JEWISH ENTERPRISE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23143, 15 September 1938, Page 19

JEWISH ENTERPRISE

RESULTS IN PALESTINE FAILURE OF PERSECUTION j An address upon the Jew? was given , to-imemb(fxs of - the .Auckland Creditmen's Club at the weekly luncheon yes- | terday. The speaker, Mr. E. Aldridge, said the Jews were an old nation long before the British nation was founded and had contributed liberally to the culture, "science, industry and development of almost every country in the tfOjpld. He,;described them as the paradox in histbry. It had been shown that, in spite of oppression and persecution, the Jews had pmerged again and again, Mr. Aldridge said. ,Tlicy always had been in the world's news and always would. They were the stormy petrels of epochs and their migrations to the four corners of tho earth identified .them with every nation. Through many hostile experiences they became inured to persecution,' which had failed to suppress them.. It was estimated that there were 16.000,000 dews in the world, twothirds of them in the United States. 500.000 in the British Empire, and in many parts of the world there were records of Jews who had achieved distinction in many fields of endeavour-. The extraordinary commercial and scientific revolutions which had occurred in Palestine within recent years was characteristic of Jewish enterprise and ability, and Zionism was tho binding influence joining tho many scattered units' into a force.