BOCHE and

BOLSHEVIK

BOCHE and BOLSHEVIK

Being a Series of Articles from the Morning Postof London, Reprinted for Distribution in theUnited States, and Written by

MRS. NESTA WEBSTER and

HERR KURT KERLEN

Together with an Addendum Covering CertainBolshevik Activities in America by

1923e Sechwttb Compang

New York City

Opus Number Six .

Copyright 1923 .THE BECKWITH COMPANY,

No. 299 Madison Ave.New York City

Mrs. Webster needs no introduction toAmerican readers . Her status as anhistorian has been achieve4 in"Chevalier de Bouffers," "FrenchRevolution," and "World Revolution,"all of which reached wide sale in thiscountry . Her home is in London.

Herr Kerlen is the mouth-piece of theBavarian Hitlerites-the Fascisti ofGermany. He is a real German pa-triot and lives in Neuvorpommern.

Mr. Beckwith is the pen name of onewho has long fought for individual-ism as opposed to collectivism, forthe constitution conceived by Alex-ander Hamilton as opposed to thatof Thomas Jefferson, and for themaintenance of a representativerepublican government as opposed toa pure democracy. He lives in NewYork City.

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PART 1-By MRS. NESTA WEBSTER .The Hidden Hand of Germany-Throwing

Dust in the Allies' Eyes1

PART II-BY HERR KURT KERLEN.Ludendorff's Responsibility--Lenin Not His Agent15

PART III-BY MRS. WEBSTER .Gen. Ludendorff Answered--Lenin As a German Emissary31

PART IV-By MR. PETER BECKWITH .Jewish Nationalism in U . S. A.-

Its Program of Socialism47

APPENDIX A-Extracts from an Interview by Count Heinrichvon Bernstorff to Ashmun Brown and Pub-lished in the Evening Star, Washington,January 18th, 191473

APPENDIX B-Letter of Resignation from the American Asso-

ciation for Labor Legislation Written by Mr.Samuel Gompers, of the American Federationof Labor'75

APPENDIX C-A Statement by Samuel Gompers from the New

York Times, May 1st, 192277

APPENDIXES D AND E-Excerpts from The New York Times81-82

PUBLISHER'S INTRODUCTION

On April 26th and 27th, 1922, The Morning Post of Londonpublished two articles by Mrs . Nesta Webster, entitled "Bocheand Bolshevik," which received wide comment in the Englishpress. Mrs. Webster was well qualified for the task. Herreputation as a student of history, particularly of the FrenchRevolution and of the Revolutionary movement in Europe,was a guarantee of accuracy in statement of fact and indeduction.

The articles provoked an answer from Herr Kurt Kerlen ofNeuvorpommern, which appeared in the same journal, June10th and 11th . Herr Kerlen had been authorized by GeneralLudendorf to make some denials. The rebuttal by Mrs.Webster appeared June 15th and 16th.

The discussion is important in studying the causes of theGreat War and of Bolshevism. It is with pleasure, therefore,that THE BECKwrrH COMPANY is able to present the series toAmerican readers in this form through the cooperation of theEditor of The Morning Post, and in order that the funda-mental truths herein expressed may be brought more fully toperfect understanding, Mr. Peter Beckwith has prepared anaddendum which will be of especial interest .June, 1923.

BOCHE AND BOLSHEVIK

FIRST PART BY MRS. NESTA WEBSTER

THE HIDDEN HAND OF GERMANY-THROWING DUST IN THE ALLIES' EYES

April 26th, 1922 .

The announcement of the Russo-German Treaty,which has burst like a bombshell on the British public,has certainly created no such surprise in Paris . For theFrench know their boches as we shall never know them,and to them the understanding between Germany andBolshevism has throughout been perfectly apparent .The secret liaison has now been followed by a hastymarriage at a registry-that is all .

A cause which has no doubt largely contributed to themisunderstanding of the situation in this country isLudendorff's supposed confession, of which the apparentfrankness deceived even official circles . In reality itwas a triumph of duplicity, for a half-truth is oftenmore misleading than a complete lie. Ludendorff wellknew that the fact of Germany's complicity with theBolshevist coup d' tat could not be concealed, and hereadily admitted what all the world knew whilst cleverlycontriving to obscure the real issue .

By sending Lenin to Russia, our Government hadassumed a great responsibility . From a military pointof view, his journey was justified, for Russia had tobe laid low. But our Government should have seento it that we also were not involved in her fall . ("MyWar Memories," II . 509.)

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CROCODILE'S TEARSAnd our ingenuous politicians immediately swallowed

this version of the case ! Germany had sent Lenin toRussia-Ludendorff admitted thatbut it was only amilitary manoeuvre devised on the spur of the momentto put Russia out of the war, and since then, on realisingthe true nature of Bolshevism, she had bitterly regrettedher action ! Were not rumours constantly arriving thatGermany herself was threatened by a rising tide ofBolshevism within her own borders, and that attempts todisarm her would render her defenceless in the face ofthe red peril?

The truths we may now at last be brought to realiseare that the sending of Lenin to Russia was neither asudden nor a purely military expedient, but the out-come of a long-standing policy with other than militaryaims ; that far from repenting of the evil she had doneor fearing that it might recoil on her own head, Germanyhad every reason to congratulate herself on the successof her tactics ; that she herself has never stood in anyserious danger from Bolshevism, and that all that hashappened in Russia has been carried out under herguidance "according to plan ."NOT A SUDDEN MAN EUVRE

The Bolshevik coup d' etat by which a small tyranni-cal minority succeeded in imposing its domination notonly over a helpless people but over large revolutionarymajorities-represented by the Mensheviks and SocialRevolutionaries-was prepared, as everyone knows, bysystematic mischief-making between Russia and herAllies, by pacifist propaganda in the Russian army andnavy, and by Socialist and Internationalist agitationamongst the proletariats of the world. Moreover, allthis was largely accomplished by means of Jews, whofrom the time of Frederick the Great had frequentlyacted as Prussia's most faithful and efficient agents .Indeed, all these methods had constituted the plan of

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Prussian diplomacy from the XVIIIth Century onwards .The outbreak of war thus found the ground thoroughlyprepared, and, according to a pamphlet published by theNational Security League in New York, the GermanAmbassadors, Ministers, and Consuls in neutral coun-tries were notified as early as February, 1915, of thearrangements made for the disintegration of Germany'sopponents

It is brought to your knowledge that in the coun-tries where you are accredited there have been foundedspecial bureaux for organising propaganda in coun-tries of the coalition at war with Germany . Thepropaganda will have for its aim the inception ofsocial movements and civil war, as well as an agitationin favour of disarmament and the cessation of thisbloody war. (The Tentacles o f the German Octopusin America, by Dr. Earl E. Sperry .)

Clearly, then, at least 21/2 years before the Bolshevikcoup Germany had been organising seditious propagandain the countries of the Allies . At the same time severalof the most prominent leaders amongst the Bolshevikswere working in the cause of Imperial Germany .BEFORE THE WAR

The fact that Lenin was in the pay of Germany dur-ing the later stages of the war has been admitted by theGenerals Ludendorff and Hoffman, by Kerensky, by theformer Russian revolutionary Bourtzeff, and by theGerman Social Democrat Edouard Bernstein . What isless generally known is that this connection dated frombefore the outbreak of war . In June, 1914, that is tosay, at the moment when,' as Document 8 of the SissonReport* shows, Germany was mobilising all her agents

*Report of Mr. Edgar Sisson, Special Representative of theUnited States Committee on Public Information, who visitedRussia during the winter of 1917-1918 . Doubts were cast onthe -authenticity of certain documents that report contained,but the main portion, from which the above quotations aretaken, was pronounced to be genuine by the National Boardfor Historical Service.-Vide, Addendum by Mr. Beckwith.-EDITOR .

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in preparation for war, Lenin went to Berlin and offeredhis services to the German Foreign Office. These wereat first refused, but a month later, through the inter-vention of the Jew Parvus, Lenin was recalled toBerlin and entrusted with the task of demoralising theRussian and French armies. "Immediately on thedeclaration of war, Lenin was to receive 70 millionmarks, after which further sums would be paid to hisorder when necessary." (See recently publishedHistory o f Bolshevism, by General A. C. Spirido-vitch .) This mission was faithfully carried out, andBourtzeff, writing in La Pictoire for October 2, 1920,stated that the French Leninites, recognizing no suchvirtue as patriotism, frankly admitted Lenin's com-plicity with the Germans,' and justified him for "accept-ing German money during the Battle of the Marne andworking for the destruction of the French army ."

During the years 1915 and 1916, consequently longbefore the revolution, Bourtzeff went on to declare,Lenin several times undertook at Berne, where he wasliving, a visit to the German Embassy, where theagents of the General Staff gave him money andinstructions how to act . Throughout the whole warLenin never interrupted his relations with the GermanGeneral Staff.

GERMAN AGENTS ALL

In Berlin Bourtzeff obtained "categorical and irre-futable evidence" that "Lenin was a German agent, thathe had been throughout the war in the service of theGermans .

"I should add," he wrote, "that also in Berlin I heardfrom the same person and from other people equallywell-informed, statements as explicit concerningTrotzky, Radek, Zinovieff, &c ." Meanwhile in LondonChicherin was frequenting the Communist Club, whereduring 1916 and 1917 he associated with Germans,openly expressed his anti-British sentiments and took

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a leading part in the attempt of that body to fomentstrikes, stop recruiting, and stir up a revolution 'here,which, had they succeeded, would have effectually endedthe war in Germany's favour . At length the authoritiesinterned him in Brixton prison as a danger to publicsafety . (The Red Plot, p. 6 .)

On the Continent the most important German agentwas probably the Jew Parvus, and General Spirido-vitch's new book reveals the enormous services herendered to Germany throughout the war. It shows,moreover, that Parvus (alias Helphant, alias IsraelLazarevitch) had, like his prot4ge Lenin, entered intorelations with the German Government before the warbegan. As early as 1886 he had become a member ofthe German Social Democratic 'Party, and "was cleverenough, like Krassin, to combine revolutionary activitieswith commerce ." This role he continued throughout thewar, when, in the course of amassing a large fortune forhimself, he acted as German agent in Constantinople,the Balkans, in Geneva (where he founded the so-called"Bureau of Economic Investigation," which was reallythe Bureau of pro-German propaganda and of Germanespionage), and finally at Copenhagen in 1916, by whichdate Trotsky declared him to be "completing histwelfth million." (Quoted from Trotski by Dr. G. A .Ziv.)

JEW AND PRUSSIANIt was on the advice of this Socialist war profiteer

that Lenin was despatched in the famous sealed trainfrom Switzerland to Russia. At the same time, inaccordance with the time-honoured practice of Prussiaand also through the influence of her allies in Jewishfinance, a number of Jewish agitators, including theAustrian deserter, Radek alias Sobelsohn, were selectedto accompany him, and after his arrival to form theprincipal members of the Soviet Government .

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So much for Ludendorff's pretence that the sending ofLenin to Russia was a sudden inspiration in view of adesperate military situation. The truth is that , bythe time this manoeuvre was executed Lenin, like severalof his colleagues, Bolsheviks, was already a tried andsure instrument in the hands of Germany, and that, asDocument 5 of the Sisson Report proves, the wholeaffair had been arranged between the German Generalstaff and the Bolshevik leaders in an agreement drawnup at Kronstadt in the preceding July, whilst as earlyas March of the same year (Document 1 of the SissonReport) an account had been opened at the GeneralImperial Bank with these same leaders, who then in-cluded Lenin, Trotzky, Zinovieff, and Kameneff .

CHOOSING THE RED LEADERS

So successfully do these emissaries of the GermanImperial Government appear to have carried out theirmission in Russia that on January 12, 1918, we find theGerman Intelligence Department insisting on their re-election to the Central Executive Committee, as also onthat of Joffe-later in the same year to becomeBolshevik Ambassador in Berlin!-of Sverdlov, Steklov,and several others, mostly Jews, who have since playedprominent parts in the Soviet regime . (Document 7 ofSisson Report .)

Bolshevism was then still completely under the con-trol of Germany . Ludendorff, who admits 'the fact-for in a letter to Bethmann-Hollweg, dated June 9, 1918,he declares the existence of the Soviet Government to be"dependent on our good pleasure" (War Memories II .,574)----again justifies this continued support of theBolsheviks on grounds 'of military expediency for theTreaty of Brest-Litovsk yet remained to be signed .

Thus he writes : "If the Government of the Kaisersupplied Lenin with money it was right . Once Leninwas in power peace with Russia was obtained and

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Germany had her hands free for her offensive on theWestern front." (Article by Ludendorff in theMilitarwochenblatt quoted by Andre Chhradame, LaMystification des Peuples Allies, p. 266 .)

A FAR-SIGHTED POLICY

But even from the military point of view Ludendorffonce more admits only a half-truth . In sending Leninto Russia the German General Staff was following animmeasurably more far-sighted policy than only thepresent elimination of Russia from the ranks of theAllies. If this were the sole objective,'why, then, theaid provided for the formation of the Red Armies? . Ifpeace was all that was desired 'why this drilling oftroops in Russia by German officers, continued not onlyduring the critical period of the war but long after thecessation of hostilities . M. Ch€radame in his new book,La Mystification des Peuples Allies,* supplies theanswer to these questions. He says

The army of the Soviets is in reality the Germanarmy of Russia placed under German-Jewish com-mand. * w * The General Staff of the Bolshevik armyis organised by German officers who occupy as wellall the posts where specialists are necessary . Duringmy last journey to Central Europe I was able to pro-cure from a source that I consider excellent, a list,as yet unpublished, of German officers in the serviceof the Soviets up to the end of 1920. It will benoticed with what care these names are camouflagedeven by those amongst these Germans who -are onservice in Berlin. * * *

The mercenary army of 7 million men which theGermans are training in Russia is destined to doublethe action of the German army of 7 million men, ofwhich M. Andra Lefevre proved the existence in hisspeech in the Chambre on the 8th of December, 1921 .It is this coalition which will form the mass of 14million soldiers who will impose on Europe and AsiaPan-German servitude.

The Press at this moment is solemnly discussingwhether a "military convention" has been signed be-tween Germany and the Bolsheviks . But what need hasGermany of a "convention"? The Red Armies of theSoviets are hers already .

A DEEP-LAID CONSPIRACY-THE

DEUTSCHE BANK AND COMMUNISM

April 27th, 1922 .

Formidable as Germany's military preparations mustappear, it is evident, however, that some more immedi-ate object than the formation of a gigantic army in viewof a future war has inspired her continued support ofBolshevism, since her activities in the matter of revolu-tionary propaganda have not been confined to Russiaalone .

Under the title of "Projects for a political offensiveagainst England in 1918," published by Ludendorff(The General Staff and its Problems . II ., 557), we findplans suggested and approved by Ludendorff and for-warded by him to Bethmann-Hollweg, with, as he sayshimself, "the strongest possible recommendation" for acampaign of "German political propaganda" which isto have the effect of producing "strikes in the Englishwar industries (munitions, aircraft, tanks, shipbuilding,&c.)" and "AN INTENSIFICATION OF THE REVOLUTIONARYCURRENTS AMONG THE ENGLISH WORKING-MASSES"-allthis, of course, again as a mere military measure inpreparation for the coming German offensive . That thiscampaign was carried out events proved only too clearly,moreover, its continuance after the defeat of the Germanarmies and the signing of the armistice effectually dis-poses of the renewed plea of military necessity.

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AN ARTICLE OF EXPORT

As late as April, 1919, the world was informed ofthe secret speech of M . Brockdorff-Rantzau* declaringthat "Bolshevism was an excellent article of export forGermany," and in the same month a conference was heldat Zurich, attended by a member of the German GeneralStaff and a secretary of the German Legation at Berne,at which "a plan of German propaganda disguised undera Bolshevist and pan-Islamic camouflage was drawn up ."(La Mystification des Allies, p . 284 .) At the samemoment the Prussian War Office issued an order for theselection of German soldiers with a good knowledge ofFrench and English to act as agitators :

They will :follow courses and lectures organised bythe War Office concerning Bolshevist aims and plans,and they will be designated to spread Bolshevistpropaganda in France and England . The men will beplentifully provided for, and will be ensured againstany accident . (Intercepted order, dated April 20,1919, published by The Morning Post and by LaLibertE on July 5, 1919 .)

