The ‘Russian people’, he opined, had been ‘delivered to the vengeance of the Jews, they [Bolsheviki] are in touch with all the Jews of the world. Freemasonry too . . .’.31 A second record of the same meeting added a wider dimension of conspiracy. ‘Wilson,’ the Kaiser declaimed, ‘has proclaimed the removal of the Hohenzollern as a war aim and is now supporting the Bolsheviki, along with the entire international Jewry – Grand Orient Lodge.’