THE INTERNATIONAL JEW,
THE WORLD'S FOREMOST PROBLEM
Abridged from the original as published by the world renowned industrial leader,
HENRY FORD, SR.

Appearing originally in the periodical published by the Ford Motor Co.
"The Dearborn Independent."
IN an interview published in the New York World February
17, 1921, Mr. Henry Ford put the case for the "Protocols of Zion"
tersely and convincingly. He said: "The only statement I care to
make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on.
They are sixteen years old and they have fitted the world situation
up to this time. They fit it now." He made this statement when Jewish
leaders and the Jewish Press in America were fulminating against a
series of articles printed in Ford's newspaper The Dearborn
Independent during the years 1920 to 1922. After some years of
pressure such as only organized Jewry can conceive or inflict, Henry Ford was made to apologise to Jewry in a
letter addressed to Louis Marshall, then leader of the American Jewish
Committee, dated June 30, 1927.
Ford's apology was abject, but neither then nor since did he ever deny
the truth of the articles.
As clearly as the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" reveal
a concerted plan of action, of intention and achievement, through
centuries of world history, so the long series of articles in The
Dearborn Independent expose the powerful concentration of forces
organized by Jewish interests and the effects of Jewish influences in
the United States from the time of the Civil War up to the uneasy
years following the first world war. The scope of the original
articles is wide, the analysis of the relentless march of Jewish
ambition and the rapid acquisition of political power is deep and
dispassionate. In their entirety they present a most thorough
exposition of the range of Jewish influences in America over many
decades; they provide adequate evidence of the motives that inspire
such phenomena and the ultimate objective towards which Jewish policy
is leading the world. In the 29 years that have passed since the
publication of the series began, Jewish power in the United States
has developed to a degree far out-distancing even the alarming
proportions exposed at that time.
The Jewish "National State" of which we have
heard so much deceptive talk elsewhere is already firmly established.
De jure and de facto the United States of America
can claim that title, though many American citizens may even yet be
astonished and no doubt indignant to read the statement.
But, examine the FACTS. The Dearborn
Independent articles fitted the American scene 30 years ago,
they fit it now! The Jewish Question continues to mount the scale
of public attention all over the civilized world, attracting ever a
higher type of mind to the discussion of its significance. It cannot
be encompassed within the range of a single volume.
This edited version seeks merely to give the gist of the four
volumes in which the famous series of articles were printed under
the title: THE INTERNATIONAL JEW. Presenting the essential facts in
easier sequence and condensed to about one-tenth of the original
wordage, many contemporary illustrations have been eliminated, but
the implications of the Jewish Question in America and the evidence
of the impact of the Jewish Idea on the lives of ordinary American
citizens have been marshalled in a form readily assimilable by new
readers, providing a useful digest for the informed. The way to a
just solution of "the world's foremost problem" is clearly indicated.
Truth is visible when honest men seek Her diligently. The reader,
wherever he may be, to whatever nation he may belong, should seriously
reflect upon the fact that the conditions long-operating in the United
States and the conclusions which emerge from this investigation of the
Jewish Question in that powerful country, can, in all probability, now
be paralleled in his own land, his own city. If he should seek
confirmation -- let him look around.
G. F. Green.
London, February, 1948.
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HENRY FORD was born on July 30, 1863, during the American Civil War,
on a farm at Dearborn, near Detroit, Michigan. He was the son of
William Ford, a prosperous farmer who was of Irish stock. His mother
was of mixed Dutch and Scandinavian origin. At 17 he became an
apprentice in a machine shop in Detroit, and he also kept a machine
shop of his own and worked for a harvester company by repairing their
portable farm engines. His mechanical genius showed itself in early
youth, and in 1890, when he secured a post with the Detroit Edison
Electric Company, he realized that the public were more interested
in road vehicles than in tractors and he studied the principles of
the gas engine to overcome the weight of steam engines. In 1887 he
had built his first gas engine and kept on building more. His first
gasoline "buggy" was given a public trial in 1893 at which it
attained a speed of 25 miles an hour.