This was, of course, the kind of pabulum Germanagents had been distributing all along, and the plan ofdisguising it with Bolshevist sauce proved amazinglyeffectual, for not only was it more readily swallowedby the working classes, but actually declared in politicaland official circles to be of purely Russian origin . Thusalthough revolutionary propaganda on exactly the same

*"It is announced that Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, who was the first Foreign Minister of theRepublic and represented Germany for some time atVersailles during the Peace maegotiations, is to beappointed German Ambassador to Moscow by virtueof the Treaty of Rapallo. He refused to sign theTreaty of Versailles and resigned from the Diplo-matic service, to which he now returns after aninterval of three years, spent chiefly in conducting acampaign against the Peace Treaty and those whoaccepted it on behalf of Germany." Press dispatchof July 27th, 1922, from Berlin.-EDITOR.

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lines had been carried on long before the Bolshevikscame into power, we were asked to believe that afterthe accession of Lenin, Russia became the sole source ofthese doctrines, and G. H. Q. was transferred fromBerlin to Moscow!

CURIOUS RESEMBLANCEIt would be interesting to know precisely at what

moment this change of command is supposed to havetaken place, for nothing could exceed the skill withwhich it must have been effected . Not only were themethods of agitation employed identical with thosedescribed in the correspondence of Ludendorff, but thevery phraseology of Bolshevist pamphlets strangelyresembled that with which the German General Staffhad hitherto familiarised us . Moreover, the same indi-viduals who now became the supporters of Lenin con-tinued to display a tendresse for Germany, although,as we were assured, Germany had now become theimplacable enemy of Bolshevism !

The incontrovertible fact is that from before thewar until the present moment the policy of Socialismmasquerading under the name of "Labour" has beenconsistently pro-German, and since the rise of Bolshe-vism its pro-Germanism has increased in direct ratiowith its pro-Bolshevism . At every Labour Congress, atevery meeting of the various "Internationales," meas-ures tending to the advantage of Germany and to thedisadvantage of England and France have found theirwarmest supporters amongst the Leninites in bothcountries, and in the so-called Labour Press all questionsaffecting the working classes-unemployment, the re-vival of trade, &c .-have been subordinated to the morepressing interest of modifying the Treaty of Versailles,preventing German disarmament, and, as the DailyHerald expressed it, "scrapping the whole bad businessof making Germany pay."

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The question then resolves itself into this : if Bolshe-vism was not launched by Germany, 'if it is not stillto-day directly inspired by German agents, how is ,,itthat in England the Bolshevist elements are anti-Frenchand that both in England and in France they are pro-German? And this in spite of the fact that Englandis the home of democracy, whilst Germany has alwaysbeen the stronghold of autocracy and of the militarismthese Pacifists profess the desire to destroy?

There is . no explanation of all this but the fact thatGermany has been at work behind Bolshevism through-out, and that as, since the Armistice, she can have noimmediate military object for promoting it in the coun-tries of the Allies, she has clearly some ulterior purposefor her support of the Soviet regime and her propaga-tion of its doctrines abroad .THE FURTHER PURPOSE OF BOLSHEVISM

Nearly a year ago, in my book World Revolution, Iindicated the further purpose for which Bolshevism hadbeen inaugurated, namely, the industrial exploitation ofRussia by the German and Jewish Company of super-Capitalists, whose real schemes were camouflaged underthe guise of Communism-a conclusion which recentevents have gone far to justify . In November, 1920,that enemy of Capitalism, Mr. H. G. Wells, had pro-posed the formation of an "International trust" as theonly means of saving Russia, and four months later itwas announced that Lenin had changed his tactics andnow declared "Capitalism to be indispensable for thedevelopment of the country." '

Precisely the same idea seems to have occurred almostsimultaneously to the financiers of Germany, for in thefollowing November, Herr Deutsch announced that "agreat International Syndicate" must be formed to takein hand the reconstruction of Russia-a plan with whichhe found the Bolshevist emissary Radek completely inaccord ! At the same moment Stinnes and Rathenau

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arrived in London, where by a happy chance they foundtheir old employee Krassin installed at Soviet House !Thirteen years earlier Krassin had been in the service ofSiemens Schuckert, an affiliation of the gigantic capital-ist trust, the Allgemeine Elektrizitats Gesellschaft, andlater was sent as manager to the same firm's branch inPetrograd, where after the revolution he convenientlybecame a convert to the doctrines of Communism .LIFE OF LUXURY

That Krassin, living in luxury at his £19,000 housein Belsize Park and possessing, as the Belgian Pressremarked, "the Prussian mentality to a high degree,"has ever been a sincere Bolshevik no one can seriouslybelieve, nor is it possible to doubt that negotiations tookplace between him and his former chief, Rathenau,during the latter's visit to London . In a word, thegorgeous office known as Soviet House is not that of a"Workers' Republic" but of the International Capitalistconcern, "Bolshevism, Limited"-limited, that is to say,to German and Jewish financiers and their allies, andfrom which, as Kameneff explained at a congress onMarch 15, 1921, all Russian capitalists were to beexcluded .M. Cheradame, who has watched the gradual unfold-

ing of the plot during his visits to Eastern Europe, hasnow admirably summed up the whole matter . Heshows how the system of industrial exploitation, camou-flaged as Communism, has been backed up throughout bythe Deutsche Bank, which, as the brains of the Germanbanking organisations, maintains relations with Germanfinanciers naturalised as English or Americans in Lon-don and New York . Thus he writes

It is true Bolshevism leads necessarily to the ex-ploitation of Russia for the profit of a syndicate ofsuper-capitalists of which the real leaders are Jewsand Germans, that after the period of frightfullicence which was necessary for the collapse of Russia,Russian workmen are now subjected to a regime ahundred times more tyrannical than that of the Tzar .

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RUINED RUSSIA

THE BOLSHEVIST REGIME IN RUSSIA HAS NOT ENDED INFAILURE ; THE PLAN OF GERMANY AND HER JEWISHALLIES HAS SUCCEEDED ADMIRABLY . The Russian ownersof land and property have been dispossessed, Russianindustry has been wrecked, the Russian workers havebeen reduced to a condition so abject that they areready to work for any master who will only give thembread, and now the same conditions are to be producedelsewhere . This is the real purpose of Bolshevistagitation in England, where already native industry isbeing slowly crushed to death and native capital is beingdriven from the country .

Germany has nothing herself to fear from the con-tagion, for the reason that she possesses the counter-organisation to withstand it . From the beginning of theBolshevist regime the inhabitants of Germany have beendrenched with antiseptics in the form of corrective pro-paganda, and she can count on their resistance to theplague germs she prepares for export only . Suchindigenous outbreaks of the disease known by the nameof Spartacism, as occurred in the early part of 1919,were speedily suppressed and the leaders-Liebknechtand Rosa Luxembourg-conveniently got rid of forever .In Bavaria, where the movement threatened to becomemore serious, the German Government, in collusion withSchneppenhorst, the Bavarian War Minister, actuallyintroduced two Jewish Bolsheviks from Russia to takethe place of the native leaders in order to provide anexcuse for the triumphant entry of Prussian troops intoMunich and the suppression of Bavarian rebellionagainst the domination of Prussia . As the Lusk Reportwhich relates this incident expresses it : "It wasanother phase of the Prussian-Bolshevist entente ."

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THE HIDDEN HAND

If Germany then did not hesitate to use Bolshevistinstruments in her own Empire how much less did shefear to employ them abroad! I MAINTAIN TO-DAY WITHGREATER CONVICTION THAN EVER THAT THE REVOLUTION-ARY MOVEMENT ALL OVER THE WORLD IS DIRECTED, NOTBY MOSCOW, BUT BY GERMANY, THAT SECRET COUNCILSIN THAT COUNTRY ARE WORKING IN CO-OPERATION WITHAFFILIATED SECRET CIRCLES IN AMERICA, IRELAND, ANDELSEWHERE, THAT GERMAN AGENTS HAVE BEEN BEHINDTHE INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES IN THE WEST AS BEHIND THESO-CALLED NATIONALIST . MOVEMENTS IN THE EAST, ANDTHAT IT IS GERMAN MISCHIEF-MAKING WHICH IS CREAT-ING DISCORD BETWEEN THE NATIONS OF THE ENTENTE .The monstrous lie of "French militarism" is of Germandevising. A recent visit to France has convinced methat no people more sincerely desire peace than theFrench, and that all classes in that country, with thememory of four terrible years fresh in their minds, areanimated only by the fierce determination that thishideous thing shall never happen again . And becauseFrance understands the only means by which it may beaverted and realises the terrible danger of weakness atthis crisis, it is on an alliance with France that thesecurity of Britain depends .

There is no hope for the reconstruction of Europeuntil German intrigues are unveiled, and there is nopossibility of Germany taking her place among thehonourable nations of the world until she abandons theuse of vile methods and frees herself from PrussianMachiavellism .

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SECOND PART BY HERR KURT KERLEN

LUDENDORFF'S RESPONSIBILITY

-LENIN NOT HIS AGENT

INTRODUCTORY COMMENT BY THE MORNING POST

June 10th, 1922 .

General Ludendorff, having had his attention drawn toMrs. Nesta Webster's articles in The MorningPost of April °26 and 27, showing apropos of theRapallo Treaty how the German Supreme Com-mand used Lenin for they spread of social chaos inRussia, and if possible in Great Britain, refers tothem as "shocking and mendacious ."

We have received from Herr Kurt Kerlen, of Neuvor-pommern, the original of General Ludendorff'sletter in which this phrase occurs, and the letterendorses Herr Kerlen's repudiation (in an articlewhich he submitted to the General of Mrs. Web-ster'scharges insofar as they concern the GermanSupreme Command.

In fairness we reproduce below the correspondencebetween Herr Kerlen and the ex-Chief of theGerman Staff and the first part of the article bythe former traversing Mrs . Websters' arraignment .

Herr Kerlen some weeks ago received No . 8 of ThePatriot, of March 30, which dealt with the report ofMr. Edgar Sisson, who in 1917-1918 visited Russia asa representative of the United States Committee onPublic Information . This report gave chapter andverse for the activities of Lenin and his Communist

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associates as German agents during the war, and waspronounced genuine by the American National Boardfor Historical Service . Herr Kerlen asked GeneralLudendorff's opinion on the Sisson Report . Replyingon April 20, General Ludendorff wrote :

All news relating to a military collaboration ofGerman military posts with the Bolsheviks is abso-lutely mendacious. The facsimile document bears thestamp of forgery and is a monstrous idiocy .

On seeing the articles of Mrs. Webster Herr Kerlenwrote his reply to them and submitted it to GeneralLudendorff . Writing on May 26, he answered asfollows

Your reply to the shocking and mendacious articleof The Morning Post corresponds to the facts, as faras the actions of the Supreme Army Command arereferred to. I am curious (to see) if The MorningPost will print your reply or whether fairness is not tobe shown to the Boches. It would not surprise me .With German greetings . (Signed) Ludendorff .

THE TWO GERMANIES

REPLY TO MRS. WEBSTERBY KURT KERLEN

In her article, "Boche and Bolshevik," in The MorningPost of April 26 and 27, Mrs. Webster first adduced hersupposed proofs and then draws her conclusions to theeffect that "Boche" and "Bolshevik" are one . Mrs .Webster starts by explaining that in his "apparent frankconfession" Ludendorff wrote something still baser thana complete lie, viz . : a most misleading half-truth, whenhe wrote in his war memories

By sending Lenin to Russia our Government hadassumed a great responsibility from a militarypoint of view, his journey was justified, for Russiahad to be laid low. But our Government shouldhave seen to it that we were not also involved inher fall .

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The same quotation was made by Mr . WinstonChurchill in his speech in Parliament on November 5,1919 . If half a truth is more misleading than a fulllie Mr. Churchill ought to have quoted not only half aparagraph, which is also misleading. Ludendorffactually said :

That the decomposition of the Russian Army and ofthe Russian people was an enormous danger for Ger-many and Austria-Hungary I had no doubt . Myanxiety was, therefore, all the larger, when I consid-ered the weakness of our and the Austrian Govern-ment. By sending Lenin to Rusisa, our Governmenthad assumed a great responsibility. From amilitary point of view his journey was justified, forRussia had to be laid low. But our Governmentshould have seen to it that we also were not involvedin her fall. The events in Russia did not give methe feeling of full satisfaction . They decidedlyfacilitated our military position, but also muchdanger remained. During the summer I had alreadydesigned the conditions of armistice with Russia .They started from the desire to come to an under-standing with her ; peace in the East was all that wasdesired.

As an accomplished student of history Mrs . Webstermust certainly also have noticed what Ludendorff wroteon the question, why the strong body of German troopsstill left at the Eastern front were not used to throwover the Bolshevik Government . On page 241 of hislast book, Warfare and Politics, Ludendorff writes :

Such a stroke was possible and had been suggestedto politicians ; but they only moved in formally legalthoughts and were swimming entirely in the .wake ofthe home and foreign politics of the Reichstag major-ity. They overlooked the fact that the moment hadcome in which-following Bismark's noble precedent-the damage done by the sending of Lenin had to berepaired . The Supreme Army Command nointed outthese damages * * * but the politicians treatedwith Joffe in Berlin and permitted him, together withthe Independent Social Democrates, to prepare revo-lution . They allowed themselves to be shamelessly

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treated in Moscow and took calmly the murder oftheir Minister ; they did nothing against the dealingsof the Bolshevik peace delegates in Kieff and themurder of Field-Marshal von Eichhorn . They didnot raise their voices against the murder of theTsar. * *

KERENSKY TOOL OF LENIN

If Mrs. Webster in her next paragraph, headed "Nota Sudden Manceuvre," reproaches Germany for havingemployed seditious propaganda in the countries of theAllies, it may simply be brought to mind that all is fairin love and war . In a war, in a fight concerning lifeand death, one does not look at the weapons which onetakes, nor at the values, which are destroyed by usingthe arms . The only adviser is, first of all, the successof the fight, the salvation of one's independence . Thereparation of the damages done has to take place afterpeace . Decidedly Mrs. Webster's country has actedaccording to this rule, and the final result has fullyproved in England's favour. As early as the winter of1918, when speaking about the March revolution inRussia, Ludendorff wrote :

A tremendous change had happened on the Easternfront . In March the revolution favoured by theEntente, had removed the . Tsar. A strong SocialisticGovernment had come into power. What reasonscaused the Entente to collaborate with this revolutionare not clear. Did they see themselves in the face ofa popular movement, which could not be passed overand which they consequently joined ; or had, out offear of a revolution, the Tsar become peaceful andhad to be removed? This one fact is dear, the Ententeexpected advantages for their warfare from thisrevolution ; at least, they wanted to save what stillcould be saved . Consequently they lost no time andacted. The Tsar, who had started the war for thebenefit of the Entente, had to be laid low. Hereinlies an infinite will-power, which did not shrink backfrom anything when the question was to win the warfor one's own country .

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The events preceding the Russian October revolutionin 1917 have also become clear now . It is now anestablished fact that both Lenin and Trotsky were sentfor by Kerensky, whose mother was a Kornblum, a factwhich explains a great deal. Lenin was allowed to passthrough Germany . Trotsky was permitted to leaveAmerica, and when duly imprisoned in Halifax, wasreleased and proceeded to Russia . If Ludendorff con-fesses frankly his share in sending Lenin to Russia, whydo those who are responsible for Trotsky's journey notsay openly what were their reasons? Lenin and Trotskywere directly fetched into Russia by Kerensky againstthe express orders of his bourgeois Ministerial col-leagues, Miliukoff and Prince Lvoff . The authority ofthe Minister of Justice, which Kerensky happened tobe, was then still the strongest possible power in Russia,as effective then as it had ever been under the Tsar .

