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CA TON AYENUC CINCINNATI 20, 01110
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How the Balfour Declaration Was Born
By BLANCHE E. C. DUGDALE
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Now Hod the Jewhth stMe, et en though In reduced size, Is becoming • reali si .
poiltical factor, title chapter on how Balboa met and workeel with Pr
}halm 0%ci,nann Is of especial Interest. The author Is a niece of the
lair lord Balfour. preeent this puswegs from her Iwo-toluene book.
.Ari bur domes Balfour,. by special courtesy of O. P. PutnaMM Smolt New
lurk, the publisher. of the work.
(Copyright, 1137. Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
cam-
During the Manchester cam-!
paign of 1906 Balfour's headquar-
ten were, as usual, in the Queen's
Hotel. Through the green-painted
pillars of that Victorian portico
the stream of pressmen, party or-
ganisers, supporters and busy-
bodies passed continually in and
out. Upstairs, in the suite of first-
floor rooms, Balfour's sister and
his secretaries guarded his mo-
ments of quiet. Yet it was to this
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sons for the Zionist attitude to the
East African offer. Mr. Dreyfus
told him that there was at that
moment in Manchester one of the
younger leaders of the Zionist
movement, a Russian Jew, Chaim
Weizmann by name, who had re-
cently settled in England and held
a post as lecturer in organic chem-
istry at the Victoria University.
Balfour asked to see him, and in
the midst of the election turmoil
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place, and under these circum- an interview was arranged, timed
stances, that one visitor was sum- to occupy a quarter of an hour or
moned for a conversation which in so. It lasted an hour and a quar-
years to come was to bear fruit ter. Both participants described it a
undreamed of by them both, and to me many times afterwards, in
to set its impress upon history, in way that showed the unusual sym-
the Balfour Declaration of 1917, pathy which sprang up, almost at
pledging the British Government to first sight, between two leaders
promote the establishment of a widely separated by every material
National Home for the Jews in circumstance of life and tradition.
The young scientist, born and
Palestine. The first meeting be-
tween Balfour and Dr. Chaim bred in the tragic surroundings of
Russian
Jewry, had no great be-
Weizmann was a prelude to that
lief in his powers to explain the
story.
motive forces behind the dawning
Balfour's interest in the Jews Jewish national revival to the Con-
and their history was lifelong. It servative leader, on whom Fortune
originated in the Old Testament had showered almost every pre of
training of his mother, and in his her richest gifts. Still less did Dr.
Scottish upbringing. As he grew Weizmann expect to convince the
up, his intellectual admiration and British politician of the spiritual
sympathy for certain aspects of necessity that drove the Zionists
Jewish philosophy and culture to make contact again with the
grew also, and the problem of the soil of Palestine, and forbade them
Jews in the modern world seemed to accept escape through settle-
to him of immense importance. lie ment on any other spot on earth.
always talked eagerly on this, and He certainly did not anticipate any
I remember in childhood imbibing particular result from the conver-
from him the idea that Christian cation. The offer of Balfour's Gov-
religion and civilisation owes to ernment had been rejected, grate-
Judaism
an ill
immeasurable
debt, fully but decisively, by the section
shamefully
repaid. His interest
of Zionists among whom Dr. Weiz-
in the subject was whetted in the mann was already a leader. That
year 1902 by the refusal of the Government had just fallen from
Zionist Jews to accept an offer of power.
land for settlement in British East
Yet he had not been 10 min-
Africa, made to them by his own
Government through Mr. Chamber- utes in Balfour's presence be-
fore
he found himself striving
lain, then Colonial Secretary. This
episode roused in him a curiosity his utmost to break down the
which he found no means to sat- obstacles of his, no yet, imper-
isfy. He had no contacts with Zion- fect command of English, and
ist Jews, who were few and far expound the Zionist conscious-
between in England then, and non- ness of historical right.
"I began to sweat blood to
existent in the social circles to
which Balfour's Jewish friends, make my meaning clear
such as the Rothschilds, belonged. through my English. At the
Their First Meeting
Ivan C. Hay & Co.
His Chairman in Manchester
was however a Jew, Mr. Dreyfus,
and to him, In 1905, Balfour men-
tioned his wish to fathom the rea-
■ effort, I
very end I made an
had an idea. I said: 'Mr. Bal-
four, if you were offered Paris
instead of London, would you
take it? Would you take Paris
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Chaim Weizmann, the Zionist
leader.
No one but myself saw the brief
and silent farewell between these
two, as diverse from one another,
whose mutual sympathy had been
so powerful an instrument in the
history of a nation. The privacy
of their last meeting would not be
broken here exe , pt for one reason.
