Zionism's 14th Congress (TIME, Aug. 24) survived another Viennese week of rioting. Its environment was described by a distinguished delegate, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of Manhattan:
"From every point of view, it is lamentable that the Zionist Congress should require special police protection. It is hardly pleasant to attend a meeting patrolled by police, mounted and afoot, and to find one's sole interest personal security, because of the threats of the rowdies and hooligans, stimulated by liquor and fortified by the hope of plunder."
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