Notables of United States and Abroad in Statements to Jewish Telegraphic Agency Express Sorrow at Passing of Balfour.
new epoch. The way will be found for the realization of the Balfour Declaration in harmony with the highest demands of justice, and rebuilt and prosperous Eretz Israel as the Jewish homeland will immortalize the name of Balfour for all generations everywhere.
In a critical period he departed from us, he who so deeply understood our strivings with the vision of a prophet, with the far-sightedness of a statesman, with the sense of highest justice possessed by a true Zaddik. And in the moment when we must strain our greatest efforts to realize our ideal, we look proudly to this great Britisher who has become one of our own.
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
The Administrative Committee of the Zionist Organization of America, at a special meeting called for Wednesday afternoon, March 19, adopted the following resolution:
"In common with Jewry throughout the world, the Zionist Organization of America expresses its profound grief and sorrow at the death of Arthur James Balfour, whose name will be forever enshrined in the heart of the Jewish people. His death deprives Great Britain of a great statesman, distinguished diplomat and philosopher, and the Jewish people not only of a great friend, but of one who understood and labored for the realization of the national aspirations of the Jewish people. He was the symbol of the world’s desire to right an ancient wrong. Through the Declaration of 1917, which bears his name, he restored to the Jewish people a hope which had sustained it for centuries. In this period of travail, when the state of the Jewish National Home is being decided, his wisdom, courage and statesmanship would have meant much in the councils of the British Government. In this hour of bereavement, we Zionists rededicate ourselves to the ideal which had so staunch and eloquent a champion in him.
"The name of Balfour will forever be associated with the national rebirth of the Jewish people."
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