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No. 48. Vienna, 29 November 1901. Fifth Year

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The Administration.

English Society and Zionism.

* In the London Article Club a dinner took place on 20 November, after which Israel Zangwill spoke upon the commercial future of Palestine and upon Zionism. Lord Suffield, President of the Club, conducted the assembly.

The Article Club is among the most distinguished of the newly founded associations of London. It embraces the leaders of the English colonial and financial world. Its meetings occupy themselves with the burning questions of public life in the commercial and especially in the colonial field. Often the first announcements of new ideas go forth from here. Many a speech is at once cabled out into all the world and awakens a thousandfold echo. England's politicians often seize the opportunity of laying their ideas here for the first time before a forum of men qualified to judge.

It bears witness to the deep-reaching effect of our movement that this association invited Israel Zangwill to speak, on the first evening which it arranged in this season, upon the future of Palestine, which is the future of the Jewish people. It points once more to the fact that the leaders of English society accord to Zionism the position which is its due.

The meeting shaped itself into a brilliant triumph of our idea.

There were present, among others: Lord Suffield, President of the Article Club, who took the chair; further, Admiral Freemantle, General Charles W. Wilson, Archdeacon Sinclair, the author Hall Caine, Sir William Robinson, ex-Governor of Hongkong, J. H. Turner, General Agent*) for British Columbia, A. Dobson, General Agent for Tasmania, H. B. Lefroy, General Agent for West Australia, Henry A. Grainger, General Agent for South Australia, His Excellency Dr. Milicevic, Royal Servian Minister of State, Chevalier G. Shaddick, General Agent for Venezuela, Major Thirlevall, Vicomte de la Chapelle, Baronet Sir George Cornwall, Captain Melville Boynton, George Bernard Shaw (one of the most eminent members of the socio-political Fabian Club), Laurence Cowen, Secretary of the Article Club, Sir Henry Morton Stanley (the famous African traveller), F. A. Dunsford, Mayor of Southampton, Sir Philipp Magnus, Colonel Goldsmid, Chief Rabbi Dr. M. Gaster, Salomon I. Solomon, Herbert Bentwich, Arthur Cohen, Counsellor of the University of Cambridge, John Cutler, Professor at King's College in London, Alderman Sir Georg Hussey.

Lord Suffield's Introductory Words.

Before the chairman gave Mr. Zangwill the word, he said: Not only our session and the rooms in which we sit this time are new, but new also is the subject of our discussion to-day, and I am

*) General Agents is the name given in England to the representatives of the colonies, resident in London, before the Colonial Office and the Government.