Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scottgive the context in which The Dearborn Independent was begun as the Ford International Weekly in 1919; who were the main players; and Ford’s likely motivations for carrying out the project.
In this first program, the Preface and Chapter One The Jew in Character and Business were read and discussed. Next week, the completion of chapter one is scheduled.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew -- The World's Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager complete Chapter One, “The Jew in Character and Business.” They also answer, briefly, charges that Henry Ford was a Freemason and therefore one of the “bad guys.”
Next week: Chapter Two, “Germany’s Reaction Against the Jew”
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Henry Ford receives the Grand Cross of the German Eagle in 1938.
Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott complete Chapter Two, Germany’s Reaction Against the Jew.
Next week: Chapter Three, “Jewish History in the United States
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on Chapter 3, Jewish History in the United States.
Pictured right: Henry Ford at age 22. The year was 1886; he had already lost his beloved mother 9 years earlier. He left the family farm in 1879 to work as an apprentice machinist in Detroit, but returned in 1882 and became adept at operating the Westinghouse portable steam engine. He was later hired by Westinghouse to service their steam engines. He also studied bookkeeping at a business college in Detroit during this time.
Next week: Chapter Four: “The Jewish Question – Fact or Fancy?”
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found onlinehere as a pdf file.
Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott read and comment on Chapter 4, The Jewish Question – Fact or Fancy?
Pictured right: Theodore Herzl, considered the father of modern political Zionism, said that wherever Jews live in perceptible numbers, the Jewish Question exists – because “our presence produces persecution” where it didn’t exist before. The Jewish Question according to Ford was, how does a tiny minority gravitate to the highest places in government, business and finance?
Next week: Chapter Five: “Anti-Semitism: Will It Appear in the U.S.?”
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on Chapter 5, Anti-Semitism – Will It Appear in the U.S.?
Pictured right: In 1880 the Jewish population of the United States was about 250,000. Over the next forty years more than two million eastern European Jews – about one-third of the entire Jewish population there – emigrated to the United States.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager complete Chapter 5 from last week.
Reading and commentary on the second half of Chapter 5, Anti-Semitism – Will It Appear in the U.S.?
Pictured right: In the early 20th Century in Russia, Jewish agitation, plotting, terrorism and assassinations resulted in pogroms against the Jews by the Czars and Russian people. However, “impartial observers have also found that some of the outbreaks have been precipitated by the Jews themselves.” This kind of activity never appeared in the United States.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott read and comment on Chapter 6, “Jewish Question Breaks into the Magazines.”
Image: The Metropolitan magazine cover in Sept. 1920. “The Jewish Question has at last broken into a New York magazine [...] the only kind of article on the Jewish Question that the big magazines [...] care to print. Yet, the general public may learn much about the Question even from the type of article whose purpose is to prove that the Question doesn’t exist. Mr. William Hard, in the Metropolitan for June, has done as well as could be expected, considering the use he was supposed to make of such material as he had at hand. And doubtless the telegraph and letter brigades, which keep watch over all printed references to the Jews, have duly congratulated the good editors of the Metropolitan for their assistance in soothing the public to further sleep.”
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott read and comment on Chapter 7, "Arthur Brisbane Leaps to the Help of Jewry."
Image: Arthur Brisbane in his newspaper office in New York. He was one of the best-known editors of the 20th Century -- becoming editor of William Randolf Hearst's New York Journal and a close friend of Hearst. His syndicated column had an estimated daily readership of over 20 million.
Brisbane's editorial of Sunday, June 20, 1920, titled "Facts: An Antidote to Prejudice," is the subject of this chapter which appeared in Ford's Dearborn Independent 2 weeks later on July 3, 1920.
Brisbane's editorial can be read here, as a reprint in the Canadian Jewish Chronicle of July 2, 1920. The front page of this edition of the Chronicle is also of interest, under "Poor Ford" where Henry Ford is described by the Jews as being either mentally unbalanced or mentally defective.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on Chapter 8: Does a Definite Jewish World Program Exist?
