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No. 17. Vienna, 22nd April 1904 — 7th Iyar 5664. 8th Year.

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The Administration.

After the Conference.

The labours of the Conference of the Greater A.-C. took up five days, and had not the time of most of the members of the Conference, who had reckoned upon a three days' session, already been otherwise engaged, the deliberations would not have been brought to a close even on Friday afternoon. This was so although individual sittings lasted far into the night, and although agreement upon a short time allowance for speakers in the debate was reached not too late. The same experience was made once more as at our Congresses. The material to be dealt with is so great, the sense of responsibility so lively in every participant, that it is always only the days vanishing as in a storm, and the part of the order of business still undisposed of, which compel the assembly to the requisite brevity in its speeches and debates.

And this time the chair was all the more resolved to impose no limitation of time whatever upon the speakers; for the most important point, the settlement of the dispute that had arisen over the Charkow meeting, of itself demanded the fullest discussion. Well, this discussion brought to light everything, absolutely everything, that ought to be spoken of, and the happy conclusion was found not only in the resolutions of the Greater and of the Vienna A.-C., already known to our readers, but became evident to all participants in the Vienna Conference above all when Dr. Tschlenow, in the name of the members of the Greater A.-C., expressed confidence in and gratitude to the Vienna leadership in words of such warm feeling that one may think with a glad heart of the questions still unsettled, which have been reserved for the Congress. If the champions of differing opinions come to the Seventh Congress with such confidence in the victory of our cause and such recognition of what is common to us all, then there, too, will be found that final peace which all of us deem necessary. That the motion proposed by Dr. Tschlenow and Dr. Klee was carried unanimously amid lively applause may be a good omen for us all.

At the Kommers held on Saturday evening in honour of the Greater A.-C. by the Zionist students of Vienna, Ussischkin spoke upon what had been achieved at the Conference of the Greater A.-C. An understanding, he called the result of the deliberations, an understanding bearing within it every guarantee that at the Seventh Congress the last matter on which agreement has not yet been reached, the East Africa question, will likewise be settled in a peaceable manner. We wish to record his words, for they supply the complement to Dr. Tschlenow's speech, and they are indeed fitted to fill us all with glad confidence, with the glad confidence that all Zionist organisations will now go to their work with new strength.

And that is the finest and best thing for which we have to thank the Conference of the Greater A.-C. We have once more succeeded in overcoming the threatening danger of a disturbance of our work. At our Congresses the necessity of the union of all Jews for fruitful work on behalf of our people has been emphasised so often and so energetically that we Zionists must above all strive to attain this goal — "devoutly to be wished" — within our own ranks. We form an organisation into which everyone is admitted who acknowledges our Basle Programme. That is the reason why the most varied views find room in our movement, so long as they regard the one fundamental principle as binding. But that is also the reason why at certain stages of development it must come to controversies, until once again that which unites is recognised and that which divides is removed. So long as we succeed in preserving our unity in the main thing,