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The Southern Israelite
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H\l KOl'K TELLS ONE ON
WEIZMANN
i may have called him
Balfour”, but to the Jews
alarly to Dr. Chaim Weiz-
hur .lames Balfour was
'racious of friends. There
iradeship between the old
the devoted Zionist that
unge to Balfour’s non-Jew-
Balfour took a liking to
in 1906, when the latter
a chemistry instructor, and
ndship lasted to Balfour’s
Mia;
i r fr
- one story that Balfour
i uf telling which indicates
intimacy between him and
and which shows his ap-
uf Weizmann as a Zion-
pri ; acandist.
time a certain powerful dip-
the British Foreign Office,
nail in this column be name-
he is still alive and still
rh,:. called Balfour and asked
1 his friend Weizmann to
:icism of the British adminis-
hy the Zionists, since it was
ii barrassing at the moment,
suggested that this diplomat
rsonally to Weizmann. The
t the Earl’s suggestion, then
" the Foreign Office to receive
icial reprimand. The diplo-
a notorious anti-Zionist.
GOSSIP AND NEWS OF JEW ISH PERSONALITIES
By MARTIN GOLDE
What happened at that historic in
terview was told by the diplomat to
Balfour in the form of an anecdote
which Balfour was fond of retelling
afterwards:
In a certain small town in Italy
there lived a Jew, the only one in the
community. His Christian neighbors
were anxious to convert the Jew, who
was, incidentally, an insurance sales
man. The priests visited him, plead
ed with him, but the Jew clung to
Judaism. Finally the townsmen heard
that one of the Cardinals of Rome
would be passing through the town.
When he arrived one of the priests
called on him, told him the story of
the solitary Jew in the town. He
asked the Cardinal to visit the man
and to see whether his great powers
couldn’t convert the man to Chris
tianity.
That afternoon the Cardinal went
to the Jew’s home, followed by sev
eral priests and a gradually increas
ing crowd, who waited outside anxi
ously while the Cardinal went in
alone. After an hour and a half,
when the crowd was becoming impa
tient, with a feeling, however, that
the Cardinal must be triumphing,
(he latter emerged. With wearied
gait he walked out, mopping his brow
with a voluminous kerchief.
“Well, has he been saved?” many
asked him with one voice.
“No,” came the fatigued reply.
“But he insured me.”
Balfour later enlarged upon the
parable and told how the Foreign
Office diplomat, who was going to
reprimand Weizmann, was converted
to Zionism by him on that occasion.
FROM MILLIONS TO PENNIES
Twenty-five years ago she worked
on a Jewish newspaper in New York.
Born in Russia, she spent her early
childhood in the London slums. When
she came to America she found new
life when, during the course of her
newspaper work, she met J. G. Phelps
Stokes, the multi-millionaire, who
married this girl who became, in
newspaper headlines, “Rose of the
Ghetto.” That was back in 1905.
Both of them had Socialistic leanings,
so that Rose Pastor Stokes could
gratify her aim to help the poor with
her husband’s millions.
Today Rose lives in a Second Ave
nue apartment in the East Side of
New York and walks up to the fourth
floor. She is poverty-stricken, af
flicted with a dangerous illness. She
still acts as picket in strikes, even
though she hasn’t any wealth, hav
ing divorced Stokes in 1925. The
Abie’s Irish Rose romance which
was launched with millions has fiz
zled into a tale where even the pen
nies count for much.
BEING A JEW HELPS
They’ve found that it pays to be a
Jew in good old London town. The
reason is as follows: The wives of
the American delegates to the Lon
don so-called disarmament conference
are finding time hanging heavy on
their hands, even as their husbands.
Since the London hostesses didn’t fig
ure that the confab would last so
long they didn’t prepare enough so
cial functions for the whole time it’s
taking. In the daytime the women
usually attend the open sessions of
the conference. Which doesn’t give
them much time to do their shopping.
One day one of the delegates dis
covered Petticoat Lane, where the
Jewish market operates on Sunday.
Now weekly expeditions are planned
to the heart of London’s ghetto, for
here one can buy when all other
stores are closed. As you might im
agine, fish and fowl are plentiful
these days in Whitechapel homes on
Friday nights and Saturday.
BELIEVE IT IF YOU CAN
Almost 150,000 copies have been
sold of Manuel Komroff’s book “Coro
net,” which was selected some time
ago by the Literary Guild. This
American-Jewish adventurer and
mystic, though he must be very hap
py about the newly-found wealth,
doesn’t much believe in the value of
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