Th'/RTEEN

The World's Foremost Problem

~People of all opinions and all doctrines are at our service, restorers of

monarchy, demagogues, Socialists, Communists and other Utopians. We have

put them all to work. Every one of them from this point of view is undermining

the last remnant of authority, is trying to overthrow all existing order. All the

governments have been tormented by these actions. But we will not give them

peace until they recognize our super-government."

-The Ninth Protocol

~When we introduced the poison of liberalism into the government organism its

entire political complexion changed." ·

-The Tenth Protocol

A nyone who essays to discuss the Jewish Question in the United

States or anywhere else must be fully prepared to be regarded

as "anti-Semite," a "Jewbaiter." Nor need encouragement be

looked for from politicians, people or Press . The people who are awake

to the subject at all prefer to wait and see how it all turns out. Th~re is a

vague feeling that to use the word "Jew" openly, or to expose it nakedly

in print, is somehow improper. Polite evasions like "Hebrew" and

"Semite" (both of which are subject to the criticism of inaccuracy) are

timidly assayed, and people pick their way gingerly as if the whole

subject were forbidden, until some courageous thinker comes along with .

the word "Jew," and then the constraint is relieved and the air cleared.

The word "Jew" is not an epithet; it is a name, ancient and

descriptive, with a significance for every period of human history, past,

present and to come.

The chief difficulty in writing about the Jewish Question is the