The article mentions an interesting letter from Russel to the barons Rothschild and Hirsch. It was published in the 1891 Watchtower and proposed that they would buy government land in Palestine to allow the Jews to return to "their" land.
https://www.scribd.com/document/47208675/1891-Zion-s-Watch-Tower-and-Herald-of-Christ-s-Presence (article on page 169)