the strange Yiddish element in this thing right from the start, and it soon became evident that more than half of the agitators in the so-called Bolshevik movement were Yiddish.”
Senator Nelson. “Hebrews?”
Mr. Simons. “They were Hebrews, apostate Jews. I do not want to say anything against the Jews, as such. I am not in sympathy with the anti-Semitic movement, never have been, and do not ever expect to be. I am against it. I abhor all pogroms of whatever kind. But I have a firm conviction that this thing is Yiddish, and that one of its bases is found in the East Side of New York.”
Senator Nelson. “Trotzky came over from New York during that summer, did he not?”
Mr. Simons. “He did.”
Senator Overman. “You think he brought these people with him?”
Mr. Simons. “I am not able to say that he brought them with him. I think that most of them came after him, but that he was responsible for their coming.”