Janner Calls Palestine Colonization Triumph of Practical Idealism

The thesis that the Anglo-Saxon outlook on progress devolves from the principle that there is no distinction between peoples whatever their party or religious affiliation, was developed in an address by Barnett Janner, member of the British Parliament, delivered Saturday at the Jewish pageant where he was the guest of honor.

Mr. Janner denied that this is a Jewish principle exclusively and added that it was born in the travail of world advancement.

He denounced the atrocities being committed in Germany against Jews and pleaded for the success of the settlement of Palestine as a Jewish homeland.

“The idea of colonizing Palestine,” he continued, “is being brought to a successful end beyond the expectations of even the most optimistic. I venture to say that nowhere in the world has there been shown a more vivid illustration of what idealism combined with practical effort can achieve, than that displayed by the Jewish pioneer work in Palestine.

“These people are a determined people with a vision. They were prepared to suffer indescribable hardships, to live on the barest sustenance, to work steadily onward and if need be to fall by the way, smitten by disease.

“Day by day this new peasantry has toiled often under a broiling sun, man and woman side by side, breathing in a new atmosphere of contentment in spite of the arduous and exacting nature of the work. When the day’s work is over they pour out their hearts in song under an open sky. Their bookshelves are stocked with the literary gems of the world which they read with pleasure and understanding. Their board is meagre but their lives are full. They have made of Palestine an oasis of optimism in the desert of world pessimism.”