A.N. FIELD
The Truth About the Slump
That there was strong Jewish hostility to the Tsarist regime in Russia is a well-known fact. In a previous chapter it has been noted in a quotation from the Jewish Encyclopaedia how Japan was financed in her war against Russia in 1904-05 by the late Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, partner and brother-in-law of Mr. Paul Warburg. Mr. Schiff was described by a foremost American Jew as the “beloved leader of the Jews,” and by the Jewish Encyclopaedia as head of the oldest contemporary Jewish family of which there is record. It has been stated in the National Review that this Jewish financial support of Japan is thought to have been a retaliation for Russia’s treatment of the Jews.
The late Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British Ambassador to the United States at the time, records a further striking instance of Jewish dislike of Russia in a letter written by him in January, 1914. Under the old Hague peace scheme the United States had negotiated treaties of arbitration with various countries for the settlement of international disputes without recourse to war. That with Russia fell due for renewal, and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice in a letter written in January, 1914, recorded that President Woodrow Wilson proposed a new treaty in its place. He added:
“No sooner was the President’s statement made than a Jewish deputation came down from New York and in two days ‘fixed’ the two Houses so that the President had to renounce the idea of making a new treaty with Russia. They are far better organised than the Irish and far more formidable. ... Their present objective is to have a judge on the Supreme Court bench. Speyer, the brother of your friend, has lost his influence by marrying a Christian. Bernstorff (German Ambassador at Washington) has sent his son into Speyer’s office. ... The principal Jew is now Schiff.”
The above extract indicates both the hostility of the Jews towards Tsarist Russia and their power in the United States. Their desire for a Jewish judge on the Supreme Court bench was gratified in 1916 when President Wilson appointed Mr. Louis Brandeis to be an associate justice of this highest American Court. The Mr. Speyer referred to is apparently Mr. J.J. Speyer, head of the American financial firm of that name, and brother of Sir Edgar Speyer whose certificate of naturalization as a British subject was revoked in 1922 in consequence of transactions with Germany during the war. Born in Germany, Sir Edgar Speyer had settled in London in 1887 and became the head of the firm of Speyer Bros., his wealth was large, and as the London Times pointed out in its issue of January 7, 1922, “he was the friend of distinguished persons, he was a munificent patron of music. He was created a baronet in 1906 and a Privy Councillor in 1909.” In 1915 he went to the United States and remained there. In his book, The Alien Menace, Lt.-Col. A.H. Lane states that Sir Edgar Speyer was closely associated with the late Mr. Asquith, afterwards Earl of Oxford. Nevertheless, despite the honours bestowed upon him by Britain, this eminent German-Jew was in the end found by the Government to be unworthy of the privilege even of ordinary British citizenship, much less of being an adviser to the King in His Majesty’s Privy Council.
However, we are drifting away from the Russian side of our story. A recent writer on Russia is Mr. Walter Russell Batsell, and the following passage from page 20 of his book, Soviet Rule in Russia (Macmillan’s, New York, 1929), is not without significance.
“History will be likely to give prominence to plans for the destruction of Russia formulated at the Masonic Congress held at Brussels a few years before the world war; and, secondly, the final episode relating to the murder (of the Russian Royal family) at Sverdlovsk will be recorded as an act of Sverdlov, the Jewish head of the governmental authority under whose guidance the final act of vengeance was apparently engineered.”
Mr. Batsell added the following footnote to this statement:
“See E.A. Walsh, The Fall of the Russian Empire (Boston, 1926), page 110, for mention of the plan of the (Grand Orient) Free Masons to use Rasputin to destroy Russia, and chapters ix-xi of the same book for details of the murder of the Tsar and his family.”
Mr. Batsell also quotes in his book the following passage from a book, The War of Lost Opportunities, written by General von Hoffman, chief of the German general staff on the Russian front during the war:
“Some man [in Germany] who had connections with the Russian revolutionaries exiled in Switzerland came upon the idea of employing some of them to hasten the undermining and poisoning of the Russian army. He applied to the Deputy Erzberger and the Deputy of the German Foreign Office and thus it came about that Lenin was conveyed through Germany to St. Petersburg in the manner that afterwards transpired.”
