THE PROTOCOLS
OF THE
LEARNED ELDERS
OF ZION
PROTOCOL No. 10
1. To-day I begin with a repetition
of what I said before, and I BEG
YOU TO BEAR IN MIND THAT
GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE ARE
CONTENT IN THE POLITICAL WITH
OUTSIDE APPEARANCES. And how,
indeed, are the GOYIM to perceive
the underlying meaning of things
when their representatives give the
best of their energies to enjoying
themselves? For our policy it is of
the greatest importance to take
cognizance of this detail; it will be
of assistance to us when we come
to consider the division of authority
of property, of the dwelling, of
taxation (the idea of concealed
taxes), of the reflex force of the
laws. All these questions are such as
ought not to be touched upon
directly and openly before the
people. In cases where it is
indispensable to touch upon them
they must not be categorically
named, it must merely be declared
without detailed exposition that the
principles of contemporary law are
acknowledged by us. The reason of
keeping silence in this respect is
that by not naming a principle we
leave ourselves freedom of action,
to drop this or that out of it
without attracting notice; if they
were all categorically named they
would all appear to have been
already given.
2. The mob cherishes a special
affection and respect for the
geniuses of political power and
accepts all their deeds of violence
with the admiring response:
"rascally, well, yes, it is rascally,
but it's clever! ... a trick, if you
like, but how craftily played, how
magnificently done, what impudent
audacity!" ...
OUR GOAL - WORLD POWER
3. We count upon attracting all
nations to the task of erecting the
new fundamental structure, the
project for which has been drawn
up by us. This is why, before
everything, it is indispensable for
us to arm ourselves and to store up
in ourselves that absolutely reckless
audacity and irresistible might of
the spirit which in the person of
our active workers will break down
all hindrances on our way.
4. WHEN WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED
OUR COUP D'ETAT WE SHALL SAY
THEN TO THE VARIOUS PEOPLES:
"EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY
BADLY, ALL HAVE BEEN WORN OUT
WITH SUFFERING. WE ARE
DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF YOUR
TORMENT - NATIONALITIES,
FRONTIERS, DIFFERENCES OF
COINAGES. YOU ARE AT LIBERTY, OF
COURSE, TO PRONOUNCE SENTENCE
UPON US, BUT CAN IT POSSIBLY BE
A JUST ONE IF IT IS CONFIRMED BY
YOU BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY TRIAL
OF WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU."
... THEN WILL THE MOB EXALT US
AND BEAR US UP IN THEIR HANDS
IN A UNANIMOUS TRIUMPH OF
HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS.
VOTING, WHICH WE HAVE MADE
THE INSTRUMENT WHICH WILL SET
US ON THE THRONE OF THE WORLD
BY TEACHING EVEN THE VERY
SMALLEST UNITS OF MEMBERS OF
THE HUMAN RACE TO VOTE BY
MEANS OF MEETINGS AND
AGREEMENTS BY GROUPS, WILL
THEN HAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSES
AND WILL PLAY ITS PART THEN FOR
THE LAST TIME BY A UNANIMITY OF
DESIRE TO MAKE CLOSE
ACQUAINTANCE WITH US BEFORE
CONDEMNING US.
5. TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE
EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT
DISTINCTION OF CLASSES AND
QUALIFICATIONS, in order to
establish an absolute majority,
which cannot be got from the
educated propertied classes. In this
way, by inculcating in all a sense of
self-importance, we shall destroy
among the GOYIM the importance
of the family and its educational
value and remove the possibility of
individual minds splitting off, for
the mob, handled by us, will not let
them come to the front nor even
give them a hearing; it is
accustomed to listen to us only who
pay it for obedience and attention.
In this way we shall create a blind,
mighty force which will never be in
a position to move in any direction
without the guidance of our agents
set at its head by us as leaders of
the mob. The people will submit to
this regime because it will know
that upon these leaders will depend
its earnings, gratifications and the
receipt of all kinds of benefits.
6. A scheme of government should
come ready made from one brain,
because it will never be clinched
firmly if it is allowed to be split
into fractional parts in the minds of
many. It is allowable, therefore, for
us to have cognizance of the
scheme of action but not to discuss
it lest we disturb its artfulness, the
interdependence of its component
parts, the practical force of the
secret meaning of each clause. To
discuss and make alterations in a
labor of this kind by means of
numerous votings is to impress
upon it the stamp of all
ratiocinations and
misunderstandings which have
failed to penetrate the depth and
nexus of its plottings. We want our
schemes to be forcible and suitably
concocted. Therefore WE OUGHT
NOT TO FLING THE WORK OF
GENIUS OF OUR GUIDE to the fangs
of the mob or even of a select
company.
