Government doing precisely what the threat implied....  These people have been persistent in accusing ME of having communication with the spirits and of engaging in all sorts of magic, like the infamous Papus; well, if that be so let me exercise my gifts to prophesy that the denationalized Jews will attempt to hereafter enthrone themselves as MASTERS of the civilized world by their mastery of its amusements, its money, its POLITICS and its industry,—­and you will find them demanding and RECEIVING special privileges in many countries where, at present, they are suspected and abhorred....  I have not the slightest doubt but that Kerensky will be succeeded by some Jewish politician within a little while—­and they will blacken his reputation as they have tried to blacken mine.... the methods may be different but the result will be none the less effectual....  Only the other day, I might say, WHEN WE WERE LEAVING TUMEN, a rabble of Yiddish suttlers began yelling at ME:  “Rasputin!  Rasputin! where is your Rasputin!" ...  Now Grisha Rasputin was a friend of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Protopopov.  He was seeking to redeem the reputation of a horse-stealing father if I remember right—­’He was a friend of Stuermer, Niki, not a friend to you,’ interrupted the ex-Empress...  ‘You are right, darling,’ returned the ‘prisoner,’ ’quite right, I know.’...  ‘What kind of a mountebank was RASPUTIN?’ I asked to feel my ‘prisoner’ out....  ‘He was a worthless rasputnik at best,’ the fallen Emperor answered....  And you think the Jews are responsible for your reported attachment to him?’ I asked....  ‘Undoubtedly,’ he said bitterly with a sigh of resignation....  ’When we were being taken to the boat at Tobolsk did they not make faces at me and Alice and flout me with their cries:  “Take him to the Criminal Court and let him read the record of his libertine, Rasputin!  Let his Barnabas teach him how to sin for the joy of gaining absolution!"...  How little do those enfranchised Jews understand the meaning of forgiveness!’ lamented the ex-Czar....  ’May I ask your actual estimate of creatures like Rasputin?’ I ventured....  ’Our Rasputin was a hardened criminal beyond a doubt until his conversion by Father Zaborovsky, the good Rector at the Theological Academy at Tomsk,’ the ex-Czar replied....  ’He would have made an excellent subject for investigation by Lombroso, by Havelock Ellis or other eminent criminologists ... but I believed the man was sincere in his repentance and accepted him as a sort of text for other sinners to point a way toward regeneration....  The higher Rasputin rose, the greater his fame became, the more impressive would be his textual example to other aspiring souls,—­even a criminal should not be denied the consolation of hope where crime is the result of ignorance or misdirected patriotism....  If I sinned in pardoning a sinner then sin must be an unpardonable crime!...  Nathan treated David as I treated Rasputin, although both