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In the book issued by G. Butmi to which reference has been made, and which contains the “Rabbi’s Speech” already considered, there is to be found still another version of the protocols. Butmi was a Black Hundred writer. It appeared in 1907 and was dedicated to the Black Hundred organization. Appropriately enough it was published by the Society of Deaf and Dumb, as will be seen from the facsimile reproduction of the title page. With exceeding naïveté Butmi published the forged speech attributed by Retcliffe-Goedsche to a Jewish Rabbi as proof of the genuineness of the protocols, and side by side with the fabricated speech appears the Butmi version of the protocols which had undergone further changes subsequent to the publication in 1905 of “the documents” by Serge Nilus.

The headlines over the protocols in the Butmi 1907 version read as follows:

“‘(Extracts from ancient and modern protocols of the Sages of Zion of the Universal Organization of Freemasons.)’