7. These schemes will not turn
existing institutions upside down
just yet. They will only effect
changes in their economy and
consequently in the whole
combined movement of their
progress, which will thus be
directed along the paths laid down
in our schemes.
POISON OF LIBERALISM
8. Under various names there exists
in all countries approximately one
and the same thing. Representation,
Ministry, Senate, State Council,
Legislative and Executive Corps. I
need not explain to you the
mechanism of the relation of these
institutions to one another, because
you are aware of all that; only take
note of the fact that each of the
above-named institutions
corresponds to some important
function of the State, and I would
beg you to remark that the word
"important" I apply not to the
institution but to the function,
consequently it is not the
institutions which are important
but their functions. These
institutions have divided up among
themselves all the functions of
government - administrative,
legislative, executive, wherefore
they have come to operate as do
the organs in the human body. If
we injure one part in the machinery
of State, the State falls sick, like a
human body, and ... will die.
9. When we introduced into the
State organism the poison of
Liberalism its whole political
complexion underwent a change.
States have been seized with a
mortal illness - blood poisoning. All
that remains is to await the end of
their death agony.
10. Liberalism produced
Constitutional States, which took
the place of what was the only
safeguard of the GOYIM, namely,
Despotism; and A CONSTITUTION,
AS YOU WELL KNOW, IS NOTHING
ELSE BUT A SCHOOL OF DISCORDS,
misunderstandings, quarrels,
disagreements, fruitless party
agitations, party whims - in a word,
a school of everything that serves
to destroy the personality of State
activity. THE TRIBUNE OF THE
"TALKERIES" HAS, NO LESS
EFFECTIVELY THAN THE PRESS,
CONDEMNED THE RULERS TO
INACTIVITY AND IMPOTENCE, and
thereby rendered them useless and
superfluous, for which reason
indeed they have been in many
countries deposed. THEN IT WAS
THAT THE ERA OF REPUBLICS
BECOME POSSIBLE OF
REALIZATION; AND THEN IT WAS
THAT WE REPLACED THE RULER BY A
CARICATURE OF A GOVERNMENT -
BY A PRESIDENT, TAKEN FROM THE
MOB, FROM THE MIDST OF OUR
PUPPET CREATURES, OR SLAVES.
This was the foundation of the mine
which we have laid under the GOY
people, I should rather say, under
the GOY peoples.
WE NAME PRESIDENTS
11. In the near future we shall
establish the responsibility of
presidents.
12. By that time we shall be in a
position to disregard forms in
carrying through matters for which
our impersonal puppet will be
responsible. What do we care if the
ranks of those striving for power
should be thinned, if there should
arise a deadlock from the
impossibility of finding presidents,
a deadlock which will finally
disorganize the country? ...
13. In order that our scheme may
produce this result we shall arrange
elections in favor of such presidents
as have in their past some dark,
undiscovered stain, some "Panama"
or other - then they will be
trustworthy agents for the
accomplishment of our plans out of
fear of revelations and from the
natural desire of everyone who has
attained power, namely, the
retention of the privileges,
advantages and honor connected
with the office of president. The
chamber of deputies will provide
cover for, will protect, will elect
presidents, but we shall take from
it the right to propose new, or
make changes in existing laws, for
this right will be given by us to the
responsible president, a puppet in
our hands. Naturally, the authority
of the presidents will then become
a target for every possible form of
attack, but we shall provide him
with a means of self-defense in the
right of an appeal to the people,
for the decision of the people over
the heads of their representatives,
that is to say, an appeal to that
same blind slave of ours - the
majority of the mob. Independently
of this we shall invest the president
with the right of declaring a state
of war. We shall justify this last
right on the ground that the
president as chief of the whole
army of the country must have it at
his disposal, in case of need for the
defense of the new republican
constitution, the right to defend
which will belong to him as the
responsible representative of this
constitution. (Iran? Grenada?
Kuwait? Iraq? Panama? Somalia?
Bosnia? Kosovo? Indonesia?)
14. It is easy to understand that in
these conditions the key of the
shrine will lie in our hands, and no
one outside ourselves will any
longer direct the force of
legislation.
