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measure of autonomy Is, you see, ■
sine qua non of colonization, indeed
of any work, if it is not to be inter-
rupted in the middle.
In the work of the Jewish Terri-
torial Organization, which aimed at
a Jewish National Home anywhere
"on an autonomous basis," I was
soon confronted with this problem.
On the one hand, the self-styled prac-
tical men, who are the great bunglers
of the world, shied at demanding au-
tonomy. On the other hand, every
country I approached boggled at con-
ceding it to the Jews even when they
possessed enormous unpeopled terri-
tories. Carlyle said the population
of England was 30,000,000, mostly
fools. I discovered the population of
the world was 1,650,000,000, mostly
dogs-in-the-manger. Not that they
would not part with the land. Only
Jews must turn into them. But com-
ing down to bed-rock, my organiza-
tion found that the absolute mini-
mum of autonomy was the right to
control one's immigration. Without
that one was building upon sand, or
on soil politically volcanic. Even the
non-political Galveston operation, by
which, in conjunction with the saint
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ceeded in planting a nucleus of 10,-
000 Russian Jews west of the Mis-
sissippi, no as to break the self-made
Pale of Jewish settlement here, and
draw future immigrants away from
your congested Ghettos, even this 100
per cent American scheme was im-
peded by the capricious bureaucracy
of the local immigration board, which
on one occasion rejected for poor
physique some 30 men, whom, when
I journeyed to console and camper.
sate them at Bremen, I had photo-
graphed as a group of muscular
giants.
Herbert Samuel, when he was orig-
inally sent to spy out the land of
Zion, before being created a Knight
and a Governor, brought back the re-
port that Lebanon, a district of the
same character as Palestine, carried,
p er square mile ,three times its popu-
l ation, and that therefore Zionism
was a practicable policy. A more
naive report was never made by ■
statesman of experience, and one can
only suppose that this admirable ex-
Honie Secretary of a civilized coun-
try was, like the distinguished chem.
Weizmann, entirely out of his
element in coping with politics in the
rough, and countries in the making.
Ile might as well have reported that
Ireland, a country of the same gen-
eral character as England, carried
only a population one-sixth as dense,
and that therefore a great Jewish
colonization could be established in
Ireland. When you enter the realm
of national politics, you enter, as I
have already pointed out, the realm
of Might. That is a crude fact which
Lord Birkenhead has lately been en-
forcing in America, and though he
forgot that over these warring na-
tions there is still a right which it is
our duty to make prevail, it remains
true that without might, even this
right can rarely be established. In
the case of Zionism you enter not
only the realm of might, but also the
realm of right. But when the White
Paper says that the Jews are in Pal-
estine "as of right," that ,Fight has
still to be asserted by might, just as
much as when Nehemiah's builders
had to hold the sword as well as the
trowel and it is useless to evade that
issue. The rebirth of a nation is as
dangerous as the birth of a child and
the attempt to evade pain by "twi-
light sleep" is futile. If it is not now
Jewish might that guards our renais-
sance, it is British might, as the Arabs
plainly see. If you Americans are a
free and independent people, it is be-
cause the might of your ancestors
prevailed against the might of Eng-
land. And if your Red Indians are
in reservations and only 344,303 now
survive, it is because their might
failed against yours. In Mr. ',oiler's
excellent and largely impartial sur-
vey of the whole Middle East prob-
lem in his book called "The Truth
About Mesopotamia, Palestine and
Syria," the Jewish immigration is re-
garded as imposed by England
against the will of the inhabitants.
And the author is not satisfied that
these inhabitants have not the same
right to exclude immigrants as Can-
ada, Australia and the United States.
