Chicago Tribune · Chicago, Illinois · 16 August 1907
CP-1907-002
Chief Issue in Zion
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“The issue which is uppermost in the minds of the delegates at this congress and which will naturally become the subject of heated discussions is whether or not and to what extent practical work should be carried on in Palestine and Syria at the expense of the Zionistic financial institutions. The well known criminologist and author, Dr.
Max Nordau, will lead the negative.
He still clings with tenacity to the views of the departed leader and friend, and in a letter recently addressed by him to the Federation of American Zionists he insisted that no petty colonization should be carried on in Palestine at the expense of those institutions, but preparatory work in the Holy Land in order to open it up to spontaneous Jewish immigration on a larger scale, this work consisting mainly in the study of the agricultural, industrial, and commercial possibilities of Palestine and in the publication of the results of the investigations.
His following, however, in the present Zionist congress is in a hopeless minority and the opposition is being led by Prof. Otto Warburg of the Berlin university, chairman of the Palestine commission of the congress.
Warburg is a strong believer in the agricultural and industrial future of Palestine and bases his belief on his own investigations as well as on those of English experts like Sir Charles Warren, Sir Charles Wilson, and Col. Conder of the British Palestine Exploration society.
He points out in his report to the congress that there is no time to lose, for members of other nationalities have awakened to the realization of the opportunities offered by the old-new land and are gobbling up the soil in large chunks.”
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Chicago, August 1907, reporting a procedural argument inside a congress in Europe, and the vocabulary is entirely unguarded: petty colonization, the old-new land, and a warning that there is no time to lose because members of other nationalities are gobbling up the soil in large chunks. The other nationalities are not named.
The authorities cited for the agricultural future of the country are three British surveyors.
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"Chief Issue in Zion," Chicago Tribune, 16 August 1907. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1907-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1907-002
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