In view of the surprising references to the Jewish question
in the election manifestoes of both the Democratic and the Republican parties in America (an event calculated to inspire uneasy reflections on the influence of the Jews in politics) I read with some disquiet a letter which has come into my hands from an American lawyer in the Middle West. He writes of what he calls the failure of the British to accord friends of Britain in Anierica effective co-operation: " It is difficult," he writes, " to get the facts from official sources to sustain the arguments in favour of the British cause. For example, although my checks have been going constantly to the British Information Services for 27 years, many of them signed in blank, yet I have not been able to as yet secure a copy of the Balfour Declaration although I asked for it five months ago. In the mean- time the Jews have been flooding the United States with allegations that the British have been betraying the Jews in Palestine, when the facts are that the exact opposite is the case."
If this allegation is accurate it is plainly disturbing. Someone ought to look into it.
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