and one is forced to theconclusion that the real directing force
regards Irish independence not as an end
in itself, but as a means towards the accomplishment of world-wide anarchy . In thepast Ireland complained of English misgovernment, and at least admitted a solutionof the problem which would have left itwithin the Empire . To-day Ireland will
have no part or parcel in the British Empire,and seeks in the pursuit of its independence
the destruction of the social order . The
time of sporadic rebellion has passed withthe period of Parliamentary agitation . Sinn
Fein, once an intellectual movement, hasbeen swe pt away and finds itself united withorganised Irish Labour and the Social Revolutionaries pledged to the cause of Bolshevism
and Anarchy throughout the world .
It is a suggestive study to trace the meansby which this vital change was brought
about. The principal agent was James
Connolly, who introduced into the politics
of Irish disaffection the philosophy of Social
Revolution . From 1903 to 1910 Connolly
was in America, and there, as Mr . Dawson
points out in the book quoted above, hecame under the influence of Leon, whocounted Lenin among his disciples . It was

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Connolly's work that enabled Mr . de Blacam
to make the proud boast that Bolshevism
was born in Ireland, and Lenin himself
admitted that he owed much to the Irish
rebel who was executed after the rebellionof 1916. Here we have incontrovertible proofof the unity of control and direction that
underlies disorders in every part of theworld . Long before Germany had fallen
and could no longer provide Ireland withthe sinews of war the Irish movement hadcome into contact with the High Priest of
Bolshevism and was ready to play its partin the world conspiracy. Connolly was oneof the organisers of the Industrial Workersof the World in America, and as such had
every reason to become acquainted withmany of those who brought about the Russian
Revolution . There he must have learnt
the doctrines that the " formidable sect " wasspreading through the world for its own
purposes .
A direct link between the great Asiaticconspiracy and the Irish plot is a pparently
to be found in the person of Liam Mellowes,
who played a leading part in America inbringing about the open alliance between
the Sinn Fein organisation and Russian
Bolshevism. In the rebellion of 1916 this
Mellowes commanded a rebel force in County
Galway, and after its collapse he escapedfrom Ireland, probably to Germany . Laterhe is to be found in New York working with

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a German agent . His main object on thisoccasion was to organise another revolution
in Ireland in the spring of 1918, an attemptthat failed, but another of his enterprises
was from our point of view very significant,since it consisted in forwarding money to
the Turks and establishing a mysterious
Turkish organisation in America. It would
be interesting to know if this organisation
which thus came into existence after theUnited States had entered the war has
disappeared, or if it is in any way responsible
for the perpetual flow of subversive propaganda that finds its way into Asia from
America .
Of the part played by Sinn Fein during
the war there is no need to speak at length .
It is a matter of public knowledge that
German money was poured into Ireland toencourage rebellion, and the sinister figureof Casement serves as a perpetual reminderof the treachery that was at work . So
far as the world conspiracy was concerned
Ireland had long ago shown that it possessed
good material on which the promoters ofdisorder could reckon . What better ally
could the "formidable sect " desire than the
Ribbonmen of 1850, who wore a ribbon
on their sleeves and in their hearts carried
the words of the Ribbon Oath
" In the presence of Almighty God, andthis my brother, I do swear that I will
suffer my right hand to be cut from my0210 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
body and laid at the gaol door before I
will waylay or betray a brother, and I willpersevere and not spare from the cradle
to the crutch and the crutch to the cradle ;that I will not hear the moans or groans
of infancy or old age, but that I will wadeknee-deep in Orangeman's blood and do as
King James did ."Such an oath might well find its placein the Protocols of the " Elders of Zion," andMr . Dawson, when he describes the Ribbon
Society as "unrivalled for the purpose ofsocial revolution, unscrupulous, mysterious,
pitiless, `deaf to the moans of infancy orage,' " wrote a phrase that could equallywell be applied to the world-wide secretsocieties with which we have been dealing .
When Germany fell and rebellious Ireland
could hope for no more aid from thatquarter, it was natural that Sinn Feinshould seek alliance with Bolshevist Russia .
The negotiations were carried on in America
by Mellowes, of whose activities we havealready spoken, and Dr. McCartan, Sinn
Fein " ambassador " to the United States .
The Bolsheviks sent over a Mr. Martens, andan offensive alliance was concluded . Dr.
McCartan proclaimed to the world" The four million people of the Republicof Ireland, in their struggle to free themselves from military subjugation, want andwelcome the aid of the free men of theRussian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic .

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Between the Russians and the Irish, isolated
in their struggle against British armies ofoccupation to found securely the Republicof Ireland, there can exist only the senseof brotherhood which a common experience,
endured for a common purpose, alone can
induce ."That the programme of Sinn Fein as atpresent constituted is practically identicalwith that of the Moscow International, founded to enforce the dictatorship of theproletariat, the abolition of all existing
forms of government, and the expropriationof all property, is shown by the following
parallel passages quoted by the Duke ofNorthumberland in a speech made at a
meeting of members of the Houses of Lords
and Commons on July 7th, 1920 .

THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL . SINN FEIN, 1918 AND 1919.*
The enrolment of all
Immediate universal dictatorship of the proletariat, workers in the Union, theinvolving the seizure of Transport Union forming an
governmental power to re- organised proletariat . The
place it by the apparatus establishment of Dail Eireof proletarian power . This ann, a council of duly elected
implies the setting up of representatives of the Irish
working-class institutions as people to constitute deruling power, and the prin- facto as well as de jure
ciple of all rights to workers a National Government .
and no rights to any but The establishment of Repubworkers, and is to be effected lican Courts and the comby the displacement of all pulsory withdrawal of litibourgeois judges and estab- gants from British Courts .
* From the Reports and Memoranda presented to theInternational Labour and Socialist Conference at Berne,
February, 1919 .

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lishnient of all proletarian
courts, the elimination ofcontrol by Government
officials, and substitution of
new organs of managementof proletariat .
The disarming of thebourgeoisie and the generalarming of the proletariat inorder to make revolution
secure .
The dictatorship of theproletariat should be thelever of the immediate expropriation of capital andthe suppression of the rightof private property in themeans of production whichshould be transformed into
the property of the whole
nation.
The fundamental principle
is to subordinate the interestof the movement in eachcountry to the general interests of the international
revolution as a whole.

The formation (promised
but not yet accomplished)of a board responsible for
local government to take theplace of the Local Government Board .
With the Irish Volunteers
and formation of the Irish
Republican Army the latterpart of this ordinance may
be said to have been carriedout in Ireland .
To recover for the Nation
complete possession of all
the natural physical sourcesof wealth of the country .
To win for workers of Ireland
the ownership and controlof the whole produce of theirlabour. To abolish all powers
and privileges, social andpolitical, based on property
not granted or confirmed by
the freely expressed will of
the Irish people .
To assist in the efforts of
the working class of all
Nations in their struggle foremancipation.

This adoption of the Bolshevist programme
has meant wealth for Sinn Fein . Seven
years ago it was almost bankrupt ; to-day
it runs newspapers, keeps up an army, andeven equips its assassins with motor-cars .
A Helsingfors despatch of April, 1919, gives
the key to this sudden accession of riches .
" The Council of People's Commissaries . . .
have voted the sum of 500,000,000 roubles
monthly for the bureau of foreign propaganda. The first payment of 500,000,000

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roubles for the month of February was sent
to the Sinn Feiners in Ireland ."Naturally enough, the Bolsheviks in England stretched out a helping hand acrossthe Irish Channel to aid a movement thatis admirably organised, well furnished withthe sinews of war, and in all respects congenial to them . Mr. Smillie, who was sohonourably mentioned in Lenin's despatches,sought to tempt Sinn Fein to the " accursed
reactionary chamber " by the bright prospectof finding there an array of Labour members
pledged, like them, to the world conspiracy,
and suggested : " Your fight is our fight ;come over and help us ." The cry waspromptly taken up by the Bolshevist Pressin this country, and the following quotations
show how close is the alliance sworn between
British Bolsheviks and Irish Sinn Feiners" In the fight of the world proletariat forthe overthrow of Capitalism, every conscious
section realises that the British Governmenttypifies reaction in its worst form . It is
Britain which fights the war against Russia,
Britain is behind Horthy in Hungary, Britain
is behind the German Junkers . Generally
speaking, the overthrowing of the British
Government will be a tremendous impetus
to world revolt, and any people or classwhich is helping to fight British reaction isdeserving of support. Ireland, the nearest
country to Britain, is in revolt, and in
spite of every cruelty and repression, is more