Lenin and Trotsky were protected by Kerensky inprivate imprisonment and used against his colleagues .Just before the October revolution Kerensky wasallowed to "disappear," and Lenin and Trotsky repaidthe compliment by keeping him in a hidden retreat,whilst they sent his secretary, the Jew Soskice, toEurope with the order to declare that Kerensky waswith the loyal Tsarist Cossacks, whom he was leadingagainst the Bolsheviks . Eventually, when all was clear,Lenin and Trotsky provided the revolutionary heroKerensky with ample funds and false passports' andsent him out of Russia by way of Murmansk, which wasat that time occupied by British forces . From there hetravelled to England aboard an Italian steamer, camou-flaged as a "White" refugee

BEFORE THE WARIn order to prove that at the outbreak of the war

Lenin was already in German employ, Mrs . Websterrefers to the "Sisson Report." It is to be regretted that

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she practically bases almost her whole story upon this"report," because most emphatically it must be de-nounced as a forgery . The two documents reproducedin facsimile in The Patriot can only be described asmonstrous idiocies . Whoever has the faintest smatter-ing of German military things-as they used to be-atfirst sight will notice that the alleged circular No . 421is a fabrication. Mrs. Webster, in saying in italics thatthroughout the war Lenin never interrupted his relationswith the German General Staff, goes one better thanshe says Ludendorff did . She repeats an unqualifieduntruth . The fact is that Lenin was never in any rela-tion with the German General Staff at all ; his namewas all but unknown to the General Staff and toG. H. Q. when he was sent through Germany by thepolitical authorities .

With regards to her other authority, Bourtzeff, itwould also be well to advise Mrs . Webster to be careful :in any trial or case it would be rather unsafe to relyupon him as a witness . Though she describes excellent-ly Israel Lazarevitch, alias Dr. Parvus, alias Helphand,as a man who advantageously combined revolutionarywith commercial activities, Mrs . Webster, no doubt, hasoverlooked what Ludendorff wrote on February 26,1921, in an article entitled : "Compulsion," in theMilitary Weekly :

Who had advised the Chancellor to send Lenin toSweden was not known at that time to the SupremeArmy Command. There it was supposed that theadvice had come from Socialistic quarters, who werethen quite openly working for peace. Even theS. A. C. did not know Lenin at that time ; they hardlyknew his name.

Albrecht Wirth writes in his book, History of theRussian Empire : "It was just Kerensky, whoshowed himself very quickly Chauvinist and ener-getically hustled on the war, which had almost goneto sleep . . . . There is hardly any doubt that hewas bribed by the Entente . Now, Count von Brock-

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dorff-Rantzau, who as Imperial German Minister inCopenhagen, openly worked for the revolution, wasinspired by Parvus-Helphand, one of the trickiestAshkenazi, with the splendid idea of laying lowrevolution by anarchy. He suggested Lenin andTrotsky being sent to Russia, and thus helping theBolsheviks to rise to power ."

From the press it has become known that the samesinister forces, which influenced the German Minister inDenmark also worked in Switzerland . The go-between,the Imperial German Minister, Baron Romberg, inBerne, and Lenin and his gang, was the representativeof the most virulent Jewish paper in Germany : theFrankfort Gazette, whose representative, from the stepsof the Weimar theatre, introduced after his election asPresident Fritz Ebert to the admiring populace .

JEWISH AIMS-THE GERMANHIDDEN HAND-LICHNOWSKI

June 11th, 1922 .

The Prussian War Office in April, 1919, was as littlePrussian as it was English or French. At that time thefollowing Jews were the chiefs of the different depart-ments : Goldschmidt, Niesswand, Lowy, Schlesinger,Waschitzky, Zucker, Briinn, and Riepenhausen, washedthere by the mud waves of the German revolution .Their tribesman, Sontheimer, on April 2, 1919, said ata communist meeting in Munich, with the Jew Mnhsamin the chair : "The conditions of the Armistice are muchtoo lenient for the German people ." Neither Moscownor Berlin have been the centre of manufacture for thesearticle-of-export doctrines ; that has been always, andwill remain, where it is still at present, the HiddenHand .

So it is not extraordinary at all, for any carefullyobserving historian that "Socialism," masquerading inEngland under the style of "Labour," has been con-

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sistently pro-German ; whilst the identical movement,trading in Germany under several camouflages, whichmay be collectively indicated by "Social Democracy,"increased its most flagrant pro-English or pro-Frenchfeelings in direct ratio with its pro-Bolshevism . Mrs .Webster has admirably sketched it ; at every SocialisticCongress, at every meeting of the different "Inter-nationales," No . 1, 2, 2V2 i and 3, all eventual measurestending to the advantage of the Entente have found theirwarmest supporters amongst the German Leninites ; andin the so-called Socialistic press all questions reallyaffecting the working classes have been subordinated tothe more pressing interest of denouncing Germany asthe only culprit of the war, of falsifying documents,and doing other similar nice things .

To pick out only one specimen, also early in 1919 :The Jew President of the Bavarian "State of thePeople," Isidor Kosmanowski, alias Kurt Eisner, falsi-fied important documents with the full intention ofgaining France's good graces, and pulling down thecountry, of which he happened to be the "president ."The Jewish Government of Germany has just now for-bidden the former Ambassador in London, PrinceLichnowsky, the former Minister, Count von Brock-dorff-Rantzau, and others to be witnesses in the trial ofEisner's private secretary, the Jew, Fechenbach . Theywere not allowed to speak, because this Government hasnothing to fear but exposure .

THE SIX COPIESLichnowsky-whose known pamphlet, thrown down

by English and French aeroplanes in millions of copiesupon the German trenches, was considered by any realGerman as plain and simple high treason-has con-fessed that he only made six copies, of which he gavefour to four Jews, viz., to Ballin, of the Hamburg-

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Amerika Line ; to Witting, of the National Bank (neWitkowski-brother of Isidor Witkowski, alias Maxi-milian Harden) ; to'Theodore Wolff, editor of the BerlinTageblatt (owned by Mosse, and founded in 1871 for theprotection of Jewish interests in Germany) ; and to thedirector of the Deutsche Bank, Von Gwinner (brother-in-law of the ex-Sir Edgar Speyer) . The two remain-ing copies were probably given (so it has transpired) tothe Chairman of the Jewish Privy Council surroundingthe ex-Emperor, Herr Walther Rathenau,* now theForeign Minister; and the last of the six copies issupposed to have been given to the ex-Emperor himself .The question is now, who of the six is to blame, that thishigh treason paper reached England?

When stating that Israel Lazarewitch, alias Dr .Parvus, alias Helphand, became a member of the Ger-man Social Democratic Party as early as 1886, Mrs .Webster confirms simply several quotations given above :ALL "DEMOCRATIC" PARTIES IN GERMANY-WHETHERTHEY CALL THEMSELVES "DEMOCRATIC" PURE AND SIMPLE,OR WITH SOME ADJECTIVE AS SOCIAL-ARE BUT OTHERNAMES FOR THE HIDDEN HAND, ALL THESE FACTIONS ANDPARTIES BEING BUT THE FIGHTING UNITS FOR JEWRY.If there ever was a body which has done its very bestto destroy Germany before, during, and after the war,it has been, and is still the Jew-led Social DemocraticParty . To start with the Jews, Marx (ne Mordechai)and Lassalle (ne Feist Lasal), its founders, and at theend with Philip Scheidemann with the withering hand,who swore allegiance to the Emperor and to Germanyas Imperial German Minister, and betrayed both inalmost the same breath ; that party has never changedin its boundless fury and hatred against throne and

*It should be remembered that Herr Rathenau had not yetbeen murdered by Techow, Fischer and Knauer, members ofthe secret "Organization Council," when this article waspublished.-EDITOR .

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altar, and everything that is dear to a decent, whiteman ; and it has done so notwithstanding its manyshades of red. In this party, the exploding cartridges,the dynamite charges were, and are still, the overpower-ing Jewish element ; amongst which Israel Lazarewitchwas certainly a whole shipload of guncotton.

With regard to the "document" No . 5 of the Sissonreport, as quoted by Mrs . Webster, viz., that the wholeaffair had been arranged between the German GeneralStaff and the Soviet leaders in an agreement drawn upin Kronstadt in the preceding July, this must becharacterised as an unqualified lie . The same characterhas to be given to "document" No . 7 of the Sissonreport, as quoted by Mrs . Webster (viz ., that on Janu-ary 12, 1918, we find the German intelligence depart-ment insisting on their [i . e ., Lenin's, Trotsky's, Zino-vieff's, Kameneff's] re-election to the Central ExecutiveCommittee, as also that of Joffe, Sverdloff, Steckloff,and several others, who have since played a prominentpart in the Soviet regime) . Mrs. Webster is perfectlyright in saying that in June, 1918, the Soviet Govern-ment was dependent on Germany's good pleasure ; sheonly draws a wrong conclusion from this sentence,whilst the right conclusion is given in the above quota-tion from Ludendorff . He, as well as the GeneralStaff, wanted to repair the damages done to Russia,which were pointed out by them, but the Jewish Govern-ment in Germany refused to have their tribesmen hurt .

"BARRELS OF ENGLISH GOLD"Unfortunately, Mrs . Webster appears to see only the

beam in her neighbours eye . Will she inquire incompetent quarters what sums were employed by herown country for raising sedition in Germany? Is sheaware that in Court-martial proceedings (e . g., in thesummer of 1917, relating to the first severe mutiny inthe German Navy, which ended in several death sen-

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tences), "barrels full of English gold" played a con-spicuous role? If Michael Collins, the Irish Kerensky,is bolstered up with grants of English money, was notperhaps the vanguard of Lenin and Trotsky, theRussian Kerensky, helped in an indentical way?

No help in whatever form has ever been provided bythe German General Staff for the formation or instruc-tion of the Red armies . This assertion is not a halftruth (i . e., a double lie), but simply the whole truthand nothing but the truth . Ludendorff writes on page271 of his last book :

The Russian army attacked us again . Inview of the limited military means the Supreme ArmyCommand could not refuse the help offered by theChancellor, not even of such a doubtful and dangerouskind as the transport of Lenin and company to Russia .The military had to think-as Bismark had pro-nounced it-exclusively of the final success. Eventualdisadvantages arising from employing peculiar meanswere to be obviated later on. The Supreme ArmyCommand could not oppose the Chancellor, if he inthis case really promoted peace . Had the S. A. C .seen clearly about these men, and especially had theyknown that the sending of Lenin to Russia had beensuggested by the Social Democrats-even then theywould have been obliged to agree, but more urgentlythey would have demanded to guide the home affairswith strong hands.

But by letting the reins trail along the ground andat the same time by sending Lenin to Russia theGovernment committed a deed which forms an essen-tial share in the breakdown of the German home front .If now Social Democrats reproach the Supreme ArmyCommand and the Chancellor for having sent Leninto Russia, this but proves their own bad conscience.The Chancellor at that time . stood entirely underSocial-Democratic and Democratic influence, and fol-lowed only Social-Democratic inspirations. Also later,again, it was the German Government and the Reich-stag Majority, and especially the German Social-Democrats, who pushed the work of the Bolsheviksin Germany.

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It becomes evident that only peace was desired, andthis alleged drilling of troops in Russia by Germanofficers during the critical period and long after thecessation of hostilities, is equally an unqualified untruth .What M. Cheradame has to say on that subject in hisbook is pure and simple invention . It will be readilyadmitted that he in good faith has accepted these false-hoods, which were palmed upon him by the One Enemyof all mankind ; and his book would be almost perfect,if in a new edition he would replace always the wrongword "pan-German" by the right substitute "pan-Jewish ."

ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF BOLSHEVISM

Though MI+s. Webster is near the mark when pre-dicting in her book World Revolution, that Bolshevismwas nothing but industrial exploitation of Russia by aGerman and Jewish company of super-capitalists-shewould have hit right into the middle of the centre bysaying that Bolshevism is the absolute world supremacy,exploitation, and mastery by the one real super-capital-ist-in other words that Bolshevism is but anothername for Jewry .

If Mr. H. G. Wells has demanded an internationaltrust as the only means of saving Russia, the GenoaConference has revealed that this trust has been exist-ing all along, and that The Hague has been chosen onlyfor another pronunciamento of its board of directors .Deutsch-whom Mrs. Webster also mentions as havingdemanded a great international syndicate-is the Jewishgeneral manger of that super-capitalistic concern, ofwhich the present "German" Minister for ForeignAffairs, Walther Rathenau, is the president . THISCONCERN CONTROLLED IN 1914 ALREADY ONE WHOLETHIRD OF ALL INDUSTRIAL CAPITAL INVESTED IN GER-MANY ! This Jew Rathenau-whilst he was still the

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confidential adviser of the ex-Kaiser-published atChristmas, 1917, a book, The New Economy, in whichhe wrote, fully knowing what was going to happen someten months later :

For US it is not a question of a Western or anyother democracy, nor of Parliamentary rule or some-thing similar . True democracy, government by thepeople, has never existed anywhere, except perhaps inthe short days of revolution. Everywhere in the worldpersons do reign, and the only question is : a State ofCastes or a State of the People . THE STATE OF THEPEOPLE WILL COME, in spite of its enemies and ofthose who drivel about a special German freedom andprove it, too! (Capital letters by author .)

The same Jew, Rathenau, wrote that all history wouldhave lost its sense if William II . had entered Berlinvictorious by the Bradenburg Gate ; and he is theoriginator and designer of the economical plans afterwhich now Lenin is shaping the Soviet economics. Thatthe Jew, Tobiach Sobelsohn (son of a Cracow keeperof a house of licence, Austrian deserter, who changedhis name sneeringly into K . Radek [kradek-thief], ashe was sacked everywhere because of being a thief!)-that this Radek is completely in accord with the plansof the Allegemeine Elektrizitats Gesellschaft's generalmanager, Deutsch, is evident, as he is to become thebrother-in-law of the A. E. G.'s president, Rathenau(Novoe Vremya of April 23) . Not for nothing Rathe-nau and Deutsch frequented their tribesman, Sobelsohn,when he was still imprisoned in Germany . . . .

THE RAPALLO TREATY

As the Bolshevist regime in Russia has ended in hercomplete failure, the plan of Jewry is to cover thisterrible bankruptcy . The old trick is employed again,of amalgamating the bad business with still "paying"concerns ; besides, at least one other advantage isobtained : the same conditions as in Russia have to be

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produced elsewhere . That is the real purpose of theBolshevist agitation in other countries and also in Ger-many, which is the first to be amalgamated . For thatpurpose they keep in it what can be kept . A few daysago Tobiach Sobelisohn triumphantly declared before800 Communist delegates in Berlin, that presently thecompulsory Bolshevisation of Germany would commence .And after Germany it is England's turn . . . .

The Red roller will come from the East, where thepeople die from hunger, and where cannibalism reignssupreme . It is their only salvation to swarm from thebare fields, destroyed by the Soviet regime, like locusts,to fresh pastures . That is the plan and nothing else .

The Rapallo Treaty is neither a German-RussianTreaty-as Mr. Lloyd George has named it (i . e ., atreaty between the German and the Russian nations)-nor is it a treaty at all : it is but the dot upon the "i" ofan enterprise of all the Jews of the whole world . Owingto pressure brought to bear upon him, Mr . Lloyd Georgewas quite prepared to acknowledge the Russian Sovietsin Genoa . France was not prepared to follow Mr .Lloyd George's lead, as the object lesson dealt with theRussian bonds by Kerensky, Rubanowitch, and Soskicewas a little too severe. The chief point at Genoa wasthe query : Will also France acknowledge the Sovietsor not? . Why did America stand back?

