New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-22
of Developments in Europe

tne jews have yet been called upon
!" provide for any national cause
ference calls for sa5. 900, Goo w n US IS
however, patent that it would be i'm.
possinie to raise in given time
through free will offerings a snm
equivaient to 100000 900. Hence tne
pian proposed is combination of both
ouSrlght contributions and investments
or or quasi-lnvestments. or the s25, 600.
t tpo asked sixteen millions are to be In
sne form of investments, ina sort of
Hatlohai loan, the balance, SO 600 900.
I,s 10 come rs a gift from the Jews
Throughout the world. Each investor
wlii receive certificate or receipt for
ms ms remittance, which at the end of
i've years will be negotiable for 2
per cent dividend bearing bond In
nVe years, it is figured, Jewish PaIes-
tine Will be sufficiently developed not
ouis 70 assume national debt of this
T 9,Ae' out also to pay dividends on it.
ms condition will be materially helped
oy the t9,o00,0o0 gift money, which is
20 60 toward paying all of the non
pavns producing undertakings, such as
s e1 administrative upkeep and
oVsrheao expense, assuring thus the
safety of the invested part of the
money. ''e
Method to Be That of Jehovah
The method to be emDloved in +be
actual raising of the fund is that COM
msnded to the children of Israel by
Jehovah some forty centuries ago:
Thou shalt surely 1.-THE all the in
crease OF thy seed, that which is
brought forth in the field wear bv
year.
Every Jew throughout the world, be
ne rich and influential. or poor and
humbie, VIII, during the next two years.
oe ASKED to give up one-tenth of his
l.coine Tor the national glory and res
storation of Israel
Inc next question. that of the selec-
tor OF the near executive, deals with
Vhe interplay of personalities, and be-
cause of that probably is the most in
yolved.
The Zionist administration, or ex-
ecutlye, as 1t is called. that functioned
up to the time of the London con-
terence, had, with one or two excep-
e!cns' held office during the last seven
years, though it had been chosen for
Only two years. The holding-over was
due to the war, the disruption of all
communication making impossible any
gatherlng OF an international character
ana prevented the converting of the
Zionist Congress. 1t therefore came
ABOUT that the men selected in 1918
we're still IN power in 1920. Some even
had been members Of the executive
PRIOR to 1913. since at each congress
(thls body meets every two years) q
number were invariably reelected-the
selection Of the executive was at most
congresses perfuMctory matter
But no previous congress in all Zion
lst history had to dea. with problems
OF the magnitude that confronted the
london gathering. Breaking through
the dawn was a new era. a new epoch.
demanding new men, new ideas, new
methods. And if grave disappointment,
possibly followed by great sorrow, was
to be avoided this urgent demand had
to be answered. Half of the actual
time Of the conference was consumed
in trying to find the right answer
Every delegate readily admitted
that the new executive Will be called
upon to grapple with one Of the most
difficult problems that ever beset any
group of men. Surely no seven men
in Jewish history ever faced the diff
cultles confronting the new Zionist
executive. Nevertheless, q great many
Of the delegates could not reconcile
overheard the old type of leadership
and substituting new men. Years of
generous service, OF great devotion to
the cause, of Unreasonable self-sacYi-
flee had endeared these leaders to the
"oldtimers" to degree not under
stood by some of the newcomers"
Americans Want House Cleaning"
The Americans led the hghe for
complete house cleaning.' In doing
that they did not display lack Of appre-
cation for the services given by the
men who through their fine idealism
kept the movement going during the
most trying times and under the most
adverse conditions. But. to their way
OF thinking, it was an insult to a de-
voted Zionist to appoint him to Office
because Of past services. As their
leader expire sed it: 18th a task of
unequaled difficulty before us we have
no more right to appoint any man TO
any Office in Palestine or elsewhere
than it would be, with the enemy al
our gates in the most terrible Of war
time, to appoint man general, or
colonel, or captain, because he was
popular, or because he was old, or be-
cause we loved him. For days Che
pendulum thus kept swinging back and
forth, resulting fer q time in dead
locking the conference.
In addition to the question Of per-
St!lllcl Itltl e.lSD S-tiSCtt y WIZ III
ference of opinion as to the execu-
tive's functions in so far rs these
we're applicable to the existing Zionist
Commission in Palestine, created right
after General Allenby's entry into
Jerusalem.
The Americans, supported by the
ontile English speaking group and the
delegations from France, Germany,
Italy and certain portions of Russia
conterded for the adjustment Of the
commission This view was bitterly
opposed by the delegates from Poland
and the Ukraine. who maintained that
it would be folly to abolish the com
mission at this time because the Jews
in Palestine still, needed it TO look
after their interests.
To continue the commission, asserted
the Americans. was sure to result in
duplication OF effort. They argued
that the Zionist commission in Pal
estine served a good purpose while the
country was under military occupation,
but became obsolete with the arrival
of Sir Herbert Samuel as High Com
missioner, who, as indicated in the
British Kings proclamation to the peo-
pie Of Palestine. was charged with the
duty Of esta blshing in Palestine the
measures necessary for the creation of
a national home for the Jewish people.
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