Jewish Disloyalty 1918 DEFINITIVE WORK Benson

The White Eagle of Poland (Classic Reprint), by E.F. Benson. 2018

Jewish Disloyalty to Poland Upon Her Regaining Independence (1918)–Motivated By Economic Opportunism. Jews Boycott Poles First

My review is based on the original 1919 edition. This work provides much detail on the policies o
f the major powers during WWI in relation to foreign-ruled Poland, especially that of the German military government. Author Benson also touches on early potential plans to resurrect the Polish state in partial form. Finally, he apportions the blame, for the negative aspects of Polish-Jewish relations, to both sides. Let us focus on this subject:

JEWS BECOME A TOOL OF THE GERMANS AGAINST POLES

Benson continues, (quote) In both Poland and Russia she [Germany] has employed the Jews on the mission of disintegration with the success that up till now has always attended the policy of MITTELEUROPA, and to-day the Judaic interest in the question of Poland cannot, in the very nature of things, be pro-Polish. POUR LE BON MOTIF, that is to say, for the interest of the nation, they support the German interest here, there and elsewhere, on patriotic grounds….In Russia similarly they have played Germany’s game, both by aiding and abetting the Bolsheviks while they were Germany’s tools, and by persistently making bad blood between the Poles there and the Russians. (unquote). (p. 67).

MONEY TALKS: ARGUABLY-SELFISH JEWISH ECONOMIC INTERESTS DETERMINED JEWISH LOYALTIES

Benson continues, (quote) They [Jews] have no national territory at stake; they are but the mistletoe, a strong parasitic growth, on other trees, and, as regards Poland, THEY HAVE SELECTED THE TREE THAT THEY CONSIDER THE MOST LIKELY TO GIVE THEM NUTRIMENT. THAT TREE IS GERMANY…It is only necessary to note that the Jews of the whole of Poland as an independent united state, have put their money on Germany, because they believe that Germany will control the destinies of these territories. (unquote). (pp. 67-69; Emphasis added).

INCREASINGLY AGGRESSIVE JEWISH SEPARATISM: ROOTS OF JEWISH POLONOPHOBIA

Benson continues, (quote) But the Jews in the Kingdom of Poland are not only Pro-German but also anti-Polish, and it is noticeable that, whereas all Jews in German Poland declare themselves German, when a census was taken at Lodz after the German occupation, only 2,300 Jews declared themselves Poles, while 153,000 declared themselves Jews. The Poles claim that originally they were tolerant and hospitable to Jews, but that in the insurrections of 1830 and 1863, the latter sided against them with the Russians, and that during the last twenty years they have consistently organized themselves as a separate nationality, showing marked hostility to the Poles. (unquote). (p. 69).

UNDEMONIZING DMOWSKI. JEWS BOYCOTT POLES FIRST, BEFORE THE 1912 DUMA ELECTIONS

Benson continues, (quote) About 1907 they [Jews] began a boycotting policy against Poles, forbidding their countrymen, for instance, to consult Polish doctors, and in 1909 when the Poles proclaimed a boycott of German products in Poland, this boycott failed because the Jews lent their support to German commerce. The ill-feeling between the two has been steadily on the increase, and came to a head when in 1912 at the election of the fourth Duma, for which M. Kucharzewski and M. Dmowski were standing at Warsaw, the Jewish vote succeeded in defeating both of them and electing their own candidate. This led to a Polish commercial boycott of Jews, and at present the antagonism between the two is hostile and fierce. The feeling of the Poles towards them is not so much anti-Semitic as such, but is the antagonism of a race for a foreign and hostile dweller in its lands. (unquote). (pp. 69-70). In addition, the author points out that the Jewish electoral victory in 1912 was also a victory of German influence. (p. 76).

CONCLUSION

The author suggested that Jews and Poles needed to reconcile themselves to each other (e. g., pp. 70-71, 97). However, he was vague as to how this was supposed to happen. Here we are now (2018) a century later, and nothing much has changed.