The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-23
JEWISH REPUBLIC
IN PALESTINE IS
HOPE OF ZIONIST.
The Twenty Century Dream
of Israel May Be Rea-
lized by America.
(By a Special Correspondent

10y Special COrreSpOnQeQI)
New York. May 23.-The adoption
Of a resolution by the Kehillah, the
organization which represents the sec
tartan and education interests of
dence that the United States, together
with its Allies, will use its best efforts
toward the realization Of the hope
and aspiration Of a Jewish people for
the establishment OF a free and
publicly recognized Homeland in Pal
estine," Is indicative Of the eagerness
with which the Jews, not only Of this
city, but throughout the whole world,
are waiting for the word which may
come from etther Washington or
London, or from both capitals stimuli
taneously, that their twenty-century
long aspiration has at last been rea-
lied. So certain and SO imminent
does this appear that every day the
Zionist movement gains new and no,
table converts. Isrea1 sZangwtll, the
noted English writer, was the first of
these. He had held a1oof from the
movement, doubling its practicabflity;
then Jacob II. Schiff, of the :nterna-
t1onal banking house Of Kuhn, loeb
& Co., came forward in advocacy of
Adolph Lewisohn, the copper magnate
came next. And every few days new
| names are added to the roster OF those
who are prepared to work for the up-
building of a Jewish Republic in an
| Independent Holy Land, set free by
| General Archibald Murray's army, :
| which Is fighting its way through Pal /
estfne to the conquest Of Jerusalem
Twenty years have rolled by since
the organization of the Zionist move :
| ment with its slogan 'the establish.
| ment of a publicly recognized, legally
| secured homeland for the Jews in Pal
estine''- a movement bringing into
the realm of the practical what for {
the past two thousand years, from the !:
very day that the overwhelming RIO /
man legions swept the Jewish nation /
off its native soil, has been a pious
wish, devout prayer. During these
/ two decades the movement has been
busy establishing colonies, schools, IL
braries and other institutions of ma
tional character in the Holy Land. On
Christmas day Of last year General
Murray's army invaded Palestine Two
months later, Mr.. Norman Hapgood,
the gifted American journalist, pro-
posed that the United States establish
a protectorate over Palestine and in;
vite the Jews to establish themselves
there on an autonomous basis. Hardly
has the interest in Mr.. Hapgood's plan
subsidized when again three came news
Il from Palestine-that the British army
had overwhelmed the Turks at GAIA,
were building a railroad and driving
the Turks before them. The Jews be-
gan to see visions of the Union Jack
floating over the Holy City
l., Then came the Russian Revolution
making it possible for the Zionists of
that country for the first time in his
tory, to make a propaganda for Zion.
ism, without fear Of arrest and impris-
comment. Within a week after the
downfall of the autocracy, the Russian
Zionists had held their first conven-
ttion.
| Hardly had the ink dried on the
press reports Of the first Zionist con-
vention ever held in Russia, when the
retaliation of the great Jewish hope
was given to the world in the semi
official proclamation by General Sir.
Archibald Murray of the intention of
Great Britain to establish a Jewish
Republic in Palestine.
What should we do with Palestine,
thus liberated from the century-oid
Turkish grip?" General Murray asks
this question and answers: There can
be little doubt that we should revive
the Jewish Palestine Of old, and allow
l the Jews to realize their dreams of
Zion in their homeland. All the Jews
will not return to Palestine, but many
will do SO. The new Jewish state, I'M
der British or French aegis, would be-
come the spiritual and cultural center
of Jewry throughout the world. The
4 Jews would at least have homeland
and a nationality of their own. The
national dream that has sustained
them for score of centuries and more
Now the Ydddish daily newspapers in
will have been fulfilled
New York and Chicago broke out in
definite word had been spoken by one
to "Poster-type" headlines. At last a
lin authority to speak definitely Sir
Archibald Murray, it was felt, would
not have uttered such momentous
lwords unless the British government
had sanctioned them-unIess the es-
tablishment of an independent Holy
Land was part of the program of the
Allies. This was quickly followed by
Ian editorial in the Manchester Guard
ian," the organ of former-premierA As
quith, also favoring the project, and
an article by Sir Harry Johnston in
the London Evening News Ca North
ef1ffe paper) in the same strain.
The greatest climax to date in the
Jewish drama is the announcement
, that came from Washington, hard up
ION the arrival in this country of Bril-
tain's High commission to the United
States, that President Wilson and Ar
thur Ba1four had informally discussed
this project, the realization of which
would be the fulfillment of prophecy
FALLODEN HALL BURNED