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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
The Zionist Convention in
Russia
(From the detailed reports of the
Zionist convention which was held in
Petrograd, beginning May 24, the
publicity department of the Zionist
'organizations of America has collated
the following. important items.)
• Officially, the gathering was the
Seventh Zionist Convention in Rus-
sia, but, in fact, it was the first that
was ever held in that country at which
a frank..open, discussion of every
question relating to the national re-
generation of the Jewish people could
he discussed without fear of govern-
mental interference. It was attended
by 572 delegates, retiresenting 140,000
organized Zionists. Eleven delegates
came all the way from Siberia, from
the Kuban Dominion an ancient Cos-
sack country), and a number from
.Bokhara and the Crimea. Twenty-
four delegates came from the military
front. The press gallery contained 80
representatives of most of the leading
papers of the country.
The parties represented at the con-
vention included the "Zeire Zion"
(the Youth of Zion), the Orthodox
Zionists, represented by rabbi's, and
the Poale Zion. Hebrew was heard
on all sides, and many of the dele-
gates delivered addresses in that lan-
guage.
Dr. Yechiel Tchlenow, who was the
presiding officer, delivered a lengthy
address in which he said, among oth-
er things: .. •
"We Deg the provisional govern-
ment to believe that it may fully de-
pend upon our forces and our support
in its heroic efforts directed toward
the strengthening of the freedom and
greatness of Russia. •
"What is necessary, and what we
strive for is to create a national ter-
ritorial center for oily 'scattered peon
pie. The construction of that center
is already begun, and it will continue':
The center will gradually be filled
with the forces and means of the
Diaspora.
"Who of you has not keenly fol.
lowed for the last year and a half the
life of the youngest branch of the
Jewish people, the American? Hun-
dreds of thousands of workingmen
unified in their demand for national
rights in the Diaspora and an autono-
mous, center in Palestine; the New
York Kehillah representing a million
and a quarter Jews which comes. for-
ward with the same slogan.; finally,
the powerful Congress movement, em-
bracing the entire 3,000,000 Jewry
which is to be crowned the coming
autumn, by such important decisions.
Weigh• all the facts • and -- yoU will
agree that the harmony of which v41
dream is already coming to pass.
With hope and with love we follow
the work of our trans-oceanic cham-
pons and send to them our brotherly
greetings.
"Butt what could not have been
prophesied and what fills our hearts
with untold joy and pride is the at-
titude towards our ideal on the part
of the broad stratas of Jewry which
• as . shown since the time of the Great
Revolution.
"From all corners of our great Rus-
sia conic to us, together with cheers
of joy over the emancipation, assur-
ances of unshattered faith in the eter-
nal ideal—the renaissance of our na-
tive Palestine. Old and young, rich
and poor, from the front and from
the rear, Orthodox and free thinkers
declare in one voice: "Now, even now,
freed from the chains of slavery, shall
we be able to zealously and gladly
give ourselves to the service of our
ideal.
"I cannot refrain here from under-
scoring with the feeling of deepest
recognition the invaluable services
which the government of the United
States has so nobly and warmly
shown to our pioneers. The noble
president of the United States has
acted front motives of humanity and
brotherly relation of peoples, but at
the same time also from deep sym-
pathy in our regeneration. The noble
impulses of America have found a
worthy instrument in the person of
former Ambassador Morgenthau, that
faithful son. of the Jewish people,
whose services in these hard years
Jewry will not forget.
"Rut all this tine, while working
and building, we have not lost sight
of the basic point inscribed upon our
banner—the public, legal character of
the hearth which we are creating. We
are convinced that the moment has
come for reiterating our program.
"We deem it necessary that the na-
tions called upon to establish the
standard of the future national politi-
-al life should reckon with the defi-
nitely express will of the Jewish peo-
ple, to populate and regenerate Pales-
tine as its national hearth. We deem
it further necessary that all obstacles
should be removed from our path and
that guarantees and conditions should
be created which will insure the un-
obstructed and speedy development of
our work in the land.
"I'am happy that I an able to de-
clare that all the leaders of diplomacy
and public opinion, even in the most
powerful countries, understand us, our
problems and our purposes a good
deal deeper and more concretely now
than they did before. They are ready
to support our claims when the proper
moment arrives. Nations and their
governments recognize that that
which we demand is only a creation
of conditions which will help us to
stimulate and regulate our great na-
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After paying a tribute to the memo-
ries of Dr. Theodore Herzl and David
\Volffsohn, Mr. Tchlenow read a let-
ter from Foreign Minister Terestch-
enko, greeting the convention and ex-
pressing his indignation over the out-
rageous treatment of the Jews of Pal-
estine by the Turks, which had moved
him to appeal to the neutral coun-
tries for their intervention.
• Supreme Court Justice Sliosberg
was among those who greeted the
convention.
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trayed their brethren, their religion
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