In 1903 he formed the Ford Motor Company with 12 shareholders and
a capital of 100,000 dollars. In 1924 he was producing one thousand
of the world-famous Ford motor-cars a day. In 1924 the annual
production of the Ford works reached the towering peak of two million
cars, trucks and tractors. The secret of his success lay in mass
production methods, and high wages. Of humble origin himself he had a
deep feeling for his employees, and worked out rough and ready
principles in regard to labour which he constantly applied. One was
to pay the highest possible wages, and in this he was a true
reformer; another, to accept applicants for work without questions
or references. Many European socialists were impressed by Ford's
proof demonstration that Marx had been rendered obsolete by Ford
and that capitalism could be rationalized and moralized. In 1918,
Ford, who had been a supporter of President Wilson, had
unsuccessfully run for the Senate, and there was some talk later --
it caused alarm among the professional politicians -- that he would
run for the Presidency, but he announced that he would not stand
against Coolidge. Ford made great endeavours, most of them
impracticable, to negotiate peace between the warring nations of
Europe in the first world war.
In 1920 he went into print and bought "The Dearborn
Independent," a virile and very independent journal published
in his home town. It was noted for its courageous and continuous
examination of the Jewish Question in America, and for its objective
views on true Americanism.
Ford was accused by many Jews, along with Deterding and Greuger,
to be a financial backer of the Hitler movement in Germany. At the
Nuremberg Tribunal, Baldur Von Shirach, Hitler Youth Leader, said he
had become "Jew-wise" through reading Ford's books.
Ford was a resolute opponent of Roosevelt's policy of "controls"
in industry and commerce, but in his later years his political and
other public activities were few. He died aged 83, at Detroit, April
7, 1947. A famous American and one of the world's outstanding
individuals.
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In his book "My Life and Work," published in 1922, Henry Ford
includes the following concerning the "International Jew" series of
articles: "The work which we describe as Studies in the Jewish
Question, and which is variously described by antagonists as "the
Jewish campaign," "the attack on the Jews," "the anti-Semitic pogrom,"
and so forth, needs no explanation to those who have followed it. Its
motives and purposes must be judged by the work itself. It is offered
as a contribution to a question which deeply affects the country, a
question which is racial at its source, and which concerns influences
and ideals rather than persons. Our statements must be judged by
candid readers who are intelligent enough to lay our words alongside
life as they are able to observe it. If our word and their observation
agree, the case is made. It is perfectly silly to begin to damn us
before it has been shown that our statements are baseless or reckless.
The first item to be considered is the truth of what we have set
forth. And that is precisely the item which our critics choose to
evade. Readers of our articles will see at once that we are not
actuated by any kind of prejudice, except it may be a prejudice in
favour of the principles which have made our civilization.
There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence
which were causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements,
and social conduct; business was departing from its old-time substantial
soundness; a general letting-down of standards was felt everywhere. It
was not the robust coarseness of the white man, the rude indelicacy,
say, of Shakespeare's characters, but a nasty Orientalism which has
insidiously affected every channel of expression -- and to such an
extent that it was time to challenge it. The fact that these influences
are all traceable to one racial source is a fact to be reckoned with . .
. Our work does not pretend to say that last word on the Jew in
America. It says only the word which describes his present impress on
that country. When that impress is changed, the report of it can be
changed . . . Our opposition is only to ideas, false ideas . . . which
are sapping the moral stamina of the people. These ideas proceed from
easily identified sources, they are promulgated by easily discoverable
methods and they are controlled by mere exposure. When people learn to
identify the source and nature of these influences swirling around them,
it is sufficient. Let the American people once understand that it is not
natural degeneracy but calculated subversion that inflicts us, and they
are safe. The explanation is the cure. This work was taken up without
personal motives. When it reached a stage where we believed the American
people could grasp the key, we let it rest for the time. Our enemies say
that we began it for revenge and that we laid it down in fear. Time will
show that our critics are merely dealing in evasion because they dare
not tackle the main question."
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