Show I WILSON RECOGNIZES i CLAIMS OF JEWS By AssocIated Press BALTIMORE March larch Rabbi Stephen S. S Wise Vise of New York at a dinner last night tendered him and Charles A. A Cowen of New York by Major l Edgar A A. Friedenwald read the following dictated message sent I through him by President Wilson to the Jews of AmerIca You You may quote me as having said as for your representations touching Palestine I have expressed my personal personal per per- approval of the declaration of the BrItish government regarding the aspiration and historic claims of the Jewish people in regard to Palestine I am moreover persuaded that the allied nations with the fullest conI concurrence con con- I currence of our own government and I I people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundation ot of a Jewish commonwealth I The message was received with an enthusiastic demonstration by representative representative Jewish citizens who immediately immediately imme- imme subscribed t towards wards the fund I |