“Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power will be more invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible until the moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer undermine it.”
-Protocol No. 1
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, that controversial document which came to light in the early 20th century, continues to prove extraordinarily prescient. Purported to be a detailed Jewish plot for global conquest, the Protocols were the subject of much consideration by a number of distinguished individuals following the document’s publication by Russian academic Sergei Nilus in 1905. Soon after, the Protocols was translated into dozens of languages and was widely distributed throughout Europe, America, Asia and the Middle East.[1]
The story of how the Protocols ended up in Nilus’s hands is still a matter of debate over a century later.
The most persuasive origin story appears in the 1931 book Waters Flowing Eastward, written by Paquita Louise de Shishmareff (1882 – 1970) under the pen name Leslie Fry. While living in St. Petersburg in 1906, Fry married Russian Imperial Army officer Feodor Ivanovich Shishmarev, who belonged to an old-line family of Russian nobility.[2] In her book, Fry claims that in 1884 Justine Glinka, the daughter of prominent Russian diplomat Dmitry Glinka, obtained a copy of the Protocols from a Jewish Freemason in Paris named Joseph Schorst for a price of 2,500 francs. Fry believed that Schorst (real name Theodore Joseph Schapiro) had purloined the document from the archives of a Mizraim Masonic Lodge in Paris, and that the most likely author of the controversial text was Jewish writer and ‘cultural Zionist’ Asher Ginzberg.[3] Fry contends that upon receipt of the document, Justine Glinka:
“…forwarded the French original, accompanied by a Russian translation, to Orgevskii [Secretary to the Russian Minister of the Interior], who in turn handed it to his chief, General Cherevin, for transmission to the Tsar. But Cherevin, under obligation to wealthy Jews, refused to transmit it, merely filing it in the archives. Meantime there appeared in Paris certain books on Russian court life which displeased the Tsar, who ordered his secret police to discover their authorship. This was falsely attributed, perhaps with malicious intent, to Mlle. Glinka, and on her return to Russia she was banished to her estate in Orel. To the marechal de noblesse of this district, Alexis Sukhotin, Mlle. Glinka gave a copy of the Protocols. Sukhotin showed the document to two friends, Stepanov and Nilus; the former had it printed and circulated privately in 1897; the second, Professor Sergius A. Nilus, published it for the first time in Tsarskoe-Tselo (Russia) in 1901 (sic), in a book entitled The Great Within the Small. Then, about the same time, a friend of Nilus, G. Butmi, also brought it out and a copy was deposited in the British Museum on August 10, 1906.”
While in America in 1920, Leslie Fry met with Henry Ford and furnished him a copy of the Protocols, which the famed industrialist used as the basis for a series of articles on the Jewish Question published in his Michigan-based newspaper the Dearborn Independent and later compiled into the book The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem.[4] The rapid dissemination of the Protocols throughout the world seems to have created somewhat of a crisis inside the precincts of world Jewry. As prominent individuals like Ford, Fry and Cherep Spiridovich — as well as publications like London’s The Morning Post — publicly revealed the shocking contents of the Protocols to reading audiences far and wide, attempts were made to discredit the document’s authenticity.
The basis for the claim that the Protocols are a ‘forgery’ dates back to 1920, when Jewish journalist Lucien Wolf penned an article for a Jewish Board of Deputies newsletter claiming that the text is a plagiary of the mid-19th century works of Maurice Joly and Hermann Goedsche.[5] The following year, Anglo-Irish journalist Philip Graves triumphantly ‘exposed’ the Protocols as fraudulent in a series of articles for The Times of London. Likely influenced by Wolf’s prior writings, Graves announced to much media fanfare that the Protocols were a composite document made up of fragments of older works that had been written in the years preceding Nilus’s translation.
Philip Graves wasn’t exactly a disinterested fellow, however.
https://www.unz.com/article/larry-ellison-the-elders-of-zion/
