Waters Flowing Eastward
Chatou: The British American Press, 1934. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. The third and final edition of one of the most enduring anti-Semitic works of the 20th century written by L. Fry to substantiate the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. In Part I, the author discusses the tremendous gains made by Zionists during WWI, including the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and the role of the Russian Jew Asher Ginzberg (pen-name Ahad-ha-am) in the genesis of the Protocols (she published her argument for Ginzberg’s authorship in L’Auteur des Protocols Achad ha-Am et les Sionisme, n.d.). She then describes how the four centers of Zionism, Berlin, Petrograd, London and New York saw the concentration and expansion of Zionist power through subversion (Berlin & Petrograd) and diplomacy (London & New York). In Part II, Fry describes how the Protocols came to Sergei Nilus who published the first known edition in Russia and then discusses the book’s suppression and refutation in the U.S. She concludes by re-printing the Protocols in full and quoting from a report by a Jewish rabbi, Jacob Braufmann, in support of the Protocols’ veracity.
The first two editions were published in 1931 and 1933, respectively by the Paris-based R.I.S.S. (Revue internationale des societes secretes), the publishing imprint of the Ligue Franc-Catholique, an anti-Semitic, anti-Masonic organization founded by the priest Ernest Jouin (1844-1932). The third edition was published in 1934, and also in Paris, but this time by the British American Press, an imprint run by Stuart R. Cope. Editions four and five were published twenty years later by the Britons with the added subtitle, “The War Against the Kingship of Christ.” Other editions have continued to be published and the book has rarely been out of print.
L. Fry was the pen-name of Paquita Louise de Shishmareff, born Louise A. Chandor, in Paris in 1882. She married a Russian officer in 1906 who may have been murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1917. Shishmareff returned to the U.S. where she eventually played a shadowy role in anti-Semitic and far right circles in the U.S. and Britain. Although Waters Flowing Eastward was her best known work, Fry authored many pamphlets and articles and by the late 1930s was heading the Militant Christian Patriots in Glendale, Calif. (and later, the California League of Christian Parents). She fled to Italy in 1940, but attempted to return to the U.S. in 1942 when she was detained and indicted for sedition. She died in Fullerton, CA, in 1970 at age 88.
Original wrappers (8 ¾” x 5 ½”), 226 p., plates. Soiling to half-title page; previous owner's initials to the top of the front wrapper with full name to ffep. Some underlining and notations to margins, some quite extensive, agreeing with the author's assertions. Copies of any of the first three editions have become exceedingly difficult to find. Item #13438
Price: $1,200.00