PAGE TWELVE E Th*mon. Palestine Irredenta achieve the Rlsorgimento, whereas mend preference only If It were a real times it Is mere exclusion from Cul. Palestine is still Irredenta. An oppor- national Redemption. Where as not versifies or Civil Services, sometimes are slaying the mothers and fathers, tu n tsin which does not even grasp Ito only is there no Jewish State w what shall we do with the children?" ithin , opportunity is doubly damnable—It is view, but Palestine is nut even permit- a straightforward massacre. This, be The soldiers made sport of this appeal the bungling of Sancho Panza added, ted, or able to receive the wretched It marked, is by no means a bad page and then deliberately shot seventy of to the collapse of Don Quixote. To hordes streaming to beat desperately of Jewish news of the week. There Is the childasn. Later, the heads of these I sell One's birthright and not even get at her gates, many of whom perish, no atrocity on a collosal scale, 81101 as innocents, separated front their ladles, the mess of pottage! ensanguines the record in other weeks. TI he tragic Irony of the situation is perhaps fortunately, under the hard- It 18 an average example of the con- were placed In a huge barrel mei sent "1- IFE caricatures our concepts,' as a "present" to the remaining !nem. own trumpet witch they are a hat remitin8 of ancient antipathies' enhanced by the fact that the state of ships of the route or In the wretched tinuous pogrom in action, the vast ma- bars of the Jewish Colunilitlity The 1-/ complained Dr. Ilerzl to me In ' their seine smack blowing, y try to jority of the episodes in which !lever the Jewish people a whole inl- and evidently this assimilation would measurably blacker as than et any is time the early days of his movement, and , cross the Black Sea or the Mediter- even find their way into print, and detail Is here too Incredible to 1,- in. "A Scrap of Paper." vented, and the reporter, Dr. Hera- Indeed, history has few grimmer Iron ., Mr. Frederic Harrison has urged be promoted by giving them that I even In Its own tenebrous history. ranean. The same number of the The Jewish Chronicle that contained the more than counterbalance any possible stein-Kohn, of KishIneff, is of inmee• les to show than that his noble an • upon the government that "too many which all other nations possess:,e, , world's nerves are now HO local habitation and II national home. blunted by 'news of the incorporation of the Pal- exaggeration in those recorded. cable authority and veracity. He tells pacific vision of the Jewish Stet e rash promises were made In the stress Some of these records are indeed so us, too, of forty Jews found A World-Question. the horrors in which it has wallowed ' estine project In the Turkish Peace should draw its hopes of realizatlo n of war." Evidently, according to this lass, gruesome that one could wish there in It Is almost futile to draw atten- Finally, a forest, walking on all fours. And Treaty, contained under the heading from the bloodiest war In history, o r casuist—a religious leader to boot- its Finally, he regards the problem In lion to a series of masnacres. expel- lois exaggeration. Take, for example, true ue light, not merely as perhaps even worse than the discsatie "Foreign News," a page of twenty-tour that, on the embodiment of Mr. Bal - the Prussian doctrine was correct, and proble m, but also as a world a Jewish Mons, boycotts, menaces and other items, all with out exception devoted the story of the pogrom that took detonation of persecution is the no. four's promise in the Turkish condi - now that the advantages, the impon- place near Fitchin. In the Ukraine problem. persecutions that outdo in their total- But the cloven hoof of the antis;emite, lifting fog of repression, the creeping to persecution. Persecution In Poland, tions, a Zionist leader In Jerusalem derabilla as well as the ponderubilla which was displayed in his sontribu- the ity Armemiseries the of any other people persecution in Austria, persecution in The orgies were beyond description, terror or anticipation. That si should have ordered the Shofar to be of the Balfour Declaration have been lion to t he East Africa controversy, not a Single (ciliate WWI left alive or the nians not excluded. Yet vast t the Ukraine, persecution in Hungary, unoutraged, the old men were singled situation in Poland, the probs., . SUM that ought to have been used sounded as at the coming of the hies - reaped, It can become "a scrap of peeps out again. ZioniH m rece i ve persecution in France, persecution in out, their beards cut off and then their the Allied Powers, aneut whin, t. slab; and have thus officially identi- paper." But why fall back on so bru- su pport s n" relief—and there is talk of rai for rt as a "serious endeavor to Algeria. Sometimes young Jewesses heads. The Rabbi gathered a hundred Stuart Samuel, after his recent fied a dubious political transaction tal a doctrine when the race to which mitigate lime age-long miseries created twenty-flue pounds 8 — are di- lax made a statement worthy with the "one far-off divine meet" for you pay a shilling in the pound de- for Western civilization by the pres- verted to a protect, which could de- are raped, sometimes old Jews are and twenty-five children of the dis- made to swallow