Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question / With Texts of Protocols, Treaty Stipulations and Other Public Acts and Official Documents

by Lucien Wolf

His Majesty's Government will, however, consult with the other Powers as to the policy of reaffirming in some way the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin for the protection of the religious and other liberties of minorities in the territories referred to, when the question of giving formal recognition by the Powers to the recent territorial changes in the Balkan Peninsula is raised.

I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
Eyre A. Crowe.

The Conjoint Jewish Committee.

Conjoint Jewish Committee,
19 Finsbury Circus, E.C.
17th November, 1913.

Sir,—We have had the honour of receiving the letter of the 29th ult. addressed to us on your behalf by Sir Eyre A. Crowe, and we have duly submitted it to our colleagues of the Conjoint Jewish Committee.

We are desired by the Committee to thank you for this communication and to express their lively satisfaction with the assurances you are good enough to give them and which appear to them to meet the necessities of the case they had the honour of placing before you.

The Committee propose, with your permission, to submit to you at a later stage, for the consideration of His Majesty's Government, an amended formula of civil and religious liberty in the Balkans, which they think will more clearly express the intentions of the Conference of London and the Congress of Berlin than the provisions on the same subject contained in the Protocol No. 3 of 1830 and the Treaty of 1878. They trust that His Majesty's Government may find it possible to make this or some similar amendment the basis for the proposed consultation with the other Great Powers, as they venture to think that in this way a means may be found of obviating a repetition of the misunderstandings by which the Jews of Roumania have hitherto been deprived of the rights sought to be conferred upon them by the Treaty of Berlin, besides securing the rights of other religious and racial minorities in the Balkans on a footing of perfect equality.

We, are, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servants,
David L. Alexander,
President, London Committee of the Deputies of British Jews,
Claude G. Montefiore,
President, Anglo-Jewish Association.

To The Right Hon. Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P., K.G., etc., etc., etc.

Conjoint Jewish Committee,
19 Finsbury Circus, E.C.
12th March, 1914.