An attempt to spread further the gospel of anti-Jewish hatred through the wide distribution of the libelous and long since disproven falsification, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, was checked yesterday by an order of the Criminal Court.
The Court, following proceedings which lasted two days behind closed doors, found the subject matter of a seditious character, inciting one part of the population against another and ordered the confiscation of the entire edition of the Hungarian translation of the Protocols. The order also affects a de luxe edition which was elaborately illustrated. The front page of this edition depicted a hook-nosed snake, swallowing Western Europe. On its head a shield of David was placed as a crown.
The publishers, closely affiliated with the anti-Semitic organization, Awakening Magyars, fought the verdict and sought an appeal, which was denied.
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