Note 119 — NOTES ON THE DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF THE JEWISH QUESTION. (continued 3)

Memoir of Laurence Oliphant, ii. 179. As late as January 1888 Mr. Oscar Straus, the United States Minister in Constantinople and himself a Jew, assured the Grand Vizier, with regard to the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine, "that no such purpose actuated the Jews throughout the world" (Foreign Relations of U.S., 1888, p. 1559).