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Of the Protocols themselves little need be said in the way of introduction. The
book in which they are embodied was published by Sergyei Nilus in Russia in
1905. A copy of this is in the British Museum bearing the date of its reception
August 10, 1906. All copies that were known to exist in Russia were destroyed
in the Kerensky regime, and under his successors the possession of a copy by
anyone in Sovietland was crime sufficient to ensure the owner’s being shot on
sight. The fact is in itself sufficient proof of the genuineness of the Protocols.
The Jewish journals, of course, say that they are a forgery, leaving it to be
understood that Professor Nilus, who embodied them in a work of his own, had
concocted them for his own purposes.
Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York World, February
17, 1921, put the, case for Nilus tersely and convincingly thus:
The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in with what is going on.
They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT
NOW.
Indeed they do!
The word “Protocol” signifies a precis gummed on to the front of a document,
a draft of a document, minutes of proceedings. In this instance “Protocol” means
“minutes of the proceedings” of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion.
These Protocols give the substance of addresses delivered to the innermost circle
of the Rulers of Zion. They reveal the concerted plan of action of the Jewish
Nation developed through the ages and edited by the Elders themselves up to
date. Parts and summaries of the plan have been published from time to time
during the centuries as the secrets of the Elders have leaked out. The claim of the
Jews that the Protocols are forgeries is in itself an admission of their
genuineness, for they never attempt to answer the facts corresponding to the
threats which the Protocols contain, and, indeed, the correspondence between
prophecy and fulfilment is too glaring to be set aside or obscured. This the Jews
well know and therefore evade.
The presumption is strong that the Protocols were issued, or reissued, at the
First Zionist Congress held at Basle in 1897 under the presidency of the Father
of Modern Zionism, the late Theodore Herzl.
