The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion -- Book - A Gentle Cynic

BOOK ONE — INTRODUCTION
misstatements to pass. this also constitutes the dilemma of the self-appointed defenders of the
Jews: they may abuse The Dearborn Independent, but they cannot disprove the facts. They do
not make even an impressive denial of them. The whole situation would be much clarified if
Jewish spokesmen would use frankness, instead of a fusillade of cheap and irrelevant abuse.
The year [1921] has witnessed much notable discussion of The Jewish Question in
Magazines of quality. A few have descended to white-washing, fewer still to sheer pro-Jewish
propaganda; but such articles as these in the September Century; those in the Atlantic for
February, May and July; The Nineteenth Century and After for April; the true and admirable
accounts by Lieut. Commander Hugo W. Koehler, of the U.S. Navy, in the World’s Work for
July, August, September and October — these testify to the reality of the matter. The more
serious religious press, as represented by publications like the Christian Standard, the Christian
Century, The Moody Monthly which is published by The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, have
also added materially to the literature of the question. In editorial vision and liberty of
discussion, the religious press has shown itself to be freer of control than has the secular press.
This volume contains information dealing with the influence of the Jewish idea on
American life. The departments of life here studied do not by any means exhaust the list. The
studies are more and more centering on the actual operations of the Jewish program upon the
American people, and the effect of Jewish conceptions on our common life. These studies are
appearing in The Dearborn Independent now. They will be gathered into future volumes as may
be required.
c. November, 1921.
From Volume Four
“Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States”
This is the fourth volume of reprinted studies in the Jewish Question as they appears in
The Dearborn Independent. The articles follow the same general line as the previous volume in
showing the various angles of Jewish influence and achievement in the affairs of the people of
the United States, but they do not by any means exhaust either the number of angles nor the
depth of the significance in the angles traced.
Deliberate public opinion has shown many signs of a new alertness to the movement
which was proceeding deftly and unnoticed in the midst of America, and many checks have been
put in operation. The work of the Dearborn Independent was undertaken at a disadvantage
because of the tremendous emphasis of the American mind on racial peace and because of the
ease with which racial propagandists can make a purely economic and political matter assume
the aspects of a religious controversy. The Dearborn Independent opened the Question to public
gaze, and was therefore assumed to be the attacker. In this country our sense of fairness always
leaves the advantage with the attacked, and false accusations quickly fall. The country has seen,
however, the truth of the statements and has observed the mild and unprejudiced manner in
which they were made, so that it may now be said that truth had made its way.
Most gratifying are the signs which Jews themselves have given that certain abuses must
be quickly stopped. A Jewish leader has appealed for the removal of the exemption which
nullifies the Constitution of the United States in favor of the Jew with reference to the use of
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