"The Times" this morning also publishes a letter by the director of the Jewish Agency, the Zionist, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, which declares that the Jewish refusal to relinquish the claims on Palestine are due above all to the consideration that the settlement in Palestine was ihe first Jewish settlement project which was not a failure. After referring to the failure of various Jewish agricultural settlements in the Argentine and elsewhere were Jews migrated from the country to the towns, Dr. Weizmann examines the reason why the Jewish race succeeded in the country and failed in others. Dr. Weizmann expresses the belief that this was due above all to psychological factors since the Jews regard Palestine a: their national home.—Trens-Ocean Berne, Jan. 23.
Unconfrmed rumours of abnormal troop movements in Austria have created some concern among the frontier populations. The authorities of Canton St. Gallen have strengthened their measures of protection along the border. Competent quarters here were unable to throw any light on the rumours.—Havas.
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