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The Truth About
"The Protocols"
A LITERARY FORGERY
From The Times of August 16, 17, and
18, 1921
LONDON:
PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE, E.C.4
[Editor's Note: Page
references in brackets such as [p. 3] refer to the original pamphlet's pagination.
Page numbers in parentheses such as (p. 3) are those made by Graves himself,
referring to various books which he used. Note that the Preface is not by Graves,
but by an unnamed author. Note also that the original British-English spelling has
been retained, as well as certain oddities of the period; e.g., "Sion"
instead of the more familiar "Zion".]
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PREFACE
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The so-called "Protocols of the Elders of Sion" were
published in London in 1920 under the title of "The Jewish Peril."
This book is a translation of a book published in Russia, in 1905, by Sergei
Nilus, a Government official, who professed to have received from a friend a copy of
a summary of the minutes of a secret meeting, held in Paris by a Jewish organization
th at was plotting to overthrow civilization in order to establish a Jewish world
state.
The "Protocols" attracted little attention until after the Russian
Revolution of 1917, when the appearance of the Bolshevists, among whom were many Jews
professing and practicing political doctrines that in some points resembled those
advo cated in the "Protocols," led many to believe that Nilus's alleged
discovery was genuine. The "Protocols" were widely discussed and
translated into several European languages. Their authenticity has been frequently
attacked and many arguments have been adduced for the theory that they are a
forgery.
In the following three articles the Constantinople Correspondent of The
Times presents for the first time conclusive proof that the document is in the
main a clumsy plagiarism. He has forwarded to The Times a copy of the French
book f rom which the [p. 4]
plagiarism is made. The British Museum has a complete copy of the book, which is
entitled "Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, ou la Politique de
Machiavel au XIX. Siècle. Par un Contemporain," and was published at
Brussels in 1865. Shortly after its publication, Maurice Joly, a Paris lawyer and
publicist, was arrested by the police of Napoleon III. and sentenced to 15 months'
imprisonment.
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