te over the whole of Jewry.'

Now this is explicit enough; Germany clearly contemplated a protectorate
over Palestine, and if the Jews who are German-speaking Jews are left
independent, there is nothing more certain than that, after the war, her
penetration of Palestine will instantly begin. These colonists are, and
will be, in want of funds for the development and increase of their
cultivated territories, and when we consider the names of the prominent
financiers in the Central Empires, Mendelssohn, Hirsch, Goldsmid,
Bleichroeder, Speyer, to name only a few, we cannot be in much doubt as
to the quarter from which that financial assistance will be forthcoming,
on extremely favourable terms. It is safe to prophesy that, if Palestine
is given independence without protectorate, in three years from the end
of the war it will be under not only a protectorate, but a despotism as
complete as ever ruled either Turkey or Prussia. True it is that the
Zionist movement will offer, even as it has offered in the past, a
strenuous opposition to Germanisation, but it would be crediting it with
an inconceivable vitality to imagine that it will be able to resist the
blandishments that Germany is certainly prepared to shower on it. For
great as is the progress the Jewish settlers made in Palestine during
the twenty or twenty-five years before the war, and strong as is the
spirit of Zionism, the emigrants do not as yet number more than about
120,000, nor have they under crops more than ten per cent. of the
cultivated land of Palestine. They are as yet but settlers, and their
work is before them. If left without a protectorate they will not be
without a protectorate long, but not such an one as the Allies desire. A
protectorate there must be, and no reason is really of weight against
that protectorate being French. Let that, then, extend from the
Mediterranean to the Euphrates, and from Alexandretta to where the
Hedjaz already prospers in its self-proclaimed independence. It will be
completely severed from Turkey by tracts under protection of one or
other of the Allied Powers, any expedition through which would be an act
of war.

The Euphrates, then, will form the eastern boundary of the French
protectorate: it will also, it is hoped, form the western boundary of
the English protectorate, which we know as Mesopotamia. Just as no other
Power has any real claim to Armenia, except Russia, just as Syria can
fall to no other than France, it see