their beards, Borne- trict and said to the murderers, "You which Jewish mysticieni has waited dares rapturtioualy that you have ence in Its midst of a boil (Continued on page I y whi h it I nigh two thousand years. It lo only honored your obligation to the full? ILO long regarded as alien and even another proof of the demoralising ef• Why devote effort and brain work to hoetile, but which it woo equally un- recta of racial egotism sad political the tough problem of creating a real able to expel or absorb." Unless by faction. "Jewish National Home" In Palestine age-long miseries" Mr. Balfour means It is true that the dispossession of when you give such boundless satis- the spiritual miseries of hating, per- the Turk, the assassin of the Armen'. faction by shutting the homeless secuting, and massacreing, by which ans, the despoiler of Palestine, is a fiord" of Jewry out of it? The na. "Western civilization" afflicted its process that makes for righteousness, lives are agitated and aggressive. own soul, this is a very reprehensible and the yearning of the Jewish soul Why embroil yourself with them to statement. The Jews have brought to which Jebuda !Mimi gave such give the land to the Jews, especially "Western civilization" not miseries, touching expression is an emotion of when the Arabs are utterly ungrate- but untold blessings. But if Mr. Bal. no small spiritual potency. But, un- ful for your liberating them from the four's Zionism Is an attempt to assist fortunately, the disingenuous handling Turks, while the Jews will bedew "Western civilization" to rid itself of of the newfangled mandatory system, with tears of gratitude the hands that its unwelcome foreign body, still more clearly must he have intended offer- the cynical flouting of the League of binds them? ing that body the maximum of ter- Nations on which it professes to de- We behold in fact the curious phe- pend, reduces the world again from a nomenon that at a moment when Ilin- ritory and opportunity in Palestine. But in the project as it now ma- commonwealth to a cockpit, and in does, Egyptians, and Irishmen vie such a welter there can be for Jewry with one another to shake off the terializes, a mere fraction of this body neither spiritual nor physical salve- British yoke, the Jews are equally Is simply to change its place of exile, and new miseries of race-friction are lion. frenzied to put their necks in it. They At first, indeed, It seemed as If the are like castaways at sea, rejoicing to to be created. "Now you have got a start," ran Mr. Lloyd George's hiatoric ancient belief that associated the re- be picked up even by a slaver. It is turn of the Jews to l'alestine with a a pathetic testimony to twenty cen- message from San Remo. "And it Is tip to you to make it good." It can- millennial order would be realized by turies of tossing on a pitiless ocean. the triumph of the WilsonIan prin. Ilut it Is equidly a proof that twenty not be too emphatically recorded that no start has been given except for col- Melee. But these high-flown dreams years of Zionism have not availed to onization and immigration, and that, have proved to be only the outcome restore the sapped notional diginity. whatever the measure of success lilliiinillM1111111.1111 ■ 11011 .1 •I ••••• of the opium with which humanity The Immemorial Passover aspiration reached, the gain will be more to the Consider how marked anti was drugged to continue its mutual "Next year In Jerusalem!" is followed British Empire than to Jewry. For butchery, and the awakening has universally recognized must in the ritual by "Next year sons of while that Empire will be safeguarded found the patient paying as usual for Freedom!" England's dole of Free- by a new barrier for the defense of intoxication by depression and Kat- be its musical superiority dom was meager enough, but the Jew- Egypt, and enriched by a loyal and in- zenjammer. That the Jews should over all other reproducing ish Oliver Twists actually ask for less, dustrious population that may be used • -V•Eled..511AL1010, nevertheless sing liosannas might at not more. The very leaders of Zion- for Its battles, and while its derelict first seem a welcome exception to the pianos when almost all the tem have failed it. Children of the acquisition will be converted Into a prevailing pessimism; as welcome an master pianists of the world Russian I'ale, unaccustomed to an at- comparatively fruitful and self-sup- exception as the Institution of a Jew. mosphere of freedom, and overawed porting colony, the Jewish problem Ish State would be to the prevailing record their playing for it— by an alien officialdom, they have not will remain not merely untransformed materialism. Unhappily, it le again AND FOR the opitimism of the opium-eater. varied from the Shladlonim, the °bee- but largely unalleviated. There wiU elliOUS emissaries of Jewry throughout be neither quantity of salvation nor The Oriental emotionalism of the race has been exploited, and rejoicings the Ghetto ages. Dr. Weizmnnn, des- quality of status. A wanton task uni- Among the great pianists and rhapsodies, processions and eyn• pite his frequent visits to Palestine, fies the workers, and them the com- whose late, authentic re- agogical thanksgivings which might brought never a word to London of mon concentration on