Predicting that peace between warring Zionist factions is only a matter of days at most, Jacob de Haas, veteran Zionist leader, yesterday issued a statement counseling patience and urging disregard of stories that tend to widen the gap instead of closing it.
The full text of the statement follows:
“Those of us who are earnestly and determinedly working for a real peace between the Zionist factions have reason to congratulate ourselves that considerable progress has been made in the negotiations. Unless the extremists on either side override their officers, a formal announcement covering an agreement on a number of the differences that had been the chief causes of bitterness in the past, may be expected within a week or so.
“I would refrain from saying even as such as this, which I do entirely upon my own responsibility were it not that rumors and news dispatches are continually circulated that tend if anything to widen the gap instead of closing it. I advise Zionists to ignore the whispers that the ‘truce’ is a farce, and to believe with me that there is every prospect of the extension of the public agreement between the Histadruth and the Revisionists.
“The vast majority of Zionists, I am sure, desire understanding and cooperation between the parties. They have and can have no objections to ideological differences and therefore I believe they will be content to exercise a little patience and will not permit them selves to be used as obstacles to peace.”
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