New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
Will Convene Friday to
Discuss Plan to Take
Over Palestine.
CONFERENCE WILL
LAST A WEEK
Seven to Ten Thousand Jews
Are Expected to Attend
Brandeis Is President.
TBy telegraph 10 TIE Tribune. ]

Boston, June 19.-Who shall control
the Holy Land when the war Is overt
The question is agitating Jews and
Christians alike. Under the Zionist
flag Jews are making a strong bid for
Palestine. Beginning next Friday, for
a week. Jews from all parts Of America
will be here to devise plans for estab-
fishing a political and religious state
in Palestine.
The war has completely changed the
Jewish attitude toward the question.
Zionism was a movement among Jews
year ago. To-day it is a movement
by Jews, three-fourths Of them openly
favoring the Zionist cause.
The Jewish problem is almost as old
as the race. Jews are firmly convinced
that the end of the war must see 1t
solved for all time, and most believe
that one move toward the solution is
the creation Of Jewish state, with an
cient Jerusalem as its capital.
From 1000 to 10000 Jews are ex-
pected here, six hundred Of them DEL
egates charged with the duty Of fur
thering the Zionist aim. So weak are
the Jews in Europe that American
Jews are depended upon for the sue
cess of the movement. Among the or
CARNATIONS which will be represented
are the Federation of American Zion
lists, the Knights of Zion, the Ord er OF
Sons of Zion, Hadasseh, woman's or
ganization; Mizrachi, the Young Ju-
deans, and others.
A great congress will be held on June
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give their views. The president of the
convention committee is Louis D. Bran
deis, the chairman of the executive
committee Jacob de Haas, and the treas
urer Charles B. Strecker.
The Jews behind the Zionist plan
do not purpose that all Jews shall go
TO Palestine to live. There are some
American Jews who wish to go there,
hut Palestine is not large enough
to give homes for all of the l4,OOO,O00
Jews of the world. At most, it could
accommodate hardly more than 5000
600. They contend that at the end OF the
war there will be keen contention for
Palestine, and that the logical DISPOSE
ton will BE TO assign it TO the Jews.
There are Jews of Russia, Germany
and Austria who can be sent there, ana
are eager to go.
Until a few years ago PaIestlne was
a treeless region, and most OF the land
was rock and desert. Now trees grow
in abundance, and much OF the SOIL
grows grain. Transportation lines nave
been developed in some cities, notably
Damascus, a city Of 100000, and banks
and Industrial concerns have been es-
tablished. The Palestine that is pro-
posed extends from the sea on the
west to the River Euphrates on the
east, taking in all of Syria, and posi-
bly some of Mesopotamia.
American Jews are already in Pales'
tine as owners of land and cultlvators
Of fruits. St. Louis Jews not long, ago
bought 500 acres of land near the shore
If Galilee. New York Jews have In
vested in a tract near Halfa. some
Chicago Jews have lard near Cana, and
Jews of Winnipeg have vast trac'
near JafFa. The Jews of pittsburgh
and Cleveland are interested in tract
of 1900 acres not far from Arranged
don. ~. .L.i- ma.
The Zionists argue that their pos
session of Palestine need not prevent
Christians from making OF its snow
nIaces great missionary centre. lhey
sav there will be cooperation between
neoples after the present war Is enGea.
They purpose to create at Jerusalem
a Hebrew university.