CHAPTER XXV.
GETTING THE AMERICAN TROOPS TO FRANCE A group of letters, written at this time, touch upon a variety of topics which were then engaging the interest of all countries: _To Arthur W.Page_ London, January 19, 1918.
DEAR ARTHUR: While your letter is still fresh in my mind I dictate the following in answer to your question about Palestine.
It has not been settled--and cannot be, I fancy, until the Peace Conference--precisely what the British will do with Palestine, but I have what I think is a correct idea of their general attitude on the subject.

First, of course, they do not propose to allow it to go back into Turkish hands; and the same can be said also of Armenia and possibly of Mesopotamia.

Their idea of the future of Palestine is that whoever shall manage the country, or however it shall be managed, the Jews shall have the same chance as anybody else.

Of course that's quite an advance for the Jews there, but their idea is not that the Jews should have command of other populations there or control over them--not in the least.

My guess at the English wish, which I have every reason to believe is the right guess, is that they would wish to have Palestine internationalized, whatever that means.