56 The International Jew
these activities did not end with the Peace Conference.
The whole method of the Protocols may be described in one word
Disintegration. The undoing of what has been done, the creation of a
long and hopeless interim in which attempts at reconstruction shall be
baffled, . and the gradual wearing down of public. opinion and public
confidence, until those who stand outside the created chaos shall insert
their strong, calm hand to . seize control-that is the whole rp.ethod of
procedure.
The Protocols distin::tly declare that it is by means ofthe set of ide-as
which cluster around "democracy," that their first victory over public
opinion was obtained. The idea is the weapon. Andto be a weapon it
must be an idea at variance with the natural trend of life. It must be a
theory oppo~ed to the facts of life. AIJd no theory so opposed can be
expected to take root and become the ruling factor, unless it appeals to
the mind as reasonable, inspiring and good. The Truth frequently seems
unreasonable; the Truth frequently is qepressing; the Truth sometimes
seems to be evil; but it has the eternal advantage, itjs the Truth, and
what is built thereon neither brjngs nor yields to confusion. The first step
does not give the control of publi~ opinion, but leads up to it. It is
worthy to note that it is this sowing of ~the poison of liberalism," as the
Protocols name it, which comes first in order; in those documents. Then
following upon that, the Protocols say: ..
"To obtain control over, public opinion it is first necessary to
confuse iL"
Truth is one and cannot be confused, but this false, appealing
liberalism which has been sown broadcast and which is ripening faster
under Jewish nurture in America than ever it did in Europe, is easily .
confused because it is not truth. It is error, and error has a thousand
forms. Take a nation, a party, a city, an association in which ~the poison
of liberalism" has been sown, and you can split that up into as many
fa ctions as there are individuals simply by throwing among them certain
modifications of the original idea. That is a piece of strategy well-known
to the forces that invisibly control mass-thought. Theodor Herzl, the
arch-Jew. a man whose vision was wider than any contemporary
statesman's and whose program paralleled the Protocols, knew this many