The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01

II is probable that the wave Of
anti-Jewish feeling is as great today
as at any time since the 1905 in
France and Germany and two dec
AIDES before the War in Russia
What has been the cause Of this
revival of anti-Semitism in a sup
posedly civilized era?
In the first place, we have the ex-
tremely prevalent myth that the in
ternational Jewish bankers, in col
fusion with the European Free Mas
ons, plotted the World war to des-
troy the national state and the
Christian religion. England is repre-
sented as having acted as the cat S
paw for these two groups.
1t has been supposed rather widely
that the historical scholars who have
shown that France, Russia, and Ser
bia were primarily responsible for
the World war were eager to court
the favor Of the kaiser The fact is
that the kaiser regards such an in
depreciation as secondary in trivial
He thoroughly subscribes to the
notion of the basic guilt Of the
Jews and Free Masons. This is a
view generally shared by the Prus-
sian reactiOnarieS, and Ludendort
has shown himself positively I'M
balanced in celebrating this theme.
Hitler Uses Myth
Hitler, in his present campaign
against the Jews, makes use Of this
myth, together with all the old buds
utilized in jew batting the inferior
Jewish race. Jewish radicalism and
corruption and Jewish infidelity.
DESTROYS of building up strong
patriotic backing, he knows from the
German past that anti-SemitlSm
always is bound to gather together
a certain nucleus of fanatics.
Another important item in the
current anti-semitic complex has
been the elaborate and international
propaganda of Russian reactionarles
against the Bolsheviks. Bolshevism
has been represented as a Jewish
product, making use of the fact that
the Russian Communists derive their
doctrines from Karl Marx and that
several of the Russian Communist
leaders have been Jews
Everything has been grist for the
mill of these White Russians. The
Jews have been accused, on the one
hand, of trying to gain financial
dominion over the rest of the world,
and. on the other hand, of trying
to overthrow the whole capitallstlc
system.
Moreover, the myth of Jewish re-
sponsbility for the World war Is
played up in quarters where IL Is
likely to prove attractive
Forgery Is Circulated
Most dramatic and absurd of all
the clements in recent anti-Sem-
itism was the worldwide dissemin-
alton of that palpable forgery, The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
This first appeared in Russia in
1905, published by one Sergel Nilus.
But the edition which was circulated
most widely was that of 1917, con-
siderable expansion of the original
text.
It purported to reveal a great in
ternational conspiracy to bring the
whole world under Jewish dominion.
The theory of Nilus was that the
protocols were the notes which The
odor Herzel had submitted to the
council of elders at the First Zion
list congress at Basel in 1907.
The forged character Of these
protocols was apparent to all COM
petent students of Jewish life and
policy, but the fact OF the forgery
actually was proved by the CORE
spondent of the London Times at
Constantinople. The original of the
text was a political tract published
between 1856 and 1883 by French
republican, attacking Napoleon III
1t had been adapted to the pur-
poses of the anti-Semites by the for
geries of Russian secret police Of
fetal It was even more preposter-
Gus than the "Bordereau' in the
DreyfuS case.
Hatred Is Stirred
The PROTOCOLS not only aroused
excitement in the countries preVi-
ously given to JeW-baiting, but also
led to an unprecedented rise of anti
SemitiSm in the United States and
Great Britain. Singularly enough,
/ much of this came after the London
, Times had exposed the forgery in
1921.
In the United States, Henry Ford,
smarting under the enmity of Wall
Street, was particularly impressed
by the menace of Jewish capital
ism. Ford later repudiated his
charges
In Poland and Rumania a persist
ent anu-Jewish policy has been
maintained since the World war.
Poland in the fifteenth and six
tenth centuries had been an asylum
for Jews. The Poles have desired to
seize the control of business and
finance from the Jewish middle
class They apparently have hoped
to drive the Jews into desperation
and then exploit the Red bogy
against them.
Rumania has continued the old
pre-war disabilities and persecu-
lions. Even Great Britain, at first
definitely committed to support the
Jewish plan to rehabihtate Pales-
tine, more recently has let down
the Jews very badly in this terri
tory.
In spite of the recrudeScence of
anti-Jewish barbariSm in our day.
all bases for bigotry on the part of
either jew or Genti,e have evapor-
,lted in the light of the most ele-
inentary scientific and historical
iactS.