(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A belated reply to the conclusion of Dr. Henry S. Pritchett of the Carnegie Peace Foundation on Palestine is given in this week’s issue of the “Outlook,” an influential English weekly. The paper writes:
“Pritchett is one of those international busybodies who delight in teaching the old world its job. He has instructed the Carnegie Peace Foundation that the project of the Jewish national home is visionary and unfortunate. His contention is based on the undeniable friction between the Jew and the Arab, but Pritchett’s own ancestors caused inconvenience to the Indians, and Pritchett’s contemporaries irritate Europeans for their good.
“It is surprising, however, that an American with national experience, should fail to realize the power of the pioneering spirit allied with religious enthusiasm. The colonists who roused Palestine from the torpor of centuries were not stolid peasants dumped into a strange country which did not want them. In an efficient, farsighted Jewish way, they are laboring to realize their ideal and the most significant and moving passages of Samuel’s final report pay due tribute to their efforts.
“They have quickened the pulse of Jewry the world over and even the Palestine Arab is beginning to appreciate the additional value of their work.
“Whatever applause Pritchett obtains from credulous, self-opinionated Tennessee, his views will not be treated seriously on this side of the Atlantic. The great Palestine experiment will be continued because it has behind it the two most powerful forces of civilization, Jewry and the British Government,” the paper writes.
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