The analogy to these countries is, of
course, ridiculous, as Mr. Loder al-
most sees for himself; but the fact
remains that British coercion, taking
in the last analysis the form of
bombs and poison gas, must be used
to protect Jewish immigration against
the Arabs, and equally against Jew-
ish Immigration to protect England
from an Arab outbreak in a Pan-
Arabic region. Zionism can there-
fore only rely upon as much of Eng-
land's might as suits the policy of
England, and since the Zionist lead-
ers are ready to accept any condi-
tions, howevet humiliating and how-
ever impracticable, and since Britain
is represented by a too tactful Jew-
ish governor, it is clear that only ■
minimum of might will be at the dis-
posal of the Jewish National Home
and that mainly in the British in-
terest. That interest is now nakedly
proclaimed by a shoal of writers and
statesmen as the erection of a bar-
rier state for the defense of the Suez
canal.
meanest transaction in all history. A framed Our syna g o g ues
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e
ing up an enemy colony. is • is
transaction all the meaner because as God for the re-establishment of Pal- why,
imperfect as is the Leagu e
avowed by General Allenby when estine as a Jewish home, without no- a N ble.
of
ations,
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decorating Captain Aaronsohn, the ticing that the phrase "a Jewish home
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local Jews—not to mention the Jew- in Palestine" had been slyly substi-
ish regiments—facilitated the con- tuted. And all the world thought the afford to become the blind and ob-
a ny power.
quest of Palestine, while the political same. Even as late as May, 1922,
the
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advantages reaped by all the allies the fine President you have so tragic-
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receive fr i o s t
from the Balfour Declaration and by ally lost was writing his sympathy
Britain from the millions invested in with the proposed "restoration of Pal- British government, still less . ., the
s,
Palestine on the strength of it, would, estine as a homeland for the Jewish our yellow press, any ackeio,•
i , , „hen
in the language of that tine old Chris- people." The fact that no Zionist extent that its presence is of e..
tian gentleman, E. P. Hewitt, K. C., protest was made at any point on the Britain or even to world ni,..:
make the wilful betrayal of Zionism road to political ruin, combined with , It is treated as the sole h. ,
a "dishonor and a breach of faith." the feeble handling of the situation and even my old friend, S.
But I do not agree with the slander- in Palestine itself by the Jewish gov- Mond, in his otherwise notl•
era of Britain. No. though the Bal- ernor, precipitated the fiasco of po- at your Town Hall warned ii. ' s s
that we might not do enough
On July 0, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, the four Declaration has been reduced to litical Zionism.
tify England in maintainnig the Rai-
Colonial Under-Secretary, defending a scrap of White Paper, Balfour was
The truth is that there Is a joint four Mandate. An unworthy threat
the pro-Zionist policy of the govern- unquestionably sincere. lie had long British-Jewish interest in Palestine,
of your "mone y
ment from its critics, said in the toyed with the Jewish problem.
without which the officialdom of the
British Colonial Secretary the
House of Commons: "The object of
Lloyd dGseyon
s
reign Office would have strangled the
e,g psa i
fluke of Devonshire,
being in Palestine is not merely to strafed h i s sympathy as af rjeush and
ecently told
the Balfour Declaration even before
rdidemthoan t Fo
provide a 'spiritual home.' ... There noble-souled Englishman, Lord Rob- birth; and this, as Herz!, who loved the House of Lords that Eissli,nd
are quite other reasons." But in thus ert Cecil, has repeated in his preface England, admired her colonizing ea- must either carry out her mas Lite
seeking to pacify our yellow journal- to Mr. Loder's book, that "the Zion- parity and placed his financial base or abandon Pal t.'
ism, these Englishmen appear to be ist" policy is "of vital importance to in London, perceived, was the best from the great sums expend.• b y
unaware how unfair they are to Eng- the world," that "a nation without guarantee of Jewish Renaissance in Jews in the purchase of land •
grasping Arabs, the annual
land. Though as the London Times a country of its own
is an anomaly," Palestine.
once of some $20,000,000 e s
admits, in the stress and confusion and that "the Arab state has not any
In
sonic
respects
it
might
have
of the war, the right hand of the ground of comlpaint." If the states- been better had France and England wrong sides between the import
British government did not always man-like conception of Lord Balfour frankly divided Syria between them exports of Palestine shows how 7
know what the left hand was giving has been reduced to its lowest pos. as legitimate spoil of war, leaving the Jewish money is being sunk l; •
away, and the same territory may sible meaning, the blame lies first Jewish people whose fate is bound up country, let us hope products,.