A few days later, millions of poor
Jews in the ghettoes of Eastern
Europe and the slums of New York
were bewailing with deep personal
grief the loss of a British states-
man whose face they had never
seen. All over the world the cere -
monial candles were lit in the
synagogues, and the Prayer of R
membrance, the A'skara, w a
chanted. Never In living memor y
had this been done for any Gentile.
For the sake of the people who re
paid his understanding of th em
with the greatest tribute in thei r
power to bestow, it is right to
Balfour for his part told me cord the visit of Chaim Weizman n
often about the impression the con- to Balfour's death-bed it was no
t
versation made on him.
the love or sorrow of an individua
"It was from that talk with alone which was expressed by th
Weizmann that I saw that the Jew- tears of one Jew that day. N
ish form of patriotism was unique. words passed between them, 0
Their love for their country re- could pass, for Balfour was ver
steak, and Dr. Weizmann muc
fused to be satisfied by the Uganda overcome.
scheme. It was Weizmann's abso-
But 1, who saw the look with
lute refusal even to look at it which Balfour moved his hand an 1
touched
the bowed head of th
which impressed me."
other, have no doubt at all tha t
The conversation of which this he realised the nature of the emo
a date
is a fragment took place at
which for the first, and only ,
when Zionism itself, and 13alfour's tion
1.
understanding of it, had both been time showed itself in his nick-room
put to practical tests. The story
When treat are die.
A mighty name, and a bitter try
of the meeting with Dr. Weizmann
Rise tap from a aalloe calling.
in Manchester is no digression, but
an integral part of the narrative
There
were no other visite t
of Balfour's life during the Gen-
I-
eral Election. He turned, then , farewell. Ile always disliked
br-
very characteristically, for relaxa- byes. The end came rather
tion, to a subject which interested denly early in the morning
,
him alike as a political philosopher March 19.
a student of history and a states-
man; but also as a statesman tem-
porarily freed from responsibility.
The train of reflection was start-
ed in 1906 by the contact of two
singularly magnetic personalities,
and Balfour pursued it for the
Theodor Gordon will tel IS
next few years, intermittentl y no up Rabbi
his new post early in Septem .1-
doubt, but with the ardour he re- as director of the Bnal Brith Hill el
served for his speculative moments. Foundation at Penn State Coll e.
The more he thought about Zion- He succeeds Rabbi Ephraim Fisc 8-
ism, the more his respect for it, off, who will direct the Millet Fou n-
and his belief in its importance dation at Cornell University, r e-
grew. His opinions took shape be- placing Rabbi Maurice Pekars
fore the defeat of Turkey in the who becomes director at No rti
h-
Great War transformed the whole western University In place
future for the Zionists. The policy Rabbi Martin Weitz, who has aof
of the "Balfour Declaration" of
pulpit in Kenosha, Wis.
1917 has been attributed to vari- cepted a
Rabbi Gordon has been IRS ;I-
ous motives, worthy and unworthy, ated
with
Rabbi Lazaron in Bal H-
on the part of British statesmen.
e-
The long-standing sympathy of the more since his graduation from
brew
Union
College four years ■ iron
then Foreign Secretary was a fee-
tor which is too commonly left
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out of account.
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Early in March, 1930, Balfour's man-Jewish
refugees and Im o
strength began to ebb. He slept rrants from Poland
disembark
many hours of the 24, the same here whenthe liners Manhatt
sound natural sleep which had
Deutsehland
and
Baton
arriv e
never deserted him at any time of
stress. When awake he spoke very The Manhattan brought
German
Jews
and
the
Deets
little, but never failed to greet us
with a smile. A few days before land landed 100, including
the end be received for a few mo- children traveling alone.
ments a visitor from outside the Polish Jews numbering 120
circle of his family. This was Dr. rived on the Bstory.
instead of London?' He looked
surprised. He: 'But London is
our ownr I said: 'Jerusalem
was our own when London was
• marsh.' He said: 'That's
truer I did not see him again
till 1916."
Thus Dr. Weizmann de-
scribed to me their first meet-
ing. Imagination supplies more.
When Balfour's a ttention con-
centrated on something that
really held it, he would look at
the speaker with • steady ex-
pectant gaze. His eyes seemed
then like windows to his inner
self through which one had
only to look to find perfect
comprehension. To evoke that
particular e xpression was an
experience even for those who
were familiar with it. For •
stranger in a strange land It
was an unforgettable moment.
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