J. D. B. News Letter  Baron de Hirsch, founder of the Jewish
Colonization Association, was in agreement with Dr. Herzl’s
basic idea that the Jews should establish a country of their
own, but he did not join him in his plans only because Dr. Herzl
had bound himself to Palestine as the place of Jewish
settlement, Baron de Hirsch’s special sleeping-car attendant,
Husserl, declares in the “Wiener Journal,” reporting a
conversation on the Jewish question which he had had with Baron
de Hirsch in 1895, following Baron de Hirsch’s conversations on
the subject with Dr. Herzl, and with the Grand Duke Sergius
during his journey to Rome.  Baron de Hirsch, although in
agreement with Dr. Herzl, he states, considered the selection of
Palestine inadvised, because of the big sea of Arab population
in Palestine and the adjoining countries which he believed would
bring about the failure of any Jewish settlement scheme in
Palestine. The Jews, he felt, would always remain a minority
people in Palestine, without being able to beco