Zionist diplomacy has crashed, according to S. Rosenfeld, writing in Tuesday’s issue of the New York “Day”, and it is necessary that new people should be chosen at the head of Zionism to create new diplomatic connections. Mr. Rosenfeld specifically mentions Sokolow’s diplomatic negotiations with the Vatican in Rome, Weizmann’s negotiations with the British government in London, the work of Colonel Kisch in Jerusalem and of Messrs. Aberson and Jacobson in Geneva, the seat of the League of Nations.
As an instance of the failure of Zionist diplomacy, Mr. Rosenfeld retells the story related by Dr. Saul Mesan, Zionist leader in Bulgaria, who had an interview with Emir Abdullah of Transjordania with regard to Zionism on the 18th of August, 1926. At that time the Emir expressed to Dr. Mesan his readiness to cooperate with the Jews and to come to an understanding with them. But when Dr. Mesan returned to Jerusalem the same day and related the Emir’s proposals to the Zionist Executive — Sokolow, Kolwarksky and Colonel Kisch — the latter did not show, according to Dr. Mesan, any interest whatsover in the proposal. As a result, Emir Abdullah made peace with his former enemy, Mussa Kasim Pasha, president of the Palestine Arab Executive, and has since then become a bitter enemy of Jewish efforts in Palestine.
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