Dr. Soskin Refuses to Appear for Trial Before Congress Court of Honor

Dr. S. E. Soskin, vice-president of the World Union of Zionist Revisionists, whose talks with the Polish Foreign Minister on Zionist affairs, precipitated a controversy which caused the suspension of the Revisionist Union as an independent Union within the Zionist Organization, on the ground that it violated the constitution of the Zionist Organization, has declined to appear before the Zionist Court of Honor to answer charges against him.

Dr. Soskin has informed the Zionist Court of Honor that he will not appear at any trial brought against him and that he does not recognize the validity of such a trial.

The Revisionist leader was scheduled to appear before the Court of Honor, which held its sessions in Berlin on January 6th of this year, but at the last moment notified the court that he could not attend. In accordance with his request, his own trial was postponed. The Court did, however, rule on the action of the Revisionist Organization and ordered its suspension.

Dr. Soskin’s repudiation of the authority of the court came about when the court asked him to fix a suitable date for the trial.

Dr. Soskin’s refusal to recognize the jurisdiction of the court is in agreement with the attitude expressed by the headquarters of the World Union of Zionist Revisionists, when the suspension verdict was announced. The verdict was assailed as without moral or legal validity on the ground that the court yielded to one-sided pressure; heard no evidence by Revisionists and that the judges were prejudiced. As a result, Dr. Jonah Mach-over, Revisionist leader of London, resigned from the Congress Court, declaring that the trial “forfeits the right of the Court to existence as the supreme non-partisan body of the Zionist movement.”