To show that we are not suffering from bad dreams,
we may quote a remarkable item of news contributed by the Sofia correspondent of the Jewish Chronicle. He learns from Constantinople that the Angora Government has made a confidential request to the Chief Rabbi of Turkey to organize a Jewish demand for the transfer of the mandate for Palestine to Turkey. The Chief Rabbi replied that the Rabbinate always held aloof from political questions. A request, it is alleged, was then made that a delegation, representing Turkish Jewry, should be sent to the Lausanne Conference to claim Palestine for the Turks. No decision on this point has yet been taken. The correspondent closes this strange story with a menacing paragraph declaring that the action by the Angora Government is generally understood to mean ".that an understanding has been come to between the Palestine Arabs and the Turks with the object of getting .rid of. the British." If ever a knot required a clean cut and a quick cut it is that of Palestine.
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