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Indian Dispatch Sensation � Mr. Montagu Resigns�Sir Arthur Bat-four on Zionism�Palestine Immigration Statistics�Children's Holiday Fund � Federated Syna-gogs Meeting.
London, March 10, 1922.
In view of the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Great Britain, France and Italy in Paris on the 22nd inst., to consider the question of the Near East, the Government of India has taken important steps in making publicly known the principal points in which it considers the Sevres treaty needs revision. In a message from Delhi dated March 7, the Government of India has telegraphed to Mr, Montagu as follows: "On the eve of the Greco-Turkish conference we feel it our duty again to lay before His Majesty's Government the intensity of feeling fri India regarding the necessity for a revision of the Sevres treaty. The Government of India is fully alive to the Complexity of the problem, but India's services in the war, in which Indian Moslem soldiers largely participated, and the support which the Indian Moslem cause is receiving throughout India entitles her to claim the utmost fulfilment of her just and equitable aspirations. The Government of India particularly urges, subject to the safeguarding of the neutrality of the Straits and of the security of the non-Moslem population, the following three points: The evacuation of Constantinople, the suzerainty of the Sultan over the holy places, and the restoration of Ottoman Thrace (including Adrianople) and Smyrna. The fulfilment of these three points is of the greatest importance to India.
The Morning Post, commenting on the telegram, says, inter alia : "As for the suzerainty over the holy places, Jerusalem, which is a holy place of the Mohammedans as well as of the Christians, is now in the hands of Sir Herbert Samuel, and if Lord Reading and Mr. Montagu combine to relieve him of that responsibility, we shall have to revise our opinion of the Jewish question. . . . Lord Reading has shown himself at a crisis afraid of Gandhi, and it will not be easy for him to recover his prestige in the East, where they judge men chiefly upon courage and strength." This is the tone adopted by the anti-Jewish press, but does not necessarily express English opinion.
The Evening Standard's diplomatic correspondent says that: "Whatever the merits of the case presented, there is no doubt that the public message of the Indian Government to the Secretary of State for India . . . has created great embarrassment to the Home government and to the Foreign Office m particular. . . .The Cabinet is quite alive to the dangerously inflamed Moslem opinion in India. To follow the direction of the Indian Government would mean, of course, to pull down the Kingdom of Hedjaz and the abandonment of the British mandate in Palestine. .... In Downing Street it is pointed out to-day (March 9) that, as regards Constantinople, while its evacuation is no new consideration, its occupation constitutes the only lever which the foreign governments hold to safeguard the non-Moslem populations. As to the holy places, this matter, it is stated, does not rest with the British Government."
The Pall Mall Gazette and Globe say that the publication of Lord Reading's dispatch to Mr. Montagu concerning the revision of the Turkish treaty haa given rise in this country to feelings approximating to dismay. A Very general opinion expressed is that the circumstances warrant a sweeping change in the personnel of the Government of India, continues that journal, while some
Ras far as to demand the recall of rd Reading. Lord Sydenham's view
is that the publication is "a most dangerous precedent and thoroughly
unconstitutional." .
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Latest advices show that Lord Montagu has resigned and that when Mr, Chamberlain announced the resignation in the House of Commons, there waa a reat outburst of cheering. Mr. Cham-
rlain has made it clear that the Secretary of State for India has been guilty of a blazing indiscretion, says the Times, and as a consequence he has tendered his resignation and His Majesty has been pleased to approve ita acceptance, Combined with the cheering the Labor members were heard to cry out "Poor old Reading." It is believed that the Viceroy will also resign.
The English Zionist Federation has decided to cancel the public meeting which was to have been addressed by Sir Arthur Balfour next Monday in consequence of the following letter, which Dr. Weizmann has received from Mr. Balfour: "Dear Dr. Weizmann � I greatly regret that unforeseen and pressing demands upon my time make it impossible for me to be present at the meeting which I had hoped to have the pleasure of addressing on March 13 under the auspices of the English Zionist Federation. From the point of view of the Zionist cause this, I am glad to say, is quite immaterial. Nothing that could have been said at the Queen Hall and nothing that could have been done by the audience whom it would have been my privilege to address, could add to the strength and value of Mr. Churchill's recent statement. Neither you nor I ever doubted that the declaration of November 2, 1917, still expressed the policy of this country. But in the intervening years there have not been wanting attempts either to read into it what it never contained, or to empty it of its legitimate meaning. The clear and statesmanlike utterance of the Secretary for the Colonies will, I hope, put an end to all such attempts and supporters of the Zionist movement like myself, while not underrating the difficulties that have to be surmounted, may look' forward with confidence to its success Yours
sincerely? Arthur James Balfour."
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An. official statement has been issued on the immigration statistics for Palestine during the year 1921, giving the number for the twelve months up to December 31 as 9,149. Immigration is still limited to persons falling within the following categories: Travelers who do not intend to remain in Palestine for a period exceeding three months; persons of independent means who intend to take up permanent residence in Palestine; members of professions who intend to follow their callings; wives, children and other persons wholly dependent on residents in Palestine; persons who have definite prospects of employment with specified employers or enterprises; persons of religious occupations including the class of Jews who have come to Palestine in recent years from religious motives and who can show that they have means of maintenance there, and returning residents.
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The sub-committee, appointed by the representatives of the Jewish Children's Country Holiday Fund and other kindred interested societies to take in hand the Question of establishing a permanent holiday home for Jewish children, girls and women, met Sunday last. Various aspects of the scheme were discussed. Ultimately the meeting adjourned for the collection of statistics that would enable the committee to place a definite proposal before the community. In the meantime the committee realizes that to raise the funds necessary to insure the success of any scheme, a large number of workers will be required, says a roeaeage from Liverpool.
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