have been promised to rival appli- with the military administration of with the growth of world-truth and
Sir Alfred would have tess
cants, yet I am mire England did not Palestine, brazenly over-ruling the world-justice, unentangled with the in order in warning England tl
issue the Balfour Declaration merely home government, and with our Brit- ambiguous device of mandates and might not do enough to ja-t
as a war rnanoeuver, but sincerely ish permanent officialdom, whose the dubious justice of peace treaties. in pouring our resources into
meant to solve the Jewish problem by
Especially at the time •
(unction it is to curb the generous There is, however, one surpassing ad- tine.
the Diaspora has been living the
the establishment of a Jewish state.
impulses of their transient and em- vantage in being under the League of
It is bad enough to have deceived our barrassed chiefs, and to express the Nations and not nakedly under Brit- the blackest time even in its hi
people's hope, but for Englishmen to honorable indiscretions of ministers ain—that it is a protection to non-
For the "Jewish National II
represent this deception as inten-
in Palestine is at this moment a
tional would be to accuse their own in language which does not so much British Jews living in such countries! tie Jewish or national a home • y
conceal as cancel them. Thus Philip as are liable to come into clash with
country of having exploited Jewish Graves, in his recent book, "Pales- Britain. Imagine the situation of the other part of the Diaspora, to e
idealism to grab Palestine for itself; ine, tells us that every word of the
mildest non-British Zionist in war in fact Palestine has now been is
I.
it w ould convict England of the B
alfour Declaration was deliberately time if he were supposed to be build
Trust Uesischkin, the old stab.,
who actually living there I. s s
where the shoe pinches, and whos.•
pulsion from office by the very i n.
grass that adopted his protest against
the British government is only An.
other illustration of the confusion in
the Zionist camp. The Arabs remain
as obdurate as ever. The Weizmann.
Samuel policy of perpetual conces-
sion has but confirmed their °mai-
tion. As I warned Sir Herbert Sam,
uel when he first went out, the line
of least resistance is no road to any
goal. A pessimist has been defined
as a man who, placed between two
evils, chooses both. The Zionist lead-
ership seems of the same kidney, for
it has sacrificed- Jewish autonomy
without acquiring Arab recognition
or friendship. In politics, lamented
the late Lord Morby, you are always
between two blunders. The Zionists
continue to choose both. What does
this Karlsbad vote of censure on the
British Mandatory mean at bottom
but a demand for more disgruntling
of the Arab, more armed force? But
the moment for force has passed.
I shall always remain persuaded
that a Jewish state was possible at
the moment when the Arab was a de-
feated enemy, liberated from the
Turk and glad enough to take on any
political impress; that by a policy of
racial redistribution such as is now
in operation between the Greeks and
the Turks under the Treaty of Lau-
sanne, combined with full compensa-
tion for expropriated land—a policy
of mine with which even our Morn.
ing Post was originaly satisfied--the
difficulty of making a home out of a
• territory in which we are only one
out of nine inhabitants and in which
our total holding of the soil is still
below 4 per cent, could have been
argely removed. I shall always be-
ieve that at the critical moment the
Zionist leadership, unconscious of
the living forces behind it, such as
already existed in Palestine, or have
fresh expression in the Haluzim, per-
haps even content with the Ached-
Ilaamism which, as Dubnow tells us,
had alreday replaced Zionism as
!early as the Congress of 1913, failed
in nerve and will-power. But the
j hour of destiny has passed. A great
moment found, as Ilerzl had fore-
boded, a small people.
YOU R DETROIT OF 1933?
HAT kind of Detroit will your sons and daughters have?
Will it be peaceful, progressive, a good place to live in? Or
will it be a hotbed of crime, a sinkhole of corruption, a place
where people live because they must?
Will the Detroit of ten years hence, twenty years hence, be bet-
ter or worse than the Detroit of today?
The character-building and educational agencies financed by
the Detroit Community Fund are doing all in their power to make
good citizens out of the coming generation. Through their efforts
good tendencies are substituted for evil; knowledge takes the place
of ignorance; hungry minds and hungry souls are fed and inspired.
