FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for World War II
On August 16, 17, and 18, 1921, the New York Times ran editorials by
Phillip Graves, a London Times correspondent, who said that the
Protocols had been copied from a rare 1864 French political satire
called Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu (also
referred to as the Dialogues of Geneva by the London Times because
Geneva had been identified as a center of revolutionary activities) by
lawyer Maurice Joly (1831-1878). It was a pamphlet containing a
conversation between Montesquieu (presenting a case for liberalism)
and Machiavelli (who represented autocracy) which criticized the
government of Napoleon III (who was deposed in 1871). Being illegal to
criticize the Monarchy, he fictionalized it, making Napoleon the
character of Machiavelli, to explain the Emperor’s underlying motives.
Joly had it printed in Belgium, then attempted to have it smuggled over
the French border. It was seized by the police, who confiscated as
many copies as they could, then banned the book. The police traced
the book to Joly, who was then tried on April 25, 1865, and sentenced
to fifteen months in prison. At the Berne trials, a witness for the
prosecution tried to prove that Joly was a Jew, and that his book was a
coded version of the Jewish plan for world domination. Another writer,
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), a Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion (1844-
1885) who in 1849 made a reference to the ‘United States of Europe,’
wrote satirical poetry against Napoleon III.As it turns out, over 160 passages from the Protocols are similar to
Joly’s book, which is about half the text. Some sections are almost
word for word. The only major change is that it was altered from the
past, to the future.Some researchers believe that either, Joly was given the minutes to a
Masonic meeting by Adolphe Cremieux (a Mason and Rosicrucian),
who urged Joly to write the book, which he did under the pseudonym
of “Mr. X”; or that the minutes were from a Marxist meeting which took
place in a Masonic lodge in Geneva, and had been stored in the
archives of the Mizraim Masonic Lodge in Paris, where Cremieux, who
sat on the Supreme Council, discovered them.Who could have forged the Protocols isn’t known, if in fact it is a
forgery. Some researchers claim it was done in Russia, in 1904, by
agents of the Czar. However, the general consensus is that it was
probably done by Elie de Cyon (Ilya Tsion), a Russian journalist living