Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-26
RESTORATION OF JUDEA
AIDED BY ROTHsCH|LDS
Two Members Of Wealthy Family
Have Already Fallen for
Cause Of, Jew.
HOPE FOR NEW JERUSALEM
VIII Aid in Establishing Jewisl,
state Modelled After British Gov
crnment-Ieadcrs Fear Germans
and Prussianization of Hebrews.
ny BERNARD Il. FALK.

III bthShhD -. AIN.
LONDON, December ga cynic once
remarked apropo3 the return OF the
Jews to thci. fathcrland. that when
that imposing event occurred Roths-
child would apply for tho position of
ambassador in Paris.
But the criticism and its implication
"hcn put to the proof are found to
be false. The week that brings the
higl-apritcd banner bearers OF tho
new crusade Khaki warriors of en-
pirH TO the ramparts OF Jerusalem is
week that discovers the house OF
liothschi!d turning its gaze with ardent
hope TO the long deferred fullillmcnt ot
The restoration. surely the mos. ro-
mantle episode in history. and at the
same time sitting in mourning for two
Of its kindred who have shared in the
price 20 be paid for tho liberation OF
Zion.
Melancholy prelude though it DC to
the return Of jewish cultural indcpcn-
dcncc. it is a fitting one that ccrnents
III blood the link between Palestine and
the Rothschiids tthe representative
house OF Anslo-Jcwry) TO the munih-
ccnce or whose French branch the
Jews. in a preliminary measure. have
been able 10 resume Il stake in their
ancient patrimony.
What finer symbol OF the relations
between Britain and the Jews, regard
ing The future OF the Holy Land. could
there lie than the unity in death OF
Captain Neil Primrose. son OF former
British Premier, and Major Evelyn
l;cthschild. son of the bcst-known fam
lily In Israel. whom Hannah dc Roths-
child. given away at her marriage By
tho Scmitis sphinx. drew into 4 common
stock?
These days when the Jew once
more makes noise in the world
The rapidly changing map poses him
in the immediate picture. His faith III
a redeemed national life never ran so
high at any time since the sombcr dis
pcTsion thousand years ago dstribut-
cd his race over the face OF the earth.
CHANCE FOR JEWISH CORPS
TO GARRISON PALESTINE
TO complete the miracle /, ne ed. but
10 fall t. the lot OF the Jewish reei-
mcnt. albeit the Lion OF Judah no
longer decorates their caps tn.
original intention. to be called upon 20
garrison tho sacred valleys ard hills
after the manner Of the ancestral Mac
cabeans And this may we'll happen.
for Whitehall, stepped though it be in
Western realism. has its romantic mo-
mcnts. and while that is scarcely
reason in It's favor. the Primrose
Eothschild bond extends to the War
Minister himself.
For hundreds OF years Britain In its
treatment of tho Jews has paid homage
10 the Anglo-Saxon conception OF
liberty
fpa r.Hc
English King, to rcplcaish his purse.
submitted his rich Jewish subjects to
compulsory dentistry.
More than one nation has Sc. it's eve
upon Jerusalem as "a pearl on the dla-
dem OF empire. but II was 10 the nation
cncainpcd in Egypt whose Ecnju,
brought happiness and fertility 10 the
banks OF the Nile that the Jews have
looked for a restored Jewish state.
They were not deceived when the
Kaiser on his white ass rode through
the streets OF Damascus, which in the
wild, Eraspins way of him he designed
as porch To the Brandcnburg gate.
They recognized that where tho
rruss!an eagles settled liberty expired:
that out OF tho home OF anti-Scmitism
could como no message of freedom for
the race.
Russian antiScmitism was cruel
enouGh--it killed where It did not
cFush-but IL was as primitive and as
savage as tho program. German anti
Semitism, on tho other hand. has
stopped at the physical death; il aims
at moral isolation.
The result is that whereas in Rus
sia the racial persistency OF the Jew
has only been strengthened by pcrse-
cution, In Germany. with nothing like
the same crude evidence of persecution.
1t has weakened
or all the divisions OF the Jewish
race. none is quicker to assimilation
and apostasy than the German section.
JEWS FEAR GERMAN
TREATMENT OF RACE
with Berlin overload Of Palestine.
any hope of an autonomous Jewish
state would have wilted and died out
Prussianzcd Jewish state would have
been as much paradox as a Chris
TANNED Jewish state or a Mohammc-
danized Vatican.
Rather than come under tho aesi,
OF the Germans, the Jewish settler
pioneers preferred to continue their al
icgiance TO the Turk. who has treated
the Jews with a fair consideration.
'ani"s i"'o aScou"t Inc proVerDlal
weakness Of Turkish governors for
backsheesh.
Tho Turk has regarded the Jewish
remnant in Palestine as a profitable
source OF revenue and as a substantial
economic factor. but the -Turanian
or all-Turk policy latterly adopted by
the ruling caste at Constantinople
hedged In the Jewish colonists with all
manner of restrictions, most important
OF which was to deprive them OF the
privilege Of extending their land pur-
masses. Thus term was set to the
possibilities OF economic development
on the part OF people whom Leroy
neanlicu, the French sociologist, has
esaoken Of as having a genius for get
ting on. That their efforts have been
productive of tho smiling settlements