In view of the controversy aroused by Lord Passfield's White
Paper, the modest but weighty little collection of speeches and letters, Aimed Zionism, by Professor Einstein (Soncino Press, 5s.) will be read with special interest. The great physicist declares that while he lived in Switzerland he did not-realize his Judaism, but that when he moved to Berlin, a hotbed of anti-Semitism, he became convinced of the need for preserving the Jewish nationality and therefore joined the Zionists. He recalls the good work done in Palestine by the Zionist immigrants, both in the economic and the intellectual sphere, and he "cannot believe that the greatest colonial Power in the world will fail when it is faced with the task of placing its unique colonizing experience at the service of the reconstruction of the ancient home of the People of the Bible." Professor Einstein lays stress on the need for co-operation between Jew and Arab, and on the help that the Jews can give in the task of restoring Palestine. It would be well if the Colonial Office would strive to promote such an understanding between the two Semitic races in the spirit of Professor Einstein's pleading. Mr. Leon Simon has translated the text and added an introduction.
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