15. Besides this we shall, with the
introduction of the new republican
constitution, take from the
Chamber the right of interpolation
on government measures, on the
pretext of preserving political
secrecy, and, further, we shall by
the new constitution reduce the
number of representatives to a
minimum, thereby proportionately
reducing political passions and the
passion for politics. If, however,
they should, which is hardly to be
expected, burst into flame, even in
this minimum, we shall nullify them
by a stirring appeal and a reference
to the majority of the whole
people ... Upon the president will
depend the appointment of
presidents and vice-presidents of
the Chamber and the Senate.
Instead of constant sessions of
Parliaments we shall reduce their
sittings to a few months. Moreover,
the president, as chief of the
executive power, will have the right
to summon and dissolve Parliament,
and, in the latter case, to prolong
the time for the appointment of a
new parliamentary assembly. But in
order that the consequences of all
these acts which in substance are
illegal, should not, prematurely for
our plans, fall upon the
responsibility established by us of
the president, WE SHALL INSTIGATE
MINISTERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS
OF THE HIGHER ADMINISTRATION
ABOUT THE PRESIDENT TO EVADE
HIS DISPOSITIONS BY TAKING
MEASURES OF THEIR OWN, for
doing which they will be made the
scapegoats in his place ... This part
we especially recommend to be
given to be played by the Senate,
the Council of State, or the Council
of Ministers, but not to an
individual official.
16. The president will, at our
discretion, interpret the sense of
such of the existing laws as admit
of various interpretation; he will
further annul them when we
indicate to him the necessity to do
so, besides this, he will have the
right to propose temporary laws,
and even new departures in the
government constitutional working,
the pretext both for the one and
the other being the requirements
for the supreme welfare of the
State. (Presidential Decrees such as
F.D.R. employed to debase the US
dollar and steal the gold and to
place the U.S. under a permanent
State of Emergency and War against
its own citizens?)
WE SHALL DESTROY
17. By such measure we shall
obtain the power of destroying little
by little, step by step, all that at the
outset when we enter on our rights,
we are compelled to introduce into
the constitutions of States to
prepare for the transition to an
imperceptible abolition of every
kind of constitution, and then the
time is come to turn every form of
government into OUR DESPOTISM.
18. The recognition of our despot
may also come before the
destruction of the constitution; the
moment for this recognition will
come when the peoples, utterly
wearied by the irregularities and
incompetence - a matter which we
shall arrange for - of their rulers,
will clamor: "Away with them and
give us one king over all the earth
who will unite us and annihilate the
causes of disorders - frontiers,
nationalities, religions, State debts -
who will give us peace and quiet
which we cannot find under our
rulers and representatives."
19. But you yourselves perfectly
well know that TO PRODUCE THE
POSSIBILITY OF THE EXPRESSION OF
SUCH WISHES BY ALL THE NATIONS
IT IS INDISPENSABLE TO TROUBLE
IN ALL COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE'S
RELATIONS WITH THEIR
GOVERNMENTS SO AS TO UTTERLY
EXHAUST HUMANITY WITH
DISSENSION, HATRED, STRUGGLE,
ENVY AND EVEN BY THE USE OF
TORTURE, BY STARVATION, BY THE
INOCULATION OF DISEASES, BY
WANT, SO THAT THE "GOYIM" SEE
NO OTHER ISSUE THAN TO TAKE
REFUGE IN OUR COMPLETE
SOVEREIGNTY IN MONEY AND IN
ALL ELSE.
20. But if we give the nations of the
world a breathing space the
moment we long for is hardly likely
ever to arrive.
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PROTOCOL No. 11
1. The State Council has been, as it
were, the emphatic expression of
the authority of the ruler: it will be,
as the "show" part of the
Legislative Corps, what may be
called the editorial committee of
the laws and decrees of the ruler.
2. This, then, is the program of the
new constitution. We shall make
Law, Right and Justice (1) in the
guise of proposals to the Legislative
Corps, (2) by decrees of the
president under the guise of general
regulations, of orders of the Senate
and of resolutions of the State
Council in the guise of ministerial
orders, (3) and in case a suitable
occasion should arise - in the form
of a revolution in the State.
