The next speaker was Morris Rothenberg, vice-president of the Zionist Organization of Omerica, former chairman of the board of the United Palestine Appeal and now one of the chairmen of the Allied Jewish Campaign, who declared that American Jewry has been a “giant brother” to the Jews of Eastern Europe, “hewing his way, through a forest, to rescue his own flesh and blood from extermination” and that “it is unthinkable that we should diminish our efforts in behalf of our own flesh and blood in what is still the vale of tears for the majority of our people.”
Reviewing the accomplishments of Zionists in Palestine until now, Mr. Rothenberg said:
“Nearly a hundred Jewish colonies have until now been founded there. The land which has been neglected and denuded for two thousand years is being gradually restored through Jewish effort. Large tracts of land have been changed from barren deserts into flourishing settlements, hospitals have been founded and works of sanitation for the benefit of all the inhabitants of the land carried on. A complete school system, giving instruction to 15,000 children, is being conducted. Hebrew has been made a liv-
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