[52] The famous "Nikky-Willy" correspondence (see Times, September 4, 1917; Daily Telegraph, September 4, 27 and 29, 1917; and Morning Post, September 15, 1917.)
[53] Infra, pp. 57-62.
[54] The statement in the Memorandum that Messrs. Rothschild had been excluded by the Russian Government from these loan operations is inaccurate. The exclusion had come from the other side, and at the very time that the Memorandum was being prepared Count Witte had sent representatives of the Finance Ministry to London to endeavour to overcome Lord Rothschild's reluctance.
[55] This Protocol is published in vol. vi. of the Secret Documents published by the Russian Revolutionary Government in February 1918.
[56] Secret letter from the Kaiser to the Tsar published in the Soviet organ Inviestia, December 19, 1917.
[57] Actual Privy Councillor Nelidow's despatch of December 1-14, 1905.
[58] Communicated by Emil Deschamps in the Journal de St. Pétersbourg, of December 23, 1905.
[59] Despatch from the Imperial Ambassador at the Hague of October 24, 1905, No. 22.
[60] Despatch from the Imperial Ambassador at Rome of November 29, 1905, No. 23.
[61] According to the rules of French Freemasonry, promotion to the eighteenth degree makes the recipient automatically a member of the "Alliance Israélite Universelle," while out of the nine members of the Secret Supreme Council of Freemasonry five must be Jews.