A demand that the Zionist Actions Committee be called into session immediately to consider the resignations of Drs. Abba Hillel Silver and Emanuel Neumann from the Jewish Agency executive was voiced today by the General Zionist Federation of Israel, in a statement issued here.
Meanwhile, conflicting attitudes on the question of the resignations were taken this week by Israeli newspapers representing various shades of political opinion. The labor newspaper Davar called on Drs. Silver and Neumann to withdraw their resignations. The General Zionist Haboker charges that the opposition to Drs, Silver and Hewmann took every action to limit the influence of the Zionist Organization of America, while the Revisionist Hamashkif demanded an explanation of the situation regarding the resignations.
(Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the American Zionist Emergency Council, today expressed the congratulations of the American Zionist movement to the government of Israel for the successful completion of the negotiations at Rhodes culminating in the Egyptian-Israeli armistice. In a wire sent to Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, Dr. Silver, in behalf of the Council, which represents all official Zionist bodies in the United States, lauded the ”magnificent stand taken by Israel in pursuit of an honorable peace.”)
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