PALESTINE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1918, Page 5

PALESTINE.

THE AIMS OF ZIONISM.

CREATING A GREAT MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL CENTRE. Reeeived May 17, 1.45 p.m. London, May 10. Speaking at an official dinner, the Governorate of Jerusalem, Dr. Weizmann, explaining the aim» of the Zionist Com mission, said Jewry was returning again to Palestine to create a great moral and intellectual centre, under conditions of development whereby the Jewish people would not be a detriment to any great communities already established. All fears of the Arabs that they would be ousted were unfounded. The Jews did not intend to take supreme political power in Palestine into their hands after the war. They desired the supreme political authority to !>.-. vested in one of the civilised democratic powers, to be selected by the League o'. Nations. This Power should hold Palestine in trust until self-government was practicable. Jewry would choose that Power, and announce its decision after the war. The Zionists did not believe that the mternationalisation of Palestine or any form of multiple political control could be tolerated. The Armenian massacres in Caucasia and the Jewish massacre in Turkestan! showed that Arab. Jew and Armenian must stand united in order to resist the forces of darkness and oppression that were threatening to overwhelm the civilised world.-Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.