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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

quest for the philosophers' stone) but flirted with the western
"brother". The conspirators have today come one considerable step
closer to their goal: "through world-revolution to a world-republic".
That the over-enthusiasm of many hotheads should often
be curbed is understandable but the vicious language with which
the leaders of the "capitalists" and the "proletarians" mutually
consider themselves is only for the stupid people.
"However great the antagonism between the soldiers of both
armies may be, the leaders do not share it, the International is up to
now in the hands ofmen who stand more or less under the influence
of secret sects", says C. Janet rightly in the introduction to the
mentioned work of Deschamps. For, the Vanderveldes 264 and
comrades who issued enthusiastic speeches are, at the same time,
faithful servants of Freemasonry, i.e. also of Jewry, similar minds
have found each other. The news that Lenin and Trotsky too were
members of a Paris lodge is not at all improbable even if, up to now,
as far as I know, no decisive evidence has been brought forward for
it.
A conspiratorial type of the purest kind was Simon Deutsch,
a Masonic brother and, at the same time, along with Marx, one of
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the leaders of the red International. Arnim reports on this
personality to Bismarck (1 872) that he is one of the most important
links between the German and French democratic press and a
dangerous political informer. During the Franco-German war,
Deutsch lived in Vienna and conducted there a zealous propaganda,
naturally, for the French. In 1 87 1 , however, he emerged once again
in Paris, this time as one ofthe most active members ofthe Commune
and as one of the most important of its donors. After its defeat he
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[Emile Vandervelde (1866-1938) was a Belgian socialist statesman who was
Chairman ofthe International Socialist Bureau (1900-1918) and served as Justice
Minister, Foreign Minister and Health Minister between 1918 and 1937. He was a
member ofthe Belgian Commission that protested to President Wilson against the
alleged brutal ity of the Germans during the war.]
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[Simon Deutsch (1822-1877) was a Jewish revolutionary socialist from the
Moravian region of the Habsburg Empire. He met Karl Marx in 1 874 in Karlovy
Vary and was acquainted with Gambetta as well.]
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[Harry Eduard, Count Arnim-Suckow (1824-1881) was a Prussian diplomat
who served as German ambassador in Paris in 1 872.]
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