There is some reason to think that the German Government was reluctant to sow the seeds of revolution in Russia. Revolutionary ideas are infectious, and it is dangerous for an autocratic monarch to provide an example of successful revolution in a neighbouring country, even if it is temporarily an enemy country.
A revolution had occurred in Russia in 1905, as a result of which the first Duma, or Parliament, was established. A workers’ Soviet was set up by the revolutionaries and of this the Jew Leon Braunstein, afterwards better known as Trotsky, became the head until arrested, when he was succeeded by Dr. Helphand (alias Parvus), of whom more anon.
In a letter published in the London Spectator on June 12, 1920, Mr. Lucien Wolf, a well-known Jewish journalist and author of the article on Anti-Semitism in the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, asserted that when the Russian revolution occurred in 1905 the secret police of that country were set to work to stir up pogroms, or massacres and persecutions of the Jews, who were blamed for the revolution. As part of the anti-Jewish propaganda, according to Mr. Wolf, there was published a pamphlet by Professor Sergius Nilus, a minor official in the Russian Foreign Office, containing what Mr. Wolf declared to be baseless and repeatedly exposed forgeries, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, setting forth a plan for Jewish world domination, allegedly found in documents stolen from a member of a Masonic society in France.
At the end of 1905 the Tsar and the Kaiser met and signed their famous secret treaty of Bjorko. Mr. Wolf states that in January, 1906, the Tsar approved a secret memorandum drawn up by Count Lamsdorff, Russian Foreign Minister, setting out that the Jews were the soul of the revolutionary movement throughout Europe, that “their principal aim is the all-round triumph of antiChristian and anti-Monarchist Jewry, and that their millionaries subvention this movement with gigantic pecuniary means.” The pamphlet of Professor Nilus, according to Mr. Wolf, was used as support for this contention, and he states that the Tsar proposed to the Kaiser a secret agreement for combating Jewish and Masonic peril. The whole idea of any such peril, according to Mr. Wolf, is absolutely baseless.
It is an established fact that the Bolshevik leaders were predominantly Jewish. In a previous chapter we have seen that the Jews, though powerful, are not loved in Germany. Mr. Lucien Wolf establishes the fact that the Tsar was afraid of Jew revolutionaries and Jew millionaires. The Jewish Encyclopaedia records how a Jewish millionaire financed Japan’s war against Russia, a millionaire, moreover, who has been described by a prominent Jew as the leader of the Jews. Mr. Wolf records how the Tsar in 1906 sought a secret agreement with the Kaiser to combat Jewish revolutionaries and millionaires.
It would appear from the foregoing that the Imperial German Government might well be disposed to regard the loosing of Jew revolutionaries on Russia as a two edged weapon to be used only as a last resort. Rearing in mind Mr. Batsell’s statement relative to a plan formulated before the war to use Rasputin, the debauchee monk, as a means for the destruction of Russia, it becomes interesting to consider the sequence of events in that country. Rasputin, by means of successful treatment of the sickly Tsarevitch, and by means of spiritualistic seances, had gained complete ascendancy over the Tsarina and was in her full confidence, and thus in a position both to influence Russian policy and to learn in advance of contemplated governmental action. Moreover, the Tsar and Tsarina were greatly damaged in popular regard and esteem by their association with so notorious a rascal and looseliver as this drunken monk, whose motto was “Sin that ye may be forgiven.”
By the influence of Rasputin M. Protopopov was made Minister of the Interior and head of the last Tsarist Government. As we shall see later M. Protopopov had been in touch with one of the Warburgs at Stockholm and was alleged to be in receipt of money through them. It was considered by many patriotic Russians that the Protopopov rule was leading Russia nowhere save to defeat, and the upshot was the Kerensky revolution with the objective of establishing a democratic pro-Ally Government in Russia.
With these facts in mind it is instructive to consider the following table of dates:
1916, December 15.—The monk Rasputin is assassinated in the palace of Prince Yussopov.
1917, March 15.—Kerensky pro-Ally Revolution in Russia. The Tsar abdicates.
1917, April 6.—The United States declares war on Germany.
