Reporter: The “Protocols” trial is on today. I’ve been assigned to report on it for my paper.

Lawyer: Your honor, we have demonstrated that the “Protocols” is ‘’’smut…’’’ I would conclude by exhibiting evidence of its influence on public opinion as a fraud. | Judge: You may proceed! | Lawyer: Since its first publication in Russia by Dr. Nilus in 1905, four printings have been distributed there! In 1919, type script copies were distributed to delegated at the Versailles peace conference by white Russians. In England Victor Marsden translated the “protocols” into English in 1922. In 1920, the first polish language edition was brought into the United States and South America by Polish immigrants. In 1921, the first Arabic and the first Italian copies appeared! In 1921, “The Times” of London published its famous expose of this false document! And because of his fame, Henry Ford’s work deserves recounting. | Lawyer: In 1920, Henry ford the American auto magnate, bought a small newspaper, the “Dearborn Independent.” He began a series, “The International Jew,” made up of borrowings from the “Protocols of the Elders on Zion.” Later, in 1922, it was published in sxteen language for a world-wide distribution. It sold over a ‘’’half million’’’ copies in America alone! | Reporter: Actually, Ford recanted in 1926 when he was threatened with a libel suit. | Reporter 2: Really? | Reporter 3: What did he say? | Reporter: He said in part, “…To my great regret I learn that in the ‘Dearborn Independent’ there appeared articles which induced the Jews to regard me as their enemy promoting anti-Semitism!” HE WENT ON TO SAY, “…I am…mortified that this Journal…is giving currency to ‘The Protocols of the wise men of Zion,’ which I learn to be gross forgeries…I deem it my duty…to make amends for the wrong done to the Jews as fellow men and brothers by asking their forgiveness. HE GOES ON BY RECITING SOME OF THE MORE “evil ingredients” in the “Protocols” AND HE REFERS TO IT AS AN “infamous forgery.” | Reporter 3: DID HIS APOLOGY CHANGE ANYTHING?? HENRY FORD WAS FAMOU