effects which that would have upon the fate of Europe, lies in the hands of Britain.  It could instantly be solved by the cession of Cyprus to Greece, on condition that Kavala and the valley of the Strymon were restored to Bulgaria.  Neither strategically nor economically is Cyprus of any value to Britain; thirty-five years ago it was taken over by Disraeli “as a sort of fee for opposing Russia,” a foolish habit which we had abandoned long before the present war with Turkey.  Its population is predominantly Greek, and the Hellenic national movement is steadily gaining ground.  Anything that we might gain by its retention is more than counterbalanced by its value as an instrument of barter.

Sec.13. The Future of Turkey.—­The entry of Turkey into the great war marks a further stage in the winnowing process from which we hope that a regenerated Europe will emerge.  Two of the main causes of the war are the Turk and the Magyar, whose effete and tyrannous systems have each in its own manner and degree long kept South-Eastern Europe in a ferment of unrest and reaction.  It is a matter of profound regret that two infinitely more virile and progressive races, the German and the Jew, should be fighting their battles for them, and indeed bolstering up causes which would otherwise speedily collapse by reason of their own inward rottenness.  It is the Triple Alliance which has made it possible for the iniquitous racial hegemony of the Magyars to survive in Hungary; it is the joint policy of Vienna, Budapest, and Berlin which has hampered the progress of the Balkan States, and above all the development of every Slavonic nation; and in this their most valuable allies have been the Jewish Press and the Jewish haute finance of Germany, Austria and Hungary.  Just as we hope and believe that one result of this war will be the emancipation of Germany and German “culture” from the corroding influences of militarist doctrine, so there are good grounds for hoping that it will also give a new and healthy impetus to Jewish national policy, grant freer play to their many splendid qualities, and enable them to shake off the false shame which has led men who ought to be proud of their Jewish race to assume so many alien disguises and to accuse of anti-Semitism those who refuse to be deceived by mere appearances.  It is high time that the Jews should realise that few things do more to foster anti-Semite feeling than this very tendency to sail under false colours and conceal their true identity.  The Zionist and the orthodox Jewish nationalist have long ago won the respect and admiration of the world.  No race has ever defied assimilation so stubbornly and so successfully, and the modern tendency of individual Jews to repudiate what is one of their chief glories suggests an almost comic resolve to fight against the course of nature.