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Zion and East Africa.

To the Delegates of the Sixth Zionist Congress!

My work in Palestine prevented me from taking part in the Sixth Congress. On my labours upon the mountains of Israel I shall report to the Committee of Vienna and Odessa. Here I wish only to declare that on my return home I learned that I had been honoured with re-election as a member of the Zionist Actions Committee. It goes without saying that I hold myself bound to work unceasingly for the rebirth of our people, as the Congress has resolved, and as the elected A.C. shall resolve. — But as regards the chief resolution of the Congress — the despatch of an expedition to East Africa — I do not hold that resolution binding upon myself. I oppose it with my whole being and shall strive with all my strength to prevent its execution. The majority of the Congress may decide any question of work or of action, but not a question of principle and of the ideal. And just as all the majorities in the world will not turn me from the faith of Israel nor from the Torah of Israel, so too the majority of the Congress (ד׳ר׳ה by number) will not carry me away from Erez Israel; for only those who were blinded by diplomacy and excessive politicising have failed in their naivety to perceive that the resolution of the Zionist Congress to send an expedition to any other country whatsoever is a renunciation, a divorce from Palestine. Of my agitation and activity in this cardinal question you will shortly hear.

Ussischkin. Jekaterinoslaw, 25 Tishri.

I request the Zionist newspapers in all languages and countries to reprint this letter.

Reply. By Dr. Herzl.

Mr. Ussischkin of Ekaterinoslaw is urgently desirous of publishing the foregoing declaration. He shall also receive his answer at once.

The Congress, which on the motion of the Standing Committee elected Mr. Ussischkin as one of the 45 members of the Greater Actions Committee, expected of him, as of all the other members of the Actions Committee, that together with the rights he would also assume the duties of this office. To these belongs, first of all, that he regard himself as a member of this body and not as one who stands outside the Committee or above it. Within the Committee he may advocate his views, and he must submit to the majority, as all of us without exception do. If he will not keep party discipline and wishes to go his own way, no one will prevent him. But in that case it is fitting that he should lay down his office. Mr. Ussischkin has always been able to advocate his views without hindrance, and he has always done so with great vehemence, whether the matter in hand was the establishment of a branch of the Bank in Russia or anything else.

The violence with which he now comes forward is therefore nothing new to me. If I repel his present encroachment, I do so because attempts are being made in certain quarters to bring confusion into our ranks. To Mr. Ussischkin's credit I will assume that he has no notion whom he is serving when he attacks the leadership of our movement. For there are some whom one has never seen at our labours, or who had for some time withdrawn in a sulk because their vanity or their self-seeking was not gratified — there are, I say, some who already believed the moment had come to enter upon an inheritance, because my friends and I proposed to the Congress that an expedition for the investigation of the magnificent English proposal be des-