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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
The League of
British Jews
Its Purposes and Objects.
• By Nlajor Laurie Magnus.)
divine sanction of the hopeful injunc-
tion that the law of the land was as
binding on Jews as their own law,
ktid for all their invincible hope, for
all their inalienaltre heritage, the \
were to accept a "National Home for
the Jewish people.•
.k claim even partly spiritual could
Ii,, following is a summary .of a
speech delivered in London by Major
Magnus tot the "l'urposes and Objects
of the Tcaaite of British lea's," to •;,./l ic h
so much attention has 11 4 . 1' ❑ directed in
this country.
Major M,Iginis ...aid that he had beer
not wholly be satisfied by 'Inman
means, and in that sense the prospects
of the Zionists were shriveled up in
the shining, light of Zion. How would
a "National Iloni• for the Jewish
people" in wilt, li civil and political
rights w ere shared equally with Chris.
tians and NIaloon•tans differ in a nit-
founded impregnably nn Holy Scrip- thin,' sense from the cuuditiun, m
titre. which regarded the 1, aisle Hope in, olhrr
reared in a --cloud of Jewish thought,
to . " as attt1 11 1 1 thle i,c
, •aa, not }et fully Fr
-HI imperfect p.oters of \
where
, h 11,11 1 , 1 1 for
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ha'ilt at Ica'r to hr 111"'1"11
haul ,
had been \von? .Ind
our ii Pale.fine, delimited after the war
i„
policy.
by a was to clip' a kind of autonomy
,l•r it, iullabitailt , * , i aii
Since the days of the Vikings and the
dime. :..11.1
in the ttorld a ■ hieli He ,real-
of
cc, thi s f,,tm.,
a 1 111 111 , t 111 thepensat on described as a victory for
I c “pc-an diplomatists' hag of tricks.
T i ll Jrcvs had given the ideal Zion to tut,.
„i
wor ld -a id e
the l aconic' they not accept On . p111',1, - be IlliStleSeril.cd as it Jeavish
real l I ttlr ■ Iille from any family of than 11,11.11. ,01.1 IrIld
support to the Mol-
est , Id It , it ,cation on the way.
I-„umr seized with avidity by
acelconied the other of the Itritish ( -
the l e as ccere a
ernmc 111 1 they 11,111 eved 1” its " hi ' national moot. and therefore aliens
!limitation. lint as Jtwt s. when the
time came to advise the Itritish
Colonization a Practical Measure.
11..u.
de\ ise the 111,1 , 111C ,
t
The Service of
ADVENTURE
days of the original pirates the sea has called to
seekers of adventure and romance. And on the sea,
in our great Naval Service, the service that has blazed
a glorious path across the pages of American history,
the dreams of these adventurers, inspired by visions
of rolling seas and far--oft lands, have been realized.
/i on was not
'
I ∎ 011, give ettect to the II Ishrs
d hy Mr. Balfour's letter. diva
.•',1 ,-I. for the ,itnendinent of the
\ National Hom•• Those
,.1,111• !111,
a1111 II illt II Mr Balfour was naturally
The colonization of Palestine by
Jews had been a continuous prod c c.
in recent years. liritish Jews were
hound by national (that is British,
and religions (that is Jewish) obliga-
Today the spirit of the Viking is burn-
ing in the breasts of half a million young Americans
who are manning the guns of our great fleets. The
same thrilling fire of adventure is leading them on in
war on the modern pirates. And the dreams of old
adventure are coming true for them. For in the Navy,
nothing is at a standstill. The ships of war come and
go. Today the bluejackets stroll through the streets of
American cities, tomorrow in Europe, and then,' per-
haps, they are off for the far east.
toots to facilitate the extension of an
not acquaint, of the pass-
It ith which they had (teen
ages in our ritual. The :intendment
,vas verbally slight, lint It would not,
associated from the start. But since
that Jewish policy in Pale.tine wa s
on the toiler hand. in any ore con- nut Zionism, according to the pro-
flict with their notional duty as En- phetic canon, a further obligation 1,1y
glishmen to assist the settlement in on British Jews: and the feet first a r-
Palestine of such Jews who after the
war might desire to make Palestine
their home.
Main
Objection to League.
ticles in the program of the League
were thle 10 those aspects of the situa-
tion. Today, for the first lime in
modern hi•tory, the heritage of the
nation of priests II a, liable partly to
They would oliserw. that by a cir- be .hared cc ith a newl\ formed nation
cuitous route he had come round t o in Palestine composed, it might be,
the third main tdo e ci in the tatt poit ti , chit tic of Jews. A new factor IIas
tion of the I.eagne of 11ruish Jews. thus introduced—the relations of the
Its exact wording was: - To facilitate propo"ed neav nation in Pah
the settlement in Palestine ..t such vehich, to snit the diplomatic interests
Jevvs who might desire to make Pales- of IIIC peace - maskers. was said to he
tine their home.” Though he was,
osety fic be predominantly Jewish.
