Dr. Stephen S. Wise, co-chairman of the American Zionist Emergency Council, and a member of the executive of the Jewish Agency, announced today that he would not accept nomination on the Zionist Organization of America slate for the election of delegates to the coming World Zionist Congress.
“I have notified the administrative council of the Zionist Organization of America that I would not be a candidate for election on its slate or list,” Dr. Wise said in a statement issued today.
“I cannot help regretting the acrimony which has developed prior to the election,” he continued. “Every one of the four Zionist organizations within the Council embodies elements of strength within the Zionist movement. I see no reason for the sharp and bitter electioneering which is taking place. We are dividing and morally disarming ourselves in advance of the Congress, to which the largest body of world Zionists–the American–should go not in partisan spirit, but united to achieve the Zionist purpose, which is the establishment at the earliest possible moment of the free and democratic Jewish Commonwealth of Palestine.”
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