Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-29
The stage is set for the last act in this great moving drama of history
 

tions have not oppressed them? They have been the prey for ages of superstition and big otry and intolerance; they have been burned at the stakes by tens of thousands; they have been tortured on rack and screw; they have been the mark through centuries for the slan- der and lies of the ignorant; during the middle ages they were driven wholsale-poverty- stricken, defenceless-from one city into an- other; from one land into another.
 And to what end did they bear all this1 At any time these ancestors of yours could have escaped this life of perpetual persecution and discrimination by assuming to believe what they did not believe. It was a very simple matter. Tens of thousands of them did so-yes, probably hundreds of thousands. But your ancestors were not among those who renounced their heritage Why were they not have you ever thought?
 Because, consciously or unconsciously, they wanted to transmit to their children, and to their childrcn's chidren-to you who read this something of the quality that they them selves had received, unimpaired and strong, from their own fathers
 They made you what you are, one of these patient, humble heroic men and women. If there IS any quality within yourself that you respect, be thankful to them If there is any constancy to an ideal within you, be thankful to then If there is any love for truth and justice in you, be thankful to them! If there is any pride of intelligence within you, be thankful to them! What you are, they made you! And all of then1-your father, h1s father, o,1I fafb hafo iii of4 41,o are watching within you at this moment, to see how you face a test as searching as any to which they were ever put.
 For today every man and woman of Jewish race in the world has had placed before him an unexampled privilege.
 The crisis in this romance ot great and ancient people has come!
 Today the enlightened Powers of the world empires far greater than Rome, Greece or Egypt ever Were-have proclaimed to the lew ish people: You may at last rebuild Pales- tine! You may send your pioneers there anew You may rebuild the county You may make 1t blossom as 1t bloSsomed two thousand years ago. You may establish new industries there! You may again make this Holy land-this land sacred to all the world because of its memories-a little center of light and learning, as it was two thousand years ago. And you may do this under our protecton?'
 This is not dream, it is hard, stark, naked reality. On November 3, 1917-in the height of the Great War-Arthur James Balfour, a member of the British Cabinet, speaking in the name of his government, made this historic announcement:
 His MaJesty's Government views
 with favor the establishment in Pales-
 tine of National Home for the Jewish
 people, and will use their best endeavors
 to facilitate the achievement of this ob-
 ject-"
 The British Government has pledged it's word to see Palestine restored to the Jewish people! And this was only the beginning Within year other great Powers endorsed this claration-France, Italy, Japan, China.
 Woodrow Wilson, on August 8, 1918 placed the stamp of his approval on the Zion ist movement, which for almost twenty years had been striving for lcgally-secured home for Jews i'll Palestine.
 President Harding has taken the same stand within the last year, giving public expression to his friendly interest in the Zionist cause
 Today, there is hardly responsible 1ibera statesman or publicist in the world who does not look upon this project with the heartiest favor and the deepest interest.
 Is there any romance in history more stir. ring and inspiring than this? A little people establishes nation On the farthest banks o the Mediterranean thirty-two hundred years ago. For fifteen hundred years it fourishes It becomes, so far as its value to the world k concerned, a truly great nation. Then it i. rooted away ruthlessly from its soil. Its peo pie are scattered the world. But they do not die out. They retain something O their original individuality among the races O the world. For two thousand years they gc fire and hell to preserve an ideal. And now