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than holding her own ." (The Socialist, organof the Socialist Labour Party, and affiliatedto the Moscow International, July 8th,
1920.)The British Socialist Party (London) published in the Call of April 22nd, 1920, thefollowing manifesto
You wish to set up an Irish Republic .
So be it. The workers of Britain have noreal quarrel with your . demand. Only the
British ruling caste, drunk with imperialism,
and sodden with prosperity, denies yourclaim-as it denies the similar claims of
the peoples of Egypt and India . The B .S.P.
condemns the brutal methods employed by
the British Government in Ireland . . . andpledges the B .S .P. to assist by all means
in its power the endeavours of the Irish
people to national self-determination ."The Worker, the organ of the Scottish
Workers' Committees, also affiliated to the
Moscow International, printed on July 17th,
1920, an appeal from a Sinn Feiner to Irish
people in Britain" In the future you must view the industrial
centres in Britain as it were from a military
point of view and the outposts of ourfighting front . Realise the importance ofyour position and your power to its fullsignificance as a cog in the machinery that
produces and distributes the means of existence for Britain. You can help in changing
the control of the machinery, or, if needs be,

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destroy it--T4iggin Thu . Therefore, yourplace is in the Workers' Committees ."The Call, June 10th, 1920, in a leading
article on Mr . J . H. Thomas and the Irish
railwaymen, says
" Consider the Irish situation ! The vilest
and most despicable tyranny of modern
times- has driven the Irish people into open
rebellion. They hold Ireland against theirEnglish masters .
They are ' desperately
reckless, unscrupulous, if you will, in theirfight for the independence which has been
their dream for centuries .
But they areright. . . . All that Austria, Russia, Spain,
the tyrannies of the past stood for, England
stands for now. By the sword, and by thesword alone, she holds Ireland . The Irish
railwaymen are bound to refuse to caxry
troops, etc . ,They would be craven curs ifthey did less, and it is the duty of every
decent Englishman to support them to theutmost limit of his power."
Equally explicit is a leading article in
the Worker of April 24th, 1920
" Come, fellow workers, stir yourselves .
We have to go through it yet, for until we
do Ireland cannot be free, nor can weourselves be free . Not until we have attempted to cleanse the earth of this foul garbage
of Capitalist Militarism can we be called
men. So long as we make no move toprevent these atrocities, we ourselves are
participants 'in them. Down tools and let

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Britain rot until Ireland's wrongs are removed."
Tom Quelch, of the B .S.P. Executive,
writing an open letter to a young comradein the Call of April 29th, 1920, bids him" Think of the men of '48 ; think of theCommunards, think of the Chicago martyrs,
think of Marx, of Bebel, of Jaures, ofWilliam Liebknecht, of William Morris, of
Jim Connolly, of Debs, of Lenin, of Karl
Liebknecht, of Rosa Luxembourg, of Bela
Kun-think of all who have given so muchfor the solidarity and happiness of thehuman race-and work, and strive, and, if
needs be, fight in the service of the World
Socialist Republic ."Space will not permit more than a brief
outline of the activities of the Bolshevist
conspirators in South Africa, Australia, andCanada. In Johannesburg and Capetown
two Russians preached the world revolution,
and as they spoke in Russian to their own
compatriots the, meaning of their propaganda was not at first realised by, theauthorities . The result of their efforts was
displayed in a strike at Johannesburg, which
the leaders proclaimed as the herald ofgeneral revolution . M. Miliukov, in his
Bolshevism, An International Danger, tells
how when they were sailing from Mozambique at the request of the authorities,
who had discovered their mission, one ofthem, named Lapinsky, told the revolu-

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tionaries who had come to see them off
that the Russian Bolsheviks were the advanceguard of the world revolution, and thatsome day he would return in triumph .
Very characteristic of the world conspiracy were the means used for spreading
revolutionary ideas in : Australia . A secretsociety organised in small groups was atwork preaching the Bolshevist doctrine . It
will have been noted that there is an invariable tendency in this conspiracy inevery part of the world to use pseudonyms,
partly no doubt for security's sake, butalso to enhance the mystery that is notwithout its effect on the imagination of the
public and to conceal too obvious tracesof racial origin . Thus, as we have shown,many of the secret leaders of the French
Revolution chose their own names, , and itis the exception to find a Russian Bolshevik
who is not known by a name that is intended
not to define, but to hide his family andrace. In Australia we find the same system .
The members of the secret society concealed
their identities under false names, and carried on their propaganda by unsigned typewritten pamphlets . Their activities resulted
in a violent demonstration at Brisbane,
which eventually ended in the discomfitureof the Bolsheviks at the hands of returned
soldiers, and it is reasonable to see theirhand in the industrial unrest that followed
this affair .

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Better known to the public are the resultsof " the programme of violence and hypocrisy " in Canada, where the movement
is very closely connected with the powerfulrevolutionary organisations of the UnitedStates. Toronto could boast three Bolshevist
societies, of which the members were 90 per
cent. foreign and 75 per cent. Russian .
The riots at Winnipeg, which were ended by
the vigorous action of the North-West
Mounted Police, a force that knows how to
use force when force is necessary, and by
the arming of loyal citizens, proved that
Bolshevist propaganda had made its impression in the West, though the revolutionaries
would never have attained the temporary
success they enjoyed had it not been thatthe war veterans were carrying on a demonstration of their own for an entirely different
purpose . Among the Canadian Bolshevist
leaders there are many Russian and Jewish
names, and the gospel preached is the now
familiar demand for the overthrow of the" damnable trinity of Religion, Government,
and Capitalism." It would be difficult tofind a better summary of the doctrines set
out in the Protocols, to be preached to all
peoples in order that the " formidable sect "may, when the moment comes, grasp fromthe midst of world anarchy universal
dominion .

CHAPTER XVTHE UPHEAVAL IN GREAT BRITAIN

Preparing the Ground-Education of the Labour Movement-The Study of Marxianism-The " Internationale
of Young Proletarian Students," and the " Young
Socialist League "--Creating a Revolutionary Situation-Moscow's Instructions .

THE manifestations of the world conspiracy
have not affected really closely the daily
life of the average British reader. Revolutions in Russia or Turkey, the failure of
the Peace Conference, or even disorderand bloodshed in Ireland, have less immediate result on every day existence thanthe menace of a German air raid . The
subject now to be discussed is of intimate
concern to the pocket and ambition of
every citizen of the British Isles. Since
the Armistice the clash between Capitaland Labour, the increasing demands formore money and less work on the part ofthe labouring classes, have had a definite
and concrete effect on every Englishman'spleasure and business . The main pillarof British supremacy has been our industrial predominance, and it is the object of
this chapter to ascertain how far the attacks
now being directed against that predominance are due to external influence and to" the programme of violence and hypocrisy "219

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preached under the control of the "formidable sect ."The British working man is naturally" insular " in his outlook, and it is only
through foreign influence that the " formidable sect " could bring him into linewith the revolutionaries of the Continent. Such influence is mainly concealed,though sometimes the alliance between
British Labour leaders and Russian Bolsheviks is flaunted before the world . No
more comical example of this alliance could
be discovered than the presentation of
the Soviet Military Medal to Mr . RobertWilliams, Secretary of the Transport Workers' Federation . It was to be expectedthat the Moscow authorities should be very
anxious to confer the same medal on Mr.
Smillie, who has fought so nobly in the causeof Bolshevism .
Throughout Great Britain an attempt
is being made to create what Lenin would
describe as " a revolutionary situation ."It has been shown how continuous beneaththe surface are the secret influences that
control all revolutions . This fact is often
ignored by the general public . It regards
each outbreak of revolution as a peculiar
phenomenon due to conditions of contemporary society, and quite unconnected withsimilar outbreaks in the past . The demands
and methods of our present day revolutionaries are regarded as quite modern, and as

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an evidence of advanced thought, if notexactly an indication of moral and social
progress . The Bolsheviks in Russia andthe Left Wing of the British Labour movement are not the advocates of new and upto-date doctrines, the result of the better
education, and, in the words of Mr . Frank
Hodges, " the awakened consciousness " ofthe workers, but they are putting before
the proletariat a rehash of shibboleths
that have been the stock-in-trade of theInternationalists and world-revolutionaries
for well over a century .
To understand the revolutionary movement in Great Britain it is first necessary
to explain that the Socialist societies inthis country are, with one or two exceptions,International organisations ; and that theiraims and methods and phraseology arederived from foreign sources-mainly fromthe Jews of Central and Eastern Europe .
We shall never really understand so-called
British Socialism if we fail to grasp thisimportant fact . It is the key to much thatis otherwise inexplicable . It is, of course,
exceedingly difficult for those who are notfamiliar with the ramifications of International Socialism to perceive this alien
influence in movements that are apparentlyof British origin. This difficulty is increasedby the fact that in this country the known
leaders of revolutionary organisations are
generally of British birth . The Interna-

