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The program of the Zionist Revisionists, as outlined by their leader, Vladimir Jabotinsky, in his lecture in New York last Sunday, is discussed in two Jewish papers, the “Jewish Daily News” and the “Day.”
Both the “Jewish Daily News” in its editorial and S. Rosenfeld in the “Day”, are inclined to believe that much of Jabotinsky’s criticism of the present World Zionist administration is justified.
“There is, for instance,” writes the “Jewish Daily News,” “a great deal of truth in Jabotinsky’s argument that the Zionist leadership has not demanded enough of the British government. Jabotinsky is not the only one who thinks so. It has been pointed out from various sides that the policy of the Zionist leadership in London is a weak one.”
The paper agrees with Jabotinsky that had the Zionist leaders demanded more of England they would have received more, and endorses his demand that a protective tariff should be established in Palestine in order to help the growth of Jewish industry. His demand that the land of the absentee Arab landlords in Palestine be expropriated and turned over to Jews for cultivation is seen by the paper as involving many difficulties but as being worthy of consideration.
Regarding Jabotinsky’s opposition to the formation of a Jewish Agency, as sponsored by Weizmann, to include 50 per cent non-Zionists, the paper upholds Jabotinsky, declaring:
“We did not believe it advisable to create an Agency in which one half would not agree with the other half and which would thus be exposed to the dangers of internal war. Moreover, we did not believe that the new people who were to join the Agency would bring much benefit for the rebuilding work of Palestine, and this was the only inducement, the only ‘dowry’ named, and hence we regarded the match as unsuitable. At present it is doubtful in general whether anything will come of the Agency. It seems as though Dr. Weizmann will be unable to carry through the plan in which he believes.”
Mr. Rosenfeld points out that the “bogey man” stories about Jabotinsky the “destroyer” who “aims to annihilate” all Zionist achievements and leaders, have been disproven by his first lecture in New York.
“Now Jabotinsky has spoken,” says Mr. Rosenfeld “and we know, not from hearsay, what his opinions on various zionists problems are. In his first lecture in New York he has touched the nerve center of the Zionist movement and Zionist activity in Palestine: production, agrarian and industrial.”
The writer thinks the most loyal Zionists can endorse most of Jabotinsky’s demands regarding a protective tariff on imports in Palestine, the granting of lands for Jewish cultivation, etc., and concludes: “What does Jabotinsky want? He wants more attention to facts, and less fear of consequences.”
The discovery of possibly the oldest known traces of civilization in Peru, dating back to 1.000 years before the Christian era, is announecd by Dr. William Montgomery MeGovern of London University, who, in company with Dr. Julio Tello. Curator of the Peruvian Government Archacological Museum and a graduate of Harvard. has just returned from an expedition to the peninsula of Paracas, twenty-five miles south of the port of Pisco.
Recently the Austrian explorer, Dr. von Hauch, declared that Peru is the Biblical Ophir.
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