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No. 6. | Vienna, 5 February 1904 — 19 Shebat 5664. | 8th Year.

Communications of the A.-C.

The Actions Committee has entrusted the former head of the Hungarian National Committee, the society "Ahavath Zion" in Pressburg, with the preparatory work for convening the Second Hungarian National Conference.

The Charkow Conference.

The following minutes of the proceedings and resolutions have been sent to us by participants in the Charkow Conference, to be regarded as the verified minutes. We publish them in an exact translation from the Russian.

These Charkow resolutions have caused great agitation in the circles of our fellow Zionists. It will be remembered what a violent newspaper polemic flared up in the Russian and Hebrew papers. A great number of protests were sent to "Die Welt," condemning in the sharpest terms the proceedings of the Charkow conferees. We naturally did not print all of these protests, nor in their full wording, so as not to increase the prevailing bitterness.

On the part of the Charkow conferees and their friends it was firmly denied that any resolutions had been adopted at the conference which could signify a tutelage over the Congress, or an attack upon the leadership and a disturbance of the organisation.

From the official minutes sent to us our readers may now judge for themselves whether the Charkow Conference did in fact take the position which earlier correspondents reported. It should not go unmentioned that the defenders of the legality of the Charkow resolutions have thrown a new catchword among the masses. It is "Territorialism." What is evidently meant by it is that the leadership of our movement, contrary to the Basle Programme and the principles of Zionism, has other plans in view, aiming at a fundamental change.

This sounds very dangerous indeed, yet it is to be hoped that even those who proclaim the catchword are not too fearful at heart. For it is plain that it was thrown among the masses for the agitational purposes of the polemic! It is therefore not at all worth while to pay any attention to this new bugbear. Having first constructed the spectre, they now set upon it with very materialistic means. On that, of course, no further word need be wasted.

The minutes sent to the editors of "Die Welt" by Mr. Temkin, the chairman of the Charkow Committee, read as follows in German translation:

Minutes of the Resolutions of the Conference of the Delegates of Confidence of the Zionist Congress for Russia.

October 1903.

All the delegates of confidence and their substitutes were present, with the exception of Dr. Jelski of Lodz. Dr. J. M. Kohan-Bernstein presided. Dr. J. B. Sapir acted as secretary.

At this conference, which lasted four days, the following resolutions were adopted:

First of all it was laid down that all resolutions of this conference, as in previous years, should be binding upon the absent colleagues as well.

First Section: On relations with the Inner A.-C. and its President, Dr. Herzl.

The delegates of confidence, having heard the report of one of the colleagues who had been in Vienna expressly on this matter, the letter which Dr. Herzl had addressed to him, the report of the L.-C. (Central Bureau), and the communications of several colleagues, came to the conclusion that the fact that the East Africa project was brought before the Congress was a violation of the Basle Programme, harbouring a great danger for Zionism, and that the conduct of Dr. Herzl as President of the A.-C. signified a violation of the principle of collegiality. Under these circumstances the Russian delegates of confidence can bear responsibility neither for the course of the movement nor for its unalterable direction, and for this reason consider themselves entitled to come forward actively against the East Africa project and against Doctor Herzl's arbitrary decision of questions which lie within the competence of the A.-C.