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tional Jew does not usually appear as
the leader, as he so frequently does on theContinent, and even in the Labour movement of America . The British workman
will not, as a rule, knowingly be led bymen of an alien race . There are, of course,
exceptions, as in the case of the Clyde
strike in January, 1919, when, the chairman of the Strike Committee was a Polish
Jew tailor, and close study shows that theLeft Wing of the British Labour and Socialist
movement is completely dominated by antiBritish sentiments ; and the origin of thesesentiments is to be found in the foreign
influences operating on the Continent andin America.
An essential point in the study of theplans for a revolution in Great Britain
and in other parts of the Empire is theconnection between the theories and doctrines of the German Jew, Karl Marx,and the methods of our revolutionary
Socialists and Syndicalists . The British
leaders of Socialism in the latter part of
the nineteenth and the beginning of thepresent century were influenced very little
indeed by the writings of Marx . Mr. Robert
Blatchford, for instance, has often admitted
that he has never even read Marx's Capital.
Mr. H. M . Hyndman was the best exponentof Marxism, but he is generally regarded
by the modern Marxians as "unsound,"because he is a " Social patriot ." Until

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recently, then, Socialism in England wasmore English in its aims and methods thanInternational or Marxian Socialism . But
just before the outbreak of war there wasa noticeable drift of the young men in the
Labour movement towards Marxian Socialism, with the consequent tendency towards
Internationalism and revolution . Since theArmistice this Left Wing movement has
grown considerably, and Marxian economic
classes have been constantly increasing in
numbers. Hundreds of workers now attend
these classes, where they are taught the
ethics of the " class war " and the needfor revolution.
It was the demand of the Marxists forthis type of " education " for the wageearners that caused the split in RuskinCollege and led to the formation of theLabour College, now financed by the
National Union of Railwaymen and South
Wales Miners' Federation, and by the recently formed Postal Workers' Union . Thisso-called educational movement is one of
the most active Bolshevist organisations inthis country . The staffs of the colleges,
especially in the North, are almost entirelycomposed of avowed Bolsheviks and official
members of societies affiliated to the Third
International at Moscow.
The Labour Colleges and the local economic classes run in connection with theseColleges are mainly concerned with the224 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
promulgation of Marxism and the peculiarInternationalism, or anti-patriotism, thatis the foundation of the revolutionary movement in Great Britain . Just prior to theoutbreak of war negotiations were taking
place for the establishment of an " International of Young Proletarian Students ."The people most interested in the formation of this International organisation were
the Germans. The German Social Democrats were to be mainly responsible for thefinancing of the whole scheme . Here in
England the persons chiefly concerned withthe plan were the Marxists, including German and Russian Jews . The scheme shouldhave been launched at the International
Congress which was fixed for August, 1914 .
The war prevented the Congress being held .
It is not without significance that the persons
in this country who were conducting thenegotiations with the Germans became, on
the outbreak of war, actively associatedwith various pro-German and Defeatist societies, and some of them got into trouble
with the authorities in consequence .
This German-inspired scheme for theInternational education of the proletariatof every country contained the following
proposals" (1) An International Federation of such
Socialist and Labour Colleges as are provided and controlled by working-class organisations independently and not in co-partner-

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ship with those bulwarks of Capitalismthe Church and the Universities .
(2) An International Working-class Students' Union, in order to secure the rank
and file character of this union, the unit
to be not the Labour 'Leader' or theGreat Committee of such 'Leaders' but
the class (controlled by the workers) for
the study of the principles of International
Socialism.
" (3) A system of International Travelling
Scholarships to facilitate an interchange
between various countries of lectures on
International Socialism, and also to make it .
possible for working-class students (menand women) to visit and study the conditions in other countries than their own,
and to report to their organisations .
" (4) An International Socialist Library, inorder to bring within the reach of workingclass students translations of the best works
on International Socialism published invarious countries, and in connection withthis library an International Journal of
Education showing the developments in
education in different countries ."The war prevented the realisation ofthis plan, and now that Germany is scarcely
in a position to finance the scheme, efforts
are being made to - link it with the Third
International and to make the Soviet Government responsible for its direction andcontrol. The Labour delegates to Russia
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brought back a letter from Chicherin on
this matter, in which he promises to consider how this scheme can be put into operation . The recipient of this letter, Mrs .
Bridges Adams, writing to a Bolshevist
paper, the Socialist, official organ of theSocialist Labour Party, states that somemonths ago, if peace had been made with
Russia, it was proposed to send from Britain
this summer a party of students of the many
classes now being held for the study of
Marxian economics and industrial history=
about 200, including a contingent from theJames Connolly Labour College in Dublin, to
Russia, the others to Italy, Germany, andSwitzerland .
Mrs . Adams adds that at the present time,in order to meet the cost of this Mission,
Mrs. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, the ex-millgirl authoress, is appealing for £2,000 .
" However, if the money is not forthcoming in Britain, an international appeal
will be issued. From Russia, when oncethe difficulties of which Chicherin has written
me are removed, the response will be generous, even to the extent, if necessary, ofsending a ship for the students and defraying the cost of the Mission . Comrades will
see the great possibilities of this movement ."Mrs. Adams expresses the hope that thisInternational of Young Proletarian Students
will work " within and as an integral part ofUPHEAVAL IN GREAT BRITAIN 227
the Moscow or Third International ." Shedesires support for Chicherin's
policy" to bring together our Socialist Labour
students and Russian students ; to support
him by an earnest propaganda on the movement here outlined in the factories and in themines, and in the branches of working-classorganisations. No mission from Britain
would be more welcome in Russia than aproletarian students' mission . The RussianSocialists understand the meaning of International Labour solidarity, and will not visit
upon young British workers the hellish
crimes of British Imperialism against Soviet
Russia . . . . Long live the youth of the Red
International."
From the above statement it seems that
the Soviet Government, with its overwhelming Jewish influence, is now likely to takethe place originally assigned to the German
Social Democrats for the control and direction of the " education " of the Labour
movement in Great Britain and other countries . In either case, however, the International Jews would be the controlling power,
and we know that the instruction provided
for the wage-earners at the economic classes
and at the Labour Colleges is based on thewritings and theories of Jewish authorities
in the world of International Socialism.
The " Young Socialists' International "is a movement to capture for Bolshevism
the boys and girls of the working class .

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At an International Conference held at
Berlin last December it was decided to callit the "Young Communist International,"
and to affiliate to the Moscow International.
The British Section is the " Young Socialist
League," and its official organ, first issued
in May last, is the Red Flag . The editor is
Nathan B . Whycer . The leaders in London
are persons with such British names as
Saphire, Zeital and Troubman . In the firstissue of the Red Flag there is an article on
the Berlin Conference of young Socialists,
written by A . Fineberg . This article isfollowed by a letter from the " Executive
Committee of the Young Communist International," dated Berlin, February, 1920.
The letter concludes with the following
statement"Just as the Russian youth in Russia
are defending the Socialist Republic in the,front rank of the Red army, just as in Germany the Socialist youth are the standard
bearers of revolutionary Socialism, so theproletarian youth in the countries of the
Entente will enter the struggle for the overthrow of the bourgeois Governments and thedestruction of the Capitalist States, and forthe victory of communism through the dictatorship of the proletariat ."Before a revolution can take place in any
country much preparatory work must be
done. A revolutionary situation must firstbe created, and if the natural conditions

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of society do not tend in this direction,
efforts must be made to force them into theright channel for revolution . This is the
purpose of the revolutionary Socialists andSyndicalists in this country . Our revolutionaries, working in conjunction with foreign revolutionaries, who are mainly International Jews, have to find ways and meansof creating in Great Britain an industrial
crisis of such a magnitude that a revolution
will be practically inevitable . This is theimmediate problem of the revolutionary
movement here . How will this crisis bebrought about?
A very significant quotation has alreadybeen given"Want and opinion are the two agents
which make all men act . Cause the want,govern opinions, and you will overturn all
the existing systems, however well consolidated they may appear."This is sound revolutionary doctrine .
Now, the whole case for Marxism rests on
the entire break-up of the existing social
order. Marx himself believed that this would
be brought about by hunger and want
driving the masses into a violent revolution .
The theory was that the development of
the capitalist system would be in the direction of an ever-widening gulf between therich and the poor. He wrote that "therich are getting richer, the poor poorer, themiddle class is being crushed out," and he230 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
predicted that the condition of the workers
would become worse until they were driven
by sheer desperation to revolution . " Thenthe knell of the capitalistic system will havesounded . The producers will assert themselves under the pressure of an irresistible
impulse ; they will repossess themselves of
the implements of production of which they
have been so long deprived ."These predictions of Marx have beenfalsified by events . The extreme poverty
and sufferings of the workers, on which
his anticipations were based, have not been
experienced, 'least of all in this country .
The British worker has, on the whole,greatly improved his economic position since
Marx made his predictions . And this comparative prosperity of the British worker
is the greatest obstacle, not only to a revolution in this country, but to the world
revolution planned by the foreign revolutionaries . It is admitted by Trotsky and
by Dr. Hermann Gorter, author of The
World Revolution, that their plans for aworld-wide revolution cannot be successful
so long as there is a united British Empire .
This was also the opinion of Karl Marx .
The problem of the international organisers of revolution consists of (1) how todestroy Britain's industrial prosperity, and(2) how to break up the British Empire .
The first of these objects is to be realised bystrikes, the reduction of output, and by

