the Editor of the "Nown-Cimwa Day News!
Sm—In your footnote to my letter captioned, "Palestine: What. Britain promised,' you argue that "there great gap between what Dr, Welt-mann would like and what Greit Britain promised in the Balfour Declaration." 'The reason which impelled me to quote the Zionist Jeader's statement which he made before the Peace Conference Paris, in' 1019, was merely to show that his -interpretation: of what. was meant by the Jewish' National Home went unchallenged by Mr. Lansing the American' representative, who could have instantly disillusioned Weizmann by pointing.out that the Powers did not moan' that in the National Home "there should ulti mately be such conditions that Palestine should be just as: Jewish fac England is English." The silence of Mr. Lansing surely signified tacit agreement with Weizmann's interpretation of the Balfour Declaration.
You also point out.that Mr. Winston Churchill made it clear that Government to create a Jewish it was not the intention of the, British 'What it means to that assuming our Stete. Let ué examine the evidence continued before us, Says Mr. Sidebotham, the Bigudt Score" under "'oureope eminent journalist Sie' deliberate: polley' willie toven= Whit, wag the nature the {nour power Security, 1S ieeasire Eniblishiment of 'a wish slater decal utonom jewish 'Similarly, the "Spectator". wrote of a Uttle "Jewish State in Palestine" and the "Observer" said: 'It is no idle dream which anticipates that by the close of another generation the new Zion may become a State.'
The British Government in promulgating this historic statement, henceforth known. as the Balfour eu years after, a Mr, Lloyd George, Prime Minister othe te ae da tie tu interpretation pat on it\at. the siderations: whilst genuinely willing to help' the Jews to achieve their national aspirations and to exercise that self-determination which was emblazoned on the banners of the Allies as the right of the small nations, it could not but take into account the effect which" such a Declaration must produce upon the Jews in other countries, especially' America, whose sympathy at a eritimission Report, 1007.)
On March 3, 1919, President Wilson said that "the allied nations
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