Negotiations between the Zionist Revisionists and the Zionist Executive concerning the political position of Zionism and the internal situation of the movement are thought to have broken down as the result of a letter, date February 20, addressed by the Zionist Executive to the Revisionists which, together with other correspondence, is now made public by the Revisionists.
The Zionist Executive definitely declines the Revisionists’ proposal to entrust the political work in the Zionist Executive. In its reply to Revisionists the Zionist Executive points out that the direction of political work passed from the Executive of the Zionist Organization to the Executive of the Jewish Agency and therefore the Jewish Agency is the only appropriate organ that can decide whither the conduct of political affairs should be transferred to a special committee.
The reply further states that should such a demand come before the Jewish Agency, the Zionist Executive would oppose it. As an alternative to the Revisionists’ demand, the Zionist Executive suggests that they nominate a member to the political committee, who will meet with the Zionist Executive from time to time as other responsible members of the movement to whom the Executive on one hand imparts information and offers on the other an opportunity of listening and considering any of their representations.
Discussing the Revisionists’ demand for a Zionist congress this year, the Zionist Executive explains that it has obvious gross disadvantages and could be carried out only in obedience to an overwhelming demand from Zionists, and the Executive says that it possesses no evidence of such a demand but it points out that an opportunity for discussing this matter, among others, will be presented at the coming session of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency on March 23.
The correspondence also reveals that Vladimir Jabotinsky, leader of the Revisionists, postponed his trip to South Africa from the 7th to the 21st of February because the Zionist Executive maintained that his political campaign would have an unfavorable reflection on the South African Keren Hayesod campaign.
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