| Show ZIONISTS IN SESSION new york oct 19 zionists from all of the twenty eight societies of the propaganda in greater new york crowded the manhattan lyceum last night to receive the american delegates just returned from the last zionist congress at basic the blue and white sacred banner of the jews bearing the kogen doald or six pointed shield of david hung everywhere here and there were american flags cyrus vice president of the american federation of zionists presided dr harry friedenwald of baltimore president of the american federation of zionists and head of the american delegation to the basle congress outlined the events of the congress reports of the violence and disorder over the voting down of and the project a tract in british uganda he declared bad been grossly exaggerated A letter was read from rev II 11 pere cla mendes who was present at basle declaring that zionism was a religious movement before it was a national one he wrote we are laboring to establish a home where e may live under the laws of israel first the law then tha land first thorah then zion rev dr J L magnus of temple israel said even those jews who came to the congress to scoff were impressed by the solemnity of the whole occasion the speech of a young russian jewish writer fired the congress we are zionists he said not because we feel the weakness of this people but because we feel its strength that 1 the answer to every criticism of gentile and jew upon the movement or upon any of the occurrences at basle that Is the answer to the question of why the east african project was refused why the congress decided to break into palestine at any cost athla is the reason why the national library in jerusalem was because we feel strong enough with enough young men to go ahead with the work in palestine because we feel that the people Is strong enough to make for itself the homo in palestine it needs |
