28 июн 1901 г. - Theodore Herzl on Getting Financed by Cecil Rhodes July 28, 1901

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July 28, 1901 Alt-Aussee

While in London I planted jalons [stakes] to enable me to meet with Cecil Rhodes, who may be able to get me the money I need. His South Africans could privately buy up the bonds of the Turkish debt, and then I would tell the Sultan: here is the liberation from the debt in return for surrendering Palestine—and to the
Jews I would say: here you have Palestine in return for x plus y, x
being the amount it cost the South Africans to buy up the bonds,
y the profit they stipulated.
On instructions from me, Joe Cowen asked Mr. Stead to intercede
with Rhodes for a meeting. Today Joe sends me Stead’s reply
from which I extract the following passage: *
I told him that Herzl would come and see him any day that was
convenient; that he wanted to discuss with the one founder of
States that modern times had produced. Rhodes said: “If he wants
any tip from me, I have only one word to say, and that is: let him
put money in his purse”—which was very characteristic of Rhodes.

Rhodes had further expressed the opinion that Asiatic Turkey
Ought to be turned over to Germany, since England could not rule
the whole world and needed a buffer area between herself and
Russia. Rhodes is also said to be quite charmed with the German
Kaiser.

September 23, 1901 Alt-Aussee, Yom Kippur

For weeks I have made all sorts of efforts to put the wire to the Sultan back in operation. Through Ibrahim, Nuri, Vambéry— in
umpteen ways.
During the past few days I have been mulling over a letter to the
Sultan, but can never make up my mind to write one, for it is a fact
that he owes me a reply.
Today I sat by the lake, which was beautiful. And I thought how
it would be if next Spring I could sit by the Lake of Gennesaret
like this, and I decided to write.
The figures my chess game now are Cecil Rhodes (with whom
lam to meet after his return from Scotland); Roosevelt, the new
President (through Gottheil); the King of England (through the
Bishop of Ripon); the Czar (through General von Hesse), etc.
On top of this I am tormented by the chance of getting a news-
Paper in Vienna, although Court Secretary Sonnenschein, who
got me excited about it, hasn't let me hear from him in almost
weeks, so that it was probably another dud. But with a big paper
I could work wonders.
The Bank's capacity for action, which is supposed to be completed by October, is another thing that worries me.
At the lake it occurred to me how I could bring Gottheil into
play as a knight on the chessboard. I shall tell the Sultan that I
know a method of getting an ambassador as his permanent friend
in the concert of Powers; he should request or accept Gottheil.

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