New-York tribune., 1921-03-13

work originally printed In The London
Morning Post and later brought out in
book form both in this country and in
England, which charged and sought to
prove that the Jews arc the "cause of
the world unrest"
The chief documentary "proof" used
IN creating the anti-Semitic sentiment
IN both countries has been the much
discussed set of Russian Protocols, al
legged to be the actual minutes of a
secret meeting held at Basle in 1897.
recording plans for Jewish domination
or world government
Arguing from this basis, it has been
held that all the subordinate revolutions
In the last $50 years have been manipu-
lated by "Formidable Sect" secretly
preserved organization whose ultimate
purpose was to overturn the cstab-
hshed Christian order and found in it's
place universal Jewish dominion
under the scepter of sovereign of the
House of David
Nilus the Mysterious
Serge Nilus, mysterious Russian
whose identity has never been satisfac
torily established, first published the
Protocols in 1905 at Tsarskoe- -Selo in
a book entitled The Great in the Little.
In 1917 he brought out another book,
, and again the Protocols were included.
Nilus has given various sources for
the manuscript, but he declares that the
Protocols were signed by the Zionist
representatives Of the thirty third
(highest) degree Of initiation and that
they were secretly removed from the
complete file Of the Protocols pertain
ing to the first Zionist Congress held at
Basic in 1897. He further mystifles the
matter by adding that they were taken
from the secret vaults at the main
Zionist Office located on French terri
tory.
The first English translation of
Nilus's book was published early last
year by Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd
printers for the British government, in
a pamphlet, The Jewish Paril, Protocols
Of the Learned Elders Of Zion. The con-
cluding words of the pamphlet we're:
"Gentiles, Beware!"
An American translation of the Pro-
tccols, issued by Small, Maynard & Co.,
explained in an introduction that "tak-
ing the set of documents as a whole.
they clearly purport to formulate
strategic plan for united action of the
Jews as a nation, or people, To OBJ
tain certain ends. These ends are moth
ing less than complete political and
religious domination of the world. The
means by which this universal domina-
ton Is to be achieved are set forth
with great clearness and considerable
elaboration"
Russia as a Proof
The introduction also pointed to the
remarkable similarity between the
policies of destruction outlined in the
protocols and the actual measures of
destruction put into effect by tho Boil
shevist regime in Russia" and to the
striking parallelism between certain
passages iii the protocols and the state
ment of recognized Jewish leaders, both
religious and political, appearing In
their published writings and speeches."
The publishers emphasized the fact
that while there could be no direct evl
denco as to the authenticity of the
protocols, they had never been repudi-
ated publicly by recognized Jewish au-
thorties.
If this were true at the time, it can
be held so no longer, for Lucien Wolf
Is British journalist Who served for
many years as an editor of The Jewish
World, who was five times president of
the Jewish Historical Society of Eng
land and who is widely known to-day
as one OF the best informed Jewish
minds on international politics. He
should qualify as q Jewish authority.
Wolf takes the full measure Of the
protocols and pronounces them abso-
lutely spurious. He traces the history
and anceStry of the protoco1c hocl, IN