3. Having established approximately
the MODUS AGENDI we will occupy
ourselves with details of those
combinations by which we have still
to complete the revolution in the
course of the machinery of State in
the direction already indicated. By
these combinations I mean the
freedom of the Press, the right of
association, freedom of conscience,
the voting principle, and many
another that must disappear for
ever from the memory of man, or
undergo a radical alteration the day
after the promulgation of the new
constitution. It is only at the
moment that we shall be able at
once to announce all our orders,
for, afterwards, every noticeable
alteration will be dangerous, for the
following reasons: if this alteration
be brought in with harsh severity
and in a sense of severity and
limitations, it may lead to a feeling
of despair caused by fear of new
alterations in the same direction; if,
on the other hand, it be brought in
a sense of further indulgences it
will be said that we have recognized
our own wrong-doing and this will
destroy the prestige of the
infallibility of our authority, or else
it will be said that we have become
alarmed and are compelled to show
a yielding disposition, for which we
shall get no thanks because it will
be supposed to be compulsory ...
Both the one and the other are
injurious to the prestige of the new
constitution. What we want is that
from the first moment of its
promulgation, while the peoples of
the world are still stunned by the
accomplished fact of the
revolution, still in a condition of
terror and uncertainty, they should
recognize once for all that we are
so strong, so inexpugnable, so
super-abundantly filled with power,
that in no case shall we take any
account of them, and so far from
paying any attention to their
opinions or wishes, we are ready
and able to crush with irresistible
power all expression or
manifestation thereof at every
moment and in every place, that we
have seized at once everything we
wanted and shall in no case divide
our power with them ... Then in
fear and trembling they will close
their eyes to everything, and be
content to await what will be the
end of it all.
WE ARE WOLVES
4. The GOYIM are a flock of sheep,
and we are their wolves. And you
know what happens when the
wolves get hold of the flock? ....
5. There is another reason also why
they will close their eyes: for we
shall keep promising them to give
back all the liberties we have taken
away as soon as we have quelled
the enemies of peace and tamed all
parties ....
6. It is not worth to say anything
about how long a time they will be
kept waiting for this return of their
liberties ....
7. For what purpose then have we
invented this whole policy and
insinuated it into the minds of the
GOY without giving them any
chance to examine its underlying
meaning? For what, indeed, if not
in order to obtain in a roundabout
way what is for our scattered tribe
unattainable by the direct road? It
is this which has served as the basis
for our organization of SECRET
MASONRY WHICH IS NOT KNOWN
TO, AND AIMS WHICH ARE NOT
EVEN SO MUCH AS SUSPECTED BY,
THESE "GOY" CATTLE, ATTRACTED BY
US INTO THE "SHOW" ARMY OF
MASONIC LODGES IN ORDER TO
THROW DUST IN THE EYES OF THEIR
FELLOWS.
8. God has granted to us, His
Chosen People, the gift of the
dispersion, and in this which
appears in all eyes to be our
weakness, has come forth all our
strength, which has now brought us
to the threshold of sovereignty over
all the world.
9. There now remains not much
more for us to build up upon the
foundation we have laid.
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PROTOCOL No. 12
1. The word "freedom," which can
be interpreted in various ways, is
defined by us as follows -
2. Freedom is the right to do what
which the law allows. This
interpretation of the word will at
the proper time be of service to us,
because all freedom will thus be in
our hands, since the laws will
abolish or create only that which is
desirable for us according to the
aforesaid program.
3. We shall deal with the press in
the following way: what is the part
played by the press to-day? It
serves to excite and inflame those
passions which are needed for our
purpose or else it serves selfish
ends of parties. It is often vapid,
unjust, mendacious, and the
majority of the public have not the
slightest idea what ends the press
really serves. We shall saddle and
bridle it with a tight curb: we shall
do the same also with all
productions of the printing press,
for where would be the sense of
getting rid of the attacks of the
press if we remain targets for
pamphlets and books? The produce
of publicity, which nowadays is a
source of heavy expense owing to
the necessity of censoring it, will be
turned by us into a very lucrative
source of income to our State: we
shall lay on it a special stamp tax
and require deposits of caution-
money before permitting the
establishment of any organ of the
press or of printing offices; these
will then have to guarantee our
government against any kind of
attack on the part of the press. For
any attempt to attack us, if such
still be possible, we shall inflict
fines without mercy. Such measures
as stamp tax, deposit of caution-
money and fines secured by these
deposits, will bring in a huge
income to the government. It is
true that party organs might not
spare money for the sake of
publicity, but these we shall shut up
at the second attack upon us. No
one shall with impunity lay a finger
on the aureole of our government
infallibility. The pretext for stopping
any publication will be the alleged
plea that it is agitating the public
mind without occasion or
justification. I BEG YOU TO NOTE
THAT AMONG THOSE MAKING
ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO BE
ORGANS ESTABLISHED BY US, BUT
THEY WILL ATTACK EXCLUSIVELY
POINTS THAT WE HAVE PRE-
DETERMINED TO ALTER.
