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R,—Janus quotes a letter• from an "American Lawyer in the

Middle est" which says that " the Jews have been flooding the United States th allegations that the Brtish have been betraying the Jews in lestine, when the facts are that the exact opposite is the case." Janus mments : " If this allegation is accurate it is plainly disturbing. Some- e ought to look into it." It is impossible to " look into " an allegation vague and obscure. How answer a man without knowing what he is [Janus writes: " I am afraid I did not make myself entirely clear. The ential point of the American lawyer's letter was the statement that had applied repeatedly in vain to the British Information Services the United Stags for a copy of the Balfour Declaration. It was that egation—not the sentence Mrs. Dugdale quotes—which I regarded as urbing, and requiring investigation."]