Zionism and world politics; a study in history and social psychology by Kallen Horace Meyer 1882-

Author:Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jews, Jews
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., and Toronto, Doubleday, Page & company
Published: 1921-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

178 ZIONISM AND WOULD POLITICS

land, in the Ukraine, in Rumania, in the Balkans, in Morocco, and in Persia were overwhelming. The Balfour Declaration was only a promissory note, which required to be formally validated by the Peace Conference.

The Congress sat for four days, and each day the factional difficulties receded farther and farther before the felt need for unity in counsel and in action. They showed themselves at the outset, in contest over the chairmanship, to which, finally, the president of the Zionist Organization of America, Judge Mack, was elected by a vote of over four to one. They showed themselves by a demonstration of the Mizrachists against the spokesman for the radicals. Doctor Zhid-lovsky, and that culminated in the vote, moved by the Mizrachists themselves, to permit Zhidlovsky to proceed. They showed themselves in the attempts to get the Congress to vote its own perpetuation and these were overwhelmingly defeated. The men and women of the Congress exhibited a good deal of impatience toward all these matters. They were anxious to get to the business in hand. That was the preparation of memoranda, and of resolutions to be based on the memoranda regarding the problems and wishes of the Jews of the world in the establishment and safeguarding of their rights and liberties. It was speedily found that the problem was organic, and that the numerous committees assigned to the consideration of Poland, Rumania, Russia, Ukrainia, Finland, Lithuania, Galicia, and so on, would have to confer as a unit. The upshot of the conferences was the formulation of a **bill of rights" which was to be made the basis for the establishment of the Jewish position in each of the

countries where it was in jeopardy or doubt. It reads as follows:

THE BILL OF RIGHTS

Resolved that the American Jewish Congress respectfully requests the Peace Conference to msert m the Treaty of Peace as conditions precedent to the creation of the new or enlarged States which it is proposed to caD into bemg, that express provision be made a part of the Con* stitution of such States before they shall be finally recognized as States by the signatories of the Treaty as follows:

1. All inhabitants of the Territory of . . . including such persons together with their families, who subsequent to August I9 1914, fledy removed, or were expelled therefrom and who shall within ten years from the adoption of this provision return thereto, shall for all purposes be citizens thereof, provided, however, that such as have heretofore been subjects of other States, who desire to retain their allegiance to such States or assume allegiance to their successor States, to the exclusion of . . . citizenship may do so by formal declaration to be made within a specified period.

2. For a period of ten years from the adoption of this provision, no law shall be enacted restricting any former inhabitant of a State which included the territory of . . . from taking up his residence in . . • and thereby acquiring citizenship therein.

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