THE HOPE OF ZION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 49, 21 November 1917, Page 5

THE HOPE OF ZION

THEIR NATIVE SOIL PALESTINE AND THE JEWS. London, Noember 19. ) The Zionist orffanisations have nd-M dressed teleip-ams of thanks to the British Government for a letter winch Mr, A .T. Balfour addressed to Lord Rothschild, favouring the establishment of ,r national homo for the Jews in Palestine,, while preserving the -political status, which -Tews enjov in other countries.—; Aus.-N.Z. Oablo Assn. _ fMr Balfour communicated to Haron Rothschild on behalf of the Government an important declaration of «y»P™»? with Zionist asniratibns.' ' He stated that ihe Govornment views favourably the proposal for the establishment m Palestine of the national home for Jewish people, and would two its best •.■ndeavours to facilitate the achievement of this obioct it bein? understood that nothing would be done to prejudice the civil antt relipious rifihts of the non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the riphte or political status nf the Jews of country. The "Jewish Chronicle" hailed the declaration as marking a new epoch, for the Jewish race.] STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT. ; (Rec. November 2D, 5.50 p.m.) London, November 19. Mr A. J. Balfour (Foreign Secretary), renlvinir to a question in the House of CoWmoM, said that Britain's desire to establish a home For the Jewish ,peoplo in Palestine after the war had not been communicated to her Allies, but Britain, believed that the Allies trould approve. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.