New-York tribune., 1921-11-14
End Hatred as
w ell as Vars,
Jewry Pleads
Disarmament Long the
Ideal of Hebrews, Speak
ers Declare at the Recep-
ton for Zionist Leaders
Quote Biblical Prophecy
More Than l, 100 Prominent
Men Greet Visitors Here
for Palestine Meeting

At reception to leaders of the
World Zionist movement at the Hotel
Astor last night American Jewry ex-
pressed itself strongly in favor of the
disarmament Of nations.
Samuel Untermyer, chairman, quot
ing the Scriptures, referred to the
hoped-for elimination of wars as a
Jewish ideal of all the ages. DR.. Jo-
seph Silverman, rabbi emeritus of
Temple EMANUEL, added that in addi-
tion to the laying down of arms there
should be setting aside of religious
prejudices and the eliminatiop of
hatreds between races.
DR.. Silverman spoke feelingly of the
future of Palestine, predicting that the
establishment of republic in the Holy
Land for the Jewish people was not far
off. "But if this nation is to result
from CUR efforts" he said, at must be
patterned on the American Republic,
and the American Republic is pat
termed on the principles of the ancient
Mosaic code. All we need is a gov
ernmeilt settled by our people in
world the ideals of a commonwealth
based on civic freedom and complete
religious liberty
l.l00 Attend Reception
More than 1,100 prominent persons,
representing all shades of Jewish opin-
ion regarding the Zionist movement,
were present to accord welcome to
Nahum Sokolow, of London, chairman
of the Zionist Executive Committee;
Professor Otto Warburg, a leading
German Zionist; Vladimir Jabotinsky,
the founder Of the Jewish Legion that
fought in Palestine, and DR.. Alexander
Goldstein, jurist and Zionist of Rus
sia.
These leaders arrived last Friday
and came here in connection with the
Zionist program to collect $100,00OOO0
throughout the world for colonization
and foundation work in Palestine. 1t
is planned to collect this sum within
i've years.
Among those present were former
Ambassadors Nathan Straus and
Abram I. Elkus, Louis Marshall. Frank
lin Simon, former Congressman Isaac
Siegel. Sam and Adolph Lewisohn, Her
man Bernstein, Sholom Asch,> Nanny
Straus, Judges Otto A. Rosalsky, Jacob
Strahl, Bernard A. Rosenblatt and ia
cob NJ. Moses, Julius Rosenwad. OF
Chicago; Jacob D. Lit, of Philadelphia;
Joseph Barondess, Samuel S. Koenig.
chairman of the Republican State Com
mittee; Edward Lauterbach, Samuel C.
Lamport, and many others.
Untermycr Welcomes Delegates
In welcoming the delegates Mr.. I'm
termyer said:
''We have the rare privilege and op-
portunity of meeting at the most mo-
mentous time in history. You come
at a time when the world, slowly. pain
fully emerging from the shadow of the
tragedy of the ages, still dripping with
the blood Of the most brutal and bar
barrie war in history, is groping for
ward with hope and prayers toward the
phetic ideal-'They shall beat their
swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning hooks; one nation
shall not lift its sword against another
nation, and they shall not learn war
any more
Mr.. Untermyes then explained that
the Palestine Foundation Fund was the
colonization instrument of the Zionist
Movement and the common ground upon
which Jews of all shades and belief and
opinion could unite. After referring to
tne eUScI OF Lnc various ISduerS IN the
World Zionist Movement, Mr.. Inter
myer introduced Mr.. Sokolow His ap-
pearance was the signal for the singing
of the "Star-Spangled Banner and the
"Hatikvak," the Jewish national song
voicing the hope OF the Jewish nation
for a homeland.
To Improve the Land
Mr.. Sokolow said, respecting the
needs of Palestine: "We are going to
build, to plow, to plant, to settle.
We are going to make an eternal bond
between the spirit and body of our
people and the land which must sus-
tain us. We shall not overstep our
rights; we snail not ,respass on those
of the nonJewish population. We
shall increase the fruitfulness OF the
land, open new sources through inten-
sive labor and modern methods. s;e-
fore long there will be thousands or
our youth building houses, thousands
of others plowing the land, others
irrigating and draining the marshes,
building roads, erecting bridges, pro-
ducing and manufacturing.
He added that the details of the whole
scheme had been carefully mapped out
and that dreams have long ago given
way to the rule of experts and scien-