VICTOR E. MARSDEN
The translator of the famous Protocols was himself a victim of the Revolution
in Russia. He had lived there for many years and was married to a Russian lady.
As Russian correspondent to the “Morning Post,” his fearless description of the
events in 1917 incurred the anger of the Soviet. He was arrested and thrown into
the Peter-Paul Prison. When he was finally allowed to return to England after
two years, his health had been seriously affected. One of, his first tasks as soon
as he was able was this translation of the Protocols, which necessitated many
hours’ work at the British Museum He later became the “Morning Post” special
correspondent in the suite of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on his Empire tour.
But within a few days of his return from the tour, he died after a brief illness