Describing Palestine in the past two years, he declared that during this period an advance has taken place along the whole line, “not by ostentatious advertisement and high-flown phrases, but by concrete performance of a thoroughly obvious and commendable nature.”
“New life has appeared everywhere,” Dr. Sokolow said. “The consolidation of our agricultural settlement on the land of the Jewish National Fund has been in vigorous and active progress. New plantations, gardens and farms are being added under intensive expansion to the old ones for the development of which the Keren Hayesod labors constantly.
“In addition to his, we have undertaken a new great reclamation work in the recently acquired Huleh concession territory which opens a new field to Jewish pioneer labor. The workers are now being called upon to drain the swamps that have existed as pestholes for thousands of years, to introduce hygienic conditions there, and to bring large parts of Eretz Israel under cultivation by irrigating arid soil.
“The outside world is looking with admiration on the rapid material and spiritual development of Eretz Israel. Our pioneers have penetrated the Emek district which in 1920 was still an empty, pathless desert. They have covered the Sharon valley with blossoming gardens and beautiful orchards.”
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