Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 22

legal basis for its existence outside the Federation. The question in Austria has not yet been definitely settled. On the other hand, in Bulgaria, the local group of the Poale Zion, which advocates the creation of a common front in the form of an " omnibus union " adopted a negative attitude to the proposals of the Federation to enter a united organisation. A similar conflict arose in Holland, where the Zionist Federation demanded that the newly formed Poale-Zion group should become affiliated to the hitherto united Federation. After a somewhat embittered struggle, and after the repeated intervention of the Executive, an arrangement was at last arrived at, whereby until the entry of the Poale Zion into the Federation which has been accepted in principle, a system of co-operation was provisionally concluded on the basis of jointly accepted terms. In most countries, the consolidation of the local organisation has become, on the one hand, all the more urgent owing to the accentuation of party differences, but on the other hand all the more difficult. The problem is dealt with more fully in paragraph 8. 6. Carrying out of Congress Resolutions. Reference is made here only to the resolutions of Congress, the realisation of which was taken in hand but, owing to existing difficulties, could not be completely carried out. (a) Proposed transfer of the remains of Herzl to Palestine. In agreement with the Commission appointed by the last Congress various steps were taken in Europe and Palestine in order to prepare the way for the transfer of Herzl's remains. The legal and technical questions that are involved have been practically cleared up, and difficulties have arisen only in connection with the proposed place of burial, which could not be immediately settled. The General Council, which dealt with the matter at its meeting in the spring of 1935, postponed a decision only until the next meeting. In connection with this matter it may be mentioned that we have been actively endeavouring to arrange for the early transfer to Palestine of the Herzl archives, comprising the literary remains of Herzl, which are in Vienna. It is hoped that the archives will be transferred to Jerusalem and housed there in a manner worthy of their important character. (b) Hebrew Work in the Diaspora. The resolutions of the Congress in regard to the Hebraisation of the Organisation and the furtherance of Hebrew culture have been carried out progressively in proportion to the means and facilities available. The correspondence between the Zionist institutions themselves has been conducted throughout in Hebrew. The circulars of the Executive appeared without exception in Hebrew, the text of the Congress resolutions was published as a pamphlet in Hebrew, and the stenographic reports of the two 22