Because if France is induced to recognise the Sovietsshe will be obliged to withdraw her help from Poland,which-when held up by France-the Soviets are stillunable to overrun . Also Germany the Soviets are stillunable to overrun, if Germany is allowed to concentrateher few remaining forces .

Consequently France is constantly irritated by"Germany," with whom also Poland is brought intonever-ending collisions . France again is to be tied byher further occupation of German territory, which will

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rouse again the German national feelings against France .If thus Germany is sufficiently irritated, and Francetied, some incident or other will hitch up Poland againstGermany . Poland thus tied by Germany is unable toresist the Red invasion, and she will be overrun . Atthat moment the announced Bolshevist revolution will belet loose in middle Germany. The Reds will also invadeher, and then on goes the Red roller into France andelsewhere . England appears sufficiently prepared forher fate ; Michael Collins and the I . R. A. wait only forthe call from Moscow.

That is about the position as a real German is boundto see it .

"JEWMANY"

It is disheartening that a brilliant student of historylike Mrs . Webster is unable to see through all this . Sheseems not yet to have noticed that there exist two dis-tinctly different Germanies : GERMANY AND JEWMANY .German names are so like Jewish ones ; the Germanlanguage and the Yiddish are much alike . And yet theyare as different as water is from fire .

The skill, by which Jewry is able to divide whitenations, so that they cut each other's throats for Jewry'sgain, is only surpassed by the average Gentile inabilityto distinguish. All the more necessary it is to, exposethe lies by which Christian nations are continuously keptapart for a fiendish purpose .Mrs. Webster must also be disillusioned about what

she says relating to Schneppenhorst, Bavarian "WarMinister" in April, 1919 . A closer frend of Bolshevismcould not exist. He was a member of the "Unabhangi-gen," i . e., Independent Socialists . The "triumphantentry of Prussian troops" into Munich, of which Mrs .Webster writes, is also a fable . Troops did enterMunich and were joyously greeted as liberators from

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the Jewish Soviet, but they were mainly Bavarians fromthe mountains and from Wiirtemberg. They weresomething in the shape of the Black and Tans, realGermans who cared pretty little about the JewishGovernment.

If Mrs. Webster would also pay a visit to Germany,as she has recently paid one to France, she would bealso convinced that no people desire more sincerelypeace than real Germans . The author would not mindshowing her round if she wishes to meet real Germans .But it is not the desire of Jewry that real English andreal Germans should meet. Jewry intends to completeits absolute sovereignty not only over Germany, but alsoover all the other lands, riches, wealth, and peoples ofthe whole world . If the Gentiles should meet theymight recognise that they are all dupes, ,and then itmight not go so easily as it has up till now.

Mrs. Webster, by her article, certainly wanted to drawher own people's attention to the imminent danger, andshe is perfectly right in doing so. But unknowingly,and certainly against her will, she helps Jewry in doingits own work . Thinking to help to avert the dangershe increases it by splitting the white peoples furtherapart for Jewry's aims and purposes . She works onlyinto the hands of the "Socialists," who are but Jewry'sminions . THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE RECONSTRUCTIONOF EUROPE, OR THE WHOLE WORLD, UNTIL THESEINTRIGUES ARE ENTIRELY EXPOSED . THERE IS NO POSSI-BILITY OF REST UNTIL THE CONTAGION IS RECOGNISED,AND ITS CENTRE OF DISTRIBUTION IS DESTROYED .

For that purpose, it should be known, that there aretwo Germanies . The red peril is imminent, and thesooner it is understood in England, that real Prussiansand real Germans want to abolish this hideous thing, thebetter . They do want peace, but not a pax Hebraica .

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THIRD PART BY MRS. WEBSTER

GEN. LUDENDORFF ANSWERED-

-LENIN AS A GERMAN EMISSARY

June 15th, 1922 .

Herr Kurt Kerlen's interesting articles in TheMorning Post should prove of immense service inhelping to unveil the intrigues that lay beneath theinauguration of the Bolshevik regime . They shouldprove clearly to anyone who still entertains any doubtson the matter of Bolshevism that it was in no way aspontaneous or popular movement, but a plan organizedby conspirators of the most criminal kind for the des-truction of Russia . So far Herr Kerlen and also GeneralLudendorff, who authorises his statement of the case, arein complete agreement with the Morning Post and my-self. Herr Kerlen, moreover, has .summed up my ; thesisquite fairly, only on one point he has rather misrepre-sented, or perhaps misunderstood, my meaning. I didnot say or intend to convey that "Boche and Bolshevikare one." Bolshevism as a plan of world revolution has,of course, existed for over a hundred years quite apartfrom Pan-Germanism, and the ultimate aims of the twoare not only different but directly opposed . What Iendeavoured to point out, however, is that Prussia hasalways made use of this rival force, that the leaders ofImperial Germany, represented by General Ludendorffand the General Staff, as well as Germap ,Jewish finance,successfully employed Bolshevism to further their ownends, and that the recent alliance between Germany and

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the Soviet Government is a continuation of the samepolicy. Heir Kerlen disputes this, and in support ofhis argument he discredits certain of the authorities Ihad cited as evidence of co-operation between the Ger-man General Staff and the Moscow gang . The SissonReport, on which he states that I practically based mywhole story, is declared to be a forgery, Bourtzeff isnot to be relied on, and M . Cheradame has been mis-informed. It was, of course, to be expected that theGerman General Staff should pronounce this evidence tobe false ; what else could they say? But as a matter offact I did not base my whole story on the SissonReport, I drew my conclusions largely from GeneralLudendorff's own admissions . Leaving aside, then, allevidence of which the reliability can be regarded as amatter of dispute let us see how far my main contentionis-corroborated by the statements of General Ludendorffand of Herr Kerlen himself.

AN IMPORTANT VERB

Now let it be noted that both these authorities assertthat the German Government of 1917 sent Lenin toRussia . The verb in italics is important, as pro-Germans in this country are fond of saying that Ger-many merely "facilitated" his return . General Luden-dorff displays no ambiguity on this point ; he definitelystates that Lenin was the emissary of the GermanGovernment . In other words, he was, as Mr . AdolpheSmith admirably expressed it in an article in theNational Review for April, 1921, a "Russian traitor anda German agent."

Let us refer to General Hoffman's account of theaffair

As the commander-in-chief of the Eastern front, Iwas in charge of propaganda within the RussianArmy . While the war was in progress the General

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Staff, of course, used everything possible to breakthrough the Russian front. One of the measures weutilised-call it poison gas or anything you please-was Lenine.

The Imperial German Government transportedLenine into Russia in a sealed car for a definite pur-pose. Lenine and his friends demoralised the RussianArmy with our consent. State Secretary Kiihlmann,Count Czernin, and myself concluded peace withthem at Brest-Litovsk for no other purpose than to beable to shift our armies to the West front .-(NewYork Tribune, January 16, 1921 .)

But, according to Herr Kerlen, Lenin was also sentto Russia through the influence of certain sinister forcesat work in the German Government. These were firstand foremost the Jews, whom he represents as alwaysthe enemies of the real Germany . Then there were theSocial Democrats, also "Jew-led" and "inspired byboundless fury against throne, altar, white blood, andeverything that is dear to a decent white man," and,thirdly, there was Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, who(as the original text of Albrecht Wirth expresses it)"had collected round him a rather vividly colouredsociety in Copenhagen ." Was this a secret society onthe lines of the old Illuminati? It seems not unlikely .Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau was neither a Jew nora Social Democrat, yet "he openly worked for revolu-tion." Why should he do this unless he belonged tosome association which . had world revolution as itsobject? According to Dr . Wichtl, Liebknecht, theprominent Social Democrat (who was not a Jew), andmost of the other Spartacist leaders were members ofthe revived order of the Illuminati . So very probablywas Parvus, "one of the trickiest of the Ashkenazi," bywhom, Albrecht Wirth states, Count von Broekdorff-Rantzau "was inspired." At any rate, Count von Brock-dorff-Rantzau is, I understand, a well-known freemason

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of the 33rd degree,* and his aims, as described above,appear to be identical with those of the Illuminati .Moreover, he was influenced by the same "sinisterforces" as those which worked in Switzerland-alwaysa hotbed of secret society intrigue . Everything there-fore points to the fact that besides the Jews and theSocial Democrats there existed another force workingfor revolution-a society, or perhaps a group ofsocieties composed of both Jews and Gentiles, organ-ised on "Illuminist" or, at any rate, masonic lines .

THE MEN RESPONSIBLE

Now it was Parvus, Jew, Social Democrat, andpresumably member of a secret society, thus embodyingin his person all three destructive forces, who "sug-gested Lenin and Trotsky being sent to Russia and thushelping the Bolsheviks' to rise to power ." The proposalwas made, I believe, by Parvus and Scheidemann toGeneral Ludendorff and Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg ata personal interview in October, 1917, and was agreedto by both the latter . No doubt, as Herr Kerlen says,

"It seems almost unnecessary to point out that the organiza-tion mentioned by Mrs. Webster as "freemasonry" does notrefer to the recognized Anglo-American Masonic order .Continental Masonry, chiefly the Grand Orient of France, andincluding a portion of German Masonry, is anti-Christian andpartakes of a subversive character . There are also secretorders of a bastard masonic type, and which are evidentlycontinuations of Weishaupt's Society of the Illuminati . Thiswhole subject is carefully explained in The Protocols of theWise Men of Zion (Epilogue, Beckwith Edition, pps . 150-154),and in many other publications (e . g., International Jew fromThe Dearborn Independent, vol . II, p . 186) . Nothwithstandingcareful effort to keep this important distinction before thepublic, controversal literature has been used to confuse thisissue to such an extent as to suggest a definite purpose behindthe propaganda. (vide, An Address Issued by the AmericanJewish Committee and Nine Allied Organizations, December1, 1920, Beckwith Edition, p . 5.)-EDITOR .

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Lenin's name was "all but unknown to the General Staffand to General Head Quarters" at this date, but thisdoes not prove he had not been employed by them .The heads of the General Staff could not necessarily befamiliar with the names of all their minor agents, butLenin was certainly well known to Parvus, and Parvus,as an important agent of the German Government, waswell known to the General Staff . At the same date itwas arranged that "the Jew Tobiach Sobelsohn," aliasRadek, an Austrian deserter and a thief, should accom-pany Lenin in the famous sealed train . If the GermanGeneral Staff were not a party to this plan, why didthey not at least protest, or better still, arrest Radek asa deserter from the army of their ally?

Enough has been said to show that General Luden-dorff who, as Herr Kerlen says, "frankly confesses hisshare in sending Lenin to Russia," and also the GeneralStaff, were acting in concert with the most infamousconspirators in order "to lay Russia low ." It is im-possible to believe that a man of General Ludendorff'sintelligence can have been overruled in this matteragainst his better judgment . The Kaiser was still onthe throne, the General Staff in supreme control of allmeasures connected with the war, and there was noreason for this co-operation between the representativesof the Imperial authority and these destructive forcesunless the latter were regarded as useful allies . Forit must have been obvious that to collaborate with themand to place their fellow Jews, Social Democrats, andsecret society agents in control of Russia must immense-ly strengthen the position of these parties at home. IfGeneral Ludendorff was willing to take this risk it musthave been therefore because he believed they could betrusted to work in the interests of Imperial Germany .Had he not indeed reason for this confidence? At theoutbreak of war the Social Democrats on whom their"comrades" in France and England had depended to

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prevent hostilities had voted the war credits, and stoodby the war party as solidly as their predecessors haddone in 1870 . At the same time the secret societies inEngland, Ireland, France, and America had success-fully carried on their campaign of anti-patriotism anddisintegration .

WORK OF THE JEWSAs to the Jews, if a certain number had preached

pacifism in Germany-for there will always be Jewsagainst any Government, even their own-others hadpreached the same doctrines far more effectually abroad .For over a hundred years the Jews had helped to supplyPrussia with munitions, Bismarck had depended on themto fill his war-chests, and frequently expressed hisregard for Ferdinand Lassalle whom Herr Kerlendenounces . Even Karl Marx, exiled from Germany,had furthered the cause of Pan-Germanism . And duringthe great war had not Jewish propagandists provedsome of German's most efficient agents, especially inAmerica? Had not "International Finance" in the mainsupported her? Was it not a Jew who placed in themouths of German soldiers the "Hymn of Hate"against the country that had befriended his race?

Why then should General Ludendorff not trust Jews,Social Democrats, and the members of German secretsocieties to help him in the great task of laying Russialow? Inevitably, however, if one works with instru-ments of this kind one must be prepared for them toturn against oneself . Who plays with fire is liable toget burnt . And before long, General Ludendorffrelates, he began to realise that by letting loose thesesubversive forces he had imperilled the safety of Ger-many. Let us refer to his own words on this question .By December of 1917 (War Memories II., 647) he

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dangerous enemy for us" (i . e., the Germans) . Again,in the next month, January, 1918, he wrote : "Theintention of the Bolsheviks to revolutionise and destroyGermany became more and more obvious to everyonewho was not totally blind ." (Ibid II., 553 .) Why,then, did he not exert himself to overthrow the Bolshe-vik Government, of which he says, five months later,"the existence was still dependent on Germany's goodpleasure"? Herr Kerlen answers that General Luden-dorff, "as well as the General Staff, wanted to repairthe damages done to Russia, which were pointed out tothem, but the Jewish Government in Germany refusedto have their tribesmen hurt." The Jews, then, weresolely to blame for keeping the Bolsheviks in power .The German Army played no part in the organisationof the Red armies. "This alleged drilling of troops inRussia by German officers, during the critical periodand long after the cessation of hostilities, is equally anunqualified untruth . What M. Cheradame has to sayon that subject in his book is pure and simple invention .It will be readily admitted that he in good faith hasaccepted these falsehoods, which were palmed off on himby "The One Enemy of all mankind"-by which we mayconclude the Jews are again indicated . But, as amatter of fact, I did not accept this statement on M .Cheradame's authority alone ; it was made to me bypeople, not Jews, who had seen with their own eyes inRussia German officers of the old Imperial Army goingto train the Red Army or who had talked with Germansworking behind the scenes with the Bolsheviks inMoscow and heard from their own lips their intentionof making Russia into a German colony .

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EFFORTS TO WRECK THE BRITISH

EMPIRE-THE REAL PURPOSE

June 16th, 1922 .

Disregarding, however, all the testimony printed inmy last article, we have the undeniable fact that at thevery moment when General Ludendorff says he hadbegun to fear the growing power of Bolshevism, he andthe General Staff were preparing their famous "Projectfor a Political Offensive against England," which wasfinally forwarded to Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg byGeneral Ludendorff himself "with the strongest possiblerecommendation." (The General Staff and its Prob-lems I. 551-556 .) And what was this Political Offen-sive with its plan for "an intensification of the revolu-tionary currents among the English working masses,"but a campaign of Bolshevik propaganda in thiscountry? The German General Staff well knew thenature of these "revolutionary currents," they could notfail to be aware that they consisted in those very doc-trines which had brought about the ruin of Russia-thedoctrines of Karl Marx . It is idle to pretend thatGermany did not realise the destructive nature ofMarxism-nowhere was it better understood . Had shenot rigorously suppressed all such propaganda withinher own borders? Yet this was the force she recklesslyemployed against her enemies ! How in the face of this"Project" can we believe that General Ludendorff hadreally begun to fear its power in Russia? Was it notobvious that in extending its influence to England, theGerman General Staff was doing the very thing neededto establish the power of the Moscow gang on a surerfooting? England had always been the supreme objec-tive of the world revolutionaries, and in thus furtheringtheir programme General Ludendorff showed that hecould not be genuinely afraid for Germany, but on the

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contrary believed her to be immune from the contagion .And for the furtherance of his aims he was willing tobring on the world the frightful catastrophe of a uni-versal revolution.

Herr Kerlen excuses this in the most illuminatingpassage of his whole treatise .

