ONLY in one respect does the Jewish world remain unaltered since 1939. Jewry is still wholly dependent on others for the solution of its difficulties. Although Hitler has been menacing the Jewish people since 1923, and waging relentless war on them since 1933, yet they are not recognized as constituting one of the United Nations, and Jews themselves are divided as to whether it is desirable that they should be. When in September 1944 a Jewish brigade group, based on the Jewish fighting men of the National Home, was finally recognized by the British War Office as officially Jewish, there were letters of protest from English Jews in The Times. Yet this was but token recognition of the fact that there are more than a million Jews fighting as British, American, Soviet or other citizens, in the armies arrayed against Nazism. The combination of this anonymity with Jewish dependence on others for the solution of Jewry's post-war problems has a certain danger for all. For it is at last coming to be recognized that anti-Semitism is a menace to democracy in general, not merely to particular Jewish minorities; and discontented and ill-adjusted Jewish communities are likely to help the work of the anti-Semites. Moreover the silence which has been observed about Jewish contributions to the coming victory has not been observed about the offences of individual Jews against the war-effort. Press publicity has often cast its full glare on Jewish black-marketeers; and the result is an unbalanced picture of the Jewish world in the mind of the public, who will be asked to turn from the innumerable other problems of post-war reconstruction to consider the special needs of Jewry. A better understanding of the catastrophic transformation, political, social and spiritual, of world Jewry is therefore eminently desirable, if Jews are to obtain the consideration to which they are entitled in the coming settlement.'