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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

ZIONISM AND THE RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION

SEVERAL IMPORTANT MEM-
BERS OF FRENCH .commiq-
SION ARE JEWS. ,

Maj. Dreyfus Heads Medical Section;

M. Joseph Simon is Financial Rep-
Jews of Russia are sure to find in the
resentative; Lieut. Commander
vast spaces of Russia an outlet for
Georges E. Simon Is Aid to
their energies. The old economic misery
Admiral Chocheprat;
can never return under a democratic
to the establishment of a Jewish state in regime.
Three important members of the
Palestine, must have been dictated by
The second factor that entered into
French Commission to the United States
onsiderations
other
than
those
of
intra-
Zionism
was
the
cultural
aspirations
of
c
Entente diplomacy. It would not help the Jewish people. The principle of are Jews. They are Major Lucien Drey-
matters to supply Germany with another nationality which the Allies are now fus, Joseph Simon, and Lieut. Command-
instance of Allied plans 'for the dis- defending has been recognized by the er Georges E. Simon.
Lucien Dreyfus' official rank in the
memberment of the territory of the makers of the Russian revolution. To
Central Powers. It would have been Poland has been granted independence. French army is that of Medical Major.
prem4ture to discuss the disposal of To Finland has been conceded a degree He is not related to the famous Capt.
Palestine while Gen. Murray was only of autonomy which is almost indepen- Dreyfus in anyway. He comes to this
over the threshold of the Holy Land. dence. To the other nationalities with- country with the French Commisison
binally, it would have been premature to in the Russian state which cannot hope as personal physician to Marshal Jof fre,
commit the Allies to the realization of for political self-government in the and as advisor on Military Hygiene to
the Zionist ideal, while events directly fullest sense the way is open to that our army officials. He is perhaps the
affecting the Zionist propaganda were cultural autonomy for which they fought highest medical authority in the French
working themselves out in Russia. The so eagerly long before the present war. army. Up to the time of his leaving
anomaly is presented that just at the if the revolution in Russia succeeds in for the United States with the Commis-
moment when the progress of the Al- maintaining itself, we may regard it as sion, he was in charge of the Medical
lied arms in Asia Minor makes the almost certain that along with the Service at Great General Headquarters
establishment of a Jewish state in Pales- Ukrainians or Little Russians, the Letts, of the French Army at Chantilly. Be-
tine a possibility, the one great factor and the Armenians in the Caucasus, the fore the war, lie was a member of the
which brought the Zionist movement Jews will receive the privilege of estab- Superior Council of Public Health in
into being and which has supplied its lishing and managing their own schools France. A man of just forty years of
principal impetus, namely, the position in those sections where they form a age, Major Dreyfus is a recognized
of the Jews in eastern Europe and par- sufficiently large element in the popula- authority in France on microbiology, and
of
ticularly in Russia, is in a fair way tion, their own tribunals and communal also before the war was in charge
the
Government
Laboratory
in
Paris.
forms
of
government,
and
the
recogni-
of being profoundly modified.
Perhaps the most important member
The unhappy economic and cultural tion of their own popular tongue, the
of
the French Commission next to
Yiddish,
as
the
official
language.
In
condition of the Russian Jews which
Viviani
himself is one of the other Jews
impelled the late Theodor Herzl to bring other words, one of the main aspira-
in
the
party—Monsieur
Joseph Simon.
tions
of
Zionism,
the
shaping
of
Jewish
forward his selection of a separate
the
financial
representative
of France.
home for his people could not have life in accordance with its own genius
He engineered the French war loan with
and
traditions,
may
very
well
be
realized
continued after the war even if Czarism
Secretary McAdoo, and is to succeed
had survived. Jewish poverty was prim- under the broad federalism which 'seems
M. Homberg as the chief of the French
destined
to
be
the
future
organization
arily the result of segregation within
Financial Agency in New York. He
the provinces of the Pale in Poland of the Russian state.
will, therefore, remain in the United
But
the
change
in
Russia
has
by
no
and Lithuania and restriction to the
States after the remainder of the French
urban districts within that territory. means emptied Zionism of its meaning.
Commisison leaves. Simon has for a
There
can
be
no
absolute
guarantee
of
The Pale no longer exists. It was de-
considerable time been a French finance
stroyed by the invading Teutonic armies. the permanency of the new conditions, official. He has been financial represent-
the
and
so
long
as
uncertainty
exists,
The Jews of the western provinces were
ative of France in Serbia and Mexico.
among the millions of refugees scat- Jewish people, after a millennial ex- In the latter country, he was director
tered throughout the empire in Asia as perience of suffering under all sorts of the Bank of Mexico. Having had
well as in Europe. The old regime was of regimes, must continue to some ex- much to do with inter-Allied finance
compelled to recognize an accomplished tent to regard a country o f its own as during the war, Simon will exercise a
i not certain,
fact by removing the restrictions on :1w ultimate solution. It is
considerable influence on Franco-Amer-
Jewish domicile, and while such action for example, what conditions will be in ican finance for some time to come.
independent
Poland,
which
still
contains
was only for the duration of the war,
The last member of the Jewish trio is
it would have been an enormously diff i- the bulk of the former Jewish subjects Lieutenant-Commander Georges E. Sim-
of
the
Czar.
The
indications
are
that
cult task to shepherd back the refugees
on, of the French Navy. He comes
to their old prison walls. The revolu- Poland, where racial feeling has run with the French Commission as aide
high,
will
not
escape
the
contagion
of
tion has brought with it complete eman-
of Vice Admiral Chocheprat, chief of
cipation for the Jews. To what extent the Russian revolution, and in common
the prin- the naval delegation.
with
all
Europe
will
recognize
t he e ime is prepared to go is ciple of national rights for which the
Dreyfus and Joseph Simon both oc-
indicated by the appointment of a Jewish
cupy principal positions on the Commis-
Continent
has
been
drenched
with
blood.
lawyer of Petrograd to the post of Vice-
sion. As a result already of Dreyfus'
Governor of the occupied territory in Nevertheless there must be sufficient advice to the Army Medical Corps. the
Galicia and Bukowina. Given full free- doubt of so happy an outcome to keep War Department has decided to begin
dom of residence and of occupation, the alive the vision of a people seeking in in June sending large units of Ameri-
its historic home the fullest opportunity
can army surgeons to France.
for self-realization.—The Nation.
These distinguished French Jews are
known as assimillationists and take no
PALESTINE JEWS APPEAL TO part in Jewish affairs as such in France.

Lord Robert Cecil's refusal in the
House °if; 'C. ornmons- •tocisay whether
Great Britain had entered into any
agreement with her allies with regard

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cieties in Palestine received by the Sec-
retarial Department of the Socialist
Conference here say a fresh massacre
of Palestine Jews, resembling the Ar-
menian massacres, is threatened, and
appeals are made to the Socialists of all

countries to use their influence to avert
it.
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ation of Palestine by the Jewish popu-
lation and that these measures are be-
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