If Mrs. Webster

. reproaches Germany forhaving employed seditious propaganda in the coun-tries of the Allies, it may simply be brought to mindthat all is fair in love and war . In a war, in a fightconcerning life and death, one does not look at theweapons which one takes, nor at the values which aredestroyed by using the arms . The only adviser is,first of all, the success of the fight, the salvation ofone's independence.

Now this is the rock on which we split, and where thefundamental difference between British and Germanethics comes in. All is not fair in civilised love-makingor in civilised warfare . Poisoning wells, mixing hookswith horses' fodder, firing on ambulances, are notlegitimate methods of fighting . They are violations ofthe laws of warfare . And to poison the minds of wholepopulations is not legitimate propaganda. Herr Kerlensays England adopted the same methods, that "barrelsof English gold" were distributed amongst the GermanNavy to bring about a mutiny . Of this he produces noproof whatever.

A VITAL DIFFERENCE

It is true, however, that we carried on propaganda-principally by leaflets thrown from aeroplanes-but theideas we disseminated were pacifist, not revolutionary,they were not destructive of all law, all order, allmorality, and all religion . We did not urge the Germanpeople to murder their sovereign, to massacre theirupper classes, we did not seek to undermine theirmorale by foul and blasphemous speeches and writings,

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we did not attempt to break up family life, set wivesagainst husbands, children against parents ; in a word,strike at the very foundations on which all civilisationrests. But all these things were and are done by theBolshevik emissaries, both in Russia and in England,and these doctrines were the weapons Germany regardedas legitimate methods of warfare, even after the cessa-tion of hostilities. For in the intercepted order fromthe Prussian War Office, dated April 20, 1919, to whichHerr Kerlen does not refer, a further plan was revealedfor recruiting German soldiers to carry out Bolshevikpropaganda in this country . Herr Kerlen will no doubtsay that this again was a forgery, but at any rate Gen-eral Ludendorff's earlier "Project" admits of no dispute.This, then, is certain, that Bolshevism in England wasengineered by Germans . It is of no use trying to putthe blame on the Jew-ridden Government or on SocialDemocracy . This thing was done, not by unprincipledpoliticians, by Jews, or Socialists, but by real Germans-General Ludendorff and the members of the GermanGeneral Staff. And it is justified by another real Ger-man, Herr Kerlen himself .

But Herr Kerlen finds a further excuse for Ger-many's conduct. The Entente, he says, had itselfpaved the way for Bolshevism by "collaborating" withthe Kerensky regime . Undoubtedly Kerensky pavedthe way for the Bolshevik leaders . The installation ofa comparatively moderate "Provisional Government"has always formed the first step in the programme ofworld revolutionaries, as a preparation for a moreextreme regime-Herr Kerlen, by the way, is quite rightin calling Michael Collins the Irish Kerensky . But whatproof is there of collaboration between Kerensky and theGovernments of the Entente? Herr Kerlen brings for-ward none whatever. It is true, of course, thatKerensky had sympathisers amongst the Socialists inthe countries of the Entente, who doubtless applauded

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the triumph of their principles in Russia . Moreover,amongst the general public in England the news of theMarch revolution came as a relief, because the Emperorwas wrongly represented to us as a defeatist, and theRussian Government was believed to be pro-German andcorrupt . These rumours were used by the same sinisterinfluences of which Herr Kerlen complains in Germany-Jews, Internationalists, intellectual Socialists-andalso, I have no doubt, by German agents in our midst,to make us believe that the overthrow of the ImperialGovernment in Russia was essential to the prosecutionof the war . Incidentally, it was probably to theseinfluences that the release of Trotzky at Halifax wasdue, as also the reception of Kerensky as a "whiterefugee ."

A "FREE" RUSSIA

Of the part played by our Government later, whenit received the Bolsheviks in London, I will not speak .The matter under discussion is not the conduct of eitherGerman or British politicians, but of "real Germans"and of "real British," represented by the army and thebest part of the nation of both countries . And I main-tain that neither the heads of the British Army nor thegeneral public in this country-apart from the Socialistelements in the latter-sympathised with Kerensky orfelt anything but disgust at the admission of theBolshevik delegation to England . Such approval asthey accorded to the March revolution, once it was afait accompli, was based on the mistaken belief that a"free Russia" would be a happier Russia and a strongerally . What most people failed, however, to realise wasthat a change of government in the middle of a warmust lead to chaos, that at such a crisis a suddenly"freed" nation must become an indisciplined nation, andtherefore worse than useless as an ally .

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All this Germany understood very well . She hasalways profited by the lessons of foreign revolutions,and entertains no illusions on their "regenerating"properties . This is all to her credit . But what weblame her for is that, knowing better than perhaps anyother country the devastating force of Bolshevism, sheshould have loosed it on the world .

It would be idle, however, to hark back to the questionof who sent Lenin to Russia or by what agency Bolshe-vism was promoted in England during 1918 and 1919,if these investigations did not throw some light on thequestion of who is supporting Bolshevism now . Accord-ing to Herr Kerlen it is simply the Jews .

Though Mrs. Webster is near the mark when pre-dicting her book, World Revolution, that Bol-shevism was nothing but industrial exploitation ofRussia by a German and Jewish company of super-capitalists, she would have hit right into the middle ofthe centre by saying that Bolshevism is the absoluteworld supremacy, exploitation, and mastery by theone real super-capitalist-in other words, that Bolshe-vism is but another name for Jewry .

Dr. Weston Estes* on his return from Russia toAmerica arrived at much the same conclusion :

Communism in Russia was never designed to workby its disciples and those who were actually itsinaugurators. It was never intended to be a systemof government that could possibly be successful,because inherent qualities which are necessary for theproper government of peoples are not present in anysystem of Communism . The' purpose for which it wasinstigated by those who had a hand in its inceptionwas to use it as a method of destruction 'and to leadRussia to chaos. If, therefore, we find thatthe condition of Russia is such as to make us believeit will eventually be dominated as a German provincewe have but one conclusion left, and it is that the

*Dr. Weston B. Estes-Prison and Hospital Life in SovietRussia, 1922, The Beckwith Co .

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great interlocking banking group of Germany, thatgroup which stabilised the political changes of Ger-many from autocracy to a nominal Republicanism, isthe group to which we must look for responsibility forthe chaos and destruction which they have achievedthrough Bolshevism as a camouflage. And these menare by no means working alone. They have theirrepresentatives working in and their co-ordinatingindividuals influencing, every civilised Government on .the face of the earth .The dangerous element in the so-called radical

movement is not the alien propagandist, the cart-tailorator. His work is only too open . The dangerouselement is the directing force which has its centre inBerlin, and which is composed of those men who,through financial success, have achieved industrial andfinancial domination of the Central Empires .

SOME QUESTIONS FOR GERMANY

Personally I do not think this diagnosis goes rightto the root of the evil . The most dangerous element Ibelieve to be the Secret Power wielded by no one raceor creed, nor only by financiers, and which also veryprobably has its centre in Berlin with ramifications allover the world . Nevertheless, the material programmeof Bolshevism is very well expressed here . But arethe Jews alone. t o profit by it? Has Germany herself,the real Germany, nothing to gain by the annexationof Russia as a German province? Does she neverthink of the utility "the granary of Europe" may be toher as an antidote to blockade in a future war? Doesshe never see in imagination the moujiks of Russia, nolonger camouflaged as "Reds," obediently goose-steppingto the orders of German drill-sergeants? If such visionsever float before her eyes, if, in a word, she sees thatit may pay her to stand in with her great banking groupand the G. H. Q. of revolution in Berlin, then, will shenot be willing to submit to the unwelcome presence ofJewish profiteers in her midst, and a certain degree ofSocialism in her administration? If, moreover, these

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same obnoxious elements working through the secretsocieties can be depended on to undermine the BritishEmpire, will she not even coalesce with them in theirimmediate task? Is she not doing that now? HerrKerlen will answer indignantly "No!" But is HerrKerlen in all the secrets of his party? And since he hastold us that the whole policy of that party is based onexpediency we have only, in foretelling its future con-duct, to adopt this motive as our guide . If, therefore,the Rapallo Treaty tends to the advantage of ImperialGermany must we not conclude that "real Germans"will support it in spite of the fact that it strengthensthe hands of the Jews all over the world, and also pro-vides a fresh impetus to the forces of world revolution?

But Herr Kerlen as a psychologist and philosophermay perhaps in time come to see that the policy he nowadvocates is suicidal, and that if Germany "does notlook at the weapons which she takes, nor at the valueswhich are destroyed by using the arms," she may findthose weapons turned against herself, and those valueslost to her as well as to the rest of the world . Hiseloquent and terrible description of the "red roller" isperhaps not wholly imaginary. For the red roller con-sists of human beings whom it may not always bepossible to control-"knout-driven maniacs mad withhunger and greed" who will swarm first over the freshpastures of Germany and then over the rest of Europe .The picture is a horrible one to contemplate. HerrKerlen points out that in order to resist the onslought,Germany should be allowed "to concentrate her fewremaining forces ." But if, as he tells us, Germany isnow ruled by Jews in sympathy with their "tribesmen"in Russia and that in 1919, at any rate, the War Officewas manned by the same race, of what use would it beto place troops at their disposal? Could they be de-pended on to organise national defence?

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WHAT IS A WHITE MAN?

His further proposition that the "white nations"should come to an understanding and refuse to be "splitapart" for Jewry's gain deserves serious consideration .Nothing could be more desirable than that the bestelements in Germany and in the countries of the Alliesshould coalesce to prevent future wars, and to opposeall those disintegrating forces-not only Jewry, butalso the secret societies-which threaten the wholecivilized world . But how is that coalition to be effectualif one of the "white nations" concerned regards it aslegitimate to make use of these disintegrating forceswhenever it suits her purpose? Allies to be successfulmust be agreed as to methods of warfare and principlesof honour, it is precisely this adherence to certainstandards and traditions that constitutes "whiteness ."In English, a "white man" means above all "an honour-able man." And if one descends to trickery, chicanery,and ruse in order to gain one's ends, is one not com-mitting what Germans expressively describe as "Juden-streiche"? It is idle to denounce the Jews as theenemies of Christianity if one has oneself abandonedthe Christian principle, and is it not on Christianitythat our "white" traditions are founded?

Here lies the tragedy of the present situation. Ger-many alone of all the great countries of the worldunderstands the rottenness of the thing we call "demo-cracy," by which we are allowing ourselves to be under-mined . With her great intelligence, her patriotism,her respect for order and discipline, her thrifty andindustrious working-classes, she might march in thevanguard of human progress and provide a ballast forall Europe, but she is lost to the world because she willnot renounce the Prussian principle of ruling by dividingand of building her strength on others' weakness . Sheis not isolated by the Entente ; she has isolated herself

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by this policy . Only when she comes to see that theinterests of all "white peoples" are one will it be possi-ble to coalesce with her against the black forces .

"The ideas of State Socialism, now so pronounced undervarious names in America, in reality were `made in Ger-many.' The popular demand that the Government extend itsarm of service and multiply its activities in behalf of the ,people is simply a reflection of the earlier demands of theGermans."-COUNT JOHANNES VON BERNSTARFF, Imperial Ger-man Ambassador to the United States . (Appendix A .)

"We were at war with all of the Allied Powers during thelast few years."-LunwxG C. A. K. MARTENS, former "Ambas-sador" of the Russian Soviet Government to the United States,in 1920 .

"The people cannot judge wisely without being informed,and the problem is how to inform them . In dealing with theproblem of developing sound opinion, the fundamental con-sideration must always be that misinformation is the public'sworst enemy, more potent for evil than all the conspiraciesthat are commonly feared."-MR. CHARLES E . HUGHES, Secre-tary of State, at the University of Michigan, June 19, 1922 .

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PART IV.JEWISH NATIONALISM IN U . S . A.--

ITS PROGRAM OF SOCIALISMADDENDUM BY MR. PETER BECKWITH

The facts disclosed by Mrs. Webster and HerrKerlen, in fixing ultimate responsibility for SENDINGLenin to Russia, are of supreme importance to the wholeworld and especially to us who are citizens of theUnited States . It is not only wise to make authenticmaterial a matter of historic record but there are manystatesmen among English-speaking and other peoplewho are sadly in need of this information . HerrKerlen has also given us a glimpse of conditions inGermany which do not find description in currentAmerican literature, and which are known only to thefew who have private sources of information. It isremarkable that in so doing Herr Kerlen must have hadthe passive consent of General Ludendorff or he wouldnot have been used as a medium of denial.

Herr Kerlen places the blame for Bolshevism uponJewish super-capitalists of Germany, and names Dr .Walther Rathenau as a leading member of the responsi-ble group . He endeavors to make a sharp distinctionbetween the German people and those who haveinsinuated themselves into positions of economic andtherefore actual rulership. It will be remembered thatDr. Rathenau was murdered on June 24th, 1922, bymembers of German nationalistic secret societies, andnotwithstanding the claims of special correspondents ofAmerican papers in Berlin, the evidence accumulatesthat these organizations are not essentially monarchistic

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nor especially desire a return to the old system, assum-ing that the German people can free themselves fromeconomic bondage under the Republic . On July 3rd,an attempt was also made on the life of MaximillianHarden, whose correct name is Witkowski, and whoseviews on things have been liberally spread in Americathrough the medium of the New York World . Pressdispatches have also stated that the lives of Herren MaxWarburg of Hamburg and Theodore Wolff of Berlin hadbeen threatened. Herr Kerlen mentions all of these menin his second article which appeared long before therecent excitement . All are recognized as active JewishNationalists.* Dr. Rathenau was the key-stone of "thesystem ." He was a super-capitalist, a socialist whospent large sums in support of his convictions, Secretaryof State for Foreign Affairs in the Wirth Cabinet andwas bound by racial, commercial and family ties withthe rulers of Soviet Russia .

On the other hand, Mrs . Webster points out thatnotwithstanding the denials of General Ludendorff, theSisson Documents clearly implicate the German GeneralStaff. The testimony of General Hoffman and thewritings of General Ludendorff himself are quoted byMrs. Webster to substantiate her claims . Evidenceadvanced by Bourtzeff indicates that Lenin was in the

*Use of the term "Jewish Nationalist" obviously includesonly those Jews who are busy in the promotion of an economic,political and cultural domination by the Jewish race, the idealbeing a materialistic fulfillment of the prophecies of the OldTestament. (Vide, D) Bolshevism, which in the last analysismeans concentration of power in the hands of an irrespon-sible minority, and Zionism which in reality means a duality ofcitizenship confined to the Jewish race, are but means to anend, external manifestations of the general movement toestablish Jewish Nationalism. In view of the fact that agoodly proportion of Jews are "sojourning" in the lands oftheir adoption, from a geographic standpoint the movement isinternational, and is usually spoken of in that manner .

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pay of the German General Staff as early as 1915, andother facts are presented to show that the G. G.-S . wasequally guilty with the financial rulers of Germany . Infact, the G . G.-S . is accused of being the prime moverin methods of warfare which Herr Kerlen excuses andwhich are condemned by the laws of nations and com-mon decency.

THE REAL RULERS OF GERMANY

The solution of this riddle-if any riddle there be-lies in Herr Kerlen's statement that "in 1914 this groupof super-capitalists controlled one-third of all industrialcapital invested in Germany," a situation rendered pos-sible by that peculiarity of German laws which permitsbanks to hold stocks in corporate industrial enterprises .This is the highest form of capitalistic concentration andis real Bolshevism in business. Such a control of Germanindustry and the domination of fluid capital through thebanks inevitably erected an inexorable yet facilemachine with which no combination of political groupsor military cabals could successfully cope .* In fact,it is perfectly evident that by every law to which humannature is necessarily responsive, they owned both thegovernment and the military . For many years it hasbeen a matter of common knowledge that trade in orwith Germany is impossible except through fiduciaryinstitutions controlled by a comparatively small numberof individuals whose nationalism often places them in aposition antagonistic to the countries in which they live .These men were the advisors of the Kaiser and throughhim dominated the military machine of which he was thechief. Without their consent the Great War would have

*For further evidence along this line, vide : Report of theEnemy Alien Property Custodian, 1918-1919 ; Report on Co-operation in American Export Trade, 1915, part II ., exhibitVI ., by William J. Clark, p. 519 .

