L. Fry

L. (Leslie) Fry (February 16, 1882 – July 15, 1970) was the pen name of Paquita Louise de Shishmareff. Her name is given as Paquita Deshishmaref in the SSDI (Social Security Death Index). She was an antisemitic, pro-Christian activist, who is primarily known for her authorship of Waters Flowing Eastward (1931), a book which asserts that Jews were to blame for both Capitalism and Bolshevism, and that it was primarily certain Jews who started World War I. She alleged that certain Freemasons were involved as well. She postulated that the ultimate aim of these particular Jews and Freemasons was "World Domination". These conclusions were based in part on her study of the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Leslie Fry's maiden name was Louise A. Chandor. She was born in Paris, the daughter of John Arthur Chandor (1850-1909) and Elizabeth (Red) Fry Ralston (1837-1929).

Elizabeth (Red) Fry married William Chapman Ralston (1826-1875) on May 20, 1858 in San Francisco. Soon after their marriage, W. C. Ralston rose to become a San Francisco banking and real estate magnate. In fact, W. C. Ralston became a living legend, who after his death (and even during his lifetime) was widely acclaimed as "the man who built San Francisco." However, their marriage was not a happy one, and it finally ended in disaster on August 27, 1875, when William drowned while swimming in San Francisco Bay. After the settlement of her husband's estate, in December 1875 Elizabeth embarked on a steamer to Europe, intending to settle in Paris with her children. It is reported that she first met John Arthur Chandor on this steamer, and that he soon joined her in Paris, even though he had been recently married in New York City. It is not known at this time if J. A. Chandor and Elizabeth ever married, but nevertheless their friendship resulted in the birth of Louise A. Chandor (pen-name: Leslie Fry) in Paris on Feb. 16, 1882.

Louise's paternal grandparents were Laslo Philip Chandor (originally: László Fülöp Sándor) (1817 - October 7, 1894) and Laura Mannabourg (September 28, 1827 - 1879). Laslo was an Austrian-Hungarian adventurer, inventor and businessman, who had emigrated to the U. S. in the 1840s. As a businessman (he was founder and director of the Mineral Lighting Company in New York City) and inventor (he held several patents), Laslo had a great interest in lighting and in providing improved lighting systems for cities. In the early-to-mid 1860s he obtained contracts to provide an improved public lighting system for the city of St. Petersburg, Russia. Laslo obtained these contracts by cultivating business relationships with various U. S. diplomats (connected with the administrations of Presidents James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, and Andrew Johnson) who were involved in U. S.-Russia trade relations during this time. Later (in the 1870s and 1880s), Laslo was involved in the burgeoning oil and gas industries in Russia. Laslo's son John Arthur Chandor (1850-1909), who was Louise's father, was also involved in various business activities in Russia.

Louise spent considerable time living in St. Petersburg while her grandfather and father were engaged in business activities there. In 1906 Louise got married in St. Petersburg to Feodor Ivanovich Shishmarev, an officer in the Russian Imperial Army. The Shishmarev family was part of the Russian aristocracy. Feodor was murdered in 1917 by Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution, but before his murder he had the foresight to send Louise (who was now using her married name 'Paquita Louise de Shishmareff') with their two sons (Kyril and Misha),and the family fortune, out of the country to safety. During the Bolshevik Revolution, Paquita and her sons moved to Tiflis, Russia, where they lived under the protection of the American Consulate in Tiflis.

In the mid-summer of 1917 Paquita and her sons left Tiflis and traveled to the eastern Russian port city of Vladivostok, where they boarded the steamship S. S. Goentoer and left Russia, their destination being San Francisco, California. Paquita and her sons arrived in San Francisco on August 31, 1917.

According to the 1920 U. S. Federal Census records, in 1920 Paquita and her son Misha (Michael) (listed under the surname "Deshishmareft" in the records) were living in Mamaroneck (Westchester County), New York, while her son Kyril (listed as "Keera De Shismareff" in the records) was attending Mount Tamalpais Military Academy (in San Rafael, Marin County, California). It is believed that Paquita moved back to California about 1926. She was associated with fascist political circles during this period. Her wealth allowed her to financially support right-wing nationalists.[10]

Paquita met Henry Ford in or around 1920, and presented him with a copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. She conceived the Protocols as part of a conspiracy according to which a group led by the "cultural Zionist" Asher Ginzberg plotted world domination. However, at the time Ginzberg merely supported an international Jewish cultural and political revival, not the planning and formation of an actual Jewish state.