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constant demands for higher wages until
the profits of each industry are absorbed by
Labour. The second object is to be attainedby supporting and organising rebellions andinsurrections in various parts of the Empire .
The cumulative effect of this policy, if successful, would certainly be extreme poverty
and suffering for the masses, and a " revolutionary situation " would undoubtedly
exist. If at the same time opinion were
properly controlled it would be possible tooverthrow the existing social order, and to
set up a Dictatorship of the kind advocatedby the International Socialists . In the International publications of the Bolsheviks,
which are widely circulated in this country,
will be found proposals for the destructionof our industries, the break-up of the Empire,
and for the control of opinion by a Minority
acting as a Dictatorship . In this effort
to bring about a revolution all sorts ofmethods are proposed . A writer in the
Worker, the organ of the Scottish Workers'
Committees, states-It must not be supposed that, though
we pin great faith in improved industrialorganisation, that we are industrial absolutists, relying on industrial action alone
to bring about the workers' emancipation .
As Karl Radek so finely puts it : `Victoryhas got to be earned by a daily combat withthe bourgeoisie on all the domains of social
life, a combat issuing finally into direct

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revolutionary strife, class against class .'The industrial weapon will have to be supplemented by other weapons evolved by theworkers as the struggle increases in intensity.
The strike, supplemented by the otherweapons, will have to be used against theState, as well as against the employers,
until the Capitalist State has been brought
to the ground and the workers, under theshield of the proletarian dictatorship, arebuilding up the new Communist Republic ."(The Worker, June 12th, 1920 .)What the Jew, Karl Radek, means isindicated in an article he has recently
written for the Call, the organ of the British
Socialist Party-a party of which the members in London are mainly foreign Jews,
as anyone can see who attends a London
meeting of the party . In this article Radekstates that if Great Britain does not cometo terms with the Soviet Government the
British Empire will be attacked by the Bolsheviks at its most vulnerable point--India .
The quotation the Worker gives from Radek
recalls the boast of the " Elders of Zion "that they have instilled class hatred into thepeoples .
The revolutionaries in Great Britain, acting
on instructions from the International at
Moscow, profess to believe that the capitalist
system cannot recover from the economic
effects of the war, and quote in support ofthis conclusion a book, Capitalism To-day,UPHEAVAL IN GREAT BRITAIN 233
by Ernst Kahn, an American Marxist . This
book is very popular with the Marxian
economic classes, and a cheap edition isshortly to be published by Charles Kerr,
the Socialists' publishers, of America . Under
the economic crisis that is developing, theworkers will be driven " to rebel against
the whole regime, and substitute their own
power. It is here that the function of theCommunist arises . The workers, as a whole,
rebel against a regime of which they feelthe pricks, without any preconceived doctrinaire theory. It is the business of theCommunist to guide their movements into
its realisation in the dictatorship of theproletariat ."This advice is, we find, generally acted
upon in Labour disputes in this country .
For instance, in an article on the gas strikeat Manchester, in the Workers' Dreadnought,
July 17th, 1920, it is stated that " Communists ought to be on the spot whereversuch spontaneous revolts occur, doing vital
propaganda, endeavouring to communistically educate discontent ."The writer goes on to express satisfaction
with this strike, and states that this workingclass power " if used in the general strike
would bring, not merely a wage increase fora few, or all, but create in the industrial
world right and ripe conditions for full proletarian control ."CHAPTER XVI
THE WARNING OF CENTURIES
Revolutionary Propaganda and Organisation-The Bolshevist Press in Great Britain-Evidences of a Continuous Conspiracy-Christianity : the Stumbling-blockof Bolshevism.

IN every part of the country we find that

the International Revolutionaries desire tocontrol and direct Labour unrest and discontent . They have a general contempt
for the intelligence of the masses, andassume that they will never go in the right
direction without their guidance . This contempt for public opinion is fully expressedby Mr. G. D . H. Cole in his book, The Worldof Labour, p. 34.
" For if there can be greater dishonesty

in envisaging the problem, a greater refusal
to face the facts, than that which theaspiring politician has to learn, it is assuredly
to be found in the narrowness, egoism, andintellectual indolence that characterise thegreat British public . If the industrial revolution has turned the worker into a mere
producing machine, it has quite equallyturned the public into a mass of mere
consumers, with consciences always in theirpockets and brains nowhere or directed toanything rather than the social question . In
this country, at least, it is useless to invoke
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public opinion, because it is selfish, unenlightened, and vindictive ."How this direction of the workers towards
revolution is to be secured is explained in
the Call of May 20th, 1920, in an article on
Communist Organisation." The Call isthe official organ of the British Socialist
Party (London), and Chicherin, Litvinoff,
Fineberg, and other members of the Soviet
Government were active members of the
B.S.P. when living in London . Karl Radek,
Clara Zetkin (German Spartacists), N. Osinsky, and many other Jewish revolutionariesof the Continent are frequent contributors
to it . The party is affiliated to the Third
International, and the letter from Lenin to
the British Workers, brought by Messrs .
Shaw and Turner, was directed to the B .S.P.,
and contained a covering letter on behalf ofLenin, signed by Marcel Rosenberg .
The article referred to outlines the methods
to be adopted by the revolutionaries toprepare the Labour movement for the coming
revolution . The writer describes the workingclass organisations as in the main " likerudderless craft in conflicting currents . The
mission of the Communist is to supply therudder ."" During the stormy period of transition
from Capitalism to Socialism we shall require new machinery of government andproduction. May it not be that we can use
the Trade Unions as our machinery of236 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
production, and the Co-operative movement
as the framework of our machinery of
distribution ?
" We need a revolutionary Communist
group in every Trade Union branch, in every
local Labour Party, on every committee ofmanagement of a Co-operative Society ;responsible directly to the branch of theParty in that locality, guiding the mass of
the workers into the Communist path, preparing for the day when the existing machinery of society is no longer adequate tocarry out the desires of the people .
" By these means the existing workingclass organisations can be made to serve thepurpose of the revolutionary proletariat .
Each branch of the Party should co-ordinate
the activities of these organisations in its
area and render periodical reports to Party
headquarters . Headquarters would thus become the real nerve-centre of Communist
propaganda . By this means, in a short time
it would be possible to ensure the electionof Communists to all executive and organising
posts in the Trade Unions and the Labour
Party.
" At the same time, recruiting should beproceeded with from the point of view of
attracting to our Party the flower of theproletariat. If a young man of promise iselected as branch secretary or shop-steward
in a Trade Union, he should become theobjective of intensive personal propaganda

THE WARNING OF CENTURIES 237
to convert him to our ideals . By thus
supplying the bulk of the acknowledged
leaders of the working class, it would followthat the lead of the Communist Party would
be instinctively followed in a time of crisis .
Wherever workers meet to discuss wages orthe conditions of existence, there should befound a group of comrades ready to help
them in their immediate aims and at thesame time point to the root cause of all
their grievances and suffering in order tomake them realise that only with the overthrow of Capitalism can their conditions bepermanently bettered . . . .
It is at least certain, however, that only
by becoming the leaders and guiding forceof such organisations as exist to-day can
the Communist and the revolutionary tomorrow hope to carry with them the massof the proletariat .
" Close up the ranks, comrades ! "In the same issue is an article by Otto
Maschl, reproduced from Le Bulletin Com
muniste, on the function of Workers' Councils, in which he describes them as " revolutionary ante-chambers ." " They are thetouchstones, which constantly excite thehatred of the bourgeoisie, even if they are
not at all inspired with revolutionary sentiments . For they are the most suitable
instruments for keeping alive the class war ."The aims of these organisers of revolution
are revealed in an article by Clara Zetkin,