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been impossible . Arthur von Gwinner,* the real headof the Deutche Bank, also mentioned by Herr Kerlenand in the Sisson Documents, is quoted as having saidin 1914 : "War was opportune for Germany with heridle capital, while Great Britain was wholly unpre-pared ."

That this picture slightly intensified is the correctsituation at present is clearly shown by Robert CrozierLong. t

"Government by business, for business and throughbusiness is revolutionary Germany's one contributionto the science of rule . The business state is tosupplant and annihilate the political state. Nationalrepresentation will be constructed, not on the un-certain basis of politics, but on the dearly defined,straight and frankly egotistic lines of occupations,professions, and economic needs . So say Germany'sablest men, the Rathenaus, Stinneses, and Mollen-dorffs ; and so says in effect Article 165 of theRepublican Constitution, under which the all-GermanParliament of business, the Reichswirtsschaftsrat, hasfor two fruitful years debated and deliberated in thesessions hall of the abolished Prussian House of Lords .It is no accident that Germany here leads . (Italicsby the Editor.)

Indeed, it is no accident that Germany here leads . Itis the fruition of a long cherished and carefully preparedprogram, first evidence of which appeared in thenationalization of German railways. Its present perfectstate was prophesied at least seven years ago by S .

*The New York World, February 1st, 1919.

tLong, R. C.-"The Coming Empires of Business," SaturdayEvening Post, June 17th, 1922 .

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Herzog* and eighteen years ago in the Protocols of theWise Men o f Zion : tCapital, in order that it may operatewithout interference must secure freedom to monopolizeindustry and trade. This is already being put intoexecution by an unseen hand in all parts of the world .Such freedom will give political power to the leadersof industry and will aid in subjugating the people ."-vide, Appendix A.

It would be suicidal to neglect or ignore such factsas these . This group of bankers, resident in Germany,initiated the entre of Bolshevism into Russia and ingeneral has controlled and directed it. There is everyreason to believe that it holds Bolshevism in the hollowof its hand at the present time, and that it threatensthe peaceful security of governments and societythroughout the world . It will continue to undermineand destroy unless thwarted .

Finally, through a constantly depreciating currencyand a system of state socialism, this group is ruthlesslyexploiting the labor of the German people, and is morefirmly intrenched than ever . To it, war has been anasset.

ACTIVITIES IN AMERICA

The influence of this powerful group has been feltin the commercial and political life of the United Statesfor many years. The atmosphere which surrounded the

*Herzog, S.-The Future of German Industrial Exportsafter the War . Vide, especially' page 79 of the Americantranslation of 1918. This document was secretly circulatedamong German industrials during the war, and was rescuedfrom oblivion by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover .Considering the time and circumstances of its publication inGermany, it deserves more attention than it has received

tBeckwith Edition, 1920, Proctocol V., p . 37 .

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Pugot investigation into the "Money Bund" clearlyindicated a definite purpose . But even prior to this,viz., in 1902, Mr. Paul Warburg, son of a Hamburgbanker, migrated to this country and immediatelybecame interested in our financial system. Throughmarriage and influence he was made a partner in thebanking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Before the Commit-tee on Banking and Currency of the United StatesSenate in 1914*, he said :

"A thing which had a great deal of influence on mymaking up my mind to remain in this country andwork here, and become a part and parcel of thiscountry, was that monetary reform work, for I felt Ihad a distinct duty to perform here ; and I thought Icould do that ; and in fact I had been working on itsince 1906 or 1907."

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This definite movement to centralize the fluid capitalof the United States developed rapidly, and Mr . War-burg was its chief proponent . He did not howeverstand alone, but received the full support of theDeutsche Bank of Berlin in a speech delivered by HerrArthur von Gwinner, who by the way is a brother-in-lawof the Speyers . The occasion was a dinner given atthe Ameican Embassy in 1911, and von Gwinnertadvised the United States to "establish a central bankmodeled on the lines of the Deutsche Bank ." Thereverberations of his voice had hardly died out beforethere was action in America . Mr. Warburg, alreadyprepared for the emergency by years of study, yet"unable to speak idiomatic English with perfect freedomand without accent, an alien not naturalized," joined aparty of well known financiers at Jekyl Island, off the

*Quoted by The Dearborn Independent, June 18, 1921 . Mr .Warburg declared his intention to become a citizen of theUnited States in 1908 and took out his final papers in 1911 .

fNew York World, February 1st, 1919 .

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coast of Georgia. This was to have been a super-secretmeeting and out of it came the Federal Reserve Act .*Those present were, according to Mr. B. C. Forbes :Mr. Henry P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co., who hassince died ; Frank A. Vanderlip, then of the NationalCity Bank ; an Assistant Treasurer of the United States,Mr. A. Piatt Andrew, now a member of Congress, andMr. Warburg. Mr. Warburg personally drafted muchof the bill, according to this story by Mr . Forbes . Itwas claimed and it is probably true that Mr . Warburgdid not obtain that degree of centralization which hedesired, for he was in such a position that to get anychange he was obliged to accept what his coworkersfelt would ultimately be allowed by the Congress of theUnited States . President Wilson appointed Mr . War-burg a member of the Federal Reserve Board and hisappointment was confirmed by the Senate followinglegislative investigation as to his fitness for so responsi-ble a position. This happened in August, 1914, after ,the opening of the war. In the summer of 1918, Mr .Warburg withdrew from the Board owing to his Germanconnections .

It is natural to suppose that the exegencies of warwould tend to definitely increase the momentum of themovement towards centralization, and it did . But toneglect other obvious facts would not present a judicialview. The Wilson administration was thoroughly per-meated by the influence of such men as Mr . Warburg,Mr. Eugene Meyer, Jr ., and Mr. Bernard M. Baruch .Mr. Baruch claimed before a legislative investigationcommittee : "I probably had more power than any otherman did in the war ; doubtless that is true." Mr .

*Forbes, H. C.-"Men Who Are Making America," Leslie'sWeekly, October 19th, 1916, p. 423. It is not my intention tocriticise in this place the wisdom of passing the FederalReserve Act . I am using the fact as an illustration of ageneral movement.

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Eugene Meyer, Jr., was at the head of the War FinanceCorporation, and handled billions for the government.It is not at all likely that any of these gentlemen werenauseated with the idea of greater, and greater capitalis-tic concentration either at that time or since, or haveany special regard for the dangers involved .

CAPITALISTIC CONCENTRATIONAfter the war, this concentration continued . Under a

Republican administration, the War Finance Corpora-tion was rehabilitated and again Mr. Meyer was madeits chairman . A billion dollars was appropriated forcredits through that organization . The Edge Act be-came a law, authorizing the incorporation of specialbanks for financing foreign trade and under its provis-ions, National Banks are authorized to buy and holdstock in these corporations . At the present moment,Congress has under consideration at least two billswhich, if passed, would make for further degree ofcentralization . The first permits establishment ofbranch banks without increase of capitalization, a meas-ure of great importance in large cities, and the secondplaces the so-called "Edge Act banks" in directaffiliation with the Federal Reserve Board. *Mr. PaulWarburg has a personal interest in the enactment ofthe latter measure, and he has been a quiet but effectiveproponent of it. Furthermore, Mr. Eugene Meyer, Jr .,now proposes that loans to private individuals by thestate be legalized ! This, of course, is simply anotherform of teaching people to become dependent upon thestate, and incidentally most of us are fairly sure ofmany who will be early in line when the window opens .

*Senate Bill, No 2436, 67th Congress, Second Session, Oneprovision of this bill, which has already passed the Senate,reads : "The Federal Reserve Board * * *, may in its dis-cretion, permit the applying corporation to become a stock-holder of such Federal Reserve Bank ."

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We are tending therefore towards a highly centralizedform of banking control by a small minority, the sameform which obtains in Republican Germany and SovietRussia--The "Boche-Bolshevik" form. It leads to theestablishment eventually of a Reichswirtsschaftsrat .And as if to prepare for that unhappy termination ofGeorge Washington's ideal, events are fast shapingthemselves to meet this program. For instance, Con-gress has just legalized the formation of • agriculturalcooperative selling organizations, and the hands of Mr .Bernard Baruch and Mr. Adam Sapiro are seendeftly shaping the concentration of control inagricultural products . At the present moment,twenty per cent. of the cotton grown in this countrypasses through definite channels, which in the lastanalysis are controlled by the same group which havebeen considered. It is claimed that within the nexteighteen months, forty per cent . will be controlled andthus the market will be dominated . Within the pastfew months, projects have been negotiated which willplace the control of the supply of food to the cities inthe hands of the few. The chain-store movement isdeveloping rapidly . Those familiar with the history ofthe French Revolution and of the Bolshevik Revolutionwill grasp the significance of such events . There isthe formation of the "Farm Bloc" in Congress which,of course, would organize the body politic on "franklyegotistic lines of occupations, professions, and economicneeds ." "Freedom to monoplize industry and trade"has for all practical purposes been accomplished in theseUnited States . Each must judge for himself whetherthe agent has been "an unseen hand." This is realBolshevism in business, concentration and domination inthe hands of a privileged minority-a commercialplutocracy.

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PROPAGANDA IN THE SOCIAL FIELD

Jewish nationalism does not confine itself to opera-tions in the fields of banking and commerce, nor to thefield of politics where action is so necessary toaccomplish its ambitions . It has reached almost everyfield of human endeavor, especially where there wasopportunity to nullify the influence of the Christianreligion and break down morality . The development ofthe moving picture furnished unparallelled opportunityfor expression.* Millions have felt its influence whichwould otherwise escape unscathed . Psycho-analysisis both anti-Christian and morally subversive . Itsdoctrines relating to sex have been habitually used toseduce . Many of its advocates are Jewish Nationalistsand it is plainly a part of the revolutionary movement .The same may be said of the propaganda for BirthControl behind which are to be found many unsuspectingChristians . It would be impossible to describe this great"organization of disorder." t Nor is it necessary, for bycarefully following the aggression along some singleline, it is quite possible to picture the methods whichhave been used in many directions . The general prin-ciples of propaganda are always the same : i . e ., Thedeliberate attempt by systematic agitation to intensify

*vide, comments by Life on the motion picture play "Wel-come Stranger," September 30th, 1920, p. 582, obviouslydesigned to prevent the enactment of adequate emigrationlaws . In this connection, read, Roberts, Kenneth-WhyEurope Leaves Home . Concerning the subversive influence of.the motion picture in this country, consult, Wallace, John B.-'"Corrupting the Morals of Children," Farm Journal, May,1922, p . 11, and various articles during the past two years inThe Dearborn Independent.

fThis phrase was coined by myself three years ago to des-cribe this very situation . Since that time it has been claimedby others and used in an entirely opposite sense.

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natural antagonisms, thereby creating new problems andgrievances and to originate projects with supposed orreal benevolent objectives, all for purposes of capital-ization and exploitation .

EARLY "GERMAN" AGGRESSION

Bourtzeff's dictum that Lenin was employed by theGerman General Staff as early as 1915, and as indicatedby the Sisson Documents in 1916, has been sufficientlysubstantiated to merit the claim of having been histori-cally proven. This is in spite of General Ludendorff'sdenial, for it must be remembered that running a bigwar is a big business and it is more than possible thatGeneral Ludendorff did not know all that was "pulledoff" in his own army. It would have been quiteremarkable if he had . Governmental information at thedisposal of the capitalists is not an unknown thing inany country and when we come to investigate themethods that were used to obtain the free exit of Trotskyfrom this country in 1917, and his final release from theclutches of the British Navy at Halifax in which he wasknown as a paid German agent, Herr Kerlen's claimswill have been found to receive considerable substantia-tion.* From an historical standpoint, these matters areof prime interest and importance, but there is anotherway by which accurate conclusions can be obtained .

Glancing down the years following the Franco-German war of 1872 it can be pretty accurately deter-minded that the leaders of Germany consciously fixedon a definite future program in 1888 . At thistime or thereabouts plans began to be formulated for aworld supremacy by force of arms, and about twenty-

*A portion of the evidence concerning Trotsky's release fromHalifax is already a matter of record, vide, MacLean's Maga-zine (Toronto), June, 1919 .

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five years later, the tragedy opened. Events whichtranspired in the intervening time, clearly indicate thatthere was a preliminary and preparatory subversiveand cumulative propaganda. For the sake of conveni-ence this may be termed "German" propaganda asopposed to that of the present moment which is calledBolshevik . Is it an accident that Theodor Herzl, anobscure writer for the Vienna Frei Presse, owned by aJewish Nationalist, Rothschild, should have succeededin gathering the First Zionist Congress at Basle in 1897?Viewed as an isolated event, it might be so regarded .But this was the first Jewish movement of many cen-turies which had a political objective . The Kaiser wasthe first European potentate to give official sanction tothis Jewish aspiration, and his eagerness to do soresulted in a spectacular trip to Palestine . From apolitical standpoint, attainment of this project meantmany desirable things for Imperial Germany, e . g.,fixation of influence at the eastern end of the Berlin-Bagdad railway, and a buffer territory between Britishpossessions arid territory which was included in the"Mittle-Europa" dream . It cannot be denied thatpolitical Zionism was largely the result of German-Jewish influence . It served to crystalize Jewish thoughtfor Germany throughout the world during the war untilthe announcement of the Balfour declaration.

A series of world-wide aggressive propaganda move-ments began shortly after 1888, and in the two decadesfollowing scarcely a line of action was neglected bythese busy people. The general principle of work hasalready been given, viz., the creation of a situation byagitation and then its exploitation, the end desired beingin accord with the old proverb, divide et impera . Ofthose international groups which had already beenformed, particularly in the labor organizations, they were

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first captured and then exploited . The Germans beganto assume always a more aggressive attitude and showa tendency to forceful control .* Even in the field ofscience and medicine propaganda of various sortsreigned supreme . Many of the schemes had anostensible praiseworthy object but in every instance themethods to be employed were socialistic, designed toteach people dependence upon the state, and robbingthem of initiative and self-reliance . The end to beattained therefore was not by any means worth theprice, for even the relief of suffering may be obtainedat a price far and above what it is worth . Pacifistsocieties sprang up, and there were leagues to enforcepeace and societies to forward the interests of inter-national super-government. Special racial interestswere agitated at the expense of public order and soundprogress in the science of government .

SOCIAL INSURANCE SCHEMES

Probably that social scheme which promised most forthe ultimate success of the movement is that embodiedin the various forms of social insurance by the state,and a history of its entre to the United States includinga description of the methods used to secure its adoptioninto our scheme of civilization will best illustrate thepropaganda as a whole . Social insurance schemes(workmen's compensation insurance, compulsory healthinsurance, insurance against unemployment, and various

*Smith, Adolph-The Times, London, July 29, 30 and 31,1919, "The Pan-German Internationale," and since reprintedin pamphlet form. Also, Yorke, Onslow-Secret History ofThe International Working Men's Association, 1871, andreprinted in 1921 .

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other forms) are subversive because they underminemorale of individuals and destroy their initiative.They have a tendency to break' down the political statealso because they remove from industry for their admin-istration a large number of people who would otherwisebe productive placing them in bureaucratic, non-produc-tive class . In addition, the actual money cost is so largethat taxes are necessarily increased, purchasing powerof money decreased and obviously wages are lowered .The chain of events is inevitable under perfectly wellrecognized economic and political laws . These schemeswere originally applied in Germany by Bismark, whowas perfectly frank about the object to be attained . Hetells us in his autobiography that social insurance wasinstituted for the purpose of putting a golden chainabout the necks of the workingman, and during the warthe system was used by the military clique to preventstrikes .

