“Jews in every land have felt that what has been the dream of long ages of exile and persecution may at last become a reality on which their eyes shall gaze.” _The Yorkshire Post_, April 12th, 1917, gave the history of “Jewish Colonization in Palestine,” and concluded that:―― “Thus there is some foundation for the claim that in the settlement after the war provision should be made for the unhampered continuance and extension of the colonization of Palestine by the Jews; and should that develop in process of time into the establishment of a Jewish nation there, it will be a result by no means inconsistent with the ideals for which Great Britain and her Allies are fighting.” _The Contemporary Review_ of June, 1917, had a short note on the “Jewish Claim to Palestine”:―― “Evidently the principle of nationality is itself considered sacred; it is an asset to the world, and it carries its rights, moral rights, which are none the less rights, if they cannot be enforced by the sword. “The cynic might, perhaps, find more justification had Israel ever forgotten or waived his claim to the Holy Land; but a continuous chain of aspiration and prayer, and even of political activity, binds him to the soil from which he was driven early in the Christian Era.” _The Review of Reviews_, September, 1916, thus defined Zionism:―― “Zionism means a complete Jewish, spiritual and national, rebirth in the ancient land――a re-settling of Jews in their own ancient home. To the idealist it is much more even, it is love for the Land of the _Shekinah_ and the Holy Spirit, a mystic rapture of the whole Jewish soul in the quest of rediscovering the ‘Fountain of Living Waters.’ “To this end it is necessary for the Jewish people to have a home in Palestine secured by public laws.” The military correspondent of _The Daily Chronicle_ on March 30th, 1917, discussed the question of what should be done with Palestine when liberated, and came to the conclusion that:―― “There can be little doubt that we should revive the Jewish Palestine of old, and allow the Jews to realize their dream of _Zion_ in their homeland. All the Jews will not return to Palestine, but many will do so. The new Jewish State, under British or French ægis, would become the spiritual and cultural centre of Jewry throughout the world. The Jews would at least have a homeland and a nationality of their own. The national dream that has sustained them for a score of centuries and more will have been fulfilled.” In a leading article in the same issue on “The Victory in Palestine” we read:――