All Hebrew newspapers devoted their front pages and editorials today to honoring the memory of Dr. Herzl. The Communist daily, Kol Haam–Voice of the People–in rather grim terms, declared that Dr. Herzl, in his approaches to the German Kaiser, the Turkish Sultan and the anti-Semitic Czarist Minister Plehve, offered–in exchange for their support–to help “persuade the Jewish masses not to participate in revolutionary movements in which they played an important part.”
“Dr. Herzl,” the paper continued, “did not see the real cause of anti-Semitism or the connection between the Jewish problem and the social regime. He did not connect the war against anti-Semitism with the war against the regime that gave birth to it and without the liquidation of which there can be no security for the Jewish people.”
The paper added that “full national and social freedom in Israel will be achieved despites the Anglo-Saxon warmongers if Israel chooses as her Allies those forces representing the progressive elements of social endeavor.”
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