The Denver Jewish news., 1921-04-20
Weizmann Begins Pales-
tine Foundation Fund
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" tiioSN SiNaI Jews, lhS COMMUNITY
leaders who stood at the head of jew
ish life, and had said to them, "A lit
tie group of people, with defective
passports, would come to the English
government and require the British
government to take lime during the
war to think out the problem to which
an answer must be found because we
have been waiting for thousands of
years, these clever men, these wise
men, these practical men, these men
who believe themselves to be the lead
ers of the Jewish people, these people
who think they Know what has to be
done. would have said, These people
are mad. They are misfortune for
us, and it is best that we get rid of
them Our good fortune was that we
did not ask them. We began our worH
because we depended on one great
power. We depended on that power
which has brought you together in
thousands and thousands, to hear
jew with Il foreign passport, Jew,
perhaps a stranger. but at any rate
8 Jew who can talk in the tongue
which you will never forget. And be-
cause we believe that speaking to the
great powers of the earth we speak
for you. and altho we could not see
you at the time, altho we could not
get from you Il mandate how to talk,
we believe that we can understand the
zeal of the Jewish people sufficiently
that we could speak in its name and
request what we have requested.
We are not diplomats. We did not
come to play diplomatic games. We
came with only one weapon, with one
power, with the power of Righteousness
and justice, with that power which
thousands of years ago inspired our
prophets, our wise men, and our sages.
THE times in which we are living
are tremendously serious time. They
told You here, and my old teacher
Masliansky, told you to sing and be
happy. 1t is holiday. Certainly it
is Jewish holiday. And at Jew
ish holiday you always remind your
days. the days of hard work, the days
of toll, those days to come are ire
mendously difficult ones and if the
whole Jewish people will hot be thoro-
~ imbued with the spirit that it must
do everything possible 10 do the right
there is danger that not only Pal
estine will be destroyed, but that this
movement WIFI pass Tx. and we will
stand where we stood four years ago.
Therefore, we ask you in the nam.
of this declaration which makes you so
happy, and in the names of some
things much more important than the
declaration. in the names of the hun
dreds of thousands whose steps yOu
when they start on the way to Pal
estine, in the name of the tens of
thousands who are now in Palestine
and in the name of the Pioneers who
began and are now on the ground, that
you give them the opportunity to build
and build and build as beautifully in
the future as they have already be-
gun @
The great Zionist leader was follow
I'd by DR. Nicholas Murray Butler the
president of Columbia University. who
in the course of his remarks said:
II deem it Il great privilege to share
in the welcome of the city of New
York to these distinguished men who
are giving us most unusual expert
ence. They come to us from across
the sea, bearing not wealth. rot the
spOils. or even the glory of war. but
bringing ideals for the betterment of
Jewish people, and for the extension
of mans knowledge of nature.
rs it not remarkable that during
the greatest war the world has ever
seen these men of science have been
dealing with the deepest, the profund-
est thought as if there were no noise
going on in the worldi That. my
friends, is great lesson in the power
to speak to us Americans. whether Jew
or Gentle. of the great undertaking |
which they represent and which ap |
pcalS so widely to the citizenship of
the United States.
There is nothing that i can say to |
You on your behalf that has not been |
said. There is nothing that | can say |
to you that you do not understand |
I simply wish to stand III your pres
ence and others and testify to the in |
terest, othc support. to the approval
Of the citizenship of this city and ma
tion of the great mission which the, |
plause).