Nesta Helen Bevan 1876-1960   m Arthur Templer Webster Templer sic

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1914   Britain's Call to Arms: An Appeal to Our Women 1914. Looks like part of the movement to get women to support the 'Great War'.

1919   Nesta Webster's first serious book The French Revolution. A Study in Democracy. Published by Constable & Co. in London—who also published Hilaire Belloc's book The Jews, and Malcolm Muggeridge's Winter in Moscow.
      [Nesta Webster, neé Bevan, was largely censored—I could not find her in any reference book of the time, including Who's Who. I don't know how influential she was. She mentions John William Croker; and Dr Rigby, of 1789 (‘...The general appearance of the people is different to what I expected; they are strong and well-made. We saw many agreeable scenes as we passed along in the evening before we came to Lisle: little parties sitting at their doors, some of the men smoking, some playing at cards in the open air, and others spinning cotton. Everything we see bears the marks of industry, and all the people look happy ...’), Louis XVI's reforms, and a bibliography of French authors, against the 'received view' of downtrodden misery presented by (((historians))), Charles Dickens (Jew?), et al. Nesta Webster seems to have no intellectual descendants; in which case, readers would do well to read from online pdf sources, and not some tenth-rate 'historian'. Indifference to truth of course is characteristic of Jews; or, if you prefer, the pragmatic acts of lying and removal of evidence to nudge people in the Jewish direction.]

1919   H G Wells started his work on human history—far more ordinary than Nesta Webster's. Here's part of his summary from The Science of Life:
    ... Men and women had hitherto based their general conception of world events—the historical portion of the Bible, supplemented by some scraps of classical literature, and their own national record. For modern needs a history which opened with barbaric myths, which concerned itself mainly with the tribal affairs of the Jews, which disregarded the past of nearly all the world outside Syria and Egypt, ended two thousand years ago, had become insufficient. ... A broader world had grown in human experience ...'

1921   Nesta Webster   World Revolution—The Plot Against Civilization [this is a pdf file. Based on lectures she gave to British officers, after the end of the First World War. She had spent three years researching archives (in France) of the French Revolution, which was then fewer than 150 years in the past. In that respect she somewhat resembled David Irving. However, her notes are not detailed, perhaps because typesetting at that time needed skilled labour, so the production costs of books would be raised by such extra detail.]
    Anyone interested in 1848, the unification of Germany, the 'Paris Commune' of 1871, Marx as a plagiarist might do well to read this book. She wrote many others; and was ignored and censored. Her books are 'continuistic'—she assumes anyone with some idea must have been influenced by someone earlier, who had a similar idea. She was very Christian. She does not tease out separate strands of Jews, masons, illuminati, and the rest. Note that Walter Scott, now best known as a romantic novelist, wrote on Jews and the French Revolution.
      Easy-to-read formatted versions are on the heritage-history.com website, which is a NW USA Christian site, 'for History Lovers and Homeschoolers'. Search for heritage-history.com Nesta Webster to get a list. Easy to read, but not to download.

1924   Nesta Helen Webster: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements 2nd edition published by Boswell Printing & Publishing Co, London EC4. I've copied the archive.org pdf made from the actual book here.

1928 (enlarged edn. 1934)   My review of Arthur Henry Lane's The Alien Menace, my verdict being One of the small number of books hostile to Jews published in Britain between the wars. Deals with the period from the founding of the so-called "Labour" Party, to Europe after the 'Great War'. Although sound enough, it includes some common errors, which weaken his case, and persist today. Not therefore perfect; but filled with detail. Part of the detail concerns the BBC and Nesta Webster, who was banned from delivering her talks.

1931  Worth commenting on the few speculative works on the British Empire and Jews. Nesta Webster The Surrender of an Empire (1931), Leslie (or Lesley) Fry (Shishmareff/Shishmarev, neé Louise A. Chandor) Jews and the British Empire (1935). Includes Spain and Portugal, and the Netherlands then Britain, which gives a feeling of moving from one to the next which emphasises the feeling of strategic changes.
      Other moves—India, the USA, Russia, and China are less easy to see. Probably the subject was too vast to be encompassed satisfactorily. Movement of power to the USA happened almost unnoticed, as is the way with legal manipulation and secret hierarchies. An example (from David Irving) is Churchill's 'purchase' of useless First World War boats as an excuse to give large chunks of the British Empire to the (((USA))). The only well-known event as far as I know is the Washington Naval Conference.

1939-1941   H G Wells on the Jewish Influence. Wells knew there was something there, but never got close to the truth. So his comments aren't helpful.

