New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Million Jews Are Expected
ln Palestine In Ten. Years
Dr. c. H. Weizmann, International Leader of Zion
ists Describes Plans for New National Home:
Need Many Workmen; Housing Shortage Grave
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LONDON, May 2O.--Of all tho new
national communities which have risr
en-, Phoenix-like, from the flames of
the World War, none presents more
romantic outlook than the newly Gre
ated Jewish National Home OF PaIes-
tine, according to DR.. C. II. Weizmann,
international leader Of the Zionists.
In the last three years DR.. Weiz-
mann has spent fifteen months In Pal
estine studying the problems incidental
to the establishment Of Jewish
community. He has iust returned
from the conference of the Allied Su-
preme Council at San Reno. At tho
| outbreak Of the war DR.. Weizmsnn was
professor Of chemistry at Manchester
University, and upon the organization
Of the Ministry Of Munitions, under
Lloyd George, he was given post
there. But though ably doing hts r,u-
nitions work, Or. Weizmann was large
ly responsible for the "Balfour Decla-
ration" pledging Britain to the cause
of Zionism.
ITO begin with" said DR.. Weszmann,
Il want TO correct a popular misap-
prehension that Palestine Is to be q
Jewish state IN the political sense.
Palestine. under tho decision reached
! at the San Reno conference Of the
Supreme Council, is to be British
mandate territory, and will be admin
| istered by British high commission
ez and council at the head Of the civil
government. That administration, ! am
sure, however, will do its best for the
interests of Jewish Palestine, will en-
courage Jewish immigration. land set-
tlement and public works"
Plans to Develop Palestine
DR.. Weizmann spoke Of the Zionist
plans for developing Palestine in the
next ten years. "1n that time" he
said, eve should have a million Jews
settled there. Our program contem-
plates the immigration Of at least
3o.o00 the first year and, we hone.
! 100000 the second. OF course, this i'm,
migration will have to be selective for
many months to come. We must have
at first only those who can work ar
the essential trades necessary to make
N'S NSNtASAJ liC AOI LNG tens or fhOIl-
sands who arc to follow. For instance
there IS IN Palestine as in almost every
country. a great shortage of houses.
o;,ooo at the very least. To make good
J this deficit we will need 10000 WORK
men from the building and allied
trades. And to carry on the work OF
| .she hrst tive years we will need a
fund OF $125,000 But international
Alonism will have no trouble in raising
| this amount" i''s
While admitting the existence Of a
hostility on the part Of the native
Arabs, DR.. Weizmann believes the at
utude and conduct of the Jews there
qurlng the first few years of the new
Palestine will overcome the prejudice
which he declares ignorance and hos
tie propaganda have fostered. "The
ps1hclpal trouble is over the question
OF the land" he continued Some
natives year that the Jews will drive
them away from the soil or else hold
them there in a condition Of. serfdom
rms OF course, IS absolutely untrue.
On the contrary, we Zionists say that
the new Palestine cannot be success
unless the native population is carried
! along with the Jewish inhabitants IN
the material developmcnt and nros.
perlty Of the country. There cannot
be two separate strata in the popule~
! tion, one prosperous European sec
| Aon and the other composed merely OF
| na1lve laborers. They must both 90
forward together.
To Raise Working Conditions
AS it is now 10000 ou. OF the 700
ooo natives work on the land. mostly
Ior absentee landlords, at wages and
Uhder conditions which the Jews would
1oI% tolerate. with the coming Of The
! d
working conditions Will ineyitahlv 10,
raised and the Arabs will benefit ac-
cordingly.
Regarding the matter Of land for
me Jews, We are not going to antag-
onlze the Arabs by forcing them Off
what ground they have. To begin with
we Will take up state and waste land
For instance, the Jordan valley is prac-
tlcally uninhabited, but with proner
irrigation, sanitation and drainage
tnere IS no limit 10 the possibilities
there for good agricultural develop
ment Then there should be a survey
made Of all the land owned by absentee
landlords and the ground properlv
taxed, something which was rot done
under the Turks, When this is accom-
phshed the owners viii undoubtedly
be willing to sell some of their hold
ings.
I'VE fully expect to live peacefully
and amiably with the natives. The
Arabs are intelligent and capable of
development, but they have been kept
under for centuries by the Turkish
regime and at present they are being
worked on by all sorts Of destructive
forces tending to upset the Near East.
These forces are operating under
many different Fuises: Turkish ma