In his opening address, referring to the limitations of immigration into Palestine and the plight of persecuted and unemployed Jews all over the world, Dr. Sokolow said:
“How much longer will the Jews be criticized, on the one hand, that they are abstaining from doing productive work, while on the other hand they are being hindered from really engaging in such work in the only place in the world where it is at all possible for them to do so?
“We have full confidence in the wisdom of the Mandatory Power,” he said, “and we rely upon the sense of justice of the British people that these difficulties will be gradually removed.”
Dr. Sokolow reviewed the progress of Zionism since the first Congress 38 years ago, and pointed out as one of the achievements of the movement that “no Jew now thinks of giving up Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel) thus cutting the thread which connects the Jewish people with its history of the past 4,000 years.”
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