THE JEWS.
fTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT,OR."1
am afraid that the joint committee which Mr. Herman Cohen suggests could not lead to results of any value. People who, like Dean Inge, are unaware of the existence of a Jewish question would see nothing in the findings of the committee. On the other hand, those who have made a study of this question realize that no conceivable investigating body could get at all the facts." How, for example, could any committee ascertain the extent to which Jews are now influencing the affairs of the world and the directions in which this influence is being exercised?
The essence of the Jewish problem is the difficulty of recon- ciling the duties of full citizenship with the claims of race. The Jews have demanded and have obtained from the Coalition Government recdgnition of their national status. They are well organized on national lines in Britain, America, Germany, and other countries of their adoption. How can a race acting together for objects of its own be counted upon to render undivided allegiance to the States which have given it full privileges? As I have pointed out, the solution of this problem can be found only by the Jews themselves; but I agree with Mr. Belloc that the abandonment of the conventional secrecy in which Jewish proceedings are now wrapped might help to this end.
This, however, is not all. What is conveniently stigmatized as "anti-Semitism " is due to the genuine alarm which, as Mr. Belloc points out, is now felt by ninny people in many lands. The " fear of the Jews" is an expression which occurs several times in the New Testament. It has received a new meaning, especially since the Great War, and it has been stimulated by the, menacing tone which some Jewish writers permit themselves to adopt. Disraeli plainly stated that Jews were at the head of all the secret societies of Europe, and that they were planning the revolution in Germany which broke out in 1848. Now that the whole civilized world is threatened by revolutionary movements it is natural that we should search for the prime causes. There were between five and six million Jews in Russia before the War out of a population of about 145 millions. Even if the Jews had not themselves proclaimed that they engineered the Communist revolution of 1917 the fact that they predominate in the so-called Government which has reduced Russians to cannibalism would be sufficiently alarming. Of the delegates who pretend—and, unfortunately, were allowed by the Prime Minister—to represent the Russian people at Genoa two, Joffe and Finkelstein (Litvinoff), are Jews. We have Jewish writers claiming the Russian revolution as a Jewish achievement, and Bronstein, the controller of the largest army in the world, as one of the outstanding glories of their race. The Communist theories which have wrecked Russia and are being advocated daily in this country by sub- sidized apostles were formulated and reduced to pseudo- scientific shape by a Jew. The Christian Church in Russia has been martyred and the Prime Minister's associates are engaged in looting its few remaining treasures. In America the Jewish attack on Christianity has openly developed. Organized Jewry has been successful in banishing what it calls "Christology " from some schools and in eliminating the word "Christian" from an official document. Mr. E. Marshall has publicly asserted that America is not a Christian country.
I have given only tho faintest indications of Jewish pro- ceedings which have shocked and alarmed all who have eyes to see. Is it really conceivable that a mixed tribunal could adjudicate upon a fraction of the tendencies and happenings which are beginning to be noted? I am sure that many Jews, Including Mr. Herman Cohen, totally disapprove of what some
of their national leaders are doing; but when ten of the most distinguished of them entered a wise and dignified public protest they were attacked almost as virulently as the few Gentiles who, like My. Belloc, have endeavoured without anti- Jewish prejudice to draw attention to facts now patent.—I am,
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