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Revisionists Prepare New Group’s Constitution

September 11, 1935
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With the general debate at the constituent congress of the New Zionist Organization halted until tomorrow, committees were hard at work today preparing resolutions and the final form of the new organization’s constitution.

Yesterday, expressing the belief that a Jewish State can be established within ten years, Vladimir Jabotinsky, leader of the Zionist Revisionist Organization and moving spirit of the new organization, informed newspaper correspondents, that a special commission would be sent to Palestine to investigate the possibilities of establishing the Jewish State on both sides of the Jordan.

The special commission will be sent by the executive to be elected for the new Zionist Organization at the constituent Congress now in session here, he said. It will conduct a survey in Palestine and Trans jordan to determine how to settle a million and a-half Jews, he declared.

Asked about his attitude towards Fascism, Jabotinsky emphatically declared he is not a Fascist and does not believe in a Jewish Fascism.

He stated that he is for organized Jewish labor in Palestine, with compulsory arbitration and the outlawing of strikes and lockouts.

Asked by a British journalist why nothing is being done to halt Palestine’s import of German goods, Jabotinsky declared that his organization will do the outmost to break the Palestine-German transfer agreement.

Last night’s session of the constituent congress for a New Zionist Organization, was addressed by Rabbi Blumenfeld of Warsaw, who spoke on the religious problems of Zionism. He demanded the establishment of a Jewish State along the geographical lines outlined by the Bible. He also demanded that religion in Palestine be put above the class struggle. He called for the strict observance of Sabbath in Palestine and for obligatory religious instruction there.

The remainder of the evening was devoted to the general debate.

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