The Washington times., 1922-08-13
LONDON. Aug. 10.

W OnO tAAdt thO PAothAoo Va - sSW"
tsh National Home in Palestine
must be cancelled. On July 4 the
House Of Commons declared by
majority OF nearly nine to one that
Il must be carried out.
Yet in reality while the lords
tilted their lance openly at the
breast Of Zionism. the Commons
stabbed Zionism In the back. The
pledge they confirmed was not the
original pledge. but q simulacrum.
Since the war started things are
never what they seem. the same
word covers also its antithesis, and
camouflage has become a fine art.
A quarter of q century ago I
was visited by q tall, handsome,
dark-bearded stranger in the prime
OF life. who begged me to help him
establish q Jewish state. This
was DIR. Herzl, Of Vienna, destined
to die soon of his fatal project. and
TO live forever. His trunipet-can
founded the Zionist movement.
THE BALFOUR DECLARATION.
It's object. as set forth in his
historic pamphlet, "The Jewish
State" was to end the abnormal
situation Of the Jews. the sole peo-
pie in tho world with territory
nowhere and q minority every
where. Only where this minority
was negligible had they achieved
emancipation. and even In their
few coigns Of vantage, he urged
and the Dreyfus agitation then
raging illuminated his argument
their very emancipation tended to
undo itself.
For their ain-power and Indus
try pushed them into the limelight
Of disproportionate success. More
over. the oppressed masses would
begin gravitating to the favored
spot and its Jewish minority would
no longer be negligible.
Pro-Semitism thus led fataIly to
anti-Semitism. In this vicious cir
Gle the Jew had moved for two
thousand years-it was the secret
of "The Wandering Jew" Israel
had no solid foothold anywhere
always he was slipping about In
blood. It was time to end the long
agony; the Jews must acquire .
territory again. become a majority
somewhere. Popular opinion de-
cided that the somewhere must bs
Palestine, and dying Herzl order
ed his bones to be carried thither
when his people should regain 1t.
Twenty years after his first visit
70 me came the Balfour 'declara-
ton, apparently fulfilling his
dream. The exact nature of the
pledge can be quibbled over indef-
initely; the sense in which the
world took It admits Of no doubt.
It was the hour of nationalities re-
surgent.
A NATIONAL HOME.
Poland was to be reborn, Czecho-
Slovakia to be created, Jugoslavia
TO arise; Israel, too, the oldest and
most afflicted Of all the peoples.
was to be reconstructed and re-
Eathered in the ancient home.
Nor did the world misunder-
stand the Balfour declaration.
It's author elucidated his own
meaning in a preface to the
official History Of Zionism."
The ancient home was to be
restored to the Jews. he wrote;
they were to have that. which
all other nations possess-a local
habitation and a national home"
The pledge was not wholly
quixotic. "The Government
thought It would be useful to
them in the war;" admitted Mr..
Churchill in the recent debate.
And very useful at that dark
hour>H proved. 1t reconciled the
American Jews to fighting on a
side which had originally en-
braced Russia; Russia that had
not only massacred their kins-
men. but refused to recognize
their own American passport.
It unsettled the Austrian and
German Jews at the height Of
-dindenburg's success. 1t pro-
vided the invaders Of Palestine
with invaluable intelligencers, one
Of whom-sister of Captain
Aaronsohn, Of theatrical fame
committed suicide rather than
give information to the Turks. 1t
raised up a Judean battalion
and an American legion, which
played no insignificant part in
the conquest of Palestine.
It set the Jews Of the world
cabling to the European con-
ferences to demand the assign
ment of the Palestine mandate to
Britain. And that the control of
Palestine Is tactically. necessary
for the defense Of Egypt was the
motive that-on his own confes-
ston-decided Colonel Amery to
hacl nm Zioniam