Image: The finances of the world are in control of Jews; their decisions and their devices are themselves our economic law. The Jew’s history is one of wandering among all the nations. They have a clearer world-sense than any other people, because the world has been their path. The political element inheres in the fact that the Jews form a nation in the midst of the nations. The Gentile, never having been trained in secrets or invisible unity, immediately concludes that such things cannot be. It was the Zionist program that was followed by the (Paris) Peace Conference. It must therefore be regarded as the official program.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott read and comment on Chapter 9: The Historic Basis of Jewish Imperialism
An important chapter that discusses the evidence of a Jewish World movement, the long-standing idea of a Chosen People, the Jewish Autocrat, the “exilarchs,” and the Sanhedrin. From here we will move into nine chapters that examine the themes from the Protocols of Zion.
Image: “Synagogue” was part of a large mural painted by John Singer Sargent for the Boston Public Library. In 1919, because of protest from Jewry that this particular part was “antisemitic” in that it portrayed 'Synagogue' as an old hag while portraying “Church” as a lovely young girl, themural project was suspended and the paintings were never shown. It first went up for public view in 2003.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on Chapter 10: “An Introduction to the Jewish Protocols.”
The documents most frequently mentioned by those who are interested in the theory of Jewish World Power rather than in the actual operation of that power in the world today, are those 24 documents known as “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.” Who gave it the name of “Elders of Zion” is not known [but it is] the most comprehensive program for world subjugation that has ever come to public knowledge. (From Chapt. 10, The International Jew)
Before beginning Chapter 10, your hosts complete the last part of the long Chapter 9 from the previous week: “The Historic Basis of Jewish Imperialism.”
Image: Called the Jew-Bolshevic Emblem surrounded by the Symbolic Serpent, this mysterious illustration was used on an edition of The Jewish Peril: Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, published by “The Britons”, 62 Oxford Street, London. Fifth Edition, 1921.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott read and comment on Chapter 11: “Jewish” Estimate of Gentile Human Nature
This is the first of several chapters which analyze in depth the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a book that was causing a great stir in 1920-21 and which was taken seriously by Henry Ford and his editors and writers. Ford, however, did not insist the book was a genuine Jewish world plan. As he says in this chapter: “And whether these Protocols are of Jewish origin or not, whether they represent Jewish interests or not, this is exactly the state of the world, of the Gentile world, today.”
Image: Jewish labor organizers speaking to a gathering of German workers. The caption reads: The Jew cried: We don’t give a hoot about Germany … the main thing is that it goes really well for us.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on Chapter 12, "Jewish Protocols" Claim Partial Fulfillment, after they complete Chapter 11 left from last week: "Jewish Estimate" of Gentile Human Nature.
Chapt. 11 ends with a description of the society the Protocols are aiming for - one in which Gentiles are deeply divided against each other. Chapt.12 looks at how the Protocols are written in the present tense, indicating that much of the desired objectives have already been accomplished. This includes the subverting of Economics, making people believe that theories are laws. The same subversion has been done with justice and the courts, with religion, with literature, with education and culture. Also mentioned is the demoralization of our youth via Jewish control of our youth agencies. The writers of The International Jew then speak out against what they call "luxury" in the form of knick-knacks and gew-gaws, cheap jewelry, and even "Coney Island" type recreations - saying that these, though "pleasant," materially and spiritually devastate a people.
Image: Twelve recognizable Jews (economists, bankers, financiers) who wield "Money Power" in today's world, out of the hundreds that could be shown.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott complete Chapter 12, Jewish Protocols Claim Partial Fulfillment,after which they begin Chapter13, “Jewish” Plan to Split Society by “Ideas.”
The Jews have introduced “cheap” luxuries and entertainments to create what Ford calls “looseness” in Gentile youth. These include sport clothes, moving pictures, and show parks like “Coney Island,” shown at right in a poster from the time.
Chapter 13 – Jewish-instigated ideas bring about Disintegration. They attack Collective Opinion, the “standards” and “ideals” that are the invisible bonds of unity and make up the shared attitudes of Gentile society. Next week we will complete Chapter 13.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
“You are the non-Jews. You are the slaves. We are the Owners."
Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager complete Chapter 13, “Jewish” Plan to Split Society by “Ideas.”
This chapter discusses the plan described in The Protocols to attack Collective Opinion by introducing “the poison of liberalism” and the concept of “broad-mindedness” which descends quickly into material-mindedness. First comes the prostitution of service to profits, then the disappearance of the profits.
Rather than a division between “Capital” and “Labor,” there is brought about a division between Gentile laborers and Gentile managers, who have to go to the Jewish capitalists for funds. A total revolution will be necessary to unfasten the International Jewish system’s grip on the world. The chapter ends with the question whether Gentiles are competent to do it.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Battle of the Somme, 1916, one of the largest battles of World War I with more than one million casualties.
Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott take a short time to look into Peter Myer’s work on the “authenticity question” regarding the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Carolyn gives a synopsis of Meyers’ main pro-authenticity arguments which can be found at http://mailstar.net/toolkit.html. Hadding disagrees with Meyers.
They then read and complete Chapter 14, “Did the Jews Foresee the World War?” According to this chapter, the “Jewish plan” was to participate in some way in the events leading up to the war and the war itself in order to gain a place at the “peace conference” following the war.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager open the show with some further discussion on The Protocols’ “authenticity” question. Carolyn offers links to other authors and events in history that point to a consensus of Jewish intent in accord with the documents that make up The Protocols of the Elders of Zion … first published in Russia in 1903. Carolyn argues that whether or not they were read or entered into the minutes at the First Zionist Congress in 1897, in Basle, Switzerland, makes no difference to their credibility as a real, historical plan to control the political and financial workings of the entire world. Hadding maintains his position that The Protocols are not only inauthentic, but in some ways misleading.
They then begin Chapter 15, Is the Jewish “Kahal” the Modern “Soviet”?
KAHAL, an executive board that was chosen to run an autonomous Jewish community. A kahal served as a Jewish community council, or as a decision-making committee of a kehilah. Throughout the history of the Jewish Diaspora, even before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the Jewish community was organized as a self-governing community, running its internal affairs according to its own laws, later codified as halakhah and continuously amended and supplemented by time-bound statutes and legislation known as takanot. … from Yivo Institute
Image: Illustration symbolizing the First Zionist Congress, which was ostensibly about gaining Palestine for a Jewish homeland. Depicted are Theodor Herzl (center), Max Nordau (left) and Prof. Osip Mandelstam (right)
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Illustration shows a London Beth Din in the 1920's.
Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott complete Chapter 15, Is the Jewish “Kahal” the Modern “Soviet?”
We learn why TIJ considers the Soviet under Bolshevism to be the modern equivalent of the ancient Jewish Kahal. The Jewish preference for living apart and the highly organized social rules and institutions that are designed to bind the community together are still found today in places such as New York City, where special rabbinical courts are allowed to exist. Beth Din of America is one example of such courts. They exist all over the world and supposedly go back to the time of “Moses,” who appointed elders to assist him in judging and governing the community.
American Jewish support (sometimes subtle) for Lenin, Trotsky and the Russian Revolution bespeaks of the Jewishness of the Revolution; also three stages of action described for breaking up society point to a “World Program” that aims to turn conquered countries into Jewish states.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager move on to Chapter 16, How the “Jewish Question” Touches the Farm.
The Jew is the landlord of America, says this chapter. And part of the World Plan is to control the land as well as the products of the land. By 1920 “Jewish millions are now being used to secure immense tracts of American lands.” The Land Program can be found in the 6th Protocol:
As owners of the land, [Gentiles] are harmful to us in that they are independent in their sources of livelihood. Therefore, at all costs, we must deprive them of their land.
The land will feed him whether he pleases Jewish International Financiers or not. His position is impregnable as long as the sun shines and the seasons roll. Thus (the farmer) was placed under a greater disadvantage in borrowing capital than any other businessman. This chapter warns, finally, that city and farm have been set against each other through misrepresentation. A big improvement would be made if they could communicate one with the other directly.
Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.
Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager complete Chapter 5 from last week.
This is the first of several chapters which analyze in depth the