1917, April 9.—Lenin and 29 other Russian revolutionaries are embarked on a sealed train in Switzerland and taken through Germany to Stockholm and thence to Russia.
These dates show that if there was a plan to destroy Russia through Rasputin that plan failed with his assassination, and failed doubly when the pro-German Protopopov Ministry (established by Rasputin’s influence) fell, and the Tsarist regime was succeeded by a democratic pro-Ally and truly Russian Government under Kerensky. [Oh, so if he is willing to waste Russia for the sake of perfidious Albion, he is good Russian, even if he is a marxist Jew !]
Events thereupon moved swiftly. The United States, after years of hesitation, declared war on Germany, and three days after this disastrous addition to the already formidable ranks of her enemies, Germany took the desperate step of loosing on Russia the few revolutionaries in Switzerland. Thus, if it needed pressure to induce the German Government to take this step the entry of the United States into the war was surely sufficient pressure.
At this juncture it may be noted that in his book The Jews (Constable, 1922), Mr. Hilaire Belloc in his chapter on the Jews in the United States says:
“The last and apparently the most unpopular of the Presidents seems to have been wholly in their hands.”
That President Woodrow Wilson was susceptible to Jewish influence is amply revealed in The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice (Constable, 1929), and in The Intimate Papers of Colonel House (1926). In a subsequent chapter we shall see more clearly the extent of Jewish power in the United States.
Reference to the financial connections of Rasputin is made in the following passage from My Mission to Russia (Cassell & Co., 1923), the memoirs of Sir George Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia from 1910 to 1918 (vol. I, p. 245):
“Rasputin was at the same time accused of being in German pay—a charge that was not strictly speaking correct. He was not in immediate communication with Berlin, and he did not receive money directly from the Germans; but he was largely financed by certain Jewish bankers, who were to all intents and purposes German agents. As he was in the habit of repeating to these Jewish friends of his all that he heard at Tsarskoe [the Tsar’s palace], and as the Empress consulted him on both military and political questions, much useful information reached the Germans through this indirect channel. Without being their regular agent he was, moreover, rendering them yeoman service by discrediting the Imperial regime and thus paving the way for the revolution.”
It is an exceedingly curious thing that a century earlier another charlatan, Cagliostro, with Jewish and Masonic associations, had played a part in the extraordinary affair of the Diamond Necklace, which discredited the French royal family and paved the way for the French Revolution. Cagliostro is said to have been financed by the Illuminati of Bavaria, a Masonic organisation with similar objectives to those embodied in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, published by Professor Nilus, and declared by Mr. Lucien Wolf and other Jewish writers to be forgeries. The existence of the Bavarian Illuminati and their programme are, on the other hand, matters of historically established fact. All that we know about the Protocols is that the Jews declared them venomous forgeries and that the programme set out in them is being steadily fulfilled, as we shall see in a later chapter.
Returning to the course of events in Russia, we find it set out in Russia’s Ruin (Chapman & Hall, 1919), a book by Mr. E.H. Wilcox, who had been the London Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in St. Petersburg, how M. Protopopov had headed the Russian Parliamentary delegation which had visited England in the latter part of 1916. On page 137 Mr. Wilcox records that shortly after M. Protopopov’s return to Russia “it became known that on his way back he had had an interview at Stockholm with a member of the German Legation, Warburg by name.” There was a stormy debate in the Duma, and it was alleged that M. Protopopov’s newspapers were being subsidised by the Germans. M. Protopopov being at this time in office, the affair went no further. Sir George Buchanan in his memoirs tells how Protopopov had attained office (Vol. 2, p. 33):
“On his return journey he (Protopopov) had had an interview with a German financier named Warburg at Stockholm that had seriously compromised him. His explanations failed to satisfy the Duma, and finding that he had lost all hold on that Chamber, he determined to throw in his lot with the Court party. He made friends with Rasputin and Pitirin, and as in an audience which he had to report on the delegation’s visit to London and Paris his ingratiating manners had made a favourable impression on the Emperor and Empress, he was through their influence appointed Minister of the Interior.”
Sir George Buchanan relates how after the assassination of Rasputin M. Protopopov was in the habit of carrying on spiritualistic seances in his place for the benefit of the Empress, and he also tells that Protopopov was in the habit of having shoals of bogus telegrams sent to the Empress from fictitious persons from telegraph offices in all parts of Russia assuring her of their love and support.