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specially written for the Call of April 29th,
1920. This writer is a Jewess, and hastaken the place of Rosa Luxembourg as aleader of the German Communists . In thisarticle she describes the progress the International Revolutionaries are now making .
" Over Italy roar the thunders of thecoming storm ; in France there is sheetlightning ; storms rage through the proud
Empire of Great Britain . In England andScotland growing masses of workers unite
round the Socialist, the Communist, flag .
Ireland, Egypt, and India are in revolt . The
wage slaves in the United States muster forthe class struggle ; their strikes become
greater and greater in extent, more importantand take a revolutionary character. Theinternational situation, in consequence of the
diplomatic squabbling among the AlliedPowers for the booty of the world war, isrich in conflicts, pregnant with future wars .
Here, too, the economic basis of Capitalist
order, class antagonism, and class struggles,
grow in intensity and bitterness . Frombeneath the volcanic depths of Society rises
Socialism, Communism ."She goes on to call not for resolutions but
for mass action.
" Now the battle between workers andbourgeois is no longer one for reforms in the
Capitalist order, its aim is to overthrow, tosubdue this order . Capitalism or Socialism
and Communism is the battle-cry . No reso-

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lutions on paper must be the aim, but theliving, powerful action of the working
masses ."She concludes by appealing to the British
workers to rally " to the red banner of theThird International," and sends them greetings from the Communists of " Germany inrevolution ."In the Socialist, the organ of the Socialist
Labour Party (Glasgow), which is affiliatedto the Third International and provides
nearly all the strike leaders on the Clyde,
there appeared on April 22nd, 1920, a
statement from the Communist Bureau at
Amsterdam urging the workers in GreatBritain to strike on May Day. The appeal
is signed by H . Roland Holst . In the courseof this statement it is declared that a real
peace " with the Soviet Republic of Russia
is impossible under Capitalism ." " A real
peace for Russia means the victory of theWorld Revolution, and nothing less ." Headvises other countries to strive towards
Soviet Republics.
" This inspiring aim we must always havein mind in all our deeds, in all our actions .
We must fill our heads with Revolutionary
thoughts, we mustt be willing to destroy theweapons of our enemies . . . . All this we
can only achieve in a constant fight with our
exploiters, by giving this fight a general
revolutionary character . It means a complete break with bourgeois civilisation, bour-240 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
geois morals, bourgeois supremacy. It means
Labour as the basic principle of social andmoral life . . . . The outward facade of thebourgeois state of society still exists, but it
may fall to pieces at any moment, althougha long and severe struggle will doubtless benecessary, as much to finally crush thebourgeoisie as to affect in the mass of thepeople the moral and intellectual transformation that will make them able to institutethe Communist Commonwealth, and renderthem fit to live in it . We may be convincedthat any little thing, an indifferent circumstance, may now at any moment, by causing
the countless elements of the new revolutionary consciousness floating all over theworld to unite into a new body
body and manifest
themselves with unexpected force, be theinstigator of renewed strife and promiseful
upheaval . . . . The times for the passingof Capitalism are ripe, and any dead calm
may be the foreboder of new social storms
unexpectedly rising."" Prompted by these considerations," theAmsterdam Bureau urges the workers' organisations to be prepared for action andto strike on May Day, 1920, " in favour ofSoviet Russia ."The Executive of the Amsterdam SubBureau of the Third International is one of
the chief foreign influences that affect ourrevolutionary societies. The manifestoes ofthis Bureau are signed by D. J. Wynkoop,

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Henrietta Roland Holst, and G. J. Rutgers .
In the B.S.P. organ, the Call, of April 1st,
1920, there is a long manifesto from thisBureau entitled " German Revolution : An
Appeal to the British, French, and Belgian
Proletariat ." After condemning the Allies
for their treatment of Germany, it bursts
into exhortations.
" Workers of the Entente 1 Loudly proclaim your solidarity with the German revolution 1 Compel your Governments to withdraw the troops from the occupied territory .
Railwaymen 1 Refuse to allow the transportof any troops or any arms or munitions toGermany . All of you answer any attempton the part of your Governments to strangle
the German revolution by extending andintensifying your own revolutionary activity."
The writers of this manifesto compliment
the British Proletariat on the magnificent
meetings of the Hands off Russia Committee, and they state that the revolutions
in various countries are part of one revolution, the Social Revolution . The " fate of
the European Revolution depends on you,"they write, and conclude with " Hurrah for
the Communist Revolution in Germany !
Hurrah for the World Revolution, theUniversal Soviet Republic 1 "In an article by Dr . Hermann Gorter
written for Data (February, 1920), the" organof the Socialist Information and Researchx242 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST
Bureau " (Scotland), he specially appeals
to the British workers to lead the European
Revolution-the English proletariat " must
place itself at the head of the proletariat inWestern Europe ." " The fate of the world
revolution, the fate of humanity, lies in thehands of the English workers ."Among, the supporters of this Bolshevist
campaign against the British Empire is
Mr. E. D. Morel, of the notorious Unionof Democratic Control . Writing in Foreign
Affairs, the organ of the U .D .C., for June,
1920, Mr . Morel discusses " The Why and theWherefore of the War against Russia ." The
British attack on the Bolsheviks is, according
to Mr. Morel, inspired by fear of the resultof a strong Socialist State in Russia .
" The advent of a great Socialist State inEurope is a solvent of Empire . Empire-thedominion over many nationally conscious
peoples by a single alien people-and Socialism are irreconcilable factors. They aremutually destructive: The Imperialists who
presently govern the British Empire and who
contemplate the consequences of the triumphant emergence of a great Socialist Statein the geographical position of Russia-halfEuropean, half Asiatic-are not thinking interms of Britain when the seek to prevent
such a consummation . They are thinking
in terms of the British Empire ."After stating that British capital has
nothing " to fear from the growth to adoles-

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cence of a Russian Socialist State," because
Lenin is willing to give us trading concessions
if we will make peace with him, he says
"But British Imperialism has everything
to fear from the survival of Soviet Russia ."" The heart of the British Empire beats
in Asia-I speak, not of the Commonwealth,but of the Empire . . . . The Russian mind
knows how to read the Asiatic mind .
Picture Russia a Socialist State, freed fromher external foes, flanked by a series ofracially alien or politically allied-sometimes both-lesser States, not in Europe only
but in Asia, States enjoying full autonomy,
permeated with Socialist ideals and precepts
and practices radiating from a centre where
education and science have been elevatedinto fine arts, where the treasures of knowledge, the accumulated learning of the ages
are thrown open to all, made accessible tothe humblest citizen . Picture Russia thus
-then look at India, Persia, Afghanistan,
Burma, under present conditions . Need you
ask why British Imperialism shrinks at theprospect, and fears ; fears unutterably as itscans the future ? "Mr . Morel goes on to declare that British
Imperialism is to-day more unyielding andintolerant in consequence of the " very
magnitude of its successes in the war,"
which have intoxicated it . " It has becomea militarist Imperialism as it never was
before." Lenin and Trotsky have dis-244 THE CAUSE OF WORLD UNREST

credited Western diplomacy, and " thedangers to be apprehended from the future
are so enormous for the existing Order that
the Russian wreckers of the occult power
which rules the people's lives must be
broken." Morel therefore concludes that
British Imperialism is fighting the Bolsheviks
because it " knows its very existence is atstake."
These statements from Morel resemble
those of Trotsky and Radek on attacking
the British Empire in Asia.
The "Elders of Zion" used "anarchy
as a means to an end ." This view is supported by the manifesto of the Executive
Committee of the Third International, published in the Call of April 22nd, 1920, andsigned by G . Zinoviev . This manifesto statesthat the revolutionary forces in France,
America, England, and Germany are growing,and " Anarcho- Socialist bodies and thoseindividuals who till now claimed to beorthodox anarchists, mix themselves up
with the others in the general current . The
Executive Committee of the Third International welcomes this most cordially ."After explaining how, Syndicalists and Anarchists, being opposed to Parliaments, may
help on the world revolution, the Committee
declare that " the bourgeois State, its Kings,
Presidents, Parliaments, Constituent Assemblies, etc., are our deadly enemies and must
be crushed ." They point out that it isTHE WARNING OF CENTURIES 245
possible at times to further the revolution
in a country by participating in politicalaction, and they instance Liebknecht inGermany and Hoglund in Sweden . The
latter, "utilising Parliament, precipitatedthe collapse of Parliamentism . Nobody
has ever done more in Sweden for the
revolution than he ." The same again in
Bulgaria, where the " Communists also used
the pulpit of Parliament for the propagationof the ideas of the Communist Revolution ."These revolutionaries are to enter Parliament
with the intention of getting " into closest
touch with its machinery, and then put
spokes in its wheels ."Conditions in England, France, andAmerica are not yet ripe for the overthrowof the State . In these countries " there
have been very few individuals who could
be said to resemble the Russian Bolsheviks
or the German Spartacists ." So the Committee at Moscow advise that
" If such elements (Bolsheviks and Spartacists) increase in numbers and strength,
everything may get changed . At first it isnecessary : (1) The centre of gravity of the
struggle must be outside of Parliaments(strikes, revolts, insurrections, etc .) ; (2) the
struggle inside the Parliaments must be
closely connected with the struggle outside ;(8) the representatives must take part ingeneral organisation work ; (4) the representatives must act by directions of the Central

