America nick periodical &ter CA TON AYENUC CINCINNATI 20, 01110 September 3, 1937 and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE BALFOUR LOVED WEIZMANN Sincere New Year Greetings to Our Many Friends and Patrons ALL OFFICES OF E. A. PIERCE & CO. ARE connected by leased private wires with cities where the principal security and commodity exchanges are located. As members of these exchanges we execute promptly in the proper markets commission orders in stocks and bonds, and commodity futures. E. A. PIERCE & CO. HOME OFFICE: 40 WALL ST., NEW YORK CITY Uptown Office: 51 East 42nd Street Akron, Ohio Amarillo, Tema Athens, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. Birmingham Ala. Boston. Mass. Buffalo, N. Y. Canton, Ohlo Chatannogs, Tenn. Cideago, Cleveland, Ohio Columbia, S. C. • Columbus, Ohio p.n.s, Tema Denver, Colo. DETROIT. MICH. }Wellsville, N. C. Fort Worth, vexes Greensboro, N. C. PAGE NINE P)ffritorrlarisnautoricti) GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Hamilton, Ont., Can. Ilendemon, N. C. Houston, Tana JACKSON, MICH. Lake Clarke. 1.4. LANSING, MICH. Lebanon, Pa. Los Angeles, Calif. Massillon, Ohio Milwaukee, Ilia Minneapolis, Minn. Mobile, Ala. Montgomery, Ala New ()denim, lat. Ottawa. Ont., Can. Pasadena, Calif. Philadelphia. IM. Portland, Ore. Providence, How the Balfour Declaration Was Born By BLANCHE E. C. DUGDALE t c 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 Itskigh, N. C. SAGINAW. MICH. San Antonia, Tema San Francine*, Calif. Sa.11111,b, Ga. Seattle, Wash. Shelby, N. C. Simkane, Wash. Temrkana, Tem. Toronto, Ont., Can. Washington, D. C. it Whits Falls, Tema Wilmington, N. C. Wilson, N. C. Winston-Salem, N. C. 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 THEY BLAZED A NEW TRAIL Best Wishes for a Happy New Year to the Entire Jewish Community . . . Your Neighborhood Kroger Store Offers Yost A MODERN FOOD SERVICE fork. Members New York Stock Exchange and 29 other exchanges With a Complete Line of Highest Quality Groceries, Meats, Fruits and Vegetables bosh Hashonah greetings At Low Prices That Will Fit Your Budget George T. Shupert & Co. Investment Securities Cad. 7244 1466 Penobscot Bldg.' the members of the American Kibbutz Above is • head picture who occupied a new Jewish settlement at Jiara, Palestine, during the week of July 7, when the British Royal Commission published its startling report on the partition of the country. If Sincere New Year Greetings MARKETS QUOTED In All Listed and Unlisted SECURITIES Whitlock Smith & Co. , Members DETROIT STOCK EXCHANGE 1446 Penobscot Bldg. CHerry 4900 Rosh Hashonah Greetings .. . Gorman & Thomas INSURANCE 219 Majestic Bldg. CAdillac 6946 ROSH HASHONAll GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES 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. 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Best Wishes for a Happy New'Yeat to Our Friends and Customers ARCADE HARDWARE WEISS CALENDAR CO. TYLER 6-5506 5170 GRAND RIVER 3696 E. FOREST ST. 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 520 Germs. :sea Polish Jo out of account. Enter United States • • • Five hundred and twenty G 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. 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