PALESTINE: Shadow Over Promise

The Jews of Zion, convening last week at Geneva, Switzerland, received from their U. S. brethren $250,000 more to buy land in Palestine. But before week's end, the wings of war hovered dark over that land.

From Geneva the Zionists scattered to their home countries like quail flushing before a hawk. Their noisy objections to Britain's plans for establishing an Arab State in Palestine with the Jews as a minority were silenced by the spectre of other powers, less friendly to Jews, controlling Palestine. And in Britain's mind, the fate of Jews there dwindled to insignificance beside the fate of...

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