of
any sustained action, who now, more than ever before, were unable
to throw off the yoke of their oppressors.*[839]

Mr. Alston to Lord Curzon, forwarding Report from Consul at Ekaterinburg
of February 6, 1919:

From examination of several labourer and peasant witnesses, I have
evidence to the effect that very smallest percentage of this
district were pro-Bolshevik, majority of labourers sympathizing
with summoning of Constituent Assembly. Witnesses further stated
that Bolshevik leaders did not represent Russian working classes,
most of them being Jews.

The Rev. B.S. Lombard to Lord Curzon, March 23, 1919:

I have been for ten years in Russia, and have been in Petrograd
through the whole of the revolution.... [I] had ample opportunity
of studying Bolshevik methods. It originated in German propaganda,
and was, and is being, carried out by international Jews. The
Germans initiated disturbances in order to reduce Russia to chaos.
They printed masses of paper money to finance their schemes, the
notes, of which I possess specimens, can be easily recognized by a
special mark.

As one of the results, the writer adds:

All business became paralysed, shops were closed, Jews became
possessors of most of the business houses, and horrible scenes of
starvation became common in the country districts.

In Hungary (where, as has been said, Socialism had been propagated by
Jews in the masonic lodges[840]) the outbreak of Bolshevism was
conducted under the auspices of the same race. To quote again an
official document on this question, the Report on Revolutionary
Activities issued by a Committee of the New York Legislature, headed by
Senator Lusk[841]:

There was no organized opposition to Bela Kun. Like Lenin, he
surrounded himself with commissars, having absolute authority. Of
the thirty-two principal commissars, twenty-five were Jews, which
was about the same proportion as in Russia. The most prominent of
these formed a directorate of five: Bela Kun, Bela Varga, Joseph
Pogany, Sigmund Kunfi, and one other. Other leaders were Alpari
and Samuely, who had charge of the Red Terror, and carried out the
torturing and executing of the bourgeoisie, especially the groups
held as hostages, the so-called counter-revolutionists and
peasants.[842]

The same Report publishes a list of seven