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the highways and byways of the
world, dreaming of getting land or
getting to work in Palestine, we must
increase our activity. Our enemies,
our opponents, reproach us today that
we have not enough people on the
land. Nobody reproaches us more
than we reproach ourselves. We know
and we feel that it is essential to go

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forward every year. If you don't go
forward, you go backward in a MOVe-
'tient like ours. Therefore we have
str:iined oar utmost to get the neces-
sary means. We have done well and
it is nut n matter of compliment if I
congratulate our American friends.
that they have carried the enormous
burden in a difficult time.
But ice have to increase the hinter-
land of the Zionist Organization and
to increase the number of those sup-
porters who are ready today to do
something for Palestine and are ready
to share pall of the responsibility
with us. I know full well that many
of (holt do not feel in every fiber all
of our needs. I know that to them
perhaps Palestine does nut make this
primary this final appeal as the only
honorable solution of the Jewish prob-
lem. I know that very well. lint here
they are. They are Featly to take part
in this burden, and I think if this
readiness will express itself in actual
material, moral and intellectual per-
formance, if this readiness means an
increase of land, an increase in the
number of immigrants, an increase in
the number of schools, an increase in
all of our activities, then in view of

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to under-
street looking for suitable screen significance. It gives an
that each tit an is freighted
the situation, not out of wtakness but "My
dear
Dr. work
Weizmann:
"My
court
unfortunately has I types. H is historic old studio was stand
out of the urgent necessity have
to go done
on made it imprssible for me to have over on Sunset boulevard in Holly- with possibility for good or evil, but
studio where many stars especially for good, that is immeas-
and go tin better than We
wood, /I
urable and indeed interminable It
hith ert o, we must open the door to the Albany next week-end. I should very I
p uple who want t come and share the much have liked t rome to the con- were begun on their careers.
tells us that nothing of value that we
w
r
My father knew Mr. Griffith and
responsibility. We assume that they I terrace at Boston for the purpose of t I one day he took me to the studio do is unimportant. What We accom-
plish HMI the length of our life unto
HMI hen- urging its numbers
an
with clean hands
maw to as w
not merely peace but ca. with hint. I was then a freshman in
est intentions, just as we come tO then, , to secure
the Los Angeles Iligh school and a
with clean hands, honest intentions operation among all .less who ore sin-
the last thin,: in
picture career
and the rerun of work behind us. I cerely interested in the development my thoughts. I was dying to go on
And so we nind today as equal to of 1' estint.
tragedy
that
we
the
stage,
as
every
girl that age is,
"It seems to me I1
equal, because the Balfour Declara-
are Jewish in and had already appeared in school
Lion does not mean that Palestine has AmericanJewsW110
recognize our plays and had born 1111 the deoating
been given to us. It has been given to heart and thought; who
duty to give of our strength and our team, but that is as far as my aspira-
All-Israel and they are part and par-
plenty to advance and preserve Jewish lions went.
eel of it. It is this act which calls
All the time my father was talking
or this arrangement between us and ideals and to help our Jewish brethren to Griffith, the director kept looking
other countries who an , less fortu-
those non.Zionists who wish to co- in
nate, should quarrel among ourselves at me and suddenly asked nu' how I
operate and share the responsibility
how and where and when we would like to work in pictures. My
and this arrangement must he made as t o
shall give. Nn man may stand aside father told him that I had to go on
un a basis of complete mutual under- when there is need for his help. We with my school work. Mr. Griffith
standing. We do not give up an iota
must have peace. We must have real, pointed out the fact that summer VII-
of what has lawn the very soul of our
honest co-operation so that such help cation was near at hand. Of course,
movement. We do not give all an bin,
may be effectual. . I jumped at the chance and as soon
either of our hopes or of our aspira-
"I believe that your visit to America as school was out I began work at
tions. We do not demand from them
'will result in securing sash co-opera- the studio. What a lot of us there
to subscribe to something which is
were, PaulintI Stark and Constance
not in conformity which their own non in t h e work. that is close to your Talmadge, 3Iae 3I•rsh and Mildred
beliefs and their own conscience. But heart. Difficulties must be nut; there
Harris, the Gish girls and dozens of
be
recognition
of
the
need
for
we do work together so far as we can Must
others.
go. \\'e ran bring Jews to Palestine. mutual forbearance before there cam
Once I had gotten in it there was
We can acquire land. We can build be effectual work in common, but
no more school for me, when the
up flourishing gardens, we can build once the harm that comes from dis-
fall term began, my father engaged
recognized
there
must
come
up a university together, we can session is
I feel for me a private tutor and I took up
create a real civilization and We leave insistent demand for its end.
my studies when through with work
it to those generations who will come that negotiations which have been
after us to decide what political started must be suceessful; already on the set.
N'ery shortly after I had begun,
form, what cultural form, this Pales- the demand to and dissension is too
Griffith produced a picture called
tine shall assume. Neither you nor I general and too insistent to be denied. "Might and Man" and I was co-
"I count it a great privilege that I
will dictate to those who are at pres-
starred with Elmo Linehan. Then I
ent working on the hills of Palestine have the opportunity to take part in was loaned to Universal for a picture
the political form which such negotiations. I you that
viliat is to
can to hasten the and was eventually signed under a
what
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they will assume. It is our duty there-, I shall
to pave the seas
ay for those forces successful ronclusion I confidently starring contract with that concern,
leaving there to go to the old Gold-
• who are still creative and Jewish, to predict.
"With cordial expressions of my wyn studio and then under contract