In the course of an interview with the Tsar, Sir George Buchanan states in his memoirs that he remarked to His Majesty that he appeared to be badly advised in his selection of Ministers. The Tsar inquired to whom the Ambassador referred. Sir George Buchanan replied:
“M. Protopopov, who, if your Majesty will forgive my saying so, is bringing Russia to the verge of ruin. ... The Duma can hardly place confidence in a man who has betrayed his party for office, and who has had an interview with a German agent at Stockholm, and who is suspected of working for a reconciliation with Germany.” [Germany wanted nothing more than peace with Russia, evil UK the opposit]
The Russian people revolted against Protopopov’s rule, and Kerensky got into power. A democratic government representative of the Russian people and in alliance with Britain was the last thing apparently desired by the international wirepullers behind the scenes.[Mr. grand fascist Field buba, you are showing your true colour; nobody revolted, it was a putch by free-masons. Where is your consistency Mr. wanting to be englishman in Maoriland ?]
This brings us to the tale of how Bolshevism was imposed on Russia, just as central banking was imposed on the United States, and the restoration of the gold standard was imposed on Britain—all these phenomena apparently being manifestations of the same subterranean forces today enmeshing nations and individuals in the chains of slavery.
Reference has been made above to an individual named Helphand, also known under the name of Parvus, who succeeded the Jew Trotsky as head of the Soviet in the revolution of 1905. This man was the go-between who arranged the transport of Lenin to Russia. In the biography of Lenin by Valeriu Marcu (Victor Gollancz, London, 1928) is the following (p, 34):
“Parvus, a friend of Trotsky’s as far back as 1905, had set out to prove that the Master’s (Lenin’s) theories could also bring good fortune to the individual in business life, and accordingly had speculated during the war, as a true internationalist, in Berlin, Copenhagen, Vienna, and Constantinople; now hoping for political laurels, he advised the Foreign Ministry in Berlin to let Lenin pass through.”
“Parvus, the provocateur, a socialist with a very tarnished reputation” — is how Mrs. Ariadna Tyrkova Williams, widow of the late Harold Williams, for long one of the foremost British correspondents in Russia, describes this figure in the drama. In her book, From Liberty to Brest-Litovsk (Macmillan, 1919), Mrs. Williams writes (p. 105):
“Parvus (Helpland) had grown rich, as he described, by corn contracts in Turkey, or as others declared, through the generosity of the German Government. During the war Parvus settled in Copenhagen, where he opened a suspicious socialist bureau. His friend, Ganetski-Fürstenberg, had been sent out of Denmark for shady smuggling transactions. ... Through Ganetski-Fürstenberg the Bolsheviks used to obtain large sums of money from an unknown source abroad.”
In 1917 an effort was made to get the socialists of the world to unite in demanding peace by means of an international socialist congress at Stockholm. Referring to this abortive effort Mrs. Williams says (p. 109) :
“From whom did the initiative proceed ? ... Did not Branting, the able and honourable Swedish socialist, become the plaything of the no less clever, but dishonest, Parvus ?”
There is ample evidence that money was poured out like water in Russia in putting across the Bolshevik revolution of July, 1917. Of the sources from which this money came Mrs. Williams says (p. 144):
“On 20th July, three days after the insurrection. Alexinsky, a Social Democrat of the Plekhanov group, and the Social Revolutionary Pankratiev (an old Revolutionary) wrote to the papers saying that they had documentary proofs that the Bolsheviks had received money from Berlin, through Stockholm. Even the banks were named: the Disconto Geselschaft, Nya Bank, the Siberian Bank. The names of the intermediaries were also given: Parvus, Ganetsky, Summonson, and Kozlovsky.”
