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   From: mose@truth.com   
      
   VISITING "THE PROTOCOLS"   
      
   THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION   
      
       When an international mass circulation magazine like The Reader's Digest   
   decides to run an article on the documents generally known as The Protocols,   
   in which Eric Butler and The League of Rights are critically mentioned,   
   there must be a purpose. About the same time as The Reader's Digest article,   
   which basically regurgitates the view that these documents are either a   
   forgery or a fabrication, the Oxford University Press released a   
   publication, The Right Road, by Dr. Andrew Moore, senior lecturer in   
   Australian history at the University of Western Sydney.   
      
       Moore's work is subtitled "A History of Right-Wing Politics in   
   Australia", but its clear purpose is to suggest that it is "The Australian   
   League of Rights" which is the main threat to what is termed "liberal   
   democracy." Eric Butler receives special attention, it being claimed that he   
   exercises considerable international influence. Blatant misrepresentations   
   of the Social Credit movement and historical events are masked by what   
   purports to be a carefully documented academic study.   
      
       We will not at this time attempt to analyze either The Reader's Digest   
   article on The Protocols or Moore's work, The Right Road. But by coincidence   
   we have recently received an article from a Canadian, Peter L. Lorden of   
   Calgary, who offers some comments on The Protocols, which are appropriate:   
      
       It has been generally asserted for many years past that a document   
   called The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a forgery. Supposedly   
   a report of speeches given at the 1897 First Zionist Congress in Basle, it   
   pictures an international Jewish conspiracy to undermine Christian   
   institutions and pave the way for world domination. Gerald Krefetz remarked   
   in his 1982 Jews and Money; the Myths and the Reality that the Protocols -   
   "apparently the plagiarized concoction of a Russian religious mystic"- had   
   long since been discredited as propaganda promoted by the Czarist secret   
   police to justify their own anti-Semitism.   
      
       Yet if so long discredited, why have they become what he calls the most   
   successful piece of propaganda in the twentieth century? "For a spurious   
   document", says Krefetz, "it has had a remarkably long and influential   
   life." Could this be due simply to continuing anti-Semitism? Indeed, it is   
   hard to see how this document could have been a genuine record of speeches   
   at the Congress. Would people clever enough to engineer such a global   
   conspiracy as the Protocols reflect have been dumb enough to let an outsider   
   take notes of their proceedings, let alone live to publish them? And is such   
   a plot any more credible now than it was then? The recent decline of some   
   big Jewish houses, coupled with the emergence of wealthy Asian   
   conglomerates, seems rather to spoil the picture for those inclined to   
   fantasize about an unstoppable international conspiracy guided only by   
   Jewish financiers! But of course there has been an even more recent decline   
   of all Asian conglomerates.   
      
       A book which became a best seller in 1972 - None Dare Call It   
   Conspiracy, by Gary Allen shows in some detail how they had simultaneously   
   financed both the Soviet Union (page 71) and the Third Reich (page 85), like   
   people fattening birds for a cock-fight. The book is quite even-handed.   
   While it indicts such Jewish luminaries as Rothschild, Warburg and Schiff's   
   Kuhn Loeb and Company, it also assigns prominent roles to many Gentile   
   houses, including Rockefeller's. (But, of course he too is a Jew).   
      
       David Rockefeller seems to have had a finger in everything. Many famous   
   names in politics, Nixon and Kissinger, were alumni of his system, whose   
   imperial reach was by NO means confined to the United States. (Apparently   
   the surest way to wealth and power is on the coat-tails of a man who already   
   has these things and will "look after" you so long as you do his bidding.   
   Kruschev's downfall seems to have come about when he stopped doing it).   
   Chase Manhattan Bank was formed by merging Warburg and Rockefeller units.   
   How closely Jewish and Gentile "insiders" worked together is shown   
   throughout the book. For instance, a roster of blue-chip American   
   corporations, along with prominent politicians of both parties, joined the   
   "insiders" in the immensely influential Council for Foreign Relations (page   
   88).   
      
       Allen's book makes a compelling case for the existence of a conspiracy -   
   or at least a close working relationship between financiers of international   
   clout. And an even greater centralization of money-power in the Western   
   world has occurred since 1972. But isn't that inevitable given the current   
   globalization? As to his thesis that the ultimate aim of the "insiders" was   
   to create a totalitarian World Government in which they would control   
   everything as a spider sitting in the center controls his web, we should   
   note that co-operation between international financiers today - whatever it   
   may have been in the past - is not necessarily of evil intent. And that a   
   great many other people have long since come to see some kind of world   
   government as a necessary goal. The next big war may be about who gets to   
   control it!)   
      
       A SPURIOUS DOCUMENT?   
      
       What light does Allen's book, throw on the Protocols? A negative one, it   
   would seem, in as much as he shows Gentile interests to have as much clout   
   as the Jewish. Yet the Protocols are not to be dismissed so easily. For if   
   they are false in one sense, a reader cannot help feeling that they are   
   genuine in another! What makes them seem genuine is that they are not at all   
   what one would expect from "a Russian religious mystic." They show too deep   
   an understanding both of Gentile weaknesses familiar to us all and of the   
   sort of mind set which might ruthlessly exploit them for sectarian gain.   
   Fictional or not, they were written by somebody who knew very well the kind   
   of men whose utterances they supposedly report. They express a wealth of   
   hard-headed insight in a tone of arrogant superiority which is not   
   unfamiliar to us either. We cannot quarrel with the comment of Henry Ford's   
   Dearborn Independent - which publicized the Protocols in America around   
   1921 - that the work was "too terribly real for fiction, too well-sustained   
   for speculation, too deep in its knowledge of the secret springs of life for   
   forgery".   
      
       Then who did write the Protocols? We may never know that, but it seems   
   improbable that either a mystic or a bigoted Russian policeman could have   
   come up with an analysis so penetrating, and so unfailingly prophetic.   
      
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