Country. │ 1914. │ 1915. │ 1916. ────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────── United States │ 197,311 │ 291,604 │ 268,317 Russia │ 184,334 │ 30,120 │ 81,336 Holland │ 10,662 │ 13,972 │ 35,921 ────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────── Argentine │ 4,196 │ 4,334 │ 22,807 England │ 24,655 │ 12,061 │ 20,766 Roumania │ 15,532 │ 23,997 │ 19,021 ────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────── South Africa │ 27,511 │ 21,905 │ 15,001 Scandinavia │ 807 │ 1,715 │ 4,886 Canada │ 21,951 │ 23,129 │ 10,296 ────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────── Switzerland │ 3,854 │ 3,748 │ 7,296 Greece │ 5,755 │ 4,545 │ 4,410 Belgium │ 10,472 │ ―― │ 4,161 ────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────── Egypt │ 2,845 │ 832 │ 3,382 France │ 2,115 │ 1,862 │ 2,992 Far East │ 1,377 │ 280 │ 2,562 ────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────── Australia and │ │ │ New Zealand │ 3,305 │ 1,080 │ 1,915 Italy │ 1,630 │ 2,641 │ 1,312 Portugal │ ―― │ 280 │ 937 ────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────── Brazil │ 1,430 │ 1,082 │ 125 New Zealand │ ―― │ ―― │ 522 Other countries │ 224,962 │ 197,597 │ 425,110 ────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────── │ 744,704 │ 636,784 │ 933,075 With regard to the Zionist Organization, it must be stated that some of its functions, particularly those which were centralized in the headquarters, such as the periodical meetings of the Greater Actions Committee and the permanent contact and co-operation between the members of the Inner Actions Committee, had to be suspended. The Zionist Congress, the chief organ of the movement, which elects the executive of all the officers of the movement, to decide all questions of policy, could not be held owing to the war, and as a result the position had to remain as settled by the Congress of 1913. As, however, the events of the war threw upon the Organization not less but very much more responsibility than previously, and confronted the existing executive with problems of the greatest urgency and importance, new instruments had necessarily to be created to meet the new situation and to carry on the work of the movement.