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>In his incontrovertible work on the B’nai B’rith, Emmanuel Ratier cites Kraus and Evans’ dialogue to make the following observations on the Jewish organization’s relations with the Klan, which were friendly at first, but became more complex as time went on:

>Perhaps this explains why the B’nai Brith spared the Ku Klux Klan for a long time. By the twenties, the KKK, founded by the Confederate general Albert Pike and high-ranking Masons of the South, had between three and five million members, and was not subject to virulent criticism from the ADL and the B’naï B’rith. As part of a wider dialogue between B’naï B’rith president Adolf Kraus and Imperial Sorcerer H. W. Evans, the latter wrote in a rather astonishing open letter: “every man – whether American by birth or naturalization, Christian or Jewish by confession, black or white by race – every man who contracts a duty of loyalty to this country, without reserve and without ulterior motives, who devotes himself entirely to his flag, is not an enemy, but a friend of the Knights of Ku Klux Klan.”