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Foremost Jewish Organ
ization Issues Statement
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third degree of initiation: that they
were secretly removed from the com
plete file Of Protocols that pertained
to the first Zionist Congress that
they were taken from the secret vaults
at the main Zionist office which, il
is said, Eat present is located in
French territory"
The Protocols us published bear no
signatures. The identity of the Zion
list representatives by whom they arc
claimed to have been signed is left
untold. The location of the main
Zionist office and of the secret vaults
from which The Protocols We're secret
ly removed remains secret. 1t is.
however, Il matter of history that the
first Zionist Congress was publicly
held by Jews who came from various
parts of Europe for the purpose of
considering the misery of their
brethren in Eastern Europe and of ell
Aiding them to find shelter in the
Holy Land TheOdor HerZl was n dis.
tinguishcd journalist, man of true
nobility of character He presided at
the Congress. all of whose delihera-
tons were held in the light of day.
The inSina ton that there was Il thir
ty-third, or any other, degree of initia
ton in this organization is merely II
malicious effort to bring the Jews in
TO parallelism with the F'reemasons
and thus to subject them to all the
fanciful and fantastic charges that
have from time to time been laid ut
the door of Freemasorry, obliviOus of
the fact that fifteen president of the
United States. including Washington,
end many of the leading statesmen of
Europe and America have been mem.
hers of that order.
Nilus and his associates belonged to
the Russian bureaucracy. In 1907,
thru the Black Hundreds. that body
sought in every way to crush the
Jews and to prevent the liberalization
of the government. The time was
propitious for the preparation of
political forgery by a government that
habitually resorted to the employ
ment of agents provocateurs, "A gov
ernment which only few years later.
against the protest of the enlightened
clergy of the world. Intellectually
sought to convict Mendel Bells on tho
charge of ritual murder. 1t is signifi-
cant that one of his prosecutors has
Teen active in distributing manuscript
copies of The Protocols thruout the
United States.
Irrespective of this history. brist-
ling with suspicion. an analysis of The
Protocols shows that Oh their face
they, are a fabrication and that they
must have eliminated from the bitter;
opponents of democracy They are re-
plete with cynical references to the
French Revolution, and to the cOncep-
tons of liberty. equality and fratern'
ity. They uphold privilege and au-
tocracy. They belittle education. They
condemn religious liberty They assert
that political freedom is an idea and
rot fact. and that the doctrine that
II government is nothing but asteward
Of the people is mere phrase. These
are the very doctrines that one would
expect from the protagonists of au-
tocracy. Nothing can he more for
cign to Jewish thought and aspiration
than these brutal theories of reaction.
That the Jews. whose very life has
been prayer for the blessings of lib
crty and equality, should hold them
in contempt is unthinkable.
The document turnout is farcicnl III
its ,absurdities. In the Russian orig
inul there is II passage. significantly
omitted from the translation. to the
effect that the English are the des'
ccndants of the Lost Tribes of Israel
and the British Government is violent
ly attacked for its liberalism. II
climax there he to all this folly. II
lies in the idea set forth i'm The Pro
tocols, that the world ruler is to
spring from the dynastic roots of King
DAVID and that the King of Israel
will become the real Pope of the Uni
verse and the Patriarch of the Inter
national Church." whatever that may
mean.
1t is needless, however, to elaborate.
when one considers that the editor OF
The LONDON Morning Post, in his in
PRODUCTION to "The Cause of the World
Unrest" himself doubts the genuine.
less of The Protocols, and that the
anonymous author Of that book, after
give them any higher &c, Hficate than
that they may or may not be genuine.
Indeed he gaps sA far rs tn SAY.