(of
disturb
ance moved to- Palestine itself,
where there was an anti-Jewish
riot on Easter Sunday. "The
.sense of outrage conveyed in
messages of panic spread from
Jerusalem to all over the world,"
the report continues. "Protests
were organized and outraged
feeling found expression in all
places, high and low, and the
only relief in a sombre picture
was the record built up there
and then by the staff of the
A Weekly of Jewish Lille and Lahore
VOL. IX* St Paul and Minneapolis—Friday, Nov. 26, 1920.
Twenty-Third Zionist Convention 1
By our Special Correspondent
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Buffalo, N. Y., November 25.
^—Events leading up to the deci
sion by the Peace Conference at
San Remo in April last, were nar
rated by Mr. Jacob DeHaas, Ex
ecutive Secretary of the Zionist
Organization of America, in his
report to the convention of that
body, which opened here today.
"Mr. DeHaas' report deailt with
the political uncertainty regard
ing the fate of Palestine which
prevailed early this year. First,
he said, came the announcement
that Palestine was to come un
der the suzerainty of the Emir
Feisal. Second, it was reported
that Palestine was to become part
of United Syria and, third, that
a strong endeavor ^as being
made to divide Palestine on lines
of the Sykes-Picot treaty. In
this series of political crises, the
officers were apealed to by the
International Organization to
combat to the best of their ability
the various disasters apprehend
ed, and on each occasion what
proved to be adequate measures
were taken by the Zionist Or
ganization of America to over
come these difficulties. However,
on each occasion when the ten
sion was relieved, some new and
beclouding political difficulty
presented itself. From London
and Paris the center
American Zionist Medical Unit in
Jerusalem. The officers of the
American Organization, held to
tjiieir policy of preparing for the
fyorst but hoping for the best,
fcnd avoided those forms of agi
nation which by their frequent
tise has begun to fail as a means
of exerting influence upon the
minds of the governments. And
this policy of patience won out,
for exactly at that moment when
Jerusalem was fasting and Lon
don was mourning in protest
over the pogrom, the San Remo
Conference wrote the Balfotfr
Declaration into the Turkish
*Treaty and black despair was
turned into a new and never-be
fore experienced happiness. Into
that effort the Zionist Organiza
tion of America poured all of its
strength and whenever the story
of the political developments
from 1914 to April, 1920, shall be
told unstinted praise will be giv
en President Woodrow Wilson,
the members of his cabinet and
the officials of the federal gov
ernments, who seconded every
effort made to achieve this re
sult."
Touching on the present situ
ation in Palestine, Mr.' DeHaas
said:
The appointment of Sir Her
bert Samuel as High Commis
sioner to Palestine was in the
jeyes of. most, even more sigmfa-
JBint
than the San Remo decision,
and there is plenty of evidence
"that Sir Herbert has| brought a
-new spirit into Palestine and has
made a wholesome readjustment
of forces. One great change has
already come and that is that the
.Arab problem has dwindled to its
natural proportions. But while
the political problem has become
simpler, the problem of the gen
eral development of Palestine still
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Towards all these new factors
the Jewish people must present
a new front. The Zionist ma
chinery set up to meet possibili
ties of Palestinian development
under Turkish rule clearly has
not been created to meet the en
tirely new problem of a Palestine
as a Jewish Homeland.
According to this report the
American Organization is paying
from 70 to 80 per cent of the
budgets of the entire movement.
From September, 1919, to July,
1920, the American Organization
paid out $75,000 a month to the
International Organization, in
cluding the cost of maintaining
the American Zionist Medical
Unit in conjunction with the
Joint Distribution Committee.
Since July the commitments
have been changed so that tlje
International Organization re
ceived $25,000 a month and the
Medical Unit $35,000. j.
In connection with the Zionist
Convention there will be held at
Temple Beth-El on Friday eve
ning, November 26th, an open
meeting of the Society of the
Jewish Renascence which will
be addressed (in English) by
,Prof. Mordecai M. Kaplan, of thw
^Jewish Theological Seminary,
%ne of the most eloquent speak
ers in the Jewish pulpit of Ameri
ca. The aims of this society,
Simong other things, are to re
vitalize traditional Jewish prafc
tices to develop new standards
in Jewish life called forth by
modern social and economic con
ditions to determine the meas*
ures to make Palestine the cen
ter of an integrated, universal
Jewry*.
f,
No.
waits upon the settlement of the
northern and eastern boundaries,
a problem that is being settled
outside of Palestine, and the
methods to be pursued in tfofli
actual development of the Home
land as a homeland, must, in con
siderable measure, await until
the League of Nations has ap
proved the terms of the Mandate
which are still in the making.
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