The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-06-10

wnsu { let America last November
for the Near East the prevailing Inn
preston here was hat the iinlfour
s,cfi atom. tnen Iuss y Yvnr oio. maee
n isn state ~ poaila,a i.y
IN assured tact
usncral Al1enDy had nwep, the Holy
iano " the iurS ocy0nu ~ noua-
,fninost bordera. fns asmistice mad
ssaiea nts succss a jewish govern
nent IN i~'anaane. win fuil cisi a
fciiglous rights Tor the n~on-Jewlnn.
a. well N ne Jewish. population.
eenea only a question VI months. In
TACT, the Zionist COMMISSION. nlrcauy
~iunctionlng there. was widety regara-
90 az n nucieus of that Jewish gov
ousiiy aging the founaatlons
VI the newborn Svwish state. poiueai
AVctai economic.
shared tina general Americas I'm.
prcasion. Ncn ~ get tho .story 81
those foundations. tho STORY Of =
twentieth century state In the making
With traditions a. old as human his
tory.
Icscc Conference Rumsrs.
7 had heard speculation a. to the
first governor OF that state and as
to the number OF Jews In free Amert.
- 1EAHN ~ ~
ted The American zi0nints had al
ready outlined officially tho admin.
isfrntion Of the model STATE in pales-
tine. There was q persistent rumof
that the new state would even have a
delegate al the peace conference.
When I reached England ten days
later, ! received my first shock Dr
Chaim wsiamann. h head Of the
zionist COMMISSION al WORK IN the
Holy Land. who had returned 20
Europe-the Jewish leader Who ~
credited with securing the historic
nalfour observation-disclosures declared
To more than 5000 London Jews az a
public meeting that u was "unwisc
and unjust TO ask the peace confer
nee for a Jewish state" ue gave ~
the reason for his seeming conScrva.
tism the overwhelming minority OF
tho Arabs In Palestine. he proposed
that the zionizia limit their demands
To d recognition Of their claim to
tho Holy Land as a future Jewish
state when Immigration had In
t~rsased Jewish numbcu 20 three or
four millions,
rcmembcr with what feeling iaracl
Iang~fl denounced the new Weix-
mann proFromme 70 me nt hia home
IN East fre-ion as q timid. worth
less compromiAc.f fItla white head
srect. his darn yves aloNing. as he
paced his peaceful study In that quiet
EnEiiah village. he demanded
Is the uaifour declaration a mrcr,
further cntsngiinE the jewish misery
problem and ivaglina Jewish misvry
tor political purporeaf Are we 20
crawl Into a corner OF our own land
like a leper colony and repeat On our
own soil the humiliations ana uui,ser.
Nihnce OF 1000 years Of agony aud
tEnominyf II this IL what tho nalfour
declaration meant then ~ was an u.
lution and an insult"
II was Nj. Zangstirs opinion that
the declaration meant . real Jewish
state. lie Was preparing a manifesto
subsequently published. demanding
nothins lesa than a real Jewish state,
with a jewish governor. suggesting
tot this poks the Australian. GENERAL
Sir John Monaah. lie even urged Je-
rusalem az thc only hitting seat for
the league OF nations. The 100000
Arabs IN Palestine were TO be In
duccd. peacefully. profltabiy. aud with
their full consent, Of course. TO trek
to Mtsopotamia and Arabia In n
heroic measure OF race redistribution.
Interpretation of D~rciaiation.
Onco In Palestine. I found h pron-
poet % a Jewish state there still o
remote. learned that as far back
~ June ~ OF last year the Honorable
W Orfnaby-Gore. NJ. ~, political orr.
Ger attached to the Zionist Commits
sion, speaking at Jaffa at the nr~t
conference OF Jews In the liberated
area u Palestine. while the british
front WAS still at l'ctnh rikwah. q
Jewish colony near By, had declared
IN the presence of DR.. WeiHmann. In
the oniy official Interpretation OF the
Iiaifour declaration I nave ever secn
or heard
My government has that II
washes 10 nee the people OF falcstine.
among others. freed from the rule o.
the Turks, but n has as yet said
nothing NJ 20 what government, should
take its place. That Ia a matter for
the peace conference.
nut Mr naifour has made tho hts.
tGrtr declaration with regard tn tho
2ionisif that he Wishes TO s.e created
and built up in Palestine a national
home for the Jewish people,
What no We Understand hy Thisr"
We mean that those Jews who
voluntarily come TO live In Palestine
should live m Palestine A. IeNiSl,
Nationalist. That N, that they should
hn regarded ~ Jews ~ "A nnthinR
risc. and that they should be free To
develop Hebrew education. 10 develop
tho country and live their own life In
thpir own WuN ~ Palestine frpflN, hut
only Wihmitting equally with all 9th.
ers 10 the laws of the land
What Irvish rommi~siun Sought.
palestlne'H influential circles. brit
ish and Zionist, 7 soon discovered had
M such -eStrHyagant hopes regarding
tho Jewish future in thu Holv Land
az America nourished Israel PANS
wiirs demands found little echo there.
The programme Of Palosiinian icwry'H
eicrtcd representative commission OF
i've Jews. who were icnving IN ioin
ihe International ZioniGt delegates In
Europe 10 formulate the Jewish
claims 20 be presented 10 the peace
conference. was quite modest com
uaratiyeiV. .AH outlined for me hy
the head NJ The commission. naNid
Yeliin, the foremost Hebrew Ahoinr
81 tho New settlement In the Holy
Land. " sought
4 The oantroi ~ the DEVELOPMENT
Of Palestine through a chartered cor.
pofatio~ ~ he formed and directed
under Zionist ausnices with head
quirts~s either In Europe or America.
q The snnointment OF Great Brit.
pin % q trustee rower over q free
paieatlse.
g. The recognition 81 the claim >;
the i.~s "a q future Jewish state IN