Ernest Laharanne: French Harbinger of the Jewish State

Jewish Socialists Shun
Belgian Election After
Mayor Is Renominated

the following particulars on Lahar- zeal of the Jews might have some-
anne's literary activities could be what abated. He reproached the
found: In the same year, 1860, in educated Jews for the indifference
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
which his booklet on the Oriental shown by them at any opportunity
Question appeared, he published a for "restoring the Jewish State"
BRUSSELS — All Jewish mem-
short pamphlet of 16 pages "Les which might offer itself. "Such in- begs of the Socialist Party of Bel-
Societes St. Vincent de Paul devant difference is no credit to those who
to an invita-
l'opinibn publique" about a Cath- display it." He lashed out in sim- glum
rejected
Tuesday
lion from
their
party appear on
From 1840 and onwards France
began to take an active interest in lic Association for aiding the poor ilar vein against the resolution of
and sick founded in Paris to per- t h e Rabbinical Conference of the Socialist lists for municipal
n protest
Syria, including Palestine, and
petuate the memory of the monk Frankfurt in 1845 which had de- elections in Belgium
i
renomination
French influence grew steadily in
dared
that
the
Jews
regarded
as
against
the
party's
that part of the Middle East. The Vincent de Paul (1576-1660).
SeVen years later he published their fatherland exclusively the of the mayor of Antwerp.
foreign policy of the Emperor
Mayor Lode Crayebeck was the
country where they were born and
Napoleon III paid special attention a book about the art of oratory in
center of a widespread contro-
whose citizenship they enjoyed.
French
parliaments
and
in
1872
Oriental
Question.
called
so
-
to the
versy last spring following an in-
IDEA OF JEWISH CONGRESS
In 1860, when a French expedi- and 1853 edited a newspaper called
.cident in an Antwerp cafe in
Laharanne said that the Jews
tionary 'force was sent to Syria "Journal de la Republique at de la
which he insulted two Jews when
and the banker Mires was nego- liberte commercialle," in which he were in duty bound to convoke a 1 i he had allegedly been drunk. The
tiating a loan for Turkey, a num- wrote mostly about French internal Congress dealing with the question mayor later apologized in a public
Chef Boy-Ar-Dee feels that
of the redemption of their true letter to the Jewish community
three languages are better
ber of booklets on the Oriental political affair's.
fatherland
—
Palestine.
No
Eu-
RESTORATION OF PALESTINE
than one for saying that his
Question was issued by the Paris
and said he would not be a can-
In his booklet "La nouvelle Ques- ropean power would raise any ob- didate for reeleCtion.
new pizza crust mix is very
publisher Dentu *on the initiative
fast and easy to fix.
tior.
d'Orient—Reconstruction
de
la
iections
to
such
a
Congress
being
of interested politicians or capi-
assembled or put any obstacles in : Despite that statement. the So-
Nationalite
Juive"
(1860),
Lahar-
talists.
CHEF BOY-AR-DEE •
anne expressed the opinion that in the way of its deliberations. Re- , cialist Party decided to put his
Among the various proposals for
Pizza
view of the troubles in the Middle stored Judaea would undoubtedly name at the head of their list
solving the Oriental Question was
East and so as to find a solution be granted by the Great Powers ' thus automatically assuring his
Complete in this our package
a suggestion to restore Jewish
the right to ex'end her boundaries ' reelection. The mayor cancelled
—now easier and quicker to
Palestine. The first Frenchman to.' of the Oriental Question, which
his letter of resignation after the
prepare than ever' Just add
it was Ernest Laharanne. It could not be postponed any longer. to the Suez Canal and to incor-
hi
make
renominated
ate
ad
io
T
water to the new faster - to - fiX
afa party
rteno the
ThW
e eses
tetranblispham
is a, moot point whether he had ancient Judea should be restored.
mix for a tender. crunchy
establishment of
are s scheduled for
come to his conclusions alone and He mentionedrumors which had Lebanon. e
crust everytime. Rich, true
Stat:... would redound to the next Sunday. Five well-known
independently or whether he was ben circulating that Palestine Jewsh
Italian pizza sauce seasoned
benefit of the economic life of members of Belgian Jewry are
the mouthpiece of financial circles should be redeemed by means of
with herbs and spices.Topped
loan. He was alluding to the en- Europe - because it would open up named on the Liberal Party for
a
with choice Italian-style
which wished that Syria and Pales-
new markets. the balloting.
cheeses. Have some soon!
tine should secede from the Otto- deavours of Ch. Guedallah, who
Many peoples had vanished from
man Empire and be put under wished to purchase Palestine from
the
st_rface
of
the
earth
but
the
French protection. According to the Turks in connection with a
loan to be granted to them.
Jews, in spite the sufferings dur- Neo-Nazis, Jews Tangle
Moses Hess, it appears to be im-
Laharanne was convinced that ing their exile. had mustered the in London; 22 Arrested
probable that the author should
have followed instructions of the the Jews wished to return to their strength to maintain during • these
LONDON (JTA) — Twenty-two
French government but on the homeland and rebuild it. He said 1800 years the connection with
persons were arrested here follow-
t
their
ancient
homeland.
This
was
other hand it is certain that his that the implementation of such a
ing clashes between members of
ideas conformed to the French scheme was dependent on certain a unique phenomenon in human the Nazi-style Greater Britain
political preconditions. There was history. •hicn explained the secret movement, headed by John Tyn-
policy of those dais.
no doubt that Ultramontanism, of the strength of the Jewish dall. former member of Colin Jor-
AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR
namely the fanatic trend in Cath- people. The Jews had survived the dan's National Socialist movement,
strange that no biographical olicim, would vehemently oppose Romans who had destroyed their and a group of young Jews. The
It
data about Ernest Laharanne are the acquisition of Palestine by the State. and also the persecution in clashes started when Tyndall was
available in French encyclopaedias Jews and would resist their efforts medieval Europe. Notwithstanding iflung from the rostrum of a meet-
which were published at that time instead of welcoming the resurrec- Incuisition and oppression, they i ing he tried to address in East
or later. nor was any important tion of a freedom loving people. had remained alive and overcome London.
material uneartn-d by subsequent He meant that in consequence of h a t r e d. humiliation, contempt,
ingtiiries in French archives. Only the events in Damascus (1840) the slander and religious fanaticism. It
was at the dawn of the French
Revolution that the Jews were
given liberty for the first time.
i France would suppprt the endeav-
ors aiming at the restoration of
MAN,
the Jewish State. The Jews would
THAT'S
have to fulfil a great task: to be
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,Seatiiiary Given Graetz Portraits

