New-York tribune., 1919-02-10
DIR. Wise Reports
Allies i'm Favor of
Jewish Palestine
British ProtectOrate Under
The League of Nations
Declared To Be a Matter
of Immediate Expcdiency

Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who returned
from Paris about week ago, after
several weeks of comforting with the
most prominent delegates TO the peace
ish Palestine, made to The Tribune
Yesterday the first formal statement
that he has made since his return.
DR.. Wise went to Paris as repre-
sentative of the American Jewish Con-
yress and as head of the American
Zionist Mission to the peace confer
ence. There he conferred with the
leading delegates, including Colonel
House, on the Jewish question, and
found most of them favorable to the
idea of Jewish Palestine. His state
ment follows:
"The outstanding fact that has come
10 light in relation to the peace con-
ference is that America has at last
come TO her own, that America has
emerged from century and more of
remoteness to which she nevermore
can return.
ANY disability or disenfranchise-
ment of the Jew in any Allied land
and. of course, | am thinking only of
East European lands, such as Rumania.
Poland and parts of old Russia-would
be the gravest possible Indictment of
the reality of Allied profession and
Allied achievement
Europe Favorably Impressed
"A deep impression was made in
England and France by the reports of
the American Jewish Congress, the So
briefly and dignity of its deliberations,
the wisdom of its decisions and the
craftsmanship of its leaders in council.
It's insistence upon British protec-
torate over the Jewish Palestine may
be said to represent the minds of al
Jews who will be Jews in Allied lands.
THAT Palestine ought to be and will
be Jewish is the conclusion of those
factors in the European world which
will do it justice. The establishment
of a Jewish Palestine under the Brit
ish protectorate of the league of ma
tons is not alone matter of long de-
ferred redress but of immediate eX-
pediency.
Great Britain is not avid Of any re-
sponsibiiity added to those heavy bur-
dens which the great British common
wealth already carries. But Great
Britain cannot honorably evade the OBJ
legation OF accepting protectorate
over a Jewish Palestine if Palestine
be committed to the care of Great Brit
ain by the decision of the league of ma
tions and the mandate Of world judg
ment
"True. there is still some cavilling
about our belated entry into the war,
but England and France know, as we
believe, that the war could not have
been won without us, though the ma or
effort and the major service and the
major sacrifice were those of EngIan
and France.
Share of America Emphasized
america made two mighty contribu-
tions to the winning of the war-one
physical in the form of her army; the
other moral or spiritual, in the form
Of that reinforcement of Allied pur-
pose and will which made victory in
evitable.
"If America has a position to-day in
the sight OF the world such as Amer
lea has never had before, it is because
of what might be called these primary
causes: First, the fact of Americas
unquestioned disinteres tedness; sec
ond the fact of Ame -ica's power OF ser
vice TO the European world; third, the
faith of the Allied peoples in Presi-
dent Wilson; and, fourth. the resolve
of the peoples of Europe that this peo-
Pies war shall be crowned by the peo
Pies peace.
"As for the Jewish affairs, perhaps
the best thing that can be said is that
the peace conference of 1919, unlike
that OF 1878, needs, no Disraeli, no spe-
cial Jewish pleader. What Jews ask is
asked not by them. nor for them, but
IS the inevitable outcome Of the new
world order to which the peace confer
ence is TO be the prelude"