Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-18
Or. |TAMAR BEN Av| WILL
SPEAK HERE WEDNESDAY
Noted Palestinian Editor IL Well
Acquainted With European
Affairs.
LIVED FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY
Familiar With Politics OF East, and
Relieves Germany's Efforts In
western Asia Will BE Frustrated
by Outcome OF War.

Driven to America by the war. lamar
first daily paper ever published In
Jerusalem. and Hebrew paper. "Haor'
'ihe LighO. noted journalist and
lecturer. will deliver an address in
Richmond at the Jefferson Hotel Au-
quorum Wednesday evening. Novem-
Der II. at o'clock on the subject "a
message From the East"
Since Mr.. Ben Avi has recently come
10 this country from Palestine. where
ne was given an opportunity to study
conditions in Europe, and since he has
i'Ned IN Germany. and France for sew
eral years. he is we'll euuiDped to sneak
win authority on the European war
ana VIII undoubtedly reveal to his
hearers many things OF interest from
military point of view. Speaking Of
Ben Avi, Anthony j. Philpott. OF the
edtortal staff OF the Boston Globe, said
mat he talks English with Bosto-
nese sense of the fitness of idionatic
expression" and therefore the people
are promised a lecture that will easily
be understood. and it may be interest
ing TO note that he speaks French,
Spanish, Hebrew and German. as we'll
az he does English
SPENT FOUR YEaRsIN
GERMANY BEFORE WAR
several years ago was complicated in
anticipation of the coming revolution
or the young Turks and as he saw that
they were under German influence he
went TO Germany where during his
four year stay in Berlin he acquired
such thorough knowledge Of the
temper OF German kultur that he was
soon asked TO become contributor on
international affairs to the leading
french papers. lie Temps. lie Figaro.
lie Journal and L'Echo de Paris.
Under the name of Victor Doris he
nnmasked German ambitions and col
Elaborated with NJ. Jules Hurst in the
famous book. 'LAllemagne" Ger
many), which helped in the campaign
for French preparedness. Soon after
the Turkish revolution. Ben Avi re-
turned to Palestine and advised the
Turks against the danger of the Ger
man influence TO the Ottoman Empire
and TO the peace of the world. What
the Prussia young Turks thought
Of him is shown by the fact that Ben
Avi was twice sent TO Jail and over
ten times brought before the Turkish
tribunal.
Ben Avi believes that one of the rea-
sons why Germany has plunged the
world into war was TO secure Turkey
as German state, because Turkey has
the greatest undeveloped natural re-
sources of any country in the world
-
will develop them for herself. This
may sound chimcrical. but the chimera
disappears when Ben Avi takes up a
map OF Western Asia and Eastern Flu
rope and explains matters-explains
the full significance Of the BaEdad
railroad which Germany is still work
ing on with the same energy she
worked on il before the war.
BELIEVES DESIGNS IN
ASIA WILL. Isl. ERJ STR ATED
But Itamar Ben Avi believes that
Germany's designs in Asia and in the
war generally will be frustrated. and
that Turkey will come TO the allies.
who Will make of Palestine real ma
ton for the Jews as they will Of Pc
land for the Poles
America. under President Wilson's
leadership" he says. lis now fighting
for the same great principle that our
Puritan fathers have engraved on the
Liberty Bell. and we shall proclaim
liberty throughout the land and 70 all
the inhabitants thereof" This ut
terance of the old Jewish nation is now
being given new structure and reality
through Americas proclaiming and
struggling TO win liberty throughout
the world and 10 all the nations there
Of great and small and among the
small nations whom this world war
will still liberate. Ben Avi is confident,
will be Palestine
Ben AVIS grasp Of international at
fairs. his knowledge of German in
trigue. and his insight Of the problems
that will confront the world after the
war will make his lecture worth while
hearing. The extraordinary vigor and
charm of his lectures have made him
81 distinguished figure in America.
Wherever he has spoken in halls.
and prominent clubs in New York,
Philadelphia and Boston his audiences
are caught up in an uplifting en-
thusiasm for Palestine and are stirred
by his eloquent presentation of inter
national politics, and the desires of
Germany in this war