On compact Just-Non-Lie groups

A compact group is called a compact Just-Non-Lie group or a compact JNL group if it is not a Lie group but all of its proper Hausdorff quotient groups are Lie groups. We show that a compact JNL group is profinite and a compact nilpotent JNL group is the additive group of p -adic integers for some prime. Examples show that this fails for compact pronilpotent and solvable groups.