Evening star., 1923-11-11
Lloyd George and the Jews.

Few foreign statesmen visiting the
United States have received so warm
and spontaneous a welcome at the
accorded to the former prime minis
ter of Great Britain. recent guest of
this country. There is something
strange and romantic about his ca
reer which appeals to the adventur-
Gus spirit of the American people. He
is self-made man in the best sense
and traditions of this country.
A man of humble origin. without
the backing of either wealth or birth,
he has swung himself to the highest
position within the gift of one of the
greatest nations. In this respect there
is something in his career which
strangely touches that of fellow
of his-Benjamin Disrae-
Ii. Brilliant and resourceful, he has
been called an opportunist in states
like his great predecessor in
the premiership of Great Britain, and
like him, too, he has been blamed for
many OF the ills of his country and
the world.
To the Jews particularly Lloyd
George has endeared himself as few
other living statesmen, Jews feel
grateful to the great British states
man of his broad-minded policy with
regard to Palestine and the jewish
home land. for his sympathetic and
profound interest Sn the rights OF MI
norities, wherever such rights have
been denied or infringed, and for ms
mastery and fearless denunclatlnh
of the anti-Semites who are stirring
up unrest everywhere and thus MN
dering the return to world peace.
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Jewish Sultan OF Morocco.
4 number of very interesting facts
regarding the Jews of Morocco are
disclosed in a book Los Hebroes Mu-
rascos" (Hlstory of the Jews OF Mo-
rocco soon to appear in English
translation, among which is the story
of "a Jew who became sultan of that
country. The volume also reveals
the fact that the Jews Were among
the first settlers along the Spanish
Mediterranean coast. CONS dating
back to the early settlement there
which combine Hebrew and Phoenl-
clan inscriptions are adduced in sup
port of this contention.
But while the Jewish sultanate OF
Morocco may be a matter of dispute
there can be little doubt that the set
tlement of the Jews in that counry is
Of very ancient origin-how ancient 1t
is nobody has as yet been able to
establish with any degree or GER
tainty. Indefinite and fabulous are
the records of the earliest Jewish
colony in Morocco, some going even
so far as to assign it to the time OF
King Solomon, when lsraelite mer-
chants were supposed 20 have gone
there in search of trade.
But it seems to be an established
fact that already at the time of the
Roman domination of the world there
was quite a number of Jews in Mo-
hn n
occupation of the country Jews seen
to have filled important positions o.
state as negotiators. treasurers. coun
cilors and administrators. That
this time a Jew should have sWunE
himself to the highest position in thu
country, that of the Sultanate. Is no
at all unlikely.
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VfndicatiOn of "a Jewish Martyr.
Leo Frank. the Jewish young MAJ
who was accused of numbering MARI
Fagin in Atlanta. Ga. ana wa
lvnched by mob who stormed th'
Jail after Gov. John NJ. Slaton hat
commuted his sentence, has at las
been vindicated. \ sworn statemen
by negro named Freeman was maze
public in which he made fun contes
sion. declaring that he and his friend
another negro. had been the slayer:
Of the girl. The confession was orig
inalIy made in 1913, when the negro
believed that he was dying. but fol
political reasons was not allowed &c
be made public.
All who were famlllar with tht
evidence in the Frank case and the
noIitical motives involved in il We're
convinced that Leo Frank was abso-
lutely innocent. but some OF the poll-
ticians in Georgia famed the names
of anti-SemitiSm to serve thelr owl
selfish, murderous ambitions ana ot-
manded Frank as their victim. Thousf
his vincidation comes late. eight years
after his death. it is nevertheless:
good to know that the vindlcation mas
at last come and the real truth Oh th'
case come to light.
AS the Dreyfus case in France. sc
has the Frank case in America
aroused the attention and interest OF
the whole country. Both were VIC
Tins of a horrible combination or cir:
cumstances, and both We're martyree
by the wave of the unreasoned preJu
6ices of the masses. Both were sacrl'
fees on the altar of pollticai anloilioli
and both were hnally eluuiea
cept that in the case OF the America
martyr the vindicatior of his 1nno'
cence came too late to spare MS NE
England and the Lost Tribes.
An old myth has been revived
again. Much speculation has beer
wasted on what became of the ter
lost tribes of the Kingdom of Israel
Their whereabouts has for centuries
been unknown. There have been
countless vague and fabulous theories
concerning their identity. Almost the
whole globe - has been carefully
searched for their existence. Many
who care little for Israel alive have
been proud to trace their lineage tc
Israel extinct. That the English peo-
tribes is a theory which was MUGS ir
vogue at one time. Many a learned
treatise and much scientific data have
been collected to prove this theory.
That this supposition should be re.
vived again when the position of the
prising. yet is a fact At recent con
gress of Israel" an organization o.
non-Jewish Englishmen, who claim
descendance of the ten lost tribes OF
Israel, the statement was made de.
claring the belief that the English
nants of the ten lost tribes OF
Ancient Israel. Not only are the Eng
lish people of Israelite origin. but the
very word British" has etymologi
cally been found to be of Hebrew
derivation. Thus. according to thi:
theory, brltlSn Is compound %
the two Hebrew words Brit 1sh
which in Hebrew means "covenan
of men,"
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Jews Fleeing From Germany.
Unless measures will quickly b'
taken against the exodus of Jews
from Germany by checking the anti
Semitic propaganda in that country
there is every likelihood that no
much will soon be left of the at one
time fiourishing Jewish communitie:
in the "Fatherland." Large number!
of Jews, II is reported. especially
those recently from Russia, are de
parting in masses for other parts o
Europe on account of the steadily
growing pressure OF anti-Semitisn
and the difficult economic condition:
induced by the fall of the mark.