JEWISH “PLOT,”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20627, 30 May 1935, Page 1

JEWISH “PLOT,”

Protocols Again Declared to be Forgeries. LONDON, May IS. A Swiss Court has decided that the notorious “ Protocols of Zion ” are forgeries. The Judge described them as “ ridiculous nonsense, liable to cause dissension between Switzerland and other nations,” and he banned them as an offence to public morals. The protocols purport to reveal a Jewish plot to dominate the world, which was allegedly hatched at a secret congress in 1897. The “ Daily Express” says that Czarist. officials and Nazis alike have used the forged documents to inflame mobs against the Jews. The protocols are probably the biggest forgery in history and blood is spattered on every page. During the Great War anti-Semitic feeling was fostered in Europe, especially in Germany and Russia, and for some time a strange theory of a Jewish conspiracy founded on a secret Jewish teaching and aiming at the overthrow of Christian civilisation, obtained a certain vogue. In 1919 an effort was made in Germany to bolster up this superstition by the publication of a book, “ Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” alleged to be the minutes of a secret Zionist congress at which this teaching was set forth. Two years later the book was discovered by “ The Times,” London, to be an impudent forgery, the work of a former member of the Ochrana, or Russian secret police.