WE CONTROL THE PRESS
4. NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT
WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT
OUR CONTROL. Even now this is
already being attained by us
inasmuch as all news items are
received by a few agencies, in
whose offices they are focused
from all parts of the world. These
agencies will then be already
entirely ours and will give publicity
only to what we dictate to them.
5. If already now we have contrived
to possess ourselves of the minds of
the GOY communities to such an
extent the they all come near
looking upon the events of the
world through the colored glasses
of those spectacles we are setting
astride their noses; if already now
there is not a single State where
there exist for us any barriers to
admittance into what GOY stupidity
calls State secrets: what will our
positions be then, when we shall be
acknowledged supreme lords of the
world in the person of our king of
all the world ....
6. Let us turn again to the FUTURE
OF THE PRINTING PRESS. Every one
desirous of being a publisher,
librarian, or printer, will be obliged
to provide himself with the diploma
instituted therefore, which, in case
of any fault, will be immediately
impounded. With such measures
THE INSTRUMENT OF THOUGHT
WILL BECOME AN EDUCATIVE
MEANS ON THE HANDS OF OUR
GOVERNMENT, WHICH WILL NO
LONGER ALLOW THE MASS OF THE
NATION TO BE LED ASTRAY IN BY-
WAYS AND FANTASIES ABOUT THE
BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS. Is there
any one of us who does not know
that these phantom blessings are
the direct roads to foolish
imaginings which give birth to
anarchical relations of men among
themselves and towards authority,
because progress, or rather the
idea of progress, has introduced
the conception of every kind of
emancipation, but has failed to
establish its limits .... All the so-
called liberals are anarchists, if not
in fact, at any rate in thought. Every
one of them in hunting after
phantoms of freedom, and falling
exclusively into license, that is, into
the anarchy of protest for the sake
of protest....
FREE PRESS DESTROYED
7. We turn to the periodical press.
We shall impose on it, as on all
printed matter, stamp taxes per
sheet and deposits of caution-
money, and books of less than 30
sheets will pay double. We shall
reckon them as pamphlets in order,
on the one hand, to reduce the
number of magazines, which are
the worst form of printed poison,
and, on the other, in order that this
measure may force writers into
such lengthy productions that they
will be little read, especially as they
will be costly. At the same time
what we shall publish ourselves to
influence mental development in
the direction laid down for our
profit will be cheap and will be read
voraciously. The tax will bring vapid
literary ambitions within bounds
and the liability to penalties will
make literary men dependent upon
us. And if there should be any
found who are desirous of writing
against us, they will not find any
person eager to print their
productions. Before accepting any
production for publication in print,
the publisher or printer will have to
apply to the authorities for
permission to do so. Thus we shall
know beforehand of all tricks
preparing against us and shall
nullify them by getting ahead with
explanations on the subject treated
of.
8. Literature and journalism are two
of the most important educative
forces, and therefore our
government will become proprietor
of the majority of the journals. This
will neutralize the injurious
influence of the privately-owned
press and will put us in possession
of a tremendous influence upon the
public mind .... If we give permits
for ten journals, we shall ourselves
found thirty, and so on in the same
proportion. This, however, must in
no wise be suspected by the public.
For which reason all journals
published by us will be of the most
opposite, in appearance, tendencies
and opinions, thereby creating
confidence in us and bringing over
to us quite unsuspicious opponents,
who will thus fall into our trap and
be rendered harmless.
9. In the front rank will stand
organs of an official character. They
will always stand guard over our
interests, and therefore their
influence will be comparatively
insignificant.
10. In the second rank will be the
semi-official organs, whose part it
will be to attack the tepid and
indifferent.
11. In the third rank we shall set
up our own, to all appearance,
opposition, which, in at least one of
its organs, will present what looks
like the very antipodes to us. Our
real opponents at heart will accept
this simulated opposition as their
own and will show us their cards.
