aroused by the Biro-Bidjan project among Jews abroad and declared the territory to be a land of hope for suffering Jews the world over.
The first portion of the convention closed with the reading of a message of felicitation from the Ozet organization in Palestine, which met with a thunderous outburst of applause.
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