Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
In his last declaration to France, Mr. Kahn prepares her to expect
little by stating that “America is a country of immense resources; but
the actual money which the people have at their disposal is
comparatively limited.” True enough. It was a member of Mr. Kahn’s firm
who invented a monetary system which was promised to keep _money_ in
more equal relation to _wealth_.
But as he goes on telling what America will and will not do (the
American people knowing nothing about it meanwhile) Mr. Kahn discovers
with great enthusiasm a place where he thinks American capital can be
placed, namely, “_in the development of the vast and immensely rich
colonial empire of France_.”
And pray where is that? Any Frenchman would tell you now, “_In Syria._”
Syria—ah!—that part of the East where the natives are loudly complaining
that the Jews are driving them out contrary to every written and moral
law. The Jewish powers have already succeeded in getting French troops
over there; bad blood has been caused between France and Great Britain;
the Jews on both sides are playing for the middle; and here is Mr. Otto
Kahn himself pledging American capital to the development of the French
colonial empire! Talk to any Syrian who knows his country’s present
status, and he will interpret Mr. Kahn’s words very vividly.
One of the nicest bits of work Mr. Kahn has done is to denounce
“pro-German propaganda” which he says has exasperated Americans in favor
of France. Next to committing the United States to an undying admiration
for Briand, this is really his finest bit. Especially, with Partner Paul
playing the German sympathy string! It is a great international
orchestra, this Jewish financial firm; it can play The Star Spangled
Banner, Die Wacht am Rhein, the Marseillaise, and God Save the King in
one harmonious rendering, paying obsequious attention to the prejudices
of each.
Next come the Warburgs. Their interest is, of course, in Germany. Paul
stated in his testimony given at the beginning of the World War that he
had interests in Hamburg and would dispose of them. The war came on. The
Jewish government in the United States was augmented. Mr. Warburg was no
mean figure, as previous articles have shown.
The Warburgs are three in number. Felix M. is the other one in America.
He appears but slightly in public affairs although he is a member of the
American Jewish Committee and of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company. His
retiring habit, however, does not argue lack of consequence. He was of
sufficient consequence, Jewishly, to have bestowed upon him a sort of
honorary rabbinical degree of “Haber” which entitles him to be known as
“Haber Rabbi Baruch Ben Moshe.” He is the only Jew in America upon whom
the title has ever been conferred.
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