User talk:Amrhett

Hamilton Fish III
Hi Amrhett. I've reverted your change to the Hamilton Fish III article, adding a further reliable source for the claim that Fish did distribute the Protocols. If you wish to discuss this further, please start a topic on the Talk:Hamilton Fish III, see WP:BRD. Thanks, Grachester (talk) 03:42, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Alleged Distribution of the Protocols of Zion
I have yet to find a primary source for the allegation that Fish's Congressional office mailed out copies of the Protocols of Zion. I have looked at the materials listed in Henry Hoke's Blackmail and John Rogge's The Official German Report and no such publication is listed. Neither source cited on the Wikipedia page is a primary source giving evidence of this claim (Notes 33 and 34) - they repeat the accusation with no source. One source cites "A Legacy of Hate by Ernest Volkman," p. 42 but Volkman has no citation for this accusation either.

This source, the JTA, says that the Fight for Freedom Committee accused Fish's office of mailing a piece by William Pelley containing an advertisement for the Protocols. https://www.jta.org/archive/anti-semitic-propaganda-carried-in-franked-envelopes-of-congressman-fish

Fish denied this. The Fight for Freedom Committee, the only source of this rumor, was an interventionist group funded by the British Service Corporation. See. Hanks, Richard Kay. Hamilton Fish and American Isolationism, 1920-1944.'''University of California, Riverside. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1971. 7130373. Also West, Nigel, ed. British Security Coordination: the Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas 1940-45. London, St. Ermin’s Press. 1998. pp. 74-76. Also Mahl, Thomas A. Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-1944. Potomac Books, 1997. Chapter 6 "The Destruction of Hamilton Fish."

I don't think a journalist making an unattributed comment on a podcast counts as a reliable source. Amrhett (talk) 04:17, 27 March 2023 (UTC)


 * See No original research "Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources, and to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources and primary sources". So secondary sources are preferred. The source I added is a broadcast show, not a podcast, from a reliable broadcaster. It is attributed and comes under their editorial stance. You should take this discussion to the article talk page at: Talk:Hamilton Fish III. Thanks, Grachester (talk) 05:30, 27 March 2023 (UTC)