Antisemitic writer and Nazi ideologist Ernst Graf zu Reventlow named Fry as his source for his own view that Ginzberg was the author ofthe Protocols. After Philip Graves provided evidence in The Times of London that the Protocols were in reality a composite document which, for the most part, had been constructed/plagiarised from a variety of other writings which had been published previously to the appearance of the Protocols, Reventlow published his support for Fry's theory in the periodical La Vieille France. Ginzberg's supporters sued Reventlow, who was forced to retract his allegations and pay damages.

Strongly opposed to Roosevelt's New Deal, Fry argued that it represented "the transformation of the Constitutional form of American government into that of the Kahal, or Jewish form of government. It has been called the New Deal and the Jew Deal. Both are correct and synonymous."

She was involved in various fascist organisations of the 1930s, and founded the nationalist and isolationist Christian Free Press, "an anti-Semitic newspaper modeled after Germany's infamous Der Sturmer". She joined forces with Henry Douglas Allen (1879-1961) in a failed attempt to revitalize the Ku Klux Klan. Documents found by San Diego police in Allen's briefcase in 1938 implicated Fry as a paid Nazi agent, but she escaped prosecution at the time. However, she later became estranged from Allen and accused him of misappropriating money from her.

In 1940 she fled to fascist Italy, but returned the US after the attack on Pearl Harbor. She was interned on Ellis Island and indicted for sedition, but charges were dropped and she was released after the end of the war.

Fry's major work, Waters Flowing Eastward (1931), attempted to prove that the Protocols were part of a plot to destroy Christian civilization. The apparent conflict between Communism and Capitalism was a smoke-screen for Jewish domination, as outlined in the Protocols. The claim repeated by many authors that the Protocols first came to light in 1884 via Justine Glinka, was originally put forth by Fry in the 1st edition (1931) of Waters Flowing Eastward, in a chapter of the book titled "How the Protocols Came to Russia".

According to Fry's account, Justine Glinka (1836-1916), the daughter of Russian diplomat Dmitry Glinka (1808-1883), was endeavouring (in the early to mid-1880s) to serve her country (Russia) by obtaining political information in Paris, which she forwarded to General Orgevskii. In 1884 a Jewish Freemason named Joseph Schorst (alias of Théodore Joseph Schapiro) sold Justine a manuscript copy of the Protocols (written in French) for 2,500 francs. Fry believed that Schorst had smuggled this copy of the Protocols out of the archives of one of the Mizraïm Masonic Lodges in Paris. According to records in the archives of the Sûreté (French Secret Police),Schorst eventually fled to Egypt, where he was murdered. This manuscript of the Protocols then supposedly found its way (through a very convoluted and questionable route) into the hands of Sergei Nilus, who was the first person to publish it in its entirety (in 1905) under a single cover.

Fry compiled an elaborate chart called the Politico-Occult-Judaeo-Masonry Chart (1940, by L. Fry), which shows the interconnections between all the organizations which she claims were/are involved in the alleged Jewish masterplan for world domination. The chart consists of a sheet of paper (measuring approximately 23" X 18"), printed on both sides. On the chart Fry illustrates how the Jewish masterplan is linked to various Judaic, Masonic, Occult, and World-Political organizations, such as the Bavarian Order of the Illuminati, founded by Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830) on May 1, 1776, and the League of Nations.

• Library of Congress:

Akhad-Kham, Asher Gint︠s︡berg.

Taĭnyĭ vozhdʹ īudeĭskīĭ.: Perevod s frantsuzskago

[of Miss L. Fry by Th. Vinberg, being an attempt to prove

the "Protokoly Sīonskikh Mudret︠s︡ov"

published in a work by S. A. Nilus

to be a work by U. Ginzberg].

by Leslie Fry;Thedor Viktorovich Vinberg

Type: Microform

Language: Russian

Publisher: Berlin, 1922.

OCLC: 84780936

• British Library:

System number002659956

Author - personalNILUS, Sergei Aleksandrovich.

TitleПротоколы Сіонскихъ Мудрецовъ, по тексту С. А. Нилуса. Всемирный тайный заговоръ.

