to
believe that it was the mutual dependence of the members of your
family that has necessitated the sacrifice of the dignity and
independence of my country; and that if it be decreed that the
English nation is to lose its public honour, it will be partly
because certain men of the tribe of Isaacs kept their own strange
private loyalty. I am willing to count this to you for a virtue as
your own code may interpret virtue; but the fact would alone be
enough to make me protest against any man professing your code and
administering our law. And it is upon this point of your public
position, and not upon any private feelings, that I address you today.

Not only is there no question of disliking any race, but there is
not here even a question of disliking any individual. It does not
raise the question of hating you; rather it would raise, in some
strange fashion, the question of loving you. Has it ever occurred to
you how much a good citizen would have to love you in order to
tolerate you? Have you ever considered how warm, indeed how wild,
must be our affection for the particular stray stock-broker who has
somehow turned into a Lord Chief Justice, to be strong enough to make
us accept him as Lord Chief Justice? It is not a question of how much
we dislike you, but of how much we like you; of whether we like you
more than England, more than Europe, more than Poland the pillar of
Europe, more than honour, more than freedom, more than facts. It is
not, in short, a question of how much we dislike you, but of how far
we can be expected to adore you, to die for you, to decay and
degenerate for you; for your sake to be despised, for your sake to be
despicable. Have you ever considered, in a moment of meditation, how
curiously valuable you would really have to be, that Englishmen
should in comparison be careless of all the things you have
corrupted, and indifferent to all the things that you may yet
destroy? Are we to lose the War which we have already won? That and
nothing else is involved in losing the full satisfaction of the
national claim of Poland. Is there any man who doubts that the Jewish
International is unsympathetic with that full national demand? And is
there any man who doubts that you will be sympathetic with the Jewish
International? No man who knows anything of the interior facts of
modern Europe has the faint