ZIONIST MOVEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 19, 22 January 1921, Page 9

ZIONIST MOVEMENT

AMBITIOUS ASPIRATIONS.

(KOH 00R' OWN OORRBSPOKDSBI.)

a■Va ' LONDON; 2nd December.: . ! A ;very remarkable Zionist organisation. will shortly hold a provincial conference?! at Manchester, under the presidency ofi' Sir Alfred Morid. , \lt is termed the- ' Keren Hayesod," which may bo Angli- ■ oised as "The Foundation of the Soil.'VIt is, in its constitution, and nature, ak . sort of "Inner Ring" or; "Circle" formed to 1, carry, to its fullest development the-, ambitious World-programme of the: outcry' Jewish: organisation. - ' , It is stated that first and foremost -tn» Keren Hayesod wants money—money,, that is,-entirely apart from the large [ - sums raised,W and continuously beingj; ■' raised,' : by the.Zionist 'associations. Theorganisation calls for a. sum of betweeni twenty-five and: thirty millions sterling,. - so as to be able. to. deal with Paleftina on & national; scale; Germany, unable to pay a war indemnity, ■ has promised £7,500,000 towards the Jewish nationalisation; of the Holy Land, the Jewries of Poland,, Czeoho-Slovakia, Austria, and? Hungary offer contributions on' a/, likaS •'. basis. .. ■" ■ .• ,' .: .. ' •.■ ■' '_' :'■ •. •' "..' The second object of the "Korea Haye-. • sod" is to secure for themselves in per- ■', petuity the ;.■ power' of nominating th»,. High' Commissioner for Palestine. 1 'Theyj'" do not demand the power of vetoing any;: appointment made by the British Government, but they want the right to submit*, a list of names from whioh the, Govenw * ment will be bound to make a seleotionX, Of course, such a power of nominaiaon> would give the "Inner Bang" of Zionists^.: of the Executive and Civil Ser-1 vice of the',Holy. Land, _ and with thSwl.---actual control of : the entire country.:'.'. T- -:■' ■ .SUPER-CONSTITIJTIONAt ■■■:') ■ . ; ■-,; /POWERS.' i\ •-,' ';, ' . "Thus the government of PalestSn* i« to pass under the .control of; thY Eereng Hayesod," says the Morning. Post,, com-! mehting 'upon this strange proposition;*! "although the British nation will stilfc. have the privilege of /paying for the,ad-JJ ministration and of fighting any poopW who may be stirred : up to rebellion bjj the zealous activities of the Keren Hayesod. If, < for: example,: the Arabs, ,wh»i form the vast majority in Palestine, ris»J against the policy of the High, Commi^v : sioner chosen by. the. Keren Hayesod, thei< British Government will be. charged'witb' the duty of suppressing, "these Airabs einij,' possibly of driving them out of Palestine^ . Whether the Keren Hayesod will be allowed to establish these- super-constitu' tional ippwers without opposition remain* to be seen. But we have little doubti ' that the programme of the Keren HayeJ \ sod (with Sir Alfred Mond to recommenil'i . it) will:be dutifully accepted." ■-.•■■•,