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ZIONISM versus BOLSHEVISM.

A STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
By the Rt. Hon. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL.
OME people like Jews and some do people, most of whom are themselves suf-
not; hut no thoughtful man can ferers from the revolutionary regime. It be-
doubt the fact that they are beyond comes, therefore, specially important to
all question the most formidable foster and develop any strongly-marked
and the most remarkable race which has ever Jewish movement which leads directly away
appeared in the world. from these fatal associations. And it is here
Disraeli, the Jew Prime Minister of Eng- that Zionism has such a deep significance for
land, and Leader of the Conservative Party, the whole world at the present time.
who was always true to his race and proud
of his origin. Said on a well-known occasion: A Home for the Jews.
"The Lord deals with the nations as the Zionism offers the third sphere to the poli-
nations deal with the Jews. " Certainly when tica1 conceptions of the Jewish race. In vio-
you look at the miserable state of Russia, lent contrast to international communism, it
where of all countries in the world the Jews presents to the Jew a national idea of a com-
were the most cruellv treated, and contrast manding character. It has fallen to the
it with the fortunes of our own country, British Government, as the result of the con-
which seems to have been so providentially quest of Palestine, to have the opportunity
preserved amid Ihe awful perils of these and the responsibility of securing for the
times, we must admit that nothing that has Jewish race all over the world a home and
since happened in the history of the world a centre of national life. The statesmanship
has falsified the truth of Disraeli's confident and historic sense of Mr. Balfour were
assertion. prompt to seize this opportunity. Declara-
Good and Ban Jews. tions have been made which have irrevocably
The conflict between good and evil which decided the policy of Great Britain. The
proceeds unceasingly in the breast of man liery energies of Dr. Weissmann, the leader,
nowhere reaches such an intensity as in the Mr. Churchill inspecting his old regiment, the 4th Hhussars, at Aldershot last week. for practical purposes, of the Zionist project,
Jewish race. The dual nature of mankind is backed by many of the most prominent
nowhere more strongly or more terribly British Jews, and supported by the full
exemplified. Wc owe to the Jews in the The National Russian Jews, in spite of the ..like Bukharin or Lunacharski cannot be
compared with the power of Trotsky, or authority of Lord Allenby, are all directed to
Christian revelation a system of ethics which, disabilities under which they have suffered, achieving the success of this inspiring move-
even if it were entirely separated from the have managed to play an honourable and use- of Zinovicff the Dictator of the Red
Citadel (Petrograd), or of Krassin or ment.
supernatural, would be incomparably the ful part In the national life even of Russia. Of course. Palestine is far too small to
most precious possession of mankind, worth As bankers and industrialists they have Radek all Jews. In the Soviet institu-
tions the predominance of Jews is even accommodate more than a fraction of the
in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and strenuously promoted the development of Jewish race, nor do the majority of national
learning put together. On that system and Russia's economic resources, and they were more astonishing. And the prominent, if not
indeed the principal, part in the system of Jews wish to go there. But if, as may well
by that faith there has been built nut nf thei foremost in the creation of those remarkable happen, there should be created in our own
wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our organisations. the Russian Co-operative terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Com-
missions for Combating Counter-Revolution lifetime by the banks of the Jordan a Jewish
existing civilisation. Societies. In politics their support has been State tinder the protection of the British
has been taken by Jews, and in some notable
And it may well be that this same astound- given, for the most part, to liberal and pro- cases by Jewesses. The same evil promi- Crown, which might comprise three or four
ing race may at the present time be in the gressive movements, and they have been nence was obtained by Jews in the brief millions of Jews, an event would have
actual process of producing another system among the staunchest upholders of Friend- period of terror during which Bela Kun ruled occurred in the history of the world which
of morals and philosophy, as malevolent as ship with France and Great Britain. in Hungary. The same phenomenon has would, from every point of view, be bene-
Christianity was benevolent, which, if not been presented in Germany (especially in ficial, and would be especially in harmony
arrested, would shatter irretrievably all that International Jews Bavaria), so far as this madness has been with the truest interests of the British
Christianity has rendered possible, ft Mould In violent opposition to all this sphere of allowed to prey upon the temporary prostra- Empire.
