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CHAPTER II PRESSED INTO THE SERVICE There was no question as to my eligibility for service. PUBLIC DOMAIN PRESSED INTO THE SERVICE THERE WAS NO QUESTION AS TO MY ELIGIBILITY FOR SERVICE
 the compensation of freedom of religion and equal rights; and we could not forget that for six hundred years Turkey has held her gates wide open to the Jews who fled from the Spanish Inquisition and similar ministrations of other civilized countries. Of course, we never dreamed that Turkey would do anything but remain neutral. If we had had any idea of the turn things were ultimately to take, we should have given a different greeting to the _mouchtar_, or sheriff, who came to our village with the list of mobilizable men to be called on for service. My own position was a curious one. I had every intention of completing the process of becoming an American citizen, which I had begun by taking out "first papers." In the eyes of the law, however, I was still a Turkish subject, with no claim to American protection. This was sneeringly pointed out to me by the American Consul at Haifa, who happens to be a German; so there was no other course but to surrender myself to the Turkish Government.  CHAPTER TWO OF WITH THE TURKS IN PALESTINE BY ALEXANDER ARANZON THIS LIBERY BOX RECORDING IS IN THE
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