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No. 35 Vienna, 26 August 1904 — 15 Elul 5664. 8th Year.

ZIONISTS!

The Annual Conference, which is held in place of the Congress in those years in which no full Congress takes place, sat in Vienna on the 17th, 18th and 19th of August.

In earnest deliberation we have examined our position and taken all those measures which promise to further a calm and prosperous development of our sacred cause.

We have all told ourselves that it was necessary to fill, as well and as quickly as possible, the painful gap which the death of our great Leader has left.

We know well that no single man can do this, and that we must all gather our strength in order to make good the loss at least in some measure. The Greater Actions Committee has therefore resolved, with the assent of the Annual Conference, to strengthen the Executive by a number of tried fellow Zionists, and so to make it possible for Dr. Herzl's proven collaborators to take in common the important decisions on which the further development of our movement will depend.

The choice which the Greater A.C., or rather the Annual Conference, has made carries within itself the guarantee that there is to be no experimenting, but that the work of attaining our goal is to be carried further in cautious but untiring labour.

In choosing the men who are to strengthen the Smaller A.C., therefore, care was taken not only to call eminent fellow Zionists into the committee that is to be enlarged, but also to do justice to all shades of opinion in our movement. Every personal consideration had to give way before this endeavour, so that all our fellow Zionists might be convinced that our work is appreciated by us in its whole extent and furthered in all its parts. Neither will the political activity suffer the slightest loss, nor will the labours already begun, which prepare the carrying-out of our programme, be lost sight of.

The whole great complex of questions to which our work is devoted was subjected by the Greater A.C. and the Annual Conference to a thorough examination as to principle. It thereby became evident that even where differences of opinion appeared, agreement could be reached out of regard for our cause, to which all are sincerely devoted.

This unity in all questions of principle has given us the joyful conviction that we can continue to labour at our great cause with undiminished strength, that our goal stands immovably before us, and that no diversion need be feared even from the heaviest blows of fate.