[1] “Actions Committee” has the same meaning as Executive Committee.
[2] The GOYS—the Gentiles.
[3] The reference is probably to those Masonic Lodges in Continental
Europe which, contrary to the fundamental principles of Anglo-Saxon
Lodges, have been converted into _quasi_ political and anti-Christian
organizations. See Encyclopedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, Article
“Freemasonry,” Vol. XI, p. 84.
[4] This probably means the practice which arose of not adhering to the
letter of the law but of judging by conscience. In European countries
jurors are not compelled to render their verdict pursuant to the
technical provisions of law.
[5] It is important to point out that _some of the Jews themselves_ in
their writings have claimed that Masonry is largely controlled by Jewish
influence. In this connection the statement of Dr. Isaac M. Wise may be
recalled:
“Masonry is a Jewish institution whose history, decrees, charges,
passwords and explanations are Jewish, from the beginning to the
end, with the exception of only one by-decree and a few words in the
obligation.” (Dr. Isaac M. Wise, _The Israelite_, August 3rd and 17th,
1855; quoted by Samuel Oppenheim in his pamphlet “Jews and Masonry in the
United States before 1810,” American Jewish Historical Society, New York,
1910, No. 19, pp. 1, 2.)
[6] The words in parentheses would seem to be a comment of Nilus’s.
[7] The words in parentheses are inserted by the editors.
[8] The Jewish sayings cited in this volume show that some of the great
Jewish leaders maintain that the apostasy of a Jew in the matter of
religion does not prevent him from remaining for all other purposes a
Jew, or release him from his obligations as such.
[9] “Bolshevik Propaganda. Hearings before a Subcommittee on the
Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress,” p. 111.
[10] Ambassador Francis, in his testimony before the Overman Committee,
stated that Dr. George A. Simons is an absolutely reliable and
trustworthy man (p. 977), and that the same is true of Mr. Roger E.
Simmons, whose testimony is cited below.
[11] “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 310.
[12] “Russia’s Agony,” pp. 137, 138, published by Edward Arnold, London,
1918.
[13] “Memorandum on Certain Aspects of the Bolshevist Movement in
Russia,” p. 11. Compiled by the U. S. State Department in October, 1919.
[14] Page 12 of the same memorandum.
[15] British White Book, Russia No. 1 (1919), p. 86.
[16] British White Book, Russia No. 1 (1919), p. 68.
[17] “Memorandum. Certain Aspects of the Bolshevist Movement in Russia.”
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1919, p. 20.
[18] British White Book, Russia No. 1 (1919), p. 57.
[19] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” pp. 136 and 137.
[20] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 139.
[21] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 316.
[22] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 431.
[23] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 301.
[24] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 946.
[25] Senate Report, “Bolshevik Propaganda,” p. 299.
[26] All italics in Part Two of this book are our own unless otherwise
stated.
[27] Quoted from A. Shmakoff. Address in defense of T. Vekshin and
others, p. 36. Moscow: University Printing Office. 1907.
[28] The full text of Article 12 of the Treaty between the Allied and
Associated Powers and Poland is the following:
“Poland agrees that the stipulations in the foregoing Articles,
so far as they affect persons belonging to racial, religious or
linguistic minorities, constitute obligations of international
concern and shall be placed under the guarantee of the League
of Nations. They shall not be modified without the assent of
the majority of the Council of the League of Nations. The
United States, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan
hereby agree not to withhold their assent from any modification
in these Articles which is in due form assented to by a
majority of the Council of the League of Nations.
“Poland agrees that any member of the Council of the League
of Nations shall have the right to bring to the attention of
the Council any infraction of the Council, or any danger of
infraction of any of these obligations, and that the Council
may thereupon take such action as it may deem effective in the
circumstances.
“Poland further agrees that any difference of opinion as to
questions of law or fact arising out of these Articles between
the Polish Government and any one of the Principal Allied and
Associated Powers, or any other power, a member of the Council
of the League of Nations, shall be held to be a dispute of an
international character under Article 14 of the Covenant of the
League of Nations. The Polish Government hereby consents that
any such dispute shall, if the other party thereto demands, be
referred to the Permanent Court of International Justice. The
decision of the Permanent Court shall be final and shall have
the same force and effect as an award under Article 13 of the
Covenant.”
[29] It has been stated by one of the leaders of Zionism, namely, Israel
Zangwill, author of “The Children of the Ghetto,” that Mr. Jacob Schiff
financed “the Japanese war against Russia.” This statement is made in a
pamphlet entitled “The Problems of the Jewish Race,” p. 14, published by
the Judean Publishing Company, New York City.
In its report of a Socialist meeting held in Carnegie Hall on March 23,
1917, to celebrate the revolution in Russia, the New York _Times_ on
March 24, 1917, says:
“An authority on Russian affairs, George Kennan, told of how a movement
by the Society of the Friends of Russian Freedom, financed by Jacob
Schiff, had at the time of the Russo-Japanese war spread among 50,000
Russian officers and men in Japanese prison camps the gospel of the
Russian revolutionists.”
The Jewish character of the first Russian revolution was strongly
emphasized in a report presented to the Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II,
by the Russian Foreign Minister, Count Lamsdorf, on January 3, 1906,
published in full in English translation in “The American Hebrew and
Jewish Messenger,” in its issue of July 13, 1918. Therein it is stated
that a very considerable part in the revolutionary activities was played
by the Jews, “who individually, as ringleaders in other organizations,
as well as through their own (the Jewish Bund in the Western
Provinces), have always come forward as the most bellicose element of
the revolution.” Count Lamsdorf further stated: “We may feel entitled
to assume that the above mentioned foreign support of the Russian
revolutionary movement comes from Jewish capitalist circles.... In June,
1905, a special Anglo-Jewish committee was openly established in England
for the purpose of collecting money for arming fighting groups of Russian
Jews: The well-known anti-Russian publicist, Lucien Wolf, was the leading
member of this committee.... The Jews in America ... collect money for
helping the pogrom sufferers and for arming the Jewish youth.”
[30] The Jewish Peril. Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. London:
Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1920.