6(?)/1, 1935-1969. The journal continued the volume numbering of its predecessor bulletins, and lasted as a quarterly until 1970 and then was replaced by Rand’s Editorial Letter. $2.00-$3.00 a year, 24-36 pp. Rand (1889-1991) was a lawyer who was born into a family with British-Israel connections. On British-Israel, see the note under Banner of Israel. In Detroit about 1928 he organized an Anglo-Saxon study group to examine the “Kingdom Message” of the heritage of Israel in the Anglo-Saxons and the United States and by the early 1930s this became the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America, with Rand as its secretary (and later National Commissioner) and William J. Cameron (1878-1955), who had been the editor of Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent, as initial president. These organizations began with the fairly traditional British-Israel belief that the heritage of Abraham and the Biblical blessings on his descendants were divided among the Israelites (the Ten Lost Tribes taken into captivity in 722 B.C.) and the Jews (descended from Judah). Over time, Rand and the Federation began to teach that the Jews were not descended from Judah but were Canaanites or Edomites or Khazars and thus were not “Covenant People” and were excluded from the blessings God had promised Israel. This differed strongly from the ideas of the British-Israel movement, which was always philo-semite, and had strong political consequences and tendencies to right-wing radicalism and anti-semitism. Rand’s organization, for example, later distributed “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and in the later 1930s constantly attacked the New Deal and F.D. Rooselvelt as tools of Jewish/Communist influence. The British Anglo-Saxons and the Americans were thus the chosen people and heirs of God’s promises to Israel and could confidently await the return of Christ and the divine estalishment of his kingdom. These views were combined with strong elements of Christian millenarianism and prophetic interpretation based on the measurements of the Great Pyramid and Book of Daniel. These views were strengthened in 1930 when the Federation came into possession of the printing plates and remainders of Charles A.L. Totten’s works (on whom see the note nder Our Race).
Advertisements for the journal in the 1940s read:“A magazine of American and British life and destiny—showing the plan of God, as contained in the Bible, operating through the centuries and now approaching consummation. Destiny identifies the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic people to be the Israel people as distinct from the Jews; portrays the fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy in world events—and throws much light on both history and prophecy that the reader is startled fo find the Bible the most modern book in the world today.”
The journal was very influential and in the 1950s was estimated to have a circulation of fifteen thousand.
Category: Anglo-Israel.
