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No. 37. — Vienna, 11 September 1903 — 19 Elul 5663. — 7th Year.

Communication from the A.-C.

The Greater Actions Committee has unanimously resolved to recommend to those Zionists who are shareholders of the Jewish Colonial Bank that they place the dividend which this Bank has resolved to pay at the disposal of the Actions Committee, for the purpose of covering the costs of the El-Arish expedition and of any further expeditions to Palestine, as well as the costs of the Palestine Commission.

Dr. Herzl, Dr. Kahn, Leon Zolotkoff, J. de Haas, Dr. Bodenheimer, J. Moser, Dr. Kokesch, G. Belkowsky, I. Bernstein-Kohan, E. W. Tschlenow, I. S. Goldberg, S. I. Rabinowitz, Wl. Temkin, M. Scheinkin, Dr. Klee, Dr. H. Bruck, Dr. Jacobsohn, Dr. I. Sapir, J. Jasinowski, Dr. Farbstein, Dr. Moses.

The societies are requested to collect the coupons from their members in accordance with these resolutions and to deliver them to the Actions Committee in Vienna.

The Meeting in the Great Assembly Hall.

Zangwill's Report on the Sixth Congress.

The meeting was attended by more than 5000 persons. Mr. Joseph Cowen took the chair. In his opening address he explained the position of the English Zionists on the East Africa question. It was not, he said, a matter of deciding whether Africa or Palestine should be chosen, but merely of appointing a commission. Zangwill's speech was received with tumultuous enthusiasm. Mr. Greenberg, who had entered the hall during Zangwill's speech, was stormily applauded. Mr. H. Lozinsky, Mr. Comor and Ms. Levy also spoke in favour of Zangwill's resolutions. The resolutions were adopted by the meeting. After addresses by Mr. Greenberg and Rabbi Regensburg, the meeting was closed with an enthusiastic cheer for Dr. Herzl and the British Government and the singing of the Hatikwah.

Zangwill's Speech.

In the name of my comrades, the delegates, I thank you for your kind welcome, and have the honour to lay before you my personal impressions of the course of the Sixth Zionist Congress and a survey of the present situation. Instead of beginning at the beginning, I will begin at once with the end. You have already heard that it was a stormy Congress, and that East Africa has unexpectedly crossed our path. You have heard voices saying that we have changed our programme. And then, what conclusion, what inference could I draw, what total impression had I received from this great Congress? It is this: that never since the days of Bar Kochba, never in eighteen centuries, has Palestine stood so near to our hopes as it does to-day; for the road to Palestine is no longer a military one. Only by politics can we reach it, and Jewish politics were first practised at the Sixth Congress, from which we have just returned. It is true that the Basle Congress already counts some years, but until now it was only a preparatory parliament; it was a Basle Programme. All our speeches rejoiced, all our Zionist songs served only to muster the army, were only a playing of the Marseillaise to stir us to set out; but now for the first time we have set out, we are on the road to Zion.

We have awakened from empty dreams, we have begun to take account of the obstacles in our path, and in advancing against them we ourselves go forward. From Luftmenschen we have become practical politicians.

Then and Now.

Whether or not we found a colony in British East Africa is of small consequence compared with the undoubted fact that our movement is now a serious, political movement, officially recognised by two of the greatest Great Powers of the world, England and Russia, and that we have thereby raised the Jewish people to a height from which it can never sink back again. A large part of the audience is no doubt opposed to the East Africa proposal; but if they would consider what the history of the