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i

Committee and be responsible to it ; (5) theymust not conform to the Parliamentarymanners and customs ."The manifesto concludes with the following interesting instructions" We have to state again that the mostvital part of the struggle must be outside of
Parliament-on the street . It is clear thatthe most effective weapons of the workers
against Capitalism are : The strike, therevolt, armed insurrection . Comrades haveto keep in mind the following : Organisationof the Party, instalment of the Party groups
in the Trade Unions, leadership of the masses,
etc. Parliamentary activities and participation in elections must be used only as asecondary measure-no more ."(Call, April 22nd, 1920 .)This manifesto also appeared in theSocialist (Glasgow) and other Bolshevist
papers in this country . The National Councilof Shop Stewards' and Workers' Committees,a body affiliated to the Moscow International,
is carrying out these Moscow Instructions
on the industrial side .
Confirmation of the anti-Christian natureof the Jewish secret organisations describedearlier in this book is found in an article in
the Call of April 1st, 1920. An article
entitled " Man has Arisen ! " by John Bryan,
describing the new " light in the East "Bolshevism, says
" The pagan world could not have been

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worse than this world of Christianity . Only
it had no bishops to preach from the pulpits
the Easter lie, and to administer 'opium'
to the masses, as the Bolshevik inscription
on one of Moscow's church gates boldly
puts it."But " a new light has arisen in the East,and not a will o' the wisp, a light thatreveals the truth, and shows the road, thatinspires hope and confidence, that warms
and encourages, that adds to the strengthof the body and the soul . . . Russia led
by the Bolsheviks, Russia guided by thetranscendent genius of Lenin, and assisted
by a host of workers with Trotsky, theincomparable organiser, at their head-thisRussia has been the saviour of the world,
its redeemer from cynicism, scepticism, anddemoralisation which had been gnawing at
its very vitals, threatening destruction anddeath." For this part Russia has been
" crucified by the capitalist Powers," andshe is bleeding from every pore . " But,
unlike Christ, she did not weep bloody
tears out of pity for herself when making
up her mind rather to be crucified than to
betray the trust which history had placedin her hands ; nor is she likely to die on the
cross before she accomplishes her mission .
she lives, and gives life, and, soon,
she will descend from the cross and cry out
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ment in this country it is important tonote how it is guided by the writings offoreign revolutionaries, mainly Jews . The
following are only a few of the more prominent and frequent foreign contributors to
the Bolshevist Press in Great Britain, whosebooks and articles are largely circulated
in this country in connection with the
Marxian economic classes and for the purposeof revolutionary propaganda . The worksof Marx and Engels are, of course, textbooks in all classes run by the Labour
College Movement and by the Bolshevist
Societies .
The articles of Lenin and Trotsky are
published regularly in the Call, the Socialist,
the Workers' Dreadnought, the Worker, andother Bolshevist papers . Bela Kun is also
another frequent contributor to British Bolshevism, and he writes to the current issueof the Workers' Dreadnought suggesting thatthe " Hands off Russia " Committee " should
be used for Bolshevist ends in the home
movement." Dr. Hermann Gorter also
writes regularly for papers in London and
Glasgow, and his book, The World Revolution, published by the Socialist Information
and Research Bureau (Glasgow), is on saleat most revolutionary meetings in London
and the provinces . The following may bementioned as International Revolutionary
leaders who contribute to the movementin this country

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N. Hoglund, of Sweden ; Lucien Deslinicres, of France ; N. Bucharin, of Moscow,
author of the Programme of the World
Revolution ; Clara Zetkin, Jewess and leaderof the German Communist Party ; M . I.
Kalinin, chairman of All-Russian Central
Executive of Committee of Soviets ; Karl
Radek, of Moscow ; Sadoul, Souvarine,
Shumiatzki, I . Marchlevski (Karski), Alexandre Kolontay, Russian Soviet Commissary
for Social Welfare.
We have now concluded our enquiry into
the cause of world unrest, and it is for ourreaders to judge how far it provides an
explanation of the revolutionary movements
which are disturbing alike the faith ofChristian men and women and the wholesystem of government on which Western
civilisation has been built up . The famous
protocols may or may not be genuine, buteven the most sceptical must admit thatthey are the abstract of a philosophy which
may be devilish, but is certainly coherent,
and that in many important points they not
only anticipate, but explain, some of theills from which the world is at present
suffering . It is the element of time whichis inclined to .prejudice the Western, particularly the English, reader against them .
Can it be possible that any body of men
can seriously commit themselves to a plot
which is to be worked out not in years
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they themselves can never gather ? But it,
must be remembered that the whole idea isEastern, and in the East they still thinkin centuries . A child with difficulty canspan the period of a week, the ordinary
Englishman that of a decade . But an
Englishman who has lived long in the East
has quite a different conception of time, andwould not find the long roll of years between
the prophecy and its fruition a ban to belief .
Therefore, let the 'scoffers remember thatall periods of time are relative, and that tosome a thousand years may be as a day .
In the first part of this book the doctrinesand programme of revolutionary Freemasonry were described and the liaison between
them and the protocols examined. In later
chapters modern revolutionary phenomena
were considered in the light of the plot
revealed earlier . Can we trace a connection
between the two ? Our readers must decide
for themselves on the evidence submitted
to them . It has been shown that theContinental Freemasons were primarily responsible for the revolutions in Turkey andPortugal and that in the former at least the
Jews had a prominent share in this Masonicconspiracy. When the Bolsheviks seized
power in Moscow-and we gave a tableshowing that the vast majority of them were
Jews-the propaganda of Litvinoff, Radek,
and company took the place to a considerable
extent of the subterranean Masonic acti-

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vities and the threads of the plot were
therefore easier to trace . For example, we
showed how this Bolshevist-Jewish gang
tried to take control of the Governments ofPrussia, Bavaria, and Hungary .
We also drew attention to the secretinfluences working in Paris during the Peace
Conference, to the curious fact that the
principle of self-determination, so dangerous
at present to the authority of the British
Empire, was common to both Wilsonism
and Leninism,,and that Poland, which both
Jews and Germans fear, was left economically and strategically weak by the Conference and, along with Hungary, has been
malevolently attacked by the forces of International Labour working under Bolshevist
direction . Finally, we sought to trace alink between the conspiracy and some of
the agitations which are at present gravely
threatening the security of the British
Empire.
Throughout this book we have referred tothe menace which this conspiracy constitutes
not only to civilised government but to theChristian faith . It is indeed clear that neverin its history has that faith had to undergo
so organised and sustained an attack . Men's
thoughts are continually being concentrated
on things material, on the inequalities of
wealth, on mean and trivial pleasures, andare being told that the cure for all their ills
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of government . The Bolsheviks know perfectly well that their cause can make nolasting progress unless it first gets rid of
Christianity- with its superb indifference tothe things on which the world sets such
store. Therefore it may be taken as certainthat these attacks will be redoubled . And
therein perhaps lies the surest proof of theultimate failure of Bolshevism . For to thepeoples of Western Europe, whether they
are conscious of it or not, Christianity is still
the beacon that will guide them out of theslough of despond in which they now groan .
If that light were extinguished they mightwell say of the world what Montaigne thoughtof it when he lost his friend : " Ce n'est que
fumee, ce n'est qu'une nuit obscure et ennuyeuse." Do the Bolsheviks honestly believethat they can conquer two worlds ?

