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refuse to enter Into a discussion concerning Pal
estine such as suggested at this time.
"Jewry is an international religious body. Its
interests as a religious body are separated from
the specific interests of any particular nation in
the same sense as the interests of Catholicism or
Protestantism are distinct from any any one par
.j ticular people. There are Jews bravely fighting
on both sides of this great war. They are win
ning laurels for their heroism. They are reflect
ing great credit upon Jewish loyalty and honor
and are showing themselves worthy of the great
heroic memories of the past. Jews In neutral
lands have a special duty to refrain from express
ing partian opinions, one way or the other, de
spite the many promises and blandishments held
out by rumor but for which there is no act given
as substantial basis.
"What Jews in neutral lands especially should
do is to make their influence felt by appeals in
other ways; to call the attention of the word to
43 the terrible sufferings of Jewish non-combatants
in the eastern theatre of war and in Palestine.
Especially In the eastern theatre of war, where
about 6,000,000 Jews dwell. Jews have suffered
unspeakable atrocities under the cover of war.
' " Jewry there is practically another Belgium.
"With respect to Palestine itself. While of
course there are Jews there now that need pro
tection and relief, and while as a practical utilitar
ian measure I can conceive that hundreds of
thousands of Jews may be led to live in the future
in Palestine and develop themselves as men in a
normal life, yet Palestine can never solve the
so-called Jewish question of Europe."
"You mean, then, doctor, that this promise
to create a sovereign Jawish state at the close
of the war is not a matter of the most vital im
portance to the Jew?" I asked.
"I mean that we should not let ourselves be
deceived with respect to the real situation by
any indefinite talk concerning Palcstino just now.
Palestine' sinks into insignificance beside the
much larger question which concerns the Euro
pean people in whose midst European Jewry
dwells.
"When the congress of nations meets at the
end of the war the conscience of Europe will
have to meet the appeal on behalf of elemental
human rights, of which G,000,000 Jews in Russia
and Rumania are deprived because of their race
and religion. Whichever side wins, or if there be
a draw, in making up the account Europe must
face this question. That is the one in which
Jewry, in my opinion, should be especially Interested.
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"The Jews are not a nation seeking a country
in which to unfold their nationality by moans of
an independent state. Jews have long outgrown
that kind of nationality. They do not wish to bo
known as a nation like Servla, Montenegro, etc.
They are a religious community and nothing else.
They therefore have the right to dwell all over
the vorld. They become good citizens in all
countries as soon as they are granted political
and economic freedom.
'The present conception of nation based on
race is all wrong. And even worse is the idea
that a state must bo the expression of such a
nation based on race. The slogan that 'govern
ment must coincide with nat nallty' is disastrous
to the interests of humanity. A true democratic
state is based on the idea of man and his rights,
irrespective of his race or religion. Our country
gives the most glorious examplo of such a demo
cartic state. My thinking on this subject, there
fore, is determined both by my Americanism and
by my Judaism.
"The few Jewish nationalists a minority of
Jewry who would seek in Palestine a resurrec
tion of a Jewish nationality of a political charac
ter have become so 'because of adopting the in
tense nationalism which has dominated European
thought for the last three decades, and. which, in
my opinion, is the profoundest spiritual cause
of the present war. The extreme form of such
nationalism vents itself in a desire to reject Jew
ish elements from the body politic. Jewry only
plays into the hands of such anti-Judaism if it
consents to adopt as its own that line of thought.
"Humanity is today a higher conception than
nationality. To rest government on nationality
and the latter on the physical heritage of race is,
in the last analysis, to hark back to primitive
conditions of barbarism and make the world a
group of peoples, bristling with racial prejudices
ind national animosities.
"The world, I believe, will be ruled by halr a
dozen or so of great powers, within which th e
will be scope for the play of many individual
types. Humanity can be best expressed in great
democratic states, whatever the particular form
of government may be, in which men of all bloods
and all creeds will be recognized as entitled to
citizenship and to the protection of their rights
as men and capable of contributing to the enrich
ment of the country's power and intellectual,
moarl and spiritual culture.
"In such countries, in which humanity will
be best expressed, Jews and Judaism will have
as In oui' own country a great role to play. Not
Palestine is the Jew's goal, but freedom, justice
and humanity ho alms at. And having proved
his patriotism in various countries on the Holds I
of valor he is entitled to citizenship and to the (I
welcome to the most cordial co-operation in these ll
lands." I
"With Buch an ideal, doctor, would it not bo 'I
admissible for you to express a preference for I
the cause of the Germans or the Allies, according I
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would best advance that ideal?" I
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