Weizmann s Negotiations
With Feisal and Lawrence

Hail-Knesseth Israel!

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The fact was that Arab .hostility gained in momentum as
the days passed. By the time a civil administration under
Sir Herbert Samuel took over, the gulf between the two
Peoples was already difficult to bridge.

Challukah Jewry

Editor's Note: Miss Parree, a non-Jew was in-
spired by recent events in Israel to write this
poetic greeting to the new Israel Parliament. She
sent it to Rabbi Morris Adler, through whose
courtesy The Jewish News reprints it here.

By MARSEILLAINE PARREE

From the gloom of the shroud-draped ages,

There was a second, Jewish community in Palestine, • an Where the martyred Patriarchs lie—
the echo of tumult rages
old, quaint, picturesque and appealing community which And
With a Peoples' bitter cry.
long antedated the upbuilding of the Jewish Homeland.
This was Challukah Jewry, elderly, strictly religious men Till the heart is riven with sorrow
and women who devoted their last years to prayer, sacred And the feet of the wanderers bleed,
study and good deeds generally. They lived in a strange And the eyes peering into the morrow
world of their own. All they knew definitely about the war Grow dim=as they search and plead.
was that it had dried up the source of most of their incomes, And the dirge of the wind-blown ashes
since no money could now reach them from their European Swirls wide and deep and high,
As the dawn of New Israel—flashes
benefactors.
A curious incident out of that time has stayed vividly in Across the Eastern sky.
my memory. My train was due to pull out of Lydda; my And the heart that was torn and stricken,
luggage was being taken out to the car. I noticed two vener- Stirs to a new refrain,
able gentlemen—their combined ages must have been in And the pulse of a people—quickens
the neighborhood of one hundred and eighty years—bearing To new joy—wrung from ancient pain.
down on me. They said: "But you are not really going away?
Oh—the wraiths of the dead are legion,
You can't go now. There are still some matters of importance
That emerge from the oven's flame,
to settle here."
To reach toward the STAR that is shining

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Where the vine greens anew, and the branches
Lean heavy against the root,
While the husbandman toils in the vineyard again---.
Nursing the forming fruit.

As new cities rise in splendor—
To span a sable interlude,
Where the hosts of the 'Tented Pretender'
Spawned their unnumbered brood.

And the eons of subjugation;
The curse of the scar and the lash;
The exile and lamentation
Cease! in triumphant consummation
Of the WORD—that has come to pass.

Till the mounting throb of "Hatikvah"
Trembles the pen and the plow,
Surging upward in swelling cadence
Above the prayer-bent brow.

And the roots, long stifled and dormant
In the dust of two thousand years,
Though crushed in the tryrant's torment
Were kept living—with hope and tears.

HARK! the clang of the Builder's hammer!
And the whirr of lathe and wheel,
Give proof that though meek and patient
The will to endure—is steel!

And—in the breath of the ancient Prophets,
A new flag is unfurled,
And the ringing voice of the Torah
Is heard in the Courts of the World!

