The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-11-02
JEWISH REPUBLIC IN PALESTINE,
FORMING

A free Palestine after the war, where the
Jews. after many centuries Of exile, will have
their own country, is steadily taking shape.
The following press dispatch, from New York
City, appeared in daily papers throughout the
country on October 81:
& Announcement was made here last night
that the Zionist organization OF America has APP
pointed registration boards in 200 cities
throughout the country to mobilize the material
and moral forces of all Jewry for settlement of
Palestine as approved by Great Britain, France,
Italy and President Wilson,
can intensive effort, it was announced, would
be made next month to enroll at least 15O,OOO
members. A special celebration Of the signing
by Great Britain of the Jewish Magma Charta :
will be held on Nov. 81
Arthur Brisbane, writing in the Chicago
Herald and Examiner, on October Is, said:
''There is to be a daily newspaper in Jeru-
salem published in Hebrew. War and the Turks
would not allow it. The coming peace and Eng
land s control makes it's existence possible. Mr.
Ben-Avi will soon be in Jerusalem publishing
news advertisements and defying injustice as
editor Of 'Ha-Or,' which means The Light. l
fear three newspapers, said Napoleon more
than one hundred thousand bayonets. Mr..
Ben-Avi will be useful citizen Of Jerusalem,
the printing press and the lights that he will
take with him will do the neighborhood es-
pecially the Turks, much good"
The editorial writer Of the Herald and Exam
liner, on the same day, remarked:
''There is something inspiring in the news
that work has begun on the Hebrew University
at Jerusalem. 1t seems to clinch in our minds
the glorious fact that General Alenby's resto-
ration Of Palestine to civilization is final ac-
complishment never to be rescinded. Allenby
was there when they laid the twelve foundation
stones-one for each tribe of Israel. y ' : v
The soul of every free man must thrill to see
Judaism free to flourish under modern progress
sive conditions upon the sacred soil Of its
origin"
Dr. Victor jacobson, in the name of the
Copenhagen branch Of the Zionist organization,
issued the following message to all Zionist fed
erations throughout the world on October %:
The moment is approaching when founda-
tions must be laid for a lasting peace. Such can
only occur if the just demands Of all nations,
small and large, are to be fulfilled and world
created in which every nation can place all its
inherent powers and capacities at the DISPOSE
ton of mankind. The Jewish people also raises
it's demands in this historic hour of fate.
"In the peace treaty there must be assurances,
first fixing Palestine within the boundaries de-
manded by historic traditions and political and
economic needs as a national home for the Jew
ish people and conditions created for the unhin-
dered construction of this home.
Second, full and actual rights for Jews in
all countries, and thirdly, national autonomy
on cultural, social and political grounds for the
Jewish populations in countries Of mass settle
ment and also in other countries in case the
Jewish population so claims
'We ask the Zionist organizations Of all
countries to support the endeavors of the Zion
list world organization and to present these de-
mands before the governments and public opin-
ion of their country and to request their in
clusion in the peace treaty.
con the day of the conclusion of peace,
through which mankind approaches the Jewish
ideal of an understanding among people and
everlasting peace, the 1000 years martyrdom
of the Jewish people, which bears as fault on
the conscience of all nations, must be redressed.
The Jewish people must enter into league Of
free nations on equal basis.
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