An imposing meeting of the German Pro-Palestine Society, with 1,500 invited Christian and Jewish notables, under the chairmanship of Count Von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, was held here today. Count Bernstorff declared that the government and German public opinion were backing the pro-Palestine movement. He also revealed that the late Imperial government had instructed the German ambassador in Turkey during the War to influence the Turks in favo# of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
Count Bernstorff said that the assumption of the Palestine mandate by England was in no way diminishing the rights of Jewish citizens of other countries but that the high cultural achievement in Palestine was serving all humanity. He read a statement from Max Warburg, brother of Felix Warburg, and noted Hamburg banker, describing the new type of Jewish farmer and industrial worker that was flourishing in Palestine together with the Hebrew language. Mr. Warburg’s statement declared that the Jews desire peaceful collaboration with the Arab world and that the Jewish national home did not harm anybody, but required self-respect for the Jews.
In a letter to the meeting, Dr. Albert Einstein said that the Palestine upbuilding is the greatest occurrence of importance in Jewish history and that at present the vital necessity is to increase the tempo of immigration and the work of upbuilding. Kurt Blumenfeld, president of the German Zionist Federation, analyzed the political aspects of the Mandates which recognized the historical connection of the Jews with Palestine.
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