come and to help carry the burden
to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer when the
, along, and as long as there is no bet- high esteem, I am,
merger took place.
Sincerely,
I ter way, that is the only possibility ,
So many screen players come from
IRVING
LEHMAN."
I (Signed)
today of increasing our forces.
31y
It is difficult to predict when these the stage and enter pictures.
I have at a very considerable ex-
energy,
sometimes
not
negotiations
will
be
completed,
but
I
icareer
has born reversed. I still had
ni•iliture of
for me, on your behalf, on behalf I think that this conference, both by its a hankering for the legitimate stage
a nd one , wh e n I was in N e w Y o rk I
.4 the Zionist Organization, on behalf idetermination to see this policy
of the Congress, sometimes with a through and by what it is likely to do , got the chance to go with the Shu-
ll,. y art. row' on negotiating with for the unhanding of Palestine, has ' bert organization in "Thy Alagie
But
Melody," a musical comedy.
asking them to come into it in its hands to hasten the success-
pictures were my first love and I feel
ful!, in a task which Will be a credit ful conclusion of these negotiations.
like a pioneer in them, an I returned
am
them
and
to
their
The
negotiations
are
being
conducted
and la'
children, perhaps the only guaranty on the basis of the resolutions which to Los Angeles and to the screen.
Vivid roles, characterizations, are
that their children will still remain have been passed by the Zionist Con-
gress. They are carried out with a my favorites. I adored doing "Ben
Jewish. I think I am entitled to say,
Ilur" and "Tell It to the Marines."
view
of
realizing
this
program
td
a
in spite of all controversy, in spite of
Deceiver" was interesting
accumulated bitterness, that we shall large activity in Palestine which I "The Gay
now I am looking forward
obtain peace and unity and co-opera- have tried to outline in the course of too, RIM
nen, and a share in the responsibility my long spetwh. If we are success- with great anxiety, to appear in the
"Denii-Bride" a French farce produc-
Sc this work. And I hope before this ful, it will be a considerable contribu-
winter is over we may possibly have tion towards hastening the day when tion which, will start immediately
at
the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio.
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hunt at least in American Israel. lboring
a
and working for the fulfill-
That will be a great impetus for Israel meat, may see with your ova eyes a I
all over the world. It means strength- national home established firstly so
"The power that we originate," says
ening us politically, strengthening us that no storm shall shake it.
There arc two kinds of opposition Ralph NS'aldo Emerson, "outlives us,"
morally, opening up new resources,
and opening up a source of new man- to this project. One kind I mentioned I know of no reminder of greater im-
iwer which we require today in Pal- already, that is, within the Zionist portance to human life than this. It
Stine. These are tender and delicate Organization, the opposition of friends carries the thought of man's personal
negotiations. I don't know whether who are too fearful lest co-operation
might possibly injure the soul of the
I 11111 a go o d 01. 11 bad negotiator, but
I know that that negotiator will sne- movement. This is an opposition that
ered who honestly aims to achieve sue- we must reckon with and everything
without seeking his personal must be done to satisfy it. There is
S
y. It is for the good of the cause another opposition. There is a force
that we are consecrating our lives. in the world today that is not interest-
ed in Palestine nor in the fate of
Therefore we shall succeed.
Ti,, negotiations today are in pro- Jewry but that wants to bring about
cress with a group very well known disunity in Israel, to whom the con-
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to you, and I think I may read a letter summation of the Jewish Agency plan
from one of them, This is what Jus- means the symbol of unity aml by
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live Irving Lehman writes me under breaking this plan we play in the
hands of those very enemies of Israel.
date of Nov, la, 1526:
It has become fashionable with
every one who wants to pose as un-
biased and practical men to run down
Palestine. In order to do away with
all that, before engaging in a great
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program like the one which I have
tried to outline, we desire and demand
that a real body of appointed and not
self-appointed experts make a survey
of the situation and make recommen-
dations for the tut are. We are con-
fident that they will find that vie
have even understated the possibili-
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ties of Palestine.
We are all groping in the attempt
Railings and Grilles.
to solve an unprecedented problem.
What I have outlined is an attempt to
increase the scope and the size of our
work. It may be that this attempt
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those people who believe that they are
preparing the future. It is an honest
attempt to go again on a difficult road.1
It seems that all the roads which lead
to Jerusalem make one footsore. There
is no royal road to Jerusalem. It is
la narrow path which we have to tread
very cautiously. What I have outlined
is one of the roads, and I fervently
pray that when we shall he called be-
fore the bar of history to account for
what we have done and for what we
have omitted, it will be said about us,
"Here was a small generation, a gen-
eration small as compared with the
cid: which it took upon itself, but a
nc I iii i n which honestly tried its
lw-t for its people. It found the peo-
ple as it found them. It found the
Mail neglected, destroyed, a reproach
to humanity. It took these poor peo-
ple and tried to build up a land in
ware, with little means, with people
tired, worried and worn out in the
war, and still it has commanded the
respect of a civilized world."
That should give you courage, and
if you has of America have dispersed I
over this vast continent, you fortunate'
ones, sheltered behind the wings of a
great government, spared all the
forces of destruction which are crush-
ing out the hotly and souls of those
who missed the boat and have not
crossed t' e ocean with you, remember
that whatever you will do for your-
self or f r the othe rs is merely a frac-
tion of —hat those whom you have
sent to Palestine are doing today for I
your glory and for your credit.

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