There is always something doing in the
Navy. It is the place for the young fellow who sees,
thinks and acts. It is the place for the chap who wants
to forge ahead, for in the Navy he is not discouraged
by seeing the jobs at the top of the ladder filled through
the channels of pull.
present at some discussions prelintin- II 110 that 1,11-t1111
1
, nation of priests or
arc to Ott' 101111d:011m of the 1.ractlet people Of the Rock, re spiritual Coin-
he did not know if all Mo.,. ,1 1 ,, were iminity of Israel. fast as it affected
responsible for latinchin, it ,v.,t111,1 their religions duty to uphold the
subscribe to that third article on the standards of Zion and to continue
same grounds precisely as he dill. ()11- t h e i r mission in exile; secondly, as it
viotIslY 1 1 %vould he late in the day,', affected the status acquired in pursti-
late in the Imiu history of . 111 ( 1,11 '01 bl ance of the interpretation 5thich they
to rally Jews to t h e standard of Mes- attached to certain injunctions in the
titanic Judaism as such. '1 hat stand- Scriptures and in the 1 alltilltl :IS to
ard would neter lack supporters. The seeking the peace of the cities where
Messianic promise of Judaism WI1S they dwelt.
the C0111111101 heritage of the Ilouse of
Anti-Semites Re-enforced.
Behind the League- of
Their duty was char as Jews of the
Jevss there cc ere two factors, otqcon-
prophetical canon. They were bound
to assert the truth that Jews, as such.
were a religious community and did
1/11Cre, as II• had Called It, !hal back-
not constitute a separate political na-
ground or hinterland of Zionisiti, in
tionality. That illusion they had to
which they had all been reared, and
resist for the sake of the /ion to be.
which, being a sort of natural element,
It happened that some ti the advisers
they had. more or less, taken for
of the Itritish tIoo ernment in this con-
granted, The other factor he took it,
nection had employed such misleading
was this: In the hideous svelter of the
phrases as the "homelessness" of the
world \vat- some Jews in all countries
Jews. their "self-delusion" as bene-
have descried a unique and a pre-
ficiaries of the Emancipation Acts and
cious opportunity for what vvas called
their - national" entity as Jews. Those
the Sclf-determination of the scattered
phrases, with all that they implied,
units of their community. Palestine
had been seized upon by ignorance
—geographically and literally—was
and prejudice to reinforce the armory
the Zion of their spiritual prayers and
of anti-Semitism. Simultaneously
of their liturgical longing, and that
with the offer of the Foreign Office
was where the confusion had arisen.
to promote Jewish settlements in Pal-
Certain Zionist leaders, 1)r. Ilerzl was
estine, they had seen some interested
notoriously not among them, for l'al-
attempts to misrepresent their com-
estine in his Zionism was an after-
mon bond of religion as a bond ti an
thought—but the recent propaganda
international relationship, partly finan-
of certain Zionists had engendered a
cial and partly political, transcending
confusion between the geographical
the tuitional sentiments of Jewish chi-
Palestine and the traditional Holy
ne s , of the carious States and e011Sti-
Land. which in history was Judea, and
IIIIIIIC 10 that extent a danger to any
in mold, cy \aas hon.
such State as had admitted Jewish
A Mistaken Policy.
subjects to full citizenship. In those
ditions, both of cvhich must be taken
into acconnt. One was that ;mutts-
er, hat ins encouraged this
having been betrayed
into it I t Int.e reasoning or by im-
ISert•
circumstances British Jews
110111111 to keep it clear distinction be-
tween the Britons who were Jews by
perfect knock ledg, as to what Zionism
meant. those Zionists went a step fur-
ther on that false road and sought to
■ •tablislt an analogy between the pol-
he Jews b ■ nationality.
There wrts nothing to explain away
in those objects of the League a nd
it ■ 11111,1,1 tie
io- of the .\11ted Governments toward
Belgium and Serbia and the policy
sketched by hire. Balfour in his famous
letter to Lord Rothschild. Rabbinical
Another thing--we make it our busi-
ness to take the best care of you possible. From the
cold viewpoint of efficiency, we figure that if you are
kept in the best of physical condition, given regular
hours of work, play and sleep, plenty of fresh air,
exercise, scientific training and everything done to
make you happy and contented, you will be better able
to earn your pay and acquit yourself with honor when
the time comes. Therefore, you get everything that
will tend to guard and improve your physical, mental
and moral welfare.
The Navy offers you everything that
any other branch of the service offers and a few things
in addition. For instance, the pay is the highest, you
receive government insurance and family allotments,
your chances for promotion are splendid and the ser-
vice is for the duration of the war if you wish to make
it so.
ligion and Palestinians who might
hardly anything to explain. The
League of British Jews was essential
for watching and maintaining certain
Interests open') threatened and :it-
We accept men in good physical condi-
tion between the ages of 18 and 35 and if qualified in
particular lines up to 4-1. Friendly aliens with first
papers may enlist as cooks but only full .American citi-
zens will be accepted in the other brandies.
and TaltninFcal writers had reminded tacked he anti-Semitic forces in our
them again and again of the divine midst and even imperiled by implica-
bles•ing, cm their ,could mission among tion—the innocent implication, of
'fie peoples of the earth, the divine ,-nurse—of enthusiasts in the English
amboidy tot !firer Mspeision and the Zionist Federation.
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