about Palestine—contribute their share, in no small measure, to the movement. South Africa especially distinguishes itself among all other centers of immigration in its intense Zionist activity.
Even from Australia, where the Jewish community is yet in the making, we faintly hear of some Zionist work done. Zionist activity there must, however, necessarily be very limited by reason of the yet unsettled state of the Jewish community and the great distance from Zionist centers.
In America Zionism has by far not yet gained the position that it ought to hold in a rapidly growing Jewish community, with its unlimited material and spiritual opportunities. America, indeed, contributes its share to the Zionist movement, equally with other Jewish centers, but this contribution appears trivial if we take into consideration the unbounded field of action still unwatered and unharrowed by Zionism in America. Zionism has not yet penetrated the Jewish communities, and is only just now gaining a public opinion favorable to itself. The reasons for this slowness of the movement to assert itself lie mainly in the lack of a healthy public opinion in American Jewry and in an indifference to the national ideal, both of which the steady flow of immigration and the yet unsettled state of the Jewish community are apt to breed. This indifference, however, as well as the paradoxical cosmopolitanism preached for decades in the community by the Jewish radicals, is gradually disappearing. Non-committal Zionism is successfully combatting the former, while radical Zionism is purging the Ghetto from the contamination of the latter. Yet the task before Zionism is still difficult, inasmuch as the Jewish national problem is more complicated in the unassimilated but culturally assimilating Jewish community in America.
JEWISH COLONIAL TRUST
A meeting of the council and of the founder-shareholders of the Jewish Colonial Trust, Limited, was held in Cologne on August 10, on the occasion of the annual Zionist conference. There were present: Wolffsohn, Warburg, Bodenheimer, Tschlenow, Bernstein-Kohan, Moser, Kessler, Stand, Goldberg, Fischer, Hirsch, manager, and H. Neumann, secretary. Herr Wolffsohn was in the chair.
It was decided to declare a dividend of 2½ per cent. for the past year. It was reported that the Anglo-Levantine Banking Company, the Constantinople branch of the Jewish Colonial Trust, would begin operations during October. Regarding the Anglo-Palestine Company, the four branches had worked with a profit, so that a dividend of 9d. in the pound had been declared. A new agency of the Anglo-Palestine Company is to be established in Haifa.
In reply to a question by Mr. Alderman Moser, the chairman said that the total costs, including those of the opposition, in the recent lawsuit amounted to $8,305. The opposition demanded $2,090 as their costs, but, on representation, the Court only allowed them $1,180, the reduction being in regard to the personal costs of Herr Uriassohn, and $500 for obtaining the signatures of the opposition, while in the $1,180 was included $190, Mr. I. Zangwill's solicitors' fees. In view of the fact that the judge would not allow the personal costs of Herr Uriassohn, who had come all the way from Russia, the Chairman did not think that he should have allowed any personal costs to Mr. Zangwill.
An extraordinary general meeting to confirm a resolution passed restricting the activities of the Trust to Palestine and the neighboring lands is to be held in London on September 9.