PROBLEMS OF ZIONISM.
[TO THE 'EDITOR OF THE fO SPECIATOE."3 SLR,—Mr. Israel Zangwill states in your issue of January 29th that he is informed that "Palestine will actually be saddled with part of the Turkish war indemnity." May I be permitted to • point out that this allegation is wholly unfounded? As most people are aware, there is no such thing as a Turkish war indemnity, and the right to exact one is expressly waived by the Allies in the Treaty of Sevres. If Mr. Zangwill meant to refer to the Ottoman Public Debt his statement is equally misleading. All that Palestine is called upon to do is to bear a share, strictly proportionate to her pre-war revenue, of the Ottoman pre-war debt, and of the pre-war debt only. This obviously equitable arrangement is clearly set forth in Articles 241-3 of the Treaty of Sevres, to which Mr. Zangwill has apparently not thought it worth while to refer.—I am,
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