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Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion
Translated by Victor E. Marsden
INTRODUCTION
Of the Protocols themselves little need be said in the
way of introduction. The book in which they are embodied was first published in
the year 1897 by Philip Stepanov for private circulation among his intimate
friends. The first time Nilus published them was in 1901 in a book called The
Great Within the Small and reprinted in 1905. A copy of this is in the
British Museum bearing the date of its reception, August 10, 1906. All copies
that were known to exist in Russia were destroyed in the Kerensky regime, and
under his successors the possession of a copy by anyone in Soviet land was a
crime sufficient to ensure the owner's of being shot on sight. The fact is in
itself sufficient proof of the genuineness of the Protocols. The Jewish
journals, of course, say that they are a forgery, leaving it to be understood
that Professor Nilus, who embodied them in a work of his own, had concocted them
for his own purposes.
Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York
WORLD, February 17th, 1921, put the case for Nilus tersely and convincingly
thus:
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