The general idea of state social insurance reachedthis country some thirty years 'ago in the person of oneDr. Isaac M . Rubinow, who styles himself a socialist .and his birth place is given as Gudnow, Russia . Hewrote a book one time, entitled Was Marx Wrong? Hispermanent address is given as "The Zionist Organiza-tion, No. 55 Fifth Ave ., New York" and thereby heplaces himself safely among the Jewish Nationalists .Dr. Rubinow cheerfully admits the German origin ofsocial insurance : "There is no doubt that the modernconception of social insurance-as a system carryingwith it compulsion, state subsidies, and strict statesupervision and control-has reached its highestdevelopment in modern Germany, so that any system

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embodying to a large degree all these three elementsmay be described as the German system ."*

AN ADVANCE AGENT

Dr. Rubinow was the "St. John the Baptist" of themovement in the United States, and organized propa-ganda began some years later . His work was the fore-runner of a congress of theoretical sociologists andcollege professors who met at the Paris Exposition of

*Rubinow, Isaac Max-Social Insurance, With Special Ref-erence to American Conditions, 1913, p. 13, (Holt) . On thesecond page following Rubinow, denying that Bismark origin-ated the general scheme of social insurance, says : "Dr.Schaeffle, the state socialist, elaborated a program of socialinsurance as early as 1867 . Lasalle openly advocated thatthe state come to the assistance of the working class . Thegreat Karl Marx had no patience with the negative attitudeof the French socialists and anarchists to the state ." Socialinsurance schemes are therefore of revolutionary origin anda part of the revolutionary program . Compare Exhibit A, vonBernstorff's claim that there was in Germany a monarchisticmonopolization of such socialistic legislation. The views ofMr. Gompers in Exhibit B are also interesting in this con-nection.Francis McCullagh, erstwhile Captain, British Army Intel-

ligence Service, writes a wonderful description of the murderof the Tzar, his family and their retinue, thirteen in all, on thenight of July 16-17, 1918 at, Ekaterinburg, (A Prisoner o f theReds, p . 150) . McCullagh visited Ekaterinburg in March, 1920and interviewed Yurovsky, the Bolshevik Jew, who, single-handed, had committed this mass murder . He indicates thatYurovsky had been well cared for by the Moscow Sovietauthorities in that at his request he had been made "Inspectorof Life Insurance for all Ekaterinburg Province." McCullaghsays: "I got a good deal of information from him, however,about the Life Insurance system which the Bolsheviks haveestablished, and which embraces Old Age pensions, maternitybenefits, workmen's compensation, and a number of alliedsubjects . Among other things he talked about the maternityclasses that had been started by him in the town, in order toteach intending mothers how to care for their children, andthus to reduce `the high infant mortality ."'

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1900 and formed what was afterwards known as theInternational Association for Labor Legislation . Head-quarters were established in Basle, Switzerland, incharge of a German, Stephen Bauer . Fourteenbranches were subsequently established in as manycountries and among them the American Association forLabor Legislation. This organization, with headquar-ters at present in New York City, is the source fromwhich practically all of the propaganda for socialinsurance has eminated in this country . The ease withwhich it has secured passage of sympathetic resolutionsfrom organizations which would not consider suchschemes for a moment, if the true inwardness of thepropaganda were disclosed, is almost beyond compre-hension .

That there was and is intent on the part of Germanyin forcing to the foreground schemes for social insur-ance in countries foreign to it can be shown in manyways. For instance, we are told that in a speech madebefore the German Reichstag, October 6th, 1918, andjust prior to the Austrian move for peace, Prince Maxof Baden,* at that time Imperial Chancellor andpossessor of the famous cabinet noir, made this state-ment

"At the peace negotiations the German Governmentwill use its efforts to the end that the treaties shallcontain provisions concerning the protection of laborand insurance of laborers, which provisions shalloblige the treaty-making states to institute in theirrespective lands within a prescribed time a minimumof similar, or at least equally effective institutions forthe security of life and health as for the care oflaborers in the case of illness, accident, or invalidism ."

*Hoffman, Dr. Frederick L.-Failure o f German Compul-sory Health Insurance-A War Revelation . Address beforethe 12th Annual Meeting of the Association of Life InsurancePresidents, New York City, December 6th, 1918, p . 8 .

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The connection between Bolshevism and this sort ofinsurance propaganda of German origin is also nicelyillustrated in the following :*

Alexandra Kollontay, key woman of the Russianrevolution, first Bolshevist Commissioner of SocialWelfare, the world's foremost feminist pacifist, andalso author of "the most comprehensive study ofmaternity benefits and insurance in any language,"according to the United States Children's BureauPublication No. 57, page 175, arrived in America thefirst week of October, 1915, for an "extensive agitationtour" under the auspices of the German LanguageFederation of the Socialist Party . (New York Call,September 25th, 1915, 'p . 5 .)

To those who have studied the American Associationfor Labor Legislation in pushing the propaganda forvarious forms of state insurance, two distinctive featuresstand out . In the first place, its propaganda methodshave not been above criticism . Bolshevism has everbeen careless of facts, and has ever been guilty ofmisrepresentation to further its own ends . Obviouslycorrect statements are denied with an ease which savorsof irresponsibility and half-truth ("worse than a doublelie") is better than truth if it serves its purpose .Probably at no other time within the field of serioussociology has it been necessary for a responsibleorganization to deliberately call attention to misrepre-sentation in the way it became necessary to discreditthe claims of the American Association for Labor Legis-lation in its propaganda for compulsory health insur-ance .t In the second place, the paucity of labor

*The Woman Patriot, (Washington) "Alexandra Kollon-tay's German Agitation Tour," Vol. VI., No. 14, July 15th,1922, p. 1 .

U Refutation of False Statements in Propaganda forCompulsory Health Insurance by the Committee on Con-tructive Plan, Social Insurance Department, The NationalCivic Federation. October, 1919 .

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leaders among the supporters of the American Associa-tion for Labor Legislation has always been conspicuous .Mr. Samuel Gompers of the American Federation ofLabor, at one time connected with it, resigned anddenounced the health insurance propaganda (vide, Ap-pendix B.) In its history in this country, now coveringtwo decades, it has numbered among its most activeadherents many of those whose names and politicalrecords may be found in the report of the New YorkState Legislative Committee which investigated seditiouspropaganda (The Lusk Committee), college professorswho were largely educated in Germany and many othersforeign born. At the present moment, its president isMr. Thomas Chadborn, who as an attorney is endeavor-ing to affect a merger of large steel manufacturies in theinterest of Kuhn, Loeb & Co . Among its vice-presidentsare Mr. Felix Warburg, a partner in the same firm ofGerman-Jewish bankers, and the eminent JewishNationalist, Rabbi Stephen S . Wise of the Free Syna-gogue, New York . Its treasurer for many years hasbeen Mr. Adolph Lewisohn, born in Germany, andfinancially interested along with the Guggenheims, theVoglesteins, Eugene Meyer, Jr ., the Metal Bank ofFrankfort and the Deutsche Bank of Berlin in thecopper industry.

Germany's intent in the matter of state social insur-ance has been shown, and the interest which Bolshevismhas in its success has been indicated . The names andconnections of some of the more responsible personslisted with the American Association for Labor Leg-islation have also been given . What interest haspolitical Germany to serve in "forcing" the establish-ment of social insurance, "carrying with it compulsion,state subsidies, and strict state supervision and control"upon the people of the United States, that politicalGermany which is controlled by a "racial and religiousminority" as a shield for its capitalistic schemes? In

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view of these facts, are there any who still believe thatGermany and its owners are obsessed by some super-humanitarian instinct, "pledged to the abolition ofpoverty" as one of its votaries explains? Or is this inreality a manifestation of that organization of disorder?Shall we not believe that all this is but the fruition of along cherished and carefully prepared plan, a part ofa comprehensive program? It cannot be an accident thatGermany here leads! While it may not be possible forindividuals as such to do much about all this, I am con-vinced that there are still a few who, like John Habber-ton's Budge, will insist on "sheeing the wheels gowound!"

THE SISSON DOCUMENTSMrs. Webster herself has called attention to that

"conspiracy of history" which so alters the appearanceof facts as to make for deception . No better exampleof this in the history of the revolutionary movement inAmerica could be afforded than the propaganda let looseto undermine public confidence in the authenticity of theSisson documents . She may have no fear of theirauthenticity! This propaganda was characterized bytrue Bolshevik disregard of fact or ordinary historicanalysis . I have a lingering idea that in criminalcourts, it is customary to allow a prisoner to plead, butthat it is equally customary to leave the final judgmentas to guilt in the hands of a duly qualified jury! Con-sequently it is unfortunate that Herr Kerlen should havethought it wise to question the 'authenticity of thosedocuments and thereby weaken his own case. It throwshim into bad company, yet one cannot blame himespecially in view of the fact that- to admit theirauthenticity would have made General Ludendorff aslave of the same power which everyone knows andHerr Kerlen himself admits has and does rule Germany,both its military machine of by-gone days and its

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industry. If Herr Kerlen had been as frank about thisas he is about other phases of the Jewish Nationalisticmovement, he and Mrs . Webster would have been insubstantial accord.

In not taking this stand however, Herr Kerlen haslaid himself open to attack . The German-BolshevikConspiracy, a pamphlet of thirty pages containing theSisson documents, was issued by the 'Committee onPublic Information, a government organization underthe immediate supervision of Mr. George Creel, andinstituted by executive order of President Wilson . Thepamphlet reached the general public in permanent formin October, 1918, the only inexplicable thing about thewhole affair being how it happened to get out at allduring the Wilson administration . Just prior to itsrelease, resumes and extracts were given to the pressand published broadly in this country . Three install-ments had been published and The New York, EveningPost, of which Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard was ownerand "editorial writer," questioned their authenticity onthe editorial page . The radical' and socialistic press-papers of that stripe are always cheerful in quoting Mr .Villard-took its cue, and from that day to this anyquestion as to the authenticity of the Sisson documentsappears from that source .

Mr. Villard's personal career furnishes abundantbackground for the stand which was taken at that time inThe Evening Post . He was born in Wiesbaden, Ger-many, in 1872, his father's name being Gustavus Hil-gard, changed to Henry Villard, by which he was knownin financial circles in this country . The latter was bornin Spire, Bavaria . Mrs. Henry Villard, the mother ofOswald Garrison Villard, was of New England birth,the daughter of William Lloyd Garrison, the famousliberator . When the Lusitania was sunk by a German

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torpedo, Mr. Villard in a signed article in The EveningPost (May 10th, 1915) said :

"Had the submarine given thirty minutes' warningto the crew and passengers of the Cunarder, theexploit would have gone down in history as one of themost brilliant in the annals of naval warfare ."

OSWALD AND THE JEWS

Mr. Villard was a close personal friend of theunspeakable Count von Bernstorff, of George SylvesterViereck, the German propagandist, and others of similarthought . It is a matter of common knowledge that bothOswald and his mother who thinks much the same ashe does are in social circles which embrace partners inthe firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co ., and their families .Mr. Villard, consciously or unconsciously, is playing

the game of the Jewish Nationalists in this country asowner and editor of The Nation, which is pan-Germanand especially pan-Bolshevik . To him, the indemnityrequired of Germany is too high, much too high, and hethereby finds himself in the company of Mr . BernardBaruch, Mr. Paul Warburg and the Germans. France isvery militaristic and to give credit to his consistency,which after all is a variable quantity, both he and hismother are vigorously concerned in anti-militaristicpropaganda . They are terribly alive to the dangerswhich threaten a republic spending large sums onstanding armies and navies-excepting Soviet Russia .To make his radical connections very clear, he was thetreasurer of an organization which has for its objectagitation among and on behalf of the negroes, "TheNational Association for the Advancement of ColoredPeople ." Its official organ, The Crisis, was held up inthe mails during the war, and in this organization, Mr .Villard comes into contact with Mr . Felix Warburg ofthe banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co . In a recent

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number of The Nation, Mr. Villard has us informedthat one hundred per cent . Americanism is one hundredper cent . provincialism, and that the Ku Klux Klan islargely an anti-Catholic organization . He and his paperprojected and carried out at large expense an investiga-tion of the Irish question which took place in Washing-ton, D . C. As once remarked by The New York Tribune,"it almost always works out."

Therefore, it seems justifiable to remark that HerrKerlen is in dubious company. Daily publication inserial form of the Sisson documents was certainlydamaging to what Mr . Hearst calls the "liberal" move-ment . Mrs. Webster's remark concerning the GermanGeneral Staff applies to Mr. Villard : "it was of courseexpected" that Mr . Villard "would pronounce thisevidence to be false ; what else could he say?"

THE COMING WAR

It is not a pleasing picture sketched by Herr Kerlenconcerning the coming war, now a matter of open talk inEurope, and the occurrence of which has passed thestage of possibility and reached that of probability . Hesays :

"The Red roller will come from the East where thepeople die from hunger, and where cannabalism reignssupreme. It is their only salvation to swarm from thebare fields, destroyed by the Soviet regieme likelocusts, to fresh pastures . That is the plan andnothing else ." (Vide also Exhibit E.)

He pictures Germany as a victim of this great Slavmigration, the like of which the world has never seen .Prognostication is of course only a matter of opinion,but unless that movement which made possible therecent assassination of Dr . Rathenau is stronger than itappears from this distance, Germany is still subservientto her master's voice and the German will find himself

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a companion in arms with the Slav, both bossed by a"religious and racial minority ." France should knowthe signs of trouble coming from the East as herborders have been invaded forty times in the past twentycenturies from that direction . Listen to this pitifulcry :*

But can we quietly pursue our peaceful avocationswith an undisturbed mind when the cry of "Deutch-land fiber Alles" still echoes from across the Rhine?Can we fail to comprehend the threat therein con-tained when provocative speeches, aggressive pressarticles remind us at every moment that the enemyhas not laid down its arms?

Startling as this may appear from America protectedby three thousand miles of ocean, it must be realizedthat ideas know no boundaries and that these UnitedStates are by no means free from serious and continueddanger . I have been watching for concrete evidencewhich would indicate the attitude of six million peoplewho belong to organized' communism in this country orwho are closely sympathetic with its program - and hereit is :f

Countess Markiewicz said good-bye to her friends inthis country at a reception in her honor given by theAmerican Association for Recognition of the IrishRepublic in the Hotel Commodore last night . Shewill sail to-day on the Berengaria . * * * Manyof those present were heard to say that they weretired of treaties and wanted war, which was predictedas coming inside of two months. "I 'want bullets, Iam sick of treaties," said one woman . "When theRussian boys and the Germans get together andclean up there will be peace in the world." The westballroom of the hotel was crowded with persons whodefied the heat to stay and applaud every fiery word .

*Marshal Petain before The British League of Help, CityTemple, London, June 16th, 1922 .

tThe New York Times, May 30th, 1922 .

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What is the lesson in this for the Christian Anglo-Saxon and 'for those who have adopted the civilizationof this country as their own? We have a heritage withwhich to endow posterity, a sacred trust _ which must bemaintained by peaceful measures if possible . Yet, areconditions such that we may hope for the attainment ofthis ambition without united struggle and work? Ourflank has already been sized by the enemy and we mustregard Mexico in terms of Bolshevism . As the Irishhave been to the British Empire, so Mexico is to theUnited States ; an inevitable consequence of our policytowards that country during the past three administra-tions . Here, therefore, is a geographical base fromwhich to finance and direct propaganda and possiblystart military disturbances . Of itself, this would notperhaps be serious, but what about those within ourbody politic who are ready to aid the enemy, who arecontinually abusing our hospitality and would makeshambles of our homes, and who look upon ourresources as loot?

THE PRESENT SITUATION

The average citizen unconscious of danger who looksto his. government for protection is not receiving it .

In the matter of sedition laws already on the statutebooks, the, government is not exercising its ordinarypolice powers .