almost seem as if the gospel of Christ and Jewish effort rise the schemes of the inter- tion of the German people. Although in all Zionism has already become a factor in
the gospel of Antichrist were destined to national JewTs. The adherents of this sinister these countries there are many non-Jews
originate among the same people; and that confederacy are mostly men reared up among the political convulsions of Russia, as a
every whit as bad as the worst of the Jewish powerful competing influence in Bolshevik
this mystic and mysterious race had been the unhappy populations of countries where revolutionaries, the part played by the latter
chosen for the supreme manifestations, both Jews are persecuted on account of their race. circles with the international communistic
in proportion to their numbers in the popula- system. Nothing could lie more significant
of the divine and the diabolical. Most, if not all. of them have forsaken tion is astonishing, then the fury with which Trotsky has attacked
the faith of their forefathers, and divorced the Zionists generally, and Dr. Weissmann
" National " Jews. from their minds all spiritual hopes of the
There can be no greater mistake than to next world. This movement among the Jews " Protector of the Jews. " in particular. The cruel penetration of his
attribute to each individual a recognisable is not new. Needless to say. the most intense-passions mind leaves him in no doubt that his schemes
From the days of Spartacus- of a world-wide communistic State under
share in the qualities which make up the -Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down of revenge have been excited in the breasts
national character. There are all sorts of to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kim (Hungary), of the Russian people. Wherever General Jewish domination are directly thwarted and
men good, bad and. for the most part, in- Denikin's authority could reach, protection hindered by this new ideal, which directs the
different in every country, and in every Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Kmma was always accorded to the Jewish popula- energies and the hopes of Jews in every land
race. Nothing is more wrong than to deny Goldman (United States), this world-wide tion, and strenuous efforts were made by his towards a simpler, a truer, and a far more
to an individual, on account of race or origin, conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation officers to prevent reprisals and to punish attainable goal. The struggle which is now
his right to be judged on his personal merits and for the reconstitution of society on the those guilty of them. So much was this the beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik
and conduct. In a people of peculiar genius basis of arrested development, of envious case that the Petlurist propaganda against Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul
like the Jews, contrasts arc more vivid, the malevolence, and impossible equality, has General Denikin denounced him as the of the Jewish people.
extremes are more widely separated, the been steadily growing. It played, as
Protector of the Jews. The Misses
resulting consequences are more decisive. a modern writer. Mrs. Webster, has so Duty of Loyal Jews.
ably shown. a definitely recognisable Healy, nieces of Mr. Tim llealy. in
At the present fateful period there are three part in the tragedy ot the relating their personal experiences in It is patriculary important in these cir-
French cumstances that the national Jews in every
main lines of political conception among the Revolution. It has been the mainspring of Kieff, have declared that to their know-
Jews, two of which arc helpful and hopeful every subversive movement during the Nine- ledge on more than one occasion officers who country who are loyal to the land of their
in a very high degree to humanity, and the teenth Century ; and now at last this band of committed offences against Jews were re- adoption should come forward on every occa-
third absolutely destructive. duced to the ranks and sent out of the city sion, as many of them in England have
extraordinary personalities from the under- already done, and take a prominent part in
First there arc the Jews who. dwelling in world of the great cities of Europe and to. the front. But the hordes of brigands by
every country throughout the world, identify America have gripped the Russian people by whom the whole vast expanse of the Russian every measure for combating the Bolshevik
themselves with that country, enter into its Empire is becoming infested do not hesitate conspiracy. In this way they will be able
national life, and, while adhering faithfully the hair of their heads and hare become to gratify their lust for blood and for revenge to vindicate the honour of the Jewish name
to their own religion, regard themselves as practically the undisputed masters of that at the expense of the innocent Jewish popu- and make it clear to all the world that the
citizens in the fullest sense of the State enormous empire. lation whenever an opportunity occurs. The Bolshevik movement is not a Jewish move-
which has received them. Such a Jew living brigand Makhno, the hordes of Petlura and ment, but is repudiated vehemently by the
in England would say. " I am an English- Terrorist Jews. of Gregorieff, who signalised their every suc- great mass of the Jewish race.
man practising the Jewish faith," This is a There is no need to exaggerate the part But a negative resistance to Bolshevism
cess by the most brutal massacre, every-
worthy conception, and useful in the highest played in the creation of Bolshevism and in where found among the half-stupefied, half- in any field is not enough. Positive and prac-
degree. We in Great Britain well know- the actual bringing about of the Russian ticable alternatives are needed in the moral
infuriated population an eager response to
that during the great struggle the influence Revolution by these international and for the anti-Semitism in its worst and foulest forms. as well as in the social sphere; and in build-
of what may be called the "National Jews" in most part atheistical Jews. It is certainly The fact that in many cases Jewish in- ing up with the utmost possible rapidity a
many lands was cast preponderatingly on the a very, great one; it probably outweighs all terests and Jewish places of worship arc ex- Jewish national centre in Palestine which
side of the Allies; and in our own Army others. With the notable exception of may become not only a refuge to the
Jewish soldiers have played a most distin- Lenin, the majority of the leading figures cepted by the Bolsheviks from their universal
hostility has tended more and more to asso- oppressed from the unhappy lands of Central
guished part, some rising to the command of are Jews.. Moreover, the principal inspira- Europe, but which will also be a symbol of
armies, others winning the Victoria Cross for tion and driving power comes from the ciate the Jewish race in Russia with the vil-
valour. lainies which are now being perpetrated. Jewish unity and the temple of Jewish glory
Jewish leaders. Thus Tchitcherin, a pure a task is presented on which many blessings
Russian, is eclipsed by his nominal subordi- This is an injustice on millions of helpless
rest.
nate Litvinoff. and the influence of Russians