Saying that a Jewish state was demanded by Harry Sacher and by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, in the negotiations preceding the issuance of the Balfour Declaration. Vladimir Jabotinsky, in a speech Tuesday before six thousand people reminded the audience that Lord Balfour, and Lord Robert Cecil, had like-wise borne in mind a Jewish state to be formed in Palestine. The Mandate he stated, stressed the re-establishment of a national home, and even the famous White paper of 1922 did not forbid or contradict the idea of a Jewish state.
The leader of the Zionist Revisionists, Jabotinsky protested against the continuance in office of the present Zionist Executive, because, he said, the members have refused to change their attitude though it is extremely harmful to Zionism and has brought about the present situation in Palestine.
Declaring that the present time, when England’s conscience is bothering her because of the recent riots, was the opportune time to demand legitimate rights for the Jews, he urged the formulation of a full and dignified program which might be considered worthy of Britain’s political efforts.
Urging that the plan for a commission to investigate the entire situation in Palestine, suggested by Lord Balfour and General Jan Christian Smuts, be carried out, Jabotinsky also insisted that radical changes of the Palestine regime be demanded. “I believe,” he concluded, “that to our generation has been entrusted the task of opening the way to Jewish redemption. We can achieve it because of the great forces contained in the Jewish Diaspora.”
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