Sergei Nilus - The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

of the

LEARNED ELDERS

of

ZION

PROTOCOLS

of the Learned Elders of

ZION

Translated from the Russian of NILUS

By

VICTOR E. MARSDEN

Late Russian Correspondent of THE MORNING POST

first printed 1905

Published by

THE MERCIAN FREE PRESS

Made in England 2014

- The Basic Doctrine: "Right Lies in Might"

- Economic War and Disorganization Lead to International Government

- Methods of Conquest

- The Destruction of Religion by Materialism

- Despotism and Modern Progress

- The Acquisition of Land, The Encouragement of Speculation

- A Prophecy of Worldwide War

- The Transitional Government

- The All-Embracing Propaganda

- Abolition of the Constitution; Rise of the Autocracy

- The Constitution of Autocracy and Universal Rule

- The Kingdom of the Press and Control

- Turning Public Thought from Essentials to Non-essentials

- The Destruction of Religion as a Prelude to the Rise of the Jewish God

- Utilization of Masonry: Heartless Suppression of Enemies

- The Nullification of Education

- The Fate of Lawyers and the Clergy

- The Organization of Disorder

- Mutual Understanding Between Ruler and People

- The Financial Program and Construction

- Domestic Loans and Government Credit

- The Beneficence of Jewish Rule

- The Inculcation of Obedience

- The Jewish Ruler

on the Protocols

SERGYEI NILUS

Professor Nilus was a priest in tbe Orthodox Church in Russia. He published the first Russian language edition in 1905. In his introduction he says that a manuscript had been handed to him about four years before by a friend, who vouched that it was a true translation of an original document stolen by a woman from one of the most influential and highly initiated leaders of Freemasonry, at the end of a meeting of the initiated in France, that nest of Jewish-masonic conspiracy. Nilus adds that the Protocols are not exactly minutes of meetings, but a report, with a part apparently missing, made by some powerful person.

Nilus admits the impossibility of producing written or oral proof of the authenticity of this document and says that we must be satisfied with the circumstanial evidence which abounds.

In January, 1917, Nilus had prepared a second edition but before it could be put on the market the revolution of March 1917 had taken place and Kerenski ordered the whole edition to be destroyed. Later Nilus was arrested by the Bolshevik Cheka, imprisoned and tortured He was exiled and died in Vladimir on 13th January, 1929

VICTOR E. MARSDEN

The translator of the famous Protocols was himself a victim of the Revolution in Russia. He had lived there for many years and was married to a Russian lady. As Russian correspondent to the Morning Post, his fearless description of the events in 1917 incurred the anger of the Soviet. He was arrested and thrown into the Peter-Paul Prison. When he was finally allowed to return to England after two years, his health had been seriously affected. One of, his first tasks as soon as he was able was this translation of the Protocols, which necessitated many hours work at the British Museum He later became the Morning Post special correspondent in the suite of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on his Empire tour.

But within a few days of his return from the tour, he died after a brief illness.

Victor E. Marsden

The author of this translation of the famous Protocols was himself a victim of the Revolution. He had lived for many years in Russia and was married to a Russian lady. Among his other activities in Russia he had been for a number of years Russian Correspondent of the Morning Post, a position which he occupied when the Revolution broke out, and his vivid descriptions of events In Russia will still be in the recollection of many of the readers of that Journal. Naturally he was singled out for the anger of the Soviet. On the day that Captain Cromie was murdered by Jews Victor Marsden was arrested and thrown into the Peter-Paul Prison, expecting every day to have his name called out for execution. This, however, he escaped, and eventually he was allowed to return to England very much of a wreck in bodily health. However, he recovered under treatment and the devoted care of his wife and friends. One of the first things he undertook as soon as he was able was this translation of the Protocols. Mr. Marsden was eminently well qualified for the work. His intimate acquaintance with Russia, Russian life and the Russian language on the one hand, and his mastery of a terse literary English style on the other, placed him in a position of advantage which few others could claim. The consequence is that we have in his version an eminently readable work, and though the subject-matter is somewhat formless, Mr. Marsdens literary touch reveals the thread running through the twenty-four Protocols. The Summary placed at the head of each is Mr. Marsdens own, and will be found very useful in acquiring a comprehensive view of its scope.

It may be said with truth that this work was carried out at the cost of Mr. Marsdens own lifes blood. He told the writer of this Preface that he could not stand more than an hour at a time of his work on it in the British Museum, as the diabolical spirit of the matter which he was obliged to turn into English made him positively ill.

Mr. Marsdens connection with the Morning Post was not severed by his return to England, and he was well enough to accept the post of special correspondent of that journal in the suite of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales on his Empire tour. From this he returned with the Prince, apparently in much better health, but within a few days of his landing he was taken suddenly ill, and died after a very brief illness.

May this work be his crowning monument! In it he has performed an immense service to the English-speaking world, and there can be little doubt that it will take its place in the first rank of the English versions of The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders or Zion.

(1922)

Of the Protocols themselves little need be said in the way of introduction. The book in which they are embodied was published by Sergyei Nilus in Russia in 1905. A copy of this is in the British Museum bearing the date of its reception August 10, 1906. All copies that were known to exist in Russia were destroyed in the Kerensky regime, and under his successors the possession of a copy by anyone in Sovietland was crime sufficient to ensure the owners being shot on sight. The fact is in itself sufficient proof of the genuineness of the Protocols. The Jewish journals, of course, say that they are a forgery, leaving it to be understood that Professor Nilus, who embodied them in a work of his own, had concocted them for his own purposes.