For the British public the approaching Congress is of some concern, says a long article in to-day’s “Times” on the forthcoming Zionist Congress, contributed by “A Zionist Correspondent”. Zionist policy is at the cross-roads, he writes. Jewish faith in the British intention to abide by a pledge has been undermined by a series of adverse pronouncements. Some hold these to flow from a deliberate reluctance to go on with a complicated, very often a disagreeable, responsibility; others, with a stronger persuasion that the British mean what they say when they announced there is is-no turning back, think that the “pull-up” administered by the British at a crucial period in the Jewish National Home must be a temporary blunder.
Mr. MacDonald’s Better, in Dr. Weizmann’s words, the correspondent proceeds, restored the basis of co-operation. Dr. Weizmann did not say, and could not have truly said, that it has completely restored Jewish confidence. If there is no sign that Great Britain will give Palestine the kind of administration which will advance within reasonable limits the Jewish ideal, it may go ill with this Congress. A split occurred at the Sixth Congress over the Uganda project. If the movement now becomes divided, 28 years after that quarrel, it will not be over the desirability of a given territory, but over the question whether Zionism is to work whole-heartedly with the British or without them.
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