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MISSION OF JEWISH STATE

Michael Graetz (1740-1811), and his daughter, Rebecca (1781-
1869), a pair of family portraits painted by William' Edward West
(1788-1857) were presented to the Jewish Theological Seminary of
America by Dr. Israel Goldstein, rabbi emeritus of Cong. Bnai Jeshu-
run, New York. The gift marked the 50th anniversary of Dr. Gold-
stein's enrollment in the rabbinical department of the Seminary.

Communications Crippled in Strike
by Technicians Throughout Israel

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to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV
A sudden strike
by Israel's Adio-telegraph techni-
cians paralyzed almost all inter-
national communications Wednes-
day.
All transactions -were halted be-

—

cause cable offices were closed.
Only foreign ministry cables and
urgent personal cables were being
accepted. Press cables were re-
jected unless they were submitted

nicians, who are seeking more
pay, planned to intensify the stop-
page if no agreement was reached
soon. Both postal authorities and
the civil service authority had
agreed to negotiate with the
technicians.

Syrians Fire, Wound One
Israeli ; Complaint Filed
With UN Commission

"It is our destiny." wrote La-
haranne,' "to be mediators between
Europe and the far regions of Asia
and Africa. to blaze trails to India
and China, to' remote countries
which should now be open to Eu-
ropean civilization. In Europe the
Jews have already accomplished
their task in the field of culture;
now they should demand back
their historical homeland which
now is lying in the dust under the
heel of the Turkish conqueror. The
Jews had made a great contribu-
tion towards the devolpment of

mankind. now the time has come

that they shou_6 do something for

themselves and their land."
Palestine cat's on the Jews to
come back and the Return to Zion
would mark the beginning of a new
period in human history. The estab-
lishment of a Jewish State would

mean not only the renassance of
the Jewish people, but also the
beginning of the dissemination of

European education and culture
in the Orient.

, LACK OF RESPONSE

CASH FOR
ISRAEL BONDS
and SECURITIES

14—Friday, October 9, 1964

THERE ARE NO
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civilization and the progress • of

There was no response to Lahar-
anne's booklet. The Jewish press
TEL
AVIV
(JTA)—Syrian
gun-
as urgent, and these • were sent
of France, the ' Archives Israel-
opened fire Sept. 30 on a
only on a single open line. Radio
ite" observed complete silence and
tractor
on
an
Israeli
field
east
of
telephone service also was halted.
did not write a single word about
Haon,
on
the
eastern
shore
of
Lake
Kol Israel Radio stopped all
it. The first to point to the booklet
broadcasting accept - for news bul- Tiberias, slightly wounding one and to the answers it presented to
Israeli.
letins.
The field work was resumed by various political questions was
The walkout begah Monday
Moses Hess, who devoted much
morning for a 24-hour stoppage the Israelis after the shooting, and space to it in his "Rome and Jeru-
and then was extended. The tech- continued until darkness with no salem" (1862).
further interference. Israel •orn-
-
It is a remarkable coincidence
plained to the United Nations
Israel-Syrian Mixed Armistice that, in the very year of the publi-
Commission. The site of the attack cation of Laharanne's book, the
is an area which has always been man was born who was predestined
to carry out many of Laharanne's
cultivated by Israeli farmers.
ideas and in particular his idea
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