The world at the crosswords

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THE WORLD AT THE CROSS ROADS quite correct, but scarcely be confined to the Anglo-Saxon peoples It is true that Mr. Wilson's policy at all

This observation

can

it

only.

is

times was distinctly pro-Jewish and that Mr. Lloyd George's affiliations with Sir Philip Sassoon

much comment among

the general public. the fact be denied that the British policy, ever since Mr. Balfour's declaration on the Zionist

aroused

Nor can

claims of

November

2,

1917, has been develop-

ing under the coordinated pressure

Rufus Isaacs, Louis Namier, all

of

whom

Mond

of

Messrs.

and Montagu,

are Jews, manifesting a spirit of deep

But almost every the Peace Conference had his

loyalty to the cause of Israel.

4

plenipotentiary at to guide him in matters of international

own Jew

importance. Mr. Clemenceau himself, whose reputation of a French "tiger"

was so exaggerated,

had Mr. Mendel as private secretary, acting as intermediary between the Quai d'Orsay and the Stock Exchange. In the same way the Italian policy was largely controlled by Baron Sonnino, Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The German Peace

was so obviously dominated banking interests that it became

Delegation, in turn,

by Jewish known as "The Warburg Delegation," while the

Spa Conference was labeled as the "Hugo Stinnes Thus, Mr. Dillon's remark being

Conference."

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