I was only too conscious that there was a great deal of room in In Israel's Holy Name!
there were matters of importance the country if intensive develop-
HUSH! The mystic cycle closes
still unsettled—many of them to ment were applied, and that the While—from the vast circumference
Ezekiel's visioned wheel—
In prophecy's design,
remain so for many years—but I lot of the Arabs would be greatly Of
Comes the drone of a mighty migration,
And the Scrolls of the Laws of Moses
did not at once grasp what was improved through our work Pressing with eager zeal.
In the Covenant's Ark of Zion—
meant. The elder proceeded to there. With all this I found the
enlighten me: Emir in full agreement, as Law- Back to the roots that are vital and deep
Their ancient wisdom disposes
"Do you not know that the rence .later confirmed to me by In the warmth of the fertile loam,
From Mt. Sinai's Tablets—divine,
The ancient earth that gave them birth—
And we HAIL—Knesseth Israel!
Feast • of Tabernacles is almost letter.
In Jerusalem's sacred shrine!
This first meeting in the desert The sacred earth—of HOME!
upon us and we have no myr-
ties?" _(At the 'Feast of Taberna- laid the foundations of a lifelong
cies certain prayers are said by friendship. I met the Emir sev-
Sings for Workers
orthodox Jews while they hold a eral times afterward in Europe
palm branch adorned with myr- and our negotiations crystallized
ties in one hand and an ethrog, or into an agreement drawn up by
citron in the other.) Colonel Lawrence and signed by
A little startled, I said: "Sure- the Emir and myself. Thus the
Detroit's 1949 Israel Histadrut Campaign for $375,000 will for-
ly you can get myrtles from leader of the Arab world came to
mally close with a city-wide meeting Sunday evening, March 27
Egypt." aiwomplete understanding with us
at Music Hall which will also be a demonstration saluting Medinat
My friends looked pained. They and would, no doubt, have car-
Israel.
wanted myrtles from Trieste. I ried this understanding into ef-
The musical program will be highlighted by the first Detroit
explained carefully that there feet if his destiny had shaped as
was a war on, and that Trieste we at that time expected it would.
appearance of Simon Bermanis, young Vienna tenor who arrived
Arab Unity Recedes
was in enemy territory. "You will
in the United States several
Unfortunately, for reasons be
have to make do," I said, "with
months ago .tensified efforts of workers, with
yond his control, he was unable
Egyptian myrtles."
A native of Latvia, he gradu- I almost $10,000 reported for the
My interlocutors brought out to realize his ambitions. He did
ate-I from the conservatory of week by organizations, were an-
their trump card. "But there is a not unite the Arab world, but was
music in Vienna and before the nounced by the organizations
quarantine imposed on the impor- forced out of Syria and given the
outbreak of the war sang lead- division of the campaigns. Lead-
tation of plants from Egypt; the throne of Iraq. Arab unity re-
ing roles at the opera houses of l ing the groups foi the week are
military authorities
authorities do not per- ceded once more into an unful-
Vienna, Zurich, Basle, and Am- the Keshenever Bessarabian, Ra-
filled dream.
mit it."
sterdam. During . the war, he domer Aid, Mlaver, Detroit Kosh-
The second entry on the credit
We seemed to have reached a
escaped the Nazi advances and er Butchers, the Bialostocker and •
deadlock. I had to go. But in side of the Zionist Commission
was acclaimed by civilian and the Sokolivker Progressive Verin,
Cairo, when I went to take leave may have looked much less im-
CANTOR SIMON BERMANIS military authorities for helping
Organization Reports
of General Allenby just before pressive at the time; no one today of Vienna will sing at the Hista-
Gifts also were received from
any boat sailed, he suddenly said: denies its value. On the after- drut demonstration Sunday, to keep up morale- through his
musical contributions. His reper- the Henry Morganthau Lodge and
"By the way, about those myr- noon of July 24, 1918, the founda- March 27.
toire includes Italian, English, the Rabbi Mandel M. Zager
tles!" He pulled a letter out of tion stones of 'the Hebrew Uni-
French, Russian, Yiddish folk Lodge of Bnai Brith.
his pocket, glanced at it, . and versity were laid on Mt. Scopus
added: "You know, it is an im- in the presence of General Allen- which at that moment seemed as songs and modern and traditional
Louis Rubin, president of the
portant business; it's all in the by and Moslem, Christian and remote as the catastrophe of the Hebrew songs.
Judea Social Club, announced
Roman
conquest
but
which
today
Hamlin
to
Speak
Bible; I read it up in the, Book of Jewish dignitaries.
that the club will again give an
Guests who will participate in excellent account of itself in this
Nehemiah last night. Well, you'll