12. All our newspapers will be of all
possible complexions -- aristocratic,
republican, revolutionary, even
anarchical - for so long, of course,
as the constitution exists .... Like
the Indian idol "Vishnu" they will
have a hundred hands, and every
one of them will have a finger on
any one of the public opinions as
required. When a pulse quickens
these hands will lead opinion in the
direction of our aims, for an
excited patient loses all power of
judgment and easily yields to
suggestion. Those fools who will
think they are repeating the opinion
of a newspaper of their own camp
will be repeating our opinion or any
opinion that seems desirable for us.
In the vain belief that they are
following the organ of their party
they will, in fact, follow the flag
which we hang out for them.
13. In order to direct our
newspaper militia in this sense we
must take special and minute care
in organizing this matter. Under the
title of central department of the
press we shall institute literary
gatherings at which our agents will
without attracting attention issue
the orders and watchwords of the
day. By discussing and
controverting, but always
superficially, without touching the
essence of the matter, our organs
will carry on a sham fight fusillade
with the official newspapers solely
for the purpose of giving occasion
for us to express ourselves more
fully than could well be done from
the outset in official
announcements, whenever, of
course, that is to our advantage.
14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL
ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE,
NAMELY, THAT OUR SUBJECTS WILL
BE CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE
OF FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND
SO GIVE OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION
TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS
WHICH OPPOSE US ARE EMPTY
BABBLERS, since they are incapable
of finding any substantial objections
to our orders.
ONLY LIES PRINTED
15. Methods of organization like
these, imperceptible to the public
eye but absolutely sure, are the
best calculated to succeed in
bringing the attention and the
confidence of the public to the side
of our government. Thanks to such
methods we shall be in a position
as from time to time may be
required, to excite or to tranquillize
the public mind on political
questions, to persuade or to
confuse, printing now truth, now
lies, facts or their contradictions,
according as they may be well or ill
received, always very cautiously
feeling our ground before stepping
upon it .... WE SHALL HAVE A SURE
TRIUMPH OVER OUR OPPONENTS
SINCE THEY WILL NOT HAVE AT
THEIR DISPOSITION ORGANS OF
THE PRESS IN WHICH THEY CAN
GIVE FULL AND FINAL EXPRESSION
TO THEIR VIEWS owing to the
aforesaid methods of dealing with
the press. We shall not even need
to refute them except very
superficially.
16. Trial shots like these, fired by
us in the third rank of our press, in
case of need, will be energetically
refuted by us in our semi-official
organs.
17. Even nowadays, already, to take
only the French press, there are
forms which reveal masonic
solidarity in acting on the
watchword: all organs of the press
are bound together by professional
secrecy; like the augurs of old, not
one of their numbers will give away
the secret of his sources of
information unless it be resolved to
make announcement of them. Not
one journalist will venture to betray
this secret, for not one of them is
ever admitted to practice literature
unless his whole past has some
disgraceful sore or other .... These
sores would be immediately
revealed. So long as they remain
the secret of a few the prestige of
the journalist attacks the majority
of the country - the mob follow
after him with enthusiasm.
18. Our calculations are especially
extended to the provinces. It is
indispensable for us to inflame
there those hopes and impulses with
which we could at any moment fall
upon the capital, and we shall
represent to the capitals that these
expressions are the independent
hopes and impulses of the
provinces. Naturally, the source of
them will be always one and the
same - ours. WHAT WE NEED IS
THAT, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE ARE
IN THE PLENITUDE POWER, THE
CAPITALS SHOULD FIND
THEMSELVES STIFLED BY THE
PROVINCIAL OPINION OF THE
NATIONS, I.E., OF A MAJORITY
ARRANGED BY OUR AGENTUR. What
we need is that at the psychological
moment the capitals should not be
in a position to discuss an
accomplished fact for the simple
reason, if for no other, that it has
been accepted by the public
opinion of a majority in the
provinces.
19. WHEN WE ARE IN THE PERIOD
OF THE NEW REGIME TRANSITIONAL
TO THAT OF OUR ASSUMPTION OF
FULL SOVEREIGNTY WE MUST NOT
ADMIT ANY REVELATION BY THE
PRESS OF ANY FORM OF PUBLIC
DISHONESTY; IT IS NECESSARY THAT
THE NEW REGIME SHOULD BE
THOUGHT TO HAVE SO PERFECTLY
CONTENDED EVERYBODY THAT EVEN
CRIMINALITY HAS DISAPPEARED ...
Cases of the manifestation of
criminality should remain known
only to their victims and to chance
witnesses