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Alfred Rosenberg

Dr. Weizmann, Nahum Sokolow, 302 H. Samuel, 303 S. and W.
Rothschild 304 were the most enthusiastic promoters of the idea: the
Zionists travelled from country to country and everywhere support
was promised to them. Ofcourse, many Jewish associations opposed,
for the above-mentioned reasons, the national-political aspect of
the the programme, but Rothschild's open letter in which he stated
that he could not understand how it could harm since obviously
their rights would have to remain guaranteed to the Jews in all
countries, and also the letter of Lord Balfour to Rothschild, brought
new followers to Zionism.
This memorable letter goes as follows: "His Majesty'
government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a
national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best
endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being
clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice
the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in
Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any
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other country".
In Russia, the Revolution broke out in March 1917 and the
Central Committee ofthe Zionists turned to the English ambassador
Buchanan with the following address in which the following
significant paragraph occurred: "We consider it an especially
fortunate stroke of fate that at this world-historic moment the
interests of the Jewish nation are identical to those of the British
nation". Thus there was no talk of Russian state interests. The
Russian government had to swallow this down, they stood under
the guardianship of the Entente. The hearts of the Zionists of
Germany, who, according to the evidence of Lazar Pinkus, 306
supported the entire war enthusiastically with money through the

304 [Lionel Walter, Baron Rothschild (1 868-1 937) was a banker and zoologist who
was a friend of Chaim Weizmann 's and helped draft the declaration of a Jewish
homeland in Palestine. The British Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour's letter to
Walter Rothschild in November 1917 conveying the British government's
endorsement of this project is called the Balfour Declaration.]
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2 November, 1917. 1 have gone into individual problems in greater detail in my
later work Der staatsfeindliche Zionismus [1 922],
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Vor der Grundung des Judenstaates
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