Palestine will have seemed faintly In order at the the contemptuous attitude of the mili- strengthen and perpetuate the Dias- corded interpretations can authorities towards the Jews, or pora on Its present lines—a (1111)1011a opening of the first Jewish parliament tary 0 be heard only on the DUO- In a Palstine Regained, have been , s f their iniquitous attempt to burke blessing indeed. In the deal with ART arc: lavished throughout the Ghettos and '" e Balfour Declaration; bad ho done Christendom the Jew, as usual, has Judengassen of the world at the mere 8, o, English meetings of protest might got the worse of the bargain. ave been held and the pogrom in verbal prospect that England ae a III. Parterewsst, (mace inundatory would establish "a Jewish Jeruttalem averted. Of him it may he HOIBIaaa, Joliet What will be the status of a Jew Baser, Harold National Home" there, though all that said, as Macaulay said of Admiral Tor- who becomes a citizen of the new (or Gans, BudolyB was clear was that French Imperial• rington in the old French war: "Ile nursing) ing) British-Arab State in Pale s. Grainger, Percy shrank from all responsibility: from ism had been docked of part at least tine? Is he by nationality British, Oortot, Alfred of the southern section of Syria, and the responsibility of fighting, and from Jewish, Arab, or Palestinian? He will Nova., Onlomar the British empire had been corre. the responsibility of not fighting; and become Paleatinian, it appears. But BabrIlovraseB, Ozalp spondingly extended and fortified by he succeeded in finding out a middle Dambole, Maurice by a strange ukase of the Supreme a new buffer-province. Of the prom- W ay which united all the inconven- Goodeon, Katherine Council of the Allies, he may also re- Ise to the Jews nothing was definite l e aces which he wished to avoid." Rubinstein, Arthur lain his original nationality; an ar• It is urged, of course. that politics except Its negative clauses, and noth- LaTorre, Prank rangement which on the day—if ever Hutobeeon, Bureau ing explicit save Ile limitations. Yet la the art of the practicable, and that it dawns—when the State reaches full- Gown w. August the nebulous news from San Remo in accommodating Been to British fledged independence, will produce a Shattuck, Arthur Bey and Arab metensions, Zionism sufficed to turn Jeruealem from a city Po rare chaos in its Constitution. In the Bogulawski, Koluaye of fasting and lamentations over the ha shown a sensible taateeraft. But meantime, eine° Palestine is supposed Prokoder, Serge e line of least resistance Is neither recent pogrom Into a city hailing the th Powell, John to be training for self-government as a the path of true , etatemmanship nor Messiah with tumult of trumpet. Lerineka, Ethel ward of the League of Nations, and the road of national salvation. ion. Hughes, Edwin "Dreamers of the Ghetto." Britain is merely the transitory vice- Under General I4er, Dindoos had Priedhalm, Arthur There is indeed tnuch In common guardian—Palestine citizenship, ex- to crawl. Ilut under General Allenby, Adler. Clarence cept fur existing British subjects, car- between these hysteric and hyperbolic the Zionist leaders, with the redeem- Cadman, Chu. Wakadeld ries no rights in the British Empire, manifestations and the popular frenzy Denton, Oliver ing exception of Jahotinskv, have conveys no claim to the Paltnerstonlan that attended the career of the seven- Gabbard, Heinrich needed no crawling order. Monett ('iris ropIIIIIIIIS NII))1, TIOr any right to teenth century Sabbatai Zevi, "the Moral, Aurelio Turkish Messiah" of my "Dreamers said of O'Connell that he had cont. land in Melbourne, Montreal, or Lon- Beard, Mardeleine Jonas, Alberto of the Ghetto." The jubilance le even mItted every crime that did not re- dun, except as an alien, or even as an quire courage. Dr. Wei/mann has dis • Wolff, Albert more pathetic in its prematurity and Vecsel, Dealder more unmanly in its abandonment played eVery virtue that does not re- Jews of Palestine from being regarded quire It. Lambert, Aluander as British by the rest of the world, than those grotesque ululations and Baldwin, Carolyn. Coss In short, what the dead Wunder of while the Jewries of the Diaspora, grovelIngs on the floor witnessed at Hemmen, Ernesto the Zionist Congress In 1903, when the Zionism always apprehended has come from all of which energies and finan- Byrd, Winifred Boa, Conrad V. Mere resolution of the majority to In- to pass. The great moment has amend Iles will he streaming towards Pales. vestigate the British offer of a terri- a small Deonle. tine. can scarcely escape being re- Dumeenn, . garded pro-British. .The peril of Triedhelm,•rthur tory In East Africa was taken by the such a situation for non-British Jews Henry, Harold fanatical minority as equivalent to the Nothing could slow the fiasco of }Lenard, Zoete, "surrender" of Palestine. political Zionism more clearly than in the event of a war between Eng. Neuter, Budolph land and other Powers possessing Jew. And this epidemic of ecstasy is im- the eagerness of anti Zionisists to Schmitz, E. Robert measurably more wide-spreqd than take part in the work. Now Plat the ish populations needs no accentuation. Spencer, Eleanor that delirium of grief; its ravages national incitement upon which so After our