en, is the matter in a nutshell: Germany, wide-awake as ever,
saw long ago the advantage to her of a growing Jewish population from
the Pale in Turkey. She was perhaps a little overloaded with them
herself, but in this immigration from Russia to Palestine she saw the
formation of a colony that was well worth German protection, and the
result of the war, provided the Palestinian immigrants were left in
peace, would be to augment very largely the number of those settling
there. 'Galicia,' says Dr. Treitsch, 'and the western provinces of
Russia, which between them contain more than half the Jews in the world,
have suffered more from the war than any other region. Jewish homes
have been broken up by hundreds of thousands, and there is no doubt
whatever that, as a result of the war, there will be an emigration of
East European Jews on an unprecedented scale.' This emigration, then, to
Palestine was, in Germany's view, a counter-weight to the 100,000
annually lost to her through emigration to America and England. With her
foot on Turkey's neck she had control over these German-speaking Jews,
and saw in them the elements of a German colony. Her calculations, it is
true, were somewhat upset by the development of the Zionist movement, by
which those settlers declared themselves to have a nationality of their
own, and a language of their own, and Dr. Treitsch concedes that. 'But,'
he adds, 'in addition to Hebrew, to which they are more and more
inclined, the Jews must have a world-language, and this can only be
German.'

This, then, in brief, and only up to the present, is the story of how
the Jewish massacres were stayed. The Jews were potential Germans, and
Germany, who sat by with folded hands when Arabs and Armenians were led
to torture and death, put up a warning finger, and, for the present,
saved them. In her whole conduct of the war, nothing has been more
characteristic than her 'verboten' to one projected massacre and her
acquiescence in others. But, as for her having saved the Jews out of
motives of humanity, 'Credant Judaei!'

_Crescent and Iron Cross, Chapter V_

DEUTSCHLAND UeBER ALLAH

It was commonly said at the beginning of this war that, whatever
Germany's military resources might be, she was hopelessly and childishly
lacking in diplomatic ability and in knowledge of psychology, from which
all success in diplomacy is distilled. As instances of this grave
defect, people adduced the fact that, apparentl