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The Times has published articles this week under the title “Crisis in Zionism” which are highly dangerous to the Zionist movement, Professor Selig Brodetsky told the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland at a mass meeting held here last night.

“The Times reported,” Brodetsky continued, “that whereas the first Zionists thought of Palestine in terms of tens of thousands of settlers, the modern Zionists think of it in terms of hundreds of thousands. This demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of the situation. There has been no change of view. We have never thought of Palestine in terms of tens of thousands. We have never departed from the view that Zionism means the solving of the Jewish problem by settlement in Palestine.”

Brodetsky attacked the articles because of the suggestion that Jewish progress must be kept back to keep pace with Arab development. “We can never accept it. There was nothing to this effect in the Mandate, nothing in the Zionist ideal. The Arabs will learn progress from us. We must go ahead according to our own requirements.”

The professor told the meeting that their own broken front was being used as a weapon against them. “Our job in Palestine,” he said, “is too big to be spoiled by internal quarrels. The wisest thing is to maintain a dignified silence in the face of attacks.”

Other speakers addressed the mass meeting. Captain Strickland, M. P., said, “I saw the Jew in Palestine willing to do any sort of work on the land, on buildings, determined to make of Palestine something bigger than ever before.”

Mr. C. Summersby, P. M., urged the Jews to “study your position, and if you stand together you have nothing to fear.”

“The Chedra spirit will win Palestine,” Major Proctor told the meeting. “What your people have achieved in Palestine is at once the envy and the admiration of the world. The Arab civilization belongs to the past; the Jewish spirit belongs to the present and the future.”