“Jewish persistency will triumph” declared Sir Herbert Samuel, the former High Commissioner of Palestine today, associating himself with Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin in their opposition to the new policy of the British Government limiting the Jewish rights in Palestine.
Sir Herbert made his declaration at a dinner given here by the Ort, the organization for promotion of technical aid and agriculture among the Jews in Eastern Europe, and the Oze, the Society for the preservation of Health of the Jews in the Eastern European countries. Bernard G. Shaw and Professor Albert Einstein were the honorary guests at this dinner at which Lord Rothschild presided and H. G. Wells was a guest.
“I shared in a large measure the responsibility for the ‘White Paper’ which the British government issued in 1922. The new declaration of the present Cabinet which purports to endorse that White Paper puts a stop to its application.
EARLY DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT
“There will be undoubtedly an early debate in the Parliament on the whole question,” —Sir Herbert continued,— “I reserve till then the full expression of my views. I desire however at this occasion to associate myself fully with Lloyd George, Stanley Baldwin, and General Smuts against the present British policy in Palestine, which, if persisted in must mean the cessation of the devoted work which the Jews have been carrying on in Palestine with such a large measure of success.
“The Jewish persistency will triumph over the present difficulties.”
After listening to George Bernard Shaw, who prefaced his remarks with the phrase, “I have no passion against Israel,” praise him through an entire address as one of the greatest men the world has ever known, Prof. Albert Einstein arose to speak on the plight of the Jews. And the whole world listened.
“Whoever will preserve the spirit must also take care of the body to which the spirit is bound. The Oze Society literally cares for the body of our people in Eastern Europe. It is working indefatigably for the physical preservation of our economically heavily burdened people, while the Ort Society is striving to remove a social and economically burdensome wrong from which the Jewish people have suffered from the time of the Middle Ages.
“The only effective help that could be given the Jewish people in these Eastern lands is to throw open to them the new fields of vocational activity for which they are striving all over the world. This is the difficult problem which the Ort Society is successfully tackling.”
Prof. Einstein was given a tremendous ovation.
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