The Truth About "The Protocols" A Literary Forgery From The Times of August 16, 17 and 18, 1921

8vo. pp. 24. Stapled into original printed wrappers, with three minor corrections to one line on p. 6, probably made in-house.

First edition, as reprinted with an explanatory preface from three issues of The Times, of the first significant exposé of the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ as a plagiarism from a nineteenth-century satire. Comprises 3 articles by the Constantinople correspondent of the Times, Philip P. Graves (1876-1953, half-brother of Robert Graves), Aug. 16-18, and a leading article from the Times of Aug. 18. Graves, the (here anonymous) Times correspondent at Constantinople, had obtained – from a Russian emigré, through the mediation of the future CIA supremo Allen Dulles – a copy of Maurice Joly’s Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, exhibiting unmistakable parallels with the Protocols, whose authenticity The Times now demolished – concluding (Preface, p. 3), that their correspondent ‘presents for the first time conclusive proof that the document is in the main a clumsy plagiarism’, and (p. 23), that ‘there can be no doubt that the forgery was perpetrated by some member of the Russian Secret Police.’

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