AS THE CROW FLIES
Meyer, Ernest L.
As the Crow Flies By ERNEST L. MEYER ONE of the weirdest fantasies broadcast by groups of organized crackpots concerns an alleged plot by "Jewish internationalists" for domination of the world The...
...They cannot unite on a program for salvaging the harassed members of their own minority faith, let alone unite on a program for controlling the earth...
...As a non-Jew, not well grounded in the history of Judaism, I do not pretend to know on which side lies the truth...
...And many of them openly denounce Mr...
...Jabotinsky quotes the great writer Max Nor-dau as saying: "A Jew does not judge according to his reason but according to the catastrophe...
...In an ' American Jewish youth magazine called "Hadar," Mr...
...Jabotinsky as a "Jewish Fascist...
...And he wants to make that port secure...
...As the Crow Flies By ERNEST L. MEYER ONE of the weirdest fantasies broadcast by groups of organized crackpots concerns an alleged plot by "Jewish internationalists" for domination of the world The fantasy is predicated on the assumption <>i Jewish unity...
...The principles and the tactics of Mr, Jabotlnsky are heatedly denounced by the old Zionists...
...at the home of John Gunther, I met Mr...
...He told us that even if the Allies win the current brawl in Europe, even if Hitlerism j goes down into the dust, the fate of the Jews in | East Central Europe is scaled with the black seal ! of banishment...
...The assumption is sheer fiction...
...From these pages emerges the conviction that the role of Britain in Palestine has been marked by trickery, double-dealing, betrayals and outright scandals...
...Jabotinsky is a pessimist plus pep...
...He docs not want Palestine to become a sort of International, groveling ghetto...
...Some of them look to other lands, other remote colonics, for solution of the Jewish question...
...And one of their leaders, if memory serves, carries an umbrella...
...Jabotlnsky and was deeply Impressed by his intelligence, his vigor, his unrhetor-ical eloquence, and by his unremitting battle in behalf of his group which has caused him to be exiled from Palestine by the British...
...The visit to these shores of Vladimir Jabctinsky, president of the New Zionist organization, may be expected to bring more clearly Into the open the factional fight being waged for the control of Palestine...
...Yet the sorry and costly debate goes on...
...For the Jews today the clouds are heavy on the horizon...
...However, 1 have read widely on the question, pro and con, and perhaps I have been most deeply influenced by those long pages on Palestine contained in Pierre van Paassen's "Days of Our Years" under the chapter title of "After Seven Centuries...
...There the debate stands...
...They believe In parley with the British, parley with the Arabs...
...He said they can never come back, and that their sole port of safety is Palestine...
...that Palestine is big enough to offer settlement to vast numbers of refugees, and that, as Van Paassen remarks: "The Jewish problem, of which Palestine is the kernel, is no longer an academic question on which men can afford to debate at leisure...
...He is thoroughly disillusioned about the falc of the Jews, but he wants to do something about it, and energetically...
...A few days ago...
...They do not like his program of wholesale, unrestricted, and illegal—If necessary—Jewish migration to Palestine...
...Mr...
...that many of the Arab uprisings against the Jews were deliberately encouraged by the British...
...Other men, more shrewd, are prepared...
...First he will get thoroughly drenched, catch pneumonia, and then—well, then it is another matter...
...they urge moderation, experiment, soft-stepping...
...That failure is the essential and the most pressing problem ol the Jew today...
...He will never buy an umbrella merely because dark clouds have appeared on the horizon...
...They are split into half a' dozen shrilly bickenngj bodies...
...He wants to make Palestine entirely independent of British favors and British support...
...He wants . to establish a thorough-going, nationalistic Jewish state...
...The Jews are not united...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
