A new electoral law again doubled the electorate but still fell short of universal male suffrage and received intense criticism from the working classes.
A Zionist conference at The Hague rejected the possibility of establishing an African colony in Uganda, first proposed in 1903, and established synthetic Zionism—arguing that a Jewish state could be established only in Israel.
An extraparliamentary cabinet formed by Cort van der Linden set out to settle the suffrage and education questions, but World War I intervened. (Universal suffrage and proportional representation were installed in 1917.) (See The Netherlands)
