Hope that the unification of the General Zionists and Progressives in Israel may pave the way to the re-establishment of complete unity among the General Zionists in the United States–and thus end the long-standing rift in American Zionism between those who sympathized with one or the other group in Israel–was expressed here today by Dr. Emanuel Neumann, president of the World Confederation of General Zionists.
Dr. Neumann issued his statement following a meeting of the executive committee of the Confederation, which sent a cable to Dr. Peretz Bernstein, president of the Organization of General Zionists in Israel, reading: “Congratulations and best wishes for the complete success of your prolonged efforts to achieve unification of the General Zionist’s and the Progressives. Such unity in Israel will be greeted with profound satisfaction throughout the Zionist world as a most timely and constructive step which will contribute toward the strengthening of the Zionist movement every where.”
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