the Jewish Committees of the towns were unable to enforce their rule over [agricultural land, though strong enough to raid great areas.
The peasants believed that their newly-acquired
It is impossible that themselves thus in control of such new powers, should not have desired to benefit their fellows. It is equally impossible that they should have foregone a sentiment of revenge against all datasets that which had persecuted their people in the past. They cannot but, in the destroying of Russia, have mixed with a desire to advantage the individual Russian poor the desire to take vengeance upon the national tradition... [.. murder of the Russian Royal family] ... Further, it is impossible.. that they could not have had some sympathy with their compatriots who were so largely in control of Western finance. ... And it is this which explains the half alliance which you find throughout the world between the Jewish financiers..
The Jewish control of the Russian revolution
It is this which explains the half-heartedness of the defence against Bolshevism, the perpetual commercial protest, the continued negotiations, the recognition of the Soviet by our politicians, the clamour of “Labour” in favour of German Jewish industrialism and against Poland...’
P. 63: ‘.. All over Europe the Jewish character.. became more and more apparent. .. they made a childish effort to pretend that the Russian names .. put forward were genuine.. Yet at the same time they were receiving money and securities of the victims through Jewish agents, jewels stripped from the dead or rifled from the strong boxes of murdered men and women. ... a Trade Deputation was pompously announced under Russian names, which turned out upon inspection to consist, as its first member.
Engaged all his life in the services of a Jewish firm
as to the other.. A Jew who was actually the brother-in-law of Braunstein! [Trotsky.] The diplomatic agent.. was again a Jew, Finkelstein, the nephew by marriage of a prominent Jew in this country. He passed under the name of Litvinoff. ..’
G D H Cole & M I Cole on Europe. Belloc believed Bolshevism had at last ‘brought the discussion of the Jewish problem to a head’. 64: ‘The cat.. is out of the bag.. the debate will now never more be silenced.’ He clearly thought in 1920 (and presumably still in 1937, with his revised book) that the ‘Jewish problem’ would be thoroughly talked about, and regarded his book as part of this process.Robert Maxwell
In fact, he was wrong, by a margin wider than he probably could have guessed. Eighty years after his book was published, I doubt whether a single university department anywhere in the world pays any attention to this subject.