mediate military precautions
on a large scale failing which I will cable the Foreign Office in
London at my own expense. I offered to convince him with
particulars about this contemplated pogrom but he said he had an
urgent appointment and referred me to you, just as Nero might
have referred a question regarding the amphitheatre to one of
his subordinates!"

"Pogroms mean nothing in his young life," Grim answered smiling.
"I'm here to do the dirty work. Suppose you spill the news."

"You must have heard the news! Yet you ignore it! The Moslems
are saying that we Zionists have offered two million pounds, or
some such ridiculous sum, for the site of Solomon's Temple. They
are spreading the tale broadcast. Their purpose is to stir up
fanaticism against us. The ignorant among them set such value on
that rock and the mosque their cut-throat ancestors erected on it
that Jews are now openly threatened as they pass through the
streets. Yet there is not one word of truth in the story of our
having made any such offer."

"There are plenty of troops," said Grim. "Any attempt at
violence could be handled instantly."

"Then you will do nothing?"

"What do you suggest ought to be done?"

"Here is a list. Read it. Those are the names of fifty Arabs
who are active in spreading anti-Zionist propaganda."

Grim read the list carefully.

"All talkers," he said. "Not a really dangerous man among them."

"Ah! There you are! I might have expected it!" Eisernstein
threw up his hands in a gesture of contempt rather than despair.
"Nobody cares what happens to Jews. Nobody cares for our
sleepless agony of mind. Nobody cares how or what we suffer
until afterward, when there will be polite expressions of regret,
which the survivors will assess at a true valuation! It is the
same wherever we turn. Last night--at half-past one in the
morning--a committee of us, every one American, Called at the
American consulate to tell our consul of our danger. The consul
was unsympathetic in the last degree. Yet our coreligionists in
the States are taxed to pay his salary. He said it was not
his business. He referred us to the Administrator. The
Administrator refers me to you. To whom do you refer me? To the
devil, I suppose!"

"The best thing you can do," said. Grim, "is to go ahead and deny
that story about the offer to buy the Dome of the Rock. You
Zionists have got the most efficient publicity bureau on earth.
You can