AN ECHO OF THE MANIFESTO.
Mr. L. J. Greenberg has not yet succeeded in obtaining an answer from Sir Samuel Montagu as to the cable he sent to Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, that the Liberal Government desired the manifesto against Zionism and Territorialism. Sir Samuel Montagu questioned at close quarters pleaded that the communication was confidential. Mr. Schiff did not seem so to regard it, for the message was read out at a general meeting of the Relief Committee in Temple Emanuel, New York, in the presence of press and reporters. Mr. Greenberg is continuing his requests for an explanation. It is curious that not a single American Jewish publication has taken note of the affair, although exceptional publicity was given the original manifesto.
THE AFTERMATH OF ODESSA.
The death is announced of Rabbi David Salomon Slousch, the revered Rabbi of Odessa, who was set upon by the Hooligans in the November riots. He had been left for dead on the floor of his room after the miscreants had emptied the poor-box which the rabbi had heroically tried to save from their fury. The deceased was a firm Zionist, and his sons are well known in the movement in Paris, as Hebrew writers.
A CONVERT TO JUDAISM.
By the death in London of Carl Joubert there was revealed at once the identity of the author of the celebrated attacks on Czar Nicholas in the Quarterly Review, and the fact that this writer was a Jew by adoption. "Carl Joubert" was the pen name of A. W.
C. Grottey, a South Africander of purely Dutch descent. Business took him to Russia. He made it his home for twenty years. He thus familiarized himself with Jewish affairs, studied the Talmud, and was accepted into Judaism by a rabbi in Warsaw. His exact relationship with the Russian court, about which he was exceptionally well informed, have not been cleared up, and he died just at the moment when his authorship was bringing him reputation and fame.
ROUMANIA.
Carmen Sylva, as the Queen of Roumania is known in literature, has an article in the current Century magazine, in which she defends Roumania's treatment of the Jews. Never once mentioning the Jews by name, she pleads "for consideration of the poverty" of Roumania, and an argument tending to show that Roumania must exclude foreigners from its cities and towns, owing to the poverty of its resources, the feebleness of its agriculture and manufactures. The inference is that the Jews are the foreigners to whom the privileges of sojourn and labor cannot be granted. This runs remarkably counter to the fact that Roumania restricts the emigration of Jews by her passport regulations.
CONGRESSES.
Neither the Committee of the body created by Mr. Louis Marshall and his friends, nor yet the Committee appointed by the national organizations has reported to date. The only exhibition of international activity in a popular direction is that Messrs. Greenberg and Spielman have begun work on their international organization, and that the German Hilfsverein has given its warm support to the scheme.