Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-29

in our day, in this day, under our eyes, this people is given the opportunity, under the pro lection of great modern states, to attempt to do again what it did thirtys two hundred years agc
 And at what period this historic oppor- tunity comes! It coincides, fatefully, with one of the bitterest tragedies that Jews have been obliged to suffer in all their long history. The Great War and its aftermath have left millions of your brethren in Europe in condition so pitiful and tragic that those who have seen it, and attempt to describe it, become perforra silent, because of lack of words.
 The most horrible scenes of the war took place Ill the centers of Jewish population, in Poland and the Ukraine. Back and forth over these homes the mu1tidudinous armies of Ger many, Austria and Russia marched, counter marched and batted - while Jewish soldiers on each side fought against each otheI What could possibly become of a population in the midst of such an area?
 And even this was not enough! After the declaration of peace there broke out in these areas, through Poland and the Ukraine, a series of bloodthlrsty massacres-at the hands chiefly of irresponsible brigands-that made the old horrible pogroms of the Czars seem, in comparison, like the playful jokes of chil- dren.
 You have seen photographs of naked chil- dren, with the piteous appeal of hunger in their eyes, You have seen photographs of ragged mothers securing in waste places to find food for their loved ones. You have seen photographs of corpses in great piles,-men, women and children butchered ruthlessly. You have seen photographs of children out rageously wounded-wounded children mind you! You have seen old, old men and women trudging, trudging along roads = going whlther, whlther? Only to places where there can be but equal misery, worse famine. deeper despair!
 It is to these people-you should know that the promised and of Palestine appears today as bright lodestar as 1t did to the lsrael1tes III Egypt over three thousand years ago. The strongest and bravest among them, the youngest and eagerest, are cravine-simpy crav1Bg-the chance to return to this land of their fathers
 In spite of all their misery, they are in- spTed as they have never been i'll the past. They are stinting and scrapng and starving themselves to go. Thousands of them have trampled through Europe to the ports. In the enVlrons of Warsaw alone there are over thirty thousand young men and women waiting waiting ever-for slim chance that will take
 
 own land of freedom
 So the stage IS set for the last act in this great moving drama of history. And the end IS one you shall wrte-you who read this You are the hand of God now.
 These pioneers are straining every nerve to reach Palestine and rebuild this ancient land These earnest young men and women-fresf with the deallsm of youth-offer their lives and their fortunes as bricks for the future oj a reborn Jewish people. Everything is set fol the opportunity
 Palestine IS now being governed by
 Great Britain under mandate confer
 red upon 1t by the San Reno Confer
 of the Allied Power
 British High Commissioner Sir
 Herbert Samuel Jew, has assumed
 the reins of government.
 The land, rewon during the war part
 ly by Jewish Legion-young Jewish
 soldiers from England, France, Russia
 and even America-is open wide to col
 onization and development.
 Seventy-one Jewish agricultural col
 onies-some established independently
 forty years ago-are thriving under the
 blows of over 15,O0O free and independ-
 ent Jewish farmers.
 There are Jewish schools, colleges,
 agricultural experiment stations.
 Over 9O,OOO Jews have made their
 way into this ancient land and are doing
 each their little bit to re-develop it.
 Still more remarkable These people
 have relearned their ancient language
 they have revived ancient Hebrew
 language only recently ss dead
 Greek or Latin. It is tke language of
 their daily converse.
 And back of these colonists stand some o the ablest men of your race-scholars, scien