ZIONISM
By Leonard Stein As a short account of an interesting and important subject Mr. Leonard Stein's Zionism (Kegan Paul, 8s. 6d.) is heartily to be commended. Though nominally a new edition of a book published in 1925, it has been almost entirely re- written. Indeed, the troubles and trials of the last few years, in which Lord Passfield played an unhappy part, led Zionists and their friends at times to fear that Great Britain had for- Jotten her pledge of 1917 to create a " national home for the ewish people ' in Palestine. Mr. Stein traces the history of Zionism first as a vague aspiration and then, under Herd, as a definite movement from 1896 onwards. He surveys briefly but clearly the development of the Jewish community in Palestine under the Mandate, and makes a temperate reference to the Arab riots of 1929 and the mishandling of the situation by the Labour Government. Mr. Stein is convinced that the Zionist foundations in Palestine arc now well and truly laid,
and that the Zionists are there Palestine. up " a type of Jewish life which shall be a true reflection Of the Jewish genius and a living embodiment of 'Jewish ideals."
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