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Thus the Protocols were in 1907 presented by G. Butmi, dedicated to the
Black Hundreds, as Masonic, not as Jewish documents. In his introduction
the author says, in part, as follows:
"'These secret protocols were secured with great difficulty in
fragmentary form, and were translated into Russian in December,
1901. It is almost impossible to get at the secret depositories
again where they are hidden, and therefore they cannot be
reinforced by definite information as to the place, day, month,
year, where and when they were composed.
"'The reader who is more or less familiar with the secrets of
Freemasonry will draw from the general character of the criminal
plot, outlined in the protocols, the conclusion as to their
authenticity, and from several details he will suppose with great
certainty that the mentioned protocols were taken from the
documents of the Masonic lodge of Egyptian ritual, or Mizraim,
which is joined mostly by Jews....
"'But the above-mentioned failure to mention the time and place
where the protocols were composed might call forth in the reader,
who is entirely unfamiliar with the abominations of Masonic
doctrines, doubts as to the authenticity of these documents.'"
At the end of the "protocols" published in this edition by Butmi, in
1907, there appears a note by the man who declares that he had secured
and translated the documents from the French, on December 9, 1901, and
in the very first two lines of his note, he states that the
representatives of Zion mentioned in the documents are not to be
confounded with the representatives of the Zionist movement.
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