The banking house, M. Warburg, opened an account for the
enterprise of Comrade Trotzky, upon receipt of a telegram from
the Chairman of the ‘Rhein-Westphalian Syndicate.’ A lawyer,
probably Mr. Kestroff, obtained ammunition and organized the
transportation of same, together with that of the money, to
Lulea and Vardo, the firm of Essen & Son, Lulea, as to the
consignee and the confidential persons to whom the sum demanded
by Comrade Trotzky is to be handed. Fraternal greetings!
(sgd) FURSTENBERG.”
Rumors that international Jewish financiers have been supporting the
Bolsheviki in Russia are persistent.
Who are the international financiers? Perhaps the answer is to be found
in the following cable dispatch of the Wolff Agency on the German
situation in 1919, published by _La Vieille France_ in the issue of
February 13, 1919:
“The deputy Hyemann has revealed the curious fact: The
Bolshevist movement is supported by financiers. The banker,
Bleichroeder, has contributed two millions to the _Extremist
Journal_.”
It is of course known that Bleichroeder is one of the most powerful
Jewish financiers in Germany.
It will be remembered that the Protocols bring out very distinctly two
ideas, namely, economic and social dissensions of all kinds, including
anarchism and communism and also a _world war_.
In a recently published book which has created much interest, entitled
“The Inside Story of Austro-German Intrigue,” by Joseph Goriĉar and
Lyman Beecher Stowe, the authors advanced the theory that Jewish bankers
have during the last century played an important rôle in European war
conspiracies. Mr. Goriĉar was, during the early part of the late war,
Austro-Hungarian Consul in Berlin. We refer to one of the most important
passages in the book bearing upon the subject:
“The pro-war bankers of 1854 as well as those of
1914 originated in the Semitic banking center of
Frankfort-on-the-Main in Germany, the birthplace of the
Bethmann-Hollwegs, the Goldschmidts, the Seligmans, Jacob
Schiff,[29] and the Rothschilds.
“All the vast wealth of the banking house of the Rothschilds,
amounting at the beginning of the war to some twenty billion
francs, was made chiefly in war operations, war financing.
The Rothschild brothers of the Central Empires have in fact
sometimes financed simultaneously rival groups of belligerents.
“Frankfort-on-the-Main is, and has been for more than a
hundred years, the chief source of financial backing for
wars. Kings, emperors, and war ministers have had to await
the pleasure of these bankers before issuing their ultimata.
To that centre have been added Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest,
the other important centres of Jewish world finance. In Vienna
the Rothschilds’ word is law; in Berlin, the Hahnemans,
Bleichroeders, Mendelssohns, especially the last named, who of
late years have controlled Russia’s finances. To these same
sources may be traced the origin of the World War.” (Pages 56
and 57.)
The “Protocols” have already attracted public attention in various
countries. The attitude which the Jewish leaders will take in regard
to them is a matter of great interest and deep concern. Until now they
have kept silent. Only on rare occasions have the Jews referred, though
very indirectly, to the question of the existence of a Jewish world
conspiracy. The most explicit utterance on the subject in the United
States is that of Rabbi Stephen Wise, in his address to the Congregation
of Free Synagogues in Carnegie Hall, on March 1, 1920. The reports of the
address in the daily press are rather meager. We set forth in full the
report which appeared in the New York _Tribune_ on the following day:
“‘JEWISH PLOT’ ONLY AMONG APOSTATES, SAYS DR. WISE
“BELIEVES MEN WHO FORSWEAR ANCIENT FAITH WOULD SEIZE POWER FOR
OWN ENDS
“Speaking to the congregation of the Free Synagogue in Carnegie
Hall yesterday on the subject of ‘The Jewish Conspiracy,’ which
has had its most recent revival in a story published in the
London _Morning Post_, charging that Jews were in a plot to
seize control of the world, Dr. Stephen S. Wise said that the
only serious ‘conspiracy’ among the Jews to-day emanated from
the young men who foreswore their ancient faith.
“Saying that oppression and injustice have attended the
followers of the Jewish faith for centuries, Dr. Wise added
that they had a right to be vindictive, but that it was not in
their nature to be so.
“‘It is the Jew who has been reduced to such a state of
degradation by oppression that he lies when he swears
allegiance to another faith which has not even touched his
heart, who becomes a dangerous element in the life of the
world,’ said Dr. Wise.
“‘The conspiracy,’ if there is one, is among those of Jewish
birth who are or seem ashamed of their origin. They follow
false gods or none at all, and among them will be those who may
seize power for their own ends.”