An important letter from Lord Milner was read at a
meeting of Jews in Johannesburg on Sunday last. By way of eorrecting any misunderstanding, Lord Milner declared that whatever might be the conditions of naturalisation laid down by the law of the Transvaal, he was certain that it would not discriminate against Jews, Russian or other, nor would any distinction based on race or creed be made between them
and other British subjects in any franchise law. This, he added, was in consonance with a long-settled policy universal throughout the Empire, and it reflected his own personal feelings. "He had no prejudice against Jews, as Jews were some of the beat people he had ever known, and his closest personal friends. He knew them to be excellent colonists and thoroughly loyal, and he did not expect the Jews of the Transvaal to be different." The number of Jews who served in the Regular Army and the Auxiliary Forces during the war, when taken in connection with the total Jewish popula- tion, affords striking evidence of that loyalty to which Lord Milner paid so frank and well merited a tribute.
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