s the
right guess, is that they would wish to have Palestine
internationalized, whatever that means. That is to say, that it
should have control of its own local affairs and be a free country
but that some great Power, or number of Powers, should see to it
that none of the races that live there should be allowed to impose
upon the other races. I don't know just how such a guarantee can be
given by the great Powers or such a responsibility assumed except
by an agreement among two or three of them, or barely possibly by
the English keeping control themselves; but the control by the
English after the war of the former German colonies will put such a
large task on them that they will not be particularly eager to
extend the area of their responsibility elsewhere. Of course a
difficult problem will come up also about Constantinople and the
Dardanelles. The Dardanelles must be internationalized.

I have never been able to consider the Zionist movement seriously.
It is a mere religious sentiment which will express itself in
action by very few people. I have asked a number of Jews at various
times who are in favour of the Zionist movement if they themselves
are going there. They always say no. The movement, therefore, has
fixed itself in my mind as a Jewish movement in which no Jew that
you can lay your hands on will ever take part but who wants other
Jews to take part in it. Of course there might be a flocking to
Palestine of Jews from Russia and the adjoining countries where
they are not happy, but I think the thing is chiefly a sentiment
and nothing else. Morgenthau[68] is dead right. I agree with him
_in toto_. I do not think anybody in the United States need be the
least concerned about the Zionist movement because there isn't a
single Jew in our country such a fool as to go to Palestine when he
can stay in the United States. The whole thing is a sentimental,
religious, more or less unnatural and fantastic idea and I don't
think will ever trouble so practical a people as we and our Jews
are.

The following memorandum is dated February 10, 1918:

General Bliss[69] has made a profound and the best possible
impression here by his wisdom and his tact. The British have a deep
respect for him and for his opinions, and in inspiring and keeping
high co