Report by W Ormesby-Gore (to Lord Robert Cecil) on a visit to him by Mr Malcolm (of the Armenian Committee) and Dr Chiam Weizmann

Reference No:
U DDSY2/12/8
Dates:
10 Jun 1917
Description:
Both excited and angry, and protesting against any proposal of the British government to allow Morgenthau, Aubrey Herbert, Adam Samuel Block and Marmaduke Pickthall to arrange a separate peace with Turkey, and a proposed mission by Herbert to that end. Malcolm had obtained information on these at a 'treasonable and seditious' meeting at Caxton Hall addressed by Pickthall, who was 'openly talking about an early peace'; and reported Herbert and his friends 'openly bragging that they were about to arrange a separate peace with Turkey'. Weizmann denounced Morgenthau and Block (describing Morgenthau as 'a renegade Jew of Galician origins, who would do all he could to prevent the realisation of a British Protectorate of Palestine...notoriously pro - German and...acted with and on behalf of an international ring of Jewish financiers in Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and New York...violently hostile to Great Britain and Zionism'); and revealed that the Germans through Dr Lepsius had recently approached the Zionists with a view to coming to terms with them (it was 'really a question of whether the Zionists were to realise their aims through Germany and Turkey or through Great Britain'). Weizmann 'of course, was absolutely loyal to Great Britain' and said that the overwhelming majority of Jews throughout the world were in favour of a British Protectorate of Palestine
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Hull University Archives
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Papers of the Sykes family of Sledmere