The Denver Jewish news., 1923-02-21
Europe and Pales-
tine on the Way
BY DIR. STEPHEN $. WISE.
(Continuation.)

yancing through Germany into west
ern Europe. l believe that not 4 few
Germans would for two reasons well
come n social-industrial revolution.
First. they would crush it With iron
heel. and with an abortive attempt 10
establish II Communist regime would
go the Republic and much more that Is
not imperial in plan and purpose. Ana
such a revolution and its suppression
la Horthy would, it might be hoped
cancel Germany's obligations TO the En-
tente. Bolshevism is not constantly nor
even occasionally to be dangled before
our eyes as II peril. We have already
had too much of the threat of Boil
shevism as form of international
MISUNDERSTANDING with the fatefui
and too successful attempt in the Paris
Peace Conference days.
| Ny plea is on other grounds. l hold
that the place of the dollar in the econ
omic world today is not nm accident and
| Is, not to be regarded as such. If it
be the sign and index of our security,
| it is not less than sign and prophecy
of our duty. We did not win the war
through lending dollars the moral rein
forcement of the Allies by the promise
of Americas millions of men was the
decisive thing. or forced the final de-
cision In the same way, the unshaken
dollar is sign of what America may
now do-with the difference that it
may serve friend and former foe alike.
The dollar and its disproportionnte
value are not to remain the unsports-
manlike jest and joy of some Europe
doing" Americans. and the despair of
much of Europe. We have come TO
possess the strength of n giant and that
strength must he utilized to great ends.
Today the dollar, is the abhorred
symbol of sheer power fortuitously
gained- for the remoteness
and seagirt insularity of America are
not of our design and deserving. l
would have the dollar become the hon
ored and revered symbol of power. eN-
erted to the most beneficient ends, of
power NHitn wv 49,
goodwill transmutes itself into
symbol of serving and saving. Let
..Dollar-Volk," now unjustly term OF
dishonor. become justly an honoring
title for the American people.
III.
| would fain summarize an impress
sion of Jewish conditions in the West
ern and Central European lands l have
visited. Whether or not one meets
Jews, one touches the Jewish question
everywhere. The first repercussion of
the Jewish problem which affected me
was the debate in the House of Lords
on the Mandate and Ruttenberg Con-
cession. One knew that its decision
would not he binding on the nntion nor
in any way influence the House OF Com
mons. And still it carried one back
threc-quarters of a century to read the
bitter things spoken in the Upper Cham
ber of England by n small group of
Morning Post newsboys led by Lord
| Sydenham. One felt then-and | have
often come upon the thing since-that
the Protocols and the Morning
much in empOisoning the mind of
Europe as in giving new standing and
sanction to old-time ill-wills. Lord
Balfour was the Macaulay of the new
sidered speech of characteristic poise
and distinction.
The House of Commons by its decis-
i've and overwhelming majority OF n
fortnight later quite neutralized the
unhappy impression left by the earlier
vote. quite as significant as the actual
poll were the speeches of the opponents
of the British Mandate and the really
great utterance of the Minister for
Colonial Affairs. Winston Churchill. 1t
was the more refreshing after his rath-
er labored note in the White Paper of
some days bcfOrc-to which, it should
be added, the Zionist organization made
the only reply possible in the crcum-
stances. l may return TO the House of
Commons vote and its effect upon Jew
ish destinies.
As for Jewish affairs in England.
everything is dominated by the Pales-
tinian obligation which the Govern
ment has assumed. Since it is become
British matter. some outstanding
Jews have taken friendly, even kind
| ly, attitude toward this problem
though not without misgiving and
| obvious reluctance. There are of course
some Jewish "diehards' who maintain
! what the Chief Rabbi of Vienna wittily
calls IAN uncannily objective viewpoint
touching every Jewish question" As