All in a Life-timeDoubleday, Page, 1922 - 454 pages |
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Page 430 - Let the Turks now carry away their abuses in the only possible manner, namely, by carrying off themselves. Their Zaptiehs and their Mudirs, their Bimbashis and their Yuzbachis, their Kaimakams and their Pashas one and all, bag and baggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.
Page 170 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 391 - ARTICLE 1 His Britannic Majesty shall have the right to exercise as Mandatory all the powers inherent in the Government of a sovereign State, save as they may be limited by the terms of the present Mandate.
Page 356 - The Czechoslovak State accepts and agrees to embody in a Treaty with the Principal Allied and Associated Powers such provisions as may be deemed necessary by the said Powers to protect the interests of inhabitants of that State who differ from the majority of the population in race, language, or religion.
Page 430 - The greatest triumph of our time will be the enthronement of the idea of public right as the governing idea of European politics.
Page 349 - Conference, we, the undersigned citizens of the United States, unite in this statement, setting forth our objections to the organization of a Jewish State in Palestine as proposed by the Zionist Societies in this country and Europe and to the segregation of the Jews as a nationalistic unit in any country. We feel that in so doing we are voicing the opinion of the majority of American Jews born in this country and of those foreign born who have lived here long enough to thoroughly assimilate American...
Page 390 - Palestine is to be a national home land for the Jewish People." We believe that Israel, the Jewish people, like every other religious communion, has the right to live, to be at home, and to assert its message in every part of the world. With confidence in the free institutions of Great Britain, we rejoice in and recognize the historic significance of such a...
Page 166 - I told him there was only one thing he could do and that was to continue to refuse to appoint him. "But," complained Sulzer, "it means my political death if I don't name him.
Page 350 - against such a political segregation of the Jews in Palestine or elsewhere", first, "because the Jews are dedicated heart and soul to the welfare of the countries in which they dwell under free conditions. All Jews repudiate every suspicion of a double allegiance, but to our minds it is necessarily implied in and cannot by any logic be eliminated from the establishment of a sovereign state for the Jews in Palestine".
Page 346 - The effort and money spent would get us more trade in nearer lands than we could hope for in Russia and Roumania. Proximity and competition would increase the possibility of our becoming involved in conflict with the policies and ambitions of states which now our friends would be made our rivals.