The Japanese officials asked to approve the plan insisted that while the settlements could appear autonomous, controls needed to be placed to keep the Jews under surveillance. It was feared that the Jews might somehow penetrate into the mainstream Japanese government and economy, influencing or taking command of it in the same way that they, according to the forged "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", had done in many other countries. The world Jewish community was to fund the settlements and supply the settlers.