New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
and Gentle Attack Authenticity of Mooted Protocols

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their inception and ridicules any idea
that they might have emanated from n
Jewish source. He brands them "a
being the insldious propaganda Of a
German militarist party.
Back to 1868
In tracing their literary source Wolf
goes back to four-volume treatise,
half memoirs and half historical ro
mances, which was presented to the
German public in 1858 by Hermann
Goedsche, formerly government spv.
The series, alleged to have been written
by an Englishman, Sir john Retcliffe,
deals with various international polit-
ical problems. In ono Of these ro-
mances, Biarritz, there is melo-
dramatic rendering Of tho Jewish plans
for the subjugation of Christianity.
THE protocols arc,' asserts Mr.
Wolf, can ampliied imitation of
Goedsche's handiwork adapted to the
circumstances of the Russian Revolu-
ton Of 1906. Whether it was made
direct from the melodramatic text of
Biarrtz is doubtful"
He thinks rather that Nilus followed
literal Czech translation Of Biarritz.
made in 1901, the same year that Nilus
claims the manuscript Of the protocols
was given him. He quotes in parallel
columns from Nilus and the Czech
Goedsche work to prove his case Of the
forgery.
Mr.. Wolf accounts for tho Russian
publication of tho protocols as
pogrom weapon. He suggests that
Nilus may have been in the employ
of the Okhrana in the conspiracy TO
stir up pogroms all over Russia follow
Ing tho Russian Revolution in 1905.
but this was not the only sinister
movement with which the protocols
seem to have been associated" he adds
"The year In which they were first pub
lished in Russia was also the year of
very serious Russo-German intrigue
against the Triple Entente, and here
again these protocols, or rather their
argument, appear as ono of the rnsin
weapons Of the plotters.
ut is difficult to resist the conclusion
that in some occult way--perhaps not
80 very occult-Nilus's book was in
tended to serve the sinister ends of the
lro-German foreign policy Of Count
Lamsdorf in the same way as it served
the bloody purposes of the pogrom-
mongers."
The English Plot
While Mr.. Wolf thinks 1t inconceiy
able that the English edition of the
protocols was intended to stir up
pogroms, he judges it to be German in
trigue to secure foreign sympathy and
help by finding a common ground in
anti-Semitism. And he maintains that
the whole thing is part Of the German
reactionary plot to upset the Treaty of
Versailles and perhaps plunge Europe
into another war;
AS for the impression that Bolshe-
vlsm is largely Jewish, Wolf points out
that of the seventeen members of tho
Cabinet in Soviet Russia sixteen are in
disputably Gentiles, while only one.
1'rotzky, is of Jewish birth.
"To describe Russian Bolshevism 90
Jewish because one member Of Lenine's
Council Of Peoples Commissars is an
apostate Jew is obviously ludicrous," he
writes. "Lcnine might far more Justly
describe the anti Bolshevism of west
crn Europe as Jewish because two
years ago the French Cabinet contained
one protesting Jew and the British
two"
But he does not mean to say that
there are no processing Jews in the
Bolshevist ranks. He does insist, how
ever, that normally the Jew is antipa-
thetic to Bolshevism and has reluctant
ly turned to it only when forced to it
by the anti-B Bolshevists.
The upshot Of the matter is" runs
the conclusion, "that the Formidable
Sect is German anti-Semitic and
Anglophobe myth, founded in malice
and hysteria, built up of garbled his
tory and synthetized by impudent
forgery. How it came to impose itself
on the plethoric patriotism of The Lon |
don Morning Post is mystery which
may be worth Investigating Whatever
the explanation, it must be counted a
triumph for German junkerdom."
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