In short, these men and women of tomorrow are helped to a better,
fuller life, so that they will be a credit to their city.
You prosperous citizens of Detroit, you know how greatly our
city has helped you to your present success. What will you do to
pass on a better city to the coming generation.
Dedicate a part of your prosperity to the future of your city—
by making a generous subscription to the Detroit Community Fund.
"The Moving Finger writes, and hav-
ing writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety n
Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a
Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word
of it."
More than 40,000 needy human beings
—from babies-in-arms to aged grand-
parents—last year caught a rare hour of
happiness, of joyful play, of picnic pleas-
ure, of blue-sky recreation, or were lifted
out of sordid surroundings and inspired
to realize their dreams through 20 agen-
cies of the Detroit Community Union de-
voted to elevating Detroit's standard of
living. •
Nine settlement houses—doors of op-
portunity to the immigrant and those op-
pressed by poverty—conduct neighbor-
hood parties and dances, libraries for the
children, clubs for the mothers, for the
boys and for the girls
The physical welfare of both young-
sters and adults is cared for in gymna-
sium classes; pre-natal, baby and gen-
eral clinics, kindergarten and day nurs-
eries afford the information and help so
necessary for sturdy childhood, so -help-
ful to overworked mothers. Community
laundries and cooking classes provide
economies appropriate to slim purses.
Night school classes, in co-operation with
the Board of Education and libraries,
supply opportunities for even the poorest
to develop their latent God-given talents.
Tired mothers and their children and
working girls of limited means are given
much-needed vacations in the open, thus
securing rest and enjoyment of which,
otherwise, they would have been de-
prived.
Ten thousand Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts
and Camp Fire Girls and nearly 9,000
young people of the Y. M. C. A. anad.Y.
W. C. A. receive healthful and correc
tive exercise.
An expropriation policy, tolerable
in the immense tragedy of the war,
I would be inadvisable today. Think
of the world-jungle in which, as sego
from my aeroplane, the little Jewry
nestles. All countries civilized enough
to have chemists and inventors are
I busy preparing to destroy the rens-
inants of civilization use
aced with the possibility of all hie
being driven underground, and mars
the apex of the ages, regressing in n,
a super-rabbit or returning literal,
to the cave-man. Add Dr. Bert
finely said, "a world that was alns
destroyed by hate is trying to sa,•
itself by hate." Lloyd George r
minded us recently that there ar'
110,000,000 more men under arms in
Europe than before the "War to en
I War." And I am sure it seethes with
more oppressed minorities than Is. -
fore the principle of nationalities %vs-
I invoiced for racial protection. Ev,
in the weeks before sailing here, ha,
ing booked my passage on a Flemish
boat, I was not sure that Ang.ls-
, 'French friction would not prevent
' my crossing. That friction, had it
developed, would have set the new
Jewry of Palestine in arms against
the neighboring French Syria. For
both France and England have the
• right under their mandates to raise
local militia for the defense respec-
tively of Syria and Palestine and,
moreover, to use their ports and rail-
ways for the passage of their own
'troops and munitions _of war. Who
would throw a match into such a
powder factory as the globe has be-
come?
Detroit Community fund
6th Annual Campaign Oct. 29 to nov.5
' I '
No, not only must all the forces of
Israel be mobilized against "the next
war," but we must forego our political
h yes in Palestine rather than kindle
a conflagration which may ravage the
whole world. It is true, as even the
I White Paper concedes, the Karlsbad
Congress may take its grievances to
the League of Nations—a strange
anticlimax indeed to that deluge of
pro-British cables with which the Jew-
ries of the world swamped the San
IRemo conference. But who believes
either that the League of Nations has
'the power to coerce England or that
England will abandon Palestine of the
enterprise of France or the lethargy
of the Arab? No Dr. Weismann has
received the freedom of New York; he
canna obtain the freedom of Jerusa-
•lem.
Peliteal Zionism is dead. All or-
ganizations cling to life ,especially
vSen they own funds. But humanity
must not become a parasite on its
own machinery, and the proudest will
must sometimes acknowledge honor!-
Me defeat. So long as King David s
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