Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-17

Special Correspondence Of The Star
LONDON. June IL, 1909.
The first meeting of the British Fedora
ton of the Jewish Territorial Organization
was held recently at the Grand Central Ho-
tel. Mr.. Israel Zangwill presided, and dele
gates representing branches of the Ito In
nearly ell parts of England were present.
Among others were Mrs. Zangwll. Miss
Carmel Goldsmid. Mai Gen. Sir Alfred Tur-
ner. K.C.B.; DR.. Jochelman. Messrs. M. d.
Elder. p. ]. Hartog, B. Kisch. AM; L.
Langdon. K.C.: Clement L. Soloman. Cyrus
L. Sulzberger and Lucien Wolf
'Tn keeping with the practical nature Of
the to-" the chairman welcomed the dele
gates by inviting them to luncheon. Mr..
Lucien Wolf having moved the formal
adoption of the constitution heated dis
cussion soon ensued as to the last sub
section OF clause in the constitution which
reads as follows:
1.-The expression autonomous basis means
and implies that the territory shall Re one
in which autonomy shall be attaina5le. and
In which the predominant majority of the
population shall be Jewish.
DR.. Duiberg moved the addition Of the
subsection.
Mr. NJ j. Lowry of Manchester said
that the amendment moved from Man
chester was not clubbing with words. 1t
concerned their declaration Of policy. He
wished to obtain from their leaders that
day a clear declaration of their policy He
was at Basic when MIR. Zanswill made his
declaration. Let them be perfectly frank.
When the Ito was formed at BasIle. he I'M
derstood that they were forming An organi-
cation to establish a Jewish autonomous
settlement on a national basis. The only
difference between them and the Zionists
was. that the latter restricted themselves
to Palestine The speeches of some of the
her nf he
their amendment. One leader was contra
dieting the other. One gentleD an said he
was in favor OF establishing British col
ony He. personally. was not n favor of
that He wished to found a Jewish col
ony. He thought that they would be mad
to found q colony for the richest country
In the world. After fighting the natives and
wild beasts and founding a settled colony.
they might be turned out In favor of the
British. After the lesson of the Boer war
let them be chafy Of doing anything like
that. The absolute condition was that the
settlement must be a Jewish settlement
in so far that under no conceivable cir
cumstances could the Jews be prevented
from coming into the country. or n law
passed to drive the Jews from the coun-
try. Since when had 1t been the policy OF
wished to ask the chairman plain uues-
ton. Had he or had he not negotiated with
any other government than the British?
He, like the chairman, was Zionist. He
was on the COMMITTEES Of the zionist branch
and on the committee Of the Ito. II the
Zionfsts were successful today. he wished
to heaven they could be! in obtaining
charter from the sultan. then, by the very
constitution OF the Ito. they were bound to
support them. as they were bound by the
law of the Ito which said chat they wish
ed to obtain a colony anywhere"
~
Mr.. Lucien Wolf, interrupting. said that
in order to make his position quite clear he
wished to state that he Joined the Ito be-
cause he wished to obtain Jewish colony
anywhere. He had never said that he wish
ed to found British colony
Mr. Loewy, resuming, said that that de-
claration of Mr.. Wolf showed how necessary
the conference that morning had been.
They had at last obtained a clear and ex-
plicit declaration from Mr. Wolf.
Mr.. Cyrus Sulzberger said that he dis
agreed with the last speaker. whom he
might call his twin brother. as like him he
was also a member Of both the Zionist and
Ito bodies. They should not be loaded
UP with things that were impossible from
the outset Mr.. Kletz wanted a guarantee
that once having obtained the land they
should never be driven out They once had
a land under that guarantee In their classic
old land, but they were turned out. Suppos-
ing that they eliminated that Objectionable
supposing that they made the
basis as rigid as they possibly
could, ana SuppoSihB lhht soiu eiouiu NC
found in their colony as 1t was found In
South Africa; how long would the most
rigid guarantee avail them? If they pro-
posed to deal now with all the difficulties
that might arise. and leave unsettled all
the difficulties that were staring them In
the face, his advice was, not to begin the
work Let them not go conjuring up diff
culties that did not present themselves. Let
them deal with the immediate question.
which was that they were trying to found
an autonomous colony. Let them dismiss
those bugaboos which might never arise but