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To the Editor of " The Morning Post."
SIR,-Will you allow me to add anotherlink to the very valuable chain of evidence
set forth in your columns on the question of
Secret Societies and World Revolution ?
This is the organisation known as the Alta
Vendita or Haute Vente Romaine, which
originated with the Carbonari early in thenineteenth century. Monseigneur Dillon, in
his remarkable series of lectures delivered in
Edinburgh in 1884, traced the origin of the
Carbonari back to the Illuminati of Bavaria .
The Carbonari, however, did not begin as arevolutionary body ; its founders wereRoyalists and Catholics who, deluded as
to the real aims of Illuminism, followed theprecedent laid down by Weishaupt of taking
Christ as their Grand Master . But before
long the adepts of revolutionary masonry
invaded their ranks and obtained the masteryover the whole_ association.
" As soon as, perhaps sooner than, Weishaupt had passed away the supreme government of all the secret societies of the world
was exercised by the Alta Vendita or highest
lodge of the Italian Carbonari . . . . The permanent instruction of this body to its adepts
consists mainly in war on the papacy, but
it also admits : `Our final end is that of
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Voltaire and the French Revolution, thedestruction of Catholicism, and even of theChristian idea .'The Alta Vendita was thus a direct continuation of the Illuminati, and in accordancewith the custom of their German predecessors
its members all elected to be known bypseudonyms . Thus as Weishaupt had taken
the name of Spartacus, Clootz that ofAnacharsis, and Babeuf that of Gracchus,
the head of the Order, a corrupt Italian
nobleman, is only known to us as Nubius.
This young man, rich, handsome, eloquent
and absolutely reckless, was " a visionary
with an idee fixe, that of elevating a pedestal
to his own vanity." But it was not in theband of dissolute young Italians he gatheredaround him, but in his Jewish allies that
Nubius found his principal support .
The documents of the Alta Vendita, afterwards brought to light, revealed, says Monseigneur Dillon, that" his funds for carrying on the deep anddark conspiracy in which he and his confederates were engaged came chiefly fromrich German Jews . Jews, in fact, from thecommencement played always a prominent
part in the conspiracies of Atheism. They
do so still . Piccolo Tigre, who seems tohave been the most active agent of Nubius,
was a Jew. He travelled under the appearance of an itinerant banker and jeweller .
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picion. . . . Of course he had the protectionof the Masonic lodges everywhere . The
most desperate revolutionaries were generally
the most desperate scoundrels otherwise,
they were gamblers, spendthrifts, and thevery class with which a usurious Jew would
be expected to have money dealings . Piccolo
Tigre thus travelled safely and broughtsafely to the lodges of the Carbonari such
instructions as the Alta Vendita thought
proper to give ."Piccolo Tigre was only one of many Jews
employed by the Haute Vente ; others of
his race worked for the conspiracy in Germany, Hungary, Portugal, and kept up a
regular correspondence with Nubius. How
far were these men acting merely as theagents of their Italian chief ? Or were
they animated by some ulterior aim ? The
author of the articles now appearing in
the Morning Post has indicated the possibility of a Jewish conspiracy running throughFreemasonry, and Monseigneur Dillon propounds the same hypothesis .
"Monseigneur de Segur," he writes, " connects modern Freemasonry with Jews andTemplars . . . There are reasons which leadme to think he may be right in doing so .
The Jews for many centuries before theReformation had formed secret societies fortheir protection and the destruction of Christianity which persecuted them and which
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Temple of Solomon was the dream of theirlives . . . . It is therefore not improbablethat they admitted into their secret conclaves
some at least of the, discontented Templars
burning for revenge upon those who dispossessed and suppressed the Order . Thatfact would account for the curious combination of Jewish and conventional allusions
to be found in modern Masonry . .
"The Jewish formulas employed by Masonry,
the Jewish traditions which run through its- ceremonial, point to a Jewish origin or to thework of Jewish contrivers . It is easy toconceive how such a society could be thought
necessary to protect them from Christianity
in power. It is easy also to understand how
the one darling object of their lives is therebuilding of the Temple . Who knows but
behind the Atheism and desire of gain which
impels them to urge on Christians to persecute the Church and destroy it, there lies ahidden hope to reconstruct their Temple, andat the darkest depths of secret societyplotting there lurks a deeper society still
which looks to a return to the land of Judaand to the rebuilding of the Temple ofJerusalem 1 "Whether, therefore, as M . Cretineau Joly
suggests, N ubius made use of Judaic hatredof Christianity for the purpose of the Haute
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important part in secret societies at thisriod . Piccolo Tigre at any rate seems toave occupied a position of considerable
authority, for on January 18, 1822, we find
him issuing instructions to the Haute Vente
Piedmontaise in these words" All Italy is covered with religious confraternities and with penitents of diverse
colours . Do not fear to slip some of yourpeople into the very midst of these flocks,
led, as they are, by a stupid devotion . . .
Gather together in one place or another--inthe sacristies or chapels even--these tribesof yours, as yet ignorant ; put them under
the pastoral staff of some virtuous priest,
well known but credulous, and easy to be
deceived . Then infiltrate the poison into
those chosen hearts ; infiltrate it in little
doses and as if by chance . Afterwards,
upon reflection, you will yourselves be astonished at your success .
" The essential thing is to isolate a manfrom his family, to cause him to lose his
morals . He is sufficiently disposed by thebent of his character to flee from householdcares and to run after easy pleasures andforbidden joys . He likes long talks in thecafes, the idleness of spectacles . Lead him
along, sustain him, give him an importanceof some kind, teach him discreetly to wearyof his daily labours, and by this manoeuvre,
after having separated him from his wife andchildren, and having shown him how painful
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are all duties, you will inculcate in him thedesire of another existence. Man is a born
rebel. Stir up the desire of rebellion until
it becomes a conflagration, but in such amanner that the conflagration does notbreak out . This is a preparation for thegreat work that you have to begin .
" When you have insinuated into a few
souls disgust for family and for religion (theone nearly always follows in the wake of theother), let fall certain words which will
provoke the desire of being affiliated to thenearest lodge . This vanity of the citizen orof the bourgeois for being enrolled in Freemasonry is something so banal and so universal that I am always full of admiration
for human stupidity . I am not surprised tosee the whole world knocking at the door of
all the Venerables and asking these gentlemen
for the honour of being one of the workmen
chosen for the reconstruction of the Templeof Solomon .
. To find yourself a memberof a lodge, to feel yourself, apart from yourwife and children, called upon to guard asecret which is never confided to you, is forcertain natures a delight and an ambition .
. It is upon the lodges that we count todouble our ranks. They form without knowing it our preparatory novitiate . They discourse 'without end upon the dangers of
fanaticism, upon the happiness of social
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feastings thundering anathemas against intolerance and persecution . This is positively
more than we require to make adepts ."It was thus that in 1822 as in 1789 theconspirators found their dupes in the ranksof Masonry, but, as Monseigneur Dillon
oints out
` beyond the Masons, though generally formed
from them, lay the deadly secret conclave
which . . . used and directed them for theruin of the world and their own selves ."This, then, was the secret force at work
beneath the surface during the period usually
represented to us as the dawn of Socialism .
Many of the men who have gone down tohistory as the early Socialists, " championsof liberty," and so forth, went to the Haute
Vente for guidance ; Saint Simon, Bazard,
Buonarotti consulted Nubius " after themanner of a Delphic oracle ." From Russia
Colonel Pestel, one of the principal leadersof the Dekabrist outbreak in 1825, sent to him
for orders . Later we find Mazzini, already a
Carbonaro, aspiring to become a member ofthe Haute Vente-a suggestion dismissedwith scorn by Nubius. For the methods of
the Carbonari were not those of the Haute
Vente, which held that the mind rather thanthe body should be the point of attack .
"The murders of which our people renderthemselves guilty . . " writes Vindex to
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selves with such means. . . . Our predecessors in Carbonarism did not understand theirpower. It is not in the blood of an isolated
man or even of a traitor that it must be
exercised ; it is on the masses . . . do not let
us make martyrs, but let us popularise viceamongst the multitudes . Let them breathe
it in by their five senses, let them drink it, letthem be saturated in it . . . . It is corruption en masse that we have undertaken ; thecorruption of the people by the clergy andthe corruption of the clergy by ourselves, thecorruption that ought one day to put the
Church in her tomb . The best dagger withwhich to strike the Church is corruption .
To the work, then, even to the very end ."It was thus that Mazzini excited the derision of the Haute Vente, for, as Nubius
observed to Beppo, all his declamations onhumanitarianism, and so on" reduce themselves to a few miserable
defeats or to assassinations so vulgar that I
should send away one of my lacqueys if hepermitted himself to get rid of one of myenemies by such shameful means . Mazzini
is a demi-god to fools by whom he tries toget himself proclaimed the prophet of fraternity . . . . In the sphere where he acts
poor Joseph is only ridiculous ; in order tobe a complete wild beast he will always want
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were being kept from him by the chiefs ofthe Haute Vente, and Malegari, assailed by
the same fears, wrote from London to Dr .
Breidenstein these significant words" We form an association of brothers in all- points of the globe, we have desires andinterests in common, we aim at the emancipation of humanity, we wish to break every
kind of yoke, yet there is one that is unseen,that can hardly be felt, yet that weighs on
us. Whence comes it ? Where is it? No
one knows, or at least no one tells . The
association is secret, even for us, the veteransof secret societies."
Here, then, we catch a glimpse of themechanism of revolution-the Socialists andAnarchists like animated marionettes waving
their arms, declaiming, and all the whilepulled by wires from behind, held in thehands of their sinister directors . Doubtless
the Socialists imagined that they made therevolution of 1848. Piccolo Tigre can enlighten us further on this point . On January 5th, 1846, he writes to Nubius" The journey I have just accomplished inEurope has been as fortunate and as productive as I had hoped. Henceforth nothingremains but to put our hand to the task inorder to reach the denouement of the comedy .
. The harvest I have reaped has beenabundant . . . and if I can believe the news
communicated to me here (at Livorno) weare approaching the epoch we so much desire .

