The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1913. MR ZANGWILL'S ITOLAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 14, 22 May 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1913. MR ZANGWILL'S ITOLAND.

Mr Israel Zangwill, the well-known writer recently lectured on’ “Territorialism in iwactical politics,” and he told of a South African paper which had described him as ‘‘a British patriot engaged in recruiting for the Territorial army.” His territorialism, however,aims at discovery ad occupation of an “Itoland” (i.e., land of the Jewish territorial organisation), where the unhappy Jews of Russia and other persecuting countries may find not merely a foreign city of refuge, as America is to them now, but a country of their own. The desire is for a country where Jews may be in the majority, as all normal peoples are in their own land. Mr Zangwill has no thought of collecting all the 12,000,000 of scattered and often hostile Jews into one nation, and he resolutely rejected the .ordinary “Zionist” ideal of a return to Palestine. That country, he had discovered, was full. The Arabs were to the Jews in a proportion of six to one, and, after investigation, he concluded it was useless to look for an Itoland there. This conclusion had brought him much odium, but he was a practical person and refused to be befooled. The ease for an Itoland he considered unanswerable, but there, were two difficulties—where was it to be? and ,who would go P The place was the chief trouble. They were still considering Mesopotamia ami Angola. As to the people he thinks the problem would solve itself. At every suggestion of such a land hundreds of applications came, at d many of the applicants were sturdy and experienced agriculturalists. But the laud must he a territory, and not a colony or estate. The only alternative to an Itoland was the disappearance of the Jewish race or their external exile.