Evening star., 1926-12-05
JEWISH LEADER DENIES
CARNECIE.ZION REPORT
Dr. Chain Weizmann Terms Findings
"Cratuitous, Unfounded and
- Wholly Misleading"

contrary. been impressive. We have
already settled 10000 Jews there
from the oppressed regions of west.
ern. eastern and central Europe. They
are living, not in conflict, but in har
mony with their fellow.residents of
Palestine, the Arabs. who number
some 100000. While neighboring
Syria during the past several years
has been a seething cauldron of un-
rest. Palestine has been at peace. The
need of a national refuge for Europe
an Jews grows greater. not less, as
the postwar years roll by. Condi-
| tions in countries like Russia, Poland,
Germany, Czechoslovakia and Ru.
mania are making it hourly more IN
cumbent upon Jewish leaders through
out the world to make Palestine a
place to which their coreligionists can
emigrate. in the hope of a reasonably
assured future.
"IneXorable economic laws, not
anti-Semitism as such. are driving the
Jewish populat ton out Of countries in
which 1t has been accustomed in the
past. even under obnoxious social
conditions. to live decent existence.
The war and the redrawing Of the map
of Europe have brought about certain
fundamental economic changes in the
countries l have mentioned, which no
longer enable Jews of the trading
and small merchant class to live. Pal
estine has become, under the circum.
stances, more and more Of a world
wide Jewish necessity. Nearly all con
tinental countries in Europe today are
predicating their national policies on
the peasantry and on the needs Of
agriculture. as distinguished from
those of industry and urban life. That
ia NJ 10 tv,Nva q <4 LA TAv -h~
are Unidentified almost exclusively with
commercial pursuits.
Points to Settlements.
'Dr. Pritchett alleges that few
German colonies Of peasants. who
came many years ago, are the only
European settlements that have
found roots in Palestine If DR.. Prit-
chett had made even a superficial in
vestigation Of conditions In Palestine
he could not thus dismiss as beneath
consideration the Jewish urban col
onies at Tel-Avir. Haifa. Jerusalem
and elsewhere. to say nothing of near
ly hundred rural settlements of Eu-
ropean Jews which have struck deep
roots in the country. The latter excite
the admiration of every agricultural
and colonization expert who inspects
them.
Ihe carnegie endowment 1tfner
ant investigator would convey the i'm
preston that the incursion Of Eu-
ropean Jews In Palestine has brought
naught but the seeds Of strife with
the Arabs there. DR.. Pritchett utterly
ignores the immeasurable advantages
brought to the Arabs through the
Jewish revival Of industry: through
betterment Of the status of the Arab
pea sal mt and laborer. because of the
sta ndards of the Jewish workingman;
through the new wealth brought to
the Arab landowner by the Jews TAX
ing up and making fruitful lands
which have been waste for centuries.
and through the magnificent medical
and public health service given by
Hadassah. the woman's Zionist organi-
zation for all races and creeds in Pal.
estine, and in other ways too numer.
Gus to mention.
II cannot but feel 1t unfortunate In
the highest degree that DR.. Pritchett's
irresponsible report bears the hall
mark Of so beneficent an orga nization
as the Carnegie Endowment for Inter
national Peace. The report will make
not for peace, but rather for interna-
tional prejudice and animosity.'
tCopyriEht 1920