All attempts to reestablish peace in the Revisionist organization having failed, Vladimir Jabotinsky, President of the Revisionist World Union has issued a manifesto appointing April 16 for a Revisionist plebiscite to decide whether the Revisionist organization shall be submitted to his sole personal leadership until the Sixth Revisionist World Conference. He regards this as the only way of maintaining the unity of the movement and preventing its dissolution in a storm of controversy and conflict.
Faced with the fact that the whole of the Brith Trumpeldor, the Revisionist Youth Movement, is solidly behind Jabotinsky, Meer Grossman and his followers are preparing to set up a new youth organization by the name of Brith Hakanayim — Covenant of Zealots.
It will be recalled that the Conference of the Revisionist Party Council held on March 15th, at Kattowitz, ended in a split between the followers of Jabotinsky and Grossman. Jabotinsky suspended the Revisionist Executive in London, and set up a temporary Secretariat in Warsaw, while M. Grossman and his followers countered by suspending all those who did not accept the authority of the London Executive. At the same time, Vladimir Jabotinsky issued a call to the Brith Trumpeldor for their full support, and agreed to allow the Revisionists, taking part in the forthcoming Congress elections, to contest the election on a special Jabotinsky list.
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