A part of the Zionist Revisionists, official Zionist opposition, is considering withdrawing from the Zionist Congress in the event that their two fundamental demands, namely the rejection of the MacDonald letter and the admission that a Jewish majority in Palestine is a fundamental of Zionism, are rejected by the Congress.
This became known today after an all-day Revisionist party conference at which there was a long discussion on party unity in the event a situation is created whereby the Revisionists will feel compelled to leave the Congress. Vladimir Jabotinsky, leader of the Revisionists, strongly favors such a step, while Robert Stricker, a Radical accession to the Revisionist ranks, is opposed to it.
In the event that they withdraw from the Congress, the Revisionists intend to hold a meeting in a neighboring hall in order to explain the situation. They plan to remain shekel payers within the Zionist Organization but will retain the right to independent political action.
GENERAL ZIONISTS UNITE
The General Zionists’ (Centrists) leaders, on the other hand, including the British group headed by Dr. M. D. Eder, have decided to create a federation of unity of all General Zionists on the basis of undiminishing Zionism which means the non-acceptance of the idea of a bi-national state in Palestine. This unity, however, will not be applied at the present Congress where the differences between the Eder group and the other General Zionists regarding Dr. Weizmann’s leadership and a pro-British attitude have not yet been settled.
In the meantime the committee on committees was having difficulty in getting organized because the Revisionists object to the appointment of Berl Locker, an American delegate representing the Jewish Socialist Labor party, as chairman. Although the Revisionists agree that the Laborites as a large organized group are entitled to the chairmanship, they insist that the chairman be a Laborite other than Locker because he had called the Revisionists Hitlerites in the course of a heated debate Thursday night. Negotiations are now in progress to settle this question.
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