Mrs. Williams also states that documents published by the Procurator of the Kerensky Government on August 3, 1917, certified that:
“Large sums of money were transferred to Petrograd by a Russian Jew, Helfant, commonly known among international socialists by his literary pseudonym of Parvus. This obscure international speculator, who acquired an enormous fortune, styled himself as the ideal inspirer of Bolshevism. The German Socialist Democrat Haase revealed the strange connections of Parvus with the Imperial German Government. This fact did not prevent Schiedemann from keeping up friendly relations with Parvus, and from staying with him at Copenhagen in the sumptuous villa of this apostle of the proletariat. The Russian Intelligence Department possessed data proving the connection between the Bolsheviks and the Imperial German Government, but Kerensky’s Government fell apart without having published its information, and without arriving at any definite conclusions on the subject.”
Mr. Wilcox in his book, Russian’s Ruin (Chapman & Hall, 1919), also refers to the activities of Parvus:
“... The chameleon-like Parvus (Dr. Helphand), who began life as a Russian, then took on Turkish citizenship, and finally during the war became naturalised in Germany where he managed to reconcile professions of advanced socialism with the accumulation of considerable wealth, and with subservience to an Imperialist regime. His name figures prominently in the documents by which it has been sought to implicate Bolshevism in the designs of the Wilhelmian Government.”
On page 236 of his book Mr. Wilcox states:
“Parvus during the war ran a paper, Die Glocke (The Bell), in Germany for the exposition of a curious mixture of Socialism and Imperialism. Lenin was an occasional contributor. On one of Hindenburg’s birthdays this paper printed an article eulogising the Field Marshal as the embodiment of the German genius, and declaring that as his work was facilitating the conclusion of peace his name should be ‘sacred to socialists.’ ”
As to the amount placed at the disposal of the Bolsheviks for the purpose of effecting their revolution, Mrs. Williams says on page 291 of her book:
“One is forced to draw the conclusion that the hundreds of thousands, or rather millions, spent by Lenin and his followers were furnished to them from some exchequer which had millions at its disposal. Only banks and State exchequers have the possibility of subsidising propaganda on such a scale.”
The most authentic statement of the sources which furnished the means for the enslavement of the Russian people under the tyranny known as Bolshevism is that contained in the Sisson Report published by the American Committee on Public Information. A summary of this report, forwarded by its Washington correspondent, was published in the London Times of October 18, 1918, and from it the following excerpts are taken:
“The Committee on Public Information has issued a series of communications between the German Imperial Government and the Russian Bolshevist Government, and between the Bolshevists themselves, and also a report thereon made to Mr. George Creel, chairman of the Committee on Public Information, by Mr. Edgar Sisson, the Committee’s special representative in Russia during the winter of 1917-18. ... The documents are seventy in number. Many are originals annotated by Bolshevist officials. The balance of the others are photographs of originals, showing the annotations, and they corroborate a third set of typewritten circulars, but all of which fit perfectly into the whole pattern of German intrigue and German guilt.
“The first document is a photograph of a report to the Bolshevist leaders by two of their assistants, informing them that in accordance with their orders there had been removed from the archives of the Ministry of justice an order of the German Imperial Bank ‘allowing money to Comrades Lenin and Trotsky and others for the propaganda of peace in Russia,’ and that at the same time ‘all the books’ of the bank in Stockholm had been ‘audited’ to conceal the payment of money to Lenin and Trotsky and their associates by order of the Imperial German Bank.
“This report is endorsed by Lenin with his initials for deposit in ‘the secret department’ of the Bolshevist files, and the authenticity of the report is supported by Document No. 2, which is the original of the report sent by the chief of the German General Staff to the Bolshevist leaders warning them that he had just arrested an agent who had in his possession the original order of the German Imperial Bank referred to in No. 1.
“Document No. 3 is the original protocol signed by several Bolshevist leaders and dated November 2, 1917, and showing ‘on the instructions of the representative of the German General Staff in Petrograd’ and ‘with the consent of the Council of the People’s Commissioners’ two incriminating German circulars had been handed over to the Secret Service Department of the German General Staff in Petrograd.
“One circular is an order from the German General Staff dated June 9, 1914, informing ‘all industrial concerns in Germany to open the sealed envelope containing their industrial mobilisation plans and registration forms’ so that they might be prepared for war. [At this date the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand had not yet been assassinated!]