There are no federal anarchy laws . Laws designedto define and punish criminal anarchy have repeatedlybeen introduced into Congress only to meet with defeat .

Through the propaganda of Bolsheviks and near-Bolsheviks, the standing 'army has been reduced to apoint where it is questionable whether in the event ofany large labor disturbance, order could be maintained .

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One of the surest signs of a coming war lies in this"peace propaganda" with which the civilized world isnow being bombarded and which has its inception inBolshevism. During the past century and a half everygreat war in Europe has been preceded by such amovement, designed to bring about a sense of securityamong the unthinking.

The relatively small salaries of Government employ-ees, particularly of military and naval officers and ofthose in the postal service have a tendency to lowerpatriotic enthusiasm and create a mental backgroundsympathetic to irresponsible thought, all this whilemuch money flows from the public treasury for thosewho "would demand larger service from the state, manyleaders acquiring power by preaching that only throughsocialism could that service be obtained ."

Bolshevik agents are coming and going, entering andleaving the United States at will, at times with theprotecting help of relief organizations . Political strikefollows political strike. Government departments haveknowledge of these things, and the source and inspira-tion of such events, yet they appear to be powerless inthe face of inadequate laws and insufficient appropria-tions .

Truly, America is being warred upon and scarcelyknows it! It is a new method of warfare, a type untilrecently unknown to human experience, and thereforeunprovided for in defensive legislation! Surely, govern-ments have a right to maintain themselves against adestructive social and political war as they have a rightto maintain themselves against aggression by force ofmaterial arms !

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ment of a sound opinion avoiding that misinformationwhich is the public's worst enemy." If the institutionswhich have served us so well in the past are to be con-tinued for the future good, that same spirit of devotionwhich stimulated this country to action in 1917 and atmany previous crises, must break its way through indi-vidual inertia and indifference . The methods to bedeveloped are clear . Give heed to the exhortations of aleader who is rightfully regarded as one in authority* :

"Organize, Organize, Organize-until every Jewin America must stand up and be counted-counted with us-or prove himself, w'ttingly orunwittingly, of the few who are against theirown people."

*Brandeis, Louis D., "The Jewish Problem, How toSolve It," Zionist Organization of America, 1919, p . 24.

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APPENDIX A .

EXTRACTS FROM AN INTERVIEW BY COUNTHEINRICH VON BERNSTORFF TO ASH-MUN BROWN AND PUBLISHED IN THEEVENING ,STAR, WASHINGTON, JANUARY18TH, 1914 .

For fifteen years he (von Bernstorff) has served the Kaiserin English-speaking countries . He knows English-speakingpeoples. Morover, I know no man who is in better touchwith the spirit of modern progress than he . In his mentalequipment, his habits of thought, his attitude towards life, heis "up-to-date." Is it any wonder the Americans like him?Let us ask him what he thinks about himself, suggested some-one in the group, and so, in the freedom of after dinner con-versation, they did.* * * * * (Count von Bernstorff) : "One out of every

two persons one meets in America is either German, or cantrace back to German ancestry," he said, "and my visits toAmerican universities and colleges have shown me that a verylarge proportion of the professors of these institutions wereeducated in Germany."* * * * * "To the fact that so many American Uni-

versity professors have been educated in Germany was attri-buted many of the tendencies in American thought . While theolder American universities were very evidently replicas ofEnglish institutions of higher learning, on them, in manyinstances has been erected a superstructure purely Germanic,and in the newer universities, such as Johns Hopkins, andthe University of Chicago, the influence of German universi-ties is still more apparent. It is inevitable, then, that themodern Americans educated under this influence, and in-structed by German trained compatriots, should have theirthoughts directed in channels parallel with contemporaneousGerman thought."Studious Germans, who have observed political tendencies

in this country, assert that the ideas of State Socialism, nowso pronounced under various names in America, in realitywere `made in Germany.' The popular demand that theGovernment extend its arm of service and multiply its activi-ties in behalf of the people is simply a reflection of the earlierdemands of the Germans.

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"The theory of Bismark was that no political agitation orprotest could long continue unless it had some, foundation intruth . People do not keep up agitating unless there is atleast a germ of justice in their complaint . Bismark foundthe German people demanding larger service from the State,and some leaders acquiring power by preaching that onlythrough socialism could that service be obtained . Thereupon,he took steps to provide the governmental services demanded,but took them in the name of the monarchy . From these pre-liminary steps the Empire has gone on until it is now in realitya great corporation itself." (Italics by Editor .)

• * * * * "The results have been a minimizing ofrevolutionary socialism in Germany. Socialism there, a Ger-man will point out, is now far more academic than revolution-ary. At the same time, the cost of government necessarilyhas risen and taxes are high ."

• * * * * The Ambassador talks vivaciously, and fromwide knowledge acquired by study and research on theproblems of the trusts in this country . It is but natural in aman who is in reality a part of the German government, andwho is in hearty sympathy with the attitude that that govern-ment assumes to trade combinations, to hold that it will befound impossible to prevent trusts and combinations . Thetendency of the age, as viewed from German eyes, is towardscombination. The uniting of effort is apparent in all lines ofhuman endeavor. To fight against it is futile . Regulation,not destruction, is the remedy.

It must not be assumed that the German Ambassador isproffering the German system as a model on which to erectan American system. No man recognizes more clearly thanhe the radical differences in conditions in the two countries .Broad principles and not programs are the subject of hisconversation, both in public and in private.

What he sees in the future of this country is a comingtogether of the combined forces of capital and the combinedforces of labor, to treat together and reach a mutual under-standing ; and in this he has the same vision as SecretaryWilson of the Department of Labor . What the GermanAmbassador has said on the subject in broad terms is whollyin harmony with what Secretary Wilson has ' said in detail .

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APPENDIX B .

LETTER OF RESIGNATION FROM THE AMER-ICAN ASSOCIATION FOR LABOR LEGIS-LATION WRITTEN BY MR. SAMUELGOMPERS, OF THE AMERICAN FEDERA-TION OF LABOR.

May 14, 1915.Dr. John B. Andrews, Secretary,

American Association for Labor Legislation,No. 131 East 23rd Street, New York City.

Dear Sir:-Various experiences have given me an impression that the

policies, the purposes and the spirit of the American Associa-tion for Labor Legislation are not in harmony with those ofthe wage-earners of America . This impression was madeconviction by the course which the American Association forLabor Legislation pursued with regard to the consolidationof the New York State Workmen's Compensation Law andthe Department of Labor, thus weakening the effectiveness ofboth departments, thus using the influence of the AmericanAssociation for Labor Legislation to fasten u on the workerspolicies which they had emphatically oppose and assumingthe responsibility of destroying legislation which they hadapproved and assisted to enact .The wage-earners welcome counsel and aid but they deny

the right of anyone or any group of individuals to dictatemeasures which vitally concern the industrial welfare of theworkers . They deny that the judgment of any group of menis more trustworthy than the consensus of opinion of thosewho have daily experience with industrial conditions andforces and therefore understand many tendencies that are notevident from the theoretical viewpoint.

As an unofficial spokesman for this association you assumedresponsibility for the enactment of the so-called Spring billand made the statement that the measure was experimental .Contrary to the wishes and the judgment of the wage-earners,the American Association for Labor Legislation undertooka scientific experimentation which involved the welfare ofthose human beings .

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The wage-earners of the United States deny the right ofany man or any association to despotism whether political,industrial or intellectual. We are endeavoring to achieve ourfreedom and cannot co-operate with those whose aim isdespotism even for a benevolent purpose . (Italics _ by theEditor .)

For these reasons I hereby tender my resignation as amember of the American Association for Labor Legislation,to take effect immediately.

Very truly yours,(Signed) Samuel Gompers,

President, American Federation of Labor .

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APPENDIX C .

Under the caption "Soviet Bribe Fund Here, SaysGompers," the New York Times of May 1st, 1922,published the following :

CHICAGO, April 30 (Associated Press) .-Samuel Gompers,President of the American Federation of Labor, issued astatement today declaring that recognition by the UnitedStates of the "Bolshevist tyranny" in Russia would be a"needless and base betrayal of civilization ."

Declaring that American public life was being flooded withpropaganda and that "predatory international finance has itsappetite up and believes it sees loot in Russia," he assertedthat nothing "would be more fraught with disaster to human-ity than American recognition of the Bolshevist power in anyform."

Lenin, Mr. Gompers denounced as a "bandit merchant"ready to "take what he can get in exchange for the heritageof a people rendered helpless by him and his ."

A fund of millions of dollars, he asserted, was being usedin the United States for Bolshevist propaganda out of which"bribes have been offered in places where the American peoplecan ill afford betrayal ."

President Gomper's statement follows :"Developments at Genoa cannot escape the notice of think-

ing Americans, though the full significance of what is hap-pening there seems generally lost in most of our newspapers .

"A number of persons have asked me whether, in the eventthat England and other European nations recognize theBolshevist Government, the United States should not followthe example .

"I can think of nothing that would constitute a moreneedless and base betrayal of civilization than Americanrecognition of the Bolshevist tyranny .

"I can think of nothing that would be more fraught withdisaster to humanity, than American recognition of theBolshevist power in any form-whether by entering intoanother `economic' conference at which America would sitcheck by jowl with Soviets, or in any other manner .

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"In making these assertions I am mindful of the amazingpropaganda with which American public life is being flooded .I am mindful of the intrigue which is everywhere about usand, above all, I am mindful of the newly adopted policy ofthe American-Anglo-German banking group, which perhapsconstitutes the most dangerous element in the whole chain ofpro-Bolshevist effort in America, because it has its hands onthe most power.

"The truth is that predatory international finance has itsappetite up and believes it sees loot in Russia ."I know of nothing more cynical than the attitude of

European statesmen and financiers toward the Russianmuddle. Essentially it is their purpose, as laid down atGenoa, to place Russia in economic vassalage and givepolitical recognition in exchange. Recognition in exchange forconcessions. They know immediate trade is not to be had, butthey know that eventually they will get at the gold, the coal,the oil, the timber and future products of the Soviet .

"Russia herself is on the bargain counter, behind whichstands Lenin as a bandit merchant, to take what he can getand what will serve his purpose, in exchange for the heritageof a people rendered helpless by him and his. America, letus hope, will continue to stand for Russian economic indepen-ence as well as political freedom .

"American business is asked to join in that helpless escap-ace, that miserable and contemptible business, the looting ofthat vast domain, and to facilitate its efforts certain Americanbankers engaged in mortgaging the world are willing to sowamong their own people the fiendish, anti-democratic propa-ganda of Bolshevism, subsidizing, buying, intimidating, cajol-ing . There are splendid and notable exceptions, but thegreat powers of the American-Anglo-German financing com-binations have set their faces toward the prize displayed bya people on their knees."Bolshevist propaganda has been organized exactly along

the lines of pre-war European intrigue, overlooking nothingthat went to make up the old international German and Rus-sian espionage system.

"It is impossible to violate confidence, but I am going tomake here certain statements on this point for which I haveample proof."First-The Bolshevist propaganda fund in the United

States amounts to many millions of dollars, partly in cashdeposits and partly in old crown and nobility jewels .

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"Second-Bribes have been offered out of this fund. Bribeshave been offered in places where the American people canill afford betrayal."Third-The newspaper world, to which we must look for

information, is worm-eaten with Bolshevist friends and propa-gandists, and still further eaten into by immature reportersand editors, who fall victim to deception or blandishment .

"Fourth-As a result, editorial understanding is offset bya great volume of mis-reporting and pro-Bolshevist reporting .

"Fifth-Foreign correspondents are to an amazing degreeaddicts of the Bolshevist dope habit, evidenced at the momentby obviously tainted cables from Genoa."Sixth-Most important is the espousal of the Bolshevist

cause by the group of American-Anglo-German bankers wholike to call themselves international financiers to dignify andconceal their true function and limitation . Specifically, themost important banker in this group, and speaking for thisgroup, born in Germany, as it happens, has issued orders tohis friends and associates that all must now work for Sovietrecognition."Seventh-Prominent dignitaries, strong labor haters, are

putting forth fresh efforts in the Bolshevist cause. Specific-ally, labor haters like the ex-Governor of one of our WesternStates, have joined the Bolshevist supporters in the greatcampaign to secure American recognition.

"Eighth--A fresh flood of 'now-we-are-good' accounts hasbeen poured out of the Moscow propaganda machine into theears of the world. Newspapers, publishing these accounts,forget that it is but a month since Lenin said : `We counteredthe fight against us by instituting fear, a three-fold terror.If it becomes necessary again we will have it once more .'"Ninth-A flood of cables has come to America to relin-

quishment of censorship in Russia, though there has been nosuch, thing. Only three months ago the Soviets officially de-clared through Zinoviev : `We are not going to admit the exis-tence of any independent press. Our own press must clearlyinform the workers and peasants .'"Tenth-W. Z. Foster, who had no money, went to Mos-

cow and came back and announced that he was building agreat secret machine to undermine the American labor move-ment and turn it over to the Red international, owned by

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Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine andproclaimed `a thousand secret agents in a thousand communi-ties .'"Eleventh-European concession hunters and business rep-

resentatives on Genoa sub-committees are using every effortto bring American business into line with European pro-Russian grab aspirations, as evidenced by their invitation tothe American section of the newly created InternationalChamber of Commerce to meet with them for decision uponRussian and other problems."Twelfth-The campaign organized to gather political

power into the hands of pro-Bolsheviki continues, and withastounding results. Will our people believe that an ardentand active pro-Bolsheviki utter supposed administrationviews, which are then widely printed as authoritative?"It is my understanding that America stands by the policy

that we can have no dealing with Russia until there is in thatcountry a Government answerable to the people, put inoffice by the people. Prime requisites are elections, free press,free assemblage, free speech, none of which has existed sinceLenin created his autocracy .

"And Secretary of State Hughes, we may be sure, standsby his splendid declaration that even `if fundamental changesare contemplated' we must still have `convincing evidence ofthe consummation of such changes .'

"If it were possible to despair of the sound democratic faithof the American people, the situation today in relation toBolshevism would be most discouraging. I do not despair,but never since the assumption of power by the faithless,adroit and conscienceless Lenin conspiracy has the situationin America been so filled with peril ."

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APPENDIX D .

THE NEW YORK TIMES AUGUST 28, 1922

CARLSBAD, Aug . 27 (Jewish Telegraph Agency) .-"The League of Nations is a Jewish idea, and Jerusalem someday will become the capital of the world's peace," declaredDr. Nahum Sokolow, Chairman of the Zionist ExecutiveCommittee, at a special meeting of the Zionist Conferencetoday .

"The League has recognized our rights to our ancient home,"Dr. Sokolow continued. "We Jews throughout the world willmake the League's struggle our own and will not rest untilthere is ultimate victory."

The meeting was convoked in order to celebrate the twenty-first anniversary of the first Zionist Congress."Today will be a holiday for Jews throughout the world,"

Dr. Sokolow added . "What we have achieved after a struggleof twenty-five years we owe to the genius of our immortalleader, Theodor Herzl, who laid the foundation stone of ourmovement ." *

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, AUG. 26, 1922BY WALTER DURANTY

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said Leon Trotzky today . "In that event Poland can hardlyremain passive. If Poland acts against Germany, I questionwhether we can remain passive ourselves."Asked about the possibilities of a German revolution,

Trotzky replied :"They say we Bolsheviki pay our collaborators abroad . But

no one will suggest we are paying M. Poincare, who is doingthe most to bring about world revolution today. PerhapsFrance will make a deal with Germany, but if France forcesGermany into revolution they, Russia and Germany together,will soon dominate the world."

* * * * * "If France, by invading the Ruhr, and withthe assistance of Poland, precipitated a new European con-flict, do you think Russia could remain passive?" he wasasked, and his reply was : "I doubt it ."If the occasion came for a revolution in Germany, then,

said Trotzky, Russia and Germany "would form an uncon-querable bloc economically and agriculturally ."

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