The newspaper Observer said editorially today that one of Turkey’s conditions for remaining out of the war was that “Syria and Palestine must not fall into Italian possession.” The conditions, the editorial added, were “not disserviceable to Britain. In the eastern Mediterranean they are safeguards against spread of chaos.”
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