recent experience of the Sutra, }Lou end China temper anti temperature of peoples at Wadrirueram, Paquita spare neither age nor experience. The much enthusiasm, eloquence, and war, we know that the Jews will be teaching faith in British benevolence money have been expended. and for and world-philanthropy is unalloyed which Captain Trumpeldor died cry- fortunate if they escape with simple Interment. The Jews of England Mist by recollection of the pogrom which ing. "it is good to die for one's min. Jabotinsky accused the British mill. try," has dwindled to the familiar ened to form a League of British Jews to emphasize that they accepted no po- tarp authorities of having incited, and philanthropic task of Immigration and litical loyalty to the Jewish State that which at the best they allowed to rage colonization under alien authority and seemed to he looming But the danger for three days among a scrupulously responsibility, the communal leaders to them is nonexhaent; It is Leagues disarmed Jewry. Let us hope this in- throw themselves into the work with tot' French or German or American corrigible belief in Britain will melt their wonted beneficence. The danger Jews that the situation calls for. Still the hearts of her politicians, and in• is over, and the Messiah will not come more dubious is the position of the duce theta to take the task of Jewish in their time. They know better than Palestine Jews themselves in the Restoration seriously in hand. It to believe that trumpet. In vain the event of the mandatory becoming in- must indeed be a hard parliamentary Zionists pretend that the times of vowed in war. Would Palestine as a heart that is left untouched by this Ezra and Nehemiah are returned. and ward of the League of Nations be nets flowery exuberance of gratitude from the day' of the Third Temple i s at tral, or would England expect the Pal- every land of the Exile, or unshamed hand. A profound instinct, if not a estinians to rally to her defense? We invite your inspection of our Christmas stock. by this unearned increment of bene- reasoned analysis, reassures the pil- Would they, protected by the British diction. Evening demonstration gladly arranged—Phone lars of the synagogue. In truth. not Empire. but enjoying no privileges In Though Cromwell, when he re- even the appointment of Sir Herbert it. be expected to share in its Mani. Cherry 360o. admitted the Jews to England in 1656, Samuel provides Judah with a Zertib- fold risks? Very probably, though the was swayed by mIllennarlan notions, babel. There is no parallel between dictionary defines a manintory as one What great pleasure mould be yours—and these would have had little force over he two historic moments. If by the who does service without compensa. his policy had he not perceived the grace of Cyrus the Jewish State arose lion. And in the unhappy contingency "theirs"—in letting a matchless DUO-ART Re- value of the Jews as Intelllgencers and f rem its ashes and maintained itself of war with France, would the nitre- producing Piano express your love and Christmas promoters of Ills commercial designs. for six centuries longer. though under ling Stales he expected to embrace the tuishes! 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The sole credit attaching to the Brit- P letely harmonizes with their hi s toti. lehism and to Palestine Jews from ish government Is that of political c al and religious sent iments: a coit ne their residence In the unholy land of bound the land to it inhab s polit sagacity—no small virtue indeed In n melts and riv al rtes would y something deeper even than Pus- have these days of purblind politics, and by been worth ical runni ng, had Israel no means to be credited to the Zionist , t ore: a community whose members really achieved, or could he really ill suffer from no divided Isy❑ leaders who, from beginning to end. w ltv, achieve, Independence there. But the have played the passive and impotent , u or any temptation to hate the laws artonomy that lies In numbers Is a role of British political agents, and nder which they are forced to live. dubious and distant goal, and for gen- To have now seen the much-trumpeted g o them the material gain should be erations Israel falls between two "Jewish National !tome" whittled reat. but surely the spiritual gain stools. neither British nor non-British, ill be greater still." And answering neither bond nor free. At best it was down to a British-Jewish High Com- missioner, who will, "Welly, be as b t he fears of anti-Zionists that (the doubtful whether in view of the pro- boldface Is mine) "their ancient home heti I British • governor In Palestine as he er ang with acing been restored to them, they Israel'', national life, the was a Home Secretary In England. on could Mount Zion in labour has produced a hould he expected to reside there." afford to owe its resurrection to op- h e reassures them, denying only the portunism and to the politicians of the mouse, and of the Lion Judah there alter clan". He adds (and again blockade and the Is no sign. This does not prevent supertlismarcklan tie boldface Is 'mine). them—as we have seen—from continn• "Everything Peace. Mantni, with his flaming Re- hick assimilates the national and log to blow the trumpet. 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