History of Zionism, 1600-1918, Vol. 2 (of 2)Sokolow, Nahum
History
History of Zionism, 1600-1918, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Sokolow, Nahum
Jews -- Restoration; Zionism -- History
On the occasion of the Zionist meeting, organized by your
Committee, I am happy, as President of the Armenian National
Delegation, to renew the sincere congratulations of the
Armenians for the Declaration which His Britannic Majesty’s
Government has made to you. We participate in a great measure
in the joy which the powerful support gives you which permits
us to hope that in the day of victory of those who are
fighting for the liberation of oppressed peoples, the Armenian
aspirations will be realized at the same time as the Jewish
people will attain the reconstruction of its nationality
and the realization of its historic claim to the soil of its
ancestors.
The _Jewish Chronicle_ gave a list of several hundred Jewish
institutions in England which sent congratulatory messages to the
meeting, as well as of an immense number of such institutions which
were represented at the meeting in person.
An overflow meeting, over which Mr. P. Horowitz presided, was held in
the Kingsway Theatre, which was crowded in every part. Among those who
addressed the audience were the Chief Rabbi: Lord Lamington, G.C.M.G.,
G.C.I.E., Mr. Israel Zangwill, Mr. Joseph Cowen, Dr. Selig Brodetsky,
Dr. David Jochelmann, and Mr. Israel Cohen.
In the course of his observations, Lord Lamington, who was very
cordially received, expressed his pleasure at the opportunity afforded
him to express his sympathy with and support of the Zionist movement.
He cordially agreed with the statement made by Lord Robert Cecil at
the Opera House, that the Declaration represented the first act of
constructive statesmanship which the allied nations had so far carried
out on the basis of the great principles of freedom and justice for
the smaller nationalities, for which they stood. The Declaration was
as much in the British interest as in the Jewish interest. Both races,
as well as the East in general, stood to gain, and gain substantially,
from an active British and Jewish co-operation in the Near East.
A resolution in identical terms with that carried at the London Opera
House was passed with much enthusiasm.
The Author’s statement ran as follows:――
The Zionist Organization in the Entente countries which I have the
honour of representing is filled with feelings of the deepest and
keenest satisfaction caused by the Declaration of His Majesty’s
Government of November 2nd. The Zionist masses are grateful to His
Majesty’s Government for their official and formal statement of their
intentions in clear and unmistakable terms. Posterity will praise the
qualities which are revealed by this historic document; the strength of
will, the sentiment of uprightness, the unshakable fidelity to the
spirit of Justice, and the beneficent and generous sympathy for the
oppressed.
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