EIGHT

jewish Influence in

American Politics

~Thi: administrators chosen by us from the masses for their ~rvility will not be

persons trained for government. arxl consequently they will easily become pawns

in our game•. played by our learned arxl talented _counselors, specialists educated

from early childhood to administer world affairs. As we know, our specialists

have been acquiring the necessary knowledge for governing."

• The Second Protocol

W ithin the memory of'even young nien, T-any Hall* has

been the syn?~~m of all Political trickery iri the ~(?{:abufary

of popular cnUc1Sm. Tammany Hall Was held up as the worst

example of boss rule, political corruption, brute force, that it was

possible to fmd in the world. ItS very name becatrie a. stigma in the

decades before. the first world war. But even the mo~t unobservant

newspaper reader must have obser-Ved the gradual fading out of the

Tammany Hall from public comment, the cessation·of the bitter criticism,

the entire"absence of headlines bristling with ugly charges, and the

calling of the hosts of good citizenship to do battle ·against the grim

bossism that maintained its headquarters in New York. Why the change

in recent years? Is it due to the dying out of Tammany Hall :as a political