No good purpose has been or ever wil be served
by shutting our eyes to the reality of the Jewish problem. Anti-semitism is a per- manent danger to democracy everywhere, and only an honest facing of the fact of the inevitability of race prejudice, "the intolerance of a tom nant group towards a minority group," can help us to insure ourselves against infection. Dr. Niebuhr, in this :lion pamphlet, has given the most acute, sane, and balanced statement of the problem in the fewest possible words. He explains why absorption of the Jews into other national ties and cultures has been only partially successful, and will continue to be • only partially successful, and shows that Zionism offers a sound alternative solution. On the vexed question of Palestine and the conflicting rights of the Jews and the Arabs, he writes admirable sense. This most valuable contribution to the Jewish problem should be most widely read.
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