[The text of the "Protocols" adapted from M. Joly's

"Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu ... par un Contemporain"

taken from S. A. Nilus's Великое въ Маломъ,

preceded by Miss L. Fry's Ахадъ-Хамъ.

Тайный вождь іудейскій in Th. Vinberg's translation,

being an attempt to prove the "Protocols" to be a work by U. Ginzberg,

with a preface to the whole by A. Rogovich.

With this there are two cuttings from "The Times" and one from "Послѣднія Извѣстія" on the subject.

With an illustration.]

Publisher/yearLinkpp. 124. Берлинъ, 1922.

Physical descr.8º.

Added nameFRY, Leslie.

GINZBERG, Asher Zvi.

JOLY, Maurice.

ROGOVICH, A.

VINBERG, Thedor Viktorovich.

Holdings (All)Details

ShelfmarkC.37.ee.2. Request

• Waters Flowing Eastward
  • 1st Edition (1931) --Waters Flowing Eastward (Paris: Éditions R.I.S.S., 1931) (223 p. + index = 227 p.) (The Protocols occupy pp. 143–219 of the text)
  • 2nd Edition (1933) - Waters Flowing Eastward (Paris: Éditions R.I.S.S., revised & enlarged, 1933) (277 p., includes index)
  • 3rd Edition (1934) - Waters Flowing Eastward (Abbeville and Chatou, France: British American Press, revised & enlarged, 1934) (277 p.)
  • 4th Edition (1953) - Waters Flowing Eastward: The War Against the Kingship of Christ (London: Britons Publishing Society, revised & enlarged, 1953) (267 p., includes index) - (4th Edition Reprint, 1997 - Boring, Oregon: CPA Books)
  • 5th Edition (1965) - Waters Flowing Eastward: The War Against the Kingship of Christ - On Zionism and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. With the Text of the Protocols, first published by S. A. Nilus. With Plates, including Facsimiles (London: Britons Publishing Company, revised & enlarged, 1965) (287 p.) - Edited, revised & enlarged by Rev. Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp.)
    • Contents of the 5th (1965) edition:
      • Publisher's Foreword
      • Preface
      • Part One - Zionism
        • The Balfour Declaration
        • The Jewish Community: Its Spirit and Organization
        • New Links Between Communities
        • Ginzberg the Interpreter of Jewish Aims
        • Zionists and Anti-Zionists
        • Ten Years of Zionism
      • Part Two - The Protocols
        • How the Protocols Came to Russia
        • How an American Edition was Suppressed
        • More Attempts at Refutation
        • Text and Commentary of the Protocols
        • A Few Illustrative Facts
          • Brafmann and His Work
          • The Writing on the Wall
          • The Kellogg Palestine Pact
          • Note on the Kellogg-Briand Pact
      • Part Three - Sovietization of the British Empire and the United States
        • Fabianism
        • Freedom and Planning
      • Supplements
        • Appendix 1 - The State of the World
        • Appendix 2 - The Berne Trials
        • Appendix 3 - The Rulers of Russia
        • General Index
        • Index to the Protocols
  • 6th Edition (1988)- - - - - - - Waters Flowing Eastward: The War Against the Kingship of Christ (New Orleans: Flanders Hall, 1988) (283 p.)
  • 7th Edition (1998)- - - - - - - Waters Flowing Eastward: The War Against the Kingship of Christ (Washington, D.C.: TBR Books, 1998) (283 p.)
  • 8th Edition (rebound, 1999) - Waters Flowing Eastward: The War Against the Kingship of Christ (Washington, D.C.: TBR Books, 1999) (283 p.)
  • 9th Edition (2000)- - - - - - - Waters Flowing Eastward: The War Against the Kingship of Christ (Washington, D.C.: TBR Books, 2000) (283 p.)
  • 10th Edition (2000) - - - - - --Waters Flowing Eastward: The War Against the Kingship of Christ (Washington, D.C.: TBR Books, 2000) (283 p.)
  • Current [2007] Web edition.
• In Defense of Youth
• Will the University of California be Seized by Communists?
• Planned Economy
• The New Order
• California Betrayed
• various pamphlets on Zionism
• Who Put Hitler in Power
• article(s)

in Women's Voice

ed. by Mrs. Van Hyning