“The second circular is an order from the German General Staff of the High Seas Fleet, dated November 28, 1914, calling for mobilisation of ‘all destructive agents and observers’ in the United States and Canada for the purpose of preventing the sailing of ships from American ports to Russia, France and England. The order calls for explosions, strikes, ‘delays, embroilments and difficulties.’
“Document No. 7, dated January 12, 1918, notifies the Bolshevist leaders ‘by order of the German General Staff’ that ‘the German General Staff orders us to insist on the election of the following people to the Russian Bolshevist Central Executive Committee.’ The list of persons satisfactory to the German General Staff is headed by Trotsky and Lenin. They were elected with the rest of the Committee, chosen from the same German list.
“Document No. 28 is a photograph of a letter from the executive of the German Imperial Bank to the Bolshevist Commissioner of Foreign Affairs. It is marked ‘very secret,’ and is dated January 18, 1918. It says: ‘Information has today been received by me from Stockholm that 50,000,000 roubles (nominally £5,000,000) have been transferred to be put at the disposal of the People’s Commissioners,’ which is the title of the Bolshevist leaders. ‘This credit,’ the letter continues, ‘has been supplied to the Russian Government in order to cover the cost of the upkeep of the Red Guards (the Revolutionary troops) and the agitators in the country. The Imperial Government considers it appropriate to remind the Soviet of the People’s Commissioners of the necessity of increasing propaganda in the country as the antagonistic attitude of the south of Russia and Siberia to the existing (Russian) Government is troubling the German Government.’
“Four days later the same president of the German Imperial Bank sent another 5,000,000 roubles to the same address to provide for the sending of Russian revolutionary leaders to Vladivostok to get possession of ‘Japanese and American war materials’ at that port and, if necessary, to destroy them.
“Documents 10 and 11 contain ‘a resolution of a conference of representatives of the German commercial banks received by the chairman of the Bolshevist Central Executive Committee and endorsed by his secretary.’ They give a complete synopsis of the terms on which the German banks after the war were to control Russian industry.”
Other extracts from these documents were published in the Literary Digest (New York) of September 28, 1918. The following passage from the circular to the German secret agents in the United States is interesting in view of the fact that at the time, November, 1914, Germany and the United States were at peace:
“It is necessary to hire through third parties, who stand in no relation to the official representatives of Germany, agents for arranging explosions on ships bound for enemy countries. ... For this purpose we are especially recommending to your attention loaders’ gangs among which there are many anarchists and escaped criminals.”
Another document is a communication from the German Secret Service to the Bolshevists containing this passage:
“The agents sent by order from Petrograd to kill Generals Kaledin, Bogaevsky and Alexiev were cowardly and non-enterprising people.”
Finally, the chairman of the Soviet Council is told in one letter:
“You can destroy the Russian capitalists as far as you please, but it would by no means be possible to permit the destruction of Russian enterprises.”
In this manner, and by these disreputable agents and underhand means was this rule established in Russia. Bolshevism, though set up and proclaimed as socialism has provided Russia with nothing whatever in the way of liberty or democratic government. All the available evidence points to its being a worse tyranny than that which it superseded. Nevertheless, at the Peace Conference at Versailles in 1919 President Wilson sought to have the Bolshevik Government recognised by the Allies.
In his book, Through Thirty Years (Heinemann, 1924), Mr. H. Wickham Steed, editor of the London Times at the period of which he writes, records that President Wilson was concerned at the hostile reception to his proposal to recognise the Bolsheviks. Colonel House, the President’s right-hand man, was greatly worried over the matter, and talked it over with Mr. Steed. Mr. Steed advised Colonel House to tell the President that it would be wise to let the matter drop; to persist in it would merely expose American “idealism” as sordid commercialism. Mr. Steed adds (vol. 2, p. 302):
“I insisted that unknown to him the prime movers were Jacob Schiff, Warburg and other international financiers who wished above all to bolster the Jewish Bolshevists to secure a field for German and Jewish exploitation of Russia.”