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the work of our societies in France, in
Switzerland, in Germany, and as far as
Russia . The assault which in a few years,
and perhaps even in a few months from now,
will be made on the princes of the earth willbury them beneath the wreckage of theirimpotent armies and their decrepit thrones .
. What have we asked in return for ourlabours and sacrifices ? It is not a revolution in one country or another . That canalways be managed if one wishes it . In
order to kill the old world surely, we haveheld that we must stifle the Catholic andChristian germ, and you with the audacityof genius have offered yourself with thesling of a new David to hit on the head the
pontifical Goliath ."Two years later the revolution broke out
in Paris, and as every book of history willtell us, was openly directed by the secretsocieties. The connection between theseunderground conspiracies and the second
great outbreak of world revolution is therefore not a matter of surmise but of historicalfact.-Yours, etc ., . NESTA H. WEBSTER.

P.S.-The correspondence of the Haute
Vente quoted above is taken from L'Eglise
Romaine en face de la Revolution, by J.
Cretineau Joly, who published them fromthe archives of the Haute Vente .

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To the Editor of The Morning Post ."

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SiR,-In the fifth article of the series"Behind the Red Curtain" the author
states that Marx founded the International
Working Men's Association . May I be allowed to point out that this is paying too
much honour to Marx ? The idea of anInternational coalition of labour originatedwith real working men animated by nodesire for bloody revolution, and it was not
until after the famous meeting at St . Martin's
Hall that Marx obtained control of the
movement . On this point we have theevidence of James Guillaume, the chroniclerof the Association, who was intimately
acquainted with its workings. " It is nottrue," he writes, " that the Internationale
was the creation of Karl Marx . He remainedcompletely outside the preparatory workthat took place from 1862 to 1864 . He
joined the Internationale at the moment
when the initiative of the English andFrench workmen had just created it . Like
the cuckoo, he came and laid his egg in anest which` was not his . His plan from thefirst day was to make the great workingmen's organisation the instrument of his
personal views ." (Karl Marx, Pan-Germaniste, p. 2.) What were these views ?
According to M . Guillaume they were PanGermanist, and your correspondent has
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to German Imperialism . But he also goeson to inquire whether Jewish interests may
not have played a part in Marx's policy, andin this connection refers to the feud between
Marx and Bakunin. " Can it be," he asks," that the fight -between Socialist and Anarhist veiled and _covered another fight more
erce and instinctive-between Slav andJew?" Now -we know that Bakunin wasstrongly anti-German, and that it was theGermanism of Imperial Russia which inspired many of his diatribes against its
government. 'It might therefore have beenon this account that he incurred the hostilityof Marx . His attitude towards the Jews,
however, is clearly defined in a significant
passage. The letter in which this may befound is not included in Bakunin's correspondence, and was only published for the
first time in 1911, so that I think it may haveescaped the attention of your correspondent .
It appears that Bakunin had been attacked
in the Paris paper, Le Reveil, by a German
Jew named Maurice Hess, and it was in
reply to this that he wrote his _ " polemiquecontre les juifs " in October, 1869 . But
Bakunin had evidently not overestimatedthe power of the " formidable sect " to which
he referred, for his letter never saw the light
until unearthed by the publishers of his
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I am -in no way the enemy nor the detractorof the Jews . Although I may be considereda cannibal, I do not carry savagery to thatpoint, and I assure you that in my eyes allnations have their worth . Each is, moreover,an ethnographically historic product, and isconsequently responsible neither for its faults
nor its merits . It is thus that we may observe in connection with the modern Jews
that their nature lends itself little to frankSocialism. Their history, long before theChristian era, implanted in them an essentially mercantile and bourgeois tendency,with the result that, considered as a nation,
they are par excellence the exploiters of othermen's work, and they have a natural horror
and fear of the popular masses, whom they
despise moreover, whether openly or insecret. The habit of exploitation, whilst
developing the intelligence of the exploiters,
gives it an exclusive and disastrous bent andquite contrary to the interests as well as tothe instincts of the proletariat . I knowthat in expressing with this frankness myintimate opinion on the Jews I expose
myself to enormous dangers . Many people
share it, but very few dare publicly to
express it, for the Jewish sect, very much
more formidable than that of the Jesuits,
Catholic or Protestant, constitutes to-day averitable power in Europe . It reigns despotically in commerce, in the banks, and it
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nalism and a very considerable portion of thejournalism of other countries . Woe, then, tohim who has the clumsiness to displease it ! "In these words Bakunin expresses a profound truth. Few, if any, educated Jews
believe in Socialism . To say this is merely
to pay a tribute to their intelligence . The
Jew is essentially aristocratic in his outlook-that is to say, he believes in governmentby the best men ; he knows the impossibilityof mob rule, and he has learnt the lesson of
past revolutions as we, alas ! have neverlearnt them . It is therefore probable that
Marx never believed a word he wrote on the" dictatorship of the proletariat " and theother shibboleths he had filched from earlier
revolutionary writers and which he used tostir up the workers of whom he made histools . It is true that in the above quoted
letter Bakunin specifies only " the crowd ofJewish pygmies " as the exploiters of thepeople and exempts from his strictures " thetwo Jewish giants, Marx and Lassalle ." But
Bakunin did not yet know Marx . It
was not until three years later, when theclique he refers to as "the German Jew
company " had turned him out of theInternationale, that he dimly realised thedepths of Marx's perfidy . In the words hethen wrote we see how completely he had
been the dupe of this subtler brain . Afterpaying tribute to Marx's intellect, Bakunin
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267"There was never any frank intimacy
between us. Our temperaments did not
permit of it . He called me a sentimental
idealist, and he was right ; I called him
vain, perfidious and crafty, and I was righttoo." Although Bakunin still endeavours
to believe in Marx's entire devotion to thecause of the proletariat which "he never
betrayed knowingly," he is obliged nevertheless to add, "yet he compromises it
immensely to-day by his formidable vanity,
by his malignant character, and by histendency to dictatorship even in the midstof the revolutionary Socialist Party ."Whether, therefore, Marx was an agent of
the German Government or of the " formidable sect " referred to by Bakunin, he wascertainly never the representative of theworkers who had started the Internationale.
It was Marx and not the workers who
triumphed. The Internationale perished, but
Marx's programme survived, and has sincethen been carried out " according to plan ."The Russian Revolution was not the outcomeof the Russian revolutionary movement, ofwhich the principal leaders were throughout
the Anarchists, disciples of Bakunin, on
whom the Bolsheviks turned their machineguns at the outset of their reign . The Irish
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down by Marx. As long ago as 1870 thissecret message was sent by Marx from London
to the Internationale in Geneva
1 . England is the only country in which areal Socialistic revolution can be made .
2. The English people cannot make thisrevolution .
3 . Foreigners must make it for them.
4 . The foreign members, therefore, mustretain their seats at the London board .
5 . The point to strike at first is Ireland, andin Ireland they are ready to begin their work .
This is what is happening to-day . The
chaos now reigning in Ireland is simply the
prelude to the same condition of affairs inthis country . To cause revolution in England is the first and most essential point in
the programme of the International revolutionaries . " Every revolution on the Continent," said Marx, " that does not spread toEngland is a storm in a teacup ." In otherwords, England is the pivot of the world's
civilisation. If England goes the wholeworld goes with her . Marx was right in his
surmise ; he was right, too, in believing that
English working men will never make thisrevolution . " Foreigners must make it forthem." They are making it now. Shall
we allow them to accomplish their work ?
It seems to me, then, that the situation
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perfected, every cog is complete . Yourcorrespondent has ; admirably described theprocess of its construction . Yet I do notthink it can be ascribed to one race only ;many hands have worked at it-French,
Italian, Russian, very few English, but many
German and Jewish-and all these in turnhave taken part in its manipulation . But
from 1872 onwards this formidable engine ofdestruction has been mainly in the hands ofa section of Germans and Jews, and it isthey who now control its workings. The
essential thing therefore is not merely toindicate the mechanicians, but to smash themachine in the interests of the whole humanrace. For this machine will destroy not
only those against whom it is directed, but
those by whom it is handled ; no provision
has been made for the recoil, and " the ironbattalions of the proletariat," finding themselves duped, will turn in fury on the men
who drove them forward to destruction . In
warning the world of the conspiracy at work
the Morning Post is rendering an immense
service to civilisation, and those who turn adeaf ear may live to repent their folly when
they find themselves engulphed. in the chaosof world revolution .-Yours, etc .,July 17th, 1920 .

NESTA H. WEBSTER .

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