PROTOCOL NO. 2
It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible,
should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought
on to the economic ground, where the nations will not fail to
perceive in the assistance we give the strength of our predominance,
and this state of things will put both sides at the mercy of our
international agentur; which possesses millions of eyes ever on
the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. Our international
rights will then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense
of right, and will rule the nations precisely as the civil law
of States rules the relations of their subjects among themselves.
The administrators, whom we shall choose from among the public,
with strict regard to their capacities for servile obedience,
will not be persons trained in the arts of government, and will
therefore easily become pawns in our game in the hands of men
of learning and genius who will be their advisers, specialists
bred and reared from early childhood to rule the affairs of the
whole world. As is well known to you, these specialists of ours
have been drawing to fit them for rule the information they need
from our political plans, from the lessons of history, from observations
made of the events of every moment as it passes. The goyim are
not guided by practical use of unprejudiced historical observation,
but by theoretical routine without any critical regard for consequent
results. We need not, therefore, take any account of them - let
them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes
of new forms of enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all
they have enjoyed. For them let that play the principal part
which we have persuaded them to accept as the dictates of science
(theory). It is with this object in view that we are constantly,
by means of our press, arousing a blind confidence in these theories.
The intellectuals of the goyim will puff themselves up with their
knowledge and without any logical verification of it will put
into effect all the information available from science, which
our AGENTUR specialists have cunningly pieced together for the
purpose of educating their minds in the direction we want.
Do not suppose for a moment that these statements are empty words:
think carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism,
Nietzsche-ism. To us Jews, at any rate, it should be plain to
see what a disintegrating importance these directives have had
upon the minds of the goyim.
It is indispensable for us to take account of the thoughts, characters,
tendencies of the nations in order to avoid making slips in the
political and in the direction of administrative affairs. The
triumph of our system, of which the component parts of the machinery
may be variously disposed according to the temperament of the
peoples met on our way, will fail of success if the practical
application of it be not based upon a summing up of the lessons
of the past in the light of the present.
In the hands of the States of to-day there is a great force that
creates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the
Press. The part played by the Press is to keep pointing out requirements
supposed to be indispensable, to give voice to the complaints
of the people, to express and to create discontent. It is in
the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation.
But the goyim States have not known how to make use of this force;
and it has fallen into our hands. Through the Press we have gained
the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade;
thanks to the Press we have got the gold in our hands, notwithstanding
that we have had to gather it out of oceans of blood and tears.
But it has paid us, though we have sacrificed many of our people.
Each victim on our side is worth in the sight of God a thousand
goyim.