Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich

Not to be confused with Alexander Spiridovich.

Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich
Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich on a French postcard of 1920
Born	1858
Died	22 October 1926 (aged 67–68) Arrochar, New York City, United States
Occupation	soldier, political activist, writer
Notable works	Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand

Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich (1858 — 22 October 1926) was a Russian Count who moved to the United States following the Bolshevik Revolution. He was a Tsarist general and white Russian loyalist. He was involved in Pan-Slavism, White Russian and anti-semitic activism, including various chivalric orders and cultural organisations, amongst the diaspora community in America. Spiridovich is perhaps best known for authoring a book positing a concise conspiracy consisting of 300 Jewish families entitled "Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand".

Biography

Spiridovitch was President of the Slavonic Society of Russia and of the Latino-Slavic League of Paris and Rome. Politically he was a supporter of the Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and an opponent of Bolshevism.

"Count Cherep-Spiridovich springs from Norse gentility. His remotest ancestor on record was prince Rurik, who, being one of the "Worthies" of his time, was in 862 called by the Slavic people to Novgorod, where he founded a dynasty and gave Russia its name. Nordic tradition, coupled with exceptional education and training, have given to general Spiridovich the spiritual ardor, the constructive impulse, and the extraordinary perseverance required to make his vast knowledge serve the exigencies of the present by his peculiar power to forecast the future."

Extract from the Herjulf Vikingson's introduction to Spiridovich's book "The Secret Government of the World", Chicago, July 4, 1925.

According to Walter Laqueur:

Count (General) Cherep-Spiridovich had his headquarters in the United States; he was even more obviously a clinical case than some of his colleagues. He introduced himself in his books as 'The Slav Pope', 'The Slav Bismarck','The possessor of the faculty to foresee events'

Walter Laqueur, Russia and Germany (1965), p. 120.

According to Lord Alfred Douglas: dixit)³⁰

and combined Barnum promotion techniques with propagation of the stories supplied by his European friends. The results have to be read to be believed. Even so, well-known men like Henry Ford and newspapers like the Financial Times in London took him seriously and helped him to reach a fairly wide public.

Again, according to Lord Alfred Douglas,

"Count Cherep-Spiridovich may justly claim to be the possessor of a faculty for foreseeing events in the political world, which entitles him to be called a Prophet in all seriousness . His book, "Towards Disaster ; Dangers and Remedies" (1913), proved him to be possessed of a Preternatural intuition,"

(Lord Alfred Douglas, Editor of "Plain English" on Sept 25th, 1920)

From the "Asiatic Review" 1920; "Count Cherep-Spiridovich is one of the best informed world politicians, whose sincerity and devotion to the truth no one can doubt. He has taught me more political history in a year than I had previously learned in my whole life, 62 years," (the Editor of the "Asiatic Review," on Dec. 3rd, 1920).

Quote from Dr.John H.Clarke.(unknown date),

"General Spiridovich is the most inspired and fearless man alive today . And he has behind him the terrible record of prophetic warnings in the past, fulfilled,"

(the famous homeopath, Dr. John H.Clarke, Vice-President of "The Britons," London).

Death

Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich died in Staten Island, at a hotel, with the Gas Line Pipe, stuck to his mouth-throat, as if to say that he committed suicide. The Police filed that in the only report. However, when the body was discovered at the hotel by the staff, the Gas line was shut off. No autopsy was done. There was no further investigation put into the case... He had a catholic and an orthodox funeral service.

Quotes

" Are we going to let our world be destroyed so as not to offend a tiny number of people who accuse us of anti-Semitism to cover up the crimes they are committing against us?

Works

• A Europe without Turkey—the security of France requires (1913)
• Towards Disaster: Dangers and Remedies (1914)
• How to Save England (1920)
• Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand (1926) - a transcript may be found here [1]

References

• The Non-Existent Manuscript by Cesare G. De Michelis, (University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln and London, 2004), pp. 146, 161 ISBN 0-8032-1727-7
• Russia and Germany, A Century of Conflict by Walter Laqueur, (Boston • Toronto: Little, Brown and Company: 1965)

External links

• "COUNT SPIRIDOVITCH GIVES A LUNCHEON"