The physical setting of the are in process of realization. The
ceremony
did
not
last
longer
than
the program include Isaac Ham- year's campaign. Morris Pickstein
be glad to hear that we have ceremony was of unforgettable
lifted the quarantine, and a con- and sublime beauty. The declin- an hour. When it vvas over the lin, national secretary of the is vice president.
signment of myrtles will get to ing sun flooded the hills of Judea Zionist anthem "Hatikvah" and Histadrut campaign who will
Isaac Litwak, president of Local
Palestine in good time for the and Moab with golden light. It "God Save the King" were sung. bring a direct report on the ef- 285, Laundry and Linen Drivers
But
no
one
seemed
anxious
to
forts of the Histadrut and greet- of the Teamsters, in charge of the
Feast of Tabernacles!"
seemed to me that the transfig-
The Positive Side
ured heights were watching, leave and we stood silent, with ings from leaders of the Hista- club's Histadrut efforts, stated
Two achievements may, I think, wondering, dimly aware perhaps bowed heads, round the little row drut and Israel, and Rabbi Abra- that in addition to individual con-
be written down to the credit of that this was the beginning of the of stones, while the twilight deep- ham L. Feinberg, of TorontO, na- tributions from all members, a
tional associate chairtnan of the series of dinners prepared by
the Zionist Commission of 1918. return of their own people after ened into night.
One was the understanding many days. Below us lay Jeru-
Next week, Dr. Weizmann will Canadian Conference of Chris- members have brought excellent
reached with King Feisal, Coin- salem, gleaming like a jewel.
tell of his first trip to America. tians and Jews, rabbi of Holy financial results.
:mander in Chief of the Arab We were practically within the
Blossom Temple and director of
This is a serialization of parts of
Army, who carried great weight sound of the guns on the northern "Trial and Error," by Chaim Weizmann, the weekly radio program,
in Arabia. To see him, I set out front. I spoke briefly of our published in book form by Harper & "Brotherhood Hour."
20 THE JEWISH NEWS
Copyright, 1949, by the Weiz-
Friday, March 18, 1949
from Palestine for Akaba, and hopes for the university—hopes Brothers.
Excellent reports reflecting in-
mann Foundation.
proceeded thence up the Wady
Araba into Trans-Jordan. The
4P:opt/cep 6Y NOP.MAN & SOL NO.DE.L.
TExr BY LAURA G. SHARON
LIVES OF OUR TIMES
BENJAM I N V. COHEN
Turks still held the Jordan Val-
ley; thus the journey which today
INTERESTED IN JEWISH AFFAIRS, HE ACCOMPAN -
can be made in a couple of hours
ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST 8RILIIANT
IED THE COMMITTEE OF JEWISH DELEGATIONS TO
by car from Jerusalem, took up-
DIPLOMATS WHO HAS ALWAYS SHUNNED
VERSAILLES AFTER,WORLD WAR I AS LEGAL
ward of ten days. In the heat of
THE LIMELIGHT
COUNSELLO
June it was no pleasure jaunt.
In sight of headquarters, Arab
Army officers brought out water
and fruit, with greetings from the
Emir Feisal bidding us welcome
to his camp. I may have been a
'0°SEIV'
little lightheaded from the sudden
change of climate, but that night,
as I stood there I suddenly had
AN EARLY MEMBER OF THE lATE,PRESIDENT
the feeling that three thousand
ROOSEVELT'S "BRAIN TRUST? HE IS CREDITED WITH
BORN IN INDIANA SS YEARS AGO, HE STUD ED AT
years had vanished, had become
ORIGINATING- MUCH OF THE NEW DEAL'S PRO-
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND HARVARD ,
as nothing. Here I was, on the
GRESSIVE LEGISLATION.
LAW SCHOOL.
identical ground, on the identical
errand, of my ancestors in the
LAST YEAR HE SERVED FOR A TIME AS CHIEF
dawn of • my people's history,
AFTER THE U.N.APPROVED THE PALESTINE
AMERICAN DELEGATE TO THE U.N•GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
when they came to negotiate with
PARTITION DECISION SETTING UP TIE
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v/ / / •
JEWISH STATE, HE URGED STRONG s.
the ruler of the country for a
SUPPORT Of THE PLAN.
right of way, that they might re-
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turn to their home.
I found the Emir surrounded by
his warriors, a forbidding-looking
band. Among them moved T. E.
Lawrence, famous afterward as
•
'Lawrence of Arabia," chatting to
various chiefs. After the usual
exchange of • politeness, I ex-
HE HAS SERVED AS COUNSELLOR TO
HE ALSO URGED THAT THE HAGANAH BE
THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND HA5 BEEN
plained to Feisal our desire to do
EQUIPPED TO PROTECT THE U.N. IMPLEMENTATION
COMMISSION WHICH WAS TO CARRY OUT THE
A MEMBER OF NUMEROUS U.S.GOVERN-
everything in our power to allay
PARTITIONING OF PALESTINE.
MEW MISSIONS ABROAD.HE ACCOMPANIED
Arab fears and our hope that he
PRES.TRUMAN TO POTSDAM AFTER WORLD WARII.
would lend us his powerful moral
suppoi l ;. I stressed the fact that

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