Mr. Steed records that immediately following on this interview he wrote a leading article which appeared in the Paris edition of the London Daily Mail of March 28, 1919. In that article he condemned the proposed recognition of Bolshevik rule and said:
“Who are the tempters that dare whisper into the ears of the Allied and Associated Governments ? ... They are akin to, if not identical with, the men who sent Trotsky and some scores of associated desperadoes to ruin the Russian Revolution as a democratic anti-German force in the spring of 1917.” [Because, as long as it is anti-German, it is good; Mr. zionist mouth-piece]
In connection with the above statement it may be noted that Trotsky reached Russia from New York, Lenin from Switzerland via Germany and Stockholm. The New York financiers named by Mr. Steed were in close association with financiers active in Germany and recorded by other writers as participating in support of the Bolsheviks.
It is a surprising thing that so far as the writer’s search of its files has gone, the London Times, though several times publishing statements on the British war debt to America, etc., by Mr. Paul Warburg—statements of an unsympathetic, not to say, hostile nature—though referring to him as “the directing force behind the United States Federal Reserve Board during the war,” and so on; yet seems on no occasion to have enlightened its readers as to Mr. Warburg’s close connection with the leaders of German finance. Its silence on this significant fact is remarkable.
As to the attitude of certain Jewish opinion in Britain towards the Bolshevik regime in Russia, Lt.-Col. Lane in his book quotes the following from the London Jewish Chronicle of April 4, 1919:
“There is much in the fact of Bolshevism itself, in the fact that so many Jews are Bolshevists, in the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism at many points are consonant with the finest ideals of Judaism.”
It is true, according to Lt.-Col. Lane, that after long delay and in face of considerable comment on the absence of any disclaimer by Jews resident in Britain of sympathy with Bolshevism, a disclaimer was finally published signed by a number of leading Jewish peers of the realm and others.
At this point it is not inappropriate to consider what befell Dr. Oscar Levy, a Jewish writer long resident in Britain who in 1920 published an unfavourable criticism of the part played by Jews in Russia. At the time these events transpired the Lloyd George Government was in office. Of that Government the Spectator wrote in its issue of June 20, 1920:
“We are convinced that at the present moment the professors of the Jewish faith are far too numerous in our Government. ... We have got a great many more Jews than we deserve, and the wrong kind of Jew at that.”
In its issue of October 10, 1920, the Spectator published among its book reviews a notice of a book written by Mr. W.G. Pitt-Rivers. The World Significance of the Russian Revolution. In this hook was a prefatory letter by Dr. Oscar Levy, and from that letter the Spectator quoted a long passage, the general tenor of which is indicated by the two short extracts below:
“We who have posed as the saviours of the world are nothing else but the world’s seducers, its destroyers, its incendiaries, its executioners. ...”
After declaring that the Jews were not, however, all world revolutionaries or international financiers, Dr. Levy proceeded:
“Our last revolution is not yet made. This last revolution, the revolution that will crown our revolutionary work, will be the revolution against the revolutionaries. It is bound to come, and is perhaps upon us now.”
About eleven months later an order was made for the deportation of Dr. Levy from Britain under the war regulations just on the point of expiring. Dr. Levy was a well-known scholar of good repute; he had been long resident in Britain but was not naturalised, and had brought himself technically under the regulations by paying a visit abroad of more than three months’ duration. A protest against his deportation was signed by many eminent people, but the Government declared that the law must take its course. Dr. Levy left before the expiration of the order so that he was not actually deported, and the Governments of France and Italy both published announcements offering him their national hospitality should he desire to make his residence in either French or Italian territory. In his book, The Jews, published in 1922, Mr. Hilaire Belloc said of this incident (p. 193):
“The case of Dr. Levy turned out of this country by his compatriots for having written unfavourably of the Moscow Jews will be fresh in everyone’s memory.”
In some quarters it was urged that Mr. Belloc should be summarily called upon to make good his amazing assertion or else to retract and apologise for it. It does not appear that any action was taken to this end.
Of the efforts of the Bolsheviks to suppress the Christian religion in Russia, and of the economic results of their rule something will be said in a later chapter. The various extracts from reputable sources of high authority grouped together in this chapter give a sufficient picture of the strong hostility of the Jews to Tsarist Russia and the powerful aid received financially by the Bolsheviks from quarters in which, as the chapter on Germany has shown, Jewish influence was predominant. Turning our gaze from this association of international finance with international revolutionaries, we shall now hark back to the course of events in the United States.