April 1984   An online magazine called Lobster said this: As one of the major sources of the Jewish/ Illuminati fantasies of the loony right on both sides of the Atlantic, Nesta Webster has a lot to answer for. Her books, it has to be said, are not only total junk, they are turgid in the extreme. On both occasions I tried to read one I gave up pretty quickly. Most of the right-wing's conspiracy theorists are short on documentation and logic, but some, notably Gary Allen, just about carry this sceptical reader along. Reading Nesta Webster, on the other hand, is a complete chore. There are more entries, more of the same, more of repetitive unsupported stuff. Very typical mock erudition of 50 or 60 years later writings on any critics of Jews.

1991   Birdwood's 1991 The Longest Hatred has references to Nesta Webster, which I haven't reproduced here; including Jews in WW1 and WW2.

2000   As Internet came into play, He's a copy of John Bryant. USA Mensan Activist on the Jewish Question. He doesn't mention Nesta Webster! But the advent of Internet (unless it's suppressed) must allow spread of truth, if the traditional enemies of truth are kept down.

2021   My piece Napoleon Revisited mentions Nesta Webster, and also Walter Scott on the French Revolution, and the new broom Miles Mathis.

Book Review:

1921   Nesta Helen Webster: World Revolution: the Plot Against Civilization

I've copied the archive.org pdf, scanned from a copy of the actual book here.  (Or find the version on heritage-history.com — I haven't found another neatly formatted and coloured version).

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This book followed the First World War, or 'Great War' as it was called at the time. At the time, she was approaching 45, and was well-travelled and fluent in French and English, though I think less so in German and Russian.
      She thought that Jews were the enemies of Christianity, bent on its destruction. I think this is a mistake; they hated non-Jews and if anything liked the Jewish fibres and threads which extend through Christianity. She could have benefitted from an immersion in Joseph McCabe. And she might have noted the similarities between 'Christian' ideas and Jewish—lies, forgeries, killings, wars, death penalty on heretics, amassing money, absurd ideas, destruction of disliked evidence.
      She was also anti-German, unsurprising in anyone in Britain who'd been subjected to the war propaganda. She took the side of women and the 'Great War', though I haven't checked if she was a suffragist or suffragette or something else. She says Germany funded Lenin and fellow-Jews from New York into Russia; but at the time all the belligerent powers funded anyone who they thought would help them win the war.
      I don't think she quite saw Jews as a firmly united front, spread across many countries; such a view shocked most non-Jews at the time, overwhelmed with nationalist propaganda.

So try to discount or understand these influences of the time, which were common to many people, and see how, as a result of her archival research, had come to see what must have happened. Another book of hers, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, has an appendix on the Talmud, which was given to Dominicans and Franciscans (themselves Jewish-run) and eventually burnt! Nesta Webster didn't understand the full ramifications of Jewish power. Her books therefore aren't perfect. But World Revolution is now more than a century old and is clearly a pioneering work.

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‘What do they hope to gain by it? It is this apparent absence of motive, this seemingly aimless campaign of destruction carried on by the Bolsheviks of Russia, that has led many people to believe in the theory of a Jewish conspiracy to destroy Christianity.’
      From World Revolution: the Plot against Civilization.

In Nesta Webster's early life (until about 40), she was surrounded by Christian officials—Cardinal Manning, Bishop of Chichester, various Reverends of Westfield College. Her quotation (above) shares a delusion common for about 1,500 years, that Jews and Christians were groups in opposition. But in fact Jews founded and led the Church; most Popes were Jews. They lived in symbiosis, the Church taking money from sources including Jews, in exchange for protecting Jews and forcing anyone wanting loans to go to Jews. It worked astonishingly well, with occasional lucrative violent episodes.
      So Nesta should have known perfectly well that Jews had good control of the Church. The Bolsheviks were working against non-Jews, as Russians and other nationalities found out. They were not working against the Russian Orthodox Church and in fact liked its control over simple Russians.

However that mistake annoyed H G Wells, who thought Nesta was obsessed with Christianity. He missed all the conspiratial evidence as a result. Wells didn't believe in long-term conspiracies, because all his official histories had small-time plots and battles, but nothing long-term, except maybe a dynasty or two. He hadn't heard of algorithms which laid plans for disruption.

Hilaire Belloc was another man who found Nesta Webster unimpressive. Belloc believed, or said he believed, that one institution alone for now nineteen hundred years the Roman Catholic Church] has been attacked from every conceivable point. Perhaps he believed it was the oldest surviving institution. He regarded the idea that sinister forces might plot in what they think are their interests for long stretches of time 'smoke and mirrors' and 'blague'. Even less than Wells he had no inkling of the possibilities of careful and detailed secret plans.

I'm hoping that improved revisionisms will work to the advantage of non-Jews, and to the greater understanding of their tricks. Perhaps their ridiculous books will be stripped down to algorithms to be used back at them.

–Raeto West 24 August 2024